PLEA FOR SAFE MINES AND STATE REVENUE MEASURES
The governor urges higher taxes on oil and natural gas and tests liquor by referendum to fund state needs. He calls for licensing foreign corporations, better mine inspection, and resource enforcement after recent fatalities, while pushing stronger school and tax measures to grow state revenue.
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West Virginia
Executive
Washington Post
Charleston
W. Va
Goveleer Glaascock
Secret Service
From Tropics to Snowstorm Aboard Whit Star
A voyage from tropical heat to a severe cold snap left New York bound Whit Star passengers enduring extreme temperatures. Reports describe biting cold, shipboard discomfort, and women still dressed, with passengers longing for warmth as the cold intensified and port closings occurred amid the storm.
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New York
Jan
Tassen
Port Lidle
Deuk
Byers Bods
Trainmen's Order Upheld in Reinstatement Suit
Judge Keegy denies reinstatement for Harry Dague after expulsion, ruling the plaintiff used respiration to seek reentry. Jury finds Dague expelled legally and later loses claim to damages. court notes the amount and timing of payments tied to the case and the accident context.
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Sacual
Vander
Keegyvulay
Harry DB. Dague
Coubat Ewilway
Fica
T.court
Dague
Glass Manufacturer Merger Sets Inevitable Consolidation
A conference and dispute over consolidation among independent glass makers in West Virginia Indiana Pennsylvania and New York signals a looming merger. The plan would place control under a central company with headquarters proposed in Pittsburgh shaping management across several states.
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Ehanbis Gre
Consop
Camerot
Funerialies
Wikes
Gam Mown Widow Glass
Tey Bates
Wodimes & Co
Weenie
West Virginia
Totkey
Pittsburg
Butte
Com
Indiana
Venedvan
New York
Kensas
Othana
Fire Department Changes Promote Washington Units
A garbled report notes promotions in the Washington Fire Department. Mivale 1G Zirkle of Ne. 1 epaine Heopame Amiestia is promoted to lieutenant of Noo Chemical company. Mount A. Maytiew, private, is promoted to private and to succeed Lieut Zirkie. Jobson named private temporarily to succeed Mayhew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mivale
Zirkle
Epaine Heopame
Amiestia
Noo Chemical Company
Washington Fire Department
Te Iil
Voamey
Heati
Liert
Mount A
Three of a Kind Drops Coffer Picks up Postal Health
A reader describes nervous prostration and heart trouble tied to coffee and tea. She reports relief after switching to Postum, sharing how two friends joined her in the benefits. The letters promote Postum with testimonials and urge readers to try the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tals
Tewred
Gome
Postum
Postum Co
Weilec Diskey
Congress Condensed Briefs on Senate Speech and Bills
Senate debated the President’s defense against an opposition motion while Mr Millen of Florida introduced a bill to ban interracial marriage with penalties. The District appropriation bill passed with no playground funding increase as the House tabled a debate on the President’s secret service messages. A bill imposing a duty of one dollar ten cents per gallon on imported Porto Rican rum advanced. The House adjourned at 3:43 p.m. and planned to reconvene at noon.
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Tillman
Gerienet
Postat Jasvinigs
Millen
Florida
Ngon
Ube
Porto Rico
Colored Troops Accused Amid East Village Holdups
Watertown New York January 14 reports allege misconduct by members of the Twenty fourth infantry colored unit. Two white women were held up on the streets of Sacketts Harbor and a colored soldier entered Eveleigh House driving proprietor Frank Widener from the premises with a revolver. Local authorities struggle to obtain cooperation from military command as District Attorney Pitcher awaits War Department guidance. Public safety concerns rise amid charges of drunkenness peeping and housebreaking by the unit.
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Watertown
N. Y
Twenty-fourthnfantry
Sacketts Harbor
Eveleigh House
Frank Widener
War Department
Colored Regiment
Sie Cook
Theodore Canfield
Julia McKee
Justice of the Peace
F. H. Parker
Cpl
Wiliam Paulding
Parker
Fred B. Pitcher
Calls Brown Sale A Fraud In Washington Court
A corporation court ruling favors Mrs. Karnes, finding Rollo W. Brown sold $1000 in stock of two alleged mythical firms, Barium Lead Manufacturing and Solar Chemical, for $300 cash and a $500 note. Armentrout, who bought the note, loses suit. Brown arrested earlier for alleged attempted fraud.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Slauston
Rollo W. Brown
Washington
Brown
A. F P. Karnes
Barium Lead Manufacturing Company
Solar Chemical Company
L. P. Armentrout
Abolish Toll Pikes Movement Eyes Paving With Bonds
Washington Post reports Olney Colesville and Wheaton residents aim to buy Union Norwood and Ashton pikes to hand to the good roads commission for state financed repair and maintenance. About 71.5 miles could cost $100 per mile and bonds would be issued via a tax on the three districts. Bids for constructing Kensington to Bradley Lane Chey Cli stretch around 12 miles ranged from $90,070.70 to $6,208.27, with McKay Engineering Co of Baltimore submitting the low bid. bids forwarded to the state highway commission.
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Washington Post
Rockville
Olney
Colesville
Wheaton
Union
Norwood
Ashton
Good Roads Commission
Kensington
Bradley Lane
Chey Cli
MekKay Enginering Company
Baltim
State His Way Commission
Cohasset as Summer Capital Rival to Oyster Bay
Boston reports Cohasset on the south shore of Massachusetts may become the national summer capital if a Taft lease deal proceeds. An agent for President-elect Taft reviewed the John Bryant estate near White Head, with a 40 acre property and a Richardson designed house once occupied by Thomas W. Lawson. Executor J Henry Russell would not confirm lease signing, only that it is under consideration.
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Boston
Cohasset
Massachusetts
Oyster Bay
United States
Taft
John Bryant
White Head
Henry H. Richardson
Thomas W. Lawson
Dreamwold
J. Henry Russell
Bryant
Mr. Taft
Mrs Taft to Visit Philadelphia for Civic Federation Event
Mrs William H Taft wife of the President elect will visit Philadelphia tomorrow at the invitation of Mrs Horace Brock and Mrs Cornelius Stevenson local federation representatives. The visit supports the National Civic Federation women welfare department with a Philadelphia meeting for a Pennsylvania women’s section formation in New Haven.
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Philadelphia
William H. Taft
Horace Brock
Taft
Women's Welfare Department
National Civic Federation
Brock
Cornelius Stevenson
Federation
New Haven
Pennsylvania
Hrock Hag
Bill to Protect Forests and Elect County Superintendents
Special to The Washington Post reports Raleigh on January 14 as the legislature passed a measure to protect forests in Swain Jackson and Haywood counties. Other items include a proposal to elect all county superintendents by popular vote, a plan to allow awaiting-trial prisoners to work on roads, and electrocution for espita offenders with a 17 to 4 senate vote in favor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Raleigh
N. C
Swain
Jackson
Haywood
Peedee Valley
Starbuck
Itu
Senate
Venable
State University
Boston
Health
Gordon
Bath Physicians
Charlotte
House Judiciary
Diplomats call on Root at State Department shift expected
A large diplomatic turnout at the State Department signaled possible early retirement of Secretary of State Root. Ambassadors from Germany Italy Austria Hungary Japan and others along with ministers from Santo Domingo El Salvador Guatemala Denmark Honduras Cuba Colombia Panama Nicaragua Greece and more met with Root. An afternoon discussion with Ambassador Bryce concerned the Newfoundland fisheries treaty.
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State Department
Root
Hoat
New York
Germany
Italy
Austria- Hungary
Japan
Hussia
Santo Domingo
Salvador
Guatemall
Denmark
Honduras
Cuba
Colombia
Panama
Nicaragua
Greece
Bryce
Newfoundland
25000 Acre Land Deal Shakes Virginia Southwest
A major timber and coal lands deal closes in southwestern Virginia between Russell and Buchanan land owners and investors from Williamsport Pennsylvania and Abingdon Virginia. Backed by 12 million dollars, the purchase covers roughly 00 acres mainly in Buchanan. A rail line along Lewis Creek from Honaker is planned, with an 18 mile survey ending 9 miles from a coal road intersection with Carolina Clinchfleet and Ohio.
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Roanoke
van i
Virginia
Russell and
Buchanan
W. H. Crockett
A. P. Pearly
Williamsport
Capt
Mogate
Abingdon
Boyd
Wise County
Buchanan County
Lewis Creek
Honaker
Carolina
Clinch-fleet
Ohio
Virginia obituary notices in Lynchburg and Richmond
Obituaries from multiple Virginia communities report deaths including Mrs Mary Peachy Gilmer Craddock of Lynchburg, Rev Jacob H Giracofe of Virginia, Mrs Mary Elizabeth Shakelford of Fredericksburg, Mrs Caroline Kurtz of Stafford, William M Taylor magistrate of Harbherson, Horace C Chisholm of Barton Heights, Mrs Mary Alice Newcombe near Winchester, Henry J Pawlett, and other local figures. The notices list ages, surviving relatives, and brief causes or contexts of death, reflecting a multi city obituary roundup. A separate item notes Geryl F Carrell sworn as governor of Iowa with calls for utilities commission expansion.
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Lynchburg
Jan
Mary Peachy Gilmer Craddock
John W. Craddock
Craddock’ Terry Company
Angina
Pectoris
Richmond
Jacob AH. iGiracofe
Vrginia
Bellefontaine
Ohio
Wad
J. W
Ivacofe
Frederick
G Kiracofe
Virginia
James H. ‘Acofe
Hagerstown
Verederiksburg
Elizabeth Shakelford
Benjamin Shackelford
Caroline Kurtz
John
Jacob Kurtz
Stafford County
Tawa
Cape Charles
William M. Taylor
Harherson
Redman
Order of American Mechanics
Riehmond
Horace C. Chisholm
Barton Heights
North Avenue
C. P. Scott
Winchester
Dan
Mary Alice Newcombe
Irwin Newcombe
Frederick County
William Arnold
Henry J. Pawlett
Nain
Father John’s Medicine praised in regent letter
Niagara Falls resident Geo. Colquhon reports long illness and cough relief after using Father John’s Medicine. He cites a successful recovery for himself and praises the product for cold relief and protection from pneumonia, noting a twenty year public usage claim.
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Niagara
George Colquhon
Father John
Aoe
Geo
Solguhow
10Th St. Niagars, Falls
Four Burned to Death in Blazing Home near Neenah
In Westmoreland county near Neenah, a mother ill at the time could not escape a fire that burned her and three young children to death in their home. The husband Arthur Cary, a Negro, and the family were residents of Warsaw, Va., with the tragedy occurring yesterday.
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Warsaw
Arthur Cary
Neenah
Westmoreland County
Winners at Poultry Show in Herndon Virginia
The Herndon Poultry Association opened its second annual show with 500 entries. Awards include the Carlin silver cup to Hogs and Son for a large class of birds and N B Warner for the Dr. H B Hutchison cup. CLA Walker won the H A Sager cup for the whitest bird and GW James took the J L Meffett cup. Manager Denies report of a forfeit between Friends Select and Business High.
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Washington Post
Herndon
Herndon Poultry Association
Virginia
Carlin
Chief Hoga & Son
Hamilton
N. B. Warner
America
A. H. Buell
Hogs & Son
H. A. Sager
GW. James
H. Day
Gaitiershurs
J. E. Morris
Orange
Virginia briefs and court actions span rail, forest, and crime
Virginia briefs report Charles Giespie indicted by a special grand jury for an attack on a Richmond woman en route to church, with trial set for Saturday. Rail extensions will enable through service from St Paul Virginia to Charlotte North Carolina, via the Clinchfield, Carolina, and Ohio lines. Enos Mills urged forest protection in Staunton at the invitation of the Staunton Teachers Association. A jealous husband in Appalachian killed his wife, Blair, and was jailed in Wisconsin. A. B. Lemon faced arraignment in Norfolk for alleged assault on a young girl. demurrer sustained, grand jury reindicted for February 12. Crescent Iron Rolling Mills in Bristol, owned by Virginia Iron Coal and Coke, to reopen next Monday with 200 workers after idle since November 1907. O. S. Bridgers moves from Roanoke to Columbus, Ohio as freight agent with responsibilities north of the Ohio River. The Richmond circuit court of appeals reconvened with judges noting cases involving Metropolitan Trust of New York and Central Trust of New York, with arguments proceeding and a Cumberland Lumber case to be heard tomorrow.
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Inex
A. B. Lemon
Norfolk
Crescent Iron Rolling Mills
Bristol
Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company
Wesmigive
Richmond
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Goff and Pritchard
Bord
Metropolitan Truat Company of
New York
Frank B. Howe
Cy al
Central Trust Company of
Bowling Creen
Treut Company
Circuit Court
Carl Taylor
James Byrne
B. Deris
Petersburg
Cumberland Lumber Company
Tunia Lumber Company Et al
William & Tunstall
Hayward
Bain
Appelieea
Truth About Kidney Trouble Synthesizes Inflammation Causes
Article describes kidney trouble as inflammation from colds, worry, and excesses, noting backache is not a reliable sign. It warns against chronic progression and asserts Fulton’s Renal Compound reduces inflammation in many cases. Free literature offered from John J Fulton Co in San Francisco with local agents and bi monthly bulletins.
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John J. Fulton
Fulton
John J Fulton
First St
San Francisco
Cal
Henry
Srsa Frontvoes iV
Maryland Happenings in Annapolis and Surrounding Areas
Annapolis judge Brashears Master Jay heard Isaac Nutwell's appeal testing Anne Arundel vehicle tax law. Nutwell declined to pay and was fined. Court reserved decision. In nearby news, Deputy Sheriff Gannon raided six more speakeasies at Easton, Md, bringing total raids to twelve in a week. A fire in La Plate destroyed a dwelling, loss about $2.00. Regional court actions and marriages across Maryland and beyond are noted, including engagements of Virgini a legislators’ kin, and weddings in Broad Street Methodist Church and Market Street M E Church.
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Annapolis
Brashears Master- Jay
Isaac Nutwell
Anne Arundle
Nutwell
James A. Gannon
Euston
la Plate
Martis Myer
Marriage of Miss Bessie Buford Kasey and Mr George Winston Schenk
i Miss Bessie Buford Kasey and Mr George 'Winston Schenk were Married Rev Dal las Tucker of Harrisonburg recently rector of this church performing the ceremony Bridesmaids were Miss Lucille Ballard Nora B Payne and Wlessie Clayton Miss Lucy Kasey the brides sister Was Tmaltd of Konar ASHORE OFF CAROLINA COAST Steamer Teesbridge Grounds Near Currituck in Thick Weather at Norfolk Va Jan 14 British Steamship Teesbridge Capstone went ashore today in thick weather two miles north of Whales Mead on the North Carolina coast Crews from Whales Wead and Currituck Inlet Life Saving stations and the wrecking at Coley have gone in the regene The Teesbridge Hex at 4 point some 25 miles south of Cape Henry and a short distance below Currituck lighthouse The cause of the incident has not veer ascertained.
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Richmond
Broad Street Methodist Church
Virginia Carret Kelly
Howell Colston Peatherstone
Lynchburg
Virginia
Florence Kelly
John Haythe
Lanchburz
Lille Block
Henry Block
J. Irving Keutman
BN. Calisch
Montgomery County
Fredericksburg
Robert M. Shelton
Ballard County
Icy
Bertha I. Garrett
William EH. Garrett
Caroline County
Re. O. R. Craikshank
Tatter
Urbanna
Alma Barton
Thig City
F- H. Scott
Hinton
W. Va
Bedford’ City
Jan. U
St. Johm’s Splecopal Church
Bessie Buford Kasey
George ‘Winston Schenk
Dallas Tucker
Harrisonburg
Lucile Ballard
Nora B. Payne
Wlessie Clayton
Lucy Kasey
Tmaltd
Konar
Teesbridge
Currituck
Norfolk
Whales Mead
North Carolina
Currituck Inlet
Coley
Regene
Cape Henry
Currituck Lighthouse
Man Charged With Beating His Father in Petersburg
A warrant was issued for the arrest of Sidney Robertson, a well known Petersburg youth, after an alleged assault on his father Stanhope Robertson late last night over a dispute about money. The case has drawn local attention.
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Washington
Petersburg
Van
Lhfe
Sidney Robertson
Stanhope Robertson
Sium
Cooper's New Discovery Medicine Gains New York Fans
Crowds flock to drugstores as Cooper promotes his remedy for indigestion stomach trouble and nervousness. Mrs. Charles Trensch of Desbrosses street and others credit the medicine with dramatic health improvements, saying it cured years of sickness for them and their husbands. Cooper plans to meet the public during his New York stay and offers a free treatise on heart health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cooper
Coopler
Ben
Charles Trensch
Desbrosses Street
Tlus
J. mm
The
Cooper Medicine Co
Dayton
Obie
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Gov. Dawson
Liner
Congress Condensed
Pistol’s Point
Staunton
Tiolio W. Brown
Lottle Wallerstein
Atlantic City
O'Dea and Evans
Mass
Mrs. Taft
Quaker City
Caroling
Wellington
Vice
Eleventh. Street
aLw
Eckstein
Avenus
Arlington Hotel
Peter Taylor, Jr
Washington, D.C
Maryland
Soule Realty Co
Ana
National Bank “of Washington, DB. G
Agee
Foreign Exchange
Shoreham
Executive Mansion
Treasury, Statte, War
Navy Departments
Johh -T
Devine
Main
J. E. Bates
Public Accountant and Auditor
Washington Loan and Trust Building
Washington, D. C
St. James
Penina, Ave
Sixth Street
Concern
Mammoth
National Metropolitan Bank OF Washington
Washington, DE
Hes
Chery
ALEX
ST. Joen & Sox
Cornice
Latrobes, Busges
Wisconsin Ave
L. H. Landwehr
Fourteenth Street
Joan
Sheia -Arke
Charles F. Dornoff
Edward B. Ulsment
Shelby Clarke Art Company
G Street Northwest
Spee
National Hotel
6Th and
F. Schupt
W. A. H. Ghurgh
Church & Stephenson
Maryland Avenue
Eighth
Ninth Streets
Auguet
W. Noack, Jr
George A. Williamson
Shoemaker Co
Pennsylvania Ave
N. W
Hydraulic Press Brick Co
Colorado
Friends Select School
Quint
Business High
Virginia Briefs
Charles Giespie
Richmond Rl
Carolina, Clinchfeld, and Ohio Railroad
St. Paul
Enos A. Mills
United States Forestry Service
Blair
Appalachian
Wisc Va
Bridgers
Norfolk and Western
Istooe
Columbus
Ohio River
W. & B. Pad Shoes
James L. Parsons
Washington, D
Maryland Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals
Edgar B. Moore
John W. Potts
Battimae City Superior Court
John W. Fowler
Ari C. Brady
Lee Brady
Calvert
I Louin
Henninghausen
Againet
Margeretha Petarsam
Baltimors Cfty Efreult Court
Easton National Bank
Theophiles Tunis
Talbot
United Reilwayss and Flevtrie Company of Hattimore
Mamie Elizapeth Carntal
Virginia Weddings
J. E. Hurley
Roiler Works
C St. N. W
W. & B, Pad Shoes
J. B. Kendall, Co
Messouri Ave
XN. W
WM. H. Ernest
EL Phose East
American Ice Company
H. F. Harper Co., Inc
Whalesale
Peng-Allen
Fortland Cement
Heéreredims
Lump. Line
Valr
Braaferd
St. N. EB
Tenth St. NW
Stomach Oracle
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