Taft Leads Endowment Drive At National Riflemen Meeting
The annual New Willard gathering for the National Rifle Association drew prominent figures including Taft, Meyer, and Bacon amid plans to boost the 109.0 percent endowment fund. Attendees from across states and various generals and officers attended, signaling strong support for widening citizen participation in marksmanship and national defense initiatives.
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National
Ile Association of America
Association
Willard
Meyer
Bacon
Ghia
AC Kelley
Calorade
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MbGuain
Wiekean
Ben Giorge
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Dalimhi
Spencer
Som Tere
Arthur Bridge Adsuert Xeteral
Indiana
Michigan
Thomas Tallst Masei
Hambern
Hare of
Miersland
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Tahel
Connecticut
Columbia
Ws Foy
Poonath
Omitebes
Reform plans eyed for 1909 National Rifle Association
A column reports on proposed changes to NRA operations including profit prohibitions, prize distributions, and possible abolition of matches. It notes a board expansion to 100, potential new member class, and a push to fund endowments with major donors listed. The slate for the current year and key officers are announced.
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National Rifle Association
Ufe
Roosevelt
Taft
Root
Bacon
the Navy
Newberry
Cornelius N Bliss
Henry White
T J O'Brien
F 19 Briggs
James A. Stillman
John Jacob Astor
James A Drex
Labor Federation Plans Appeal Over Gompers Sentences
The American Federation of Labor executive council, meeting with Judge Alton B Parker and local counsel, debates fighting Wrights contempt sentences against Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell, and Frank Morrison. They vow to appeal in the District Court of Appeals, possibly to the US Supreme Court, seeking funds from unions while outlining proposed legal actions and legislative moves regarding boycott issues.
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Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
Frank Morison
Justice Wright
Bucks Stove and Range Company
Amerian Federation of Labor
Alton Walker
Mesers Ralston & Biddens
Agaians
Justice Wrights
District Court of Appeals
Supreme Cant
United States
Comune Legal
Yeaterday
Emecs
St Jomg Stove
Wedont
Judge Parker
Newith
Samuel Gampers
James Duncan
Jom Mitchell Dimes
G Connell Vox Mole Vol Tuber
Ballentine JR
Mipme
JF Lennon
Monison
Pucaldent
Gampers
Renais
Maine
Congressional
Water to christen ship as sponsor hints at Whisky plan
The Delaware ship christening split the crowd as sponsor John Goo Lea faced pressure to use water for the bow splash. A Newport News launch event would feature whisky and champagne samples for spectators, with bottled offerings distributed by the firm and a Virginia firm planning equal numbers of champagne flasks. Officials weigh water versus alcohol amid public pushback.
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Deaware
Spenl
Washington Post
Wimiington
Delaware
Wan
Newport News
Viginia Company
Drs
Goo Lea
HER PEARLS NOT A NECKLACE
New York January 4 A United States circuit court of appeals decision reverses a lower court ruling in the Leeds peers case. It says the famous string of pearls bought in Paris in 1963 for Willam B Leeds and sent to his wife was not a necklace subject to duty. The court upholds a 10 percent duty on importation and a 320000 appraisal as individual pearls, noting the value must be stated on the invoice. The case follows years of seizure and litigation ending with the full 10 percent imposed on the necklace value.
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New York
Leeds
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Paris
Willam B Leeds
Board of General Appraisers
Eniaim
Many to Build Hall New Auditorium Interest Grows
A new company plans to erect a large auditorium near the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Up to forty nine names were listed as prospective incorporators, with option on an entire Seventeenth Street block between the Bureau of American Republics and the Corcoran Gallery. A Tuesday incorporation meeting will set preliminary plans and a public meeting to explain the project.
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Corcoran Gallery of Art
Robert Bacon
Charles J Bell
Scott C Bone
John T Devine
Charles C Glover
George W. Hamilton
Christian Heurich
Abram Lisner
Jobo R McLean
Clarence F Norment
Theodore W Noyra
James W Oyster Cune
Rudolph Emil Berne
J Ismal
W Woodward
Edward J Stellwagen
F Schutt
George Truesdell
Thomas F Walsh
John M Wilson
Henry BF Macfarland
Frank A Mungey
R Rosas Perry
Corcoran
Thom Duncan
Pillups
Willam
Henry C. Corbin
Levi P Morton
James Elverson
Thomas Netton Page
Han
George Dewey
Charles D Walcott
Henry H Flather
Lauriatin Hardin
William Holland Witmer
William W Finley
Root
Auditorium Company
National Convention Hall
Seventeenth Street
Bureau of American Republics
Cor Uran Art Gallery
Forts
Dayton Hurriedly Spoke For Navy Cabinet Post
Judge Alston G. Dayton of the U S District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia has been tentatively offered a place in Taft s cabinet as Secretary of the Navy. Friends say Dayton will consider the post after adjourning court at Parkersburg and traveling to Washington to meet with Senator Knox and others. Dayton has served in Congress and was appointed to the federal bench to succeed the late Judge Jackson.
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Wheeling
Alston G Dayton
United States Court For
Northern District of
West Virginia
Taft
Thia
Dayton
Parkersburg
Washington
Knox
Daston
Augusta
Secretary of the Navy
Mercantile Club Elects Officers at Annual Meeting
Members of the Mercantile Club met Wednesday at the clubhouse for the election of officers. Elected were President Harry King, Vice President FR B Lyon, Treasurer M Cinermann, Secretary KR B Gusders, and governors J Seldenheimer C H Reizen awen A J Stragburger A D Prince A J Bachrach L Freirich Milton Strasburger.
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Mercantile Club
WIFE SUES FOR 10000 OVER MOVIE QUEEN ROMANCE
Special to The Washington from Richmond Virginia January 14 Mrs Sadie Skeggs of 8 North Twelfth street sues motion picture theater promoter Mrs Alice E Thorpe known as the Motion Picture Queen for 10600 damages alleging she lured her husband away. Thorpe owns and runs a chain of Virginia theaters. Skeggs says she and her husband Dived happily until Thorpe became attracted to him and tried to win him from his wife. Skeggs is a steel engraver.
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Washington Oat
Richmond
Alice E Thorpe
Sadie 1 Skeges
North Twelfth Street
Seak
Thorpe
Virginia
Million Dollar Coke Concern Formed in Morgantown
The D R Davidson Gap and Coke Company, capitalized at $1,000,000, is organized to develop 3000 acres of coal land on the Monongahela River near Morgantown West Virginia. Incorporators are principal stockholders of the Union Drawn Steel Company, with plants in Beaver Falls Pennsylvania Hamilton Ontario and Monterey Mich. The independent firm will produce coke for its steel plant, currently buying coke from the H C Trick Coat and Coke Company, a United States Steel subsidiary.
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Morgantown
W Va
H C Trick Coat and Coke Company
United States Steel Corporation
New Job for Stevens in Colorado Railroads
Denver Jan 14 John M Stevens former Isthmian Canal Commission chairman and current vice president of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad has been offered and will likely accept presidency of the Colorado and Southern Railroad succeeding Frank Trumbull who will retire next Wednesday The Colorado and Southern was recently audited by Hill interests.
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Cola
John M Stevens
Isthmian Canal Commission
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Colorado and Southern Railroad
Frank Trumbull
Colorado and Southern
The
Hill Interests
Torpedo blueprints seized as English draftsman held
Special to the Washington Post from New York January 14 reports Robert Lobbett an Englishman and former employee at Bliss Co in Brooklyn was found with blueprints of torpedo plans and patents belonging to several firms. He planned to sail for England within days and said he kept copies to show he could secure a drafting job. He was held for further questioning.
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Washington Post
Ew York
Robert Il Lobbett
Lobbett
Biss & Co
Willard Po Meyers
Vernon Avenue
Long Island City
Ehls Engpicion
Lovuett
Mevers
Torpedo
National Tin Plate Company
Pittsburg Feed and Water Company
Scheffer Bridge Company
Erie Sim Worka Company
Schenectady Railroad Cay Company
Tebbett
England
Anest
Hebbett
King Alfonso Plans Air Travel For Madrid Region
King Alfonso of Spain buys an aeroplane from an American firm and aims to pilot it with Wilbur Wright. He intends to travel near Madrid by air instead of by automobile after training. Reports note the king’s risk tolerance and secrecy about where the plane came from, with contracts requiring three Wright pupils in Pau and Paris. Wright warns profits limit long stays in France while seeking aid for Italian earthquake victims.
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Madrid
Spalal Cable
Washington Post
Pan
Jan W
King Alfonso
Spain
Wright
Wilbur Wright
Iorso
Tifa
Jmnyisy
Pau
Alfonso
Paris
Orville Wright
France
Ameria
Ladies Night Meeting of DC Society Joyful and Busy
More than 300 guests attended a Ladies Night hosted by the District of Columbia Society Sons for the American Revolution with Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs Donald McLean and Judge Henry Stockbridge spoke and Mrs Bischoff sang several solos. A buffet luncheon, dancing, and Marine Band music followed a formal reception led by President Anderson and other officers.
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Ms. Donald Mclean
District of Columbia Society
Sons For the
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Donald McLean
The
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Henry Stockbridge
Sons of the American Resolution
Pischoff
Marine Band Orchestra
Wade H Atkinson
James A Bailey
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Chester Bowen
Paul Biochett
Moncore Burke
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Chester M Clark Woos
Chelsey Morrle
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Harry H Connadly
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Yunier Seldon
Erre
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Greenawault
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Heit Rabe
Hume Robert H Lovett
John Ft
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Nains
Pitchard
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Samson Thad
Sargent William D Sear
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Rob Tully
Joseph & Welk
Barnard W
Warner Jr
Thomas A
Wedon
Odell & Whipple
Wirtz Maniac Rampage Ends with Multiple Injuries
Rudolph Wirtz, secretary of the Wirtz Transfer Company, became insane Wednesday and went on a violent spree injuring six people including his wife. He attacked with a knife, slashing her face and body and tearing a testicle. he also wounded his brother Julius and others before being disarmed by bystanders. The assault occurred in the Wirtz home parlor, with blood strewn about. Police held Wirtz after a severe confrontation. he had prior mental health treatment and is said to have brooded over a separate murder.
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Hamilton
Charles Martin
Martin ‘Transfer Company
Harry Simimerton
William Firscine
George Longhet
Wirtz
Frank Donnely
Oxford
Typhoid Killed Griswold Death Tied To Yale Figure
New Haven January 14 Yale graduate advisory rowing coach Julian s Curtiss writes in Yale Alumni Weekly that Dwight T Griswold stroke of Wust years clan died in San Francisco from typhoid fever. He says the death was not linked to the Thames River race collapse which he describes as a nervous episode rather than physical exhaustion. He recounts uneasy throat fluttering after the race and notes physicians called it nervous collapse.
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Conn
Julian' S Curtiss
Yale
San Jancisco
Dwight T Griswold
Harvard
Thames River
New Tongon
Kelsey resigns as state insurance superintendent in Albany
Ian Kelsey closes his career as insurance superintendent after resigning late tonight. Gov Hughes appoints Otto E. Kalney as first deputy State Comptroller at 35000 a year with 1000 for expenses. Kelsey served nearly full term. reform insurance laws era marks his tenure while clerks present a loving cup in final moments.
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N.Y
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Otto E. Kelsey
Peer
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Nosittom
Kelsey
Legislative Insurance Investigating Committee
Ryan gets berth for Grand Rapids manager post
Jimmy Ryan, former West Side star and possible Brooklyn manager candidate, will coach the Grand Rapids Central League team next year. President Carson indicated he would wave Ryan to move, but terms hindered signing today and a league meeting Monday may settle details.
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Washington
Chicago
Jimmy Ryan
West Side
Brooklyn
Herry Lumley
Grand Rapids
Carson
Central
Murphy
Ryan
Evenaville
Cubs and Sox plan bold bid for Cy Young
Chicago newspapers report Charlie Murphy and Charlie Comiskey vying to sign veteran pitcher Cy Young. both clubs anticipate fierce bidding for the aging star, with Murphy asserting he will pay top price and even match or exceed rival offers to lure the famed ace to a Chicago team.
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Chicago
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Charlie Cornishe
Cy Young
Saa
Murphy
Mr Murphy
Denton H Young
West Side
Plan for Cables to Set Course for Submarine Fort Stevens Meeting
A board of officers from artillery, engineers and coast artillery was appointed Wednesday to plan for cables and fire control installations at Fort Stevens Greg to coordinate artillery questions across departments. Maj George T Bartlett, Maj James McIndoe, and Capt William K Moore will meet at Fort Steven Greg to discuss the project.
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Columbia River
Fort Canby
George T Bartlett
James McIndoe
Corps of Engineers
William K Moore
Burton Urges Legislature to Defend Rights and Powers
Special to The Washington Post from Columbus Ohio January 14 1905 Theodore E Burton elected United States senator to succeed J B Foraker with a 46 to 1 vote The new senator thanked supporters and warned against excess centralized power in Washington urging each state to maintain individuality and rights He emphasized the danger of growing executive and judicial power and called for a balanced federal and state authority The article also briefly notes a medical ad for Hood's Sarsaparilla claiming health benefits
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Columbus
Ole
Theodore E Burton
United States
J B Foraker
Burton
James E Campbell
Senate
Congress
Washington
Commonwealths
Guarantee For Wifes Bills From Chicago Dress Makers Club
The Chicago Dress Makers Club proposes a plan to require marriage license applicants to pass a civil service exam and provide references showing ability to support themselves. The measure aims to protect capable women and elevate moral standards by conditioning licenses on financial reliability and prior employment, as reported from Chicago on January 13.
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Chicago
Lorider
No Pay for Mind Healing Case Fails in Court
Philadelphia January 14. George William Strong eclectic physician and hypnotist failed to recover 344% from the widow of John E Wooten of Secone Delaware county for treatments given her husband. Strong testified he treated Wooten from March 1898 to December when the patient died and that suggestive hypnotism was his specialty. He claimed compensation at 15 dollars a week for twenty seven and a half weeks.
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George William Strong
Common Pleas
John E Wooten
Secone
Delaware County
Stong
Selectic Medical College of
New York
Westen
Ino
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Wooten
Preacher Trief for Murder Contends Brother Minister Alive
Special to The Washington Port Suffolk Vacant Accused of murdering Rev James L Smith and brother clergyman. He claims the alleged victim is alive in a New York jail under the name Caesar Hives. Witnesses place him in multiple towns. arraigned in Nunsemond circus court.
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Suffolk
James L Smith
Tyons
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Princess Anne County
Lincoln law aims at hotel cleanliness and linen care
A bill introduced by Rep Link in Lincoln proposes annual hotel inspections and strict cleanliness rules. Bedding must be laundered and disinfected quarterly, towels replaced per guest, and pillows with linen washed after each guest. Hotels must provide pillow slips and white cotton sheets, with all linens laundered between guests.
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Jan HW
Representase Link
Newaska Aba
Suffragette at Dinner Dares Churchill Over Votes
A Birmingham suffragette interrupted a dinner with Winston Churchill, arguing for votes for women. She confronted Churchill as he sat, his wife present, and refused to depart after being asked. Officials escorted her to the door amid shouts from fellow suffragists.
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Birmngham Iglana Jan Constantis
Winston Spencer Churchill
Board of Trade
Evertug Draa
Churchill
Sumragete
Battle Crien
Won $26 000 by Coin Toss in Washington Port Pillsturg
A man named Rafferty, described as a capitalist investor, reportedly won a large prize after a coin toss in Washington Port. The tale involves high-stakes brokerage, a mysterious engineer, and discussions on a large payout, with references to a Waldorf party and Pittsburg connections. The narrative is fragmented and unclear but centers on a supposed windfall and financial maneuvering surrounding Rafferty.
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Waldorf Assatia
New
Pittsburg
Fritewr House
Fuutda
Hat Rafferty
Moooraffert
Torpedo expert injured in accidental explosion
A torpedo expert was injured when an explosion occurred during handling of torpedo components aboard a naval craft near the Poe River. The blast caused injuries to several crew members as authorities investigated the accident and identified the responsible officer.
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Quincy Mats Tan
Fand
Bens
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Lasser
Ciera
Davison
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