Date land contest over Wilson deeded tract in Coachella
In Los Angeles a land contest centers on sixty acres in the Coachella valley claimed by Homer L Goddard and the president. John T King alleges fraud and improper publication of filing notices affecting title to the property once deeded from Malou/ Elliott to Mrs Wilson and then to President Wilson. The case involves rival claims, alleged conspiracies, and transfers via Maud Henise and Homer Goddard with payments totaling thousands of dollars and a deal to sell to Mrs Woodrow Wilson.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Coachella Valley
California
Wilson
United States Land Office
The
United States
Homer L. Goddard
John T King
Margaret Arson Elliott
Woodrow Wilson
Howard Klott Cormerdean
Princeton
Lising
Berkeley
Malcott
King
Maud Compton Hensle
John L. Compton
Coachella Valle
Hink
Homer Ty Goddard
Los
Government Land Office
Compton
News
India
Coachella
Thermal
Hensie
Mia
Henale
Goddard
Mys
Margaret Axson Elliott
Marriages and Obituaries in Washington D C Area
A list of marriage notices and obituaries dated January 1914 from Washington area papers. Entries include Oliver and Brosgni, Browne, Bryan, Connor, Pellingor, Feldlinger, Hochstrasser, Ingalls, Lippold, Mills, Wollls, Mendon, Spencer, Wilson, and others with funeral details, residences, and interment locations across Oak Hill, Mount Olivet, and Baltimore.
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Rowne
Carl Browne
Labor Knight
Massachusetts Avenue Northwest
Ceme
Glenwood
Ceme- Bryan
Raphal
Annie EB Bryan
South Carolina Avenue
St Peter's Church
Connor
Nowman Hoover
Paul D. Connor
Quincy Street
Pellingor
Tohn Howard Feldlinger
Inslate
Hagerstown
Round Hil
Charles Theodore Cripfith
New York
Priochstrassair
Louis L. Hochstrasser
Louis L
Emily Hochstrasser
Thirty-third Street
Baltmore
Ingalls
Darwin Foster
John D
Viola ML Ingalls
Ippold
Harry T Higbee
Suitland
Mad
Margaretta
Viet Lippold
Charles . Meyers
Prospect Hill
Washington
Wolls
Eva Mills
Theo
Mulls
Lei
George P Zllarhorsts
East Capitol Street
St Patrick's Church
Mount Olvet
BNO den
Ufe
Snowden
Stacy Bo
Sarah HL Snowden
Ui Oak Ell
Spencer
Mimawushes
Wis
Laura Spencir
Smouth
Ohio
George Washinaton Touse Hospital
Naomi
Wiles
Wtermente
Funesiai
Wiliam Tee
Ap Om
Frederick
Wilson
Roseland
Nelson Coun
Wardwin Sherwood
Asinamel
Annie EF Wilson
Winsiington
Oak Hill Cemetery
Funeral Directors and Embalmers Listed in City Ads
A fragmented funeral services column lists multiple firms with addresses and phone numbers including GEO P Zurhorst OL East Capcol Street Estenitched 337 Chas Zurhorst Thos 8 Surgeon successor T Rs Gain WM Sardo & Co Funeral Masons Modern Chapel and J W Lee Frank Geier s Son and others offering embalming cremation and funeral arrangements with various telephone contacts and duty rosters.
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P. Zurhorst
East Capcol Street
Chas
Zurhorst
Sergeon
T. RS. Gain
Geft
WM. H. Sardo & Ca
Uneral Mattors
Smbalmers
Modern Chapel
Lina
Frank Geier
Seventh St
Chanel
J. WM. Lee
Pennsylvania
F Street
N. W
Speard
VRANS
Begs to See Affinity Shouts Love for Foster
Delilah Bradley declares she will starve unless allowed to join her lover Joel M. Foster in New York. The 16 year old former Sunday school teacher fights her father and detectives, leads hunger strike, and telegraphs as she pleads for Foster to marry her after a divorce.
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Delilah Bradley
Cutey
Snooky
Washington Post
Pemberton
N. J
Joel M. Foster
New York
Foster
Mo Dile
Ala
Henry Bradley
Delilah
Homeless Guests Fed at Bowery Gala Also Gives to Army M C A
Nearly 100 homeless men were fed and over 40 given beds by Mrs Finley J Sheppard in a Bowery celebration of her wedding anniversary. Sheppard later donated 35000 to the Army M C A at Fort Monroe for a new annex to increase capacity and funded the original building. The annex will serve as a study hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
the Bowery
Finley J. Sheppard
Healey Miller Gould
Army
Norfolk
Helen J. Gould
M.C A
Fort Monroe
Favors Pindell for Russia Nomination
Democratic members of the foreign relations committee ordered a favorable report to the Senate on Henry M. Pindell of Peoria for ambassador to Russia after private committee room criticism of the choice. They noted no disqualifying personality issues and cited the president’s repeated nomination.
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Henry M. Pindell
Peoria
Russia
Senate
Pindell
Pindel
Col. Gorgas
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Tor
Panama
Wilson Hums Through Day Receiving Visitors In Quoted Five Minute Spacing
President Wilson spent the day greeting callers from 1 AM to 2:39 PM at five minute intervals, including Archbishop Ireland Bishop Lawrence and others. He declined to accept John W. Garrett’s resignation as minister to Argentina and continued him in diplomatic service. Col E M House plans a Texas hunting trip, while E O Wood toasted health as a municipal filtration plant opened in Flint by telegraph signal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Wilson
Col. House
Archbishop Ireland
Bishop Lawrence
W. J. Conners
Wilson
John W. Garrett
Argentina
Garrett
White House
Ireland
William J. Conners
Buffalo
Charles M Heald
Interstate Commerce Commission
Col. E. M. House
New York
Texas
Bishop Laurence
Massachusetts
Chauncey Glcott
Secont
E. M. House
Austin
Tex
Eli" MacDonald
MacDonald
E. O. Wood
Michigan
Whn
Ready for Alaska vote delayed by Senate on railway bill
Final action on the Alaskan railway bill was postponed until today after extended debate ended late yesterday. The Senate recessed until noon with voting on amendments to occur on the legislative day of January 22. Senate leaders remained confident of passage, while Senator Williams called the plan undemocratic.
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Senate
Williama
Senate and House News Notes Highlight Policy Debates
Senate will weigh amendments to the Smith Lever agricultural extension bill protesting northern state discrimination and boosting a $3 million federal aid pool. Foreign relations eye rapid treaty disposition including a Nicaragua canal option. Senate commerce panel favors anchorage grounds rule with $100 fines. A Seabright beach survey bill and a Gorgas surgeon general nomination gain committee support. Joslyn to testify on alleged Canadian inducements to U.S. farmers. District bill hearings begin with District commissioners expected. half-and-half District funding resists change. Senate Shafroth excused from subcommittee duties.
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North
Middle West
Cummins
Iowa
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nicaragua
Gulf of Fonseca
Suvcemomiusce Vu Eyyweplasons
House
Shafroth
Thaw Wins $30,000 From Father's Estate In Pennsylvania Court
In Allegheny County Orphans Court Judge J J Miller granted Harry K Thaw a 30000 payout from accumulated income of his father's estate with 13073 remaining to be allocated later. Thaw had sought 30000 from Fidelity Title and Trust Company claiming capacity despite prior insanity declarations. Miller ruled no jury trial on sanity needed as New York courts held detention did not strip his property rights.
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Pittsburgh
Vam
Orphans’ Court of
Allegheny County
J. J. Miler
Harry EK
Thaw
Matteawan
Fidelity Title and Trust Company
Rebels Attack Port and Firings Ring Up Puerto Mexico Scene
U S envoy OShaughnessy aids escape of Jorge Vera Estanol a former deputy jailed by Huerta in 1912. Rebels attack near Tierra Blanca and Puerto Mexico as Rear Admiral Fletcher orders Chester to the scene. Federal column repulsed near Guaymas and Gen Mercado takes command at Fort Bliss. Wilson says Lind reported no new Huerta proposals.
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Fletcher
Chester
Puerto Mexico
Lind
Mexico City
Jorge Vera Estanol
Huerta
Nelson O'Shaughnessy
Vera Cruz
Senor Estanol
Madero
O'Shaughnessy
Tierra Glaiica
Esperanza
Habana
Culiacan
Sinaloa
Mexico
Nogales
Guaymas
Sonora
el Paso
Tex
Salvador Mercado
Ojunaga
Fort Bliss
Mercado
Wilson
John Lind
Jesus Flores Magon
Boost for District Militia Campaign Among Employers
Washington campaign to spark District National Guard support opened yesterday. Representative Julius Kahn urged the Washington Board of Trade Public Order Committee to feature the guard’s work. The board plans to present the issue to its full executive committee, with Kahn to speak later, joined by Lieut. Col A L Parmerter and Col W E Harvey who addressed the committee.
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Washington
District National Guard
Julius Kahn
California
National Defense League
Washington Board of Trade
National Guard
Kahn
A .L. Parmerter
District Guard
W. E. Harvey
Second Infantry
Blease Pardons and Political Moves Stir South Carolina
Gov. Blease defends pardons as humanitarian and deters crime, citing Em merson and other cases, while the legislature moves to curb pardoning power and push for repeal of the fifteenth amendment, signaling tense politics and race issues in South Carolina. Lieutenant Gov Wagner also announces retirement from politics.
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Senate
House
Congress
South Carolina
Order Strike Probes Pressed for Denver Pueblo Hearings
A House Democrats caucus authorized a congressional investigation into strikes in Colorado and Michigan mining fields. Hearings slated in Denver Pueblo and possibly Trinidad within two weeks to probe peonage postal interference and judicial or legal machinery while considering constitutional questions and meeting to report next week.
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Denver
Pueblo
U. S
Congressional
Colorado
Michigan
Atta Cancus
House
Democrats
Hioise
Foster
Illnois
Keating
MacDonald
Atd Michigan
Dueblo
Trinidad
Senate
West Virginia
Rules
Borth Michigan
Bomb at Ahmeek mine plant shocks Copper Strike District
Deputy in Copper Strike District discovers an infernal machine in a suitcase near the Ahmeek mine power plant in Keweenaw county. A small board holds a partly filled nitroglycerin can, an alarm clock and dry battery connected by wires. The device, not armed when opened, ties to the ongoing copper miners strike and influx of workers at the Calumet and Hecia subsidiary mine.
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Houghton
Mich
Harria
Ahmeek
Keweenaw County
Calumet and
Hacla
AFL approves resolutions for civil service unionizing drive
The American Federation of Labor executive council approved measures to organize civil service employees nationwide and launch labor forward campaigns in Colorado and garment workers campaigns in states lacking unions. It endorsed cooperation with state federations, pressed for free textbooks, urged teachers’ organization, and called a fund-raising special assessment to organize women workers. A subcommittee will address frictions between print workers and Chicago publishers.
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Labor Organization
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
Washington
Federal Service
Colorado
Iabor
Chicago
Newspaper Publishers’ Association
President nominates 300 plus postmasters and top appointees
The President sent to the Senate nominations for postmasters across multiple states including Maryland Virginia North Carolina and West Virginia. Also named are an appraiser in Cleveland an U S attorney for Mississippi and Arizona and an assistant surgeon in the medical reserve corps. Key postmasters listed include J Howell Taylor Medford Oliver B H Clark Silver Spring Robert L Runkles Mount Airy and others from Virginia North Carolina and West Virginia.
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U. S
Senate
Cleveland
Joseph Pelcinski
Ohio
United States
Wilson Shedric Hill
Greenwood
Miss
Mississippi
Thomas A. Flynn
Arizona
Medical Reserve Corps
William W. Wickersham
Pennsylvania
Wilson
Maryland
J. Howell Taylor
Medford
Oliver BH. P. Clark
Sliver Spring
Robert L. Runkles
Mount Airy
David 0. Pound
Smithsburg
Virginia
A. B. Buchanan
Tazewelle
N. Otey
Wytheville
Bert Russell
Damascus
West Virginia
Charles G. Ogden
Balem
Karl G. Davis
Wallace
North Carolina
Gaither G. Blackwelder
China Grove
F.C. Gillam
Kannapolis
James W. Smith
Norwood
P. H. Linville
Walnut Cove
C. M. McCracken
Graham
William G. Bradshaw
High Point
G. H. Russell
Laurinburg
C. Winchester
Monroe
A. Elmo Powell
Whiteville
Golden Wedding Dinner For Richards In London
London January 24 The golden wedding of Mr John Morgan Richards and his wife was celebrated at a dinner at the Hotel Cetts. Richards chairs the American Society of London. The Queen sent congratulations by telegram. Attending were the American Ambassador Walter H Page Lord Curzon John L Griffiths and many Americans. Speeches noted the death of the couple’s daughter Mrs Craigie and praised Richards service in fostering Anglo American friendship.
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London
John Morgan Richards
England
America
Hotel Cetts
Richards
American Society of London
Walter H. Page
Lord Curzon of
Kedleston
John L. Griffiths
Craigie
John Oliver Hobbs
University of Pennsylvania Student Dies By Suicide
Wardwell Towneley a third year architecture student at the University of Pennsylvania was found dead with a bullet near Merion Cricket Club grounds. A revolver lay beside him and authorities said he died by his own hand. He belonged to Psi Upsilon and starred in Mask and Wig. he and friend Addison McCullough reportedly planned to sail to Germany.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Wardwell
Thornton Towneley
Department of Architecture
Merion Cricket Club
Towneley
Delaware County
Psi Upailen
Bryan opposed Maine memorial due to Spain ties
A Washington dispatch reports Secretary Bryan considered canceling the February 1 Maine memorial in Arlington on the sixteenth anniversary of the sinking. He believed improved U S Spain relations made the annual tribute unnecessary.
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Maine
Spain
Washington Post
New York
Washington Dispatch
the Times
Capitol
Arlington S National Cemetery
Habana Harbor
Bryan
United States
Exhibits Sent to National Corn Exposition from Alexandria
Washington Post Bureau reports five car loads of exhibits prepared under Prof. F. Samson Scribner will go to the National Corn Exposition in Dallas from February 10. Martin M. Klein will depart for Dallas to supervise placement. Also notes deaths, a coroner appointment, funeral services, Eagles election, and a major fish-packing house fire in Alexandria causing about 4000 dollars in losses.
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Washington Post
King Street
Alaxandria
Alexandria
Agricultural Department
Dallas
Tex
F. Samson Scribner
Martin M. Klein
Price & Cook
Howard Hammond & Co
Smoot & Co
Alexandria Fertilizer and
Hemice Company
Sulzer and Murphy Witnesses in Grand Jury Probe
Deposed governor William Sulzer testified before a New York grand jury for nearly two hours about a alleged deal with Tammany leader Charles Murphy during his impeachment trial. The inquiry includes claims that James E. Gaffney pressured James C. Stewart for a $100,000 political contribution. Murphy denied the charges and offered to testify waiving immunity, while Senator O’Gorman also agreed to testify.
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Grand Jury
Tammany
New York
William Sulzer
Charles F. Murphy
Sulzer
Witman
James E. Gaffney
Murphy
James C. Stewart
Stewart
United States
O'Gorman
Gaffney
Bagman
Whitman
Chester C. Platt
Senator O'Gorman
Labor Party Advocated by United Mine Workers
Indianapolis Jan 22 After hours of debate the convention of United Mine Workers of America adopted a resolution declaring that due to current economic conditions and the interest, the laboring people should unite in a political labor party. No party was named and no preparations for a new party were stated. General Socialist delegates sought endorsement by the laboring classes.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers of America
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Omaha
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Mount Holly
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Louis C. Barley
Corporation Court
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Willam L. Rammel
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Ogorman
Senator O'German
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Labor Party
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