Martin's Third Term Ratified by Virginia Legislature
Senator Thomas Martin of Scottsville was re elected to the U S Senate in a formal ratification by Virginia's General Assembly. The session confirmed his three term legacy with a party line vote while discussing returns, party support, and the political balance in Richmond. Delegates highlighted his Civil War service and long statewide career as key factors in the election.
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Virginia debates education and road funding plans
The discussion centers on state road improvements and a proposed Patrick Henry Female Normal School in Martinsville. Senator Garrett seeks $100,000 for construction and $25,000 yearly to operate the school for white female teachers. A rural carriers petition urges better roads, arguing their work requires extensive travel and public safety concerns.
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Frogs Sing On Potomac Amid Warm Western Maryland Spell
From Hagerstown to Norfolk reports describe an unseasonably warm midwinter period. Frogs croak in Potomac marshes and insects emerge as buds swell on fruit trees. Farmers fear springlike warmth may threaten later crops if a freezing spell returns while Norfolk records a 74 degree high. A cold front in western Virginia moves eastward.
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Liquor Dealers Organizing to Fight Two Mile Rule
Prince George County whisky dealers organize against a proposed law prohibiting liquor sales within two miles of the District line unless a license applicant has majority owner support within that radius. The bill would raise the license fund to 4 dollars. In Bladensburg area twelve saloons are said to cluster within a half mile and Sunday liquor tourism from Washington is noted. Deputy Sheriff Vincent and Constable Payne arrested T J Trainor and B J White of Washington and William Adams and Hugh Adams of Mount Rainier for drunk and disorderly behavior. they were held in the Hyattsville lockup and fined 16.5 dollars by Justice Dahter.
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Hoyatteville
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Bigamy charge shocks Spencer railroad town
Spencer North Carolina January report says Wratter, an employee of the Southern Railroad at Spencer, was arrested on bigamy charges after a warrant by Mrs Sigme Wren of Charlotte. He allegedly married Miss Fannie Lee Pace while still married to his first wife. The arresting officers transported him to Charlotte where his first wife resides while another wife lives in Salisbury.
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Obituary Notices From West Virginia Archive
Aarupsburg native John Chin dies at 84 in Rome on Sunday night. Survived by wife four sons and a daughter. Cathrine Stemp dies at home in the county aged 106. Born March 31 1917 Williamsport Maryland. Mother of Rev J P Stump and grandmother of US Fish Commissioner George M Fowers.
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Alexandria
United States
George M. Fowers
Reward Offered in Curti n Murder Case in Alexandria
Alexandria city officials move to appropriate 250 to reward the apprehension and conviction of George R. Curtin's murderers. The measure passes both the common council and the board of aldermen despite the mayor and state's attorney opposing a reward. The article also covers street paving plans, sewer construction, and local civic events including Washington's Birthday celebrations.
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Curtin
Capt Bryan
Mr. Simpson
George S. Simpson
Samuel P Fisher
Paff
George FR. Curlin
Btate
Virginia Court of Appeals precards before the Virginia Supreme Court
Richmond reports indicate today the Virginia Court of Appeals listed precards for cases including Leo et al vs Patilla and others and Wilnop trustees et al, with submissions noted and arguments by named counsel. Additional cases Watkins vs Robertson et al and Hetton va Mountford were continued or passed to March term, with next canes to be called listed.
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J Singleton Diggs
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Appellees
Watkins
Phoebus
Mabbetten
Social Clas
Tidewater Quarry Company
Ve Sect
Scott & Marbech Ve
Holmes
Henry
Mangled by a Bulldog in Richmond Attack
In Richmond on Saturday Mrs. Mary Shope wife of Robert Shope of Thirtieth Street was severely mauled by a vicious bulldog at a neighbor’s home. The dog attacked her while she aided her daughter and then bit her throat and thigh before being killed by James Shope with an iron bar. Mrs. Shope remained in critical condition with her daughter also severely bitten. Owner Virus Brown claims confinement but neighbors say the dog roamed freely, stirring public anger.
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Robert Shope
Thortieth Street
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Christopher
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Brown
Mortality Gap Widening Among Montgomery Colored Residents
Montgomery County Health Officer Dr. William L. Lewis reports 1905 totals of 508 births 181 among colored and 124 deaths among colored, with 31 tuberculosis deaths and 15 fatal pneumonia cases. White deaths total 21 from lung diseases. Typhoid 101 cases 12 deaths diphtheria 27 cases 2 deaths. Five hundred four school children vaccinated, opposition to vaccination now vanished.
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Wiliam L. Lewis
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Burton Arraigned Convicted Entertainer Faces New Charge
Chadwick Burton, jailed six months after a Hastings Court conviction for swindling a Methodist church, was arraigned in Police Court in Richmond on a related misdemeanor tied to his relationship with a woman he presented as his wife. The case was continued to Thursday as defense attorneys sought more prep time. Mrs. Hattie N. C Burton testified but was not heard before postponement. The other four cases involving Burton’s alleged false pretense money matters were set for later.
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Richmond
Chadwick Urton
Hastings Court
Hattie N. C Burton
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Pollock and Wise
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Veteran swindled in Coast Artillery sting from son hoax
John Metz, a Lonaconing veteran, sent $200 to a man posing as his son in the Coast Artillery service at Fort Slocum. A letter dated Fort Slocum, postmarked New Rochelle, claimed the son was sick and needed funds. The swindler obtained two $100 money orders and vanished. Metz later learned his son was not ill. He warned the postmaster and vowed to hold the swindler responsible for the loss.
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John” Metz
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Dr Alexander S Ah killed in Maryland accident near Catonsville
Dr Alexander Scott Ah1l was hurled down a forty foot embankment along Frederick road near Catonsville and died later in Baltimore. He was a veterinary surgeon returning from a farm on a professional errand when the fatal crash occurred near Ilchester Howard County.
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Ilchester
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Police board fines officers after Harford avenue incident
Baltimore February 23 report Patrolmen Thomas W Sporrer and John B Atkins were dismissed from the force four probation officers fined 19 dollars each and sixteen regular patrolmen fined 23 dollars each following a Harford avenue car disturbance on January 19 Conductor Francis Reilly accused Sporrer of seizing him by the throat and punching him in the face and said many officers failed to arrest him. Atkins warned Reilly not to speak aloud about the matter.
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Raid Warning in Church Reports Falsified
Greensboro Jan 23 witnesses in ex-Deputy Collector Samuel fraud case testified that four stills said destroyed in the Wilkes County raid in April 1905 were still present. They denied reports of destruction of butts beer and paraphernalia as false. Samuel claimed eleven illicit distilleries and thousands of gallons of beer destroyed.
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Thief Steals Organ Pipes From Baltimore Church
A Baltimore color church faces Sunday services without organ pipes after a theft. John W. Chalmers was arrested for feloniously entering the Star Baptist Church and stealing pipes valued at 823. He posted 200 bail for a further hearing next Saturday as police search for the missing pipes.
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Flood Devastates Willis and Delays Rail Traffic
Willis village fifteen miles east of Bluefield is nearly swept away by last night’s flood. Fifteen landslides along the line from Bluefield to Lurick disrupt rail service with trains delayed twelve to fifteen hours. A passenger engine flooded and fireman lost not drowning. Across the region four foot water in Big Bend tunnel halts trains and washouts cripple tracks west of Marion. Damaged telegraph wires and demolished bridges compound the havoc as crews assess days of repairs ahead.
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How's Your Stomach and Health Foundations in China
An excerpt notes that greetings reflect concern for health, citing that Chinese culture emphasizes the stomach as the root of well being. It argues robust digestion underpins general health and frames health as humanity’s enduring mission.
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Beecham's Pills Advertised as Health Remedy
Beecham's Pills claimed to keep the stomach well and the liver active while regulating the bowels. They promised to dispel sickness and cure dyspepsia indigestion and constipation when used as directed. The advertisement boasted over 30 years of use and world famous status with box prices listed.
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Man Found Dead in Alley in Huntington City
A neatly dressed man was found dead in an alley behind the Bennett block at 5 o'clock. Bruises and cuts on the throat suggest foul play as officials investigate. A telegram identifies the deceased as EE Turner of Newark Ohio, sent from Newark to Turner in Hot Springs Arkansas and signed "Bese."
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Baltimore Doctor Seeks Wife Missing After Confession
Dr Pinkney Jn Davis of 100 North Fulton avenue says his wife Jane left January 1 with their two sons for her mother's home in St Denis and has not been heard from since. He describes her as bright and congenial and notes a prior amicable marriage while police investigations continue.
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Old Officers Re-Elected at Jamestown Exposition Company
Norfolk Jan 23 The Jamestown Exposition board re elected all officers for the coming year. President St George Tucker absent. auditor’s financial report said satisfactory. Officers listed include Alvan H Martin first VP Joseph Bryan second VP W E Barrett third VP Gordon Cummings fifth VP C Sher Wood sixth VP T S Garnett Norfolk.
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Tug Captain Warned in Collision Signal Report
Special to The Washington Post from Norfolk reports that after the October harbor collision between the Southern Railway tug Piedmont and the torpedo boat Truxton, inspectors dismissed the case but warned Capt Williama of the Piedmont to use the steam whistle rather than his mouth for signals. The barge towed by Piedmont was slightly damaged.
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Horticulturists Meet Opens Virginia Society Session
Richmond Va Jan 28 the tenth annual meeting of the Virginia Horticulture Society opened in Murphy's Annex. President Samuel B Woods of Charlottesville led the session with aims, Mayor McCarthy spoke welcome, and Gov Montague honorary member stressed farm labor migration amid statewide labor scarcity.
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Maryland highway plan to use convict labor
Dr Hill proposes a State of Maryland Road No 1 linking Washington and Baltimore along the old route. The highway would pass through Prince George Howard and Baltimore counties with 30 to 60 foot width and bridges of permanent materials. Inmates from the House of Correction would build the road under state highway commission direction with funds authorized for machinery and maintenance.
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Want closer union plan for Maryland colleges
Representatives of three Maryland scholastic institutions met in Annapolis to plan a closer union. The University of Maryland of Baltimore St John's College of Annapolis and Maryland Agricultural College of Prince George County discussed a cooperative plan after months of consideration.
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Policy alteration leads to charges in Staunton court
Staunton Virginia saw Rev Wiliam Wayt a colored preacher serving as Retail Magistrate N Wehn face charges this afternoon for forging and altering a True Reformers life insurance policy naming Lucy Bosley as insured. The policy for 125 was altered to pay William Wayt to Albert Boxley the Boxley woman of 18 said to be unsound minded.
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Not Guilty Of Charge In Richmond Assault Case
Richmond jury acquits Charles B Lockhardt of attempted criminal assault onMiss Gertrude Brown after he posed as a detective to seize her daughter The trial held in Hastings Court revealed he took the girl to a reservoir where the alleged assault occurred The Commonwealth failed to prove the case and the jury returned a not guilty verdict without leaving their seats.
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Must Work or Flit. Judge Shuts Gamblers From Charleston
Charleston West Virginia January 23. Police Judge Wortz, who earlier closed all local gambling houses, orders all gamblers to leave town or take work. He condemns the profession as too conspicuous on the streets and says Charleston has no place for them.
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CURED BY WARNER'S SAFE CURE CLAIMS AND TEST
An advertisement extols Warner's Safe Cure for kidney liver and bladder ailments tied to malaria and uric acid. It touts a urine test to detect disease, urges doctors to use Safe Cure, and offers mail analysis and a medical booklet. The piece markets Safe Cure at $1 a bottle with nationwide availability.
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