Arithmetic of No Use Dont Help Girls Says Educator
Chicago educators debate the value of school arithmetic and geometry at a Chicago Equality League meeting. Prof Frank M Leavitt argues math is a useless “stunt” while women speakers challenge the stance. A Lane High School student mocks the system, and speakers condemn the Springfield legislature and party politics.
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Equality League
Washington Post
Chicago
Frank M Leavitt
University of Chicago
Chicago Folitical Quality League
Congress Hotel
Abraham Lincoln
Ben-Hur
Deavitt
Fife
Cotton Records Hint at 1914 15 Season Yield
Census bureau notes indicate record cotton ginning for 1914 15 with January to March totals surpassing prior year. Final 1414 crop size awaits March 26 report, but early estimates near 16,000,000 bales, surpassing the 195 bale record.
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Aneuars
Census Bureau
Open Kensington Water Works Bids in Wilhington Post
Water system bid opening today in Wen- SDIEEE shows about ten thousand dollars as available. Bidders include James Perry & Song and Gallagher A Liven of Baltimore, James Homeaiket of Rockville, Marti & Miller eel Row Pizcinent Caldwell, N antrell Cangreit tia Coumpdéns of Philadelphia, Fo Farrell at Weatchester, Peoail to Oak of Scottdale, Pa.
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Open Kensington
Wilhington Post
Roky
Gure Your Rupture Like I Cured Mine Tale
A seafaring captain suffers a long rupture and failed treatments. Facing a dangerous option he instead cures himself, sharing methods in his remedy and book sent free.
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Doctora
Collings
Truss
W. A. Collings (Inc
Watertown
N.Y
Christmas Between the Trenches with Crowned Children
A periodical photo montage shows the three Scandinavian kings with their ministers, paralleling a meeting to safeguard neutrality as children of King Gustave Adolphe play. It notes King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Roumania, and reports on an armistice moment where troops fraternized and exchanged souvenirs before fighting resumed at day’s end.
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Sting Christian
Denmark
Haakon
Norway
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Sweden
Gustave Adolphe
Duc de Scuanie
Margaret
Ferdinand
Marie
Roumania
Charles Cuncle
Doewawer
Armen Sylva
Mircea
Ileana
Ferman
Stolen Items From Schooner Enola At Seventh Street Wharf
Thieves entered the Enola schooner at the foot of Seventh Street Wharf and stole a gold chain and watch valued at 40 from Captain Edward Hayden. A con artist posing as a Washington Tuet Kitchen agent collected 1 from Elizabeth Jenkins at 526 Seventh Street SE. An auto owned by Dr. Arthur Crane collided with a streetcar at Fourteenth and New York Ave, causing minor damage. Thomas Burke, 29, of 1845 Fighter Street NW, was hospitalized for facial and hand cuts after reportedly falling over an oil stove.
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Sleventh Street
Edward Hayden
Washington Tuet Kitchen
Elizabeth Jenkins
Seventh Street Southeast
Miss Jenkins
Arthur RB Crane
Park Road
Washington Railway
Fourteenth Street
New York Avenue
Ler Crane
Thomas Burke
Fighterstreet
Northwest
Pimergency Hospital
Burke
Fraud charges in race for Massachusetts seat
In Boston on January D Democratic challenger Frank J. Hogan asked special district court commissioners to find that Republican-elect George J. Tinkham won the Eleventh Massachusetts district by fraud. The complaint accuses Tinkham of conspiring with a Democratic city committee chairman to misstate campaign spending and obtain votes through deception.
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Boston
Jan
George J. Tinkham
Massachusetts
Frank J. Hogan
Tinkham
Democratic City Committee
Refugees Reach Alexadria as U S. Cruiser Arrives
The US cruiser Tennessee arrives at Alexandria Egypt with 1500 Palestine refugees. Total refugees in Alexandria surpass 10000 amid housing strains as reports say camps are formed south of Palestine. The dispatch hints at Turkish invasion plans crossing desert areas.
Guards John Hay's Grave Memorial in Lakeview Cemetery
The Wallington Post reports a white myrtle statue of a Mant in Grecian helmet with folded hands, a sword, and pedestal honoring John Hay Secretary of State to McKinley. Widow and children funded the memorial. Mrs Hay died April 2, 194?. Sculptors Saint Gaudens Fraser Bacon contributed. inscription cites James 3:18 on peace and righteousness.
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Wallington Post
Cleveland
Ghig
Tan
Lakeview
Garfield
Rockefeller
John Hay
William McHinfey
Hay
Augustus Saint Gaudeng
James B. Fraser
New York
Henry Bacon
Lincoln Memorial
Washington
M. A. Hanna
Pape's Cold Compound Promise Quick Relief
An old drug advertisement touts Pape's Cold Compound as a fast remedy for colds. It claims open nasal passages, stop runny nose and feverish symptoms, ease headaches, and cost just three cents at any drug store.
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Pape
Giant submarine tested by Hamburg reports success
London dispatch states a Copenhagen cor respondent relays news from Hamburg that a new German submarine completed a trial run in the Bay of Helgoland and proved well suited for its purpose. The submarine, a supply carrier for three months, does not need to return to port or be rescued by its parent ship.
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London
Copenhagen
Hamburg
Helgoland
New Foreign Credits Push Cotton Exports and Stocks Surge
New York reports largest stock and bond dealings since the market reopened and a rise in prices amid expanding foreign credit and rising cotton export demand. Credit balances for January reach 68 million dollars, with December export excess at 132 million. Foodstuffs remain in urgent demand as foreign buyers extend credits, and American securities sales by foreigners offset gold shipments. Grain regions show record deposits, steel production gains, copper prices rebound, and bank liquidity fuels renewed investment interest.
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New York
Washington
District Court News Portraits of Crime and Probat e Proceedings
James J. FT, colored, found guilty of forging Joseph Katz’s name to a $26 check and jailed five years by Chief Justice Covington. Alfred Cotton cashed the bogus check. Julia Hobbie Tompkins, daughter of Charles H. Tompkins, named executrix in a will dated June 20, 1907, after his death January 18. Solomon S. Hopkins fined $20 for street annoyance and drunkenness, with 80 days if unpaid. judge warns women on Washington streets. Edward Cooper, 19, son of a New York surety figure, sentenced to nine years for auto theft and robbery involving Mrs. Bethel Frederick. John Henry also nine years for complicity.
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Charles H. Tompkings
Twenty-first Street
Solomon S. Hopkins
Malloway
Hopkins
Occoquan
Washington
Dward Cooper
New York City
Covington
District Supreme Court
Cooper
Maryland
Bethel Frederick
John Henry
Virginia Obituary Notices Across Several Towns
Virginia obituary notices report the deaths of Willian K Fagg 34 in Christiansburg Mrs Marianne Jennifer Barton 87 in Fredepicmeburg Mrs Isabel A Harris 85 in King George J T Payne 82 in Charlottesville and A C Ford 67 in Charlottesville area. The notices note survivors and planned funeral arrangements.
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Willian K Fagg
Virginia
West Virginia
George W. Fagg
Glenn Mitchell
Edith Fagg
Edward
Charles
Jack
Robert
Blacksburg
Galloway
Graham
Fredepicmeburg
Marianne Jennifer Barton
Seth M. Barton
Jennifer
Maryland
Maxwell Barton
Washington
Trinity Church
King George
Isabel A. Harris
Payne
Albemarle
Waller
Miss Rhiner
A. C. Ford
W. M. Mayo
Rockbridge County
Millbora
Farmer Writes for a Wife Special in The Washington Post
In Baltimore a Virginia farmer, W. Harry Lee of Halsteads Point, Warwick county, seeks a Baltimore wife. He asks Mayor Preston to aid his wooing, claims to be 8 years old with an 250 acre family farm since 1681 and fine poultry, and specifies a wife aged 26 to 88 but offers few other details.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
Lee
Maryland and Virginia House Debates Public Health and Suffrage Move
In Charlestown W Va the Maryland and Virginia reporting states the West Virginia House sets a Tuesday special order for the woman’s suffrage amendment amid Senate smothering the Talbott anti gambling bill and a Sunday baseball prohibition bill. Also reported: dry law scope expansion, mothers’ tension legislation, gas lines as common carriers, juvenile parole, public health department creation, veterinarians and dentists protection, new weights and measures standards, workmen’s compensation scales, Gettysburg reunion reimbursements for veterans. In Charlottesville Va a fox chase on Bear Mountain draws a large crowd as Reynard is freed after a thrilling pursuit, with many riders present and “Yaeger” named champion.
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West Virginia House
Tuesaday
Washington Post
Charlestown
W. Va
State Senate
House
Senate
Committee On Judiciary
Department of Public Health
Charlottesville
Reynard
Sidney J. Holloway
Norris Wataen
Reuben Barnett
Jack’ Carpenter
Bear Mountain
Nick
Percy F. Payne
James White
Samuel Durrett
Henry Smith
Reuben Bennett
Henry Wood
John Mawyer
Charles Harria
Yaeger
Landes Sworn In as Virginia State Senator
W H Landes sworn in as senator for Augusta Highland and Staunton to succeed Edward Echols. Memorial services planned for Echols. Landes assigned to fish and game public institutions and elections committees. Legislature discusses Byrd liquor law tax commission Chalkley land grab and tax segregation bills with proposed supplemental measures to equalize stock and bond assessments.
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W. i H. Landes
Edward Echols
Virginia
Washington Post
Richmond
W. H. Landes
Senate
Augusta
Highland
Staunton
Echols
Landes
Mapp
Pittsylvania County
House
Stuart
Virginia Ice Manufacturers Association organized
Forty ice makers from across Virginia met in Charlottesville to form the Virginia Ice Manufacturers Association. Officers elected include M. C. Elliott president, E. H. Stampt first vice president, Elvey second vice president, Harry Hammond secretary treasurer, and Floyd Tyler, W. F. Carter Jr, FW Sanford, Charles B. Heinemann, C. M. Griggs on the executive committee. Eastern Ice Association officers from New York and Philadelphia assisted. A smoker and luncheon followed.
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Charlottesville
Virginia Ice Manufacturers Association
M. C. Elliott
E. H. Stampt
Richmond
Elvey
Lynchburg
Harry Hammond
Alexandria
Floyd Tyler
W. F. Carter, Jr
Crozet
Sanford
Newport News
Charles B. Heinemann
Petersburg
C. M. Griggs
Roanoke
Eastern Ice Association
New York
Philadelphia
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