Harriman May Seek Senator Depew’s NY Seat
New York Central board reshaping ends with HC Clark Samuel F Vorger resignations and Isrowin elected president. Vanderbilts linked directors depart. WA Brown retires as oldest director. Board change signals power shift in the Vanderbilts circle, with longtime associates stepping aside.
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Pacific
Vanderbilts
Brown
Washington Post
New York
New York Central Board
Wven
HC Clark
Samuel F Vorger
Liele
Mir € Isrowin
Real Andl & OE
Marrlean
Bron
Eno
Ruger
Oder
Ented
Mirk
Tinars
Potowe
Eecesse Orbs
Uo Ventrils
FE @ NP
WA Brown
Fragmented obituary notices from a 1900s newspaper page
A garbled OCR obituary montage names multiple individuals with scattered dates and places. It references marriages, births, and deaths linked to Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, Auckland New Zealand, and other locations. The legible bits indicate deaths around January and references to cemeteries and officials, but details are fragmentary and unsalvageable.
Fragmented Marriage and Death Notice Clippings
A damaged OCR fragment from multiple papers mentions marriage and death notices but offers no clear names, dates, or places. Informal references to Washington Power, Providence Journal, Rochester Herald, and other outlets appear without coherent details or identities. The item lacks verifiable entities or actionable facts to summarize.
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Washington
Prinker Pitisburg
Povidence Journal
Flats Courice
Elerald
Aero Hemtagt
Louis Republic Eat
St Paul
Brown and Depew Lead Central Lines Amid Harriman Hopes
The passage notes Alexander McDonald as an early Standard Oil ally, and describes Mr Brown being elected president of several subsidiaries. It states Depew remains chairman of the New York Central board and allied lines, with Harriman seen as ambitioning to chair the board, reflecting old rebuffs by Vanderbilt during Harriman’s Union Pacific era.
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Vanderbilt A
Union Pacific
Miners Act on Sentences at UMWA Convention
Indianapolis January 27 The United Mine Workers of America met in stormy session amid accusations against President Lewis by opponent James Walker claiming 7000 illegal votes. The convention protested against sentences of AFL officials Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison and called for federal court reforms and jury trials in contempt cases. It urged creation of a mines bureau and supported river and harbor improvements including a deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf to be built by the United States.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers
Lewis
James Walker
American Federation of Labor
United States Mine Workers of America
Samuel Gomper
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
Congress
Bureau of Mines
Lakes
Gulf
United States
Swanson Talks on Battles at Confederate Veteran Banquet
Gov Swanson of Virginia spoke at the nineteenth anniversary banquet of the Confederate Veteran Camp at Waldorf Astoria. He praised soldiers of the Confederacy and recalled leaders Jackson and Lee, urging acknowledgment of the South’s upbuilding after the Civil War.
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New Sok
Waldorf Astoria Tiotel Tonurst
Henry W .Taft
Jit Ve Oho Society
Walter H Page
Jen O. Howard
Thomas F Ryan
Nathan Straus
John Temple Graves
Gov Swanson
Virgin
Tle
Presiot McKinley
Devail
Jackson
Lee
Railway Board Snubbed By Street Railway Commission
The district electric street railway commission said yesterday that two weeks after letters were sent by the Interstate Commerce Commission no reply had been received from Jecont street railway companies. It is not clear what steps will be taken if the companies refuse ICC requests. prosecutions may follow if the same attitude toward the ICC is taken as toward the District subcommittee.
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District Electric Street Railway Cemmnision
Interstate Commerce Commission
Jecont
New Office For Loeb In Taft Administration
Rumor says William Loeb longtime secretary to the President will be named to a Taft administration post. He has been linked with New York customs collector and New York postmaster roles and may become assistant treasurer of the United States in New York if Senate action is adjusted.
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William Loeb
Loeb
Port
New York
Nework
United States
George 8 Tey Lo
Senate
Father John’s Medicine credited for keeping children well
Mrs John Jones of Yohogany Pa writes that her children Harry and Marie avoided winter colds after using two bottles of Father John’s Medicine. She praises the remedy as safe, effective for throat and lung troubles, and free of poisonous drugs or alcohol, noting it has been in use for 50 years.
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Marie
Harry
Slater
Father John
Marie Jones
John Jones
Yohogbany
Police capture burglar after rooftop chase at Manhattan Coffee Mills
Richard Barnes, a 30 year old man described as a Negro, is arrested after a rooftop escape attempt at the Manhattan Coffee Mills building. Police recover many keys from his possession and find pennies, stamps, watches, and a chain on him. Barnes claims to have used keys to enter his home and to operate a small grocery in Gessford court southeast.
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Richard Barnes
Fourth Precinct
Sergt
Shelby
Manhattan
Seventh
C Streeta
Maryland Avenue Southwest
Flathers
Manhattan Coffee Mills
Harney
Negra
Flathern
Gessford Court
Barnes
Army Orders Transfer and Assignments Across Commands
Multiple 1909 military orders list personnel transfers and assignments including Second Lieutenant Sanders and Jazman coast artillery corps to ten days leave, Brig Gen Dante Brush relieved from the Department of the Columbia to San Francisco, and signaling travel to the Philippine Islands. Also noted are resignations of Chaplain Joseph Cacey Purst, adjutant general duties for Newport News, and various artillery, cavalry, and coast artillery transfers with voyages to Manila and ando other stations.
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Lewes
Ehsanea
Aurecides Moreno
Sanders
Jazman
Coast Artillery Corps
Dante
Brush
Department of the Columbia
San Franciscan
Nsvada
Mamawi
Philippines
John J Pershing
Mania Pilippine Islands
Philippines Alvision
Department of Mindapan
Tasher Tiifas
Joseph Cacey Purst
Infantry
Janary
New
Chartet Philip
Jackson la
James B Allison
Jeuve San Francisco
Cat
Phliippine Islands
Manila
Robert W Dowd
Willam
Eieventh Cavalry
Fifteenth Cavalry
Guy Cushman
Seventh Cavalry
Charles M ‘Truitt
Artial
Newport Naws
Gor
Ertot
Islard
Adjutant General
Tier Department
Stephen
Coast Artiiers Corps
Wit Gist
Tid Company
Tayo
Witham
Weaterwell Ordnance Department
Sandy Hook
Munkfoul
Ordname
Arsenal Ma
Amos Boshalu
Tamja Pla
Guba
Raymond Samberger
Fort Laavenwarty
Hans
John Q Steger
Engst Artillery Corps
Department of Enlisted
Coast Artillery School
Leverton & Co Moves to Five Story Store on G Street
J L Leverton & Co, known for women outer garments, will move by March 1 to a new five story steel framed building opposite their current address at 1113 G Street NW. The lower four floors will sell women’s outer garments and the top floor will house alteration services. A removal sale with greatly reduced prices will enter a complete stock clearance as the firm expands to become the largest shop of its kind south of New York.
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Fim
J L Leverton & Co
G Street
Frm
Leverton & Co
New York
Compromise Reaches Brownsville Case in Senate Action
A compromise settlement drafts a substitute measure to handle reenlistment for discharged negro soldiers linked to the Brownsville affair. A general officers commission will review applications, with War Department review if no evidence ties an applicant to the shooting. Governor Hughes withdraws Frederick A Wallis as State superintendent of Insurance after attacks by Senator Grady.
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Senate
Foraker
War Department
Brownsville
Walls
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Hughes
Frederick A Wallis
Wallis
Grady
Prohibition Fight Pushed in Texas Senate and House
The judiciary committee reported 6 to 1 against a senate measure to establish statutory prohibition in Texas. The move ends that feature of the prohibition fight though a statewide prohibition submission bill remains under rigorous debate in the senate. A provision bars sale within ten miles of any schoolhouse and another measure is pending in the house.
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Austin
Pex
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Texas
House
Orders to Naval Officers and Vessel Movements
Surge 1 Stokes report to surgeon general Nass Department Washington for special temporary duty in connection with hospital shins Asst Surg O Huffman granted sick leave hres months resignation as an assistant surgeon to the navy accouted to take effect April 28, 1609 Movements of Naval Vessels Arrived Whipple at Warnstant Enli ad Mayo and Vanutdel at Fhulace sig Selem at Charleston z Salled-Georgia from Wasslites for Tangier Nebashe from Marselties for Tangle.
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Stokes
Nass
Washington, DC
Whipple
Warnstant
Enli
Catholics Under Flag Catholic Population Totals
The item notes 14 235 451 Roman Catholics in the United States and adds Catholics in the Philippines Porto Rico and the Hawaiian Islands to reach a grand total of 22 444 40 under the United States flag versus 12 053 000 under the British flag.
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Milwaukee
Wis
United States
Philippines
Porto Rico
Hawaiian Islands
LICENSED TO MARRY A SERIES OF NAMES AND PAIRS ACROSS COUNTIES
A list of engaged or pairings is recorded with numerous couples and officiating reverends across Maryland Virginia and Georgia venues. Names include Edgar Berliner Millia Wasserman Louis Stern Sofela Va Martha Welsh Grigsby Va and many others with ages ranging from early twenties to late forties. The long roll appears as a stationary marriage notice listing involved clergymen and partners in scattered communities.
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Edgar
Berliner
Millia Wasserman
Louis’ Stern Willam S. Washington
Sofela
Martha B .Welsh
Grigsby
D. Mcleod Woolman G Timory
Lilian C Love
St Marys
Alfrad Hardimg
Crispino Amar
Grossa Palezo
N Yasollf Witham
Dress
Rachael
Earp
Montgomery County
JR Shannon Willikkm
Harrison
Marle
Thyson
A Hannan
David Melnick
Flora Oppenheimer
Louis Stern
Charles Molony
Luelle
Ambrose
Savannah
Yarelil Wille
Cooley
Dickeron
Idabet V. Collier
Leto Burrett
W. B Johnson
Deaf mute man commits suicide at Twenty Eighth Street station
A rural mute and printer named Nutman Heerdt threw himself before an express train during the transfer rush hours at the Twenty Eighth Street station on Third Avenue. Letters found on Heerdt suggest domestic unhappiness. Classified ads in The Post offer free results.
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New York
Van
Nutman Heerdt
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