Hymn rescues gunman mind deranged by auto backfire recall
New York January 28 evangelist George B. Ellis recalls his violent past in Chinatown. At 9 he began crime, mentored by Red Goss, becoming a burglar, safe cracker, then gunman. On January 27 he returns to the Rescue Society Mission to help others, recounting a life of crime and reform.
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George B. Ellis
Chinatown
Mexico
New York
Sing Sing
Rescue Society Mission
Tanyers Street
Whitey Lewis
Herman Rosenthal
Hymn
Whitey
Lewis
Ellis
Whitely
Chinato
Red Greas
Red Goss
Red
Chicago
Towas
Red Toss
Price of sisal again up in New York market
New York data shows a two cent per pound rise for sisal to 16.4 cents for February through March delivery from the Mexican commission controlling supply. Compared with 14.4 cents previously, the hike aims to stiffen Manila prices with fair current at 15 cents and 25 percent over fair current at 19. The Senate agriculture committee urged actions by Justice and State departments and called for agricultural lab work to find substitutes, noting most of the world’s sisal comes from Yucatan, Mexico.
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New York
United States
Manila
Senate Agriculture Committee
Sisal
Department of Justice
Department of Agriculture
Yucatan
Mexico
Rabbi Alperstein Dead A Leading Orthodox Scholar
Rabbi Abraham Eleaser Alperstein a renowned Talmud scholar died in New York at age 75 born in Kobrin in 1853. He spent 26 years in the United States and for fifteen years led the Shelom congregation in Chicago.
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New York
Abraham Eleaser Alperstein
Alperstein
Kobrin
Crodne la
Congregation Oxhie: Shelom
Chicago
Auto Intoxication Defined and Self-Administered Remedy
An early 20th century ad claims self intoxication results from internal poisonings and promotes an internal warm water cascade treatment. It asserts millions use the method for vitality and offers a free booklet from local drug stores in Washington, promising improved energy and efficiency.
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O'Donnell
Ameck
Washington
Adv
FWO SHOT BY ROBBER NEAR ROUNDHOUSE IN ALEXANDRIA
I J Gross 25, foreman at Southern F ail way roundhouse construction, is hospitalized with three bullets after intervene ing in a robbery near the camp. Ann Slaughter, 4 flesh wounds in left leg, seeks treatment. police search for an unidentified tall colored man. The incident began when Slaughter refused to pay a wash bill and was ordered to surrender money. Gross returned fire after being shot in the chest hand and leg.
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Elmira
Whitey Lewis
Whitey Lewis Tml
Poyers
Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
I. J. Gross
Alexandria Hospital
Ann Slaughter
Princess Street
Roundhouse
Grosa
Gross
M. D. Delaney
A. B. Penn
Haunted Newark house reports by inanimate objects
In Newark at 46 Tyler Street a two story dwelling is said to be haunted by items moving alone. Stanislaus Lysaj and his wife report a stove lifter, a flying iron, and a salt bag acting without cause amid responses from visiting ministers and neighbors who consider unusual happenings in the apartment.
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New York
Tyler Street
Newark
N. J
Stanislaus Lysaj
Mae
Lysaj
Lysajs
Virginia weighs new step to collect Old Dominion debt
Virginia officials move to speed payment of the 1915 Supreme Court debt from West Virginia. The state seeks formal process to compel WV to pay 12 393 000 dollars with interest since July 1 1915. Sanford Robinson represents bondholders. WV legislature in session weighs possible defenses and set offs.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Old Dominion
United States Supreme Court
General Yollard
Sanford Robinson
New York
Supreme Court
Labor Chiefs Dine Gompers Celebrating Fifty Years
Labor leaders nationwide gathered in New York to honor Samuel Gompers at a banquet marking his fifty years of labor activity along with his sixty seventh birthday and golden wedding anniversary. Seventy guests, including Alton B Parker and John Mitchell, attended as relatives and prominent officials joined the tribute. The hall displayed a bright sign reading Fifty Years' Service to Humanity as the crowd rose to sing Our Grand Old Man.
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New York
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Mr. Gomper
Saul Gompers
Alton B. Parker
Edward Swann
John Mitchell
State Industrial Commission
Cornelius Ford
United States Public Printer
Mr. Gompers
Mrs Rubles Returns From Birth Control Mission Trip
Mrs George Rubles spent a day in Washington pressing Congress to pass a bill permitting general dissemination of birth control knowledge. She did not seek a White House audience with President Wilson and returned to New York City last night.
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George Rubles
Washington
Congress
New York City
Woman Shot to Death in Champlain Place Incident
Annie Gaffner, 21, a Black woman, was shot and killed near Champlain Place Northwest. Police report she accused Isaac Shorter, 86, also Black, in a pre mortem statement. Shorter confessed to Patrolman Sullivan at Eighteenth Street and Columbia Road and led him to the Champlain Place location where the victim lay dying.
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Annie Gaffner
Champlain Place
Bradley
Tenth
Isaac Shorter
Shorter
J. A. Sullivan
Eighteenth Street
Columbia Road
Hold Up in Lunchroom Near White House Grounds
A pistol hold up occurred in the White House T Lunchroom at Fifth and D streets NW as two young white men robbed the cash register while one guarded the manager, George Mire. They fled into darkness. police were summoned but the thieves had vanished.
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George Mire
White House T
Fifth
Mire
P. R. Brown
South Capitol Street
Ninth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
TD Street
Ihs Place
Emmett B. Coakley
Eleventh Street
Www
A. Simpson
Seventh Street
G Street
George Barker
K Street
Poet Byner Twice Guest At Arta Club Dinner
Witter Byner the poet of New York City and Cornish Illinois was a guest at the Arta Club. He recited poems before a representative gathering of members and plans to depart for Japan after visiting Washington. Mrs Simeon Ford of New York also attended. Friday evening Grace Griswold head of the New Theater Workshop Movement in New York will speak.
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Lim
John J. White
Witter Byner
New York City
Cornish
N. IL
Arta Club
T Street Northwest
Byner
Worshington
Japan
Simeon Ford
New York
Blind French heroine to talk in Washington February 12
Miss Winifred Holt of New York, famed as The Lady of the Light House, has aided 600 blinded and maimed French soldiers. She speaks in Washington on February 12 and 13 under Navy League auspices, showing film of the rehab work at the Light House in Paris.
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Winifred ‘Holt
New York City
America
Edson Bradley
Connecticut Avenue
Rauscher’s
Julian James
Preston
Lillian Richards
Theodore W. Richards
Ninteenth Street
John
Nation to Fit Medicos
Ninety medical schools in the United States will start February 1 a series of lectures on naval and military sanitation and treatment of the sick for army and navy service. The course, supervised by Surg. Gen. Gorgas and Surg. Gen. Braisted, aims to fill medical officer vacancies and create a large reserve.
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Chicago
United States
William C. Gorgas
William C. Braistéd
Army and Navy School
Franklin H. Martin
Commission of National Defense
Army and Navy
Rites for Mr Finley Held in York Funeral at Reformed Church
David Edward Tinley member of the national House of Representatives from the First district of South Carolina was buried in York after funeral services at the Reformed Presbyterian Church where he was a ruling elder. Twenty three House and Senate members attended with delegations from Rock Hill and Chester. Services in other York churches were suspended. Finley died Friday at a Charlotte hospital.
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York, & C
David Bdward Tinley
National House of Representatives
Firth District
South Carolina
Presbyterian
Finney
House
Senate
Rock Hill
Chester
York
Finley
Charlotte
Drive Away Headache and Cold Aches with Musterole Ointment
Musterole is a clean white external ointment made with oil of mustard that relieves headache and the misery of colds and congestion at once without blistering. It does not affect the stomach or heart unlike some medicines and aids sore throat bronchitis croup stiff neck asthma neuralgia rheumatism lumbago sprains and bruises with many listed pains.
Vassar Suffrage Sentinel Tells What It Is to Picket White House
Hazel Hawkins of Billings Montana and a 23 year old Vassar graduate, among the first to volunteer, has spent days before the White House with the silent sentinels. She describes mixed reactions from passersby, reports kindness from some officials and criticism from others, and notes conversations with a congressman who opposed votes yet claimed support for suffrage in principle.
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Vassar Suffrage Sentinel
White House
Vassar College
Hazel Hawkins
Miss Hawkins
Mever
Allent Sentinel
Etop
Miss Hanking
Err in naming men as pickets sparks mixed reactions
Philadelphia January 28 A Pennsylvania Congressional Union statement proposes male volunteers to help picket the White House if women demand it. A letter from Ryerson W Jennings urged named men to join but Wilmer Atkinson Herbert Welsh Henry Justice Samuel Milliken Carl Grammer rejected the idea noting no desire for picket duty.
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Philadelphia
White House
Pennsylvania
Congressional Union For Woman Suffrage
Union
Ryerson W. Jennings
William Jennings Bryan
Wilson
Jennings
Herbert Welsh
Wilemer Atkinson
Henry Justice
Samuel Milliken
Frank Stephens
St. Stephen's
Carl E. Grammer
Wilmer Atkinson
New York Hotel Men Take Over The Chatham
A. Eugene Kirby and James H. Paris, operators of Hotel Lafayette in Washington, have leased the Chatham apartment house on Vanderbilt avenue just north of Grand Central Terminal for 21 years starting next September. Backed by U S Senator Dick of Ohio, they will pay $2,500,000 for the use of the property. The 14 story Chatham will be one of the citys largest apartment hotels, occupying the west side of the Vanderbilt avenue extension between Forty eighth and Forty ninth streets with a 200 by 115 by 175 foot footprint.
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New York
United States
Ohio
A. Eugene Kirby
James H. Paris
Lafayette
Washington, D. C
Chatham
George Backer
Vanderblit Avenue
Grand Central Terminal
Washington Hotel
Backer
Vanderbilt Avenue
Forty-eighth
Forty-ninth Streets
Forty-eighth Street
Forty-ninth Street
Wallace resigns as election prober effective February 10
William Wallace Jr. Assistant Attorney General and lead on election fraud prosecutions since the November elections submitted his resignation to Attorney General Gregory. He leaves government service to practice law in New York City. A Fourteenth Street water tower unit responding to a fire alarm crashed into a stationary Auto Delivery Company vehicle at Fourteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue area. The car was damaged but no injuries occurred and the blaze was minor.
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William Wallace, Jr
Gregory
Wallace
Government Service
New York City
Fire Department
Truck Company No. 3
Fourteenth Street
Pennsylvania
Auto Delivery Comppany
Critic of suffrage pickets denounces White House action
Dr. Mary E. Walker, president of the Woman's Constitutional Leagues, told the Washington Secular League at Pythian Temple that women possess the franchise under the Constitution and derided suffrage pickets as silly and ignorant. Miss Ida M. Watera, a White House picket, defended the effort to keep the suffrage issue visible to the nation.
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Washington Secular League
Pythian Temple
Mary E. Walker
Woman's Constitutional Leagues
Ida M. Watera
White House
Socialist Pickets Pledges Action at Perpetual Hall
Miss Alice Henkle of the Woman's Congressional Union addressed a Socialist party meeting at Perpetual Hall urging women to support picket duty at the White House to protest the President's stance on the Federal amendment. She defended the tactic as legitimate if laws are not broken while pressing the suffragist cause. Paul G. Switzer spoke on Senator Owen's resolution to curb Supreme Court power to declare laws unconstitutional, tracing court usurpation history and urging limits.
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Alice Henkle
Woman's Congressional Union
Socialist Party
Perpetual Hall
Socialat
White House
Apeabker
United Spanish War Veterans
Paul G. Switzer
League
Owen
Supreme Court
Congress
Pictures Marvels of China at Belasco Talk
William Newman presented an illustrated travel talk on Peking with views of the Forbidden City Temple of Heaven Summer Palace and the Great Wall. He touched on Japan's rise Yuan Shikai Empress Dowager and noted the next topic will be Boreas.
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China
Belasco
WM. Newman
Peking
Japan
New Republic
Yuan Shi-kai
Forbidden City
Temple of Heaven
Summer Palace
Newman
Far East
Borea
Inaugural Rates Plan Sparked by Washington Hotels
Congressmen deny hotel rackets at inaugural events as officials promise reasonable prices. Hospitality houses on the parade route will set higher charges, already booked solid, while district troops return from the border to march.
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Washington
Harper
District of Columbia
Car Collision Injures James Houghton in Washington
James Houghton of 1102 Fourteenth Street Northwest was taken to Emergency Hospital after a collision at 5 AM on Four-and-a-Half Street and Maryland Avenue Southwest. He suffered head and scalp lacerations and a fractured rib when his auto was struck by a Washington Railway and Electric Company car. The damaged automobile was proceeding on Four-and-a-Half Street when hit across Maryland Avenue.
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James ©. Houghton
Fourteenth Street
Maryland Avenue
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Pope Blesses U S Army From Rome Mission
The Rev Father George J Waring, chaplain of the United States cavalry, arrived in New York bearing the Pope's apostolic blessing for the American army. He had gone to Rome with a 2-ton monolith from Cienfu China dating to the seventh century A D as a gift from a prominent Catholic woman of the city.
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New York
George J Waring
United States Cavalry
St Tours
Father Waring
Rome
Cienfu
China
New U Boat Threat Dominate War News On Birthday
The article reports on renewed German U boat threats and a birthday message from the Kaiser, while the president’s advisers urge restraint. Diplomats in Washington discuss possible peace steps and a big peace league, with Turkish questions central to the talks. Senator Borah and Senator Cumming push Monroe Doctrine considerations as Congress weighs the President’s plan for peace.
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Berlin
Washington
Ttwan
White House
Wfe
Congress
Senate
House
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