Alexandria Fire Damages Warehouses. Fire Chief Hurt
A warehouse blaze on King Street Alexandria Va damaged Stephen Travis and Ita contents valued around 910000. Fire chief Robert E Gronau was injured after falling through a tranK into a garage while fighting flames. The origin remains undetermined. New chemical and pumping engines were deployed. blaze controlled in two hours. The Harper business also affected. insurance covered the loss.
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King Street
Alexandria
Virginia
Stephen Travis
Ita
Robert E Gronau
Brodars
Nca
Mra F . Harper
Robert Mc Graham
Fens Addresses Laymen As Willard Hotel Event Nears
Ohio Representative Simeon D. Fess spoke to a Laymen's League gathering at the Richmond Theater yesterday afternoon. The event, leading to a dinner at the Willard Hotel in Washington next Saturday evening, drew men from across groups. An Episcopal Parish supper followed in St Paul’s Parish Hall on Thursday evening.
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Ington
Willard Hotel
Washington
Fess
Simeon D. Fens
Ohio
Laymen’s League
Richmond Theater
Rector’s Aid Society
St Paul’s Protestant Episcopal Church
Corby Company seeks dry exemption to continue grain alcohol by product
The Corby Company of Langdon DC protests the Sheppard prohibition bill urging an amendment to allow ongoing manufacture and sale of pure grain alcohol as a by product of yeast. It argues grain alcohol is essential to yeast production and cannot be discarded under internal revenue laws.
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Corby Company
Langdon DC
District of Columbia
Congress
William Corby
Internal Revenue
Serious floods in the south threaten lower Mississippi rivers
Weather bureau reports a serious flood condition across the lower Mississippi and Arkansas rivers due to 36 hours of rain. Arkansas City, Arkansas may reach 65 feet with higher stages downstream. Flood warnings issued for Indiana and southern Illinois as central river valleys flood.
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Weather Bureau
Mississippi
Arkansas
Arkansas City
Ark
Missouri
Indiana
Timois
Revival Services Begun at Dumbarton M E Church
A revival started yesterday at Dumbarton M E Church led by Rev D H Martin with Evangelist A H Zimmerman assisting. Attendance was strong after church members were visited in recent days, and services will run all week with afternoon sessions and features to stir the congregation.
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Dumbarton M E
D H Martin
Georgetown
Seach
A H Zimmerman
Martin
Letters to the Editor Views on Various Subjects
A compilation of reader remarks on Lloyd George and Germany with calls for sea supremacy, caution about German power, and wartime sentiment. Also letters urging wider American Red Cross membership, praising patriotism, and debates on preparedness and national defense. TAR HEEL references and editorial notes anchor the forum tone.
England as a dog in the manger in world affairs
An American taxpayer from Alexandria, Va criticizes England as an imperial power bent on dominating fuel, metal, and trade. The writer urges the National Security League to push security against London’s aggressions, warns of future wars with England, and calls for readiness rather than submission to British influence. Dated January 24.
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England
Germany
Utrecht
Italy
Belgium
Anmierica
National Security League
London
Benedict Arnold
John Paul Jones
Alexandria
English voting system judged undemocratic by American writer
In a January 17 letter James Dodson Busey is criticized for claiming Britain’s election system represents public opinion better than the U S Congress. The writer argues English ballots allow plural votes and onerous voter registration, contrasting with German and American suffrage. He asserts Prussia and Germany show true democracy, offers further commentary on Dawson’s remarks about Germany, and signs off from Winston Salem.
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Post
James Dodson Busey
England
Germany
Hay Oh
Henglend
Asy
Mr. Basey
Basey
Prussia
Hours and Conditions at St Elizabeths Under Scrutiny
An editor argues for improved working hours and conditions at St Elizabeths. Nurses and attendants report 12 to 14 hour shifts across 85 hour wards, with strict discipline for short absences, limited off days, and wage deductions after injuries. The piece cites health risks to staff handling tuberculosis patients and calls for humane reforms.
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St. Hilsabeth’s
Jin
Tully
St. Hilizabeth's
Germany Made Mexico Pay For Death Of Citizens
Letter from Louis Lane in Habana questions diplomatic parity after Mexico paid German government about 25 000 dollars per German killed near Puebla during Madero revolt. He asks why similar compensation for 325 Chinese and 125 Americans killed is not discussed and implies unequal treatment.
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Germany
Mexico
Puebla
Louis Lane Habana
Patience urged in war preparedness plans
A retrospective editorial urges conservativeness in national planning amid global crisis. The piece counsels Uncle Sam to temper extremes of pacifism and aggression, arguing it is wiser to endure limited damages now than risk overzealous preparations and wider conflict. It reflects on economic prudence and patience in leadership decisions.
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Lincoln
International Justice
Sam
Sife
Gotrox
Uncle Sam
Protests Over Toast to King and President at Banquet
An American citizen protests a toast proposed and drunk at the Pilgrim banquet in the Bankers' Club New York City on January 3 1916. The toast urged standing to drink a loyal toast to the President and the king as the Pilgrim band organized in London in 1902.
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Fost
England
Joseph Choate
Bankers’ Club
New York City
London
Police News Notes From Yesterday Robberies and Incidents
Police reports describe robberies including a gold diamond stickpin set, a license white poodle, a white English bulldog with owner name plate, a revolver and cash, and a bicycle. Several individuals are mentioned with fatalities and medical incidents, accidents, and a harbor drowning. The notes reference residents and locations across northwest and southeast districts, with police and detective efforts noted.
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Archie Freeman
Fifth Street
Gertrude Galway
Half Street
Mra W H Bowes
New York
Lafayette Hotel
Sixteenth
I Streets
Frank P Fenwick
Donald
Thirteenth Street
Joseph Powers
Massachusetts Avenue
Law Society Open Meeting Debates Judge Recall
Assistant Solicitor General Robert Szold and Julius L Peyser spoke at the first open meeting of the year by the Judah P. Benjamin Law Society in the Eighth Street Temple vestry rooms. Szold stressed demand for lawyers of Jewish extraction while Peyser discussed Zionism. Judge Milton Strasburger presided, noting the organization’s work. A recall of judges debate concluded with the affirmative team defeating the negative. An open meeting is planned for March with a Wisely team vs a well known Baltimore organization.
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Robert Szold
Julius L Peyser
Judah P. Benjamin Law Society
Eighth Street Temple
Sizold
Peyser
Zioniam
Sistopia
Milton Strasburger
Margaret Prender
Mr Aaronson
George Helford
H. Cayton Isaac Gans
A Shapiro
Mark Stearman
Temple
Baltimore
Smoker Held By Cavalier Chapter At Hotel Lafayette
The Palatinate of Maryland Chapter of the Society of Colonial Cavaliers will hold a smoker in the gold ballroom of the new Hotel Lafayette on Bronday evening February 14 with talks by notable men. Officers include Daniel Smith Gordon palatine of Maryland and deputy palatines Thomas C Washington John Wentworth Calvert Francis Scott Key Smith John Ridgely Prof Hampton registrar John Heath treasurer and Dr J G Baillie Bulloch historian C W de Lyon Nicholls is palatine general of the National Society. A wreath will be placed on Jamestown day May 13 at the tomb of Washington by a member of the Washington family. In Baltimore a woman 32 died from a bullet wound found in a Highlandtown room with Griffon Brown from Kent Island a witness and arrested as material witness. Sir Clements Markham a famed explorer died in London.
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Palatinate of Maryland
Society of Scions of Colonial Cavaliers
Hotel Lafayette
Bronday
Daniel Smith Gordon
Palatine of
National Society of Colonial Cavaliers
New York
W Lanier
Washington
Order of the Cincinnati
Jamestown
Washegton
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