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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1913
Page
8
A vivid row of vocal suffragists and bankers debate currency reform while Rosalie Jones and Mrs Boldt promote trousered dress as a step toward broader social change. Prominent bankers call for careful study and slow action, while suffragists argue stylish trouser costumes symbolize freedom and modernity.
The District Woman's Christian Temperance Union hosted a lawn fete at Belmont last night to raise funds to save the estate for a children's playground. Speakers included Judge Bundy W E Andrews Mrs Warner Gibbs Mrs Lahon M D Lindsey Benjamin Lineback and Mrs E Cheesman.
Multiple notices list deaths and funeral plans for George Bennett, George Dashill Brookes aged 2, John H Gingell, Frank J Kenney, Abbie Power Sparks, Jane Fenwick Stewart, and Albert Sturtevant. Services set at residences and churches. interments 예정 at Arlington and Rock Creek cemeteries. dates range June 20 to July 3 1913 with various addresses in Georgetown and Northeast Washington.
Harold W. Smith, manager of Home Gas Company, is arrested on felonious homicide charges connected to Florence Wainwright's death in the company office. A coroner's verdict found the death resulted from an ear operation, with Smith accessory thereto. Bail set at $6,000. witnesses testified a third person was present during the incident. Mrs. Smith defends her husband as innocent amid community shock.
Congress presses for a distinct House inquiry into Mulhall charges as lawmakers seek to expose National Association of Manufacturers influence on tariff legislation. Sherley and others push for a special committee. Reed heads to New York for witnesses. President Wilson says the probe has served its purpose.
Frank Morrison, AFL secretary, yesterday verified Mullhall’s claim that in late 19th century the American Association of Manufacturers tried through an agent to discredit Samuel Gompers and other AFL officials. Morrison’s report accompanies Gompers’ November 1907 convention statement detailing the steps to undermine him.
Gompers accuses Brandenburg of trying to discredit him. He recounts Brandenburg’s persistent efforts to secure a private interview and a final meeting in New York where Brandenburg asked him to sign a typed statement attacking the morals of American Federation officers. Gompers kept the document after taking it for review.
President Wilson met with Senators Ashurst Smith Works Perkins Jones Sterling Bacon Lewis Sherman and Overman to discuss patronage and minor appointments. He announced Thomas Weedon as Phoenix land office register and John J Birdne as land receiver. Tumulty’s hat vanished then appeared atop Senator Marcus Aurelius Smith who confessed.
Rushville Indiana June 20 former congressman James H Watson denounced Martin M Mulhall s claim that Watson drank six cocktails in Mulhall s Indianapolis hotel room during the 1908 campaign as a wicked diabolical lie He said the assertion carries its own refutation and thatMulhall later withdrew while Watson contends the statement is false and deceptive.
Frank J. Kenny, owner of a U14 street northeast saloon, drank carbolic acid at his brother John J. Kenny's home, 620 Eleventh street southwest, Coroner Nevitt says the loss of his business under the new excise law spurred the act. He was 38 years old and married. The saloon will be closed under the law barring saloons in areas with less than 60 percent business Places.
New York June 30 Col George Pope president of the National Association of Manufacturers says Mulhall was dismissed Oct 23 1911 and has no right to represent the group. Pope defends inquiry into labor legislation and cites Mulhall’s private political actions using the association’s name without authority.
A string of paired names with ages and towns appears in a vintage notice, listing James F Sayer and Gvelyn F Wise among others alongside Rev Regester and Rev Mackin figures, each entry pairing individuals from Kensington Maryland to Washington DC and Virginia locales.
Former President William H Taft today declined to discuss lobby charges by Martin Mulhall, saying he regards the statement as a muckraking attack on public officials. He sent word through his secretary that he would not respond directly.
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