Sale of Pies Freed Prisoner Faces New Term
William J Read alias B Marge Sagan, freed prisoner, aged 60, seeks to remain free via appeal to the U S Supreme Court. He forged a $19,100 check in 1912 and built a printing and engravings business after release, facing a new long forgery sentence as his appeal proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J Read
Marge Sagan
United States Supreme Court
Bend Heam
Washington
Owith
Inca
Che
New York
Hetdiais
William Lea
Barbara Cullison Rites Notice in Baltimore Area
Mrs Barbara Cullison obituary fragment notes services at a St Pauls church and memorials at nearby residential addresses. Mentions three sons and a daughter with scant legible details about dates or full locations.
Prof E W Matthews Latin Teacher Dies
Prof E W Matthews a longtime Latin educator born in Pickens and educated at Bowdoin Harvard and Leland Stanford died aged 58 after a long career in teaching and school administration. He served as an instructor at Western High and Vermont Ave schools and was a leader in teacher circles. He leaves a widow Florence, daughters Alive and Emerson, and brothers and a sister. A funeral will be held from his residence with burial at Glenwood.
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Matthews
Mat Cess
Pick
Awasco
Harvard
Leland Stan Fara
Harvard Ina
Borgorme
Vermont
Owe
Cmd
A Mathews
Hagerstown
Aoe Matthews
Califor
F F Hendrickson
Kaooana
Mrs Cyril Maude Dead After Long Illness in Sussex
Actress Mrs Cyril Maude, long associated with the stage, died after a prolonged illness at Beauchamp Sussex. Her husband, previously on the stage in a national theater, survived her. No further details were provided about her passing or funeral arrangements.
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Wes Cyril Maude
Sussex
Frael Theater N New
American Ice Service Keeps Washington Cool This Summer
American Ice promises to cool Washington through the summer, a familiar service trusted for many administrations. Even as the election heats up, residents can rely on American Ice to meet emergencies and sustain comfort.
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Washington
Triplets Die After Caesarean Birth at Sibley Hospital
Ruth Dayhoff gave birth to triplets at Sibley hospital on June 3. Two of the babies, a boy William and a girl Josephine, died within days. The remaining infant Marguerite remains in good condition. Father David Dayhoff reports initial weights near four pounds, and physicians note the two fatalities were due to failure to grow despite care.
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Ruth Dayhoff
William
Josephine
Marguerite
David Davhofff
Florida Avenue
Phryaicians
Dayhoff
Sibley Hospital
Washington
Links Row Ends as Robinson Buster Amnesia Case Moves
Amnesia suspected in Columbus embezzlement case involving Charles Dayie 30 as police pursue details after a Park awakening. In Washington the Chevy Chase club faces little mass protest over Senator Robinsons expulsion amid golf course incident and club reputational strain.
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Chevy Chase Club
Joseph T Robinson
New York
Esterday
Robinsons
James Mitchell
Su Trevon
Street Vendors Reined In By New Police Regulation
Courts found officials lacked power to bar street vendors from downtown. District commissioners, urged by merchants and manufacturers, enacted a revised rule designating specific stand locations on the city’s outskirts of the shopping district, with penalties for vendors who linger in central areas.
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Maerchants and Manufacturers Association
Eighth
Seventh Street
Little B Street
Tenth
Eleventh
K Street
Mount Vernon Place
U S Office Honors 42 Year Employee
Miss Clara A Hollingsworth was saluted by officials and coworkers as she chose retirement after 42 years in the mineral division of the Interior Department. She received an amethyst brooch in gold, a token of esteem, and Commissioner William Spry praised her career from entry-level clerk to senior roles. She resides at 1314 Connecticut Avenue NW.
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Clara A Hollingswort
Mineral Division
Department of the Interior
General Land Office
William Spry
Miss Hollingsworth
Connecticut Avenue Northwest
Army Strength and Recruiting Tightened Amid Fiscal Limits
Maj Gen Robert C Davis ordered recruiters to halt sansistment of men with no prior service as funds for the current year cap the army at 120000 on any date. Regular strength is about 123793 with June 30 reports incomplete. Recruiting will resume when needed, with reenlistment aiding short-term losses, citing better efficiency and careers as factors in reaching full strength.
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Robert C Davis
Arms
Skull Identified as Ancient Sun Bear Found in France
Dr James Wrigley of the Smithsonian identifies a recently analyzed prehistoric bear skull as belonging to an ancestor of the modern sun bear. The specimen, found in northern France, was studied in Lyons, provoking debate among American scientists over its status as a common ancestor of bears. Dr Gidley plans a forthcoming treatise on the matter.
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James Wrigley
Smithsonian Institution
Flat
Gidley
France
Museum
Lyons
Oil Claims Favor 36 of 178 in Red River District
The General Land Office recommended to Interior Department initial awards in 36 of 178 oil land claims filed on lands along the Red River bordering Oklahoma and Texas. Only 2 of the 36 were disputed. 142 claims were rejected after review.
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General Land Office
Interior Department
Red River
Oklahoma
Texas
Department
Supreme Court
Secretary Weeks Hurts Hand In Camp Davens Visit
Secretary of War John W Weeks sustained a minor hand injury when his hand was caught in a car door at Camp Davens during a review of the 7000 men of the Twenty sixth division encamped there. The pain subsided quickly and he was treated by Max Tierney of the medical department, 1st Infantry.
Tax Board Organizes Today Under New Law
The board of tax appeals created by the new tax law is to be organized today at the Treasury. Twelve of the twenty eight members are named and will begin immediately the work of adjusting tax claims. The appointment of the remaining members will likely be delayed until Secretary Melion returns from Europe.
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Board of Tax Appeals
Treasury
Melion
Europe
Reverend Lambdin to Speak on Palestine at Mens Club
The Rev Milton Bennett Lambdin, biblical archaeology lecturer, will address the Mens club at the Church of the Pilgrimage on Twenty-second Street between P and Q streets NW. He recently visited the Bible lands and will discuss Palestine as a gateway of three continents.
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Milton Bennett Lambdin
Palestine
Lieut Boril Roberts Strong Ordered to Active Duty
First Lieut Boril Roberts Strong of 2561 Hamlin Street Northeast is ordered to active duty for training at Bollingfeld for fourteen days, per War Department orders issued yesterday.
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Boril Roberts Strong
Hamlin Street
Reserve Corps
Bollingfeld
War Department
Epiphany Church Lawn Party Tonight in Massachusetts Ave
Epiphany Church Young People's Society hosts a lawn party this evening at the Epiphany Church Home on Massachusetts avenue between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets northwest. Proceeds support church activities.
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Epiphany Church
Massachusetts Avenue
Twelfth
Thirteenth Streets
The
Epiphany Church Young People's Society
Gangsters Feud Explodes in Saloon Street Shootout
A be leagured group fights on Four and a half street near EB street southwest. Thomas M Wright 51 is seriously injured after two bullets strike him as he enters a near beer saloon at 235 Four and a half street. George Young 31 fires, injuring two companions and another bystander Oscar Washington 32. Police report a feud between Young and George Haynes 3% led to the violence.
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EB Street
Thomas M. Wright
Sixth Street
George Young
Third Street
George Haynes
Young
Haynes
Lieut Holmes
Fourth Precinct
Folicemen Strobel
Melvin
Wright George Haynes
Oscar Washington
Washington
Wright
McAlexander Named To Be Major General
Brig Gen Ulysses G McAlexander, now at Fort Douglas Utah, selected for promotion to major general to fill Maj Gen Grote Hutcheson’s vacancy from retirement July 20. Col Booth commands the Fourth cavalry. Gen Hutcheson recently promoted to major general in Hawaii.
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Ulysses G McAlexander
Fort Douglas
Utah
Grote Hutcheson
Col Ewing
Byoth
McAlexander
Military Academy
Kansas
Highteenth Infantry
Thirty-eighth Infantry
France
Col Booth
Fourth Cavalry
Fort McIntosh
Hutcheson
Hawaii
Bridge leap mends quarrel with wife
Walter Kerr leaped from the Key Bridge Monday afternoon, apparently reconciling with wife Kerr after she was pulled from the water unconscious by boatmen and taken to Emergency hospital. Kerr, a former marine employed in the Internal Revenue Bureau, suffered a slight skull fracture but is expected to recover. he has refused to give his address.
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Walter Kerr
Key Bridge
Kerr
Air Mail Opens to Financial Paper Transport
Postmaster General announced that registered articles containing non negotiable securities and certain commercial papers would be accepted for air mail transit. Large value securities remain barred from air transport due to risk, while demand for secure transmission rises nationwide.
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Postmaster General
Postmaster General New Yesterday
Lee
Girls Arrested on Dry Charges in Barber Shop
Lieut. Davis of the vice squad nabbed four girls in a barber shop on D and Sixth streets opposite the police court for illegal transportation of liquor after one boastfully claimed they deceived police. The arrestees were Elisabeth Clementa 21 Evelyn Dixon 21 Agnes Shaw 21 and Eleanor Dracums 22 with disputed address details.
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Lieut. Davis
Sixth Streets
Elisabeth Clementa
F Street
Evelyn Dixon
Thirteenth Street
Agnes Shaw
Benning Road
Eleanor Dracums
Twelfth Street
Recluse Mysteriously Dies at 1711 Seventh Street NW
Coroner cites privation and old age as factors in the death of Mrs. Margaret Kelley the elderly recluse found dead in her home at 1711 Seventh Street Northwest. An autopsy will determine the exact cause. Maurice Foley a cabinet maker who lived with Kelley was cleared of blame after police interview.
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Margaret Kelley
Seventh Street Northwest
Nevitt
Maurice A Foley
Mra Kelley
Washington Asylum
Frst
Foley
Rent Commission Again Restrained Housing Orders Halt Rent Adjustments
Equity judge issued two temporary restraining orders against the rent commission, staying rent adjustments for Baltimore apartments owned by William Neuland and Monmouth Metal Apartments owned by James L Karrick. Justice Stafford had earlier declared the housing emergency ended. Garfield A Street sought a restraining order against the commission, represented by William J Dow.
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Justice Hoadling
Equity Court
Rent Commission
Justice Stafford
Baltimore
William Neuland
Monmouth Metal
James L Karrick
Chapin Brown
Garfield
Chateau Thierry
Wiliam J Dow
Police Aid Blind Man Found Weeping at Precinct
A blind man identified as 24 years old and living at 214 Florida Avenue Northwest was led to the Eighth precinct by children. He wept on the curb and said he had been driven from home. He uses a stick for guidance and was taken to Gallinger Hospital for shelter. The case will be reviewed by the Board of Charities today.
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Harles
Raymond Dayie
Davis
Montrose Park
Columbus
Columbus l
Daxis
Esserent
Florida Avenue Northwest
Eighth Precinct
Dank Sergt
Frank Nussbaum
Kent
Gallinger Hospital
Board of Charities
Wife Asks Divorce as Husband Attacked on July Fourth
A petition for a limited divorce was filed in district court by Mrs Mabel M Richmond against Reed V Richmond, alleging July 4 assault and eye blocking after their May 22 1918 marriage. The case notes cruelty and misconduct and seeks alimony and counsel fees.
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Ars
Reed V. Richmond
District Supreme Court
Mra
Mabel M Richmond
Thomas G McNeail
Richmond
William Donaldson
Rosa Donaldson
Aim
Juancs Hoehling
John J Obrien
Wits
Helen Holden
John Heelden
Justice Hoehling
Holden
Attorneya Newmyer and
King
Mra Holden
Charlies E Quirello
Joseph A. Neale
Ellaabath Neale
Eleventh
West Northeast
Mra Neale
Rail Telegraphers Pay Raised by Labor Board in Chicago
The railroad labor board granted wage increases totaling 8422 a month for 1291 telegraph service employees across six railroads. Increases take effect tomorrow and affect the Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg, Delaware and Hudson, and the New York Ontario and Western lines with shifts of 3 to 4 cents per hour.
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Chicago
United States
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Spor Ag
St Paulis
Arbara Cullis
Vila Street
Helen
Ameo
E. W. Matthews
Cyril Maude
Winifred Lmery
England
Amerian
Morse
Muakes
American Company
Rai
Amnesia Wigtim
Robinson Buster
Senate
Dodge Publicity
U. S. Office
Clara A. Hollingsworth
Weeks
Camp Devens
Tax Board
Lieut. Strong
T. H. Wright
Bridge Leap
Potomas
Tse
Waahington Port
Adv
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Ace S
Portland
Thomas Circle 14Th St
Vermont Ave. N.W
Albert Bram
Sour Furnach
Carrico
Tas
Wisconsin Avenue
Bathantes
Acme Flooring CO
John H. Holden
Ninth
Hickok
P.B
Belirogram
Shenandoah Caverns, VA
Cascade Hall
Dome of the Capitol
Leaning Tower
Babylon Grove
Diamond Cascade
Southern Railway System
St. NW
Roy
Spewk
En Ape
Namie
American Drug Corporation
Cutral National
Louis Mo
Studebaker
Bogrienth Se
New York Ave
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