Four Murders Reported in One Vicinity After Quarrel
A farmer killed his neighbor along with three others in a string of shootings sparked by a dispute over a woman. The incidents occurred late at night near the West Virginia line, with two escapees fleeing. Names linked to the events include Walter Benford, John Moryad, and Arthur Vehsto, among others. Police investigated potential motives amid a grim sequence across nearby farms and homes.
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Crimea
West Virginia
Wheeline
Jennie Dolaberry
Ana Wall
Walter Benford
Gaul
Charles Moa
Woxley
Patie Farmer
Edward
Braates
Ole
Arthur
John Moryad
Tomegen
Tobacco Crop Picks Up In Recent Reports
The report notes improved tobacco crop prospects with some fields still harmed by worms and unusual weather. Officials and volunteers from several states have visited plantations, citing ongoing issues from pests and late-season damage while others expect modest recovery if favorable conditions continue.
Elks Day At Jamestown Draws Large Arrival
Wagons trains and boats bring Elks from Philadelphia and beyond to Jamestown for Lake Day celebrations. Officials estimate about 6 000 people now in town with more expected as crowds gather for the event with local and national lodge officers attending and plans for excursions and festivities throughout the day.
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Norfalk
Pleladel
Elks
Tks
Wil
Fedeha Ko Fen
Bos Wr
Jia Tun
Jamestown visit notes and naval officials in Hampton roads area
Fragmentary report lists Jamestown related events July 21 and remarks by officials including a Tabor committee, and references to Washington and Norfolk involvement. Mentions of navy authorities, a conductor assignment, and a delegation expected at a regional exposition.
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Doherty
Jamestown
Denver
Washington
Tarry St
Norfolk
Governor to See Pony Round Up at Island Event
A garbled preface mentions a governor and a planned event at an island location with a pony roundup feature. Details are unclear due to transcription errors, but reference to official activity and a scheduled appearance by a governor appears central to the fragment. The piece hints at a year segment and a planned gathering or parade involving horses, with surrounding names and places obscured.
Western Maryland farmers suffer heavy losses from rain
Special to The Washington Post reports Western Maryland farmers unable to harvest due to unprecedented heavy rain. Wheat spoilage and sprouting in shocks cause teary removals. hay making also hindered by weather, threatening significant crop losses.
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Maryland
Washington Post
Hagerstown
Virginia Woman Dies After Prolonged Illness at 80
Tazewell July 20 Mrs Jula Moore died this morning of the pains of her illness following a long fever. She is survived by her husband and family and was buried this afternoon in the local cemetery suited to last rites.
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Tazewell
Jula Moore
Woman's Mission Rally in Washington Grove
Rockville Maryland July 21 annual rally for the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodists in Washington area held at Washington Grove. Mrs J Walter Duvall opened with exercises, Bible lesson by Mrs Sumwalt, prayers, solos by Mrs Gertrude Brockway and Mrs Melvie Lindsay. Miss Josephine Corbin spoke on Immigrant Home in New York and Incoming Millions. Clara Conway Bell of Los Angeles spoke. music directed by Prof Ferey Foster.
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Washington Post
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Woman's Home Missionary Societies of the Methodists of Washington Andicinity
Washington Grove
Mias Corbin
L Roach
Platt
Jievee
Airs Melvie Lindsay
Clara Conway Bell
Los Angeles
Cal
United States
Ferey Foster
Washington
Cornerstone Laid for Mc Kinley Industrial School Building
Cornerstone laid yesterday afternoon at 30 o clock for a new Jay William McKinley Industrial and Manual Training School for Colored People in Alexandria. Nimrod Ensamprent led Knights of Jerusalem Washington. Knights officials and the Bliss Band attended. collection for the building fund totaled about 160 dollars. Elks Return from Philadelphia. Death of Mrs Anne E Whalen noted. three year old boy in critical condition after wagon accident. Wheat and Sitters subdivision.
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McKinley Industrial School
Washington
Port Bureau
King Stree Alpapdris Va
Seheral
Walter W Perry
Il Green
Julia Diuehlef
Knights of Teensalem
Alexandria
National Bliss Band
Severn
Waliam Creegan
William J .Creegan
South Alfred Street
Peyton Gray
Cumberland Man Charged With Assault on Miss Snyder
Wilbur B. Johnson, a Cumberland man noted in motor circles, was brought to the city from Hagerstown by order of States Attorney AL A Wilson and charged with assaulting Miss Snyder, a 15 year old girl, as she was walking home from a camp meeting on Wednesday evening. He was arrested in Hagerstown after the alleged incident near South Cumberland. Johnson is married.
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Washington Post
Wilbur B Johnson
Hagerstown
AL A Wilson
Miss Snyder
South Cumberland
Snyder
Johnson
de Lacy
Juvenils Court
Georgetown Vasinesa
Sherman Marshal
Daniel Boyd
Harry Strother
Edward Johnson
Casha James
Willan Stephenson
Charles Redman
Biers Star
Joseph Plummer
Rockville
Maryland
Davis
Two Children Drowned Near Indian Landing
News from Annapolis reports two young siblings, a seven year old boy and his five year old sister, drowned while wading beyond their depth near Indian Landing on the Severn River. They were from a farmer's family. Their bodies were recovered the next morning, and an older boy who witnessed the incident ran for help but had difficulty describing what occurred due to the excitement. The shore showed no signs initially.
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Washington Post
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Severn River
Ruppi
Exile For Old Ruler Shocks Seoul Amid Korean Throne Intrigue
Reports from Seoul describe renewed political tension as Japan seeks to control and manipulate the Korean throne after abdication. Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi and envoy missions fuel speculation of ex emperor’s fate, while Korean troops face agitators and limited ammunition amid guarded arsenals and a cautious Japanese occupation.
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Two Die in Automobile Crash on Long Island Rail Crossing
Dr Edward J Gallagher and his fiancée Helen Madigan died or were fatally burned after a car was struck by a fast passenger train near Jamaica Bay. The vehicle plunged over an embankment, gasoline exploded, and both occupants suffered severe injuries. The incident also reported Korean war context and other unrelated details from the era.
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Edward J Gallagher
New York
Tong Island
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Gallagher
Helen Madigan
Locust Avenue
Long Island
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Bax
Shimo- Song
Marquis Itothy
Misa Madigan
Seoul
Tarrial Tay
Tillsburg
J J Wallace
Thin City
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Henner
Hague
Geo
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Sternenn
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Bulatesig
Bride and groom part after two hours in Alaska style vows
Special to The Wearington Post from Johnstown Pennsylvnia July 21 John Manly and his bride married hours earlier in Seward then parted. She hired an attorney to file for divorce claiming he sought to run a boarding house rather than start a home. She said he opposed the marriage and would do anything to avoid his wife. He supposedly left Seward for a mining camp in Indiana County.
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Johnstown
John Manly
Seward
Marty
Indiana County
Questions His Eligibility Senate Contested Virginia Election
In Virginia a contest centers on whether Dr U C Gravatt of Caroline County may hold the Democratic nomination for the Senate in the Thirty second district against incumbent Henry T Wickham of Hanover County. Gravatt claims he is a retired navy officer not a federal salaried employee, while supporters say he receives a pension. Wickham’s backers expect a hard battle over Gravatt’s eligibility to serve.
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Skate Senate
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Mishap to River Boat Transfers Passengers to Steamer Wakefield
Special to TM Washington Port Colonial Beach July 21 the steamer Arrowsmith broke her rudder post backing at Rock Point Ma Saturday evening on her trip down the river The Wakefield went to assist and took off passengers for the lower river while the Arrowsmith’s crew and excursionists were transferred to the Harry Randall at Washington including the steamer Wakefield’s later return trip
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Washington Port
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Arrowsmith
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St. Johns
Harry Randall
Washington
Woman Dies in Gaithersburg Church Service
Mrs Fannie Clagett, wife of John E K Clagett, collapsed at noon in Gaithersburg St Church South and died an hour later. While Mr Milian of Washington was delivering an address, she suffered a fatal seizure and was removed to the Sunday school room. She leaves three children.
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Rockville
Fannie Clagett
John EK. Clagett
Gaithersburg
Milian
Washington
Thugs Kill Physician in Harlem. Dr Russell Dies Later
Dr James Edwin Russell 49 a Brooklyn physician with a lucrative practice died at Harlem Hospital after an assault in Harlem Friday night. He was found in a doorway with a ugly wound at the back of his head and robbed of money a watch jewels and a case of surgical instruments. An ante mortem statement says he wandered dazed for hours after regaining consciousness.
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New York
James Edwin Russell
Bedford Avenue
Russell
Harlens Terry
Uts
CANDE UPSET THREE MOURNERS DROWN IN SWIFT STREAM
Three young men attempting to cross a swollen stream in a small craft capsized. Georges Menkel twenty three, Wa quent twenty five, and Irwin Bed nineteen were pulled from the water. Rescue efforts revived two briefly but Bed was dead on shore. The party had been camping on the south bank and tried to reach the north when the canoe overturned. Local rescuers pulled the survivors from the river and rushed them to a hospital for treatment.
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Meriken
George Menkel
Thomas Wechert
Clarence Ott
Charles
Henry Bach
Ife
Blenkel
Merriken
Monkel
Ir Hoyes
Little Thieves Band Rob Georgetown Stores In Heist
A youthfully organized band of thieves hit about half a dozen Georgetown businesses. They targeted watches jewelry and money. A young boy hid an item before the gang opened doors for others as they burglarized shops.
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Georgetown
Fusion legality and juvenile theft cases loom in Nebraska and Georgetown
Special to The Washington ros Omaha Nebraska July 2 democrats seek fusion for fall elections with Supreme Court ruling on the new primary law contested. In Georgetown a gang of youths ages eight to fourteen burglarizes stores including J C Dyer and King Dugan. Police arrest thirteen youths and recover watches and cash. some are sent to the Reform School.
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Longworths On Auto Trip To Visit Santa Clara County
Special to The Washington San Francisco reports Congress man and Mrs Nicholas Longworth left the city by auto to visit Mrs Longworth's uncle, Mr Hammond, in Lake County. They plan a return Tuesday with a dinner in their honor, a theater program, and a visit to Burlingame. They then sail for Siberia and a month in the Hawaiian Islands.
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Mra
Longworth
M Hammond
Lake County
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Martin
Marty
Turingame
Rudolph Spreckels
Burlingame
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Mrs H S Pingree Dies After Shock Of Husband’s Death
Mrs Helen S Pingree widow of former Michigan governor dies in Detroit at age sixty seven. She never recovered from learning her husband’s death five years earlier, suffering rheumatism and a general breakdown. She leaves son Hazen S Pingree and daughter Mrs Sherman L Depew.
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Michigan
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Hazen S Plngree i
Dire
Sherman L. Depewee
Autoboats Enter Sea Race From Paris To Trouville
Paris on July 2 reports a fleet of thirty six autoboats set to race from a fixed start along the coast to the sea. The vessels will sail to Trouville before continuing to contest the Anthony Drexel Cup, demonstrating their touring usefulness.
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Paris
Anthony Drexel Cup
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Valeci
Trouville
Molten metal burns many at Pittsong factory incident
A furnace accident at the Home stead steel works splashed molten metal over workers. Five men were seriously burned, with some perhaps fatally, while many others sustained minor injuries as a large ladle tipped spilling fiery liquid onto the floor and men nearby.
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Homestead
Storm injures twenty five in Williston suburb damage heavy
A terrific windstorm last night destroyed fifteen dwellings and injured twenty five people in Williston and surrounding areas. Mrs Collinson and her infant were blown from a house about a hundred yards, with many cottages in West Lawn suburb badly damaged.
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Names of residents and spouses listed by city and state
A long, fragmented list of individuals and spouses, with many surnames and place tags such as Raleigh North Carolina New Willard Alabama California Louisiana and more. The text reads like a registry or directory of people and their spouses tied to various locales and institutions, interspersed with scattered corporate or national references.
Will Shoot for Prizes at National Rifle Association Meet
Ohio hosts a national rifle contest at Camp Perry near Port Clinton from August 12. Teams from the United States Army and other services compete for the National Trophy and cash prizes. the Wilton Trophy and bronze Soldier of Marathon statue are among top honors. The event draws teams from the Infantry Cavalry Navy Marine Corps Military Academies and others, with separate shoots including a star shoot and varied distances. Some national teams such as the Philippines will not participate due to travel constraints.
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Ine
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