Penrose outlines tariff cuts on wool and woolen goods
Senator Penrose announces a Republican measure to cut wool and woolen tariff duties in a sweeping reform. The plan would lower rates on blankets textiles and yarns with reductions from 12 to 44 percent on higher grades and substantial cuts on lower grades. He argues the bill halves many duties while critics claim rushed preparation and partisan pressure shaped the measure during lengthy debate.
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Pill
Senator Penrose
Mr. Penrose
Flo
House
Simmons
Stone
Cummin
Penrose
WHI+ jams
Mississippi
Penrone
Kenrase
Lam
Fatal gas danger in Fifth Street bathroom rescue
Mea May narrowly survived a gas incident in a third-floor bathroom last evening when her husband Edward McNeal, a navy yard worker, found her semiconscious beside an open gas heater jet. He reported the scene, smelled escaping gas, and hurried to assist before serious harm occurred.
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Mea
Dunsigan
Fifth Street
Edward McNeal
Navy Yard
Neal
Riches Leave Women in Will of Millbrook Resident
After bequeathing $1000 each to two sisters and other sums to various women, Anna Margaret Hayes of Millbrook wills that remaining estate be used by her and for her own sale and separate use forever, free from any executor. The probate filing values the estate at about 800. Marcia A Waterman Ella J Patrick and Marguerite Waterman are among the named beneficiaries, with several other women listed.
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Nice
USA
Reailyea
Anna Margaret Hayes
Millbrook
Flayen
Marcia
Waterman
Ella J. Fatrick
Marguerite Watertran
Framingham
Mass
Anna Tox Fhorns
Tacoma
Wash
Sardarissa Baker
Washington D
Breaks Rifle Record Fine Work by the Militia
The Second Infantry wins the Berry-Whitmore Trophy at Congress Heights Range with a 192 of 200 in the skirmish match while Capt Holt scores 182 of 200. Lieut Powers sets a new 1,000 yard mark as hundreds watch. Atkinson and Heidenreich tie Caldwell’s 71 record from 1919. Mosher Cup goes to Capt Cookson’s team with notable shots by Fehr and Meldenfeich.
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Holt
National Guard
District of Columbia
National Range
Congress Heights
Richard Powers
Ordnance Department
Harry C. Caldwell
Caldwell
M. B. Atkinson
F. H. Heidenreich
W. W. Cookson
Mosher
Army
Hay buys Eustis property to shield mother's block
Lawrence Hay son of former Secretary of State John Hay filed deed with National Savings and Trust Company transferring 180 H Street NW property from George P. Eustis. Hamilton School will likely stay on the block shared with the Hays and other residences. Purchase price not disclosed. A separate collision near seventh and streets NW left Mr and Mrs Strauss with minor injuries and their auto damaged.
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Larence Hay
John Hay
George P. Eustis
H Street
National Savings and Trust Company
Hay
Hamilton School
Henry Adama
William C Eustis
Eustis
J Strauss
Rock
Church Road
Irina
Seventh
Oandairs Strausa
Strangm
Wanted for Murder in Rosenthal Slaying Circulated by NYPD
The New York police issue a circular titled Wanted for Murder showing front and side photographs of three suspects in Herman Rosenthal’s killing and descriptions of five others. Frank Muller known as Whitie Lewis and Whitie Jack is named, along with Jacob Seigel. Louis Rosenberg also appears under multiple aliases including Marks and Louis Baker. Harry Horowitz alias Gyp the Blood is described as the youngest.
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New York
Herman Rosenthal
Frank Muller
Whitie
Lewis
Whitie Jack
Jacob Seigel
Louis Rosenberg
Rosensweig
Marks
Ity Loucy
Louis Baker
Charles Raymond
Harry Horowitz
Gyp the Blood
Levy
Jones
Snodgrass Sister Missing Nurse Theories Stir Mount Vernon
New York July 25 Edward K Snodgrass arrives in Mount Vernon offering a $0 reward and denying elopement or voluntary disappearance of Dorcas I Snodgrass the nurse missing from her sister's home a week earlier Police doubt most sightings and explore a possible elopement to Europe with Dr Norman Smith while authorities search the Lincoln. In Mount Vernon a prayer service for Dorcas is held and J Frank Howes aged 3 dies of tuberculosis at Kloome near Aspen Maryland.
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New York
Mount Vernon
Edward K Snodgrass
Dorcas I Snodgrass
Snodgrass
Berryville
Dorcas
Phoebe Cummings
Mra
G. E. Gibson
Misa Snodgrass
Twenty-third Street
Miss Snodgrass
Europe
Norman Smith
Mount Vernon Hospital
Mias Snodgrass
Lincoln
First Presbyterian Church
Actress Mrs Sherman ready to testify on Rosenthal murder
Mrs Sadia Sherman of New Haven connected to To Meeman William J File and the Metropole Hotel in New York plans to travel to speak with District Attorney Whitman about the Rosenthal murder. Her alias is Shields and she says a suspect ran into a restaurant after the shooting, supporting evidence that conspirators were planted inside and outside the hotel, with few attempting flight in Louis Libby's XRAY automobile.
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Sadia Sherman
New Haven
Conn
Metropole
New York
To- Meeman
William J
Herman Rosenthal
Whitman
Mra Sherman
Shields
Sherman
Louis Libby
Robbery at Narragansett Pier Steals $3000 Jewelry
The Willock family of Sewickley Pennsylvania reported $3000 in jewelry stolen from their Narragansett Pier summer home while the family dined dinner last week. Investigators described the theft as a case of burglary occurring during evening hours at the residence.
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Willock
Narragansett Pier
R. I
W. W Willock
Sewickley
Death of Former Wyoming Governor While Visiting Australia
Senator Warren received a Melbourne cablegram announcing the death Thursday morning of former Gov William A Richards of Wyoming. Richards was in Australia visiting friends when a sudden illness caused his death. A wife and three children survive him.
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Gov. Richards
Wyoming
Senator Warren
Melbourne
Australia
William A Richards
Mr. Richards
Painter From Virginia Seeks Divorce After Bride Cancelled Washington Wedding
Harris A. Mudd of King George County Virginia traveled to Washington with Isabelle Bryan of Westmoreland County to wed, but a Chicago wife’s letter claiming she is alive halted the license. Mudd plans divorce in King George and intends to remarry in Washington with Miss Bryan once legally free. He says he learned his first wife Meetta Hicks died years ago and that he believed she was dead when he wed Miss Bryan.
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King George County
Isabelle Bryan
Westmoreland County
Capital
Harris A. Mudd
Washington
Isabella Bryan
Mr. Mudd
Misetta Hicks
Misa Hicka
Chicago
Etta
Fredericksburg
Misa Bryan
Miss Bryan
Mudd
Orme Estate Valued at 220 Thousand in Probate Filing
The estate of Mrs Ella Orme widow of James Orme, with will filed for probate by American Security and Trust Company as executor, totals 220893.55 dollars. Income is to be paid to six sons for life, with most assets in personal property including stocks 178356, bonds 28650, jewelry and household effects 2000, car 2000, and bank deposits 8916.55. Real estate is listed at 5732.
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Ella Orme
James Orme
American Security and Trust Company
Orme
Clew to Woman's Assailant in Addison Va Case
Commonwealth's Attorney Crandal Mackey directs the investigation into the assault on Mrs Maude Hoffman at Addison Virginia last Monday He believes the attacker is a Negro in Washington and is in possession clues likely to lead to an arrest aided by Washington police Mackey spent the day in Washington pursuing the search Alexandria County residents are aroused by the case and officials hope to close the inquiry swiftly.
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Maude Hoffman
Addison
Commonwealth
Crandal Mackey
Alexandria County
Mackey
Washington
Washington Y
Hoffman
Camp Fire Girls Learn Secrets of Woodcraft at Playground
At Virginia avenue playgrounds, 30 Southeast side girls begin nature study observing plants and making discoveries under guardian Miss Mabel Towner. The program, led by Miss Ellen Hope Wilson, aims to build health, work, and play through seven cardinal principles and staged tests toward becoming wood gatherers, fire makers, and torchbearers.
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Miss Towner
Virginia Avenue
Navy Yard
Marine
Camp Fire Girls
Misa Mabel Towner
Anacostia
Miss Town
Boy Scouts
Enen Hope Wilson
Miseea
Mabel Towner
Elva Whitcomb
Nelda Waldecker
Elizabeth Penny
Helen Bureh
Amy Shapiro
Helen Frost
Katherine Hinwood
Pearl Myer
Lilian Berwyn
Wilson
Young broker and Viola Swann wed in Rockville surprise
Milliam C Watts a broker and Viola Swann aged 18 eloped from Washington to Rockville Maryland where Reverend Oscar W Henderson married them. They called their astonished parents by phone to announce the ceremony. Watts's father professed ignorance of the match. Miss Swann had attended local high school.
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Milliam C. Watts
Viola Swann
Washington
Rockville
John R. J. Swann
Calvert Street
William
Watts
Monroe Street
Baptist Church
Oscar W. Henderson
Wiliam SB Watts
Mr Watts
William C Watts & Co
District National Bank
Miss Swann
Cost of Food Rises as Fruit and Eggs Dominate Market
Market notes show heavy rains reducing receipts of dairy and beef while fruit remains plentiful. Peaches and plums flood the market and fetch low prices. sugar corn lettuce and cantaloupes are scarce, pushing costs for many vegetables. Eggs flood the market with poor quality while poultry prices vary. butter supplies improve and meat cuts range with lamb and hog prices listed.
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Jfresh
Virginia
West Virginia
Southwest Virginia
Tennessee
North Carolina
Elgin
Veteran James E Smith Dies After Fall at Hotel
James E Smith a 46 year old veteran died at Emergency Hospital from a skull fracture after a fall at the Manhattan Hotel on Ninth Street between F6 and G Streets NW. He was found unconscious at the foot of steps leading to the toilet by a hotel porter and never regained consciousness.
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James E Smith
Soldiers Home
Manhattan Hotel
Ninth Street
Smith
Boy Returns From Circus Runaway Appears In Juvenile Court
James Lee Williams fourteen-year-old of 1204 Twenty sixth street northwest told Judge William H M DeLacy how he joined a circus as a dishwasher, worked for money at Philadelphia wharves, and paid his own fare home to Washington. His mother Mrs Williams believed him drowned after a false report and the court placed him on three months probation for incorrigibility. In a separate inquest a coroner’s jury ruled the death of William Cardoza, sixteen, under an auto truck near Ninth and F streets an unavoidable accident. the driver Lewis A Miller was exonerated.
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Twenty-sixth Street
Elizabeth Wiliams
DeLacy
Young Williams
Mia Willams
Potomac
Mra Willams
Trenton
Philadelphia
Washington
Wiliam Cardoza
Lewis A Miller
Ninth and
FE Street
Adame Express Company
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Sherman St
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