Horse Wrecks Train Four Hurt at Antietam
A Norfolk and Western passenger train hit a horse on a trestle near Antietam Station early today. Engineman Daniel A. Wallace was badly burned and in critical condition. four others from Hagerstown and Staunton were bruised. The wreck derailed cars, cut telegraph lines, and halted traffic on the Shenandoah division.
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Hagerstown
Daniel A. Wallace
H. A. Cost
James W. Long
A. Bricker
Staunton
Norfolk and ‘Western
Antietam Station
Jacob ¥. Hammack
Wo D&y
Wallace
Washington County Hospital
Sharpsburge
Shepherdstown
Roanoke
Trafic
Local Obituaries June 1920 Listings
Died notices for Mrs Bul Iile Mrs Karl McFarland and others listed. Funeral plans note interment at Danville Glenwood Cemetery Glen Rock Pa Prospect Hill Cemetery and Pinkney Memorial Church Hyattsville and Washington addresses with dates June 1 2 3 4 and 5 1920. Several obituaries include survivors and residence details.
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Cole
Bulile
Karl McFarland
Danville
Cooke
EF Street
Northweat
Meorge H
Sarah B. Cooke
DE Synek
San Antonio
Tex
Marth DE Synek
Lackel-Keenig
Joseph de Synek
Chapel of
Prospect Hill Cemetery
Egloff
Mary V
North Capitol Street
Ida J
Rosa L. Fryer
Alice Fryer
Hurvey
Ene
Glenwood Cemetery
Glatfelter
Susie Davis
John F. Glatfelter
John R. Wright & Co
Tenth Street
Glen Rock
Wfones
Hyattsville
Georghay
Peter Jones
Gwynn Harris
Virginia Gray
New York
Pinkney Memorial Church
Heyser
Hiai Tevidence
Anacostia Avenue
Benning
D. C
Nicholas EK. Keyser
Lowe
Fourteenth Street
Clifton Elmer
William T
Agnes Lowe
Potomac
Miller
Calvert Street
Mary Farnham
E. H
Mary Farnham Miller
Reinohl
T Street
David C
Mary Thatcher Reinohl
Elmoth
Mra
B. Pond
Summit Place
Nvorthwest
Elizabeth E
Lee Smith
Broomington
Th. Waylor
George W
Octavia O. Taylor
Eemaing
Lee
Wheeler
Dennett L
Harriet R Wheeler
Ray. Wheeler
Washington
West Fayette Street
Baltimore
St. Martin's Church
Fulton Avenue
Fayette Street
Wolf
Minnie J. Wolf
Friday
Henry
Hazel
Alberta
Edward Wolf
B. Murphy
Washington Post
Rebecca Lewis
Harry Lewin
Edmonston Road
East Hyattsville
Multiple Weddings and Local Events Across Virginia
Maryland and the Virginias reports weddings at St Pauls Haymarket First Baptist Charlottesville and Glen Allen. Notables include Rev Browne Mrs Durrer Miss Hart Conway Coe and Dr Floyd. Also deaths funerals and civic notes from Alexandria Culpeper Winchester and Hyattsville with council actions and road events.
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Haymarket
Hallie Meade de Pauw
Waverley Farms
Thomas Moore Browne
St. Paul’s Church
William Meade
Moundsville
W. Va
E. S. Hinks
Elk Ridge
Charlottesville
First Baptist Church
Cecil V. Cook
John T. Marshall
Susie M. Burnett
Aubrey Hampton Burnett
Mary Garnett Durrer
Burnett
Miss Burnett
B. F. Burnett
Spring Hill Baptist Church
Advance Mills
County
Durrer
George B. Durrer
Louis Soksen, Jr
Washington
Mattie Payne Hughes
W. G. Hughes
Lily Frances Trevett
Arthur ‘Trevett
Glen Allen
William Stuart Matthews
Newberry
Anna
Hopton Hart
M. D. Hart
Ashland
Conway Payton Coe
Bellaville
St. James Church
F. P. Floyd
Glen Jean
Eva Russell McClune
Baltimore
W. W. Kelly
T. A. Rankin
Church of the Holy Comforter
Dr. Floyd
Burke's Garden
Gompers Forecasts War Over Mexican Crisis
Samuel Gompers, head of the AFL, declared that war with Mexico could follow if the Fall Senate committee report is enacted. He called the report vicious and urged against altering Mexico’s constitution to suit American oil and mining interests, warning of US intervention and a police force. The statement condemns the proposed changes as threat to justice and freedom.
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Gompers
Mexico
Fall
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
United States
Senate Committee
Senate
Albert B. Fall
Fatl
Republic of Mexico
City of
Uncertainty and Anxiety Over Fixed Annuity Income
An ad from National Life Inc. of Vermont Mutual promotes a fixed annuity payable for life. It claims the income depends on the amount invested and urges readers to request rates by sending birth date. Addressed to Wm C Worthington General Manager Southern Building Washington DC.
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National Life Inc. Co
Vermont
Mutual
C. Worthington
Southern Bidg
Washington, D. C
Allen appoints Stane as American representative to Rhineland commission
General Henry T. Allen designates Col. David L. Stane, former Third Division chief of staff, to act as American army representative at Rhineland commission sessions. Pierrepoint and Noyes have recently resigned from their Rhineland commission posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cobdlienz
Henry T. Allen
David L. Stane
Third Division
Rhineland
Pierrépont
Noyes
Wyatt elected mayor in Cusheld contest by 26 votes
Special to The Washington Post reports H. P. Wyatt won Cusheld mayoral race over Lorie Quinn Jr by 26 votes. Wyatt received 276 to 50 for Quinn and 183 for C Hubbard Daugherty. Severn R Sterling won unopposed for short term council seat. William H. Pierce led the seven candidate field for long term with 261 votes and David Saitz received 248.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Graiid Maedane
Rawara P. Wyatt
Lorie
Quinn, Jr
Wyatt
Quinn
C. Hubbard Daugherty
Severn R.sterling
William H. Pierce
David Saitz
Plan to enlarge Republican women’s committee
Miss Mary Garrett Hay of New York, chair of the Republican women’s national executive committee, urges increasing the national committee from 43 to 96 members and adding a woman vice chairman. She will present the plan at a Sunday caucus and seek subcommittee approval Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Hay
Chicago
Republican National Committee
Mary Garret Hay
New York
Republican Women's “National Executive Committee
Mis Hay
National Committee
Coleman du Pont
Delaware
Rrudolph Hynicks
Ohio
John T. Adama
Iowa
Convention Etiquette Request Sparks Small Hat Guideline
Mrs. Raymond Robing, wife of the Progressive party convention chair, asks women attendees in Nebraska and Oregon to wear plain small hats and remove them while seated in the hall. The directive targets orderly seating and avoids display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. B.howell
Nebraska
Ralph E. Williams
Oregon
Raymond Robing
Probes Burning of British Flag at Treasury Building
Secretary Bainbridge Col sent a formal letter to DC commissioners asking for an official fact statement on the burning of a British flag in front of the Treasury building by women promoting Irish freedom. Louis Brownton said the document had not been received as offices closed, and the matter would be investigated. State Department said it had taken up the issue and the British embassy had not reported it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bainbridge Colby
District of Columbia
Treasury
Louis Brownton
State Department
Department
Memorial Day Observed in Lexington Veterans Honor Three Wars
In Lexington Virginia June 3 veterans from three wars joined State and local figures for Memorial Day ceremonies at Wash ington and Lee University. The Lee Memorial Chapel hosted formal exercises with Prof David C Humphreys presiding and J Lewis Bumgardner delivering the address. The tombs of Generals Lee and Jackson drew notable attention.
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Lexington
Washington Post
Robert E
Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Lee Memorial Chapel
Washington and Lee University
J. Lewis Bumgardner
Beckley
W. Va
David C. Humphreys
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Poolesville High School
Town Hall
Robert W. Stout
P. Rowland Wagner
Rockville Baptist Church
Mildred Luhn
Annie Fawley
Jeanette Cromwell
Cleo, Stowers
Melville Myerly
Sandy Spring High School
Mary M. Miller
A. Claire Hutton
Evelyn J. Anderson
Robert H. Miler
M. Hamilton Howard
Talbott Barnesly
Thomas A. Wilson
J. Alfred Neely
Thos. S. Sergeon
Closeph Cgaviers
Ave
N.W
Frank Geier’s Sons CO
Seventh ST. NW
James T. Ryan
Avenue SE
Sons
Lincoln
Charles S. Zurhorat
Sont
Capitol Street
WM. H. Sardo & CO
Automobile Funerals
A. Od Schippert
William Ler
Directo Auto
Thos. M. Hindle
Er Anc
Sthgan
Hata
Phon
Blackistone
Hsts
Maryland
Virginias
Virginia Weddings
Virginia
Hoa
Toms
Stephen Toma
Covesville
C. 4
Vasseur
John Alexander Fauver
Staunton Pension Board
Fauver
Margaret C. Will
Richard A. Fauver
J. Luther Henderson
Harry
Hallie B. Conner
Augusta County
Bristol
Mary McKinney Fhipps
King
C. Carson
Lynn Walker
Wincheatoa
Cumberland
Morton, Jr
Morton & Morton
Martine’ Mountain
J. R. Taylor
Morton
Moorefield
W. ‘W. Claine
Winchester
High Knob
W. Duvall
Negro
Theamingtes Post
Raymond Stewart
John Payne
Stewart
Payne
Garrett
News of Alexandria
Washington Post Bureau
South Heya Street
Alexandria
Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia
Bishop Brown
Philip Ayres Dales
Mortimer Worth Glover, Jr
Mable Cilley Powell
Francis Bland Tucker
Board of Trustee
H. H. Covington
Norfolk
Thomas K. Neilson
Geverley D. Tucker
Paul D. Bowden
St. Mark’s Church
San Marcos
Lloyd R. Craighill
Shanghai
Chiia
Edward A. DeMiller
All Saints’ Church
Grenada
Miss
William R. Geiger
St. Andrew's Church
Richmond
V&4
Lewis Ashby Peatross
Trinity Church
Edgefield
S. C
Paul L. Powles
Christ Church, Baltimore
Joy Joslyn Ford
Edmund Lee Gettier
Robert Alexander Magill
Douglass Williams Neff
William Hamilton Nes
Charles Leroy Monroe
William Armstrong Seager
Theodore Nott Barth
Francis Augustus Cox
Paul Dui
Robert McDonald Kirkland
John . Ridout
Thomas
Ridouts
Norwell E. Wicker
Canon de Vries
Southern Rowing Regatta
Southern Rowing Association
Old Dominion Boat Club
M. Shepperson
Clayton L. Bowman
Ty Brooke Howat
W. Frank Humme
Kirk Earle Wallace
Daniel G. McWhorter
P. B. Pulman
J. P. Robinson
Paul F. Miller
Moore
R. Walton Moore
House’of Representatives
Sergt
Campbell
Durrer and
Thompson
Queen Street
Mossberg—Thompson
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Daniel D. Thompson
Wellington
Fairfax County
George W. Mosabure
Mount Morris
Theresa Thompson
John Lee Allison
Second Presbyterian Church
Swetnam—McDonald
Mary. BE. McDonald
Charles F. Swetnam
Burke
Audubon Society
T. ¥. Gasson
S.S
Georgetown University
St Mary's Catholic Church
Cea
Culipeper
R. K. Ferguson,inc
146Th St. N. W. Ph
Unhderwood & Underwood
Cynthia Carter
Oswald Mosley
M. P
Chapé! Royal
St.James
London
Cusheld
R-Harris & Company Sorelle Your
Seventh Street Bes
Mayer
Stoufs & Co
Comber of Commerce
East Fayette Street
New York Ave
Wash
D. Richmond
Baltimore, Md
First Trust
Mr. Thompson
John W. Thompson & Co., Incorporated
15Th St. Main
Colby
Weschler
Pa. Ave
N. W
Hotchkins
Ford
Lucy Jules Gaile
Paris
Mayer& CO
Seventh Street
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