How Did You Get It Not How Much Wealth Matters
Ada Ohio June 6 John Hays Hammond told Ohio Northern University graduates that wealth should be measured by how it is acquired and used. He urged being a good mixer, not a grouch, and warned against relying on inherited wealth. He praised character, readiness, manners, loyalty, and optimism as keys to success and urged graduates to earn their livelihood independently. He criticized selfish millionaires and urged civic duty to avoid social ostracism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada
Ohio
John Hays Hammond
Isaac
Marshall
Ohio Northern Universitys
Hammond
Guggenheims
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale
William Howard Taft
George Washington University
J. Pierpont Morgan
Ohio Northern College
Treasury Building Bouts Between Chase and Manson
A Washington dispatch reports Harvey Chase Boston cotillion leader and Joseph Manson chief clerk to Treasurer Burke fought in the Treasury Department after an argument over Chase inspecting the books. Words led to blows in a brief, sharp clash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
New York
Washington Dispatch
New York American
Harvey
Chase
Boston
Joseph Manson
John Burke
Treasury Department
McAdoo
Manson
Died Notices and Funerals in Washington Area
Died notices list Charles B Cheyney Joseph C Gaulden Martha A Ryan Joseph Steuernagel and Susan Yount with funeral plans at Speare's chapel Frank Geler's Sons St Mary's Church and private interment, services scheduled June 7 and 5 1913 in Washington area with interments in Charleston and local cemeteries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyney
Dumbarton Court
Charles B
Lilla Sanderson Cheyney
Rufus Cheyhe
Gaulden
Joseph C
Jeasie Gaulden
Speare
F Street
Arrigonburg
Ryan
Francis S. Nesh
Q Street
Martha A
Wiliam K. Ryan
Charleston
S. C
Nash
D. C
Philadelphia
Steuvuernagel
Tuberculosis
Joseph Steuernagel
Conrad Steuernagel
Frank Geler
Seventh Street
St. Mary's Church
St Mary's Cemetery
Jesus
Susan Yount
Lewta Cass White
Georgia Avenue
Rocky Creek Cemetery
Gettysburg
Butler
Hazing condemned as Navy graduates are praised at June Week farewell
Annapolis June 6 The Naval Academy closes June Week with a farewell ball for the class of 1914 as Secretary Daniels appeals for hazing abolition and moral conduct. Senator Smith and Captain Gibbons receive praise. diplomas are issued to 13 graduates. Daniels warns graduates to stay in the navy and live by the code of honor. The ceremony includes admonitions against alcohol and social vice, and a plan to strengthen academy infrastructure and merit-based civilian staff policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aliso
Board of Visitors
Gibbons
Annapolis
Naval Academy
ASIOT
United States
John Walter Smith
Maryland
Navy
Daniels
Daniele
Secretary of the Navy
Congress
Capt. Gibbons
Ralph O. Davis
Ilinois
Illinois
Atlantic
Cullen H. Want
Homer, Ill
Miss Earth Jones
Homer
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Ensign Want
Sen McCormick attacks La Follette at Wisconsin rally
Medill McCormick brands La Follette as pursuing personal advancement over national good at a Milwaukee rally. He cites alleged withdrawals, shifting statements, and intra party tensions as he details a charged evening session with senators Shively Cummins Fage Kern Warren Thomas Oliver and du Pont testifying before adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Cummins
Senator Townsend
Wilson
Congress
Reed
Pope
Townsend
Shively
Cummins
Fage
Kern
Warren
Thomas
Oliver
du Pont
Licensed to Marry List of Couples and Officiants
A dated registry of marriage licenses lists multiple couples with their ages and places of residence, pairing each with the respective officiating clergyman. Names include Yeakle and Troux in Maryland, Van Cleef and Reems in Virginia, and others in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Yeakle
Hagerstown
Jeesle M. Troux
Hancock
A. W. Spooner
Hugh H. Shackelford
Emma E. Gress
G. W. McCullough
George S. van Cleef
Letttse M. Reems
Form
H. Schroeder
Fred J. Nett
Gertrude Richert
Mary
Madero
Rev. J . Montgomery
Detectives to Be Called in Shadowing Probe
Senator Cummins of Iowa says his Senate committee will hear evidence that interests seeking tariff influence hired detectives to shadow members of Congress. He will summons witnesses and may reveal names in testimony. Senator Reed, committee chair, acknowledged no direct knowledge and would not comment further.
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Cummins
Senate
Iobby
Congress
Iowa
Cumming
Reed
Killick Victim in Bank Vault Suicide
Richard J Killick 62 secretary of the Domestic Encarpment Company shot himself in a Chicago bank vault after arranging his affairs. Police found twenty two letters to relatives friends and business associates in his pockets. One letter to his wife and two to his daughters were not released. A note to the vault manager said burial would be at his former home Trichfield Ky. Other letters advised bankers and associates on handling his accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Richard J. Killick
Trichfield
Leg Scarcity At Funeral Noted In Washington Post
The funeral of Charles Moore, one-legged manager of an artificial limb firm, drew ten attendees with prosthetic legs. Four pallbearers each had a leg, two attenders had no real legs, seven were factory workers with one arm, and one woman wore an artificial leg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spetal
Washington Post
Chicago
Charles{ EO Moore
Virginia Plans Homecoming for Virginians Abroad
Norfolk business men and state representatives discuss a 1915 homecoming to boost Virginia’s status. Estimates show 2,464,545 natives in the U S with 1,843,152 in Virginia and 188,886 Virginians living elsewhere in the state. The outflow balance is 482,807, with 271,441 outside the South and 355,382 in other Southern states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Virginia
South
Panama Canal Locks Completed and Gatun Lake Filling Planned
Panama announces complete heavy concrete work on all six locks with guard gates at Gatun Pedro Miguel and Miraflores to be closed after June 1. Lake Gatun will be an artificial 10 square mile lake with a maximum depth of 90 feet. Maurice H. Thatcher resigns as Governor of the Canal Zone, effective after his vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Panama Canal
Gatun
Pedro Miguel
Miraflores
Lake Gatun
Gatun Lake
Maurice H. Thatcher
Washington
Canal Zone
Chevy Chase Lawn Fete Aids History Machine Fund
Teachers and pupils at Chevy Chase School hosted a lawn fete to raise money for a motion picture projector to support history and geography studies. Over 100 dollars was collected by a committee including Miss Ella Given Mrs K G Davis Mrs G W Stone Mrs George Cooper Mrs John Lane and Miss Elsie Cunningham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chevy Chase
Beneft
Ella Given
K. G. Davis
G. W. Stone
George Cooper
John Lane
Elsie Cunningham
British Peace Welcome Makes War Less Likely Speech
London June 6 Walter Hines Page the new American Ambassador faced a formal welcome in London hosted by the Pilgrim Society with Earl Roberts and Sir Edward Grey in attendance. Page urged frank Anglo American dialogue to promote justice and world peace as Grey and Roberts voiced support for deterring war and extending friendly ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Edward Grey
Earl Roberts
Great Britain
London
Walter Hines Page
Court of St. James
Pilgrim Society
Wield Marshal Earl Roberts
Edward Grey
Earl of Halsbury
Jord
Earl of Aberdeen
Page
Karl Roberts
Ambassador Page
United States
Jilted Bride Halts Wilmington Wedding Plan
Special to The Washington Fest from Wilmington Delaware June 6 Emma Lake of McKeesport PA and Charles H Clewell of Newcastle Del, a widow and widower, planned to marry but the bride declined to alight in Newcastle after a stop in Washington DC. A nuptial dinner was held at Clewell's home as relatives and friends anticipated the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Del
Emma Lake
McKeesport
Charles H. Clewell
Newcastle
Clewen
Washington, D. C
Chauncey P. Holcomb
United States
Laulabury
Delaware
Clewell
Washington
Pemis County Bank Closed After Shortage Found
Caruthersville Missouri July 6 The Pemis county bank has closed its doors and is under the State bank commissioner due to a shortage estimated at 200000 to 250000 dollars The bulk of the shortage is in county funds The bank turned over 2000 dollars of cashier A Tindle s property who fled to Memphis and is expected back soon
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caruthersville
Pemiscot County
State Bank
John H. Cunningham
A. ©. Tindle
Memphis
Clerk Kills Ticket Agent in Pittsburgh Depot
James A. McNair, a ticket agent at Pittsburgh's new union depot, was shot and killed at noon. Rob E. Pauley, his assistant, was seriously wounded by W. E. Sage, a clerk at the station, who allegedly blamed McNair for a stalled promotion. Sage fled the crowded waiting room and had not been located by night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
James A. McNair
Union
Rob E. Pauley
W. E. Sage
Pennsylvania Railroad
Sage
McNair
Slums Not So Bad But Should Be Eliminated
Senator Henry F Hollis of New Hampshire told Northwest Suburban Citizens Assertion that Washington slums, including Goat Alley, are bad but not a health menace and could be improved. He backed commissioner form of government and urged Washington’s model-city status while noting DC’s petition rights. O Lancaster was reelected president of the association for the seventeenth term with Shoemaker, Chappell, Shoemaker, Heider, Yowell, Robey in leadership roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Henry F. Halls
Newhampshire
Goat Alley
White House
New England
Hollis
District of Columbia
Congress
O. ©. Lancaster
I. H. Shoemaker
J. W. Chappell
L. F P. Shoemaker
A. F B. Shoemaker
Fred G. Heider
Alumni Outing At Business High Draws Big Crowd
Nearly 4,000 alumni pupils and friends attended the annual outing at Marshall Hall. The event featured steamer trips on the Macalester and St Johns, rifle matches, athletic contests, and a prize presentation by Principal Allen Davis. The committee included Ruth W. Bowie chair and a long list of organizers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Business High School
Marshall Hall
Macalester
St. Johns
Allen Davis
Business High
Ruth W. Bowie
William Patchell
Bert E. Corwin
Louise Klenk
Lilian Alison
Virginia Kirby
Mary Edna Noyes
Leon F. Cooper
Orville B. Crown
Ren E. Glesane
Miss Gladys Munn Engaged to C Minot Amory
Engagement of Washington girl Miss Gladys M Munn to Charles Minot Amory elder son of Mrs Francis J Amory of Boston announced by Mrs Charles A Munn of Washington D C She will wed about midsummer in Manchester Amory a Harvard graduate of 1912 is a member of the Porcellian Sphinx Country Tennis and Racket clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Anwry
Boston
Washington Post
Mass
Charles A. Munn
D. C
Old Neck
Manchester
Gladys M. Munn
Charles Minot Amory
Francis J. Amory
Commonwealth Avenue
Belgian Steamer Kurland Hit Mine Near Athens
The Belgian steamer Kurland from Antwerp struck a mine near Phieva Island in the Gulf of Athens. Heavily damaged, she was towed to Phalerum and beached for safety.
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Athens
Greece
Kurland
Antwerp
Phieva
Gulf of Athens
Phalerum
Paterson Editor jailed for extortion case and contempt
Alexander Scott editor of the Weekly Issue in Paterson was sentenced to an indeterminate term of not less than one year nor more than fifteen years and fined 250 for inciting hostility against the government He plans an appeal and bail was arranged. Hannah Silverman a Paterson silk striker sought a Supreme Court review after a contempt sentence for laughing at a judge. Separate hearings covered extortion charges against George W Dickensheets Henry Stille Joseph Summerill and Joseph Best with details of a $5 000 cash demand and a $200 000 bond guarantee scheme in Woodbury and Gloucester County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paterson
N. J
Alexander Scott
Scott
New Jersey
Trenton
Hannah Silverman
State Supreme Court
Miss Silverman
Philadelphia
George W. Dickensheets
First National Bank of
Woodbury
Henry Stille
Clayton
Joseph J. Summerill
Gloucester County
Joseph B. Best
WN. J
Gor‘man
Central Police Court
Summeril
Beat
David Whison Moore, Jr
Charles Moore
Moore Bros. Glass Company
Dickensheets
Best
Stille
Summerill
Moore
Kept death dose secret in husband’s final crisis
Baltimore June 6 Mrs Ida Rossman widow of Samuel Rossman died last night at Hebrew Hospital from three bichloride of mercury tablets taken in personal crisis. Michael Rossman, brother of the deceased, alleges she knew and kept secret for eleven days the cause of her husband’s illness. Coroner Hyde heard the statement supported by a hospital deposition Samuel Rossman made last Wednesday while treated for ptomaine poisoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Ida Rossman
Samuel Rossman
Hebrew Hospital
Michael Rossman
Rossman
Hyde
Movements of Ocean Steamers Arriven Reported
New York Mauretania sails Liverpool. Liverpool Celtic sails New York. Plymouth St Pool sails New York. Southampton Kaiserin Auguste Victoria sails New York bailed. Southampton Amerika sails Hamburg to New York. Queenstown Adriatic sails Liverpool for New York. Slasconset Baltic from Liverpool will dock New York Saturday. Sable Island La Provence from Havre will dock New York Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York-Mauretania
Liverpool
Liverpool—Celtic
New York
Plymouth
St. Pool
Southampton
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
Amerika
Hamburg
Queenstown
Adriatic
Sable Island
La_ Provence
Havre
Jeweled Widows Bold Hobo Bet Attempt in Car Theft
Mrs Lula B Ingham a Mulberry Grove widow in male attire was taken from a Baltimore and Ohio fast freight in South Cumberland yards while on a $5,000 bet. She traveled with her brother-in-law Harry K Ingham a St Louis merchant claiming the wager arose at Mulberry Grove during a reception. She flashed an $8 bill and wore multiple rings including a Masonic ring said to belong to her late husband as she aimed for Newark New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Cumberland
Lula B. Ingham
Mulberry Grove
St. Louis
Moa
South Cumberland
Mra Ingham
Harry K. Ingham
Ingham
Newark
N. J
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Treasury Building
Las
Mount Reasonable
Frank
Pear
Mvaio
Geo. P. Zurhorst
East Capitol Street
Mgr
J. WM. Lee
Embhalmer
Rennaction
Modec Crematorial
Modest Pricea
Pennsylvania
Deeane Aa Teane Maliniade RR
F. Harvey's Sons
Emtalmers
Modena
S. Sergeon
M. Hindle
J. H Small & Sons, Florists
King
Emily Wilding Davison
Epso
King George's
Secretary Daniels
Medili McCormick
Drags
Milwaukee
Wis
la Follette
Medill McCormick
McCormick
van Valkenberg
Firs
Senator la Follette
R. Harris & CO. the Jewelers
Jth and
BD Ste
Self
To-Kaion
Chevy Chase Lawn Fete
Fund For Motion Picture Machine
U.S
England
Missouri Institution
D.C
Citizens’ Association
New Hampshire
Gladys Munn
Waterman
L. E. Waterman Company
Broadway
Joseph Best
D. W. Moore
Waltham
Elgin
Castelberg’s
Pa. Ave
N. W
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