Maryland and the Virginias Adopt Plan of Action
The United Mine Workers of District No 16 convened in Cumberland Maryland to demand immediate wage increases. About 20 000 miners from Georges Creek and Upper Potomac fields seek enforcement of Wilsons bituminous awards a uniform dead work scale a closed shop and a conference with operators.
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Washington Post
Cumberland
United Mine Workers of
Georges Creek
Upper Potomac Fields
Wilson
Frank J. Drum
Maryland State Federation of Labor
Thomas W Koon
Watti I James
International Organization
Washington
Percy Tetlow
William J. Trickett
Rain Stops College Drills at Maryland State College
College Park Maryland June 15 heavy rain halted the third day drills at the Maryland State College of Agriculture. The best drilled company wins a sword from the class of 1897 and the top drilled man earns a medal from the class of 1899. Athletic awards were announced at a banquet hosted by President A F Woods and a reception followed in the dining hall.
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Washington Post
College Park
Maryland State College of Agriculture
A. F. Woods
Woods Beld
Harry J. Patterson
Thomas B. Symons
Washington ordained priest at Mount St. Marys College
Rev Richard Winckhburn Washington, great grandson of George Washington, was ordained a priest at Mount St. Marys College Emmitsburg on June 13. He is the second Washington to attend the college and will celebrate his first mass then be assigned to the Richmond Diocese. The report also notes a separate marriage license denial in Rockville for Henry R. Davis and Mrs H Morech due to age and missing parental consent.
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Washington Post
Emmitsburg
Mount St. Mary's College
Richard Winckhburn Washington
George Washington
Father Washington
John Augustine Washington
John Augustine Washngton
Mount Vernon
George Washimminn
Washington
Mount St. Mary's
Westminster
Richmond
Rockville
Aunge
Henry R. Davis
Moa H Morech
Washangie
Obituaries from Harrisburg and Washington Death Notices
A string of death notices and funeral details for residents including Rachel E Withiam Flerfeltinger and other locals. Entries list ages, addresses, and services held at churches and private homes across Harrisburg and Washington with private interments and family notices.
Morrison Leads In North Carolina Primary Race
Raleigh unofficial results show Cameron Morrison of Charlotte ahead by 187 votes over Gov Max Gardner in the Democratic statewide primary held June 5. Robert N Page trailed by 17,000 to 18,000, setting up a July 3 runoff unless Richmond county figures alter the canvass. Unofficial tallies: Morrison 49,170 Gardner 48,963 Page 30,180.
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Raleigh
N. C
Cameron Morrison
Charlotte
Max Gardner
Shelby
State Board of Elections
Robert N. Page
Gardner
Richmond County
Board of Effection
Morrison
Page
Drowning Rescue By Cumberland Youth Curtin Crowe
Curtin Crowe 23 rescues 17 year old Pearl Buell from the Potomac in Cumberland Maryland. Crowe dove in without removing his clothes and pulled the unconscious girl from the water. She was revived with difficulty after the rescue.
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Washington Post
Cumberland
Curtin Crowe
Pearl Buell
Potomac
Crowe
Petersburg Hit By Gale Strips Trees and Damages Shops
Petersburg Virginia reports two electrical storms with winds 64 to 70 mph. Trees downed, fences leveled, show windows shattered. an auto was blown into a store window. Cumberland Maryland also hit by violent thunderstorm. a veteran plasterer injured when struck by lightning and fell eight feet.
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Washington Post
Petersburg
West Table Street
Cumberland
James B. Clement
New Strand Theater
Drowned siblings buried in Bethel Cemetery in Alexandria
Edna C Shacklett and Howard Shacklett, 14 and 12, were buried in Bethel Cemetery after drowning in the Shenandoah River near Mt. Jackson Virginia. Services were at Second Presbyterian Church with Rev Dr John Lee Allison. Their father Benjamin Shacklett accompanied the bodies to Alexandria.
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Washington Post Burmac
South Royal Street
Alexandria
Edna C
Howard Shacklett
Shenandoah
Mt. Jackson
Bethel Cemetery
Second Presbyterian
John Lee Allison
Bodice
Benjamin CC. Shacklett
Southern Railway
Hig
Washington
Grace M. Shacklett
King Street
Grain and Livestock Prices From Baltimore and Chicago
Baltimore market reports list butter eggs poultry and dairy prints with varying prices for creamery and Maryland Pennsylvania Ohio regions. Chicago prices cover wheat corn oats rye barley and cattle hogs sheep with bid ranges and note prime heavy steers and top hogs.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Virginia
Chicago
Virginia and nearby obituaries and civic notes
Obituaries from Virginia and surrounding areas report deaths of James W. Robey 36 of Spotsylvania county Mary E Peak 55 of Lynchburg Lena Ford Hamlet 67 of Red House Surrey and Danville William Scott Firesheets 65 with survivors noted A Washington Post special mentions Kensington Woman's Club officers elected and West Virginia University graduates including Mitton De Witt Fisher Dr Ira Remgen delivered address The Southern Railway realigned road survey shows new line 3 miles shorter near Lynchburg.
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Fredericksburg
James W. Robey
Orrock
Salem Church
Spotsylvania County
Bright
Toluca
Stafford County
Lynchburg
Mary E. Peak
J. M. Peak
Pittsylvania County
Court Street Methodist Church
James L
G. B. Peak
Lena Ford Hamlet
Sidney Hamlet
Red House
Charlotte County
Hunter
Ettie Hamlet
Joseph Hamlet
Danville
William Scott
Washington Post
Morgantown
WI. Va
West Virginia University Diue
Mitton de Witt Fisher
Washington, D. C
C. E
Ira Remgen
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Southern Railway
Unveils Tablet to Heroes Who Lost Lives in War
Washington and Lee University in Lexington honors fallen World War I servicemen with a tablet bearing their names to be placed at the memorial gateway before the Lee Memorial Chapel. The event capped commencement day with degrees awarded to two students and 23 honorary appointments.
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Washington Post
Lexington
Washington
Lee Memorial Chapel
William A. Glasgow
Philadelphia
James McClure
Petersburg
William Pendleton
Lynchburg
Addison Hoge
Washington and Lee
Samuel J. Graham
United States Court of Claims
Henry Louis Smith
John W. Kern
Marriage at Hotel Hamilton ties Gunnell to Harding
In Hagerstown on June 15 Miss Hannah Kennedy Gunnell daughter of Mr and Mrs H Gunnell married Thomas H Harding of Cleveland Ohio now of an Ellicott City banker Rev C Carroll Kerr officiated at St Marys Catholic Church In Riverdale on June 15 voters approved incorporation by an 87 to 75 margin A July 1 election will name a mayor five councilmen and a town treasurer
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Fredericksburg
Christ Church
Roanoke
Agatha Erskine Boyd
Emma Munford Boyd
Nicholson Barney Adams
Otis Mead
Darol Gwathmey
Lynchburg
Adams
Columbia University
Yynchburg
Sam Jack Musick
Piedmont Business College
Birdie Selma Weems
Washington Post
Hagerstown
Hotel Hamilton
Hannah Kennedy Gunnell
H. Gunnell
Thomas H. Harding
Cleveland
Ohio
Ellicott City
C. Carroll Kerr
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Riverdale
General Assembly
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Marryland State
R. B. Washington Ordained
Stnt
Minor
Heffeltinger
Rachel E
Withiam
Flerfeltinger
Lond
Pertha Tweffettinger
Jean Hayden
Harrisburg Pa
Tyra
Aeciens
Eighta Street
Frances Walter
H. B Nevins
New York
Meister
Harry
Olive Vierster
Harry F
Louise J S
Cleveland Park
Hidegard
Sidney Paige Imner
Herman J
Rushan
Arn
Sebuita
St. Tanl's Church
A.m
Shipley
Eleventh Street
Thalaker
Pyis Pom
Rose
John T Winlstatt
Eighty Street
Prospect Hill Cemetery
WM. H. Sardo & CO
Punermia
Lincoln
Hata
AREGO
Cif Nichals
A. J. Schippert
Paave NW Modern Chapel
William TE Sons
Thos
M. Hindle
S. Sergeon
Boscon Gaviers Sons
Ave
N.W
Frank Geier’s Sons Co
James T. Ryan
P&t
North Carolina
Virginia Weddings
U. of V
Charlottesville
University of Virginia
Homer J. Ferguson
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
United States Chamber of Commercce
Edwin A Alderman
Fear Connally
Boy Scouta
Thomas F Connally
M. V. Connally
Greensboro
Washington Pos
George Payne
Falmouth
Spotsylvania
Rappahannock River
Payne
John Dowdy
Guilford County
C. D. Collyer
Board of Supervisors of Elections
Laurason B. Riggs
J. Farr White
Mortimer QO. Stabler
John Jones
H. Maurice Talbott
Mr. Jones
Lloyd J. Jones
Talbott
Clifford H. Robertson
John G. Meyers, Jr
John G. Meyers
Honewell
Samuel Kline
Western Pike
News of Alexandria
Fairfax and
Wilkes Streets
Fendall
Carlin
Frisco
Charles C. Carlin
Palmers
Highth
San Francisco
Thomas Hoy
City
Wash
Windsor
Edward Windsor
William C. Chauncey
South
Fairfax Street
George Mason High School
Arlington County
Beatrice Browns
Dorothy Carpenter
Meta Glasscock
Frances Rowzie
James P. B. Weirs
Agay
Rockville-Gaithersburg Pike
N. D. Offutt, Sr
Wed
Myrtle May Patton
Otto Seyboth
Norfolk
Wilmington
Woman's Club
Kensington Woman's Club
Edward A. Farrell
Herbert Wright
Edmund &. Noyen
Annie Gayley
Charles E. Houghton
Frank Wilson
Frederick W. Brown
Www
L McKennel
George W. Ashworth
Welles Merriam
Herbert A. Filer
R. K. Ferguson, Inc
9Th St. N. W. Ph. NW
W. R. Speare
Undertaker
F Bt
H St. N.W
Masonic Temple
W. R
Val Richter
NEW Dress Shoe Shop
Palace Theater
Bethesda
Bethesda Blue Granite Co., Inc
15Th St. N.W
Allah
Walker
F. Hidd, Rec
Treas
Francis A. Crags
Roland W. Cragg
Bales
Cutler Dorsey
Eva Marie Dorsey
Stige Edward C. Peter
Glenn Cutler Dorsey
Harding—Gunonelt
Cairo
Q Sts. N.W
J. T. Howard
Paris
SF Sree
Mayers Lifetime Furniture Store
Seventh Street
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