Death by own action party rocks Atlantic City
Ho Why a Kentucky Avenue laundry proprietor died by suicide at a dinner party attended by six Chinese guests in Atlantic City. The guests were arrested but released after explaining the act aligned with Chinese customs. Witness Ling Dope described the act as a modern American style suicide.
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Atlantic City
Ho Why
Kentucky Avenue
Confuciua
Shu Nan
Lee Don
Hong Jan
New York
Charlles Son
Ling Dope
Chartie Lee
Ho Vihy
Andwell
Movements of Ocean Steamers Reported
Movements of steamers noted with ships sailing routes from New York to Liverpool Bremen Hamburg Rotterdam and Plymouth and Cherbourg. Reported arrivals include Sable Inland Imperator from Hamburg to New York docking 530 pm Wednesday. Browhead Victoria Luise from New York to Plymouth Cherbourg Hamburg expected Plymouth Wednesday.
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New York
Kateer Wilhelm Ti
Bremen
Liverpool
Mauretania
London
Minnetonka
Antwerp
Kroonland
Campania
Pennsylvania
Hamburg
Kaiser Wihelm der Groese
Eordam
Rotterdam
Sable
Imperator
Browhead
Victoria Luise
Plymouth
Cherbourg
Death notices from Washington area June 1913
A set of obituary notices listing several residents by name with dates of death, ages, and funeral arrangements. Entries include Richard Franklin Buchanan of 105 H Street NW. Edwin Tracy Jones. Homer Nichols Lockwood. William J. Lyons. Marta McFarlan. Noone. Jacob Wigmer. James Wright. Details cover funeral times, churches or undertakers, and interment locations.
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Buchanan
H Street
Richard Franklin Buchanan
Wright
Tenth
O Streets
Jones
Lfe
Edwin Tracy
Else Mitchell Jones - Vureral
Rhode Island Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Glenwood Cemetery
Galveston
Tex
Decatur
Ala
Corinth
Miss
St Louis
Lock Wood
Kenesaw
Homer Nichols Lockwood
Fort Plan
New York
Auburn
N OY
Lyons
William J
Minnie Shannon Lyons
Crittenden Street
Congressional Cemetery
Baltimore
McFarlan
Woodle
Marta
Daniel MrFarlan
Wiliam W
Lucinda A. Moore
Noone
Thomas Noona
Twenty-third Street
St Stephen's Church
Holy Rood
Wigmer
Sibley Hospital
Jacob
Annie M Wigmer
William Hardo Company
Prospect Hill
James
Flora Wright Ridgeway
Sixth Street
Nothwest
Agi
Frank Geler
Bevesth Street
Nore West
Rackrok Cemetery
Polar expedition sails from Victoria for three year Arctic trek
The Stefansson Arctic expedition sails from Victoria aboard the Karluk and Alaska with ten scientists and fifteen crew under Capt Bartlett. The aim is to map islands east of the Mackenzie, study fauna and flora, and seek trade routes while exploring Victoria Land for copper deposits. They expect to reach Nome July 20 and may head toward Greenland or winter at Prince Patrick Island.
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Victoria
British Columbia
Arctic
Vilhja
Mar Stefansson
Iece
Blond Eskimos
Karluk
Robert Bartlett
Stefansson
Nome
Alaska
HK. M. Anderson
Victoria Land
MacKenzie River
Coronation Gulf
North Pole
Amundsen
Nomea
Greenland
Bering Strait
Arctic Ocean
Beaufort Sea
Herschel Island
Prince Patrick Island
Peary
James Murray
R. M. Anderson
Fritz Johansen
United’ States
J. B. O'Neil
Geolesical Survey
Kenneth Chapman
J. R. Cox
Henri Beauchat
Paris
Jennis
A. Forbes Mackay
Shack Kleton
Einburgh University
Meinland
Kiown
I Stefansson
Anderson
Point Barrow
Stefangson
Andersen
Local Funeral Directors and Embalmers Advertising Directories
An array of funeral directors and embalmers appears in an old classified-like listing. Names include W. R. Pumphrey & Son, Frank Geier's Sons, W. R. Spear, Frank L. Pear, Zurhorst, WM. H. Sardos, and Thos. S. Serjeon among others. Listings indicate chapel locations, on premises establishments, and telephone contact details. The ad mix emphasizes modern chapels, reasonable terms, and crematorium arrangements with varied street addresses and numbers.
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WM. H. Sardo & Co
Embalmers
Modern Chapel
Life Life
W.R. Pumphrey & Son
Rockville
Frank Geier's Sons
W.r.speare
N. W
Geo
P. Zurhorst
Capitol Street
Zurhorst
Mgr
J WM Lee
Penneyivan Avenue
Thos S. Sergeon
RS Cain
Japanese Peace Envoys Offer to Promote US Relations
Japan's four peace envoys led by Dr J Soyeda announced plans to visit major American commercial bodies to push for a fair settlement of California land act disputes. They stressed Japan seeks friendly ties with the United States and said war is unnecessary and disastrous.
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Japan
United States
California
J Soyeda
Tokyo
Seyeda
Soyeda
America
Commercial Organization of Japan
Alumni Aiding Maryland Agricultural College Year Ends
The Maryland Agricultural College Alumni Association leads third day exercises closing the school year in College Park Maryland. They pledge to secure one million dollars from future legislatures to advance the institution and endorse President Harry J Patterson and his policies. Officers elected: Henry Holzapfel Jr president Wellstood White vice president C Grant Church secretary treasurer. executive committee named John Mackall and F P Vettch.
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College Park
The
Maryland Agricultural College
Harry J Patterson
Henry Holzapfel, Jr
Wellstood White
Washington
C Grant Church
John M Mackall
F P. Vettch
Dr. Friedmann Sails for Europe
New York reported on June 17 that Dr. Friedrich F. Friedmann sailed for home today after his institute was closed and his vaccine use forbidden by the board of health. The doctor did not say whether he would return.
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Friedmann
Europe
New York
Friedrich F. Friedmann
Board of Health
Mrs Sinclair to wed Kemp fiancé in sanitarium tale
Kingston reports Mrs Meta Sinclair divorces, then to wed Hubert Halliwell of Poughkeepsie in the fall after meeting as patients at a sanitarium. Halliwell, 26, has no income and the union is described as a surprise to his family.
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Hubert Halliwell
Poughkeepsie
Kemp
Kingston
Metas Sinclair
Upton Sinclair
Artiste
Woodstock
Ulster County
Hall- Well
Sinclair
Meta Fuller
William M. Fuller
West Eighty-seventh Street
New York
Arden
Del
Harry Kemp
Halliwell
Meta Sinclair
George Halliwell
Hubert
Mississippi lawmaker seeks two cars or partitions for district
After the Supreme Court struck down the federal Civil Rights Act as applied to the District of Columbia, Mississippi Representative Harrison introduced a bill to provide segregated cars in the district or to build partitions. Mississippi Representative Howard, citing similar aims, plans to push a companion bill with House support. Law firms and constitutional experts debated whether the ruling allows or restricts separate accommodations and how transit companies must implement seating arrangements or partitions.
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Supreme Court
Mississippi
Howard
United States Supreme Court
District of Columba
Hston F. Harrison
Willng
William S Howard
Eorett
Harrison
Clash Over Holly Grove Mine War Hearings
Senators clash during a hearing on the Holly Grove miners fight with testimony about a machine gun attack from an armored train. Morton and other witnesses dispute claims while Senator Martine challenges presumed actions against women and children. Officials note company losses and lack of officer salaries as hearings proceed toward Washington.
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Son
Swanson
Martine
Watts
Quinn Morton
Holly Grove
Morton
Lee
Calvin
Hally Grove
Vinson
Questien
Senator Kenyon
Washington
Charleston
Leitch
Willam Tardy
Licensed to Marry List of Multiple Couples in Various States
A compiled notice lists numerous marriage intentions or ceremonies with names such as William D Lynch and Anne M O Toolte, Charles H Merall and Anna Nixon, William S Faulkner and Joha D Getz, Henry L Garter and Elizabeth H Peter, Edwin A Sehmidt and Joy B Marston, and many others. The Rev clerical figures are noted alongside each pairing, with locations including Bairmont West Virginia Canton Georgia Washington District of Columbia Boston Massachusetts Roanoke Virginia and Pittsburgh Pennsylvania among others.
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William D Lynch
Anne M. O'Toolte
JT McGee
Charles H. Merall
Anna Nixon
Bairmont
W. Va
A Schroeder
William $. Faulkner
Canton
Joha D Getz
Washington, DC
H Schroeder
Henry L. Garter
Richmond
Elizabeth H Peter
Bethesda
Wiliam R Bushby
Edwin A Sehmidt
Joy BH Marston
R. Stetson
John J Cardigan
Boston
Mass
Mary T Sampson
Washington
D. G
T C. McGuigan
Robert H Miller
Michel Shepard
Hey J A Smyth
Edward M Beckwith
Hollis A Phillipa
A. D. Bryant
James T. Allen
Ethel T. Rowe
J . Montgomery John Murphy F Fauntleroy
Mary Blanche Sweedier
A. Smythe Homer F Philips
Lillian T. Holman
R Stetson
Charles E Slagle
Elizabeth G. Lauderbeck
Pittsburgh
Princess Olga Golitzine to sail from New York soon
Princess Olga Golitzine wife of Prince Andre Golitzine announced she would leave New York for Russia at 1 a.m. aboard the Campania. She mocked the second cabin reservation and complained of travel class while expressing affection for America and a future stage career in London.
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Washington Post
New York
Olga Gotzine
Andre Golitzine
Russian Imperial Cavalry
Russia
Campania
Cunard Line
America
London
New Hire to Washington in Suffrage March Plan
Women suffragists plan a march on the National Capital starting around August 1 from New York. They aim to press the Senate committee on suffrage favorable report and reach Washington for a victorious finish. Monte League for Equal Suffrage members will join, forming a suffrage cavalry and testing theatricals en route.
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New York
Washington
Senate Committee On Suffrage
Monte League For Equal Suffrage
League
Gasoline blast kills driver and injures five in New Haven garage
A gasoline explosion in the basement of a New Haven garage killed George Fitch, Standard Oil wagon driver, and injured chauffeurs John Hanson, George Lyman, James Carley, and Wilbur F Watkins, Yale graduate. The garage owner was bruised, and windows shattered across Taft Hotel and nearby residences as guests fled in panic.
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New Haven
Washington Post
Conn
George Fitch
John Hanson
George Lyman
James Carley
Wilbur F .Watkins
Yale
Taft
Divorce tragedy in Paris ends in double suicide
A French manufacturer and his wife, both 29, killed each other after a failed separation suit. The husband shot his wife at her father's home, then killed himself with a heart shot. Five of his cartridges fired, one of hers. He bequeathed all his property to her. The wife had left him and pursued divorce through her lawyers.
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Thor
Shu Nan
Ho Why
Marshall
Washington Post
Paris
Mme. Crisel
Crisel
Will
Old pipe kills a baby in South Norwalk
A discarded meerschaum pipe given to a two year old in South Norwalk led to nicotine poisoning and the child's death. Nathan Thornfield of New York, visiting relatives, saw his son Harold die within minutes after imitating smoking. Coroner Phalen found no action needed.
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South Norwalk
Conn
Nathan Thornfield
New York
Mre Thornfield
Harry A November
Thornfield
November
Harold
Cosoner Phalen
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen choose Peoria as temporary HQ
At the convention the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine Men selected Peoria, Illinois, as temporary headquarters. Washington was eyed but deemed too far east. Cleveland and St Louis were also considered before Peoria won the vote amid a lively contest.
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Peoria
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Brotherhood
Washington
Cleveland
St Louis
Doubt casts on Mrs Hudson death in London inquest
London inquest into the death of Mrs Viola Hudson found she died by gas in her flat. Witness Michael Herbert, son of Sir Michael Herbert, testified she spoke of loneliness and financial troubles while an envelope scribbled will left 1000 pounds to Herbert and 1000 to Bertha Ferguson with remainder to her daughter Viola Hudson of Chicago. Local guardianship questions and trusteeship were raised by relatives.
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Michael Herbert
Hudson
Chicago
Via Moliudsen
Northern Trust Company
London
Balliol College Oxford
Washington
Viola McKenna Hudson
St Georges Mansions
Vauxhall Bridge
Herbert
Mrs. Hudson
Hyde Park
Carper
Oxford
Mra Hudson
Great Northern Trust Company
University of Virginia Alumni Day Highlights Underwood Speech
Charlottesville hosts the General Alumni Association meeting with Oscar W. Underwood presiding at 10 AM and again leading the banquet at the commons. Lewis M. Coleman delivers the noon address on The College Man and the State as Underwood’s son Oscar W. Jr. graduates.
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Charlottesville
University of Virginia
General Alumni Association
Oscar W Underwood
Lewis M. Coleman
Chattanooga
Tenn
Underwood
Charlotteaville
Oscar W. Jr
Theological Graduates and Commencement Near Alexandria
The Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia near Alexandria prepares for commencement exercises with a sermon by Rt. Rev. Arthur Selden Lloyd of New York and a day of activities including a noon alumni essayist and a 130 o'clock alumni dinner. Ordination services Friday morning will see a list of graduates and clergy including Burgess, Campbell, Gibson, Goodwin, Hobson, Maynard, Micou, Pestross, Riker, Reach, Thompson, Williams, Wilcox. Democratic primary notification arrives for Alexandria and county races. Death notices report Thomas P Kelly, longtime local figure, and James Hartley, former resident of the city, with mourners noted.
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Episcopal Seminary
Alexandria
Edward, E Burgess
Virginia
Cartan Barnwell
Maryland
Boger” Campbell
Virgina
Churchill H Gibson
Conrad B Goodwin
Devall M Gwathmer
Southern
Jennings M ‘Ho
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Vancouver
Bartlett
Murray
Johansen
U. S
M. A
R. Harris & CO
the Jewelers
Mrs. Sinclair
New Jersey
D. C
O Morten
Mr Morton
Lee Calvin
Martinez
Paint Creek Coal and Land Company
Charles Pratt
LT Connell
Scranton
Paint Creek Collieries
Connell
Lackawanna Coal and Lumber Company
Paint Creek Company
Kenyon
Rich Manufacturer
Locomotive Union
Central Western
Tokalon Co., Inc
St. Fer
U. OF VA
Oscar W.underwood
Theologians
Robert H Cor
B . James
Commonwealth
J Fred Birrell
Alexadria
Thomas P Kelly
Thomas
Kelly
South Pairickh
Foyclock
James Hartley
Annie Startles
M of Stone
Richman
Martin Lawler
Glifornia
Yosemite
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Colorado Rockies
Santa Fé
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Santa Fe
Philadelphia
National Electrical Supply Co
Panama Canal
Scribner's Magazine
Fifth Avenue
7Th Street
Burchell
N. W. Burchell
F St
George Washington University
Gatreet
Mies
Reid Smiretary
Universitian
Emerson Institute
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