Mormon Church Admits Involvement in Beet Sugar Deals
Thomas R Cutler testifies before the House sugar trust committee detailing Mormon Church participation in beet sugar factories Utah Idaho Colorado and related ventures. He says church aids its people's material and spiritual interests while acknowledging Limited ties with Henry Havemeyer and other sugar interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mormon Church
Henry O. Waremeyer
Thomas R Cutler
Utah-Idaho Sugar Refining Company
Tlouse Sugar Trust
Cutler
Havemeyer
Chester S& Morey
Great Eastern Sugar Refining Company
Denver
Siateen Colorado
American Sugar Refining Company
Morey
Michigan
Utah
Colorado
John @. Spreckels
California
Representative Hinds
Maine
Mr. Cutler
Representative Madison
Kansas
Unon Pacific Railroad
Mr. Madison
Union Pacific
Buried Under Fall of Gold at San Francisco Mint
San Francisco June 4 an employe of the San Francisco mint Wadsworth Williams was badly injured when nine million dollars in gold sacks toppled in a vault trapping him. He is reported in doubtful condition. The White House safe, which failed to open on June 2 for the White House clerks semimonthly payroll, was finally opened yesterday in a foundry. An aged Treasury Department locksmith collapsed and died during the effort to release the pay memos on time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Havemeyer
Spreckels
Calfornia
Mr. Madison
Madison
Henry O. Havemeyer
San Francisco
Wadsworth
Williams
White House
Treasury
Senator Owen Attacks Medical League on Health Department Bill
Senator Owen denounces the League for Medical Freedoms as misled by patent medicine interests while promoting a bill to create a government health department. He says the measure levels no advantage for any medical school and protects private citizens, aiming to prevent infection and educate the public on sanitation and contagion dangers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League For Medical Freedoms
Department of Health
Senate
Owen
Wheat hoax returns as Egyptian tomb grain swindles reappear
Colorado reports claim farmers sowed wheat kernels allegedly recovered from Egyptian mummies. Mark A. Carleton of the U.S. Department of Agriculture notes wheat seeds die after about ten years and archaeologists dismiss revived mummy wheat as a hoax, though officials investigate source of such grain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Mark A
Carleton
Department of Agriculture
Greeley
Colo
Mark A. Carleton
Works Seeks Pass for District Saloons Bill
Senator Works defended a bill to limit saloons in the National Capital to ten and impose strict alcohol controls. He spoke during a District committee session amid a controversial report from the commissioners. Maj Judson said the people may oppose, but Works argued the city serves all the country and will seek a full hearing before a subcommittee reviews the Works and Jones excise measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Works
Rsit
National Capital
Maj. Judson
Renater Works
Mr. Works
Congress
Black Hand man guilty in federal case
William Guessford of Williamport Maryland was found guilty of sending Black Hand letters to Mrs Julia Briscoe of Hagerstown. He was sentenced to two years in the federal prison at Atlanta Georgia by Judge Rose after being arrested while about to take a decoy package. Briscoe, the daughter of former Maryland governor Hamilton, had befriended him despite the animosity.
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Baltimore
William Guessford
Williamaport
Julia H. Briscoe
Hagerstown
Atelanta
Rose
United States District Court
Guessford
Briscoe
Gov. Hamilton
Maryland
Frats and school fraternities under review at Washington High
Washington board of education likely to reject the Washington High School Teachers Association recommendation to abolish school fraternities. Earlier inquiry during William E. Chancellor’s superintendency found no grounds to close them. The text also includes a dated poem by John A Joych of Washington, D. C. dated June 4, 1811.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Washington High School Teachers’ Association
Trade is Still Slow More Orders for Rails
R G Dun & Co reports a cautious uplift in several sectors as crops near harvest improves demand. Iron and steel show rising bookings with about 20 000 tons of rails placed and wire product prices cut by two dollars a ton. Footwear leather and dry goods firming while general activity remains restrained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hastern
United States
Bradstreet
Boy Drowned During Picnic Near Antietam Creek
A Hagerstown youth Be Legg aged sixteen son of Frank Legg a Washington Department of Agriculture clerk drowned while swimming at a Smithsburg picnic on Antietam Creek near the Old Horse About twenty youths were present and the body was recovered after more than an hour The victim a Hag erstown High School student left home with his family for the summer and his father is en route to the scene from Washington
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Hagerstown
Smithsburg
Legg
Frank Legs
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Antietam Creek
Old Horse
Young Legg
Frank Lege
Sore
G Street
Church doors outward in inquiry on city churches
Investigation started after 1908 findings show many churches and meeting places still have inward opening doors. Fire Chief Wagner and Fire Marshal Nicholson say enforcement may be needed, noting safety risk in winter and panic. District inspectors cite 260 sites visited. some complied, many did not, especially large churches in private buildings.
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Fie
F. J. Wagner
Nicholson
H. B. F. Macfarland
Macfarland
Wagner
Buildine
Ier
Bodies recovered on Homer may be of Arctic doctors
Dr. George M Bowers of the bureau of Fisheries says bodies of Drs. Harry Denison Chichester and Walter L Ham recovered from the Arctic Ocean May 31 are aboard the steamer Homer bound for San Francisco. Mrs. Chichester, widow of one of the drowned men, is expected to be on board.
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Bureau
San Francisco
Harry Denison Chichester
Walter L. Ham
Bureau of Fisheries
Arctic Ocean
Homer
George M Bowers
Walter I. Lums
St. Paul’s Island
George Washington University
Chichester
Miss Peperall
Lumsey
Bowers
Governor Heads a Posse in Pursuit of Escaped Convict
Corvallis Oregon June 23 Jesse Hall an escaped convict was captured by armed pursuers led by Governor Oswald West who felt obliged to retake the prisoner after Hall broke parole. West had started a practice of placing penitentiary convicts as ordinary workers on road crews and personally led the hunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corvallis
Oreg
Jesse Hall
Oswald West
Gov. West
Hall
Scatterlted Illness From Ice Cream Picnic
Sixty five children fell ill after eating ice cream at a resort picnic in San Bernardino California on June 2 with fourteen in serious condition due to ptomaine poisoning. An auto horn frightened a horse pulling a wagon causing a run away and collision at Twenty seventh and M streets northwest the wagon destroyed the horse died from injuries.
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San Bernardino
Cal
Howard Johnson
Olive Street
M Streets
Metropolitan Memorial M E Church Services Brief
The fragment notes multiple church services and events. Metropolitan Memorial M E Church on John Marshall Place announces minister John Reid Shannon at 11 am with Christ's Parabolic Picture and His Truths for the Twentieth Century and 7:30 pm services under Epworth League supervision. Also listed are Foundry Church services on Sixteenth and Church streets with Rev. W R Wedderspoon, and an open air evensong at Mount with special preacher Rev Edwin B Niver. St John’s Church Lafayette Square lists Holy Communion at 8 am and service at 11 am on the second Sunday after Trinity.
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Methodist Episcopal
Metropolitan Memorial
Ghurch
John Marshall Clace
John Reid Shannon
Christ
Epworth League
Metropolitan Blbia
W. R. Wedderspoon
D. C
King Solomon
Strangere Welcome
Edward Slater Dunlap
George Williamson Smith
Presbyterian
Church OF the Covenant
Connecticut Avenue
Etreats
Charles Wood
Stuart Bready
Harry Baremore Angus
Peck Chapel
Covenant
Mount Pleasant Street
Park Road
Anns Grant
Fugitt
First Baptist Church
B D Thom
Canada
Christian Endeavor
Christian Science
First Church OF Christ, Scientist
Fifteenth
Colorado Building
Y. W
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Seaboard Fast Mall
Savannah
Jacksonville
Tampa
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Memphis
New York
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Phillips
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B. Ryan
Portsmouth
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Leuteville
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Chicago
Virginia Hot Springs
Louteville
Union Station
Norfolk and Western Railway
Washington
New Union Station
Ali Potata
Norfolk and Western
Roanoke
Bristol
Wu Belem
Knoxvile
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Orleans
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Norfolk
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Richmond
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Luray
Shenandoah
Elkton
Rpm
Shest
New York Avenue
Bond Building
Atlantic Coast Line
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West Indian Limited
Charleston
Knights Key
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Savancah
Port Tamsa
Palmetto Limited
Wilmington
New York Ave
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
IL. A. Mn
Baltimore
Fa Ag
West Aed
Sincinnati
Gost
Malo Iy
Pennsylvania Ave
Maig
Armament Smuggling Intercepted Off Portuguese Coast
A mysterious ship flying the German flag, the Poluto, carried arms and artillery bound for Portuguese royalists off Algarve. The government cruiser Adamastor and gunboat Sao Rafael halted the operation. the vessel fled at full speed. Reports claim Portuguese royalists abroad wired 7.5 million dollars to Spain for this plot and Brazil supplied a 6000 ton warship worth of armament.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Poluto
Adamastor
Sao Rafael
Algarve
Spain
Packers Ordered to Trial Denial of Bill of Particulars
Judge Carpenter in Chicago denies J Ogden Armour and other indicted meat packers a bill of particulars outlining alleged Sherman antitrust act violations. Defendants must plead by July 5 and the case scheduled for trial on November 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carpenter
Chicago
J. Ogden Armour
Federal District Court
Bowdoin Honors H C Emery And U S Senator Johnson
Bowdoin College in Brunswick Maine conferred the honorary Doctor of Laws yesterday on Henry Crosby Emery of Washington chairman of the tariff board and United States Senator Charles F Johnson The event was witnessed by local officials and dignitaries in a ceremony marking the college’s recognition of notable public service. In Cleveland Ohio Rev Francis E Clark founder of the Christian Endeavor movement was robbed of 50 dollars and a railroad ticket as he rode to a state convention, forcing him to seek help from society officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Johnson
Brunswick
Bowdoin College
Henry Crosby Emery
Washington
Tariff Board
United States
Charles F. Johnson
F. E. Clark
Cleveland
Francis E. Clark
Christian Endeavor Movement
Society
Train Dispatchers Entertained in Baltimore Luncheon
About 125 delegates of the Train Dispatchers Association attended a luncheon hosted by the Washington Chamber of Commerce in Baltimore. Capt. Oyster greeted guests as chamber president, and John F. Mackie, association secretary, delivered the response.
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Train Dispatchers’ Association
Baltimore
Washington Chamber of Commerce
Capt. Oyster
John F. Mackie
Association
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Wyoming
Idaho
Inter- Norntain
Hardwick
Vata
Western Sugar Refining Formpant
California and Hawaii Sugar Company
Utah Sugar Company
Frederic H. Whitley
Fulton Street
Brooklyn
W. Y
Medical League
Health Department
Ana
John A Joych
Washington, D. C
Apollinaris Water
R.G. Dun & Co’s
Weekly Review of Trade
Frank Legg
Mother Near
Dr. Bowers
Arctic
Lincoln Park
Capitol Hill Churches and
Y Mocad Orchestra
J. W. Frizzell
Wen
Packers
Bowdoin
H. C. Emery
Hecht G Company
7Th St
Hecht
Hecht-ward
Madras
Percale
Hechts
7Th Street
Mgb Grads
Brewster
Tally-Ho
Peters
London
Demmerast
Country Club
Stanhope
Caffery
Doctor’s Stanhope
Surrey
Blickensderfer
THE
Moore Company
Evans Building
House & Herrmann
Seventh
Eye Streets
Washington Southern Railway
Richmond and Paints
Fredericksburg
Gaffy
Milford
Southern Railway
Birmineham
Mobilis
New Orleans
Asheville
Hnorville
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Spartanboro
Anniston
Greensboro
Durham
Raleigh
Columbia
Aiken
Augusta
Sivannah
Harrisonburg
Danville
Charlottesville
Warrenton
Bluemont L . Brown General Agent
Chesapeake Beach RY
Chesapeake Beach
Ime
Paul Y. Waters
District OF Columbia
Moore & Hill, Inc
G St. On
DD. C
Frank T. Rawlings CO
Peave
Allington Fire Insurance Co
Fowest
Barrawers
M. H. Saunders & CO
F Street NW
D.C
HS Smith Company
National Loan and Investment Co
Thompson Bldg
Fifteenth St NW
Drig Stora
Tyler & Rutherford {Incorporated
Fifteenth St
Walter H. Acker
F Street
Northwest
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