District Appropriation Bill Reaches Taft For Signature
Conferees finalize the district appropriation bill carrying 11.4 million dollars with provisions for Sixteenth street to be renamed Avenue of the Presidents, park and school funding, street and highway measures, and municipal salaries. The measure drops a viaduct project for Benning road but funds new roads and several city offices.
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Soldiers’ Home
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Appropriation Bills’ Status in Congress
Congress adjourned with several appropriation bills pending in conference or awaiting action. Notable items include Indian Affairs delaying by filibuster in Senate, Post Office and Railway Mail pay accepted in conference, River and Harbor agreed and sent to the President, Agricultural and DC bills in conference, Sundry Civil partial reports, Naval deadlock on battleship additions, and General Deficiency awaiting conferee naming. Army bill signed by the President yesterday.
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Great influx of visitors to Washington for Wilson era
A large wave of governors elects, senators elects, and notable private citizens arrives in Washington. Col. E. M. House, close adviser to the President elect, sparks talk of an ambassadorship to Great Britain as hotel lobbies buzz with possibilities for the new administration. The week’s arrivals include Govs Sulzer, McCreary, Dunne, ONeal, and Bryan, with plans for inaugural events and cabinet considerations shaping the capital mood.
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Texas
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Massachusetts Avenue
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Great Britain
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Wilson
Baltimore
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Texas Rangers
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Kentucky
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Senate
William Sulzer
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Willard
Charles R. Miller
Delaware
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Virgina
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Colorado
Edward Dunne
Illinois
Emmet O'Neal
Alabama
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Elliott Major
Missouri
Moorehead
Nebraska
James Fielder
New Jersey
Earl Brawer
Mississippi
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Michigan
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Rhode Island
Locke Craig
North Carolina
Luther Hall
Louisiana
William ©. McDonald
New Mexico
Joe T. Robinson
Arkansas
John K. Tener
Pennsylvania
Carter H. Harrison
Chicago
Hadley
William Jennings Bryan
Miami
Fla
Josephus Daniels
Navy
Charles R. Crane
Shoreham
William G. McAdoo
Treasury
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Earl Brewer
James K. Vardamen
J. Bruce Kremer
Montana
Clark
William J. Bryan
Kremer
Democratic National
National Press Club
Newton D. Baker
Cleveland
Cyrun H. McCormick
Harvester Company
Rudolph Spreckels
California
Visitors Hear Opera Stars At Belasco And National
Sunday crowds thronged Shoreham Avenue despite chilly air to hear two star recitals. Mme Johanna Gadski offered a varied program at the Belasco with double the promised numbers, while John McCormack sang mainly ballads at the National under Gaelic Society auspices.
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Phandrig Crohoore
Stanford
Jennie Glennan
Lewis Corning Atwater
Edwin Schneider
Alice Preston
MacDowell
Liebling
Death of John M Dunn President of Transfer Men’s Association
John M Dunn former Richmond Transfer Company superintendent and long time railway office associate dies at his East Clay street home after a brief pneumonia illness. He led the Transfer Men’s Association of America since last July and headed the Capital City Baseball League. A Gordonsville native, he came to Richmond twenty years ago and leaves a wife two sons and his mother.
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Minister Rothgeb Dies Sudden in Luray Va
Elder Martin Rothgeb a distinguished German Baptist minister died suddenly at his home in Luray County. He had been ill, had an appointment to preach at Leaks Chapel at 1 10 today, and had covered over 25000 miles while filing appointments in the region. He was wealthy and survived by several children including E Rothgeb of the U S Department of Agriculture.
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Leaks Chapel
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United States Department of Agriculture
Maj Sands Home Burned in Roanoke Fire Loss
Roanoke Virginia March 2 Maj Joseph H Sands former N and W Railway VP GM and a railroad contractor saw his residence destroyed by fire this afternoon with a ten thousand dollar loss Mrs Sands was in North Carolina when the blaze started a telephone alert brought the housekeeper from a room below. The home stood on the mountainside overlooking the city away from the water supply. Also noted is the 94th birthday anniversary of Rev Dr George W Aughinbaugh the oldest Reformed Church clergyman in the United States in Hagerstown Maryland he is a brother of the late B D Aughinbaugh a prosperous druggist of the city.
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Norfolk and Western Railway
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North Carolina
W. D. Addison
Hagerstown
George W. Aughinbaugh
Greenvillage
United States
BD. C. Aughinbaugh
Liberal excise bill would loosen hours and Sundays sales
A House substitute to the Jones Works excise amendment to the District appropriation bill would allow Washington saloons to close at 1 a.m. and permit Sunday liquor sales for restaurants with barroom licenses after July 1. Opening hours start at 7 a.m. An excise board, three- member commission, will regulate licenses and reduce the number of barrooms to a target by November 1, 1914.
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Free to Marry Nat Goodwin Leading Woman Granted Divorce
The Washington Post reports Baltimore on March 2 that Mrs. Margaret Doughty also known as Marjorie Mordlan was granted an absolute divorce from Charles N. Doughty for abandonment over three years. Doughty offered no opposition and Doughty’s mistreatment and abandonment were noted. Mrs. Doughty remains with Nat Goodwin's company in Los Angeles. Also from Maryland today Elizabeth J. Woodworth aged 79 died of heart disease in Hagerstown while visiting, and John A. Persinger aged 71 died in Roanoke hospital after a cancer diagnosis. both notices cite survivors.
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Washington Post
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Doughty
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Los Angeles
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Elisabeth J. Woodworth
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Keyser
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J. Raymond Brostus
Western Maryland Railway Station
Margaret Johnson
Frost, Ky
Roanoke
John A. Persinger
Roanoke County
Virginia Tobacco Markets Struggle in Week of Sales Rise
Lynchburg Virginia reports weekly tobacco sales totaling 392200 pounds, up 7500 pounds from prior period. Prices stay firm with most grades selling high, lugs and very inferior leaf showing slight declines or only modest gains. Quotations include lugs common 3 to 4 dollars, leaf good 12.60 to 16 dollars, wrappers 15 to 25 dollars.
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