Miss Susie Carter Joins Agriculture Dept Amid Celibacy Communism Stance
Susie Carter, a member of the Woman's Commonwealth, resigns from community life to accept a clerkship in the Department of Agriculture. She becomes the first member to seek outside work, transferring to the forestry division after starting in publications. The community, centered at M37 Ewing Street with a Montgomery County country place, is founded on celibacy and communism and has faced public scrutiny after a previous elopement led to nationwide marriage proposals.
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Susie Carter
Woman's Commonwealth
Washington
Texas
Department of Agriculture
Commonwealth
Ewing Street
Mira Carter
RS Carter
Miss Carter
Civil Service
Ddvision
Jevel
Nfo
Irving Street
Montgomery County
Miles Fanns Holtzclaw
Gladys Gaylord
Denver
Miss Gaylord
Edwin Gaylord
Miles Gaylord
Gladys
Carson
Orpheum
Gaylord
St. Louis
Grace
Captain Swift Trial Urged Over Connecticut Grounding
Secretary Metcalf weighs a court martial recommendation after the Connecticut grounded at Culebra on January 12. The court cites neglect of duty and inefficiency, with sailing officer Wao implicated, and a court martial likely at Guantanamo. The ship sustained damage but remained in commission amid reports of typhoid aboard and swift movement to New York for hospital care.
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Metcalf
Court of
Connecticut
Culebra
William Swift
Wao
Capt Swift
Navy Department
Swift
General Board
Lift
New York
New York Navy
Navy ships assigned to docks for Atlantic fleet repairs
The Navy Department ordered permanent docking and repair assignments for the Atlantic fleet upon return from the West Indies cruise. Battleships and armored cruisers were slated for Boston, New York, and Norfolk yard dockings including ships such as Missouri, New Jersey, Vermont, Tennessee, Ohio, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Washington, and others.
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West Indies
Navy Department
Boston Navy Yard
Maine
Georgia
Kanang
Indiana
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Kentucky
Minnetote
Virgiia
Louisiana
Iowa
Army Orders Leaves of Absence and Duty Assignments
Military notices list Capt George O mien Gerniry taking a three month leave, Capt etd wards to two months, and Capt Henry W Starfort reassigned to the army transport service at Seattle. Includes prop accountability tasks for Linuk Edward A Stuact and William A Covington, with various officers ordered to report for examinations, temporary duty, or to naval posts in New York and Louisiana.
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Gerniry
Henry W Starfort
Army Transport Service
Seattle
Clytard Gane
Fort D
Russell
Linuk
Edward A
The Bishop's Carriage and Broadway at local theaters
Columbia Theater announces Jassie Buss ey in The Bishop s Carriage a crime tale of reclamation with a strong cast. National Theater opens Forty-five Minutes from Broadway with Fay Templeton in a melodramatic musical blend. The Belasco presents The Tourists a lively travel comedy. Chase's vaudeville bill features Julian Eltinge and others.
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Jessie Busseys
Jassie Bussey
Columbia Theater
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Rose Htynge
James Keene
Sam Reed
Byron Douglas Kata Jepson
Lavinia Shannon
Leibler & Co
National
Fay Templeton
Broadway
National Theater
George M. Cohans
George Washington, Jr
New Rochelle
Gotham
Manhattan
Naval base move ends Tompkinsville landing site
Tompkinsville Staten Island loses its famed landing berth as a new dock at St George is planned to improve ferry connections for naval personnel. Sailors praise better access while lamenting the rhyming fame of Tompkinsville songs and shopkeepers seek to block the change.
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Tompkinsville
Staten Island
Whiten
St George
Navy
Georgia
New Jersey
Connecticut
Tompkinavilla
Navy Department
St. George
Navy consolidates Pacific fleets into Pacifi fleet
The Navy Department orders merge of the Pacific squadron Asiatic fleet and Philippine squadron into a single Pacifi fleet. Officials deny any war prep with Japan and say the change has no strategic significance. Announcement delayed. no plan to reinforce the Asiatic fleet or move battleships to the Pacific Coast.
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Navy Department
Naval Organization
Atlantic
Japan
Pacific
NO CAMPS FOR MILITIA THIS YEAR INDISES ENCAMPMENTS OMITTED
Assistant Secretary Oliver informs state and territorial governors that annual militia brigade and division encampments for regular army instruction will be omitted this year due to troop shortages from Cuba Jamestown Exposition and Philippines movements. Coast Artillery camps will operate in 1907 with National Guard invitation, likely July for one week to ten days.
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Oliver
Cuba
Philippines
Neu
Coast Artillery
Seaboard
Navy plans two new battleships aimed for three to four years
The Navy Department plans authorizing two large battleships in the last session to shave construction time. Secretary Metcalf seeks quick preparations with bids by May and a sea-ready goal in three to four years. Each ship would displace about 24 075 tons and carry a mix of 2 inch, 5 inch, 3 pounder, semi-automatic, 3 inch field pieces and machine guns.
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Navy Department
Congress
Metcalf
Ainsworth Receives New Title as Adjutant General
The Military Secretary's office established for Maj Gen Ainsworth was dissolved under the army appropriation act. Its officers were transferred to the Adjutant General's department and will be officially titled adjutants general. Gen Ainsworth was sworn in as the adjutant general.
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Military Secretary's Office
Army
Ainsworth
Adjutant General's Department
Military Secretary S Department
Adjutant Generals Department
Adjutants
Adjutant General
Church Society Meets at St Vincent de Paul Session
The Particular Council of St Vincent de Paul held its monthly meeting at St Pitricha Rectory with Judge William H De Lacy presiding. Reports from city and district conferences praised weekly turnout and the work among the poor. Rev D J Stafford commended the activeness of members. William F Downey described aid to derelicts at Good Samaritan Home. calls for more funds were issued and a public appeal organized through Treasurer Patrick J Brennan on Twenty First Street NW.
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Cowell
St Vincent de Paw Society
St. Pitricha
Wiliam H de Lacy
D J Staffod
IG D
Re- Het
Wiliam F Downey
Good Samaritan Home
Thia
St Vincent de Paul Society
DeLacy
Patrick J. Brennan
Social Gossip on Lancaster luncheon and society life in Philadelphia
The Lancaster hosted a Tuesday luncheon and dance with notable guests including Miss Tilley and Miss Gaylord amid a cantina like setting with signal-flag decor. Gladys Gaylord seeks self-made fame in vaudeville while Winnie Smith marries Frances Livingston in New York, and Winthrop Smith plans a New York home and business future.
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James E Miler
United States
Lancaster
Philadelphia
Tilley
Admiral Tilley
League Island
Mra Ehlemann
Nazro
Berry
Greenough
Simons
Turnbull
Miss Fetterman
Miss Wield
Miss Lindsey
Mra Cover
Bache
Brewster
Langhorne Wister
M& Busby
J Gordon Fetterman
Winthrop Percy Smith
Winnie
New York
Frances Livingston
Waa Aia
Miss Livingston
H M Warren
Maderman
Percy Smith
Walnut Street
Troxton Hare
University At Pennsylvania
Ross Smith
Murdoch Kendrick
Misses Smith
DeLancey School
Katharine A. Smith
Winthrop
H. Mason Reberg
Mia Mason
Pine oil cure praised by ancient Greeks and Romans
A Philadelphia physician promotes Concentrated oil of pine as a universal remedy for colds coughs and bronchial troubles. He cites ancient use from Greek and Roman times and provides a home formula with pine oil glycerine whiskey, dosed every four hours.
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Caucasus
Philadelphia
Agg
Pericles
Chas. H. Fletcher
B Halstead Beatt
Chicago
Tls
William Belmont
Cleveland
Ohio
J.H. Taft
Brooklyn
N. Y
Omaha
Neb
J. R. Clausen
R. M. Ward
Kansas City
Missionary Society Holds Annual Meeting at Fourth Church
The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society met at Fourth Presbyterian Church led by President Mrs Joseph T Kelly. Officers were elected including Mrs H P Biles as first vice president and Mrs A B Kelly as treasurer. reports showed a 15 percent rise in both home and foreign donations. Lunch interrupted session. Deaconess Yursik and Mrs G F Hoskins spoke, with Mrs Mary Pond performing a solo.
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Womans Home and Foreign
Joseph T Kelly
H P Biles
G. W Baocock
T C Magoffin
W . Stockbadge
H I Houston
Hf Livingston
McBarnes
A. B Kelly
J W Hollyday
Frederick Miller
Yursik
Presbyterian Training School
Baltimore
GF Hoskins
Beirut
Syria
Mary Pond
WHAT LIFE AT YALE COSTS
New Haven March 6 Yale University expenses reveal wide gaps between student groups. Prof William Batley reports average college year spend about 292 dollars for workers through college with most between 500 and 1000 dollars while nine exceed 2000 dollars. Wealthier students spend heavily on clothes gifts theater intoxicants and tobacco and the Yale pipe leads among favored smokes.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale University
William B Batley
Department of Political Economy
Baitley
Yale
Kaiser Greets Dowager at Station in Berlin
Emperor William welcomed Dowager Empress of Russia at the railroad station this morning. He presented a bouquet and accompanied her son on a special train to Charlottenburg on her way to England to visit Queen Alexandra.
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Empress Mother of Czar
Queen Alexandra
Berlin
Mary
William
Empress of
Russia
England
Charlotttenburg
Will of Baroness Burdett Coutts Probated in London
The will of the Baroness Burdett Coutts who died December 80 was probated today in London. The estate grossed $395000 as much was gifted to dharmic works and churches during her life and much capital had been transferred to her husband.
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Donna
Mme
Schumann-Heink
Washington
Conretd Opera Company
London
Burdett-Coutts
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