Maryland Politics in Transition Shows Struggle for Senate
Maryland's 1908 politics focus on two U S Senate seats with rival factions led by Whyte, Talbott, and remnants of Gorman era power. Eastern Shore balance and Baltimore leadership shape chances as Mudd, Jackson, and others vie for the long and short term seats amid party jockeying. Caspar Figher dies after choking on a pig foot in Meyersdale.
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Gorman
Rasin
Whyte
Talbott
Senate
Eastern Shore
Mudd
Jackson
United States
Sydney E. Mudd
William H Jackson
Brockbridge
Bonaparte
Atta Jackson
Telbott
United States Senate
Baltimore County
Harford
Vandiver
State Central Committee
Maryland
Senator Whyte
Baltimore City
General Assembly
Talbott Concord
Wielfhood
Smiti
Virginia Teachers Demand Higher Salaries in Bristol
Bristol city schools face a pay dispute led by Supt RR McChesney as teachers across Virginia push for higher wages. He criticizes current salaries as ridiculously low, noting Bristol spends less than Petersburg and less than twenty-eight counties that pay more. The movement aims at pay increases or risk of strike amid rising living costs.
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Washington Post
Bristol
RR. McChesney
Bristol City
Scheola
Virginia
Supt McChesney
Increased speed limit to twelve miles an hour in Glen Echo
Glen Echo town council amended the automobile ordinance to set the speed limit at 12 miles per hour replacing six. The change followed talks among Washington Automobile Club, Automobilists Protective Association, and Mayor Garrett. They agreed to drop litigation and assist enforcement, with State's Attorney Peter voicing no objection.
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Washington Post
Rockville
Glen Echo
Robert B Caverly
Washington Automobile Club
Automobilists’ Protective Association of Washington
Creed M Fulton
John A. Garreth
Automobilists
Montgomery County
Glen Deho
Robert B. Peter
Peter
Garrett
Charles FP Colins Gren Echo
Imarahai
Balt. Man Fined for Kissing Seventeen Year Old Aisle Clerk
Special to The Washington Post Baltimore Maryland March 7 A Baltimore man was fined $25 and costs by Justice Oldman at Northwestern Police Station for kissing sixteen year old Mebel Shipley last Monday night Kopili wick denied the charge Shipley said she had dealt at Kopilnick s store and that when she went there Monday night he pinched her cheek she resisted and he hugged and kissed her She said I have often done as I have done.
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Kopllintek
Contests Of Air Ships At Jamestown Exposition
Israel Ludlow announces a 21 event aeronautical program for the Jamestown Exposition including balloon and airship contests. Highlights include digible balloon events, altitude and duration trials, distance flights, and a dirgite balloon versus automobile contest with many American and foreign entrants.
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Washington Fu
Norfolk
Israel Ludlow
Aeronautical Bureau
America
Aeronauts of America
Rockville political hopeful eyed for Fourth district seat
Magor Lee Offutt of Rockville emerges as a leading contender in the upcoming Democratic primary for county commissioner from the Fourth election district. He currently serves on the Rockville town council and holds another nonremunerative office. he has never before run for office bigger than those positions. In Winchester, Charles Whitacre, a Frederick County farmer, and Laura DeHaven hosted a wedding at the bride’s home near Winchester with Rev C W Mark officiating. The groom is a widower and both have several children. they will reside in the county. In WeKon area, Maude Hunter Trower married George A Richardson in a church ceremony. the newlyweds plan a New York and Cuba honeymoon trip.
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Offutt
Washington Post
Rockville
Magor Lee Offutt
Winchester
Mary
Charles J Whitacre
Frederick County
Laura DeHaven
Whdow
George W DeHaven
C W Mark
Gainesboro
Briga
Norfolk Mark
Maude Hunter Trower
Charles A Trower
George A. Richardson
WeKonaree Church
George W Wray
Richardson
New York
Cuba
Raleigh Rail Rate Inquiry Opens Amid Editor Controversy
Raleigh March 1 The investigation by a special committee into charges in the Raleigh Times against the conference committee on the railroad rate bill began this afternoon. Editors Daniels and Bryant testified to motives, denying influence on the two cent per mile passenger rate, while the house and senate debated education, anti trust, and immigration measures with party tensions flaring.
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Legislative Conference Committee
Daniels
Washington Post
Raleigh
N. C
Raleigh Times
Josephus Daniels
Noaws and Observer
Henry ‘S
Page
Aberdeen
Asheboro
Deniels
H. W. Simpson
the Times
H EH C Sryant
Charlotte Observer
Ubel
Daniela
Hie
Senate
House
A. Dill
Spray
Buxton
Fleming
Raleigh News and Observer
Democratic Party
North Carolina
Surry County
Eighth Congressional District
Gordon
Guilford
Taken to Surry to Hang
Petersburg Virginia March 7 Robert Davis two is convicted in the Circuit Court of Surry County of murdering I F Saleby a Syrian peddler of this city at Dendron Virginia last December and was taken from here to Surry Court House to day where he will be hanged to morrow Davis declares he is innocent of the crime but says he is ready to die.
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Petersburg
Robert Davis
Surry County
I F. Saleby
Dendron
Thll City
Surry Court House
Davis
Fire destroys entire block in Hateaka coal town
A fire swept Hateaka, a coalfield town in West Virginia, destroying an entire business block including a hotel, bank, post office, stores, bottling works, and residences. Loss estimated 50 000 to 75 000 dollars, partly insured, started in the hotel kitchen.
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Washington Post
Bluefield
W. Va
Hateaka
Virginia Obituary Notices From East Radford and Surrounding Areas
East Radford on March 7 reports W J Bowers boiler maker formerly of Richmond died yesterday of heart trouble leaving a young widow in Roanoke. Mary Kate Hanes wife of John Hanes Stratford Hotel proprietor died this morning from pneumonia aged fifty six, leaving husband and one son. Leesburg on March 7 reports Corinne Worsley Wellborne of Columbus Georgia died Tuesday in that city from fever aged about twenty seven. husband Albert A T Wellborne a Columbus native survives. Winchester on March 7 reports Jacob Rudolph, farmer and Confederate veteran, died at his home near Wardensville Hampshire County West Virginia aged seventy. survived by two sons and three daughters. served in Company I Eighteenth Virginia Cavalry and was wounded at Gettysburg.
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East Radford
W J Bowers
Richmond
Wits
Roanoke
Kate Hanes
John Hanes
Stratford Hotel
Praymonia
Leesburg
Corrine Worsley Wellborne
Columbus
Albert A T Wellborne
Wellborne
Birele Worsley
Winchester
Jacob Rudolph
Wardensville
Hampshire County
W .A
Rudolph
Eighteenth
Virginia Cavalry
Gettysburg
Spencer NC Foreman Confesses to Pay Roll Padding
Spencer North Carolina March 7 Maxwell an accountant for Southern Railway in Charlotte was jailed in Rowan County on grand larceny charges. He allegedly padded the Spencer payroll as foreman of the coal chute and drew checks. Maxwell confessed after detectives traced bogus names. bond set at 1000 dollars. He has a family and more arrests are anticipated.
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Apedal
Washington
Spencer
N. C
N/ T
Maxwell
Southern Railway
Charlotte
Rowan
Charlotta
W. Conly
Gastonia
Cosa
Whiskey Blaze Destroys Miller Distillery in West Virginia
A night dispatch from Winchester Virginia reports a warehouse and Miller distillery at Yellow Springs Hampshire County West Virginia burned to ground yesterday. Loss estimated at twenty thousand dollars with insurance partial. Several hundred barrels of bonded whisky destroyed and barrels exploded in the heat. Distillery apparatus is a total loss.
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Washington
Winchester
First Democratic Nomination Meeting in Eighth District
Speetst to The Washington near Fredericksburg Virginia March 7 reports the first campaign meeting for the Eighth district Democratic congressional nomination at King George Court House. Present: all except Ryan. Speakers Gordon Nicoll and Carlin. Nicoll criticized Gordon’s constitutional convention record. Carlin praised opponents. crowd cheered. Carlin leads county based on impressions. Gordon and Nicoll have some strength. Ryan remains unknown. Large audience attended.
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Speetst
Washington
Fredericksburg
King Georges Court House
Ryan
Gordon
Judge Nicoll
Carlin
Nicoll
Hla Remerke
Mr. Ryan
STIKELEATHER TESTIFIES IN MERRILL MILLS DIVORCE CASE
Asheville, March 7 hearing in the Merrill Beecher Mills divorce was resumed before United States Commissioner Britt Gilliland Stikeleather, accused of alienating Mills affections, faced three subpoenas and was ordered to testify or face contempt. The hearing, behind closed doors, was said to include repudiation of earlier affidavits obtained while he was drinking.
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Washington
Asheville
N. C
Merrill Beecher Mills
United States
Britt. Gilliland
Stikeleather
Muis
Mill
Cook
Ltkeleather
Missing Floridan man feared foul play at Seabright cottage
Spec al to The Washington Post Norfolk Va March 1 W A Johnson of Florida who paid his board a week in advance at the Seabright cottage Ocean View last Tuesday disappeared Saturday and is still missing tonight Police fear foul play Johnson known to carry a large sum of money His baggage remains at the cottage Breckwaters near East Radford Va March 7 Robert W Burton 72 falls from a passenger train and dies in a Soldiers Home Johnson City He leaves a daughter in Texas Roanoke Va March 7 Prof A M Soule dean resigns Virginia Polytechnic Institute to head Georgia Agricultural College Clifton Forge Va council rejects bid for a fighting franchise Bristol Va March 7 local option election ordered April 22 to decide whether saloons are abolished Ravenswood W Va March 7 post office robbed $500 in stamps and nearly 200 in cash taken Bloodhounds die on trial
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Washington Post
Norfolk
W. A Johnson
Florida
Seabright Cottage
Ocean View
Johnson
Brecat Waus Wasnngion
East
Radford
Robert W. Burton
Soldiers
Johnson City
Texas
City Hall Record Room Fireproofing Plan Proposed
Washington Post Bureau reports Alexandria city officials plan a $5,000 appropriation to fireproof the record room of the Corporation Court and upgrade the courthouse wing. Plans favor keeping clerk’s office on the second floor, with debate over ground floor access. Also notes requisition for George Midgets alias William Johnson for murder in Harrisburg and possible transfer to Alexandria jail, plus local obituaries, church delegations, and business changes in Alexandria.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Corporation Court
George Midgets
William Johnson
Harrisburg
Charles T. Smith
Richmond
Pennsylvania
Unclear Text Fragment Shifts Between Topics
Fragmentary OCR item mentioning Hexenists treasurer Burke and stock values, then reference to Washington preaching at a special Lenten service at Christ Church in Alexandria. Rev R. P. Williams of Trinity appears. Details are incomplete, obscured by garbled phrasing.
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Burke
Washington
Alexandria
R. P. Willams
Trinity
Custody Bid Sparks New Twist in Emmert Divorce Case
William B Emmert filed a cross bill seeking exclusive custody of his son Paw in response to his divorce from Mrs Keffle Robinson Emmert sister of Bird M Robinson rail magnate. Mrs Emmert accuses Emmert s wife of unfitness to be stepmother. Emmert later married Myrtle Johnson from a Lee County family amid mineral ventures in Southeastern Virginia.
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Washington Post
Bristol, Tenn
William B Bmmert
Keffle Robinson Emmert
Bird MM Robinson
New York
Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railway
Paw
Mra. Emimert
Mr. Emmett
Myrtle Johnson
Lee County
Givorce
Eimmert
J. M. Barr
Seaboard Air Ling
Virginia
Roanoke Sees Thunderstorm Amid Snow Storm
Roanoke Virginia reports a multi hour thunderstorm with loud thunder and vivid lightning following light snow accumulations of one to four inches in thin sections. The event, paired with freezing temperatures overnight, unsettled residents including a noted fear among some locals. Clifton Forge Virginia also notes snow and storm conditions with air turning colder tonight.
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Roanoke
Clifton Forge
Mar
Death of Harrison Weaver in Uniontown at ninety two
Harrison Weaver, oldest resident of Uniontown, died at his home in Uniontown this morning at age ninety two. He had been a prominent town citizen for sixty years, and half that time ran a merchandising business. He leaves two sons and a daughter.
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