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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1913
Page
7
An advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a mild laxative remedy for constipation. It claims many avoid harsh purgatives, notes wide household use, praises gradual action, and offers a money back guarantee with a free sample by mail from Dr W B Caldwell in Monticello Illinois.
Shrewd detectives from Pittsburgh Philadelphia and Pinkerton agencies worked undercover at Union Station to prevent petty theft during a crowded inauguration week. They warn that top crooks avoid busy terminals and focus on downtown routes while urging would-be offenders to abandon crime.
Ato A Henderson enters his car for the 500 mile International Speedway race to be run in Indianapolis on Decoration Day Billy Knipper will drive The article also notes various personnel changes and vehicle sales at Goodyear Emerson Orme Palais Royal Fleischmann Yeast Case Luck Motor and other firms with deliveries and new showrooms in Washington and surrounding areas
Charles Cramer the circus clown and high diver and wife Bernice Ryall Cramer actress were convicted of Miss Sophia Singer murder. Jury settled after 17 hours with Cramer given life and Bernice 14 years. Clemency request for Bernice to release after eleven months. Cramer led away on crutches as verdicts read.
Cuba lifts the general amnesty with suspension until a formal statement by the secretary of the interior clarifies the law. The measure, effective for all prisoners, aims to satisfy U S objections and is likely issued on Monday as a practical modification of the law.
Seven prisoners in the bounty workhouse were publicly whipped in the jail yard for larceny. In bitter cold, two white men and five Black inmates each received ten lashes with a rawhide whip, their backs laid bare for passersby in Wilmington Delaware.
Saturday weather notes report rain in the west gulf region with fair conditions elsewhere. Temperatures rise east of the Rockies, with unseasonably high readings in the middle west. rain or snow in parts of the great lakes and New England. Winds varying along coastlines as described. local data shows temperatures, humidity, rainfall and sunshine hours across multiple cities.
Money brokers and pawnbrokers escape the new law by opening offices at the Virginia end of the bridge from Washington and offering a free automobile pickup service for financially embarrassed borrowers. Cars cruise the avenues to collect debtors and transport them beyond the law’s reach, removing them from the District of Columbia jurisdiction.
The American Automobile Association through A G S Bachelder has leased office suite 509 in the Riggs building via the National Savings and Trust Company. The AAA plans to promote federal and good roads initiatives from this headquarters and may establish a permanent office. The piece notes the rapid advance of good roads since the automobile’s rise and predicts the United States will become a Mecca for tourists once a cohesive plan is in place, trailing Europe but moving forward.
Local yachtsmen plan a complimentary dinner at the Raleigh Hotel on Thursday March 10 to honor Captain Thomas Fleming Day famed for navigating the yawl Sea Bird and the 3 foot Detroit across the Atlantic. Adrian Sizer chairs the arrangements with George H Bright treasurer George Dalton secretary and a committee of yacht club and local officials.
The American Paper and Pulp Association filed January figures showing 110,584 tons shipped, up 4.86 tons from December and 462 tons from a year earlier, with production at 109,664 tons, up 7,546 due to 27 January working days. Stocks fell to 38,674 tons February 1 as shipments exceeded production, and imports of 12,331 tons, 87 percent duty free, were recorded.
St Louis March 8 Twenty five thousand dollars is left to Miss Grace Jocelyn Waterman a nun in the convent of St Dominic Newark New Jersey according to the will of Countess Mary E Kingsbury de Giverville who died recently here The countess was an aunt of the nun.
The passage extols No-Rim-Cut tires as the best solution for endurance and cost per mile, noting Goodyear’s two million tires sold and hundreds of thousands of owners endorsing the choice. It urges readers to adopt the low-cost, low-trouble tire method found by these users.
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