Thaw Case Deepens As Prosecution Plans Evidence
District Attorney Jerome and assistants map rebuttal strategy in the Thaw case. They review new alienist testimony and plan how to challenge Evelyn Nesbit Thaw’s account and the credibility of witnesses. Thaw’s mother arrives at court daily, and defense lawyers take a breather as proceedings focus on expert testimony and subpoenaed letters.
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Washington Post
New York
Jecame
Criminal Courts
Garvan
Nott
Rutgers Street
Jerome
Chang
Branford White
Delmas
Thaw Legal Forces
Morristown
Britton Dpd Evans
McPike
Atlantic City
Clifford W. Hartridge
Russell Peabody
John B. Gleagon
O Reitly
Evelyn
Dana Reilly
O’reilly
Tombs
Evelyn Thaw
Lorraine
Thaw
Stanford White
Clifford W Hartridge
Mr. Jerome
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Mae McKenzie
Mrs. Thaw
Jane
Harry Thaw
Anthony Debes
Madison Square
Tenderloin
Serjeanta McCarthy
Ric Cann
Tender- View
Rhan
Abe Hamimel
Mua
Jack Barrymore
White
William Thaw
Josiah Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit ‘Thaw
Funeral Directors Profiles and Embalmers Directory
A condensed panorama of funeral directors and embalmers with addresses and phone numbers across Washington. Listings include WM H Sardo Co, George Zurhorst, Hindle Bayliss, Nalley & Son, Harvey's Sons, Mitchell's Son, W R Speare, Adolph Schippert, T M Costello, Wm S Riley, Frank Geier Sons, John R Wright Co, J William Lee, J W Wright Co, and related services such as funeral designs and livery connections.
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WM. H. Sardo & CO
Phone East
George P. Zurhorst
Haat
Capitol St
Hindle & Bayliss
Phono M Bst
Thos. R. Nalley & Son
Lith
Agutheas
R. F. Harvey
ERAL
Fourteenth ST
Commossions Chapel
John M. Mitchell
Io Connection
W. R. Speare
F Street
N. W. Freeryddie
Adolph J. Schippert
Sergeon
Cain
Tetechona
T. A Costello & Bro
Sphone Kant
Riley
East Hs
Frank Geier’s ‘Sons
John R. Wright CO
Tenth St
North 47
J. William Lee
Modest Pelos
Pennsylvania
Salvation Army Launches Permanent Anti Suicide Bureau
New York March 10 Commander Miss Booth announced that the anti-death by own action bureau of the Salvation Army has passed the experimental stage and will be added as a permanent feature in the country. Since its inception the departure has saved many men and women from self destruction and aided a large number.
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New York
Miss Booth
Salvation Army
Army
Girls School Looted in Scarsdale Theft Case
Bert Curtis aged 27 was arrested in New York on charges of stealing jewelry valued at $6,000 from Miss Lockwood's private girls boarding school at Scarsdale. He allegedly gained access to see a student last Thursday and the dormitory theft was reported two hours later after identification by the principal and two students.
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New York
Bert Curtis
Miss Lockwood
Scarsdale
Curtis
Stock Broker Arrested in Scranton for Embezzlement
J. T. Haviland of Broadway New York a stock specialist was arrested in Scranton Pa on a charge of embezzling 23000 entrusted to him by local investors He waived a hearing and was paroled under two constables for a hearing set tomorrow
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Scranton
J. T. Haviland
Broadway
New York
Scranton People
Jail Bid by Bonnie Maguire Ally Jimmy McNally Riches to Ruin
James McNally once led a large green goods operation linked to Bonnie Maguire. Arraigned before Magistrate Whitman, he sought a jail sentence and said he had no home. Once a clerk with $300 saved, he built a $250000 fortune and a race book empire before falling on hard times and ending in the workhouse.
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Washington Post
New York
Whitman
Tombs
McNally
James McNally
Charles Anthes
Jimmy McNally
Alin
Hfe
Sixth Avenue
Bonnie Maguire
Jimmy
Maguire
Bridgeport
Mer Nally
Chicago
Joliet
Central Federated Union endorses Farmers' Union co operation
The Central Federated Union endorsed a recommendation that its affiliated unions cooperate with the Farmers' Union to establish distributing centers in towns and cities for direct farm produce sales. A Whiting of Interlaken, NY, urged union men to cooperate, and farmers agreed to buy only union made goods. The union will seek more details from the Farmers' Union.
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Washington
New York
Mar
Central Federated Union
Farmers’ Union
A. Whiting
Interlaken
N. Y
The Brush Boy and the Nickel Dilemma
A narrator confesses a recurring temptation to avoid tipping the barber’s brush boy. Each visit ends with him slipping, despite plans to resist, and paying a nickel after the brush boy’s careful, insistent gesture. The cycle continues as he doubts escape from the brush boy’s clutches.
Petrarch Among Celebrities Encounters on Journey
The account recalls Petrarch among a parade of famous figures in a travel narrative. A heckler jokes about Petrarch as the poet laureate and Laura, while the party, many from the countryside, reacts with amusement and pride at the lively scene.
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Petrarch
Laura
Officers Kill Desperado in Americus Shootout
In Americus Georgia on March 10 a negro desperado Bill Reece was surrounded in a Davenport Street dwelling by five policemen and Deputy Sheriff Fuller. Reece opened fire wounding Officer William Morris who later died. Deputy Fuller and Officer Willis were injured. Morris remains in critical condition at Americus Hospital.
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Americus
Bill Reese
William Morris
Reece
Davenport Street
Fuller
Willis
Reese
Witla
Willie
Morris
Americus Hospital
Model Homes for Workers in Erie Plant Shift
General Electric announces 700 acres purchased at Erie Pennsylvania for a large new plant. Buildings start in spring. The campus plans 400 acres for worker homes and an industrial suburb. Employment expected at 4000 to 6000 workers. The project will not affect existing facilities.
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Schenectady
General Electric Company
Erie
Lake Shore
Lake Front
Talented Rogue Is Busy Morgantown Fraudster Sought
Morgantown Morgantown police chase a well dressed forger believed to be J H Hemingweay alias James Branch J D Bates or R H Lee who swindled Washington banks. He attempted to cash a $1000 draft drawn on a Washington bank and used false names in Indiana. He advertised as a traveling agent for W J Lemp Brewing Co and procured cash deposits from solicitors before fleeing. He previously used the name M F Bar Tow and was jailed in New Haven Conn for a similar scheme in 1901.
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Washington Post
Laporte
Ind
J. H. Hemingweay
James Branch
J. D. Bates
R H. Lee
Washington
Morgentown
Harter
Indiana
Hemingway
Pennsylvania Avenue
W. J. Lemp Brewing Co
St Louis
J. W. Sawyer
St. Louis
Second National Bank
Hemingwey
Hem, Ingway
M. F. Bar- Tow
New Haven
Conn
Weathersfield
DENEEN FOR REFORMS AT CHICAGO INDUSTRIAL EXHIBIT
Gov Charles S Deneen urged legislation to improve wage workers conditions at a mass meeting opening the Chicago industrial exhibit Miss Jane Addams Hull House outlined aims to awaken public conscience about remedial measures to stop human slaughter in mines mills factories and railroads and to better living conditions for industrial workers Miss Mary MacArthur of England summarized labor legislation enacted there in the last decade
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Chicago
Charles 5. Deneen
Ilinois
Jane Addams
Hull House
Mary MacArthur
Woman's Trade Union League of England
Great Britain
Strike On Great Lakes Affects 340 Shipyard Workers
Special to The Washington near Cleveland Ohio March 10 National Vice President Louis Weyand of the Boiler makers and Iron Shipbuilders Association announces a general strike drawing 340 workers from American Shipbuilding Company yards Buffalo to Duluth Sympathy actions hit Fearse and St Clair yards of Great Lakes Engineering Company Total shipbuilding industry to be tied up in one of the bitterest labor wars in memory Also reports William A Thompson contractor and J R Clarke carpenter found dead in a room at the Ehmwool Hotel after turning on fuel gas full force and retiring in Huntington West Virginia.
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Wasomgcan
Cleveland
Ohio
Louis Weyand
Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders’ Association
American Shipbuilding Company
Buffalo
Duluth
Fearse and St. Clair
Great Lakes Engineering Company
Huntington
W. Va
Sar
William A. Thompson
Naugatuck
J. R .Clarke
Ehmwool
Four-legged fighters fuel Carmel rivalry in New York town
Gabe Terpenny of Patterson township predicts breeding a four legged race of game roosters and hens for cockfighting after claiming a two headed kitten and a two headed kitten preservation by Sam Cornish the Putnam County druggist. Terpenny insists his four legged cockerel will dominate in future fights as locals debate ownership of the animal curiosities.
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New York
Gabe
Carmel
New York Sun
Sam Cornish
Main Street
Putnam County
Gabe Terpenny
Patterson Township
Sam
Squire Gene Sprague
Jim Zickler
Courier
Smalley Inn
Hadson
Jack
Uke
Terpenny
Hig
Gosh
Tergenny
Gga
Boy Kills His Father in Ohio Quarrel
In Solon, Ohio, Richard Kennedy Jr., twenty, killed his father with a baseball bat during a quarrel at his mother’s home. he surrendered to police. Also reported, the New York Giants defeated the Los Angeles team in a baseball game with slow play and errors.
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Solon
Ohio
Richard Kennedy, Jr
Giants
Los Angeles
New York
Batterles-McGinnlty
Taylor
Breanhan
Lord Wins for Philadelphia in Ninth Inning Home Run
Lord drove in the deciding run with a ninth inning home run for the Philadelphia American team in Dallas. He added a single and a three bagger as Dallas offered a strong challenge. The report lists players Movements of Ocean Steamers and arrivals or departures at New York and other ports.
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Lord
Philadelphia
Dallas
Tex
Ree
The Mississippi Senatorship Race in 1908
Jackson Mississippi March reports a forthcoming August primary to select legislators and the two U S Senate nominees for 1908. Incumbent McLaurin has no opposition, while Money retires due to health, leaving Vardaman and Williams as contenders tied by blood or marriage to Money. Vardaman campaigns on reform including repealing amendments, Williams vies via letters, debates, and a Bryan aligned platform split.
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Jackson
Miss
Mar
United States Senate
United States
Nolis
J. McLaurin
H. D. Money
Money
Vardaman
John Sharp Wiliams
Mississippi
Vardamen
Willams
Williams
Wardaman
Senate
Alrady
Ide
Gov. Vardaman
Free Sample Men Spur Housewife Delights and Dilemmas
A humorous look at the rise of free sample men who visit homes with bags of wares. Housewives and bachelors recall lucky moments when samples saved social appearances and cooking mishaps, from biscuits to a 50 cent cream whipper, illustrating the era’s consumer culture.
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Congressional Cemetery
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Oakwood Cemetery
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M’nally
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Indorse Farmers’ Union
Central Labor Federation of New York
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J. H. Hemingway
Morgantown
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Deneen For Reforms
Illinois
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