Plan to weigh souls tests new theory
New York physician Dr Hereward Carrington urges weighing criminals at electrocution to prove the soul is material. He cites Dr McDougall's disease death tests as potentially revolutionizing medicine and psychology, while others doubt the premise and warn of methodological issues.
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Washington Post
New York
Mar
Hereward Carrington
Mcbougal
Haverhil
Carrington
James H Huston
Society For Psychical Research
Beiieves
McDougal
Funeral Directors and Embalmers Named in Capital Listings
A compact roll of Washington DC funeral directors and embalmers is listed with multiple firms and contact numbers. Entries include J William Lee, H G Po...ye, George P Zurhorst, Hindle and Bayliss, Thos R Nalley & Son, R F Harvey's Sons, John M Mitchell's Son, W R Speare, Adolph Schippert, Thos S Sergeon, Costello & Bro, Wm S Riley, Frank Geier's Sons, John R Wright Co, and a Funeral Designs service by Gude and Shaffer Loris. Provides addresses and telephone details for in-house chapels, embalmment, and related services.
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J. William Lee
W. R. Speare
F Street
N. W
Adolph J. Schippert
West
Thos. S. Sergeon
TOR
Cain
T. A. Costello & Bro
WM. S. Riley
Epfertaker
Embalnar
Wil Eéensions
Frank Geier’s Sons
Seventh ST
John R. Wright CO
Cleveland Bags Ducks at Fords Point
Former President Grover Cleveland and party enjoy a tame hunt in Georgetown South Carolina at Gen E F P Alexander’s preserves. Early day weather slowed sport but a northeast wind on Saturday produced a large bag of English mallards sent North. Cleveland remains keen to pursue marsh hunting at daybreak.
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Georgetown
Grover Cleveland
Alexander
Fords Point
Cleveland
Discovers New Comet Reported From Europe and North America
Cambridge Massachusetts reports the discovery of a new comet announced via cablegram from Professor Kreutz of Kiel. Giacobini of Nice is named as the discoverer. position at discovery March 9 1910 UTC is right ascension 7h 4m 31.4s and declination South 18° 21′ 17″. The object, visible with a small telescope, shows a daily motion of minus 3m 8s in right ascension and plus 3′ 8″ in declination.
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Cambridge Mass
Harvard Observatory
Prof Kreutz
Kiel
Giacobini
Nice
Greenwich
Licensed to Marry In Fractured Lines Of Names And Ages
A garbled OCR of a marriage license list shows numerous names with ages and places such as Albert H Chace 28 and Agnes Burch 14 in Nacostia, plus entries for Reed and Bristol families, several Rev clerics, and assorted ages from Waterford Virginia to Baltimore Maryland. The fragmentary text suggests a docket of matches with varied locales and clerical witnesses, but lacks coherent structure.
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Albert H Chace
Agnes Burch
Nacostia
Rey WG
Davenport Harold Q Duble
New York City
Daisy
Divemore
Waterford
Rey F
Bristol
Gus Martynn
Muggle Stephens
Baltimore
Rey Frank M Gristol
Oscar Ernst
Saviila Bretin
Chadsford
Hugh T Brevannon
Arthur D Slivers
Kansas
Guy Mo Anne @ Pearce
Health Office Deaths Record March report includes many ages
Health office records list numerous deaths up to March 9 and then March 10 with ages ranging from under one year to mid eighties. Names include Ada Alles Fowler William C Tyler Jacob Duvall Willam Henson Horatio Robey Joseph D Ryan Mary E Marselas Christine Kaiser Mary A Flint Henry Miller Catherine Burke Mary Rivers Kata Pinkwood Mary Jackson Fann De Gamma John F Baylor Daniel Corbett Mary R Shiels James M Herrington and others with residences on 6th Street 3rd Street NW and nearby avenues in the city hospital and asylum listings.
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Ada Alles Fowler
Willam C Tyler
Jacob
Duvall
Willam
Henson
Harvard
Eimme Baggley
Heap Insene
Horatio Ro Robey
Joseph D Ryan
Lynch
Seare
Mary Eo Marselas
Ila
Ave Nw
Christine Kaiser
Vist Nw
Mary A Flint
Flagler
Menry Miller
Sth
Catherine Burke
Mary F Rivers
D St Nw
Kata Pinkwood
Mary Jackson
John F Baylor
Burvills
Daniel Corbett
Mary R Shiel
Lizale Russell
Calvin Acre Wash Asylum
Charles H Williams
Sumner
Ruef Denied Writ. Trial Set In Mayor Schmitz Case
In San Francisco on March 11 Abe Ruef faced defeats in three courts as he prepares for an extortion trial. Judge Dunne postponed Ruef’s case while the state supreme court ruled on the writ of error, and Mayor Schmitz seeks a separate trial tomorrow. A crowded temple and clashes outside marked the opening of proceedings as Ruef and Schmitz faced their charges.
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Wnr
Schmitz
Washington Post
San Francisco
Abe Ruef
Dunne
Stats Supreme Court
Ruef
United States Supreme Court
Hebbard
De'Haven
District Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court Attorney Act
Elsor Biggy
J. Campbell
Janet Heney
People
Wn Ruef
Drice
Ruef and
Dinan
Brooklyn matriarch Sarah J. Morton dies at ninety six
Special to the Washington Post Mrs Sarah J Morton one of Brooklyn's oldest residents died Saturday at her grandson Sherwood Bradley Robert son 1111 Park Place age ninety six She was an ancestor of Puritan stock her family coming to Connecticut in the sixteenth century Her funeral will be held tomorrow morning at her Park Place home and interment will be in Liberty New York She leaves thirty six grandchildren fifty three great grandchildren and a sister Ardita Staples of Fairfield Conn aged ninety four
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Washington Post
New York
Sarah J. Morton
Brooklyn
Sherwood Bradley Robertson
Park Place
Morton
Connecticut
Mr. Morton
Liberty
Sullivan County
Joseph Hill
New York State
Fairfield
Conn
Four year old boy kills woman in accident claim
Special to The Washington Post reports Harvey Rowe, a four year old boy in Altamont, Kentucky, shot and killed Mrs Bettle Griffin with a .45 revolver. The woman, dying, said the boy loaded the gun and planned to shoot a chicken in the yard, then fired as she warned him. The bullet went through her thigh, killed a dog, and she died. The boy is the eight year old son of William Howe, a coal miner, whose father died six weeks earlier. The Griffin woman had come from Rockcastle County to help at the home.
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Weashington Post
London
Harvey Rowe
Mra Bettle Griffin
Altamont
William Howe
Rowsewits
Griffith
Rockcastle County
May reopen Bassett case in Nebraska court
Special to The Washington Fest Omaha Nebraska March 11 charges of fraud and perjury may follow the recently closed Bassett divorce. Attorneys for Mrs Bassett plan to renew the fight by bringing the case back to court and proving that Rev Lawrence Hunt identified by a witness as C Tamieson who rented a house with Bassett in Little Rock was not Jamieson. Bassett reportedly will produce a St Louis businessman named CBH Jamieson to refute Dennis Sullivan who identified Hunt as J Jamieson at trial. Mrs Enissetts lawyers Baxter and Vandusen say they will move again in the case, aiming to disclose more to bring the matter into court again. Mrs Bassett seeks vindication.
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Omaha
Nebr
Mar
Bassett
Lawrence Hunt
St Louis
Cbh
Jamieson
Dennis Sullivan
Hunt
J Jamieson
Enissetts
Baxter & Vandusen
Sullivans
Osteopathy Bill Compromise Reaches Agreement in Albany
A compromise to the Hinmen osteopathy bill was announced this morning in Albany. Osteopathists with a two year diploma will be recognized, about 300 practitioners gain status but may not perform major surgery or use drugs. From 1910 all osteopaths must obtain Regents certificates. current practitioners are grandfathered. Assemblyman Hamm announced the settlement amid possible legislative resistance.
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Washington Post
Albany
Hinmen
Busines
Hamm
Four Bitten by Mad Cat Inoculated in New York Hospital
Four residents of Church Street Patchogue Mrs Eile Gordon Mrs Lawrence Mrs Conklin and thirteen year old Grace Carter were taken to Willard Parker Hospital in Manhattan for anti rabies serum after being bitten or scratched by a mad cat. The cat, a kitten owned by Miller Gordon, had turned mad last January and was killed. The incident follows the older cat's madness blamed on separation from kittens. None of the four were fatally harmed though nerves were affected and serum may prove effective.
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Eile G. Gordon
Lawrence
Conklin
Grace Carter
Church Street
Willard Parker Hospital
Manhattan
New York Health Woard Laboratory
New York
Taft and Hughes Award Monument Contract in Brooklyn
The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument Association led by Secretary of War Taft Gov Hughes and Mayor McClellan awarded the project contract for the Fort Greene Park monument to P J Carlin Construction Company for 172000 dollars. Architects McKim Mead White designed the 200 foot Newport white granite shaft with an urn on top and a granite pergola surrounding it. The plan includes three 100 foot wide granite stair runs and electrical gear with an elevator.
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New York
Martyrs’ Monument Association
Taft
Gov Hughes
McClellan
W L Marshall
Stephen V White
P J Carlin Construction Company
McKim, Mead & White
Stanford White
Fort Greene Park
Brooklyn
America
West End Avenue
Roundsman Mallan
Albary
Albany
Empire State Express
Premier Patkoff Murdered in Sofia Garden Attack
Premier Patkoff and Interior Minister Metkof were ambushed by three or four gunmen in Boris Gardens Sofia. Patkoff died instantly from three bullet wounds while Metkof was wounded in the arm. The incident recalls the earlier assassination of Stambuloff and sparked widespread arrests amid political turmoil in Bulgaria.
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Sofia
Boris Gardens
M. Stambuloff
Princs
Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Patkoff
Metkof
Borla Garden
M Guemadieff
Commercce and Agriculture
M Petkoff
Stambuloff
Dumont's New Aeroplane Aims for Heavier-Than-Air Race
Santos Dumont unveils a lighter, more rigid aeroplane to win the Deutsch Archdeacon prize for the first machine to fly over 1 kilometer and return. The design uses a thin wood wing, a 6.5 horsepower motor, and a front-mounted 2 meter diameter propeller, with a single cycle wheel for initial runs. Trials start when St Cyr ground is firm enough.
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Paris
Santos Dumont
Deutsch-Archdeacon
Bird of Prey
St Cyr
King Alfonso Improves After Influenza Recovery Expected
Madrid reports King Alfonso showing improvement after influenza illness. Fever diminishing, physicians foresee likely full recovery within a week. London dispatch notes Dakota salvors abandoning attempt to salvage the Dakota off Noshumi outside Tokyo Bay. Educational contest answers due by April 1 with back issues available.
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Madrid
Mari
Alfonso
Explosion Shakes Metuchen as Pennsylvania Engine Boiler Explodes
Metuchen New Jersey March 11 Three men were killed and several injured when a locomotive boiler on a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train exploded near the station. Engineer William J Fisher of Philadelphia, brakeman Smith of Trenton, and fireman W H Fritsche of Trenton died. Portions of the boiler were blown two blocks away and into nearby buildings. The station and two local stores caught fire but were quickly extinguished with no further serious damage. Daisy Martin, a railroad operator, was slightly hurt.
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Metuchen
N. J
Pennsylvania Railroad
William J Sisher
Philadelyhis
Smith
Trenton
W. H Fritsche
Treston
Jersey City
Sisher
Wrak Smith
Hahn
McCutcheon
Daisy Martin
Old Brooklyn charge recalls Frank Marrin case
Brooklyn detectives seek extradition for Frank Marrin once linked to a $70,000 embezzlement from Mrs Caroline Barry. Indictment dated fifteen years past. Marrin, a figure in Storey Cotton operations, was jailed in Buffalo then released on bail in Philadelphia. District Attorney Clarke pursues Brooklyn trial, flagging possible interstate extradition.
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New York
Mar IL
Cauley
Detective Bureau
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Frank Marrin
McCauley
Marrin
Buffalo
Storey
John F Clarke
Merrin
Kings County
Caroline Barry
Clinton Avenue
Barry
Marin
Storey Cotton Company
Fraziktin Stone
Clarka
Woman Amazes Surgeons At Hahnemann Hospital
Special to The Washington Post. Mrs Sarah Flannery, aged 102, survived a January 23 burn at home 729 Spring Street. Initially given up, she rallied after days in hospital and now walks the ward and converses with patients, expected to be discharged soon.
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Washington Post
Philadephia
Hahnemann Hospital
Sarah Flannery
Spring Street
Flannery
Jim
Pittsburg Achieves Consolidation as Greater Pittsburg Formed
News from Philadelphia confirms the Supreme Court's ruling on the Greater Pittsburg bill, uniting Pittsburg and Allegheny into one city. The annexation boosts population estimates to about 531,000, potentially elevating it to the sixth largest U.S. city, though figures vary with sources.
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Supreme Court
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Allegheny
Pittsbure
United States
Baltimore
McKee
Rockefeller Suit Over Mine Purchase Heads To Trial
Frank Rockefeller of Cleveland travels to St Louis to press a $25000 suit against Henry Goss claiming misrepresentation in a lead mine deal begun October 1, 1900, with contested ownership and improvements. Goss denies misrepresentations. In New York, the Brewster Express wreck inquiry begins as grand jury reviews coroner evidence and hears witnesses.
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Frank ‘Rockefeller
Cleveland
Ohio
Henry Goss
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Oss
Goss
Frank Rockefeller
John & Rockefeller
Brewster
New York
Mar
New York Central
Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Free Sample Offer
An editorial style plea offers readers a free sample bottle of Swamp Root by mail to test its claimed kidney and bladder healing powers. It lists symptoms signaling kidney trouble, urges trying the remedy, mentions buying bottles at stores, and directs readers to send address to Dr Kalmer & Co in Binghamton New York with Washington Daily Post as the source.
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Kalmer
Binghamton
Dr. Bilmer & Co
Washington Daily Post
Wife of Securities Corp. official hanged self in closet
Mrs Jessie Welch Wilkin, 50, wife of W I Wilkin of the Securities Corporation Limited, committed suicide in a Pelham home closet by hanging with her husband's blue silk necktie after returning from Rockledge Florida seeking health. Family, nurse, and physician found her body at about 4:50 AM. Ohio relatives notified.
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Washington
Philadelphia
Jessie Welch Wilkin
W I Wilkin
The
Securities Corporation, Limited
Pelham
Wilkin
Rockledge
Fla
Josephus Ulam
Ohio
Express Company Robbed by City Driver
New York City magistrate Whitman held William Leonard, a 20 year old former Adams Express driver, in 10000 bail after detectives said they would present evidence to charge him with larceny of goods valued between 26000 and 25000. Arraigned accomplices Jacob Levine and Harry Bobken were jailed in 5000 bail each on charges of receiving ten goods.
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New York
Whitman
William Leonard
Adams Express Company
Leohard
Jacob Levine
Harry Bobken
Victim of Joke Perishes at Steel Works
John Dombie a 20 year old laborer at Pressed Steel Car Works in Pittsburgh was burned to death by a crude oil fire set as a joke. A crane operator allegedly poured oil on a salamander to frighten him, but oil spilled on Dombie igniting his clothes. Workers dragged him outside and rolled him in snow, but his body burned before flames were extinguished. coroner began an investigation and the crane man fled.
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Michael Btavreff
Hallu
Stambuloff
Starrett
Halu
Ellen M. Stone
Djumabala
Vilayet
Salonika
Turkey
United States
Stevreff
M. Ludgkeanoff
Bulgaria
Stambulof
Pittsburg
Mer
John Dombie
Pressed Steel Car
Mchees Rocks
Domble
Swarthmore Receives Sproul Gift for Large Observatory Telescope
Swarthmore College President Joseph Swain announced that State Senator William C Sproul of Chester, an alumnus and board member, donated funds for a 24 inch aperture telescope to be placed in a new observatory on the college grounds eleven miles from Philadelphia. Construction will take about two years.
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Philadelphia
Joseph Swain
Swarthmore College
Wiliam C Sproul
Chester
Swarthmore
Astern
United States
Tek
California
Yerkes
Wisconsin
Sproul
Swarthwore
Sleseone
Prince Henry declines national testimonial in The Hague
Prince Henry of the Netherlands declines a proposed national testimonial for aiding survivors of the Berlin wreck near the Hook of Holland on February 21. He says he merely did his duty as a Dutchman and cannot permit special recognition.
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Netherlands
The
Hague
Mar
Prince Henry
Berlin
Hook of Holland
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