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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1908
Page
18
Officers thrown from a rapidly moving wagon are badly injured and taken to Emergency and Homeopathic Hospital. Motorman attempts to check speed. Commissioner West will inquire Tate cause of accident.
Reported wreck near a trolley track injured several people including Private Buckingham and Private Mulhall with concussions head injuries and lacerations. A blue wagon collision caused widespread bloodshed and entangled passengers. police and medical teams responded quickly as bystanders described chaos and urgent medical care at the scene.
Mulhall and Esser were knocked unconscious as a vehicle plowed through a patrol wagon near Fourteenth and P streets. Mleindenst and Warshall described limited sighting of the wreck and said they were not speeding. both men were held after the crash.
Commissioner Macfarland announces ongoing crackdown on bookmakers with police intent to arrest and prosecute. District Attorney Baker appeals Justice Stafford's perambulating decision, schedule for Supreme Court review, while officers threaten to continue raids and seizures as season opens.
Irene Smith, in a heated dispute with her husband Francis Woods, leaped from a fifth floor window on West York Street. She landed on a stone courtyard, breaking her fall with a gliding collision to a ropeslinger and sustained severe injuries but is not yet fully recovered.
Special to ha Washington Ver New York War 13 details a seizure as four Jersey game wardens raid the Merchants Refrigerating Company warehouse in Jersey City and confiscate 17 006 yards of birds stored out of season. A $20 per bird fine is possible and the state expects to collect about $140 000. The birds filled 319 boxes and included 150 songbirds, 2 golden plover, and 8 ruffed grouse, reportedly stored by three New York firms.
A sagelike claim extols Mond Sarsaparina as the best remedy for humors and run down conditions, urging readers to start taking it now as a spring blood purifier. The testimonial from Geof Harlow, Seymour Indiana, cites malarial district use and favorable results with Sarsaparina.
Local weather notes show daytime highs around 36 to 38 degrees with a 44 to 49 reading early. Humidity near 90 percent at 2 pm and 9 pm, with sunshine and light rainfall possible. Temperatures compare to last year with Friday forecasts including other city readings.
Chicago March 12 The Liberty League aims to crush the Anti Saloon League and shift state politics. Organized in every state with Illinois reporting about 2006 members, it plans a June or July convention to evaluate candidates before the August primary.
A boy attempted arson at a local school last week, starting a blaze that threatened the Worntn schoolhouse. Fire alarms drew 79 pupils and teachers to safety as students formed a bucket brigade and extinguished the flames. Henry Wright, 12, was arrested and reportedly said I wish I had burned it down.
In a case heard in the Middle District of Kentucky on March 1, 19XX, Attor rs Matmer filed process against the Central Railroad of New Jersey Pennsylvania Railroad Williamsport and Susquehanna Railroad Philadelphia and Reading Railway and related lines for violations of safety requirements. Twenty three railroad violations are cited in the complaint.
The Post is the leading Washington newspaper with full market reports. It serves merchants and financiers with accurate business status, offers farming produce sale guidance, and provides leisure readers with varied reading columns. The Sunday Morning Edition is noted.
The Washington Post features a magazine section with selections by prominent writers and fiction from noted authors. It highlights careful foreign news selection and timely illustrations, claiming Sunday Post as superior to other Sundays and a trusted household visitor.
The Sporting Section of Tue Sunday Posts prints on pink paper. Four pages each Sunday are crowded with the latest in the sporting world. Baseball results, running and trotting, billiards, auto racing, yacht contests, boating, golf, tennis, swimming and every feature of the sporting world are covered accurately.
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