Honors Aboard National Capital Horse Show in May
National Capital Horse Show leaders announce a May 2 to 7 schedule with 68 classes and $5,500 in prizes, including numerous cups and trophies. Entries close April 21 with a revised jumping course and expanded exhibition features, plus the fourth annual American Sportsman's dinner at the New Willard on May 6.
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Envnes
Origa Bist
Huntsman
New Willard Hotel
E. Lester Jones
Horse Bhow Association
Col
R. M. Thompson
Gen
Leonard Wood
W. P._Eno
Edward B. McLean
George P. Wetmore
J. William Henry
Arthur D Addison
Melvin C. Hazen
Henry T. Alien
A. I. Addison
William Henry
William Littauer
Cuno E. Rudolph
Henry Breckinridge
J. Callan O’laughlin
H. Rezler Dulany
Larz Anderson
Joseph Lester
Edson Bradley
W. H. Carter
P_V De Graw
C. C Glover
William Hitt
Hugh S. Legare
Nelson A. Miles
V L. Meyer
R.M. Thompson
Herbert Wadsworth
MC. Hazen
J W. Henry
Willam Littauer
J W_ Bailey
Perry Belmont
AY Buchanan
J. M. Dickinson
Henrye Fairfax
Mitchell Harrison
Franklin D Roosevelt
M. F. Gage
W. BR. Wilson
James W Graves
George X. McLanahan
Cano H. Rudolph
Charles C. Carlin
James W. Andrews
Samuel _D. Riddle
Victor C Mather
Joseph H. Bradley
W. Guiden
Davis
End All That Eczema Misery End All That Eczema Misery
This advertisement promotes ZEMO claiming rapid relief from eczema with a 26 cent bottle offer. It asserts guaranteed itching relief and urges buyers to try the product themselves, listing a Washington D C distribution network and multiple drug stores.
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Zemo
Sanybody
Washington
Astless
Drus
15Th
Pata
Fractured obituary notices from March 1914 deaths
Multiple brief death notices list individuals such as Hall Middleton Widdleton Franklin Litchfield Martha Litchfield Samcet Manners and others. Dates local to March 13 14 15 1914, with funeral times at various residences and cemeteries in Maryland and surrounding areas. The scattered OCR reads indicate funeral arrangements, interments, and ages where shown.
Thaw Pleads For Liberty Urges Writing to Assemblymen
Harry K Thaw appeals to New York voters to support bills to terminate the prosecution over the Stanford White murder case. He cites 1906 Tombs and Matteawan inmates who gained freedom and asks Albany representatives to back resolutions calling off the case before Wednesday.
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Concord
N. I
Harry K. Thaw
State of
New York
Stanford White
Mattea- Wan
New York Assembly
John B. Golden
Matteawan
Charitles
Albany
Quell the Uproarous All Street Cars Watch
Saturday-Night out-of-town visitors faced police tactics as Alexandria officers in plain clothes patrolled cars to curb disorder. The Washington-Virginia Electric Railway Company stationed plainclothes officers on trains to and from the city limits, producing near normal conditions. Memorial Lodge elects officers. Kirk brothers buy Armour building for warehouse use. Wallis Company chartered. local fishermen report large bass haul. Temple to deliver men's address at Westminster church.
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Millstead
Chamber of Commerce
Alexandria
Ministerial Association
Wallis Company
Virginia Corporation Commission
Wallis Company, Inc
Hugh Walls
W.W. Wallis
Washington, D.C
Mr. Temple
H. W. Temple
Pennsylvania
Westminster
Second Presbyterian Church
French Shaft at Canal Project Informally Broached
In Paris on March 44 a Franco American committee proposed a monument at Panama to honor France’s role in the canal. Louis Jaray and members of the group said President Wilson approved the idea when told by William Fullerton. The plan seeks US site selection and funding by French subscriptions. Herrick will inform Washington.
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Ambassador Herrick
Paris
Panama
France
Canal
Louis Jaray
Wilson
William Morton Fullerton
Norwich
Conn
America
Fullerton
United States
Washington
German Aviator Killed In Landing Accident
Lieut. de Lesser of the West Prussian Infantry Regiment is killed in Koenigsberg when his aeroplane tipped near the ground during a landing attempt. He was instantly crushed beneath the motor.
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Lieut
de Lesser
Koenigsberg
Germany
Ith
West Prussian
Oldest Elk Dies at 109 in Michigan Township
Daniel O Connell, aged 109, said to be the world oldest elk, died at his home in Argentine township Benton Michigan on March 14. He was hearty and able to get around without assistance until about a week ago.
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Washington Post
Benton, Mich
Daniel O'Connell
Argentine Township
O'Connell
Seventy-Seven Cold Cure Adverts Grip Health
A vintage advert promotes Seventy-Seven homeopathic medicine for colds influenza coughs sore throat and fever. It claims early use shortens illness and offers two sizes 25c and 1.00 mailed from Humphreys Homeo Medice 166 William Street New York.
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Humphreys
William Street
New York
New Trial for Fisher Soon in Rockville Md
March term of the circuit court opens in Rockville with William J. Fisher, an Isthmian Canal Commission clerk, charged with murder, as the principal case on the docket. Fisher previously failed to reach a verdict last December and is currently out on bail. The first trial date likely around early April.
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Washington Post
Rockville
William J. Fisher
Isthmian Canal Commission
William L. Altdorfer
Chevy Chase
Fisher
William Hayslett Dead near Charlestown W Va
William Hayslett a well known farmer near Charlestown West Virginia died suddenly last night aged about 72 He was a Confederate veteran Dr Abraham Shank a physician widely known throughout western Maryland died of pneumonia at his Clearspring home aged 72 Special to The Washington Post Hagerstown Md March 14
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Kensington
Washington Post
Rockville
Home and School Association of
William E Birgfeld
L. T. Boynton
James B. Morman
V Haugaard
Charles H. Gibson
J .B, Cook
H W. Fisk
Montgomery County
Hagerstown
Socialist Party
Moose Hall
John I. Weaver
Walter Richards
Lawton C Holmes
Eugene Jones
Senate
Robert B Peter
Charles W Prettyman
Thomas Waters
Gittings
Washington
Beallsville
Cumberland
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Lonaconing
George Shaw
Peyton Whalen
Southern
Bristol
Tenn
E. J. Wooten
Knoxville
Southern Railway
William Hayslett
Charlestown
W. Va
Abraham Shank
Maryland
Clearspring
Governor pardons Cumberland newspaper man Harry Hayward
Baltimore reports Gov Goldsborough has granted Harry E Hayward a full pardon restoring citizenship rights. Hayward served five years in Maryland Penitentiary for jewelry larceny in 1903 and later worked at a Cumberland newspaper before disappearing after an anonymous letter claimed exposure threats. He left a note blaming threats for his disappearance and expressed intent to start anew away from past troubles.
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Baltimore
Goldsborough
Harry
Hayward
Maryland
Cumberland
Hard
Uft
Woodberry Forest founder Captain Robert Walker dies at 73
Capt. Robert B. Walker, head of Woodberry Forest School for Boys and prominent Virginia educator, died at 73 in a Charlottesville hospital after a long illness. Born in 1840 in Madison County, he served as a captain in Mosby’s command during the Civil War, later farming, then founding Woodberry Forest. He leaves his wife Nancy Goss and six sons, all UVa graduates. Funeral set for Monday at 11 a.m. from St. Andrew's Church.
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Woodberry Forest School
Virginia
Washington Post
Orange
Robert 8. Walker
Charlottesville
Capt. Walker
California
South
Madison County
Mosby
Nancy Goss
Somerset
J. Carter Walker
Joseph G Walker
John S. Walker
Frank Walker
Woodberry Forest
Robert Walker
Stuart Walker
Massachusetts
University of Virginia
St. Andrew’s Church
Fears Mine Disorders Rise at Colliers West Virginia
Disorders from the 400 worker strike at West Virginia and Pittsburgh Coal Company in Colliers prompt Brooke county Sheriff Patterson to increase peace measures. Five armed men said to be strikebreakers were arrested after a riot, and during their hearing a house housing three strikebreakers near the La Belle mine was set on fire. Shootings and stabbings have been frequent, with mine property heavily guarded by deputies.
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Wellsburg
W. Va
West Virginia and Pittsburgh Coal Company
Colliers
Here
Patterson
Brooke County
la Belle
Obituary notices span Virginia with multiple notable deaths
Lynchburg and surrounding areas report a series of obituaries. Green Nowlin a tobacco man and West Virginia coal interests figure among the deceased aged 69. Dr James Albert Anderson, longtime Lynchburg resident, dies in a drug store. Walter James Glenn of Western Union in Lynchburg passes after surgery. Charles Grubb, Loudoun farmer near Harpers Ferry, dies of paralysis at 63. Miss Mary Ogle Tayloe of King George dies at 75 after paralytic illness. Mrs Eliza F Rawlings widow of H J Rawlings, of Dinwiddie, dies at 74 in her son’s home. Mrs Sarah Lee Eanes dies at years old leaving a son and daughter.
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Lynchburg
Green Nowlin
West Virginia
James Albert Anderson
Nelson County
University of Virginia
Aterson
Walter James Glenn
Western Union Telegraph Company
Glenn
Charlotte County
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Charles Grubb
Loudoun County
King George
Mary Ogle Tayloe
Col
Edward Tayloe
King George, Va
Sha
Ingle
Edward Ingle
Washington
Petersburg
Eirza F. Rawlings
EH. J. Rawlings
Dinwiddie County
Ransom J. Davis
Rawlings
Sarah Lee Eanes
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W Sinclair Bowen
John A. Johnston
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Alexandria Hospital
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Demaine & Son
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Iairfax Street
Kirk & Sons Bay
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Harry D Kirk
Lella L. Snowden
King and Union Streets
Armour & Co
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Monroe &Marbury
William Roberts
Elks
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Coal and Coke Railroad
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Graceland
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Senator Davis
Congress
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R. Tate Irvine
B. F Buchanan
J Norment Powell
E Lee Trinkle
Martin Wiliams
Lonaconing Church
Hank
Mexico
Walker
Colliers, W. Va
Parker
Samuel David Gross
Maston
Philadelphia
Jefferson Medical College
Oxford
Cambridge
Edinburgh
Cincinnati
Ohio) Medical College
University of Louisville
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American Surgical Association
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Aetna Life Insurance Company
Hartford
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Frank M. Parker
District of Columbia
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