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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1919
Page
6
Antiday protests and legal actions gather around a forthcoming Supreme Court dispute. Advocates plan offices in the capital with 72 conferences noted as part of a broad strategy against prohibition opponents. Officials describe a charged national debate, with various groups signaling readiness to participate.
A power struggle unfolds among business leaders and lawyers as a new group named the Association Opposed to National Prohibition forms in New York. Washington figures like Levi Cooke and Lawrence Maxwell will attend the launch to battle the anti dry cause, while brewers prepare a separate anti prohibition campaign led from the capital.
A Plainfield banker was struck by a car and died from injuries. The incident occurred near Omni, prompting an investigation by local authorities. Witnesses described the chaotic scene as responders rushed the victim to the hospital where he later succumbed.
A fire at a Weston Maryland area home caused extensive damage to the structure and contents, destroying records and a vehicle. The incident left a widow and two daughters, with authorities investigating the blaze as a possible accident.
Charles H Allen writes from 603 South Lee that he was wounded in battle and shells, but is with the company and hopes to be home soon. Edwin Arrington, coast artillery veteran, has been mustered out and returned home. The Alexandria Chapter of the American Red Cross urges clothing for the nationwide collection March 24 to 31 with an allotment of 6,000 rounds. Funeral services for Mrs Eley Stokes at Wheatley’s mortuary chapel are set for this afternoon at 2:30, with burial in Sharon Chapel, Fairfax. Norton Memorial Hall fundraising event for a motor ambulance at Alexandria Hospital raised 353.50.
A novel highway wedding occurred yesterday near Grantsville Maryland with Edward Workheiser of Towanda Pennsylvania and Ada Wiles daughter of John Wiley or Jennings as principals. The ceremony took place on the National Pike near Rev W Walls Church of the Brethren. They plan to return to mine work soon, their faces and hands coated with coal dust, a customary feature of ministerial grooms in manual labor communities. Special to The Washington Post.
Two patients at the government hospital fled yesterday, prompting police and officials from the Mievenikh precinct to search. Louis S Parker, 24, wearing overalls, escaped early morning. Oliver A [name unclear], 28, in a soldier’s uniform, climbed a wall and vanished.
Samuel Van Hagen suffered severe burns to hands and face in an alcohol ignition accident at the Langdon yeast factory in BD C. He was tending a tank when contents flashed and set him afire. He was driven home to 4800 Bladensburg road by Henry Dorr after the incident.
A 13 year old, Miaseena Varcel ling, fired a small revolver on Ninth Street near Hmpresa Theatre. He emptied six chambers before being restrained and taken to Emergency Hospital with a non serious wound.
Special to The Washington Post reports an order approving higher pay for Civilian teachers at the Naval Academy. Instructors, assistants and professors will receive annual salaries from US $3,000 to $5,060 with a 9-10 percent yearly increase for each five years of service. The majority of new raises target English mathematics and modern language departments. Also noted is the death of Lieut George Glen Tilghman in France at 21, announced by Mr and Mrs George B Tilghman of Cape Thames.
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