Double tragedy in Portsmouth ends in gunshots and suicide
In Portsmouth New Hampshire March 24 two young women Margaret Spalding known as Peggy and Ethel Stanton end their lives in a cafe after a note pledging perfect love and an inability to bear separation. Autopsy reports say both were in apparently good health before the shots.
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Portsmouth
Peggy” Spalding
Ethel Stanton
N. H
Margaret Spalding
Welicate Ethe
Stanton
Portamouth
Portsmouth Polles
Miss Stanton
Miss Spalding
Wei
Pr. H Be Taylor
Seaverant
Ceoune
Star
Eight Temple
Misa Branton
Pain relief claims from anti kamaia tablets urge broad use
A dubious 19th century ad touts anti kamaia tablets as universal pain and fever relievers. It markets quick relief for headaches migraines grippe indigestion neuralsia hysteria insomnia and many other ailments, claiming equal effectiveness across classes and races and urging readers to obtain the product in any quantity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dyce
L. Abogado
One-Leg-Two-Arm Vagrant Caught by Policeman
A man posing as a crippled figure near a Washington post office is apprehended by Officer J B Wilson at the Sixth precinct. Edward Murray, 56, claimed the name, but both legs and arms were missing from the illusion. he resided at 355 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest and was charged with vagrancy.
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J. B. Wilson
Edward Murray
Pennsylvania Avenue
Wilson
Widow loses jewels to German suitor in New York
Mrs Mary Strangmann of Buffalo, a wealthy widow, says German physician Carl Edwards stole her handbag containing jewels valued at $35,000 and $800 in cash after she lent it to him at Lord & Taylor for a gown try. Police search pawnshops and broadcast his description as investigators pursue the pair.
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New York
Mary Strangmann
Buffalo
Aga
Carl Edwards
Lord & Taylor
Gettne
Carl A Stranemann
Aiis Strangmann
Auxwer
Strangmhann
Idwad
Double Victory by Central Debaters in Joint Contests
Central High School debaters won a twin victory in simultaneous debates with Baltimore City College at Central auditorium and in Baltimore. In the home city they upheld affirmative world peace league and won 2 to 1 with Frances L. Corbett J Francis Cotter and Samuel Cottrell. Maud B. Morgan as alternate. In Baltimore the Longola High School team beat Gonzaga High School Washington on universal military training with recalcitrators Daniel S Ring Laurence K Downey and Charles J Ford.
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Central High School
Baltimore City College
United States
Central Auditorium
Frances L. Corbett
J. Francis Cotter
Samuel Cottrell
Maud B Murgan
Walter C Clephane
Baltimore
Longola High School
Gonzaga High School
Washington
Washingtonians
Gonzaga
Daniel S Ring
Laurence K. Downey
Charles J. Ford
Auto Hits Woods Family at Corner. Injuries Reported
Isaac Woods age 99 and family members Mrs Georgia Woods 37, 3 year old Charles, and Leah Woods 7 were struck at Eighth and East Capitol streets by a car driven by John Beha. All were hospitalized with non fatal injuries. umbrellas raised as they stepped into the street blamed for the accident. Charles Crane of Chicago linked to a potential ambassadorship to Japan discussed by President Wilson.
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Isaac Woods
Mra
Georgia Woods
Charles
Leah V. Woods
East Capitol Street
Eighth
East Capital Streets
Inwha Behr
John Beha
Euclid Street
Charles R. Crane
Chicago
Wilson
Japan
Guthrie
Crane
China
Taft
San Francisco
Far Eadtern
Rate Rises Considered By Railroads In 1917
Officials expect a 10 to 15 percent rail rate increase with Eastern roads asking about 15 percent and Southern and Western roads around 10 percent. An average 12 percent rise could add roughly 325 million dollars in annual revenue based on last year’s business, while total 1916 railroad receipts neared four billion with freight income near 2.75 billion. Costs rose sharply late 1916 and early 1917 as fuel and supplies bought on preprice-shock contracts, yet operating income lagged behind last year despite higher traffic. The Interstate Commerce Commission will review the suspension request and the hearings will include shippers, merchants and civic groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
Agree on Eight Hour Law For Rail Workers
New York March 33 railroad managers and four trainsmen’s brotherhoods reached a tentative basis for applying the Adamson law. Blaha Les, chairman of the national conference committee, said the agreement covers the greater part of wage schedules so that the increased wages due since January 2 may be paid as quickly as possible.
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New York
Blaha Les
National Conference Committee of
Assail orchard plan tests creditors claims in Maryland case
Baltimore dispatch reports creditors seek bankruptcy for G Mertens Sons over the Green Ridge valley apple venture. Employes signed hundreds of notes as purported purchaser obligations while lenders claim misrepresentation and asset transfers. Judge Wiley and others visited the site finding poor cultivation and inaccessible lands. Trial resumes Monday.
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Baltimore
Green Ridge Valley
Allegany County
G. Mertens’ Sons
Cum' Iberland
Benke
Edgar Allan Poe
Johnson L. de Haven
Joseph M. Flieldé
Joseph Kienhofer
Martin Fhrbar
William E. Brendlinger
Mr. Poe
Mettens
Wiley
Baker
Wiliam N. Kann
Pittsburgh
Poe
Joseph M. Fields
Cumberland
United States
Stockham
G. Mertens
Shepard Heir Has New Little Sister
Special to The Washington Post New York March 3 Finley J Shepard Jr gains a second “little sister” whose identity remains a household secret while Finley Jr, legally adopted, receives the same care as the other two children in the Shepard home at 679 Fifth Avenue.
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Washington Post
New York
Finley J. Sheffard, Jr
Shepard Househould
Helen Ould
Shepard
Oyster Roast Fetes Warington Board of Trade Members
The Oyster roast and get-together at the Builders and Manufacturers Exchange on Thirteenth Street NW drew members of the Warington Board of Trade. An entertainment program featured a ten minute wrestling match between Joseph and James Grant, quartet performances, and vocal solos. Odell S. Smith presented a bouquet to Samuel J. Prescott, with E. C. Brandenburg presiding as board president.
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Warington Board of Trade
Builders and Manufacturers’ Exchange
Thirteenth Street Northwest
Joseph
James Grant
Charles P. Light
Charles F. Crane
M. L. Gifford
George McDonald
William Cl
Alexandria Seaboard Appeal for Armor Plant Location
Alexandria supporters led by Representative C. C. Carlin keep the fight for the $11 million armor plant in Alexandria Va arguing the seaboard site offers superior transport and safety. They cite Navy boards favoring seaboard placement and contend inland routes would require bridges and new rail cars to move armor plate.
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Seaboard
Alexandria
C. C. Carlin
Carlin
Navy Department
Daniela
Potomac
Germans Flock to Mexico from Guatemala
Galveston Texas March 23. Germans pin great numbers have left Guatemala and gone into Mexico, according to information from Puerto Barrios Guatemala. At the outbreak of the war in Europe many German reservists came to Galveston from Guatemala to return to Germany but found this impossible and returned to Guatemala.
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Galveston
Tex
Republi
Guatemala
Mexico
Puerto Barrios
Europe
Germany
Aguilar resigns as foreign minister in Carranza cabinet
Manuel Aguilar quits as minister of foreign relations in the Carranza government in Mexico City on March 28. He plans to campaign for the Veracruz governorship. General Diguez from his office also leaves the government. Both resignations are accepted.
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Mexico City
Manuel Aguilar
Carranza
Vera Cruz
Diguez
Patriotic toasts at Church of the Covenant society banquet
Patriotic toasts were given by Maj. W. A Guatffe and Henry B. F. Mac farland at the Christian Endeavor Society banquet held in the Church of the Covenant last night. Rev. Charles W. Wood served as toastmaster. About 100 members attended. New officers named include Miss Ella Dill as president, Miss H. Doran as vice president, Ming Margaret M Garber as secretary, and T. W. Walton as treasurer.
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Maj. W. A Guatffe
Henry B. F. Macfarland
Christian Endeavor Society
Church of the Covenant
Charles W. Wood
Romance in Human Progress lecture at National Geographic Society
B A Baumgardt told National Geographic Society members the romance of human progress through slides of world epochs From cave man to the twentieth century he traced Egyptian Pharaonic engineering Mesopotamian Babylon Greek artistic heights Roman military power and the law foundation He argued progress followed by retrogression yet always moved forward and that no arts are lost in the current era.
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National Geographic Society
B. A. Baumgardt
Metal polish cause death of two children in error
In Trenton New Jersey on March 23 a mother mistook metal polish for a tonic, leading to the deaths of Maiden Kall a four year old and Emanuel Gavidos a three year old. Police report the tragic accident was caused by the erroneous substance.
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Trenton
N. J
Kall
Emanuel Gavidos
Sunday Religious Services List Including Episcopal and Congregational
A dense list of Sunday services across multiple churches in the city, detailing priests and pastors, service times, and activities such as Holy Communion, sermons, confirmations, evening prayers, Bible stories, organ recitals, and Sunday schools. Notable mentions include St. Joan’s Church, Church of the Epiphany, Ascension Church, First Congregational, and Covenant Presbyterian with varied schedules and voice-overs for morning and evening programs.
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ST. Joan's
Sixteenth
Roland Cotton Smith
D. D
Edward Slater Dunlap
George Williamson Smith
Holy Communion
Bonday School
C Abbot
Church OF the Epiphany
G Street
Fourteenth
Randolph H. McKim
D. L
Bishop Harding
McKim
Sitader Barvices
Mondey
P. F. Halt
SO Mr
Rookies drill for summer camp at Riding and Hunt Club
About 160 district men turned out for drill at the Riding and Hunt Club in northwest Washington to prepare for the summer training camp at Plattaburg. Forty new men received special instruction from army instructors as veterans helped them catch up, with another drill set for Friday at 4 30 at the club. The government will cover railroad fare uniforms and subsistence for those heading to Plattenberge this summer, as the nation readies for war, and attendance is expected to outpace prior years. Captain Craiz’s lecture was canceled due to War Department duties. Captain Archie Miller of the Second Cavalry at Fort Myer, Va, led the drill with two sergeants. Cumberland Md March 28 Edward Lancaster 83, a union veteran and Eckhart’s oldest native resident, died last night along with his wife one son and three daughters.
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Riding and Hunt Club
Plattenberge
United States
Craiz
War Department
Archie Miller
Second Cavalry
Fort Myer
Cumberland, Md
Edward Lancaster
Eckhart
Auriig
Fire destroys Herndon business district. $100000 loss
A Thursday fire in Herndon Virginia caused about $100000 in damage. The blaze wiped out Harrison livery stable Robers drug store the Herndon Observer printing plant and other shops including Hawkey jewelry store and the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone exchange. Most horses in Harrison livery perished and most buildings carried some insurance though residences largely uninsured.
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Feas
Herndon Va
Phen Jald
Harrison Livery Stable Robers Drug Store
Herndon Observer
WOH Hawkley
Herndon
W Allan Stowell
H. Grafton Butts
Benjamin F McGuire
A T Walker
Herbert Bickster
Mise Robey
John Oliver
H H Hawley
Stevens
Exchange
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Harrison
Tribute to Dr Prettyman at Mount Pleasant Met Church
Members of Mount Pleasant Met Church South paid tribute to Rev Dr Forrest Prettyman at his four years as pastor. He will be assigned to another church at the Roanoke conference next week. The congregation bid farewell, with reception line and a musical program.
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Mount Pleasant
Forrest Prettyman
Prettyman
Roanoke
United States Senate
Religious notices and lectures at multiple groups
Christian Science and other church services listed with locations and times. First Church of Christ Scientist on Golamalca Road and Euclid. Second Church at Sth and FAsts. Sunday services at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. with subject Matter. Wednesday meetings at 8 p.m. Reading rooms in Colorado Building. YMCA programs include lectures by Thomas Jarmer and Fed Mercer with Men Only sessions. Banat Movement with The New Spiritual Day speaker Mountfort Mille at Studio Hall. Theosophy lecture on Nature & Spirits by Dr. George HO Wright at Theosophical Hall. study groups and weekly schedule noted. Public invited.
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Christian Science
First Church OF Christ, Scientist
Golamalca Road
Euclid At
Colorado Building
Econd Church OF Christ
Aocientiat
Bubject
Rowdey School
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