Pearre Beaten for Delegate Amid State GOP Plot
Special to The Washington Post reports Pearre, a delegate-at-large candidate, defeated at the Republican State convention amid a factional plan led by Jackson and Mudd. The effort aimed to back Cumberland man Pearre while lines formed across Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore, with Collins County and Montgomery figures backing different blocs. The convention scene centered on a rival slate designed to align delegates with a broader statewide ticket.
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Washington Post
Baltimcore
Representat
Pearre
Representades Mudd
Jackson
Tyre
Felix Agmris
Gallimore City
Pearres
Montgomery
Eherch
Maryland
Sune
Ted Pearre
Couny
Warne
Distr
Coor
Htc
Cn Enton
Org Mills
Pearra Agra & To Pr
Death notices and interments listed in April notices
A fragmented obituary record lists multiple individuals with dates in April and May. Interments, residences, and funeral times appear for persons connected to New York, Philadelphia, and other locations, including names like Frederic, Eric, Kate Potter, and Florence Vitt. The text cites various streets and venues, indicating a public notice column of deaths and burials.
Funeral directors advertise affordable services in Washington notes
Fragmented ad listing several funeral directors and embalmers active in Washington with phone numbers and addresses. Names include R F Harvey's Sons, Thos S Surgeon, Frank Geier's Sons, Geo P Zarhorst, William Lee, John P Wright Co, and others offering undertaker, embalmer, and cremation services at moderate prices with on premises select collections and open days.
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R F Harvey
Funetal
Cmbalmers
Gene Vas Chami Talephona
R Speare
Ymbalmiers
Maternapel
Sergeon
Cain
Costello
Fun
Tor
Cmbalmer
Frank Geier
HM Sevinth
Maderx
Chipelephone
Calforth Star
Geo P Zarhorst
UNDF
TAKER
Eaut Capitol
William Lee
Erbalver Laery
Chaye
Modera Creritorium
John P Wright Co
Ara Labalmers
Cay
Wight
Delegates Instructed At Fifth District Convention
The Fifth district reassembled and adopted resolutions instructing delegates to vote for Taft. Mudd was present as a representative along with Jackson and Badslex opposing earlier resolutions before settling on instruction. The roster listed delegates at large alternates and electors at large from multiple counties.
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Ion
Mudd
Jackson Badslex
Taft
Stone
William P. Jack‘son
Wicomico County
Felix Agnne
Baltimore City
Sydney Mudd
Charles County
George A. Pearce
Alllegeny
John Drie
Kent
Charles R .Schirm
George B Merrick
Prince Seorne County
Charles D. Waggaman
Washington County
John A. Robinson
Stafford County
Albert G Towers
Caroline County
Bhig Ety
Thomas Parran
Calvert
George B Tumanus
Prince George ‘County
Joan Bowle
Anne
Bryan Plan Rejected by Maryland Democrats
Maryland Democrats rejected a Bryan faction proposal for direct delegate voting to the national convention. At a state central committee meeting in Baltimore, the plan faced objections of potential confusion and was referred to resolutions. The Bryan group backed an instructed Denver delegation, while dates for the state convention and district conventions were set for June and July in several locations.
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Maryland
Washington Post
Baltimore
Democratic State Central Committee
Hryan
Bryan
Vandiver
Denver
Tle
City
Ocean City
Fayre de Grace
Marlboro
Maine Delegates Elected for Taft at Republican Convention
Portland Maine April 3 four delegates at large to the Republican national convention at Chicago were elected with instruction to vote for any presidential candidate. A resolution declared Maine Republicans favor Taft of Ohio for president. Delegates named were Thomas Shaw Edward P Rinker John F Hill and Charles Jo Dunn. Amos L Allen renominated for Congress by the First district convention. The platform reaffirmed Republican principles and endorsed Roosevelt.
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Portland
Chicago
Maine
William A Taft
Ohio
United States
Thomas
Shaw
Dward
Rinker Poland
John F Hill
Augusta
Charles Jo Dunn
Crono
Belet
Republan
Roosevelt Amos L Allen
Split Georgia district delegates head to Chicago convention
The Eighth district Republican meeting in Athens produced two unpledged delegations to the Chicago convention. Leaders Heard and Moon backed the Roosevelt administration while nominating L Durham for Congress. Delegates W Johnson and Moon were chosen with no instructions given.
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Chicago
Athens
Wweard
Ms Flowers
M B Morton
Acens
J F Porche
Washington
Heard
WH Johnson
Wom Moon
Roosevelt
Durham
Congress
Split Convention in Ohio Delegates Named for Taft
Bucyrus Ohio April 30 The majority of the Thorteents district Republican Convention met today and selected Judge E King of Sandusky and James R Hopley of Bucyrus as uninstructed delegates to the national convention The majority also named Charles A Judson of Sandusky and Congressman Grant E Mouser as delegates and instructed them for Taft.
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Bucyrus Unio
Thorteents
E . King
Sandusky
James R Hopley
Bucyrus
Charles A Judson
Sandisk
Grant E Mouser
Taft
Licensed to Marry Across Cities and Parishes
A warped notice lists numerous names from Baltimore to Richmond and Orange VA, detailing marriages and wedding banns. The fragment references licenses and parties including H Tengenesker, John Van Shaich, Edith Burden, Alfard George Jacobs, Bertha Galley, GC Bacon, and several others across Maryland and Virginia with dates and officiants.
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Fsgerald
Gertrude
Malon
Richmord Va
Hosler
Jesate
Uennst
Baltimore
B Mc Laight O
Cemmalls
Merndon
Selig M Mills WooRe
Lamar Togan
Woolard
Mary
Chwein Anan
Carey Denn
Conor
Mary F Welsh
JO Connor
Ctarles
Finnegan
Mary EB Fraun Holy
Bol
Daltimore
Ignatius Lealy
Willie L Richards
Orange Va
Esther
Gomtwin
Gordonsyltie Va Rey
Owens ‘Thomas
Pasne
Carrie Ho
Crewe
Wrightson Vernon
Ward
Mary Wells
Sine
Tadao Fowke
Neanle
Marchal
Bof BiGinger
Health Office Records Deaths List From April Seventh
Health office records publish a list of deaths including Clara Treas aged 27, Jon a Olcott aged 8, Wan J Dudley aged 41, and an infant of Francis A and Alex Reinoht aged 4 hours. Also listed are Charles Denenhout aged 47 at Weak Asyl Hosp, Thames Riuwa Lmegency Hoop aged 78, Mira Green Ward Asylum Hesp aged 3, Berle Brown Preelmans Hospital aged 14, Macquerite Holten aged 71, Sarah Tosts aged unknown, James Fprce aged 40, Tifa Hatcher aged 32.
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Clara Treas
Jona H Olcott
Dudley
Francis A
Alex Reinoht
Charles Denenhout
Asyl
Thames Riuwa
Hoop
Mira Green
Ward Asylum
Berle Brown Preelmans Hospital
Macquerite Holten
Defrees St Nw
Sarah Tosts
James Fprce Casualty Hospital
Tifa Hatcher Columbia Hospital
Knoxs SAFE POLICY NEITHER RASH NOR FUTILE
In Trenton the Republican Club banquet featured United States Senator Philander C Knox of Pennsylvania as chief speaker. He praised enacted laws against rebating, stressing government efficiency, corporate restraint, and a strong national regulatory policy for interstate and foreign commerce. He urged expansive waterways improvements to raise natural highways to peak usefulness and secure long term prosperity.
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Trenton
United States
Philander C Knox
Pennsylvania
Republian Club
Knox
Curtis
Kansas
Job Hedges
New York
Fort
Republican Party
King Gustav In Russia Arrives For Royal Marriage
King Gustav of Sweden and a Swedish squadron arrived in St Petersburg from Stockholm to attend the forthcoming marriage at Tsarskoye Selo next Sunday. Prince Wilhelm, the king’s second son, is to wed Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna. The arrival was reported from St Petersburg on April 20.
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Royal Russia
Gustav of Sweden
Stockholm
Sarskoe Selo
Wilhelm of
Sweden
Maria Pavlovna
Paul Alexandrovite
St Petersburg
Prince Wilhelm of
Commercial Union Dream Spurred by Minnesota Governor Visit
Detroit reports Gov John A Johnson of Minnesota, in mid April, met Mayor Wiliam B Thompson and toured with M Warfer. Johnson urged a political push toward a Canada United States economic union, advocating government regulation over ownership and opposing Wall Street links. He urged eliminating the frontier between nations, insisting a commercial union benefits all and noting support from U.S. businessmen.
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Detroit
John A Johnson
Minnesota
Morule
Wiliam B Thompson
Bred M War
Mihigan
Wholesalers Association
Gov Johnson
New York
Wall Street
Hudson
Tammany
Murphy
Bryan
Tom
Congregational Brotherhood
Minneapolis
Johnson
America
United States of America
Canadian States of America
Behring Sea
Gulf of Mexico
Asquith backs Churchill pledges in House of Commons
Premier Asquith in the House of Commons signals near total adhesion to Churchill home rule pledges from the Manchester campaign. He explains Liberal discontent with differing Irish party responses and offers partial endorsement of Churchill. The Liberal leadership hosts a Reform Club breakfast to hail the new premier and outlines a program including free trade education licensing and old age pensions.
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London
House of Commons
Asquith
Winston Spencer Churchill
Manchester
Tls
Ireland
Birrell
Church
Liberala
Reform Club
Matsushima Warship Destroyed by Explosion Report
Warship Matsushima damaged by a fatal explosion during the Russo Japanese War era. The vessel, built at La Reyna, measured 427 tons displacement with a 36 crew complement, 295 feet length, and multiple armor details. Claims of high speed and performance are noted, though the record is fragmentary and inconsistent.
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Matsuseima
Bellara Belleville
Matsushima
Regulations and dangers aboard war vessels described
The article details strict naval inspection regimes for powder and magazine temperatures, weekly and monthly checks, and sample powder tests in glass bottles. It notes cooling devices in most navies but not the Japanese ship Watushima, and contemplates how an explosion could have worsened if it occurred in Japanese waters, recalling a 1907 Hashima incident with multiple fatalities.
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United States
Watsushima
Ramime Siadron
Hashim
Sea
Japa
Amazing baby elephant draws crowds for circus visit
Promoter Harnum and Bailey brings a three ring circus to town next Monday and Tuesday. A remarkable baby elephant born March 4 stands 31 inches tall and eight weeks old, hand raised by a keeper. The infant has grown six inches in length but not height, and weighs about 4.25 pounds. It learned to ring a dinner bell in two hours, delighting the keeper and observers.
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Harnum & Bailey
Syblicus
Tal
Haght
Sword of no use to John D Rockefeller
A English woman Annie Barry sent a 300 year old curved blade found near Leigh Parish Church to John D Rockefeller via a foreign parcel. Rockefeller declined, calling himself a man of peace. The sword, claimed to date from Cromwell’s era, was valued at 500 dollars and later sent to the warehouse for unclaimed property sale.
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Washington Plat
New York
John D Rockefeller
Tec
Annie Barry
Vernon Street
Leigh
Jane Magland
Thcle Sama Foreign Postal Package System
Customs Service
Rockefeller
Story
Mer Rockefeller
West Fifty Fourth Street
Leigh Parish Church
Oliver
Pay Honor to Maj Megrew in US W Veterans Meeting
Resolutions of respect for Maj Harold P Megrew were adopted by the District Department USW Wat iha Center Market Armory officers. Megrew, former commander in chief, helped consolidate Spanish War Veterans, Spanish American War Veterans, and the Service Men of the Spanish War. A committee was appointed to draft notices for the families of Commander Henry Foster and Comrade Edward Nevaiser. records will note the Lae camp.
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Harold P Megrew
Indianapolis
Department
District Department
Center Market Armory
Cogan
Maj Megrew
Mved
Miles
US WV
Costello' S Hall
Greeley G DD Rausch
Miles Camp
J_ Leahy
HC Porter
Dewey Camp
T Ruppel
Dolph
John Lewis Smith
Leahy
Mies Camp
Henry Foster
Edward Nevaiser
Lae Camp
Recital for Central Y aid features Miss Maud Rice at church
A benefit recital and concert at Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal church showcased Miss Maud Rice with local singers and musicians. Performances included Kipling's Recessional Parsifal the Pure and The Rappahannock with piano by Miss Minke, and other pieces by Miss Laura Collison Miss Eva Whitford and a trio led by Moe Clayton E Emig as Central Y president.
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Central Y
Womans Christian Temperance Union
Maud
Eile Rice
Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church
Kipling
Laura Collison
Eva Whitford
Belasco Company
Dr A Tasker
M K Peck
Albert T Tasker
Moe Clayton E Emig
Central
North Carolina Republicans back Roosevelt Taft at state convention
At Greensboro on April 3 the Republican State convention endorsed the Roosevelt administration and President Taft for the Chicago convention. Spencer B Adams was reappointed state chairman amid divisions over a proposed prohibition law and railway rate cases. Delegates were chosen to the national convention. Separately at Raleigh on May 12 Negro leaders call for a convention to greet the Chicago contesting delegation and propose a full state ticket, condemning the Lily White control of the party.
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Washington Post
Greensboro
N. C
Roosevelt
Chicago
Taft
Spencer B. Adama
Harry Skinner
Committee On
Thomas Settle
Adams
Lettie
Pritchard
United States Supreme Court
North Carolina
Adama
Charles J Harris
Dillsboro
Thomas S Rollins
Asheville
E C Duncan
Raleigh
Spencer B Adame
Lily White
Outlaw Captured by Georgia Posse Near Blue Ridge
A posse led by Sheriff Clinton of Fannin County Georgia captured John Harper, an outlaw wanted for murder. He surrendered from his father’s house after the posse believed the house was being burned. Harper had escaped Fulton County jail where he awaited trial for Sheriff Keith’s murder. Rewards totaling about $1000 accompanied the capture.
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Clinton
Fannin County
Georgia
John Harper
Harper
Allion
Show Girl in Sad Dilemma Over Elopement
A New York Times style tale reports Henry Britz, a Haverford College student and son of a millionaire lumber merchant, eloped with chorus girl Daisy Fair. After his disappearance at sea and his father's confinement in a mental asylum, Daisy sues for alienation of affections while seeking compensation or a reconciliation, claiming aristocratic lineage and a desire to remarry only if her husband returns.
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Henry Pereval Britz
Haverford College
William Henry
Pennsylvania
Fritz
Miss Fairs
E Clinton Rhoads
Philadelphia
Miss Fair
Mrs Frits
Cursep
England
Davis Va
Percy
Summerdale Insane Asylum
Arthur Sewell
Honolulu
Frits
Entertainment and Dance Benefit by Union for Unemployed Binders
Members of the Bookbinders Union staged an entertainment program at the National Rifles Armory to aid unemployed bindery workers formerly at the Government Printing Office. The District Assembly Orchestra performed, with Mona Hilatielma Douglass Crowe and Roy Crowe, Edgar Hart on violin, and Lucille Ho Smith and Inna Dietrich among the soloists. A comedy sketch, impersonations, and a monologue filled the program as union officers led the event and arranged the show.
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Smpers
Lnlon
Tocal
Natonal Rifles Armarys
Tistrict Assembly Orchestra
Mona Hila Tielma
Douglass Crowe
Cildren
Roy Crowe
Edgar Hart
Lucille Ho Smith
Inna Dietrich
Frank Goodwin
Marguerite Guwindoti
Susie Bustier
Prudence
Carolyn Grifith
Harry Burns
Bookbinders Union
James Lo Feeney
Martina
Drets Vies
Joseph Broadbent
Recordng
W Gallagher
J A B Espey
Martin Dreis
E Gallagher
Wakefield names listed for local committee selections
In a condensed roster, Wakefield William Holt and A J Drei join a local committee lineup including Powell Wallum Dicker Joseph Braathew Thomas J Gaffney and others. The document lists several names amid a regional civic effort with multiple small entries and unclear roles.
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Wakefield Willam Holt
A J Drei Peace
Powell Wallum
Dicker
Joseph Braathew
Thomas J
Gaffney
Joseph van Oo
Forest
Pendleton
Rule clash at Democratic county meeting in Tud divided
The April Columbus Olio reports a county Democratic split over the party leadership. The caucus favored the old regular committee while delegates to the State convention were chosen amid confusion. Mayor Jolnaon presided. Tom Johnson did not attend the meeting.
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Columbus Olio
Democratic Stat Centra Combiit
Cinl
Jolnaon
Velind
Johnson
Omrutier
Independence League delegates oppose fusion at national meet
Birmingham leaders of the Independence League elected twenty two delegates to the national convention in Chicago in July. A resolution was adopted opposing fusion with the Democratic or the Republican party. Anno Marx is named as the presidential candidate of the eliter parties while the col yeralion of Labor presided and JH Drake led the Birmingham Trades Council as secretary. Representative Wow Howad of For Payn spoke prominently.
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Birmngham Ala
Albamy
Independence League
Thav
Ciicago
Demerate
Eliter Pirts
Anno Marx
Orate Col Yeralion
Labor
JH Drake
Birmingham Trades Counil
Seretary Harm
Wow Howad
For Payn
Representative Rothmel Escorts Reading Visitors to Washington
Representative Rothmel of the Thirteenth Pennsylvania district leads a party of 26 through Reading and Allentown to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the Monument in Washington. The group reached the capital two days ago and toured Arlington and Mount Vernon yesterday, returning in the afternoon after a White House introduction by Rothmel. They plan to depart for home tonight.
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Rothmel
Pennsylvania
Reading
Allentown
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Treasury Department
Monument
Washington
Arlington
Mount Vernon
White House
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