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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1913
Page
8
On the third day of the test run, six competitors achieved perfect scores as they head to the front of The Post Building this afternoon. The event showcases precision driving near the home facility with strong performance across the field.
A garbled OCR snippet lists multiple athletes and numbers such as No. 3 Malis, No. 16 McIntyre, No. 18, 3,000-ib Whites, No. 19 International, and Noe. 194 White with references to perfect scores and No. 9 wees, indicating a disrupted results page with unclear event details.
In Harrisburg and Laurel the Washington Post motor truck reliability test proceeds with all heavy vehicles parked within time limits. Officials and drivers anticipate the final day’s run tomorrow as the event marks the greatest test of its kind.
The 18 contesting trucks and five official cars push toward Washington as penalties shuffle scores. Hupmobile loses a perfect score after fuel and carburetor issues while White No 16 and Vulcan incur penalties. Officials loosen rules on greasing and oil work as the fleet nears the finish with tests ahead.
Special to The Washington Poet from San Francisco reports Ford Warren Carpenter, who went to Siam last September as United States Minister, will marry Benny Nieuwenheis, daughter of the Dutch ambassador to Siam. Carpenter, a Minnesota graduate, formerly served as secretary to Taft during his Philippines governorship and later.
New York May 7 Police Lieut Patrick Carey of Harbor B squad was shining his service revolver at 413 East 4th street Bronx when it discharged the bullet pierced the floor and wounded Mary Curtin 2 asleep beside her husband in the flat directly beneath the accident occurred early today in the home the weapon discharged after returning from duty
A long list of marriage licenses shows pairs including Otto H Fraphiin and Ida M Knott. William H Love and Fannie M White. Henry J L Briscoe Jr and Elien M Roose. RU Brooking and Pauline Bateman. M Robie and Genevieve McReady. George A Tiverny and Mattie Knott. Leroy V Crandall and Marie Goodite. Lowrie W Atkinson and Mary M McCready. William T Run seid Wilson Barrison and Bertham H Pultz. J E Briggs Crawford and Ada Mae Fruth. DC MacLeod.
London news reports a bomb found near St Paul’s Cathedral failed to detonate at midnight due to clockwork derangement, narrowly saving the edifice from disaster. Additional devices were found and fires attributed to suffragette arson, including a pavilion blaze at Bishop’s Park and a house at Finchley, with placards and chemicals recovered. Carrie Chapman Catt honored at a suffrage reception. in Springfield NL, the Magill bill grants women voting rights in statutory offices, heading to the house.
Mae Scott-Troy, a San Francisco suffragette, cabled Andrew Carnegie asking why he is registered to vote in Scotland. Carnegie's secretary says he is an American citizen who left Scotland as a boy. he could not vote there. In Hagerstown, Md., the Washington County school board elected Prof. W Merrick Huyett as county superintendent and Edgar P Eyler as board clerk.
Distinguished attendees include Cardinal Cabbona, Cardinal Gibbons, and Senators Ransdell and Pomereno among lawmakers and bishops. The alumni banquet followed a morning blessing of the cornerstone. Rev. Eugene McL Donnell spoke on training the soul's three powers. Mass at St Aloysius chapel featured sermons by Loyola and Woodstock officials. extensive clergy presence accompanied by a large District government and congressional turnout.
District 44 Machinists delegates condemned the proposed efficiency system in naval shops and opposed naval control of civilian workers. They warned civilian shops should not be under naval officers and likened the practice to oppression and convict labor. Representing Norfolk and other yards, delegates included McGuire Carroll Alifas McAllister Morgan Powers Woodweet Jansen Shea and Probert.
At a meeting of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants in Washington DC F L Harvey offered duplicates of portraits of pre Civil War residents for installation at the next meeting. Robert W Harmon urged a monument to Stewart Holland who died saving 42 Arctic passengers in 1856.
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