Circus City Rises Before Big Throng At Camp Meigs
Washington crowds watched Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey set up for two days of performances. More than 100 railroad cars carried tents, animals, and staff from Philadelphia as workers erected the mammoth big top and three steel arenas. Exhibits included elephants, lions, tigers, camels, and apes, with the 1600-strong animal troupe and bands preparing for shows today and tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinc Washingtonians
Camp Meigs
Ringling Bros
Parnum & Bailey
Cal Lo
Philadelphia
Great Doubie Circus
Acta
Ringling Brea
Europe
Famona
America
Jill
Hurna
Lents
World Fair Campsites Display Food and Tents
The article describes a bustling camp at the fair with a postmaster and post office, a massive kitchen nicknamed the largest in the world, more than 100 chefs and waiters serving meals in dining tents, a blacksmith shop, a wheelwright’s tent, and an entire colony of “tops” where performers in silk outfits will present.
Four Charges Against Driver in Street Car Collision
John Williams of 1670 Thirtieth Street Northwest faced four charges of violating traffic regulations after a collision between his auto truck and a street car at Potomac Avenue and a Northwest street. Police chased him after the crash. he abandoned the truck and fled, later treated at Georgetown University Hospital for injuries from a fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Williams
Thirtieth Street
Carroll and Dowd
Seventh Precinct
Wiliams
Potomac Avenue
Williams
Poice Gay ‘Ue
Nio Way
Sun Yat Sen manifesto seeks recognition and unity for China
Dr Sun Yat Sen, elected president of the Chinese republic, pledges to unite all provinces and protect foreign rights and concessions while welcoming foreign capital. He calls the old Peking regime illegitimate and warns of continued foreign domination. A separate assault case reports Andrew Ferguson, a Black man, stabbed by an unidentified assailant. he is hospitalized in serious condition. A robbery incident ends with Ferguson handing over $46 after responding to a pistol threat from a woman wielding a gun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sun Yat Sen
Canton
State Department
Ma Soo
Washington
Peking
China
Andrew Ferguson
Marion Street
Ferguson
Freedman's Hospital
Congress Set To Act On Tariff Budget And Peace
Final action expected this week on emergency tariff and budget bills while the Knox peace resolution and reparations debate loom. La Follette prepares an address opposing U S representation on allied councils and questions Harding’s stance. The Senate outlines large defense and disarmament measures with a naval appropriation fight shaping the agenda as committees press reform and tariff work.
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Associated Press
Congress
Tegardegas
Ena
Germany
Senate
House
Knox
la Follette
Wisconsin
Harding
White House
Borah
Idaho
Senate Military Committee
Senate panels tackle highways and public welfare bills
Senate interstate commerce committee hearing on railroad conditions and highway commissioners' appearance precedes further debate on the 200 million dollar good roads bill led by Chairman Towns. Senate and House committees plan hearings on employer salary reclassification and Kenyon department of public welfare, with sales tax talks and Blair confirmation for internal revenue commissioner ongoing this week.
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Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Senate
Townsend
House Civil Service Committees
House Education
National Educational Association
Kenyon
Department of Public Welfare
Senate Finance Committee
David H. Blair
Winston-Salem
N.C
Internal Revenue
Johnson
California
Navy Pay Revision Aligns with Industrial Scales
Wages of civilian Navy Department workers will be revised by district boards between now and June 1 to match current industrial scales. Secretary Denby would not confirm potential pay reductions. Semiannual revisions ensure new schedules take effect at the start of the next fiscal year on July 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Department
Navy Yard
Naval
Denby
Pew
Adams
Frank
American Security and Trust Company
District of Columbia
Commercial Club
City of Washington
American Security and Trust CO
Corcoran Thom
Martin R. Weat
Sidney W. Leech
L. Gordon Leech
G. Milton Jones
Monmouth
G St. Aw
Washington, DC
Joan G. Webster
Raid in London Targets Sinn Fein and I R C Links
London reports police raid seven sites tied to Sinn Fein including the Irish Self-Determination league HQ after incendiary attacks on relatives of Royal Irish Constabulary. A single arrest followed. Liverpool notes 50 men in gangs used cars to set fire to several dwellings Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Qiverpool
Royal Irish Constabulary
Sinn Fein
Irish Self-Determination League
Liverpool
Sisters Seek Seventeen Big Brothers and Sisters
The Juvenile Protection association urgently seeks seventeen Big Sisters and seventeen Big Brothers to follow up with wards. Volunteers will visit homes, schools, and workshops, loan books, and assist employed children. Executive secretary Hona K. Bushee cites the impact of caring guidance on welfare.
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Juvenile Protective Association
Juvenile Protection Association
Big Brothers
Hona K. Bushee
Hillside peace party halts gunfire in mountain clash
Dr Dotson an influential mountain resident leads a peace mission to end fighting on the Tug river region. Bullets from both sides greet the peace party as emissaries reach McCarr. the fighters agree to a truce and stop firing once riflemen in Kentucky hills concede. Associated Press observer travels with peace messengers toward Free.
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Doctor
Kentucky
McCarr
Dotson
West Virginia
Kentucky Hills
McCarr unrest and Campbell troops mobilized in border riot
Reports from McCarr describe widespread destruction with many houses raked by bylints and a bridge attack injuring 16 year old Smith Goslin who lay trapped for hours. In Ohio Camp Sherman prepared 60 rail cars for rapid use if Nineteenth Infantry is ordered into Mingo county amid a coal strike riot. Proclamations of martial law were prepared but delayed pending state governors assurances and official word from Washington.
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McCarr
Sherman
Chillicothe
Ohio
Camp Sherman
Nineteenth Infantry
Mingo County
W. Va
Pike County
Lay
Harding
Weeks
Sutherland
West Virginia
Gov Morrow
Kentucky
War Department
George W. Read
Fifth Corps
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Died Berry and Other Notices Prompt Local Obituaries
Early Sunday morning May 15 1921 at 50 T Street NW Mattiee Berry beloved wife of Butler L Berry. Funeral notices request copy for Columbia papers. Francis Fenwick Georgetown College pastor died May 14. funeral from College Chapel Tuesday at 10 30 a m. William Howard aged 37 husband of Fannie Gude and son of George A and Mrs. Gude. Funeral at late residence Sligo Mil rona Takoma Park D C May 1 2 pm. Interment Roch Creek Cemetery relatives invited.
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Thompson
George A Gude
Ly Late
Sligo
Mil Rona
Takoma Fark
DCO
Roch Creek Cemetery
Birthday Straw Hat Special Sparsely Justified
An ad notes Special No 15 straw hats both English and domestic priced at 2.95 with a playful jab about a birthday sale. It suggests hats could fetch 4 to 6 dollars elsewhere and ends with a denial of the 2.95 price.
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Barham & Bisley
Mamma Saidee
Jennie
Pete
Stranger
Delaware Avenue
C Street
Corbin Fersagon
Minnesota Avenue
Ways and Means
Grover | Cleveland
Imperial Tire Or Co
N. Y. Ave
Franklin
Ireland
Inighannen
Hills
The
Brockus
Sheriff Pinson
Federal National Bank
Fourteenth
G Streets
Panamas
Bankoks
Balibuntals
Gresners
Penn
House of Kuppenheimer
Manhattan
Muse
Stetson Hata
Mansep Underwear
U.S
Avenue
Marrow Coal Co
N.W
Lin
Loan & Grafton & Son
Trag
Collmnell
Union Station
Grand Commandery of
Maryland
Shackel Ford
EC Baldwin
Casey
14Th St
Krauich & Boch
Emerson and Becker Brospizno
Hugo Worch
Armstrong’s
Oth
St. N. Ww
Roofing Dept
Jurin Feed
Simp. Com
Biggs Heating Co
Oy Gottlibh
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