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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1912
Page
12
The race crowned Major Allen as winner with Razzle Dazile second and St Angelo third after an accident to the latter. Exciting events marked Cripe of Beaning Meet, Miss Elkins awarded a $1,000 gold trophy. results show Ochers races.
Race day coverage notes winners and placings across multiple events. Jockeys such as Captain and riders like Masterpiece are cited with horses like Wash and White Me amid detailed reflections on performances and public interest. The report names venues, cups, and purse amounts, highlighting race outcomes and notable incidents throughout.
At Benning the Army held its service test with sixteen riders and horses in a grueling 14 mile across country course. Lieut Greble on St Angelo led early but Maj Allen and Capt Rhodes finished first and third overall amid tight finishes and a strong field of army entrants and civilian judges.
A runaway girl from Richmond, claimed linked to a Black Hand society, eluded her brother and police in Baltimore and was recaptured near Twelfth Street. She resisted custody, warned of dire vengeance, and was taken to Washington Asylum Hospital for the night pending court commitment.
A brewery wagon struck a light runabout at Sixteenth and I streets Northwest yesterday afternoon after a vacuum cleaner frightened the horses. The accident damaged a front wheel of the runabout, owned by JD Robinson of Seventeenth Nineteenth Street Northwest. Dent, aboard the runabout on 18 Ninth Street Southeast, escaped injury.
Miss Mamie B Bayne, 22, from Broad Branch, entered Takoma Park Hospital for nervousness and disappeared early yesterday. Sister Agnes Bayne and police fear she may have killed herself. Searches by six men in autos covered Washington and suburbs with no trace found. doctors report no restraint and say she was deranged and without money.
Mrs James McMillan widow of former Senator McMillan led donations with 100 toward the womans Titanic memorial. The drive fills a Committee of 100 with leaders like Mrs Champ Clark and Mrs Katharine F. Loring. Major gifts from Mrs Levi Z. Leiter and others back a national arch in Washington known as Womans Tribute Heroic Wanhood.
Thirty thousand persons followed the body of Wallace Hartley to a grave in Colne Lancashire as the hearse was escorted by East Lancashire regiment the county constabulary the corporation of Colne and civic societies. Massed choirs and five brass bands played Nearer My God to Thee as the vessel rose.
The Cunard Inner Carpathia crew that saved Ti tance survivors and brought them to New York will receive an extra month's pay for their work. The announcement came at the company office in New York this afternoon.
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