Best Time to Buy a Piano This Summer Sale
WHR urges piano buyers to act now as demand slows and rental stock returns drop. The ad touts fifty upright and grand pianos from brands like Knabe Chickering Weber Lohmer Kimball Ivers & Pond Vose and others, urging readers to select preferred makes or request more stock.
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Knabe
Chickering
Weber
Lohmer
Bradbury
Kimball
Ivers & Pond
Vose
Brewster
Decker Bros
Ludwig, Starr
Kranich & Bach
Henry F. Miller
Princeton
Emerson
Fischer
Hardman
Chamber of Commerce trip ends in Norfolk baseball win
Washington Chamber of Commerce members enjoyed a day in Norfolk and Old Point including a 3 to 1 victory over Fort Monroe. The outing featured naval sights, Hampton Roads launches, parade grounds tours, and a night sail aboard the Northland. They planned to depart for New York tomorrow, after Cape Henry visits and a delayed departure.
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Washington
Norfolk
Old Point
Metropolis
Syeertt
Washington Post
Hampton Roads
Hampton
Phorboan
New York
Cape Henry
Chamber of Commerce
Old Point Comfort
Northland
Capital
George O'Connor
Mat Horn
James F. Oyster
Commissioner Rudolph
George Worthington
Frank Walker
Jack la Gorre
Jessa Suter
Hughes Tax Mistake Cited by Seligman at Hearing
Special to The Washington Post New York May 2 experts from Columbia University and officials weigh in against income tax on state and municipal securities The panel argues a universal tax on property income would not change security values and warns Gov Hughes erred in adopting costly policy quotes Prof Edwin R Seligman stating he would flumph a student who missteps on the tax concept.
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Washington Post
New York
Edwin R. A Seligman
Columbia University
Lawson Purdy
J. Hampden Dougherty
J. Holden Weeks
Judiciary Committee of the Assembly
Congress
Seligman
Gates Oil Reform Begins With Charter Amendment
John W. Gates' oil company, based in Texas, filed today an amendment to its charter increasing capital stock from 36 million to 50 million dollars. The franchise tax paid on the increase was 17,500 dollars. The firm plans to extend its operations across the United States following the Supreme Court Standard Oil decision.
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Washington Post
Austin
Tex
United States Supreme Court
John W. Gates
Texas Company
United States
Illinois General Assembly Adjourns For Regular Session
Springfield May 2 The general assembly ended its regular session after an all night session. A recess is set until May 31 when members return to hear messages from Gov Deneen on bills passed. This morning the house adopted the conference committee report on the omnibus appropriation bill carrying 8 250 000.
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Springfield
General Assembly
Gev. Deneen
House
Jewish Convention Opens In New York Tomorrow
The Independent Order B rith Abraham slated a twenty-fifth annual convention in New York. Over 1,000 delegates from across the United States are expected to attend with welcomes at Tammany Hall by Gov Dix and Mayor Gaynor. The order, with about 152,000 members, has spent over $5,000,000 on charitable causes since its founding.
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New York
B'rith Abraham
United States
Tammany Hall
Dix
Gaynor
Woman dies after jump from Clinton Street tenement
New York May 2 Mrs Reberes Schmeer fearing she would infect her two young children with whooping cough killed herself by leaping from the five story roof at 47 Clinton street. She was found unconscious and later died at Gouverneur Hospital.
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Washington Post
New
Victim of Fireless Cooker Mishap in New Rochelle
Mel Watham M Clik a noted New Rochelle society figure was badly scalded when a fireless cooker exploded in her kitchen. She had turned away while cereal heated, and the hot contents covered her face, chest, and arms. Nearby, Seet Piler of Harrlasse was killed by lightning during a rainstorm while waiting under a tree for a wedding planned next week.
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Washington
New Rochelle
Mel Watham
THREE WIVES SUE HIM FOR SEPARATION
Special to The Washington Peat New York May 2 Charles M Peck an advertising agent has had matrimony troubles. His first wife divorced him the second had her marriage annulled and today the third Mrs Peck filed for separation. The 21 year old says he abducted her to live in New York and Boston then abandoned her. A letter from a check in evidence shows his claimed intent to support a son and his belief he would avoid a heavy penalty by not keeping her on his hands.
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Washington Peat
New York
Charles M Peck
Peck
Ht A
Boston
Check Ag
Florence
Rhone
Spirits Obey Her Well Miss Besinnet Toledo Medium Tested
Toledo May 20 Ada M Besinnet a strikingly beautiful nonprofessional psychic medium of great interest to men and societies has drawn test efforts by Prof James Hyslop head of the American Society for Psychical Research Five times since January 1908 he has tested her feats in Toledo These tests show no sign of faking and include trance singing whistling and movements of objects at a distance with the Phonograph and tambourines acting as if by unseen hands The physician examiners found her throat normal and Hyslop deemed ventriloquism unlikely He reports rapping genuine and the medium produced effects at a distance and a table lifted by one foot.
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Washington Post
Toledo
Ohio
Ada M. Besinnet
James H. Hyslop
New York
American Society For Psychical Research
Besinnet
Hyslop
Bella
Pearl Necklace Thief Drops Jewelry Worth 20000
At 37 Birch Street in New Rochelle the home of Michael J Dillon was burglarized. A unidentified thief stole about 1000 dollars in jewelry belonging to Dillon’s sister Ellen A Dillon. Ellen fired at the fleeing burglar from a window, and the suspect dropped a pearl necklace valued at 20000 on the stairs during escape.
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Washington Post
New Rochelle
Michael J. Dillon
Birch Street
Dillon
Ellen A. Dillon
Miss Dillon
Stafrs
Bride of 67 Feared Gossip
Emma A. Pyle 67 of Normal Ul wed Dr. Henry Wilcox 78 of Hutchinson Kansas in a hotel ceremony after meeting by appointment about a year ago. The couple plan to live in Florida and faced local gossip before the marriage in Atlanta on May 20.
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Atlanta
Emma A. Pyle
Normal
Henry Wilcox
Hutchinson
Kans
Florida
Woman’s secret beauty cure promises instant wrinkle removal
An advertisement touts a mysterious beauty method that removes wrinkles and pimples overnight, improves lashes and eyebrows, and develops the figure. It claims harmless, no-stomach treatments and offers free instructions by mail from a “Madame Cunningham” at Suite A MS 82 E Randolph, Chicago, urging women to request details without payment.
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Farlef
Markham
Alea
Fretyn Cutagpam
Randolph
Chicago
Convicts Escape From Joliet Prison Quarry
Six prisoners escaped in a storm at Joliet State Penitentiary while marching from the quarry to the prison. Two were recaptured within hours. four remain at large, wearing convict garb, as guards, detectives and posses search surrounding towns within ten miles.
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Joliet
State Penitentiary
William Butsch
R. A. Adkins
Miller
McCoy's Woods
Joseph Pryor
Henry Johnson
Andrew Saxon
Henry Demmond
Pryor
Miter
Here
Norton fellowship established at Harvard for 1912 13
The Charles Eliot Norton fellowship in Greek studies, endowed by James Loeb of New York, offers $800 annual income. Open to Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates and graduates, the award requires a committee approved thesis and other scholarship evidence. The fellow must study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for the year.
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Washington Post
Cambridge
Mass
Charles Eliot Norton
Harvard
James Loeb
New York
Norton
Harvard University
Radcliffe College
American School of Classical Studies
Athens
Washington Engineer Wed by Hotel Offer on Roof Garden
Miss Bernardine Weideman of Seattle married George Worthington an electric engineer of Washington D C in Seattle with Rev D E Wilson officiating The ceremony followed an offer by the Hotel Coeur D Alene Spokane proprietor to furnish flowers music for May and June marriages on his roof garden.
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Mike Bernadine Weideman
George Worthington
Washington Post
Seattle
Wash
Hotel
Coeur D'Alene
Spokane
Bernardine Weideman
Henry F. Weideman
Washington, D. C
D. E. Wilson
Lightning Kills Crane Horses at Windsor Farm
Two of Senator W. Murray Crane’s horses, each valued at $1,000, were killed when a barn at Mount Pleasant farm in Windsor Massachusetts was struck by lightning. The structure did not burn. Hailstones as large as hens eggs shattered thousands of panes in Dalton Cheshire and Adams, while Greylock Mountain roads were blocked by fallen trees.
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Senator Crane
Windsor
Mass
Lenox
W. Murray Crane
Mount Pleasant
Dalton
Cheshire
Adams
Greylock Mountain
Scranton Man Kills Wife Then Drowns in River
James Mr Lean of Scranton pursued his wife to Towanda and shot her in apartments she had rented there. He fled to the Susquehanna River and jumped in, drowning before responders could reach him. The incident occurred as authorities sought reconciliation after a reported dispute.
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Scranton
Susquehanna
James Mr Lean
Towanda
Here
Envoy to Bogota Returns
Signor Mendoza, the special commissioner to Bogota, returned to Panama on May 20 after six months seeking to ease tensions with Colombia. He received a hearty reception from political and personal friends, though his peacemaking mission failed.
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Mendoza
Panama
Signor Mendoza
Bogota
Colombia
Hit by Aero She Sues Special to The Washington Fest
Sadie Fuller of Oshkosh Wisconsin files a damage suit in the can non pleas court versus Wright Bros Company seeking 5009 for personal injuries from being run down by an aeroplane. She says she was injured in Milwaukee in 180 when Arch Hoxsey’s machine dropped a piece struck her on the head. A $40000 fire in Pittsburg destroys plants of two machine companies in the manufacturing district.
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Daston
Ohio
Sadie Fuller
Oshkosh
Wis
Can Non Pleas
Wright Bros. Company
Milwaukee
Arch Hoxsey
Frugal Attempt to Find Remains Yields Little
A thorough investigation failed to disclose any trace of her remains despite a decent burial. The search concluded with no identifiable evidence of a body or significant clues remaining.
Black cat dies in fire as locomotive firebox suprises
A large black cat belonging to Union Station railroad workers leaped into the fire box of a Southern Railway locomotive in the roundhouse while the fireman shoveling coal tried to save it. The cat was instantly incinerated, despite the fireman Starry Withers efforts to recover the animal.
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Southern Railway
Union Statiion
Union Station
Bliemont
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