Victory to fast ships in Atlantic naval game ends
The simulated engagement ends with Rear Admiral Beatty’s faster fleet gaining a foothold near the Chesapeake Bay after destroying half of Admiral Fletcher’s scouts and evading slower dreadnoughts. Weather and superior enemy scouting reportedly hindered Fletcher’s defense as the red fleet presses toward a base by transports.
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Admiral Fletcher
Atlantic Seaboard
Beatty
Chesapeake Bay
Navy Department
Admiral Beatty
Fletcher
New England
New York
Department
Atlantic
Eastport
Cape Hatteras
Red Fleet
Chesapeake
Cape Cod
Cape Henry
Blue Fleet
Wonee
Obituary notices from Washington area in late May 1915
Several funeral notices from May 25 to May 29 mention Mary Evans 4 wife of JI B Evans at 927 New Hampshire Ave and her mass at St Stephen's Church Mount Olivet. George W Fickenschers service at 2 pm with Rock Creek Cemetery interment. Mary V Mollie Gath sister of Mrs E J Wincree at 1918 Lawrence St NE with Oakwood Cemetery Richmond. Margaret Mary Robey daughter of Bernard F and Bertha M Toole with funeral at 10 Seventh Street SE. Harold Taliaferro husband of Mollie Taliaferro with services at 301 East Capitol Street. David Irving Towers in New York City. Whedon Tane Belknap deceased May 28. interment Louisville Ky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evans
Mary
JI B Evans
H B Plowman
James McDowell
New Hampshire Avenue
St Stephen's Church
Mount Olivet
Fickenscher
George W Fickenscher
Rock Creek
Catehright
Mary V
Mollie) Gath
E J Wincree
Lawrence Street
Oakwood Cemetery
Richmond
ROBEY
Margaret Mary
Bernard F
Bertha M
Toole
Seventh Street
Taliaferro
Harold
Molte Taliaferro
Charles
East Capitol Street
Fredericksburg
Towers
New York City
David Irving Towers
Whedon
Tane Belknap
Col Americus Whedon
T A Wickersham
Louisvile, Ky
Bodies of Three Americans Found After Big Bend Clash
Armed Mexicans clashed with U S customs inspectors and Texas rangers in the Big Bend country. Bodies of Ranger E F Hulen and Customs Inspector Joseph Sitters were found near Pilarés. Ranger Bates remains missing. The fighting near Pi lares left at least three Americans dead and others robbed. residents threaten to cross into Mexico to seek justice.
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Big Bend Country
Mexico
Washington Post
el Paso
Tex
Big Bend
Texas
United States
Texas Rangers
Ranger E IF Hulen
Joseph Sitters
Pilarés
Ranger Bates
Pilares
Chico” Connor
Charles Craighead
Cummings
Trullenger
Marfa
Ad Cross
Raoul Madero
Juarez
Villaforesa
Monclova
Coahula
Piedra
Electric car run at Washington ends with 20 prizes
In a 46 mile sociability run from the Zoo to Potomac Park under the Washington section of the Electrical Vehicle Association of America, 48 electric autos competed. Mist H Winifred De Witt won second prize in a Detroit Victoria, and George D Hardeaty took third in a Milburn Coup. Seventeen other prizes were awarded, total twenty, with a large lunch served at the finish and a 67 minute average time for the field.
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Zoo
Potomac Park
Mise de Witt
Robert F. Fleming
Washington
Eiectrical Vehicle Associat |On of America
Mist
H. Winifred de Witt
George D. Hardeaty
Milburn
Grace Tirrell
Wallace Chisswell
Harry Orme
C. & Pearce
Margaret Lyon
C. P. Townsend
Jane Darby
Maj
T. C. Lyster
Paulina Stone
John O. Knox
Pa Bourke
A. Blauvélt
J. Williamson
John Sterrett
J. O. Detweiler
H. C. Sheridan
James Lansbursh
William Jose
Connecticut Avenue
Zoo Park
Ford
Rock Creek
Pierce Mill
Military Road
Piney Branch Road
Sixteenth Street
White House
War College
R. B. Emerson
C M. Marah
J. J. Bertram
James Orme
H. E. Duckstien
Howard Fisk
Frederick Harveycutter
W. R. Rose
A. F. Foye
Rauch & Lang
W. Kennedy
Mra. G&. Ponickau
Rauch & Lane
H C. Sheridan
Rauch & Long
A. McDonough
Waverley
James Sanaburgeh
C. R. Erkman
Detroit
A O. Meazenger
F C Lyster
Wes Jane Darby
Helen Monet
Peares
Ohio
Edgar Sime
B. M. Hacker
Columbia
C. J. Williamson
PF Townsend
A. Bourke
A. Batuvelt
C. BE. Wheeler
Pauline Stone
David M. Lea
Charles Inne
Wallace Chiswell
George Dordesty
iTburn
Sim
M. C. Dove
John O. ‘Nox
J.C. Detwaller
H. Winfred DeWitt
R FF. Plemming
F. K. Kalas
Baker
Ratify Printers Stand on Sunday Work at Treasury Bureau
A memorial memorializing the Secretary of the Treasury and Director Ralph was ratified by the Plate Printers Union No 2 in Cincinnati. The resolution asserts false economy has no place in political economy and that plate printers will maintain an age reserve stance with employers if Sunday work can be avoided without delaying production. The aim is to keep Sunday as a rest day unless production must proceed to meet deadlines.
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Plate Printers’ Union, No 2
Typographfecal
Temple
Plate
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Secretary of the Treasury
Ralph
Treasury
New York City
David Watson
Paul
Arma
Elmer Wolfe
New York
N.Y
Printers Elect Morcock as Union President
Edward W. Mortock of the Government Printing Office was elected president of Columbia Typographical Union No. 10 over incumbent Eugene F. Smith by 65 votes amid a large turnout of over 1,500. Delegates named include Flournoy, Roberts, Parson, Sherman, and Johnson, with alternates Bauers, Cole, Lauter, and Meeney. other officers elected include Deming, Selbold, Johnson, Fecking, Steppé, Cornish, Elwood, Radisy, and Do. Vort.
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Edward W. Mortock
Government Printing Office
Columbia Typographical Union
Eugene F. Smith
International ‘Typographical Union
Los Angeles
Flournoy. Roberts
Thomas C. Parsons
John W. Sherman
Charles P. Johnson
Charles F. Bauers
John ©. Cole
August ¥. Lauter
B. §.Meeney
Charles D. Deming
George G. Selbold
Jeroma
V. Johnson
William C. Feckiig
Nulen C. Btéppé
Willam H. Cornish
Ernest J. Elwood
Charles W. Radisy
Louis Do. Vort
Philadelphian offers $100000 golf wager for medical chair
Charles H. Geist, millionaire gas magnate of Philadelphia, bets $100,000 that he can beat Dr. Howard Martin of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in golf. If Geist loses, he endows a $100,000 surgical research chair. if Geist wins, Dr. Martin buys ten shares of Seaview Golf Club stock for $1,000 total.
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Washington Post
Philadelphia
Charles H. Geist
Seaview Golf Club
Seaview
Howard Martin
University of Pennsylvania Medical School
Geist
University Medical School
Martin
Mystery in Poland murder trial as defense hints unknown shooter
Attorney George P Hoover argued that an unseen gunman fired the shots that killed Mrs Mary Savier and wounded William Poland in a Norfolk Highlands home. Poland is on trial in the Supreme Court, with witnesses from Norfolk to challenge key government testimony. A brass bed exhibit frames each side's theory of the tragedy.
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George P. Hoover
Willam
Poland
Et Auntie Covington
Seriat Supreme Cou
Mary Savier
Randle
Highlands
Hoover
P. L. Scantland
McComas Hawken
United States
District Court News Highlights in Washington D C
Courthouse dockets include a $6 damage suit by Busan EF Curran against Washington Railway and Electric after a November 4 1914 incident left her with injuries. Subpoenas target Johnson & Co bankruptcy papers in a case linked to embezzlement charges against J William Henry. A $1 600 000 Hammond case awaits verdict after arguments on jury instruction and potential further trial days. Criminal Division seeks jurors to try James Taylor on first degree murder charges for the July 12 1914 razor attack on his wife. Don Alonzo Sanford Sr dies May 13 leaving an estate valued over $206 000 with Louise Sanford named widow and sole heir including two cars and 220 Indiana Avenue Northwest residence.
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United States
Laskey
Covington
Lewis Johnson & Co
Justice McCoy
District Supreme Court
J. William Henry
Talesmen
Justice Siddons
James Taylor
Don Alonzo Sanford, Sr
John B. Larner
Louise J Sanford
Indiana Avenue Northwest
Will probated for five children with trust provisions in Arizona
The will leaves the deceased estate to Washington Loan and Trust Company as trustee and executor for the five beneficiaries Etta Louise Garber Ama Leona McKee Mabel Rebecca Latimer Bertha Alpha Sanford and Don Atonzo Sanford Jr. Income from the property is to be paid semiannually in equal shares. Stocks real estate notes and cash exceed $75000 with about 40 parcels of real estate and tax titles in the District plus a Santa ranch.
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Cruz County
Ariz
Weuj
Washington Loan and Trust —_ Company
Etta Louise Garber
Ama Leona McKee
Mabel Rebecca Latimer
Bertha Alpha Sanford
Don Atonzo Sanford, Jr
Santa
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WM. H. Sardo & CO
Punedal Directore
Embalmers
Lincoln
Modern, Charer
Automobile Fundrals
Sergeon
GAIN
George F. Zurhorst
Frank Geier’s Sons CO
Brventh ST
North 620
W. R. Speare
F Street
N. W
J. WM. Lee
Embalmer
Ana Modera Crematorium
Saa
Pennsylvania Ave
Thos. M. Hindle
J. H. Small & Sons
15Th and
Hiatreeta
Weldorf Astoria
Broadway
Wlowera
Leon
Gena. Villa
Obrenon
Villa
Celaya
R. Harris & CO
the Jewelers
T. R
R. E. Fleming
Wilson
American University
U. S
Bishop
Theodore Hoogsevelt
Prase
Germany
James Roscoe Day
Syracuse University
Nebraska
Massachusetts Avenues
Franklin Hamilton
Blair
University of Illnois
George Washington University
Merrill Jacob Holmes
Simpson Colleges
Garrett Biblical Institute
Harvard University
Hesse Octavius Enwall
Northwestern University
T. B
Boston University School of Theology
Boston University
University of Paria
Marie Louise Townsend Morse
Vassar College
Goucheg College
Johna Hopkins University
John Wesley Edward Bowen
Wesleyan University
Harvard
Bryan
Daniela
P. P. Claxton
United States Commissioner of Education
Alfred Charles True
Graduate Agricultural Schools
Thomas N. Carver
John W. Hancher
Board of Education
Methodist Episcopal Church
William Andrew Wood
Day
America
Lusitania
Congress of the
Henry Ansett
Luther Memorial Church
John N. Briggs
Fifth Baptist Church
James D. Buhrer
First Reformed Church
John Hunttan Clark
First Presbysterian Church
Lindley D. Clark
Friends Church
Charles Eutts
United Brethren Church
L. Hout
Calvary Methodial Episcopal Church South
Lewin FE. Purdum
Ingram Memorial Congregatonal Church
Louie Randall
Rhode Island Avenue
Thomas H. Anderson
Woman's Guild of the American University
Guild
Wrigleys
Wrigley Spearmen
Mother Goose
Wrigley
WM. Wrigley JR. Corgie Kesner
Chicago
Bendley
To-Kalon
To-Kalon Co., Inc
Bureau of Engraving
Secretary of Treasury
Uneeda Biscuit
National Biscuit
Morcock
District Court News
Sully
Hammond
Justice Stafford
Circuit Court Division 2
District Supremes Court
Frm
Gittinge & Chamberlin
C. M Stadden
Mr Hammond
Philip Walker
W. W. Baldwin
Filigafialle Oe Capon
Dreas
Seashore
Dimity
Batiste
Voile
Cambe
The
American News Co
Belle Weber
Robert E. L. Weber
Hattie B Weber
George W Weber
William BH. Weber
Louisa K Weber
Robert H L. Weber
Mamia C Catea
Harry M. Weber
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