Hospital Plans Ready New Site Requires Changes
Revised plans for a proposed 59000 building on Duke street have been approved and will go to contractors next Friday. The two-story sides and three-story center design uses the Daingerfield mansion as executive offices and nurse quarters. Alexandria delegates head to the state Democratic convention in Roanoke Thursday evening, traveling in a special car with fellow Eighth district members. Willard Blewett won the annual declamation medal at the event.
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Duke Street
Willard Blewett
Ishington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Alexandria Hospital
Washington
Columbus Streets
Waddy B Wood
Howard L. Daingerfield
Wood
Daingerfield
Roanoke
Eighth Congressional District
Howard W. Sraith
Samuel G. Brent
Charles Mendheim
Robert 9. Barrett
Robinson Moncure
Gardner L. Boothe
Walter C. Foater
James W. Bales
J. Fred Birrell
Capt
William H
Waite Found Guilty in Concord Murder Trial
Grand Rapids dispatch reports Dr. Arthur Warren Waite was found guilty of murdering Mr. Peck and conspiring to seize the Peck fortune. The verdict came after trial testimony asserting Waite’s sanity, with family reactions as jurors deliberated and night fell on the courtroom. Waite’s mother fainted upon learning the verdict, while his wife and relatives faced the outcome with visible distress.
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Waite
Frank
Walta
Uttic
Frank Walte
Walte
Grand Rapids, Mich
Mra Warren Waite
Arthur Warren Waite
Waite Gambled For Peck Fortune Amid Murder Trial
Dr Arthur Warren Waite was found guilty of murdering John E Peck husband of his wife Clara Louise Peck. The trial exposed his plot to seize the Pecks fortune through poison disease germs arsenic and other means. Elizabeth Hardwick’s tip led to Waite’s undoing as jurors and court staff watched a dramatic case unfold in New York.
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Peck
Dr. Walte
Pecks
Clara Louise
Margaret Horton
Waite
New York
Celerity
Arthur Warren Walte
Alexandria High School Literary Society Contest Winners
The Alexandria High School Literary Society held a contest in Trinity Church’s Sunday school room with gold medal awarded. Contestants included Miss Evelyn Howard Miss Catherine Henderson and Walter Barrett. Judges were Rev L M Ferguson John M Johnson and A H Thomas. Mrs Mary J Gaines 61 died at home on Washington road survivors include husband three daughters and a son. Funeral at 1 pm at residence with Rev Gerald H Payne interment Fairfax Courthouse. Dr John Les Moon pastor of Second Presbyterian Church left for Bristol Tenn to deliver King College commencement address. Adjutant W H Helft Salvation Army Washington to occupy pulpit at morning service and Rev Oscar J Randall to preach at evening service.
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Alexandria High School
Evelyn Howard
Catherine Henderson
Walter Barrett
L. M. Ferguson
Trinity Methodist, Episcopal Church
John M. Johnson
A. H. Thomas
Trinity Church
Mary J. Gaines
James A. Gaines
Washington Road
Gerald H. Payne
del Ray Baptist Church
Fairfax Courthouse
John Les ‘Ay Moon
Second Presbyterian Church
Bristol
Tenn
King College
Allison
W.H. Helft
Salvation Army
Washington
Oscar J. Randall
Edward C. Smith Dies of Pneumonia Aboard Private Car
Edward C. Smith succumbs to pneumonia while en route from Florida in his private car Klique. He is identified as a retired New York merchant, 49, died at Union Station after arrival from the Atlantic. Coroner Nevitt views the body and issues a death certificate attributing the pneumonia.
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Edward C. Smith
Florida
Howard C. Smith
New York
Klique
Union Station
Atlantic
J. T. Smith
Smith
Dr. Lieff
Jackequinfe
Fin
Nevitt
Renee
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Richmond U. C. V
Edgar Warfield
R. EB. Lacamp
Richmond
J. Thompson Brown
United Confederate Veterans
Sally
Sane
Dre. Smith Hly Joelleffe
William Mabon
Menas
Gregory
Mr. Peck
Clara Louisae Peck Walte
Percy Peck
Swann
Sie
Arthur W. ‘Waite
Johnn E. Peck
Clara Pack
Grand Rapids
Riverside Drive
Katherine Peck
Hanna E. Peck
Waites
Grana Rapids
John
Katherine Peek
Kate
John E. Peck
Clara
Louise
Acarcely
Misa Elizabeth Hardwick
Misa Hardwick
K. Adams
Vicera
Frank A. Moses, Jr
Johnson City, Tenn
W. H. Helft
Goodyear
Rey Camel
Seadion Deciar, ix
Guselion
GoopfYear Tires
Ateae Niece Serenant Leianes
Reed Carriage
Rich
St. Lesser
Mall
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