Brightwood Honors Rex Oes and Fallen Soldiers
Washington Gardner and local officials led a Brightwood ceremony honoring Rex Oes and 40 Union veterans killed at Fort Stevens. The event, under the Grand Army of the Republic, recalled wartime sacrifice and linked the mutilated veterans at Walter Reed to those who fell on the hill, with speeches on unity and duty.
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Battle Ground National Tembony
Brightwood
Bort Stevens Ot Marhage
Grand Army of the Republic
Brightwoord
Washington Gardner
Congress
Michigan
Walter Reed Hospital
Fort Stevens
Fattie
Gardner
Wis
Texington Concord
Ticonderoga
Con Barly
Camitol
Europe
Yonder Hill
Me Gardner
Public officers and citizens attend memorial ceremonies in Washington
Hoce Miss W Wallace and others join Dr A Owen Penney and Mrs Hoge in singing at a DC event. Public school children decorated graves as officials including Mayor Wilmeth and Brig Gen George Richards presided. Commissioners from the District of Columbia and military leaders occupied the platform with heads of local associations named.
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District of Columbia
Wilmeth
Takoma Park
Ger George Richards
Lansing H. Beach
Tasker
Bliss Peter C Harris
Harry L. Rogers
C O. Sherrill
Citizens’ Associations
JL B Henderson
Piney Branch
Jesse
Suter
J L Carr
Petworth
George H. Russell
Park View
Charles W Ray. Brightwood
Daniel Cooper
Stateenth Street
Tiedlands
C A Langley
Woodburn
Suffrage Support Nod From Farmer Labour In Washington
The interstate campaign committee of the Farmer Labor party urged a state by state census to rally support for favorable candidates and to organize State bodies. Washington DC suffrage was endorsed and residents urged to back legislation granting vote rights. Attendees included Jesse T. Brikhart W Va W G Green Baltimore George W Davis Burton Turberville Murray King Miss Stewart William Mahoney L Struck Mrs Hays Western Starr.
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Farmer-Labor Party
Machinists
District of Columbia
Washington
Jesse T. Brikhart
Martinsburg
J W Va
W.G. Green
George W Davis
Baltimore
Burton Turberville
Alexandria
Murray King
North Dakota
Miss Stewart
William V. Mahoney
Mrs Hays
Western Starr
Stormy winds sweep Laurel area with heavy farm damage
Special reports from Laurel Maryland describe a brutal wind and rain storm washing away strawberry patches and potato fields near Old Broad Creek Episcopal Church. Farmers like former Representative James Thomas Chipman endured heavy losses as fences and crops were destroyed. In Winchester veterans and the Ladies National Memorial Association decorated graves at the National Cemetery, with WWI veteran Rev Walter Mark Depp giving the memorial address as Virginia Guardsmen fired salutes.
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Washington Post
Laurel
Dela
Old Broad Creek Episcopal Church
James Thomas Chipman
Washington
Winchester
Ladies National Memorial Association
National Cemetery
Walter Mark Depp
Virginia National
Virginia Observes Memorial Day Across Cities
Memorial Day activities span Virginia and nearby states with parades, graveside services, and speeches. Virginia ceremonies honor Union and Confederate dead, while auxiliary groups decorate graves and pay tribute at cemeteries in Petersburg Hopewell Poplar Grove and Fort Mahone. Nearby Winston-Salem and Richmond hold parades and Memorial Day programs featuring university leaders and local officials. In Lynchburg Culpeper and other towns veterans recall World War I and II service as poppies are distributed and monuments are rededicated.
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Washington
Petersburg
Hopewell
National Cemetery
City Point
Wiliam Hodges Mann
Virginia
Poplar Grove
Women 8 Auxiliary
American Legion of
Camp Lee
Fort Mahone
Prince George County
Pennsylvania
Crater Battlefield
Massachusetts
Richmond
Hollywood Cemetery
Maj. Marshall M Milton
Judge L. Co. Richardson
Natonal
Rev
J. A Bowler
Flooding of Mine Kills Seventeen in Meuselwitz Mine
Seventeen people drowned in the Ida mine at Meuselwitz, Saxe Altenburg, after sudden flooding by the Erlenbach river. The disaster occurred today and was reported by the Associated Press from Berlin.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Meuselwitz
Saxe-Altenburg
Alexandria Man Earns Rifle Range Silver Medal At Edsall
First Sergt John T Worthington of the Alexandria light Infantry scored 110 points of 154 to win a silver medal at Edsalls rifle range Heo Houston the second high with 77 of 150 had joined recently The Tambers camped at Edsalls range from Saturday to Sunday Memorial day exercises followed The unit is to attend Camp Meade Md on June 1 for instruction returning then for a two week encampment July 10 Memorial day exercises featured an address by Rep W E Andrews of Nebraska and music and readings by local and military figures The day ended with a salute by the Alexandria light infantry and a procession to St Marys church casualty notices and other local activities followed later
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Alexandria News
Washington Post
N. Patrick St
Alexandria
John T. Worthington
Alexandria Light Infantry
Edsalls Rifle Range
Charles W Houston
Houston
Edsalls Range
Federal Cemetery
Adjutant General of Virginia Militia
Camp Meade
Mad
W. E. Andrews
Nebraska
National Cemetery
Cushing Camp
No 30
Maryland
Sons of Veterans
George Francis Williams
E 4
Long
America
J L. B Jackson
First Baptist Church
Willard P Graves
Lincoln
Second Baptist Church
Al‘exvandria Light Infantry
Local notices from Norton and surrounding areas
Sunday meeting planned in Norton Memorial hall to enlist intercessors for prayer and healing service. A boy 3 years old injured in an accidental dynamite cap blast near 226 North Royal Street. Dr Walter A Warfield treated him. Marriage announced for Miss Helen Lehn Finch and George Raymond King at St Marys church parsonage with Rev L F Kelly.
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Norton Memorial Hall
Lonnie Neville
North Royal Street
Fla
Walter A. Warfield
L. A. Finch
Helen Lehn Finch
George Raymond King
St. Mary's Church
L. F. Kelly
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Chipman
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Ohio
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9Th St. N. W
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Mann
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Hero’s
Winston-Salem
American Legion
Salem
H W Chase
University of North Carolina
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Minnie Gayle Nimocks
France
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Lynchburg
Samuel H. Williams
Methodist Cemetery
GM. Alexander
Harry B. Lee
Culpeper
Episcopal
Bertha
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Olen Cunningham
St Mary's Cemetery
Mount Vernon
S. Hopkins
Solomon S Hopkins
Waynesboro
University Hospital
Charlottesville
George D Hopkins
William A. Moore
Percy Foster Hall
St Paul's Church
Westor
Church of the Epiphany
Cintatra
Washington Loan and Trust Company
John B Larner
Downtown Bank
F Street
West End
17Th Street
Gov. Morgan
Fairmont
W. Va
Monongahela River
William Haymond
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Marion County
Gov E. F Morgan
Charles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Charles W Galloway
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
James A McRea
Pennsylvania Railroad
Maxwell C Byers
Western Maryland
H. c. Nutt
Monongahela Railway
John QO . Walker
Puublic Safety
Brewapp Engravers & Stationers
Palm Beach
Star and Times
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Abner Drury CO
Campbell
WD. Campbell CO
To & Standard Savings Bank
Zane Grey
Harper & Brothers
New York
Pearlman’s
Gost
Cairo Hotel
Howard, Mer
Speria
Union Savings Bank
Oldlst Savings Bank
Lowlst
Paris
Cke Gardern
Lol Vermiont Ave
Vermont
Christian Science Sanatorism
13Th St
John W. Smith
Krausch & Bach
Emerson and Becker Bros
Hugo Warch
Casey
4Th St NW
Ferguson
St. N. W
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