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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1909
Page
19
The Virginia Methodist Conference endorses a statewide prohibition campaign and urges state action on voting rights for the people. Randolph Macon College faces a $1,000 annual increase tied to church rule. The conference discusses delaying, supporting, and promoting a broader prohibition effort amid political divisions.
Interment dates listed for multiple individuals with last residences in Frederick Pro Street Maltles and at Nave I aL po re 1 Pemet ty 1 mes plet eopey tel November 1 1909. Notices mention age several years and burial in local churches with references to Waslit Frlt and Wal ongt Post.
Funeral directors and embalmers listed including R F Harvey Sons LS Rad Tmфctors and PMEal mers, Thos A Costello, Frank Greier's Sons, Geo P Zurhorst, J WIlliam Lee, John A Wright Co. Directory notes open day and night service and connections to livery and embalming facilities at multiple Washington addresses.
During the session closing hours the Virginia conference announced jurisdiction changes on Chesapeake Bay parishes, transferring Newport News from the Richmond to the Norfolk district and naming new pastorates. Bishops adjourned after assignments and set the next meeting for Centenary Church in Richmond.
Ralph Carney of Wetzel county lay in a local hospital with a fractured skull after a Baltimore and Ohio depot incident. The porter Sam Wilson demanded to see his ticket. Carney refused and was struck, knocked through a door, injuring his skull. Wilson remained detained as the case drew public attention.
Stockholders of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway meet in Richmond and authorize double-tracking 120 miles of the main line with a 200 million dollar 4 per cent gold bond issue payable semiannually in gold. Also authorized 2.96 million in debenture bonds to secure 1920 stock exchange plan, with officers and executive committee named.
A Dinwiddie County chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy invites Virginia veterans to the November 27 unveiling of a Dinwiddie Courthouse monument honoring county soldiers. Jamies Williamson, under Petersburg forgery charges and suspected of wife murder and bigamy, received ten months for breaking. Williamson, once in the U S Army, then faced escape and later received a recent rating. A government survey boat will be loaded at Fredericksburg for engineering surveys of the upper Rappahannock. Roanoke contractor D Beach was injured when his wagon horse bolted into an auto, fracturing his skull at the brain base. grave concerns for his condition.
In Wheeling the federal court judge ruled that the naturalization act as construed admits Syrians to United States citizenship. The news item also notes a Parkerburg Sentinel purchase deal, a death in Spottsylvan County, and various local notices including a Grand Lodge Odd Fellows event in Wheeling and a planned union labor demonstration.
Six workers died as 20 foot earth collapse buried a concrete viaduct crew on the Southern Railroad near Salem Creek North Carolina. Rescue efforts were interrupted by a second slide. The dead include German workers and locals with one injured. Coroner to investigate.
Grand jury returns an indictment against the Hagerstown Fair Association for permitting gambling on the fair grounds last month. The seven counts allege wheels of fortune were conducted on site and not allowed by law. The report urges stricter enforcement by officers and deputies to prevent crime slipping past unnoticed.
The Alexandria Chamber of Commerce and about 40 employees from the navy yard and the Glesboro Point steel plant held a conference on continuing the passenger ferry between Alexandria and the plant. Edward Gamble, owner of the Marian Gamble, attended as talks on schedule and rates proceeded. Committees will be formed to negotiate with Gamble to maintain service after December 1.
Amog Fisher a longtime Alexandria resident, age 58, secretly entered the city hall steeple while workers were painting the weather vane. From near the top he surveyed the surrounding area then descended, declaring he had enjoyed the experience. He had previously pledged to witness the work up close and was later taken into custody after the alarm raised by attendants.
At Annapolis a jury in the slander case of James and Oswald Stallings against Thomas brought in a verdict for the plaintiff. It was alleged that Thomas had accused the plaintiff of stealing his coal. The amount claimed was 000.
A garbled OCR obituary style fragment lists numerous individuals with ages and places, referencing Norfolk Virginia, Baltimore Maryland, Annapolis Maryland, Richmond Virginia, and Washington DC figures. Names include Rev Joxeph HM Gross, Nettie Magan, Soiled Fauntelroy, Henry if Seanrook, Constance F Johnson, Mamie T Daly, and many others. The text appears as a memorial or notice page with multiple ages and connections to churches and towns, but content is highly corrupted and difficult to parse into a coherent single event.
Luther A. Oates former pastor of Falling Springs Presbyterian Church died yesterday in a Philadelphia hospital. He last served at Bridgeton New Jersey. Native of South Carolina and Princeton graduate he married Ethelind Dennis of Beverly Maryland and is survived by one son and six children. He taught twelve years at Mercersburg College and the Reformed Theological Seminary Aware. Burial was in Emmitsburg.
Staunton reports the marriage of Henry Smith and Wiss Hastie Wiseman daughter of the Wiseman family at the Second Presbyterian Church with Rev W N Scott presiding. Also notes a storekeeper shooting arrest and a poisoning death involving a child.
Delegates from New England and the Middle Atlantic states join 38 others bound for Norfolk to attend the Atlantic deeper waterways convention. The four day gathering opens with flags in North and South Norfolk and features a visit by President Taft. The Norfolk event follows a Philly arrival and steamer voyage via the Inland Waterways Canal led by Rep John H Small and Rep Charles R Thomas.
In Baltimore, two dead and three injured after a morning blaze at a Brevard Street home occupied by Black residents. The dead are John Fox, 19, and Lester Clements, 4. Injured include William Clements, 16, John Kelty, 2, and Florence Whitaker, 2, who was saved when tossed from a second story window into a rescuer’s arms. Florence was sent to St Luke’s Hospital. Suspicion of arson noted as Fannie Whitaker reportedly argued with a man the prior night and the man threatened to return with trouble.
Special to The Wrehington Post reports a string of horse deaths in the valley with no symptoms prior. deaths occur across Monksville, Lura y, and Springfield districts along the Stenandeal River. Widely believed to stem from a poisonous weed. cases rise despite routine exercise.
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