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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1909
Page
7
A convention endorses a boycott with resolutions read as leaders and speakers urge protection of workers rights. Contempt sentences loom for officials, while calls to halt purchases from a named company echo amid rallies and pledges to press legal and public action across states.
Attorneys for Gompers and associates face the Court of Appeals seeking a stay on a mandate that would imprison the AF of L leaders for contempt of a Supreme Court. They plan to seek certiorari from the U S Supreme Court and possibly a habeas corpus filing to delay imprisonment while higher review proceeds.
Washington aviation leaders push to raise 4000 more to reach a 100000 goal for the 1910 international aviation meet. President Thomas F. Walsh and others plan to travel to New York next Tuesday to meet Aero Club of America officials. Local contributors include the Evening Star and Washington Times, with further sums from partners and residents, all toward a voluntary, nonpersonal fundraising effort.
New Jersey Governor Perl told the New Jersey Sunday School Association in Orange that shifts in youth attention from church to other pursuits may reduce Sunday school attendance. He cited golf and automobiles as possible distractions and urged renewed church influence, echoing a past president on the issue.
Special to The Washington Post from Winchester Virginia reports a heavyset man named Henry Edgar Beck claiming to be Theodore Roosevelt. Beck brandished a heavy hickory “big stick,” talked of leading the world and demanded obedience. He was committed to an asylum after physicians found him insane.
Georgetown University faculty announced the discontinuation of football citing the death of Archer Christian and parental objections. The action aims to protect student welfare, with a move toward replacing football with soccer and potentially influencing other institutions.
The Hilltop school faces a football ban as a District measure and Georgetown actions spark calls for broader regional limits. Students react with fear and hope as lawmakers and institutions weigh consequences for the sport. Shorty Bahen is noted among the killed in the report.
Clarence Compton a wealthy planter and his 12 year old daughter were killed in a feud encounter. Sylvester and Albert Owens sons of a clergyman are jailed charged with the crime. Albert Owens accused Compton of refusing to retract a claim about supporting Mrs Compton's family.
Princston Indiana November 17 Miss Grace Witherspoon two years old overpowered a burglar who entered her home and wrested from his grasp a allowslip containing 60 in jewelry and furs the intruder had stolen from an upstairs room
In Manchester, Mr Balfour framed tariff reform as a practical alternative to Mr Lloyd George’s budget and urged that the Lords pass or reject measures with caution. He hinted at political shifts, noting that reform may shape the unionist platform while Liberals weigh creating new peers to secure budget passage. Irish leader Redmond warned against allying with reformers as Tory strategy centers on the Lords.
A New York dispatch details calls for a congressional inquiry into customs grafts at the New York Custom House. It centers on Henry Corsa, the Jersey dock sampler fired after exposing bribe arrangements and a Sugar Trust scheme. The article notes officials warn Congress could provoke immunity risks for guilty importers and describes how bribes were exchanged for favorable sample results.
North Bend Oregon Pacific freight train emerged from a tunnel and was hit by a snowslide, sending the locomotive and four cars down a 220 foot embankment into the Fraser River. The engineer drowned, the fireman escaped, and two other trainmen were injured.
Brig Gen James D. Higham U S 42 retired died at his Philadelphia home today aged 71 He was born in Iowa county New state and graduated from West Point in 184 He began the Civil War as chief of the quartermaster department in the Department of the Tennessee and later served under Sherman on the march to the sea An authority on army tactics and construction He was retired in 115
Special to The Washington Post reports that George Mea plans to appoint Gen Theodore Hingham as superintendent of public works in Manhattan under the borough president. Gen Bingham actively supported the campaign, with speeches targeting Mr Gaynor. Medneny and Lingham are longtime friends.
Government sends revenue cutter to search for Col Astor and son Vincent aboard the Nourmahal missing since a heavy West Indies storm. Mrs Astor sailed for Europe aboard the Lusitania. Colonel Astor has not communicated for twelve days. Crew included Richard Peters and 45 others, with a government search ordered from San Juan, Porto Rico.
A scramble of headlines notes labor leaders maintaining a boycott stance amid a British policing situation. Other items include sports, politics, and social notes from Georgetown, Nicaragua, and the United States.
Rep Longworth denounces a Berlin cable alleging Alice Roosevelt attended a Korean emperor’s banquet in a red riding habit and mounted a sacred stone elephant. The sensational tale, later disputed, describes her laughter, champagne, and a dramatic horseback exit amid Koreans and diplomats.
Italian suspect Falaco arrested after three weeks of vigilance by railroad detectives at Union Station tunnel. He admits past attempts to derail trains and claims he aimed to return to Italy rather than harm passengers. Detectives say he planned a major act to gain notoriety and protect a friend.
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