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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1911
Page
9
Fragmentary OCR recounts a murder investigation involving a man named Micke and other associates. It references a back room meeting, alleged revenge motives, a taser incident at cards, and a court or police inquiry. Names and places are partially legible, with scattered addresses and affiliations.
A brief fragment reports a murder scene with details unclear. The note mentions a weapon or implement associated with the death, with limited readable context and no accompanying names or locations.
Three year old George Avrameon died after a playmate pushed him into a small fire ignited by autumn leaves near Firat Street. He was unconscious, then deteriorated at home as doctors treated him. His parents Mr and Mrs Julia Avrameon mourn his loss, with funeral arrangements to be announced.
A legislative committee debates pension reform, urging an adjusted pay scale rather than a fixed plan. The goal is to raise lower grade clerks' wages to reflect living costs while considering broader pay changes for civil service employees. The group plans hearings before Senate and House committees and lists numerous committee members including H. M. Maynard and J. Kaufman among others.
A fragmented report notes Christian Science adherents seeking to appeal an executive order from Provident Taft. The order would bar sect members from practicing medicine on the Isthmus unless they obtain credentials from the health board of the Canal Zone. Those who refuse to seek medical licenses risk punishment and potential imprisonment.
Contractor Mary H Bray appeared after arraignment in Poles Court yesterday and was released on 1100 bond pending a hearing Monday on a charge of conspiring in an Allied theft operation against Miss Albert Sednar 28 of 1611 Thirteenth Street NW. Bray appeared under 1100 bond for pretrial examination this morning on a statutory charge by the late mother Richard Gaines, Negro actor, of 7th Street NW, and Mary Johnson of 108 Fifteenth Street NW. Gaines and Johnson failed to furnish 2100 bail and were remanded to District jail.
Dr Payette A McKenely of Ohio State University told the Indian Association that tuberculosis is rapidly waning among American Indians but still a major threat. The association met at Dr A Wokin-Inon's home to discuss health conditions and the extermination risk, citing 28,09 ina in the United States.
Fire at Willard Stables in a three story brick building at Fourteenth and D streets NW drew four alarms and thousands watched as forty horses and twenty five carriages were removed. Damage to the structure and contents estimated at six dollars. cause under investigation. Firefighters used a long water pipe from a tower to halt spread, with government purchase likely to prompt demolition of walls for parking. Government acquisition and parking plans follow the incident.
Captain Oyster defends boiler safety at McKinley Manual Training School while urging changes to improve protection. Superintendent Thurston’s report questioned high pressure boiler placement under the assembly hall as principals push for relocation to a separate building to ensure pupil safety amid heated board contention.
New Washington Board of Trade president Thomas Noyes named nine committee chairmen yesterday and asked them to confer on personnel. Ralph W. Lee was reappointed executive committee chairman. Walter Clephane, D B Porter, George Truesdell, Thomas Sidwell, Walter Brown, W J Weller, William Henderson, and Charles Kern received chairs. Kern's associates Henderson and Morgan were also reappointed to the special committee. Noyes will be in his office daily from 1 to 1 for conferences with members and interested parties.
A Chinaman was attacked with a hatchet in his northwest business district laundry yesterday morning, sustaining head gashes and possible skull fracture. He was taken to Homeopathic Hospice, later reported out of danger. Police arrested Elia Hall and Lillie Hawkins, both colored, at the Second precinct and plan to charge them with assault as they prepared to leave the city.
The Department of Justice said it would appeal a Commerce Court injunction against the Interstate Commerce Commission in transcontinental carrier freight rate disputes. Government lawyers expect the court may make the injunction permanent, prompting speedy argument over the temporary order. The court held the commission lacked authority to set blanket rates across a shipping zone system.
U. S. minister to Venezuela Joan W. Garrett was appointed minister to Argentina and accepted by the Argentine government, announced yesterday by Secretary Knox. The successor has not yet been named. Garrett is a Baltimore native and Princeton graduate with ten years in diplomacy.
Mrs Helen Stern discovered lodger Martin Gelik dead in bed yesterday morning at 7 Four and a half Street SW. Gelik, 71, a veteran of the Union Army, had lived with the Sterns for years and left only a government pension and discharge papers. The body was moved to Frank Grie's Sons undertaking shop for burial at Arlington at 1 pm.
A dense fragment lists numerous guests and hotels across cities such as New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Newark. Names include Willard, Gress, Mortimer, Kronthal, and Mayfield among many others, with scattered references to rooms and party groups. The text reads like a hotel register or society note, detailing attendees and their destinations in a snapshot of social travel.
A New Jersey firm, the Ottoman American Development Company, withdrew from a planned Asia Minor concession project after therapy blocked Turkish approval. Secretary Knox backed the project amid German objections over a Baghdad rail concession and mining law, reflecting open door policy tensions and uncertainty in the region.
G. Uy ames J. Ryan of West Philadelphia handed Cardinal Gibbons a $50,000 gift for a chair of scripture at the new Gibbons Memorial Hall at Catholic University in Washington. The donor, who admitted the gift later in Philadelphia, provided the money as a cache of $1,000 notes and stipulated the gift be kept confidential. Ryan, a builder on the Richmond Cathedral project, is a leading member of the Silbernian Society.
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