Washington's Golf Protege Elmer Loving Leaves Pro Status
Elmer Loving once served as a caddie for President Taft and now works in the Post Office Department under Joseph Stewart. At 19, he was discovered at Hot Springs Va and has become Washington’s top amateur golfer, scoring 72 at Chevy Chase and often playing at Columbia Golf Club. He plans to study law at the YMC A night school and aims to advance further in life.
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Himer W. Loving
Taft
Joseph Stewart
Washington
Loving
Hot Springs
Virelain
Dir. Taft
Lantern College
Aitchcock
Post Office Department
Teft
Stewart
Hetting
Bannockburn Golf Club
Chevy Chase ‘Circle
Chevy Chase
Columbia Golf Club
Hitchcock
M.C. A
Birthplace of the daily newspaper and its rise
A broad survey traces the rise of modern journalism from early gazette and Venetian bulletins to the English and American press. It notes London as the cradle of daily papers, highlights the Clermont voyage, Bennett’s New York Herald, and the shift to local news, telegraph use, and war reporting shaping today’s press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Daily Courant
Europe
United States
Canada
Rome
J. Caesar
Thia
Hal Jans
Venice
Gazetta
Tittle ‘Gazette
Florence
London Weekly News
London Press
England
America
Richard Pierca
Boston
Tis
Pierce
Benjamin Franklin
New York Daily Advertiser
Pittsburg Gazette
Century Club
Sts
Baltimore American
Philadelphia North American
Charleston
Alleghenies
Kentucke Gazette
Lexington
Asia
New York Herald
James Gordon Bennett
New York
Bennett
Herald
Robert Fulcher
Clermont
Albany
Times
Sunday Herald
Embassies Campaign Tour To Push Government Ownership
Frederick Town Send Martin and E Clarence Jones lead a two week tour from New York to Chicago and other cities including St. Louis Milwaukee Kansas City Louisville Memphis Cleveland and Cincinnati to campaign for government ownership of foreign embassies with meetings for trade boards and business groups.
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New York
Frederick Townsend Martin
American Embassy Association
Clarence Jones
Chicago
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Kansas City
Louisville
Memphi
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Oider
Girl sought as murder after Waltham shooting
Waltham Mass November 21 police search for Harris Le Blanc aged 18 after Laurence F. Glover president of the Waltham Laundry Company was shot dead. Glover accused the girl just before dying and police dragged the Charles River in case she killed herself. Le Blanc had served as a family servant.
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Waltham
Mass
Harris le Blanc
Laurence F. Glover
Waltham Laundry Company
Glover
Charles River
le Blanc
Death rather than move prompts self inflected death
A despondent widow, Mrs. Thomas Wilcoxen, shot herself rather than leave her old home in Parkersburg. She lay with a revolver to her heart after entering her daughter in law’s house, the act attributed to not wanting to move to Belpre Ohio as her husband planned to relocate tomorrow.
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Washington
Parkersburg
W. Va
Thomas Wilcoxen
Charles Wilcoxen
Belpre
Ohio
Stability in Waltham Watches from factory to transport
Waltham watches are praised for material and construction quality while noting a perfect watch can still be damaged in transit from the factory.
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Waltham
Waltham Watch Advice on Buying and Repair
A brief admonition from a jeweler about Waltham watches. Never buy from an uncertified seller. Always have watches adjusted to temperature and position by a trusted jeweler before purchase.
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Waltham
Record tobacco sales hit peak on Richmond market Friday
Richmond Virginia November 21 more than 200000 pounds of Virginia sun cured tobacco changed hands marking the largest weekly volume in years on the Richmond market with wrappers fetching up to 26 cents a pound and many lots selling between 19 and 22 cents. Nearby markets in Lynchburg South Boston and Petersburg reported strong weekly totals and varied prices across grades.
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Washington
Rchmond
Richmond
Virginia
Lynchburg
Boston
Petersburg
Death of C. A. Prentiss in Riverdale aged 72
Charles A. Prentiss a retired Washington druggist died at his daughter Mrs H Roome's home in Riverdale after heart failure. Born in Washington he ran a drug store at Ninth and It streets for years. Survived by Bertha Prentiss Roome and William C Prentiss a Washington lawyer. Funeral at his son's home 1720 Oregon avenue Washington with burial in Rock Creek Cemetery.
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Washington
Hyattsville
Mda
Charles +A. Prentiss
H. &. Roome
Riverdale
Mr. Prentiss
Ninth and
It Streets
Bertha Prentiss Roome
William C. Prentiss
Oregon Avenue
Rock Creek Cemetery
Dismal Swamp Fires Create Dense Smoke Over Norfolk
Ashes fall like snow as drought fires burn vast tracts of swamp lands in the Dismal Swamp region. Smoke drifts over Norfolk and nearby areas, turning daylight into a foggy haze while showers of ash fall and the sun appears through the smoke as fires cause mounting damage.
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Norfolk
Washington Post
Bishlands
Hobbs Withdraws From Fourth Virginia Race
In Petersburg on November 21 A R Hobbs of Prince George County a state senator withdrew as a candidate for representative in Virginia’s Fourth District leaving Lassiter Watkins Turnbull Cocke and Mrs. Abram Myers as the field. Also noted are obituaries for Mrs. Abram Myers who died after injuries from a recent accident and various local church and military notices from Norfolk Fredericksburg and surrounding areas.
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Washington Post
Petersburg
A. R. Hobbs
Princes George County
Virginia State Senate
Fourth Chatelet
Virginia
C.E. Lassiter
Issa D. Watkins
Farmville
Robert Turnbull
Lawrenceville
W. B. Cocke
the Commonth
Sussex County
New Emollient Treatment for Brights Disease Promised
Broad estimates show recovery chances with Fulton’s Renal Compound vary by disease stage. Early intervention before heart and systems fail yields high response rates. as little as 10 percent when crisis is expected early, up to nine in ten when treatment begins at appearance of disease. The firm invites patient and physician inquiries and offers free literature from Jno J Fulton Co. San Francisco.
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Bright
Meney
Fulton
Washington
Henry Evang
Jno
J. Fulton Co
San Francisco
Cal
Hope for Midshipman Wilson After Paralysis Injury
Annapollo Md Nov 5 A naval hospital report says Midshipman Earl D Wilson shows no sign of improvement in paralysis from the October 16 football injury His general condition remains good and doctors hope the paralysis may yet recede A surgical operation was performed two weeks ago today
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Wilson
Apedal
Washington Post
Annapollo
Navel
Earl D. Wilson
Poisoned by toy whistle in candy prize near death
Cumberland Maryland November 21 two Potomac Hardware Co children aged 1 and 2 nearly died after a metal whistle in a candy prize package released arsenic poison. Dr John R Littlefeld treated them until they were out of danger. Also note: Dr S Leech preaches at Annapolis Jubilee marking fifty year cornerstone of First Methodist Church with Rev Walter G McNeil and sermon by Dr Leech formerly pastor 1856 to 1885.
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Onerau
Suffolk
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Suttol
Father Vaningleman
Richmond
M. J. Hair
Portsmouth
St. Mary's
Washington Post
Cumberland
Tittle Daughters
Howard W. Glison
Potomac Hardware Company
John R. Littlefeld
S. ¥. Leech
Annapolis
First Methodist Church
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Walter G. McNeil
Samuel ¥. Leech
Washington
Leech
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Taft Ward
Golf Star
Elmer Loving
Tom
Postoffice Department
A de Luxe Magazine
Christmas Magazine
Harper’s Magazine
Rudyard Kipling
Mark Twain
W. D. Howells
Arthur Sherburne Hardy
Ruth McEnery
Stuart
Annie Trumbull
Slosson
Margarita Spalding Gerry Howard Pyle
Charles Darwin
James Bryce
Great Britain
Bryce
W. J. Aylward
Howard Pyle
Elizabeth Shippen Green
F. Walter Taylor
Frank Craig
Charles Henry White
Harper’s
California
Via
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
C. Milbourne
Chentnat St
Philadelphia
J. B. Defriest
Broadway
N. Y
Joseph ‘Auerbach
Balanéa
B. H. Becker
Hagular
Price
Panos Ave
Temple Drug Store
PATH
Gelginar
Donnell
Coke
Washington Gaslight Co
Tenth Street
Tharp
Berkeley Rye
F St. Nw
Martin
Petersborg
Novi
Foster
Table Street Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church
Birmingham
Als
Waltham Watches
B. A. Stinemetz & Son
Tobago
Mark Alao
C. A. Prentiss
Hobbs
Maryland
Abram Myers
Pleasant Hui
Upper Etrasbure
M. R. Geesey
Arthur G. Thompson
Thoriey L. Ritter
Fairfield
Trinity Lutheran Church
Wheeling
Richard ¢. Herert
Fredericksburg
Murray
Taylor
Fall Hil
Hearst
Shulp Scherer
George P. Scherer
Portamouth
Churchland
Norfolk County
Acherer
Brights Disease
THE
American Congress
Congress Today
Palais Royal
Dell
Department For Children
P. T
A. Lisner
Telephone
Business World
Chesapeake and Potomac
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