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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1911
Page
9
The St Andrews Society meeting notes several new members and confirms the annual banquet to be held at Reuthers on December 1 with plans for Jaaphies and other sectiluh features.
Walter L Fisher secretary of the interior told the national waterways commission that combination and monopoly are natural in water power development and that government policy should regulate production and prices. He urged Congress to allow franchises but limit them and kept emphasis on public rights and gradual returns to investors to spur development. Pinchot supported time limits on licenses and favored consolidation under strong safeguards.
Several hundred plate printers in Taian area search for Ken sington P Krause who worked 38 years at the government plant. He disappeared November 1 after arriving in Washington. He carried $79. He had been a printer at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and was a trusted comrade. He had left Washington years earlier to farm at Indian Head Maryland.
John Wersinger 55, a coal company worker near Hazleton, committed death by own action at his home leaving a widow and fifteen children to face hardships. No cause has been assigned for the act.
A petition filed in the District Supreme Court asks to revoke George J. Hunnicutt’s authority to perform marriages. It claims a November meeting elected him pastor of The Peoples Nonsectarian Church and formed an organization aimed at serving the court and obtaining power, and accuses him of employing copperas tactics to drum up business on trains and near wedding sites. The move follows an indignation meeting by gospel ministers who protested to Justice Clabaugh, who referred the matter to United States Attorney Clarence R. Wilson.
London November 23. Mrs Pethick Lawrence head of the suffrage riot was central in Tuesday’s affair at Bow Street. She was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment without fine after striking a policeman twice and resisting for fifteen minutes. Public hissed as other women were summarily sentenced.
John Rodgers, aviation instructor at the Naval Academy, piloted a Hurgens Wright hydroaeroplane in a morning test for Navy use. He skimmed the harbor, rose to 40 feet, and maneuvered over the Atlantic fleet at anchor before an exhibition of controlled water landings.
NAVAE ORDERS list names and commands unclear due to OCR. Readable items reference military figures, ships, and stations. Contains scattered proper nouns and dates, but specific actions and outcomes are obscured by garbled text.
The Weather Bureau reports a broad western area low pressure moving eastward with rain from Florida to southern New England. Expect rain and snow in northern New England and northern New York, fair elsewhere. Temperatures vary, with mild readings in the east and lower temps in the west, and brisk winds along coasts. River reports note Potomac and Shenandoah clear. In entertainment news, Dante’s Divine Comedy is adapted to film at the Majestic, showing next week with Thanksgiving matinees.
Gen F Ainsworth reports a 50 percent two year decline in desertions, noting 2489 desertions in the year, the lowest since 1898 Spanish War. He warns against relaxing punishments, rejects milder reforms, and cites the harms of convicts in guardhouses and prison overcrowding at Fort Peppermerth and Alcatraz.
Army orders list officers and units reassigned, promotions, and duties including Maj William Te Kind, Maj William Hay, Thomas Ashurst, Charles Lynch, and James Blyth among others. It notes movements to Seattle, New York, Fort Logan, Fort Riley, and Fort Slocum, plus naval vessel arrivals and transfers including Barry Albany Shanghai and Packer Tiburon Florida.
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