Warrenton Town Beautification Effort Sets Fire Safety Plan
Citizens form committee after Monday fire to beautify Warrenton Virginia and restore safety. Clergy and local officials lead relief fund drive with Episcopal and Methodist pastors named. A mass meeting is scheduled to push rebuilding, stronger fire protection, and safer properties.
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Washington Post
Warrenton
Cxagperated
Fauqmer National Fs Hkar
J AC Keith
Edwards Turner
E Nelson Fell
Axpleton
DF Wood
Joseph A Jeffits
Robert Frazer
Hugh Hamilton
Ant. Tressurer
C & Siffany
Inter National Bank
J Bs Gray
Married announcements from Paris and St Aloysius Church
IMF Suri EosLater and Eleanor Slater wed in Paris on Monday November 2199. A second ceremony was held Wednesday November MOM at St Aloysius Church with J B Pliar S. J. officiating for Euginia M Beuoky.
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Suri Eoslater
Paris
France
Aoris DE Struve
Eleanor
Slater
Harf
Brooke
St Aloysius’ Church
Iyine Rey
Pliar S. J
Frarl
Eugenia M Beuoky
Obituary notices from a 71st year aged George H Brown
Multiple death notices list George H Brown of 1957 Euclid Street as dying in his seventy-first year with funeral to follow. Other notices include Louise Chatfield of Rhode Island Avenue NW with service details. Fanny, widow of Columbus Olie Nones. Jennie B Sehaheld in her fifteenth year since former residence. Catherine WliSe wife of Henry Schutz. Amma Upporman daughter of Leonard and Winifred Har. Levi Richardson Wengro aged 55 from Vermont Avenue NW.
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Euclid Street
George Hay Brown
Louise
Horace F Chatfield
Ervicen
Tate
Rhode
Vitta Street
Noathieat
Fanny
Columbus
Oxie Nones
Tavening
Jennie
Nortuessr
Anstey
Catherine Wlise
Henry Schutgetee
Amma DT Upporman
Leonard
Winifred
Har
Lees Chapel
In Memoriam for Hanna Wittr-Rusen Loin
In memory of Hanna Wittr-Rusen Loin who departed this life on November 2, 146. She rests peacefully as a beloved mother and wife. The family remembers her with love and honor, keeping her memory alive through the years.
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Hanna Wiitr-Rusens
Childres
George B Linthicum Weds Maude Getzendanmer
George B Linthicum, son of Mrs Martha E Linthicum near Boyds, married Maude Mae Getzendanmer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Diam Reese Getzendanmer of Bealls Way, in a Presbyterian Church ceremony. Prominent attendees from Frederick, Baltimore, Washington, Hichmana, and Virginia joined the afternoon service. Reverend S B Miench of Cavetown officiated. The bride wore a white satin gown with cream lace and pearl ornaments. bridesmaids included Dana Rams Burg, Mabel Danforth, Dorothy Wott, and Eile Pittman. maid of honor Sophy Brown. best man Lloyd Linthicum. ushers Walter Woodwell, Frederick Cramer, William Cramer, and Shellman Green.
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Presbyterian Church
George Best Linthium
Martha E Linthicum
Near
Boyds
Misa Maude Mae Getzendanmer
Diam Reese Getzendanzer
Bealls‘ve
Frederick
Baltimore
Washington
Hichmana
Miench
Cavetown
Washington County
Dana Rams Burg
Mabel Danforth
Richmond
Dorothy Wtott
Phildelphia
Eile Pittman
Williamsburg
Sophy Brown
Unity
Lloyd Linthicum
Near Boyds
Walter Woodwell
Frederick Cramer
William Cramer
Shellman Green
Education leaders push new standards for child of tomorrow
Richmond Virginia November 9 1920 The Virginian education conference opens with over 2000 teachers and educators from several states Gov Swangon presiding at public meetings The keynote and remarks by John Blewart Bhy an cooperative educational commission leader and Dr James W Rovertsom Canadian educator emphasize modern uplift The aim is to replace old standards with broader opportunities for the child of tomorrow
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Richmond
Virginie Education
Gov Swangon
Cooperative Educational Commission of Virginia
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John Blewart Bhyan
Cooperative Educational Commission Oy
Acho
James W. Rovertsom
Ex treasurer admits fraud in Rock Hill case
Charles R May former treasurer of Rock Hill South Carolina pleaded guilty to breach of trust with fraudulent intent and was sentenced to three years in jail. The case involved raising money to cover a shortage though the solicitor declined to press further action. May was a member of a prominent family.
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South Carolina
Yorkville
Charles R May
Rock Hll
May
Licensed to Marry Multiple Couples Across Virginia and Maryland
A long list of intended marriages shows numerous couples from Lynchburg, Chevy Chase, Richmond, and surrounding counties. The page cites Rev clergy officiants and various brides and grooms from Virginia, Maryland, New York, and Delaware, listing ages and hometowns amid a garbled OCR of marriage banns and notices.
Alexandria Bride Weds Roderick Parker in Alexandria
Miss Mary Austis Dent, daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Magruder Dent, married Roderick Alphonse Parker of Prince George County Md at the bride's aunt’s residence 48 North Washington Street Alexandria. Rev Henry J Cutler presided. The couple will reside in Prince George County Md.
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Annie¢ Galler
Lynchburg
W. H. Ballenger
Thomas HK
Corrad
Chevy Chage
Julia B Sialthau
Guedonsville
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Rye
New York
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DG MacLerd
Marrist Gardner
George EL Deime
Bastieneorge
GW Thompson
Greensboro
Land Dewrense Holley
Winns
Jobo Dradiey
Gentrude le Lepert
Eugene A Scheefer
Sue E Nyman
Welln Irwin Tridgeon
Susie L. Colby
Notte
Sir Reaner’ Chmley i Shawh
Matters
Maud Rogers
Thomad E McGugan
Joseph Atterbach
Goa Weyl
Lianite Starn
Kfenrfelta
Richard Luces Wack
James D Bverer
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Lester ‘Dadeon
Hatlah
Robins
Hott
Richmond
Edward Wong
Fauquier
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Falck
Dallimars
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Baker
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Margarit_E. Mooney
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Briar Collman
Albert Ewell
Rachel Brown
Db McLaughlin
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Phinie G Sedgwick
Perkins Fenton ‘Holmes
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Buiter
Walter Grady
Martha Hubanks
Rey Shelton Miller
Champ Holmes
Serah Melony
Aih
Shas Parker
Publia Clark
G Ho Harris Joseph Gantt
Ant Marie Easter
Benjamin W Hrown
Willam Clarke
Mariat Morris
WJ Howard
Stenia Adams
Mery
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Fowler
Lent M Hughes
Gordon
Howard
Aid Mary
Ruse
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Jules Somerville
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Bila Simms
Bof Myers
Clarence A Johnson
Esther R Thornton
Siehop Johnson
Justus Pollard
Dar Watkins
Woth
Atligston
Aquille Sayiee
Richard Carter
Alow Jackson
Carrothers Rank Ruszi
Lie Parker
Tne Rar
Maward John W Particle
Nora B Roeleen
John Richard
Washington Post-Buseau
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Mary Austis Dent
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Magruder Dent
Roderick Alphonse Farker
Prince George County
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Washington Street
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Henry J. Cutler
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Gwyn Dent
Jean Lloyd Breng
Georgia McComas French
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Judex Dent
Emale
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Thanksgiving observances and local services in Alexandria
Thanksgiving observances will affect Alexandria with banks and government offices closed while post office hours vary. Multiple church congregations unite for a morning service led by Rev J N Holmes. Also reported are the Powell marriage, a donation day at local homes, a theft case leading to imprisonment, and the Davis Windsor nuptials at 34 South Patrick Street.
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Alexandria
Banke
Goon
First
Second Baptist Churches
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Protestant Church
Second Presbyterian Church
Bethany Independent Methodist Protestant Church
J NL Holmes
Married by Cardinal at Union Mills in Union Mills
Noy M-Nica Mary Jeannette Shriver of Union Mills and John Marshall Jones of Alexandria were married in St. Marys Chapel Union Mills this morning. Cardinal Gibbons officiated with Nuptial Mass by Rev Wilom Gaston Payne. Reception at Avalon. The Joneses will reside in Alexandria Virginia. Richmond man killed in Scranton ironworker William Alley fell 60 feet from a scaffold breaking his back.
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Marshall Jones
Alexandria
Wein
Mies Shriver
Union Mills
Washington Post
Westminster
Noy M—Nica
Mary Jeannette Shriver
BF. Shriver
John Marshall Jones
J. Marshall Jones
St. Mary's Chapel
Cardinal Gibbons
Wilom Gaston Payne
Clifton Forge
Joseph H Cassidy
St. John's Catholic Church
Misa Angela Shriver
Iwinfleth Payne Jones
Atlanta
Richmond
Scranton
Wiliam Alley
Health Office Record of Names and Ages in Parental Listings
A health office record lists numerous individuals by names, including William and Mary Rubibor and many others, with scattered ages and notes. The fragmentary list references boys and girls, several married or related pairs, and locations such as Park road and Wash Asylum Hein, with ages ranging from infancy to mid-sixties.
Sydrey E. Mudd Ready to Resume Congress Duties
Syd ney E. Mudd, recovering from a nervous breakdown at Dr Weir Mitchell’s sanitarium near Philadelphia, has been pronounced cured. He plans to attend the coming session of Congress after Christmas, remaining under medical care and limiting outside duties to protect his health. Preparations are under way for his stay in Washington during the winter session with approval from his physicians and private secretary William Gilchrist.
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Balthmore
Sydney E. Manda
Senate
Weir Mitchell
Phila
Mitchell
Tim
Congress
Hammond
Washington
William Gilchrist
California Fig Syrup Co
Senna
United States
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Change of venue denied in murder case at Grundy
Grundy Virginia November 24 A motion for change of venue in the Ho and Little murder of six was overruled and the trial will start here tomorrow. Snow falls across northern Virginia as a white Thanksgiving. Stafford supervisors shorten game season to January 1919. Trent German held for grand jury after admitting knife use in self defense. Democratic candidates for Fourth District Congress listed Lassiter Cooke Watking Ward and Twenbull. Nolle prosequi entered in Lawson case for killing Officer Bull. Spiders get $1 per man this year for fall inspection. Examinations in Richmond to choose Luther Throckmorton successor at West Point required. State highway bids for Pulaski county road and bridge to McAdam crossing. Predot Garber resigns as Marshall ward after sixteen years.
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Trent
Norfolk and Western Greman
H Giah
Blue Ridge
Richmond Federal Building
Luther ‘Throckmorton
Henrico County
West Point Academy
State Highway Department
Pulaski County
Pulaski City
McAdam Crossing
Counciman Predot Garber
Marshall Ward
Edmond
Maryland Weddings and Holidays in Washington County
Maryland weddings are listed with multiple couples wed in Hagerstown and nearby towns including Miss Sally M Yeakle and Lewis Lamkin at a bride’s home officiated by Rev Dr Owen, plus Miss Mary Kine and Charles Fisher at Trinity Lutheran parsonage and Miss Varin Stultz with Richard N Lees at Christ's Reformed parsonage. Also pardons in Baltimore and commutations in Charleston with districts affected and a game law fine in Winchester.
Murray Has Not Resigned As Head Of Baltimore and Ohio
Baltimore reports Oscar G Murray president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad may resign though he states he has not resigned and intends to serve as president at the next board meeting. Speculation cites possible reelection with him leaving before term end. candidates mentioned include I F Loree and George L Potter.
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Baltimore
Oscar G Murray
Baltimore and Ohio
Rall- Tend Company
Dispatch
New York
MerrRy
Murray
The
Road
Murray Reies
I. F Loree
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
George L Potter
North Carolina Cadets Travel for VPI Game
North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College sent 300 cadets by train from Raleigh to Norfolk to attend the football game with VPI. A Farmers' Institute drew 27,000 attendees under the State board of agriculture. Governor Kitchin urged ministers to join a tuberculosis crusade across churches on Sunday. Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals proceedings included cases for Camp Manufacturing Company and related parties with defense by Duress writers and Wright.
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North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College
Raleith
Norfolk
VPI
Say. Kitchin
North Caroling Association For the Prevention
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Washington Post
Richmond
Danvittle Ve
Thornton
Plulatie Tx Arcor
Withmutrod Young
al Ve
Wright
Va Camp Manufacturing
Deny
FT Thorp
Joan
Grur
Pulford
Richmond Court Records Note on Defendants and Trustees
Fragmented OCR item references many parties including Derfolk Wastern Tramway Company Vorowe administrator Xorfalke and Western Hal say Company Thomas truatess Syblabie Life Insurance Wilsav Eyave center Louthan Fentress Steele Westernrailway Virginian Railway Company Myer receiver and City of Richmond with unclear action and no cov.
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Derfolk and Wastern Tramway Company
Va ‘Vorowe
Xorfalke and Western Halsay Company
Thomas’ Truatess Syblabie Life Insurance Company
Wilsav
Eyave’ Center
Louthan
Ol Fentress
Steele Hortale and
Wasternailway Company
Virginian Railway
New Railroad Charter Drawn to Link Highland Area
The Virginia Western Railroad is chartered to build a 100 mile line from Highland county to Clifton Forge Virginia connecting with a West Virginia route to Keyner. The project spans Mineral Grant and Pendleton in WV and Highland Bach and Allaghany in VA with cost about 1 million dollars and 200000 capital stock. New Yorkers J Stontenburgh AV Huyler B M Bavne J G Rope lead the board with B O Hines H H Bird James M Douglas and C M Lunsford among directors.
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Bighland County
Clifton Forge
Washington Post
Richmond
State Corporation Commission
Leaned & Chartes
Virginia Western Railroad
Highland County
Olston-Forge
Keyner
Mineral Grant
Pendleton
Virginia
Highland, Bach
Allaghany
J. Stontenburgh
AV Huyler
B M Bavne
J.G Rope
B O H Hines
Franklin W. Va
H H Bird
James M Douglas
Warm Spring
C M Lunsford
Monterey
Washington's Tent 80LD Sold to Valley Forge Museum
Mrs Mary Custis Lee, daughter of Gen Robert E Lee, sold the George Washington rent where he lived during the Revolutionary era to the Valley Forge Museum of Pennsylvania for $5,000. Proceeds go to a Confederate home for needy women in Richmond. First $500 installment reportedly paid to home managers to endow a room to be known as the Washington and Lee Memorial.
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Washington Post
Richmond
Mary Custis Lee
Robert Lee
George Washington
Valley Forge Museum
Pennsylvania
Washington
Would-Be Bridegroom Gone Disappears After License
Parkersburg West Virginia reports a prospective groom Charles S Berdine from New England disappeared after securing a marriage license with Anna May Bachman who was under age. Her father consented in writing and the pair came to the city for nuptials. Police search continues.
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Parkersburg
Washington
W. Va
Charles S Berdine
New England
Anna May Bachman
Beeding
Orphanage Applicants Rejected at Carolina Baptist Home
Court names Charles W Prettyman to assist State's Attorney Waters in the prosecution. The seventy seventh annual session of the North Carolina Methodist Episcopal conference opened with Bishop Wilson presiding. A Raleigh Orphanage report cites 160 children inmates with applicants awaiting admission due to lack of space. Bishop Wilson will deliver the Thanksgiving Sermon amid a capitol laymen’s meeting led by former Gov Jarvis. Dr John C Kilgo of Trinity College preached the conference sermon tonight.
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North Carolina Methodist Spicopal Conference
Wilson
Estence
WL Cunningham |Ee
Raleigh
Thankewang
Capitol
Thomson Jarvis
John C Kilgo
Trinity College
Durham
Discredits Murder Charge In Manassas Case
Miss Halle Smith faced a potential murder complicity warrant after her sister Eile Smith was found murdered and cremated at BUH Run. A county official requested the warrant, but Justice Taylor refused after a magistrate’s investigation. Witness William Wheeler vouched for Halle’s innocence, saying she stayed with him the night of the fire and could not have left unnoticed.
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Eile Smith
Buh Run
Taylor
Halle Smith
Esters
Miss Halle
Managans
Wellington
Wiliam M Wheeler
Hallie
Yale Man Succeeds Curry As Territorial Governor
A message from Chief Justice Mills announced his acceptance of Governor Taft’s offer. William Joseph Mills, chief justice of the supreme court of New Mexico, is named to succeed George Curty as territorial governor. Mills, born in Yazoo City Miss in 1849, has long resided in New Mexico and studied law at Yale. Solomon Luna said Mills has full Republican party support. Judge W H Pope of Roswell was later named chief justice to succeed Mills.
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Juste
Supreme Court of New Mexico
George Curty
Territory
Taft
Mills
Yale Law School
Laft
Ins
Milla
Yazoo City
Miss
Prominent Kentucky politician shot by former friend
In Louisville a leading Kentucky politican and city auditor candidate Wilbent Proctor was killed by Rob Cully a wallpaper dealer. Cully supposedly acted after Proctor allegedly made advances toward Mrs Cully. Cully armed after shopping for revolvers, chased Proctor and sought to detain him four blocks.
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Louisville
Wilbent & Proctor
Kentucky
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Burkeville
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Staunton
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Chattanooga
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Leakesville
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