Auto Club Grows Amid Social Meet in Washington
Washington Automobile Club, barely a month old, reports seventy five members. Tomorrow night at Villa Flora Club, members and invited guests including Commissioner West and Maj. Sylvester will attend a casual fall meeting with no speeches. The club aims to promote lawful driving, oppose unjust laws, and plans pilgrimages to Frederick and nearby scenic routes. Membership targets rise to 400 by spring with a possible poll course and cafe, while debates on lights and road laws shape its agenda.
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Villa Flora Club
Commissioner West
Maj. Sylvester
Automobilists of
Washington
New
Washington Automobile Club
Ray Sylvester
Henry E. Davis
E. H. Thomas
Automobile Club
Frederick
Robbed His Employer Jewelry Store Clerk in Conspiracy
Chicago October 1 1910 Human Tells an employe of wholesale jewelers and Fred Langwell a 28 year old peddler are under arrest charged with larceny and conspiracy to rob Tells the firm. Tells confessed that Langwell proposed stealing watches and jewelry and selling them to Langwell. About $3000 in items have been taken and delivered to Langwell who planned to open a retail store. Mrs Kite Williams notified police two weeks ago and became a confidant to Langwell after a quarrel she revealed the scheme.
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Chicago
Human Tells
Fred Langwell
Afl
Langwell
Tella
Tells
Kite Wiliams
Prominent figures visit metropolis amid political talks
Congressman Slemp of Big Stone Gap Virginia is at the Metropolitan for days. Judge Gordon Russell, Texas jurist, is in theory here briefly. Senator Culberson of Texas left for Texas with plans to return before Congress opens. B Chandler of Harriman Tennessee, a pioneer in developing the Past Tennessee industrial and mineral field, helped found Harriman, a boom town of the era. Harriman became a prohibition colony established by Gen Fisk, Funk & Waglis, Ferdinand Schumacher and others.
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Slemp
Big Stone Gap
Gordon Russell
Texas
Culberson
Congress
B Chandler
Harriman
Tenn
Chandler
Tennessee
Harriman Issa
Gen Fisk
Messrs. Funk & Waglis
Ferdinand Schumacher
Mr. Chann
New Automobile Club Helps Rehabilitate Girls in Shanghai
Officers describe fraud in previous sale and outline rescue work in China. Girls are housed with good families or married to respectable men. Building a larger facility is under construction with city officials providing ground and support. Miss Bonnell plans to return to Shanghai next April.
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Shanghai
China
Bonnell
Rescue Work in China by Florence Crittenton Leader
Miss Cornelia Bonnell, longtime charity worker from New York City, returns home after six years in China where she established and ran a Florence Crittenton Home in Shanghai. The home rescued over 200 girls from exploitation, gained official backing, and officials provided support as more girls escaped to seek refuge. Bonnell notes the scale of child trafficking in Shanghai, with an estimated 26 000 girl slaves, and recounts legal challenges against forced servitude in Chinese courts.
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Florence Crittenton
Cina
Cornelia Bonnell
New York City
Washington
Crittenton
China
Bonnell
Shanghai
Hts
Miss Bonnell
Kaiser Made Citizen by Clerk's Error in 1904
An aging German resident in Ohio County Virginia obtained naturalization at Ellis Island in 1904 with a mistaken certificate. The form stated the Emperor of Germany was admitted as a citizen of the United States due to a clerical error. Officials say the man will need a corrected certificate.
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Fimperor
Germany
United States
Ells Island
Ohio County
Elis Island
Ellis Island
Death by Own Action of Wilkins Hohensack
Wilkins Hohensack, 33, private secretary for Congressman J. P. Wanger of Norristown, Pa., shot himself in the head with a .38 caliber revolver. His body was found by his housekeeper. His wife died about six months ago, and grief over her death is thought to have driven him to suicide.
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Congressman Wanger
Norristown
Wilkins Hobensack
J. P. Wanger
Hohensack
Boys' Brigade Elects Leaders at Pittsburgh Convention
The Boys' Brigades of America met in Pittsburgh on October 7 and elected Commander-in-Chief Liebt Gen H P Hope adjutant general John A Clark and directors Gen P A Bridgan Charles M Schwab Col A R Hunt and H B Batty with Prof O Graver named vice president. Reports from division commanders were encouraging and a street parade of about 2000 boys followed.
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Pittaburg
Boys’ Brigades of America
G. A. R. Soldiers' Alliance Plans December Gathering
At a quarterly meeting at the Abbitt House the Grand Army of the Republic Soldiers' Alliance elected officers for the next fiscal year and formed a nine-member committee, led by Alva B. Taber, to arrange December's annual reunion to be held at the Ebbitt House with a banquet. The group, founded February 12, 1878, has fewer than 85 members and operates as veterans fraternal and benevolent relief society.
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Soldiers’ Alliance of the Grand Army of the Republic
Abbitt House
Ebbitt House
Alva
Taber
Alliance
Louis FR. Brown
Lyman F. W. Cushing
T. J. Johnston
A. H. G. Richardson
John L. Heupel
W. Howard Gibson
Alvion B. Jameson
Alva & Taher
Proctor
Trial halts as Holton collapses during Samuel case
Greensboro report: District Attorney Holton collapsed from exhaustion during the third day of the Samu el Cade trial. He recovered and vowed to continue Monday. Prosecution sought to prove collusion with informer vouchers and checks, all tied to Samuel. Judge Boyd ruled the evidence inadmissible at that stage. Grand jury ended the term with seventy true bills and one new against Samuel, plus another against A C Bryan.
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Washington Post
Greensboro
N. C
Samu
Holton
Boyd
Samuel
Reverus
James Combes
Combes
Aycock
Bynum
Watson
Wilkesboro
State Democratic audit finds over four fifths returned to candidates
Richmond October 7 state chairman Ellyson ordered a two member audit of his accounts for the state primary. E L C Scott of Hanover and Robert Gilliam of Petersburg examined Barber report and receipts. They found that Ellyson disbursed 421-5 percent of amounts paid in by candidates and each will receive back 674-5 percent of their assessments, with checks to be mailed Monday. The appended table lists each candidate’s contributions and refunds.
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Washington Post
Richmond
Ellyson
Democratic Committee
Messrs. E. L. C. Scott
Hanover
Robert Gilliam
Petersburg
Barber
Judge Fowler resigns from Maryland bench in party decision
Judge David Fowler of the Third Judicial circuit resigns to resume law practice after Democratic judicial convention in Baltimore and Harford counties failed to renominate him. Gov. Warfield names Judge N. Charles Burke to succeed Fowler, with Frank I. Duncan as associate judge. Duncan’s successor as insurance commissioner may be named next week.
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Baltimore
Harford Counties
Washington Post
David Fowler
Third Judicial Circuit
Baltimore and
Maryland Court of Appeals
Warfield
N. Charles Burke
Baltimore County
Frank I. Duncan
Jecge
Burke
Duncan
State Board of Public Works
Fowler
Democratic Judicial Convention
Obituary notices from Virginia and Petersburg
Lydia Dyson, formerly of Stafford County and daughter of Robert Skidmore, died Thursday night in Washington. She is survived by her husband and one child. Also reported is Clay, a neat merchant of Newville and Soares County, who suffered paralysis last Friday night while driving home from Petersburg and was found in the road. no daughters survive, with details indicating final plans for services at 9:30 p.m.
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Fredericksburg
Lydia Dyson
Stafford County
Robert Skidmore
That County
Washington
Petersburg
Clay
Newville
Soares County
Fatal stabbing in Suffolk sparks mob threats on busy Washington Square
In Suffolk Virginia on Saturday afternoon William Graham a Black man thirty eight was struck by David Lyon a lumber mill operator during a confrontation on the crowded Washington Square Lyons fired four shots fatally wounding Graham Police rushed Lyon to jail amid growing Black crowd threats of retaliation Authorities prepared for possible night unrest and described Lyon as a Buffalo native long resident of Virginia with mills near Windsor and Copeland
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Washington Post
Suffolk
William Grehim
Washington Square
David C. Lyon
Lyon
Graham
Brinkley
Luyon
Clinch Lyon
Buffalo
N. Y
Virginia
Windsor
Copeland
Cor
Philadelphia Americans Return to Rapturous City Homecoming
A vast Philadelphia crowd greeted the champion American League baseball team upon their return. The train arrived at 10:20 pm to a packed Pennsylvania Railroad station. Players appeared amid cheers, with Bender and Waddell needing police assistance to reach street cars as security and crowds clashed briefly in the throng.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bender
Waddell
Legal to signal results under California club ruling
San Francisco October 7 Judge Hunt ruled the California Jockey Club cannot bar a person from the Emeryville track for signaling race results. The suit by George W. Sanfason claimed expulsion for immoral conduct and aiding illegal poolrooms, but the court affirmed that he retains the same right as news reporters to send results to determine bets.
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San Francisco
New California Jockey Club
Hunt
George W. Sanfason
Emeryville
Mail Clerks Will Probe Charges
Cincinnati Ohio October 7 The Railway Mail Clerks convention will stay in session here to thoroughly thrash out charges of extravagance brought by former Auditor J J Mulligan as the dispute over the allegations continues.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
J. J. Mulligan
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