Auto Club Growing First Fall Meet In Villa Flora Area
The Washington Automobile Club, a month-old group with seventy-five members, will hold its first annual fall meeting at the Villa Flora Club grounds tomorrow night. Invited are Commissioner West Maj Sylvester Henry E. Davis and E. H. Thomas. The club aims to promote self-propelled transport, curb unjust laws, and oppose unequal road rules while planning pilgrimages and a democratic membership from wealthy to modest owners.
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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 in Jewelry Conspiracy Case
Chicago October 1. Human Tells eighteen, employed by a wholesale jewelers firm, and Fred Langwell twenty eight, arrested on larceny and conspiracy charges. Tells confessed to stealing about $3000 worth watches and trinkets and passing them to Langwell who planned a retail store. Mrs Kite Williams tipped police two weeks ago after Langwell made her a confidant and a quarrel led to discovery.
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Chicago
Human Tells
Fred Langwell
Afl
Langwell
Tella
Tells
Kite Wiliams
Notable politicians and boosters visit metropolitan scene
Congressman Slemp of Big Stone Gap Va joins a metropolitan gathering as Judge Gordon Russell, a Texas jurist, plans a short stay. Senator Culberson of Texas departs for Texas for a few days before Congress opens. J B Chandler of Harriman Tenn, a pioneer in regional industrial and mineral development, helped found Harriman, a boom town amid a Texas prohibition colony established decades ago by Fisk, Funk & Wagner, Schumacher and others.
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Slemp
Big Stone Gap
Gordon Russell
Texas
Culberson
Congress
J. B Chandler
Harriman
Chandler
Tennessee
Gen Fisk
Messrs. Funk & Wag- Wis
Ferdinand Schumacher
Mr. Chann
New Automobile Club Rescues Girls in Shanghai
Officers of the club describe rescuing girls from trafficking operations. They placed converted women with good families or married them to respectable men after demonstrating their reforms. The work, aided by Shanghai city officials, expands to a larger building funded by the city as they plan ongoing operations with material help and a return by Miss Bonnell to Shanghai next April.
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Shanghai
China
Bonnell
Rescue Work in China by Florence Crittenton Leader
Miss Cornelia Bonnell of New York City returns home after six years of missionary service with the Florence Crittenton Home in Shanghai. She reports rescuing over 200 Chinese girls from exploitation, praises official support, and notes an estimated 26,000 girl slaves in Shanghai. She recalls trials in courts over ownership and coercion.
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Florence Crittenton
Cina
Cornelia Bonnell
New York City
Washington
Crittenton
China
Bonnell
Shanghai
Hts
Miss Bonnell
Peculiar Naturalization Error Lets Emperor Be a Citizen
An aged German resident of Ohio County Virginia, naturalized at Ellis Island in 1904, was recorded as admitted to the United States as Emperor of Germany due to a clerk’s misreading. Officials say the error appeared on the section renouncing foreign allegiances, and the man must obtain 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, ex-secretary
Wilkins Hohensack, 33, for seven years private secretary to Congressman J. P. Wanger of Norristown Pa, shot himself in the head with a .3 caliber revolver. His body was found by the housekeeper. His wife died six months earlier, and worry over her death is thought to have driven him to the act.
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Congressman Wanger
Norristown
Wilkins Hobensack
J. P. Wanger
Hohensack
Boys' Brigade Election Tells Of Pittsburgh Convention
At the Boys' Brigades of America convention in Pittsburgh on October 7 officers were elected. Commander-in-chief Liebt Gen H P Hope adjutant general John A Clark and directors Gen P A Bridgan Prof O Graver Charles M Schwab Col A R Hunt and H B Batty were named. Prof Graver also became a vice president. Reports from division commanders showed a bright future as a street parade with about 2000 boys closed the session.
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Pittaburg
Boys’ Brigades of America
G A R SOLDIERS ALLIANCE Gathering Planned for December
The Grand Army of the Republic Soldiers Alliance held a meeting at Abbitt House choosing nine members to form a December reunion committee led by Alva 3 Taber. Officers elected include Louis F R Brown as president and Lyman Cush ing as first vice president. The group, dating from February 12, 1878, remains a unique veterans fraternal and benevolent society with about eighty five members.
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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 of Samuel Cade Prosecution Collapses After Attorney Collapse
Greensboro dispatch reports the third day of the Samuel Cade Revenue Officer trial halted when Special Prosecutor Holton collapsed from exhaustion. He was treated and planned to resume Monday, as he sought to prove collusion between Samuel and informer James Combes through destroyed still reports and forged vouchers. Court ruled such evidence inadmissible at that stage. The grand jury discharged. seventy true bills found that week, plus new counts against Samuel and 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 candidate repayments proceed
Richmond report shows Chairman Ellyson disbursed 42.1 percent of receipts from candidates, who will receive 67.5 percent of their assessments back. A two man committee of E. L. C. Scott and Robert Gilliam reviewed Barber’s report and examined all receipts and disbursements. Check distributions to candidates are planned for Monday.
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Washington Post
Richmond
Ellyson
Democratic Committee
Messrs. E. L. C. Scott
Hanover
Robert Gilliam
Petersburg
Barber
Judge Fowler resigns to resume law practice in Maryland
Baltimore and Harford counties judge David Fowler resigns from the Third Judicial circuit after the Democratic convention failed to renominate him. Gov. Warfield names N. Charles Burke to replace him. Frank I. Duncan becomes associate judge. Duncan successor as insurance commissioner to be named soon.
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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 Dated Oct 7
Virginia obituary notes Mrs Lydia Dyson of Stafford County died in Washington after Thursday night illness. She leaves her husband and one child. Also reported is Clay, a Newville merchant in Soares County, stricken with paralysis last Friday night near Petersburg. no daughters survive. service planned for 9 30 tonight.
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Fredericksburg
Lydia Dyson
Stafford County
Robert Skidmore
That County
Washington
Petersburg
Clay
Newville
Soares County
Suffolk Mob Tensions After Fatal Street Attack
In Suffolk Virginia on a busy Saturday, William Graham, a 38 year old Black man, was struck by David Lyon, a 36 year old lumber manufacturer. Lyon fatally shot after an altercation sparked by Gra ham threats. Police secured Lyon and rumors of retaliation emerged as authorities kept watch to prevent night disturbances.
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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
Cheers For Athletics Returns of Philadelphia Baseball Team
Immense crowd greeted the champion Philadelphia American League club on its return to the city. The train arrived at 10 20 tonight and the Pennsylvania Railroad station was packed with fans. Players appeared on the platform amid loud cheers as most exited via the luggage room. Bender and Waddell faced a dense throng and required police help to reach street cars.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bender
Waddell
California Jockey Club barred man for flashing race results
Judge Hunt ruled the California Jockey Club cannot bar a person from the Emeryville track for flashing race results. George W. Sanfason had been expelled for immoral conduct and for sending the results to determine bets in illegal poolrooms. The decision stated the individual has the same right as news reporters to transmit results.
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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 convention of Railway Mail Clerks will stay in session here until the charges of extravagance preferred by former Auditor J J Mulligan are thoroughly thrashed out.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
J. J. Mulligan
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