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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1906
Page
3
Bureau of Labor reports show average wage earners gained 16.7 percent per week since 1894 and 12.9 percent since 1890 while hours fell. Prices for food rose, yet purchasing power increased, with employment up 22 percent since 1890 and total weekly wages up 60.7 percent over 1880s figures.
Multiple short death notices and funeral announcements dated October 1906 and October 1908. Records mention Mrs. C. M. Andrews widow of J. Andrews, Elizabeth Flodstrom, Evelyn Hall, Henry Winke, Samuel F. D. Ourand, John Dougherty, Annie M. Parker, and Mary Agnes Smith. Details include addresses, funeral times, and burial locations such as Rock Creek Cemetery and Holy Rood Cemetery.
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The present era has seen a surge in agricultural and raw materials prices while manufactured goods rose less. Faster freight reductions stem from railroad investments in tracks, grades, and engines, offsetting higher labor and material costs. A hundred million dollar rail program is planned for trunk lines this year, with extensive expansion across the South and beyond the Mississippi.
Officials face difficulty proving conspiracies when a key stockholder link lies overseas. Proposals seek national filings of sworn stockholder lists and holding company bonds, with London books open to U.S. inspectors. Passage hinges on addressing dummy ownership and ensuring full transparency before any business proceeds.
Abram F. Springsteen of 914 H Street NW seeks a permit to march from the Peace Monument to Fort Myer by drumming nonstop from Civil War days. He claims to be the youngest Union soldier, enlisted at age 11, later captured at Franklin and rerecruited as a drummer boy. Permits were unavailable due to missing headquarters staff.
Isaac Spears a fourteen year old colored boy burned in a gasoline explosion will leave City Hospital tomorrow with skin grafts from white donors. Large areas were needed to cover his body creating a leopardlike appearance. Amputated leg skin from Edgar Drake and other whites was used. Spears wonders if the white skin will turn black.
Wilkesbarre Pa October 14 Bishop Hoban dedicated a large new Slay Catholic church funded largely by Father Joseph Murgas the wireless telegraph inventor. Murgas claimed his system sends messages ten times faster than existing telegraphy and has earned him a substantial sum to advance his church and develop further inventions.
An excerpt notes bankers in St Louis drafting a bill to stabilize currency and influence Congress. The speaker pledges a practical solution and anticipates a notable achievement in the sound adjustment of the American financial system once the convention adjourns.
At sixteenth street station in Oakland a footpad tried to rob a street car at 1 AM. He fatally wounded motorman John M. Tenny and night watchman William P. Trubedy. Conductor Samuel, counting money, watched as the bandit fired before retreating. police pursued a description matching a recent burglar suspect.
Special to The Washington Fuss reports steps to restore the heroic wooden Andrew Jackson figurehead of the historic Constitution frigate. The head, stolen sixty-eight years ago by Cape Cod naval officer Capt Samuel Dewey, will be replaced after long custody by the Brewers brothers of Dracht. Efforts also seek the ship's discovered wheel at Port Washington.
The Knights of Pythias special train bound for New Orleans left Nashville at 1 PM and wrecked an hour later at White's Bluff twenty five miles west on the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis line. One man was killed and another badly scalded. Passengers suffered a severe shaking up.
A wireless message from Bluefields Nicaragua to New Orleans reports a severe hurricane in Port Simon Costa Rica causing about 250000 dollars in damage to rubber and banana crops along with other property losses.
Valentine Tex Oct 14 The first shipment of elephants to stock the large Elephant Ranch being established by J P Adams and associates of New York arrived today There are four females and one male in the shipment More shipments will follow as the ranch aims to stock about 100 females and several males It is said to be the first large scale elephant breeding experiment in the country.
The tenth annual convention of the Sunday School Institute of the Diocese of Washington will meet at the Church of the Epiphany on Tuesday and Wednesday October 16 and 17. Tuesday includes a service and sermon at 5 p.m. followed by elections and addresses in the afternoon. The bishop will celebrate communion on Wednesday. The aim is open discussion among clergy teachers and others in the diocese. Also notes on ocean steamer movements with arrivals and departures at Queenstown Gibraltar and New York, including Umbria and Wonderland, with expected dockings and speeds.
Special to The Washington Post from Kingston New Jersey Oct 14 A man working as a kiln burner at a local brick yard was shot in the back by a rival worker after a quarrel. This marks the third murder in the brick yard area near the city within a month as the assailant lay in ambush and fired on the victim.
In Quincy Massachusetts on October 14 Rev Robert H Harlow a retired Baptist clergyman and Harvard class 141 aged ninety died. He was among the oldest Harvard graduates with Col Thomas Wentworth Higginson noted as the sole surviving member of that class.
Charles Chick Stahl captain-manager of the Boston Americana will wed Julia Harmon a Roxbury brunette and accomplished musician. The ceremony is planned for early next month at the Church of St Francis de Sales.
The military hospital at the Presidio in Monterey California was destroyed by fire last evening. The two story building burned completely but all patients were removed safely with no casualties reported. The blaze was caused by an explosion in a storage tank.
A falls accident in a saloon leads to two people dropping down an elevator shaft. The report notes witness statements and hospital status for the injured, with no further details on the condition or outcome.
Edward Hurdle died at Emergency Hospital shortly before 2 this morning from injuries after his buggy went over an embankment at Sixth and B streets southwest. He was thirty, resided at 806 Second Street Northwest, and ran a timing business at 608 Louisiana Avenue Northwest. The injured co-traveler George McCay of 216 Canal Street Southwest was said to be in precarious condition.
President Roosevelt spent yesterday afternoon horseback riding in the countryside, preferring good weather for the sake of his horses. He rarely rides in stormy conditions, and Sundays find him trudging along the Hock Creek or the towpath of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal when the weather is favorable and supporters join in braving rain or shine.
A frightened fourteen year old Negro boy named Jesse Johnson led detectives through New Jersey avenue before being cornered by Detective Mermilton. Johnson, wanted for cutting Clifford Mosby, was arrested after a pursuit that saw a car involved and injuries requiring hospital treatment for Mosby.
Paris Oct 14 The Temps reports a statement attributed to Giuseppe Garibaldi's view of Bismarck claiming he would have created a German republic rather than unite under the Hohenzollerns if the king resisted. Palamenghi Crigpi notes Crisi of Baden disputes this quote and cites Cripsi documents supporting Bismarck’s loyalty to Austria in earlier times.
The Standard reports government plans to remove twenty efficient ships from active duty by year end to save costs. Four Majestic class battleships will exit the Channel and Atlantic fleets. two from the Mediterranean. Formidable class ships similarly reassigned. Royal Sovereign group will be placed in home reserve without crews. four larger cruisers paid off.
Nine people were killed and nineteen seriously injured when a locomotive crashed into a French passenger train at Epernon station in the Loire department. The collision occurred as the train stood at the station, with many others lightly hurt. Police later raided a residence on McCullough Place, arresting Mary Burka for selling liquor without a license. a gallon of whisky and some gin were seized.
Report recounts a fatal farmstead massacre: Barney Hamilton and family accused of murdering Parsons and his wife along with three children. Bodies dumped in Big Piney Creek after a shotgun attack and brutal blows. Hamilton allegedly confessed. other unrelated crime notes follow.
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