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Washington Post

Location

Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America

Date

Oct 16, 1911

Page

14

Autoists Reach Gettys From Philadelphia

Glidden tourists arrive in Gettysburg after a warm welcome along the route from Philadelphia. The second day of the New York to Jacksonville run featured signs of greeting at every turn. Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia and Mayor McLean of Lancaster shared a luncheon with Jov Tener. Tourists were presented with souvenir watch fobs and heard a lecture on the battle of Gettysburg before departing for Staunton, Virginia, the next morning.

Philadelphia Gettysburg New York Jacksonville Jov Tener Phiadelphia Lancaster Gov. Hoke Smith Georgia McLean Gettyea Opera House Staunton

Laurel Race Entries Show Wide Field and Fast Track

Today's Laurel card lists races across all ages with selling and handicap events. Notable entrants include Affable, Black Silk, Magellan, Jenny Geddes, Latonia, and Princess Cal loway amid 2 to 4 mile steeplechases and sprint distances with track listed as fast to slow conditions.

Laurel Twosear Olde Marses Weabies Maxensius Jeanette Anna L Dey Grenada Js Cloud Cooney Magellan Ei Diebold Sir Nnson Prince Ahmed Lady Inca Sit Johnson Marie Sates Monck Tol Bac Pimlico Pu Heer Indaforces Miss Momenta Sunither Sonata Hanry Mad Joe Kittery Fiton Harlem Lass New River Mary Emly Filson Glenmore Alfred Noble Jennie Wells Bherwood Latonia Jeddah Pr Watson John Robert Arcade Jor Kaiser Heyond Jenny Geddes Betty Fuller Bear Mack Eubanks Sir Blake Ad Upwand Housemaid Love Not Grover Hughes Raleigh Selting Edna Colline Mockler Console Silver Knight GM "Miller Alle Mise Minnie Bell Horse Campbell O'Ryan Cat Ashme

Busy Foxhound wins Brunswick Club trials awards

Busy, a fox hound owned by Otis Dannell of Tilton New Hampshire, earned the highest general average in the Brunswick Fox hound Club twenty third annual trials at Brunswick Mass. and is awarded the Hitchcock championship cup for one year the Pope memorial cup the Woodstock panel cup and the Huyler cup.

Attdine Brunswick Club Byrre Mass Busy Otis Dannell Tilton N. H Brunswick Foxhound Club

Quint to Start Practice for Georgetown Prep Basketball

Georgetown Prep opens practice in Ryan gymnasium after a call for candidates. C Partridge runs the embryo collections. Heyward Hawkins named assistant manager. Capt. Martin comments on strong material. Prof. Joyce will coach. The Preps face a tough schedule but aim to win all listed games.

Georgetown Ryan Gymnasium C. Partridge Heyward Hawkins Martin Joyce

Vanderbilt Horse Wins Grand Criterium at Longchamp

W K Vanderbilt's Montrose I won the Grand Criterium at Longchamp in Paris on October 15. The stakes totaled 8000 dollars for a mile race for two year olds.

Vanderbilt Paris W. K. Vanderbilt Longchamps

Unsolved New York Murders Chronicle Across Years

The New York Evening Telegram revisits hundreds of unsolved homicides in Manhattan and the Bronx from 1906 to 1909, noting detective struggles and the rise of fingerprint work. It recalls cases from Elsie Sigel to the Kinman trunk murder, two stark examples among many in the era.

New York Evening Telegram New York City New York Sixth Avenue J Metropolis Manhattan Bronx Eisle Sigel Franz Sigel Eighth Avenue

Mysteries Of 1907 City Murders And Disappearances

A 1907 sequence of grim city crimes unfolds with the strangling of young Viola on June 27 in a second avenue tenement cellar after a disappearance thought to be kidnapping. Reports recount heavy police searches, a ransom-like reward, and a case left unsolved. Also noted are the fatal stabbing of Richard Brewer near 18th street and Washington avenue on Oct 26, 1907, and the hammer murder of Girolamo Cella at a West Broadway wine importer in Feb 1908, each deepening the era’s elusive crime wave.

Bronx Alice G. D. Kinnan Washington Avenue Second Avenue Viole Viola Richard Brewer 18Th Street Girolamo Cella Italian Chamber of Commerce West Broadway

40 Hour Devotions Begin At West Baptist Church

Evangelical services opened at West Baptist Church with Rev Clark addressing former parishioners. A procession featured children and a new choir led by Miss Mary Sullivan sang Gouod’s convent mass as a 40 hour devotion continued through today. Masses scheduled for 8 30 oclock this morning and tomorrow morning. Parishioners planned to join a Baltimore parade.

West Baptist Church Rev. Clark Valentine Schmitt St. Joseph's Father Schmitt Edward F. Coyle St. Charles College Charles J. Hess Ignatius Fealy Henry A. Hornig Mary L. Sullivan Baltimore Father Wealy Ires H. Mayton T. W. Bush New Haven, Conn Wharton

New Term On Today Road Involving Federal Claims

The United States Court of Claims opens its fall session with major cases seeking damages and patent royalties from the government. Notable filings include Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad damages of 61 million, Capt. John J Knapp patent royalties claim, and Purcell Envelope Company contract dispute. More than 185 cases are pending as the term begins, with many spoliation and other claims listed.

United States Court of Claims Missouri, Kansas and Texas Frank G. Farnham Honesdale John J. Knapp U. N Purcell Envelope Company Postoffice Department Charles Emory Smith Clauss United States Cnlier Congress

New Christian Science Church to Sell Old Building at Fifteenth and R

Rapid construction underway at Columbia Road and Champlain and Euclid Streets for a new First Church of Christ Scientist house of worship. The sale of the current Fifteenth and R Street NW property, occupying about 8 by 8 feet lot with 8,700 square feet, follows. Wilige Gibbs Daniel Real Estate Corp. named exclusive agents. The existing red brick building features two auditoriums for about 1,600 worshippers and was formerly St. Paul’s Methodist Church. Samuel J. Richey Dies at 59 in Luray Virginia, longtime Page County treasurer and Democratic leader.

Lucien Clark Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church Clark Washington, Distrit M. HE First Church of Christ, Scientist Columbia Road Champlain and Euclid Streets Fifteenth Christian Scientists Washington St. Paul's Methodist Church Christian Science Church Willige, Gibbs & Daniel Real Estate Corporation Samuel L. Richey Washington Post Luray Samuel J. Richey Page County Bright

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