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Newspaper

Washington Post

Location

Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America

Date

Oct 21, 1918

Page

4

Obituary notices from a 1918 newspaper page

A dense list of death notices and funeral arrangements. Names include Irene, Royer, Gerber, Cheeney, Cassody, Openhav er, Gertrude Olden, Grove, Lair, Frolich, Garrett, Goodwin, Hudson, IreLan, Joyce, Keefe, Koontz, Lubey, Lunn, and Lunn family members. Details mention dates October 18 19 20 21 1918, locations such as Fifth Street Northeast and Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, and funeral procedures with private interments and chapel services.

Irene Rrate Eines Cassidy Gerber Yep Loresday Cheeney Tridur Fredrreh Finn Cheeney Banark Road Revd Creek Saterday Tlbpo Smala Cheenes Copenhaver Thirsilig Keokuk Mor Jove Joseph NO Crome Anal Toms Uris Tonecal Fren North Wes Mount Olivet Erperers A.c Langles Val Dyra Mars Ponaldsen Cuuerab Langer Mm Buesdaa Deraier de Uemerers Satha Bartell Heispital Ano Capel Sergeoon Oyeorh Street Sean le Koavenime Ar Derrett Mina Bell Mae Jaere- Frolich -Medhden Puxedo Raliesrise Dorth Kate Adasen Dager Garrett Garrett On Umday, October 18, 148, Att S40 Pom Weldtam Asfiton Besbondeo Jackson Garrett Berrymlace Northrat Taek Reek Venerery Pile Undriday Tober Apoysiex Togeral Massa Ouretts Gvenne Mundas Meteber Beelergarmen Met Goodwin Ney Fifth Street Putas Co Tate Thasion Mannen Tate Thasion Mannen | Femneral From the Chapel of William H. Syrdo Ober Pat Camp Sherman Ohio Thomas Joyce Galway Ireland Ellen Mr Fenald Pennsylvania Avenue Pittsburgh Keefe Blanche Vr John DP Martha A Keefen Wright Tenth Street Koontz Wary M Bears R. Koontz Thiteenth Street New York Baltimore Lubey Ite Col. Vy. Lube North Carolina Avenue Lunn Fifteenth Street Bessie M. Lunn Crom Perente Myre B. Baten L” mL

Flu Restrictions Easing Hinted as Death Toll Rises

Health officials report a continuing drop in influenza deaths with 44 in the latest 24 hour period and 1 087 total in the city. Br. Fowler cautions against rapid relaxation, though progress is seen, while a separate emergency station for colored patients is set up at Armstrong School and coffin shortages persist.

Armstrong School Otra Viginia Avenue Hospital Navy Mount Rainier Public Health Service Armstrong Manual Training School P Street Second Theid A .M. Curtis W. A. Warnield B. EB. Roberts Ooffins

Death of Washington editor Kane Dougherty and wife

Kane Dougherty a Washington newspaper man died of pneumonia after a week of illness at his brother Emmet Dougherty's home. He came to Washington in 1913, worked for the Washington Times, and later joined the Chicago Tribune bureau. He is survived by two young daughters, his mother, and three sisters. The couple's bodies will be taken to Ottumwa for burial.

Kane Dougherty Washington Emmet Dougherty Columbia Road Northwest Dougherty National Capital Ottumwa Iowa Washington Times Chicago Tribune Martha Loutee Catherine

Obituary notices from a 1918 Washington area page

A series of death notices and funeral arrangements from October 1918 list multiple residents and relatives. Entries include Lynn, Marshall, Mulguin, McClellan, McElroy, Nolte, Perry, Richards, Rosser, Sanders, Scala, Sefton, Smith, Nell, Rittenhouse, Tufts, and Van Dyke. Details cover dates, addresses, and funeral times, with interments at Arlington and Rock Creek cemeteries and private services noted.

Lynn Oteter Mer Trenk Lynss Catherine J. Brittain New Cin Street Philadelphia Marshall Malin Otella Figdne Oris Placer Mulguin James T Daines Matilda Musguin McClellan Vene Fort Myer Val Margaret Vecnardette McLellan Mee Burke Dohn Bernant McClellan S A GL F At & O'Elor McElroy Iin Weashingen John Riron A William Henry Gertrude L. McElroy Tallimore Pheanixviile Nolte Nora Wil Nelle Iven Rhos Taland Avenue St. Mary's Cemetery Perry Alicn Weaver Thomas W. Perry Cate Manda Atsop Richards Charles S Huabanily Bergman Richards Lanbert B. William B Raph G. Richards Ruth R. Beane Mary R. Woodward M. Rosser Leonard Young Mary Cl Rosser Arlington Cemetery Banders St. Elizabeth's Hospital Hog EB. Sanders Kemalna Yhompa Cogtello Finneral Soala Mary Emma Scala Hundley Fer Chester A Dorris M. Sicala Sefton Georgetown University Hospital Eckloft Albert H. Sefton McKinley Etreet Chevy Chare Sarah Rittenhouse Charles L. Well Ariington Lufte Loring William C Glenn Tufts Wright Fenth Street Rock Creek Cemetery van Dyke Mary Elizabeth Weston HB. van Dyke Bile

Night flight patrols search German lines near Verdun

American aviators conducted nightly patrols northwest of Verdun in a first for the force. Bernheimer and Bagby flew five-machine sorties under heavy rain and low clouds, reporting valuable observations from around St Mihiel despite bullets piercing wings and constant anti aircraft fire.

Pershing Verdun Associated Press St. Mihiel Tours Bernheimer New York City Ralph Baghy New Haven Dun Meuse Bernheimer Bagby Bes

Doctors Urge No Medicines to Weaken Vital Forces

Edward P. Davis, head of the volunteer medical services corps, appeals to state and county health leaders to cooperate with local boards in influenza defense. He warns against unnecessary surgery and medicines that depress the heart, urges emergency hospitals and districted communities, and calls for self-reliant medical care with simple sterilization, beds, and masks to fight the epidemic.

Edward P. Davis Volunteer Medical Services Corps Council of National Defense National Boards of Health Davis Army Navy

Flies Home to Diné With Parents

Warrenton New York October 20 Lieutenant Samuel M Connell stationed Langley Field Newport News Virginia instructor in aviation flew here at noon in an airplane to pay for the purpose of taking lunch with his parents The flight was made in little more than an hour This is the first time that a North Carolinian has visited his home by airplane Connell left at 2 o'clock on his return trip

Warrenton N. Y Samuel M. Connell Langley Field Newport News Trent. Connell

Three German Defensive Lines Form a Barrier to Allies

New York Oct 20 The past three months show a German defensive system built around three main lines with a trunk from the Swiss frontier to Metz and branches to the Meuse Aisne and Scheldt. The Meuse line from Dun to Namur Brussels Antwerp connects with the Hunding line. a third line along the Metz frontier with forts near Strassburg and the Vosges supports a strong Rhine defense. If breached, Germans would retreat to the Saar Kaiserslautern region or across the Rhine, the western moat protected by river barriers and fortified towns from Lahr to Wesel. The Meuse and Rhine rivers, plus canals near Brussels and Antwerp, offer critical defensive adjacencies aided by tanks.

Associated Press New York France Belgium Swiss Metz Meuse Namur Brussels Antwerp Belgian Flanders Aisne Rethel Dun Argenne Forest Guise Solesmes Valenciennes Scheldt Conde Tournai Ghent Sedan Mezieres Dinant Strassburg Voages Mets Briey Luxemburg Holland Coblenz Marshal Foch Germany Bonn Cologne Rhine Tolland Teutonic Castle Lahr Offenburg Rastatt Karlsruhe Mannheim Darmstadt Wiesbaden Bendorf Kalk Densburg Wesel Nindenburg

Serbs Capture More Territory As Allied Push Grows

A Serbian official statement reports Sokobanja seized on the 17th and continued advance on the front. Two thirds of Serbia has been reconquered as resistance weakens, with Bulgarians and Germans retreating under French and Serbian pressure. The article notes food and fuel gains for the army, a split Bulgarian division, and captures including an Austrian general near Nish.

Associated Press London Sokobanja Vienna Morava Zajacar Serbia Saloniki Byte Associated Press Monastir Alban Holly Nish Sofi

Promised Dane Unkept as Ohio Editor Dies in Hospital

Bernard Daily, 38, once a Toledo political figure during Warand Whitlock’s mayoralty, dies after Spanish influenza at War Emergency Hospital near the corner of Avenue and Eighteenth Street Northeast. Secretary of War Baker visited, pursued family contact, and sought to aid Daily’s relatives. Denmark signals treaty terms with Germany. Schleswig Holstein plebiscite provision allegedly unfulfilled since 1864.

Bernard Laily The Worum Ohio Warand Whitlock Toledo War Emergency Hospital Eighteenth Street Daily Washington Newton D. Baker Baker Amsterdam Denmark Germany Vaderland Schleswi Holstein Jaanenburg Prussia Schleswig Paris Schleswig-Holstein

W Cheeney and Wife Die of Influenza in Providence

Frederick W. Cheeney aged 33 and his wife aged 28 died in Providence Hospital after influenza. Their children Margaret 6 and Frederick Jr 4 are seriously ill with influenza and diphtheria. Cheeney was a nine year veteran of the city fire department stationed at truck house No 6.

Frederick W. Cheeney Park Road

Outwit Escaped Gunman Gaffney Captured in New York

Vincent Gaffney, a young gunman who escaped Tombs prison after manslaughter conviction, was nabbed in North Bergen, New Jersey, then brought back to New York. An attempted escape on a ferry ended when a detective searched him and a pistol failed to fire. he was unconscious after a blow with a nightstick. He claimed the revolver was slipped to him by a North Bergen officer.

New York Vincent Gaffney Tombs North Margen Wn.i Gaffney North Bergen Gray

Will Extend Aviation Practice New York Announcement

Prominent business leaders from New York Baltimore Chicago and San Francisco led by Reginald Vanderbilt have acquired land at Lloyds Neck Long Island to expand aviation practice for government use. A clubhouse is planned for social use after the war. Fire Captain Killed at Blaze in Detroit

New York Baltimore Chicago San Francisco Reginald’ ¢. Vanderbilt Lloyd’s Neck L. I

FLED HU PRISONER AFTER TEN MONTHS ESCAPES

Private Herbert Batchelor of the Forty-eighth Canadian Highlanders describes escaping German confinement after ten months via a night march across Westphalia into Holland. He recounts a trek from a blown sap and sapping operation, subsisting on bread and coarse soup, with many prisoners starving and dying. He plans to return to Vancouver, British Columbia.

Atlantic Part Get Westphalia Holland Herbert Batchelior Vancouver British Columbia Batchelor Germany

Chicago flier downs Hun in Verdun raid

Will Ervin of Chicago had a busy day near Verdun on Friday. Early in the morning he downed a German airplane near Fleville and later served as a scout protecting bombing units during the all American raid behind German lines.

Verdun Associated Press Will Ervin Chicago Fleville

Poincare Dines With Americans in Paris Lunch Meeting

President and Mme Poincare hosted lunch in Paris with the American labor mission. Ambassador Sharp and the foreign labor and marine ministers attended. Samuel Gompers was absent due to his daughter’s death in Washington earlier this week.

Paris Mme. Poncare Ambassador Sharp Samuel Gompers Washington

Cardinal Gibbons honored on fiftieth bishop anniversary

Baltimore October events marking Cardinal Gibbons golden jubilee include international delegations from France Ireland Belgium Canada Mexico and the United States. A $50000 Catholic archdiocese purse and official papal envoy Cerretti announced by Vatican due to influenza.

Baltimore France Gland Belgium Ireland Canada Mexico Cardinal Gibbons Tushop F. W . Keating Northampton England Maugene L. Julien Arras Juaser Washington United States Benedict Baltmore Mer Cerretti Vatican United State

American fund to honor Spring-Rice memorial fund

In a ceremony at Eton College an American fund was launched to honor Sir Cecil Spring-Rice the late British ambassador to the United States. Lady Spring-Rice's letter expresses thanks and outlines a fund to provide education and maintenance for his two children and later support Balliol College Oxford traveling scholarships for diplomatic language study. A Norwegian torpedo boat ran aground near Bergen on Tuesday per received actions.

Mrom England Eton College Cecil Spring- Race United States Gerald Balfour Lady Spring-Taee Joe Morgan Apring-Rice Sirecu Dushing Tive Balliot College Oxford Balliot Cecil Broeckholm Gergen Actiees

Germans Assess American Soldiers in St Mihiel Raid

A captured German intelligence note discusses American troops in the St Mihiel operation. It notes Americans fear captivity, strong defensive discipline, skilled machine gun handling, and effective infantry artillery cooperation. The document remarks few tanks used and praises American honor toward stretcher bearers.

Proax France St. Mihiel St Mihiel Thiru Court St. Mithiel Salient

German School Blown Up Near Schumm Village

A German Lutheran school at Schumm in Van Wert County was wrecked by dynamite early this morning. Reported across the line into Indiana, the blast damaged the building and injured a teacher named George Mayers born in Wisconsin to Swiss parents.

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