Water Rushes In as Richmond Flood Reaches Peak
Heavy damage to real estate and merchandise in submerged districts of Richmond as the freshet rises across Main and Franklin Streets. Thousands lose work as plants suspend operations, stores flood, and travelers use improvised ferries while wharves and riverfronts flood and the Porgwicke steamer cannot reach its Norfolk wharf.
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Lower Main
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Cary
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Main Street
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Main
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Fifteenth Street
Presbyterians Hear Addresses on Mission and Brotherhood Movement
West Virginia Synod of the Presbyterian Church adjourned its annual meeting in Morgantown as Rev. John Calvin Meade of Philadelphia and Rev. Day of New York spoke on mission and brotherhood. Home and foreign mission causes were outlined. meetings are planned in Menongeli Yerra Alta Clarksburg Grafton Parkersburg and French Creek through February. Wheeling chosen for next gathering.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Synod of
West Virginia
Presbyterian Church
John Calvin Meade
Philadelphia
Evangeliste Board
Mr. Day
New York City
Brotherhood Movement
Craig
Home Mission Movement
David McConahey
New Road to Jamestown Prompts Exposition Help
Williamsburg citizens' committee led by T H Geddy W A R Goodwin and H N Philips sought $10,000 from the Jamestown Exposition Company to aid a Williamsburg Jamestown Island turnpike project. Norfolk visit aimed to secure an appropriation as board members favored support. local and railroad pledges total $17,000 with county and town contributions planned.
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Expositio Company
Washington Post
Williamabore
Jamestown Island
T. H. Geddy
W. A. R Goodwin
H. N. Philips
Citizens’ Committee
Norfolk
Jamestown Exposition Company
Exposition Board
Board of Supervisors
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
Presbyterians Celebrate Birth Fay at Timber Ridge Virginia
Dense clipping describes religious observances at Timber Ridge Virginia with mentions of Rev Fredericksburg Her Paz and a reference to a birth day service. It abruptly shifts to labor unrest with Southern Railway strike action and arbitration attempts.
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Timber Ridge
Stephens City Wins Right to Elect Mayor and Council
In Winchester Virginia October 22 a large group of Stephens City residents asked Circuit Judge T W Harrison to appoint a mayor and town council. After deliberation Harrison granted the request, ending years of county supervision and placing municipal affairs in the hands of elected officials. Residents allege a conspiracy to seize the public square and sell building plots to highest bidders. They vow to defend the town title, pledge support for the new government, and retain eminent counsel to protect Stephens City's rights to the public square.
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Winchester
Stephena City
T. W Harrison
Circuit Court
Harrison
Board of County Supervisors
Stephens City
Lewis Stevens
Roanoke Dog Ordinance Sparks Stormy Council Session
Roanoke Virginia October 22 The ordinance committee discussed a dog control measure proposed by L H Davis. The draft required leashing dogs on streets while some members favored stronger rules of impounding dogs near owners premises with fines or dog forfeiture. The motion to leave it to a public vote drew mixed support among committee members.
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Washington Post
Roanoke
Roanoke Council
L. H Davis
Roy B Smith
Challenge to Vote Rights Overseen in Tennessee
Judge Tyler in Bristol has heard mandamus petitions to strike 800 veterans from Johnson City registration lists. The move targets veterans at the National Soldiers Home who registered to vote in the November election. Opponents say residents within the reservation cannot vote in Tennessee. Brownlow, a home board director and Republican candidate, is accused of influencing registrations. Judge Tyler has not yet ruled.
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Matthews In Sanitarium Amid Murder Conviction
Special to The Washington Post Raleigh New York Oct 2 Dr J B Matthews convicted in Greensboro of murder in the second degree for poisoning his wife with morphine and sentenced to twenty years. now in a Baltimore sanitarium on $5000 bond. His counsel appeals to the Supreme Court claiming North Carolina law has no second degree murder by poisoning. if guilty he should have faced death. Report notes morphine use may have driven him to insanity.
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Obituary notices from Virginia death roundup
Virginia obituaries report Dr O A Crenshaw aged eighty five dies after a week long illness in Richmond He practiced medicine over fifty years and was born in Charles City County He survived by wife and one daughter Salem Also John H Rhodes dies aged seventy one in Richmond from heart trouble and Mrs Sarah A Bickley widow of Hirem A Bickley dies aged seventy five in Bristol Other notices include Rosa Jackson former judge of the Court of Boone County Va and Mrs J Brooks King son of Joseph L King dies in Bristol and Danville resident Joseph Landon Tyack dies at sixty six in Danville after a stroke He served in the Confederate Army and was born in Richmond Sources note multiple obituaries across Virginia locations Oct entries Bristol Danville Richmond Madison County Westtown and Shouns.
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Crenshaw
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Salem
John H Rhodes
Bristol
Sarah A. Bickley
A. Bickley
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Julls T. Jackson
Ko $ Wo Jackson
Rosa Jackson
Boott County
Vaia
Shouns
Tea Brimiol
J Brooks King
Joseph L King
Frederickaburg
EF Loog
Madion County
Wasr Westtown
Eas
Danville
Joseph Landon Tyack
Samwel
Eleanor Tyeck
Tyack
Nan & Meter
Wube
Pane
Fragmented OCR Note Yields Little Readable Fact
Sparse readable words offer limited context with no clear event or names. The fragmentary text hints at a dating or marriage reference but lacks verifiable details. No identifiable persons, organizations, places, dates, or outcomes are extractable for a proper card.
Judge reveals bribery bid to alter disorderly house sentences
In Wheeling Ohio County, Judge T J Hughes confirmed county officials approached him with a proposal to murder sentences for inmates of disorderly houses. He declined the offer during his renomination campaign and later lost reelection by a few hundred votes. He will seek a grand jury investigation into the charge.
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Ohio County Criminal Court
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Appeals to the President
William A. Crowley, 37, was adjudged insane in Henrico County Magistrate's Court and ordered confined at Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg. He attacked his wife Friday night and threatened others, then wrote messages to government officials and a two thousand word telegram to President Roosevelt seeking his release.
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Richmond
William A. Crowley
Henrico County
Eastern State Hospital
Williamsburg
Crawley
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Personal crisis reports at Huntington cause two deaths
Huntington West Virginia Oct 22 two personal crisis reports this afternoon Edward Jordan 29 and Miss Maggie Clark 19 died after taking carbolic acid Minnie Hanover after 6 pm attempted morphine but expected to recover Special to The Washington Pose Lynchburg Va Oct 22 afternoon near Gladys on the Lynchburg and Durham division engine and emboree jumped track overturned rolled down embankment Conductor Frank Wright George Cooper and J W Taylor flagmen in the caboose suffered severe bruises.
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Huntington
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Edward Jordan
Maggie Clark
Minnie Hanover
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George Cooper
J W Taylor
Bonaparte's Tin-Gan Suit in Baltimore Court
Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte testified in Baltimore City Court facing an insult suit for 2723 dollars brought by Eleanor Merryman. The case, second trial after a prior Bonaparte victory, features detailed costs and a peculiar basis for the suit involving a tin can, coffee grounds, grease, and broken egg. Judge Sharp took the matter under advisement after a lively exchange over alleged mischaracterizations.
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Charles J. Bonaparte
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Eleanor Merryman
Latayette Avenue
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C Dodd McFayland
Papil M. Burnett
Merryman
Hending
Inage Blackbridge
Baer
Rumors of Johnsen's Capture Stir Alexandria
Rumors spread that Johnsen, accused in the murder, had been captured near Falls Church, prompting fears of lynching if found. Police and crowds hunted suspects through Alexandria as reports mounted of a search near Duka Street and the Episcopal High School. A woman trio charged in the case was jailed for ten days, while residents awaited funeral services for the murdered man.
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Locust Court
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Candler
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Tegre
Sarah Johnson
Mr. Smith
Gertrude Rotinzon
Rank Robinson
Johnson
Nicholson
Cora Conner
Worth Fairfax Strees
Episcopal High School
Alex West
Chietis
Lyles, Richolson
Oe Jones
Vague’s Confederate Justice Olive Aslme Highlighted at Reunion
A garbled reminiscence notes Olive Aslme of the Supreme Court beside a Confederate veteran scene. It mentions Balls Bluff injuries and a shift to form a permanent regiment under Col. Berkeley as commander. Annual reunions are planned henceforth.
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Balls Bluff
Ike
Virginia
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Wreckers prepare to float steamer Farwell near Norfolk
Special to The Washington Post Norfolk Va Oct 22 heavy weather delays efforts to salvage the steamship Farwell stranded inshore. Merritt Wrecking Company plans to begin work tomorrow to float or recover her cargo of timber while securing other vessels. Schooner Hana A Pogue arrives from Philadelphia with damaged masts and torn rigging. Tug Peerless sails to assist with the Charles Butler ashore at Little Bay as many ships remain stormbound in Hampton Roads.
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George Farwell
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Philadelphia
Bell
John A. Curtis
Baltimore
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Peerless
Charles Butler
Mystic
Conn
Little Bay
Windmill Point
Hampton Roads
$2 000 Jewel Robbery in Baltimore Store
Between 1 p m yesterday and 7 a m today the shop of M P Ley and Bro 42 Light street was robbed of watches diamonds and jewelry valued at 2000 The police are puzzled about entry and exit and believe the burglars were familiar with the place and method of operation.
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Spéblel
Washington Post
MP. Ley & Bro
Light Street
Winchester guardian case finds no fraud by Theodore Windle
In Winchester Virginia on October 22 Circuit Court Judge T W Harrison ruled that Theodore C Windle did not defraud his ward John A Kiger. The suit alleged Windle as guardian misused funds and claimed rent for ward property, but the court dismissed the complaint and Windle was cleared.
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Winchester
Washington Post
T. W. Harrison
Circuit
John A Kiger
Theodore C. Windle
Kiger
Windle
Eiger
sJao
Shot Weighing Evidence Opens Murder Trial
In Floyd Va on October 22 John W Richards faced murder charges for Maurice Francis. Dr Thomas testified he removed and weighed the shot from the dead man and compared it with shot from a bottle at the scene, calling the evidence highly damaging to the defense.
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John W. Richards
Maurice Francis
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