Commuters Fight New One Way Ticket Prices
Washington Post reports the Washington-Winwinia Railway seeks higher fares from Alexandria to Washington and Mount Vernon. The current one way fare is 16 cents with 25 cent round trip. monthly passes cost 4.05. The company asks 25 cents each way and 40 cent round trip, with monthly passes rising to 6.25.
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Washington Post
Bubead
King Street
Alexandria
Washington-Winwinia Railway Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
We Railway Company
St. Mary's
Royal Street
Garde
Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation
Mount Vernon
Welcome Home Celebration for Colored Soldiers Held
A welcome home event for colored veterans is planned in the city with a reception at Shiloh Baptist Church last night and a parade at 3 PM followed by a banquet at Colored Pad Fellows Hall. The Friendship Council No 28, Sons and Daughters of Liberty, announces entertainment tomorrow in honor of Mrs Emily C Bobbitt of Richmond, past State chancellor of the order in Virginia.
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Shiloh Baptist Church
Import of German Dyes Set for Six Month Supply
The wet trade board will permit import of a six month dye supply from Germany for U S manufacturers. Manufacturers must file with the board detailed statements of total dye quantities required for the six month period starting October 1.
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Germany
Wet Trade Board
Mrs. Mattie A. Lewis Leaves Charitable Bequests in Will
Mrs. Mattie A. Lewis probate filing details liberal bequests to charity. The Church of the Epiphany receives 500 dollars memorializing her daughter Miss MC Franc Lewis, and 1000 dollars to the Protestant Episcopal Church of Philadelphia relief fund for disabled clergy in memory of her late husband Frank J. Lewis. Bell Home of Washington gets 500 dollars, St. Mark's Episcopal Church Waterville Me 200 dollars, and her brother Bengame i Masaié is bequeathed 4000 dollars plus a residuary interest. Mattie L. Massie is left 1000 dollars under similar conditions.
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Mattie A. Lewis
Church of the Epiphany
Testsirice
MC Franc
Lewis
Protestant Episcopal Church of
Philadelphia
Frank J. Lewis
Packers and Packers Industry Praise for Market Stability
Quotes from farmers and ranchers across Oklahoma Texas Utah Iowa and New York extol packers as the main drivers of efficient live stock markets noting open markets fair competition and immense benefits to producers. They warn proposed legislation would harm producers by ceding control to incompetents and disrupt refrigerator car access.
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Forth Worth
Oklahoma
East St. Louis
East Side Packing Company
St. Louis
Estate trust names in Washington notice
Mrs Harriet B McCullough died at her home at 1736 Thirteenth Street NW and left her entire estate in trust with James Capehurst of Point Pleasant WV for the sole benefit of her husband Samuel McVey McCullough. Louis R Peak was named executor among the beneficiaries Evalyn Schrelner and Florence Lewis the ring godchildren and Alpert Lewis- vlan race Evalyn Schrelner and Florence Lewis are also beneficiaries plus executors named.
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Harriet B. McCullough
Thirteenth Street
James Capehurst
Point Pleasant
W. Vs
Samuel McVey McCalloush
Rioting in Knoxville Ends as Guardsmen Withdraw
National guardsmen on riot duty in Knoxville, Tennessee, were relieved and police resumed normal patrols. Sixteen men and one woman were arrested for rioting as a grand jury prepares to charge Maurice Mayen in the murder that sparked the outbreak. More than 250 weapons were returned to hardware stores after a joint advertisement.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Maurice Mayen
Bertie Lindsey
Oldest Men in World Plans Insurance for 131st Birthday
Lexington Kentucky September 2 Uncle Johnny Sheil, perhaps the oldest man alive, nears 131st birthday and asks a life insurance policy. The agent notes the rate card only covers up to 105 years and works to determine if Uncle Johnny can be insured.
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Lexington
Johnny" Sheil
Sonny
Johnny
A P Gorman Jr Dies in Baltimore
State Tax Commissioner Arthur P. Gorman Jr. died at Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore on September 3 at age 46 after a period of ill health. He was son of the late U S Senator Arthur P Gorman and had served in the Maryland State Senate and as head of the State tax commission. His death followed a period of illness and a nervous breakdown. He helped rally Howard County Democrats in the primaries from his Laurel home.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
Arthur P. Gorman, Jr
United States
Arthur P. Gorman
John Hopkins Hospital
Gorman
State Tax Commission
Laurel
Howard County
Mr. Gorman
State Senate
Goldsborough
Food swindle in containers
Officials propose a pure food act amendment to ban covert price increases from half filled or deceptive packaging. The measure targets slack filled and other misleading containers, notably spices cereals and canned goods inflated with added liquids.
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Haugen
House Agriculture Committee
Co. F. Marvin
Agriculture Department
Postal Salaries Probe Seeks Equitable Pay for District Staff
The joint commission on postal salaries sent 500 clerks in the city post office a 35 question questionnaire due September 20. Carriers will be surveyed next, to aid the commission in setting a new salary scale. Cecil A Beastey, secretary, will receive the responses.
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Joint Commission
Dity
Cecil'a Beastey
Joint Commission On Postal Salaries
Joint Congressional Commission On
Senate hearing urges reform of army court martial procedures
Minneapolis lawyer William Bissell Thomas told a Senate military subcommittee that several court martial sentences abroad were harsh for minor offenses. He described his own four month prison camp sentence in France and cited cases like Paul Smith of Bisbee Arizona who was kept in hospital confinement and forced to work among Austrian prisoners. Thomas noted several enlisted men waited about 40 days in guardhouses before trial and many faced confinement before prosecution.
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Senate Military Subcommittee
William Bissell Thomas
Minneapolis
Chamberlain
Baker
Kennan Board
Thomas
France
Paul Smith
Bisbee
Ariz
Chateau Thierry
Smith
Pullmans Less Crowded in 1919
Figures released by the director general of rail roads show 702 Pullman cars handled out of Washington during the Labor day period in 1919, up from 630 in 1918. Total passengers dropped to 36 699 from 47 800 and revenue to 203 823.29 dollars from 262 535.27 dollars due to fewer furloughed service members.
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Washington
Director General of Railroads
Railroads Show July Surplus After Months of Deficit
Director General Hines reports preliminary July figures indicate net operating income of 77 million dollars for railroads. After rent allocation, the net gain sits near 2 million, reversing deficits of 22.0 million the prior month and 65.0 million in February. Government loss for seven months totals 290.5 million. The wage increase for shopmen not yet settled could shave about 45 million from gains.
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Hines
Railroad finances show July deficit risk and freight rebound
The report notes a retroactive 000,000 yearly surplus becoming a July deficit nearly equal in amount. Mr Hines cites continuing freight business decline as a major factor, though earnings improved since February. Compared with July 1918, operating income fell about 44 percent, while freight traffic rose about 25 percent above the three year July average. passenger traffic also increased.
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Hines
Railroad Administration
Countess Szechenyi Gets Special Pass to U S
Countess Laezle Szechenyi formerly Gladys Vanderbilt sails from Europe to New York on a state issued special pass not affecting the ban on enemy subjects. Her husband is a Hungarian nobleman and she may be the first enemy power subject to visit the United States since the war.
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Laezle Szechenyi
Gladys Vanderbilt
Europe
New York
Bheen
State, Department
Szechenyi
Man stoned car on Marlboro pike near Capitol Heights
While returning from Chesapeake Beach with his wife and family, W. A. Dixon a fireman from No. 12 engine house, was involved in an incident on the Marlboro pike near Capitol Heights Maryland as his automobile was stoned by several young men. The report notes one participant among the assailants but provides limited further detail.
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Chesapeake Beach
W.A. Dixon
No. 12
Marlboro Pike
Capitol Heights
Attack by Jabones Ends in Child Injury in Marlboro
Dixon reported that at least six men attacked a child, striking the head with a blunt blow. He pursued on foot after stopping his car but the assailants disappeared. Marlboro authorities were notified and promised an investigation.
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Jabones
Dixon
Federation plan proposed for veterans groups nationwide
Omaha report says C E Adams will urge at Columbus to federate the Grand Army of the Republic American Legion Spanish War Veterans and other patriotic groups to promote Americanism and unified action against anti government influences. New York note says Negro World War veterans may join the American Legion with post and state composition tests set by national leaders.
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Omaha
C. E. Adams
Grand Army of the Republic
Columbus
American Legion
Imander Adams
New York
Henry D. Linasley
National Executive Committee
Canadians to affiliate with British and American veterans groups
Ottawa report says a resolution calling for affiliation between the Great War Veterans of Canada and the British Great War Veterans of America was adopted by the Dominion body executives. The move would align the American organization with the Canadian association if the latter’s main principles are adopted.
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Ottawa
Great War Veterans of Canada
British Great War Veterans of America
United States
Canadian ‘Association
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