Maine Ballot Returns Show Democrats Gaining In Cities
Maine voters backed Democrats with statewide gains centered in urban areas and a reduced Socialist vote. William T Cobb led in the governorship race while Cumberland County swung Democratic with sheriff and senator elected. Roosevelt sent congratulations as Republicans claimed a strong statewide plurality and sweeping legislature prospects.
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Androscoggin
Cumberland
Knox
Lincoln
Cumberland County
Pennell
Simpson
Republican State Committee
Roosevelt
Bath
Sagadahoc
Skowhegan
Somerset County
Portland
William T Cobb
Draine
Maine
LICENSED TO MARRY AND MULTIPLE NAMES LISTED IN 1904 NOTICE
A dense 1904 marriage and death notices fragment lists numerous individuals including Caro te Dasta and Thomas gains, Carrie Brown, Patsy Blakes Woo, George Brown, and others. It references weddings, funerals, church rites, and cemetery interments with scattered dates and locations across New York City, Union VA, Warrenton VA, and Washington DC areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ceerge
Carrie Brown Tywis
Jen
Patsy Blakes
Woo Hertert
Health Office Record Deaths Rota to Freelmens Hospitel
Health office record lists deaths and hospital stays across multiple cases. It includes ages from 1 to 78, with hospitalizations at Freelmens and other facilities, dates and locations in Washington area such as Dumbarton Avenue and Anacostia, plus residences on K street and Filmore Avenue. The document notes names partially: Margaret, Eva, and others, with various durations and circumstances summarized in a terse ledger style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret FoMa
Neddow Chidren
Dumbarton Ave
Crabtree Court
Watter
Filmore Anacostia
Watkins
Ruri
EB Wonfeld
Ellerbe for Congress Defeats Scarborough in South Carolina Primary
Charleston reports incomplete returns from the second Democratic primary as Ellerbey is virtually assured the Sixth district seat over Scarborough. Weyl Sarle wins state railroad commissioner by a large majority over Mobley, and Patterson appears likely to win the Second District seat to succeed The Croft amid late returns.
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R. B. Scarborough
South Carolina
Charleston
J E Elllerbey
R. B Scarborough
HH Wsarle
G@ Mobley
OQ Patterson
Wayfield
Congress
the Croft
Regin
Deaths of Maj Ryals and others headlined notices
Major Garland M Ryals died in Saviantha at sixty five after leg amputation for diabetic gangrene. A Confederate veteran and former legislator born in Cumberland County Virginia, he was praised by generals Fitzhugh Lee J E B Stuart and John B Gordon. Widow and five children survive. Also listed: William H Chalmers of West Topsham Vermont, dead aboard the steamer New Hampshire from acute gastroenteritis. C A Turner of Macon Georgia, prominent Georgia lawyer, died in Vineville after nervous prostration and rheumatism. Col W H Patterson of Philadelphia, died at Russellville Tennessee, aged seventy, a writer and son of Gen Robert Patterson.
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Saviantha
Garland M Ryals
Maj Ryals
Cumberland County
Fitzhugh Lee
J E B Stuart
John B Gordon
Ryals
New London Conn
William H Chalmers
West Topsham
First Vermont Militia
Manassas
New Hampshire
Chalmers
Frivate Chalmers
Vermont
Macon
C A Turner
Georgia
Vineville
Barnesville
Baptist Church
Quitman
Knoxville Tenn
Col
W H Patterson
Philadelphia
Russellvile
Tenn
Robert Patterson
Explain carpenters' fight at council meeting disability unions withdrawl
At a Council of Allied Building Trades session in Washington last night a committee was appointed to draft a public statement on the suspension of the carpenters unions and the painters and decorators union leaving the council. The exodus left the Structural Building Trades Alliance with weaker ties. Five men scalded by steam at Worcester North works of American Steel and Wire Company after a twelve inch pipe exploded. Carl Harrickson died, others thought to recover.
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Council of Allied Building Trades
Sixth
G Streets
Carpenters
Painters and Decorators
D M. Desmond
H J Wells
E J Ratigan
Structural Building Trades Alliance
Council
Worcester
Maia
North Works
American Steel and Wire Company
Carl Harrickson
Train Hold‑Up in Iowa by Five Bandits
Five bandits held a Chicago Rock Island and Pacific passenger train near Letts Iowa at Whisky Hollow. They dynamited the express car safe but took no money, only merchandise and company papers. A $1000 reward was offered for capture.
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Express
Rock Island
Chicago Bandits
Des Moines
Iowa
Chicago, Hook Island and Pacific Railway
Letts
Muscatine
West Liberty
Davenport
Columbus Junction
Columbus
Junction
Chicago
Kansas City
Marx Wiedermeier
Vadine
Letts Town
Umerals
United States Express Company
Express Company
Hoss
Messenger Maguire
Rock Island Railroad
United States Express
Train Robbers in Trap Near Mount Lehman
Canadian Pacific express holdup men who seized $10,000 are believed surrounded in woods behind Mount Lehman near the Washington border. Police and detectives from three cities and CPRail are tracking the heavily armed band, using footprints and muddy trails to close in.
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Canadian Pacific
Vancouver
British Columbia
Canadian Pacific Railroad Express
Mount Lehman
Washington
Canadian Pacific Railway
Damages Deemed Excessive In Pitts Railway Suit
Lyons New York September 18 Supreme Court Justice Dunwell set aside as excessive damages of 35000 in favor of John H E Pitts a railway mail clerk of Corry Pennsylvania who sued New York Central and Hudson Railroad Pitts was a mail clerk on the fast mail ditched at Clyde May 2 1902 after collision with a freight train Pitts whose legs and right hand were paralyzed brought suit asking 75000 and was awarded 85000 by a July Foreign Service Veterans Officers Cincinnati Ohio September 13 national convention of the American Veterans of Foreign Service elected national commander Jam Romanis Columbus Ohio inspectors general three years C Q Johnson Portsmouth NH Charles Cronin Cincinnati and W A Ward Columbus Ohio Commander Romanis reelected will go to Pittsburg to confer with the Eastern association regarding amagamation of the two associations
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Lyons
Supreme Court
Dunwell
John HE Pits
Corry
New York Central and Hudson
Pitts
Clyde
Foreign Service Veterans
Cincinnati
Ohio
The
American Veterans of Foreign Service
Jam Romanis
Columbus
C QO Johnson
Portamouth
Charles Cronin
Romanis
Pittsburg
Eastern Association
Break for Jail Ends in Baltimore Prison Fight
Three prisoners led by Roland B. Rigor attempted to break out at Baltimore jail. Guard H A Lecron was struck but choked the attacker and Brewer fled the cell before being captured. Rigor Eaton and Brewer planned to seize the pistol and free themselves. Rigor already linked to a Lake Side street car robbery.
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Baltimore
Roland B. Rigor
Lake Side
H. A Lecron
Harold Brewer
Rigor
Lecron
Columbus
Ohio
Rial
Eagles Meet at Baltimore A National Convention Opens
The fifth national convention of the Fraternal Order of Eagles opens at the Maryland Theater in Baltimore with elaborate decorations and welcome by Mayor Clay Timanus. Grand officers and attendees fill the city as parades and concerts headline the first day.
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Baltimore
Order of Eagles
Maryland
Rey I. M Zimmerman
Clay Timanus
J Albert Cassidy
Timothy D Sullivan
New York
Bogies
Thomas F McNulty
Estelle Wentworth
T A. Bell
Napa
Cal
Grand Aerie
George Gribbier
Astoria
Greg
Johnn C Rourke
Chicopee
Mass
James J, Hughes
Easton
John F Henry
Grand Aerte
Sixty-ninth
New York Regiment
Fire kills six of one New York family in tenement blaze
Six members of the Konovitsch family and an unidentified man died in a fire that heavily damaged a tenement at First Street. More than twenty families were asleep as police and fire crews rescued many others, with multiple heroic acts described including a cop saving children from a roof and firefighters pulling victims from a fourth floor window. Incendiary origin is suspected, aided by a janitor’s statements about a past threat to the building.
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New York
First Street
Aremen
Ovda Konovitsch
Anne Konovitsch
Konovitsch
McDermott
Jacob Boffa
Fire in Tenement Halts Nighttime Discovery
A broom left by the janitor was wrapped in papers and doused with kerosene, igniting a brisk blaze in the hallway before Sofia extinguished it. No formal report was filed at that time. A neighbor recalls seeing two men flee the scene shortly before dawn.
In His Mother's Clothes Young Convict Escapes Jail
Wiley Gibson, held in Lee County jail Jonesville Va to await transfer to Richmond for a five year robbery sentence, escaped wearing his aged mother clothes and bonnet. A fellow prisoner noticed the departure when the inmate comforter found the mother in disguise.
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Jonesville
Bristol
Wiley Gibson
Lee County
Richmond
Gibson
Death of Rev T S Bacon Chaplain to Farragut Squadron
Rev Thomas Scott Bacon DD aged about eighty died this evening at his home in Ruckeystown Frederick County of general debility. He began as a lawyer in Boston after Williams College then became a Protestant Episcopal minister. He served as chaplain of Admiral Farragut's squadron during the Civil War and later led parishes in Ohio St Marys and Garrett counties Md. He retired in 1887 and wrote religious works. He was twice married and survived by his widow Sophia L Groff. no children.
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Admiral Farragut
Washington Post
Frederick
Thomas Scott Bacon
Ruckeystown
Ald
Ee Farragut
Ohio
St Marys
Garret Counties
St Paul's
Frederick County
Ught
Bacon
Wilam Bacon
Saratoga, N
Kelsoe
Baltimore
Sophia L Groff
Injured Harrisburg man fatally hurt on railroad tracks
Albert C. Loughborough aged twenty six was fatally injured at Harrisburg while being taken home from a sanitarium. He wandered onto Philadelphia and Reading tracks and was struck by freight cars. both legs were mangled and had to be amputated. He remained in critical condition at the hospital.
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Albert C. Loughborough
Harrisburg
Washington, DO Co
Robert C. Loughborough
Philadelphia and
Reading
Loughborough
Fergus Falls Mann
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Forest Fire Threatens Mine Houses Near Anaconda
A forest fire roars west of Anaconda Montana destroying two hoisting works and shaft house, a bank and boarding house, and burning many prospectors cabins. Dense timber around the Blue Eyed Netlie mines burns with flames visible for miles, turning the Woolf mountains into a spectacular blaze as the fire consumes valuable timber.
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Anconda
Mont
Blue Eyed Netlie
Woolf
Alleged Lottery Manager Surrenders in Boston Case
Boston on September 13, Frank Knisely state manager of the Preferred Mercantile Company surrendered to U S Marshal Darling on charges of violating lottery and postal laws. Secretary Guy C Stillings was arrested yesterday on similar charges. Knisely bonded at 2000 dollars for a Friday hearing. Stillings to appear.
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Boston
Mass
J_ Frank Knisely
Preferred Mercantile Company
United States
Marshal Darling
Guy C Stillings
Knisely
Sitlings
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Mediterranean Idriatic Service
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Noun
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Long Island Sound
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Pier
New
East River
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