Taft's Unprecedented Three Day Cabinet House Guests
President Taft plans a historic three day White House gathering inviting every cabinet member except Secretary of War Dickinson. The event aims to discuss key policy questions before the fall session, with the cabinet dining, sleeping, and working together at the executive mansion. The article notes preparations including a missing White House cook and a new cow, plus renovations to the residence for the unprecedented meeting.
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Dickinson
United States
White House
Washington
Lalt
Sinilar
Island rises from sea in Aleutians amid quake reports
Island Springs from sea in the Regestof group near Unalaska and Dutch Harbor as an earthquake shook Seware Alaska on September 1. A sounding last year noted 70 fathoms of water near Percy Peak, which also rose previously. Revenue cutter Bear arrived with news and said surveyors from Tahoma mapped recent changes. Regestof volcano in the Aleutians erupts again.
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Alaska
Recestof
Aleutian Channel
Unalaska
Dutch Harbor
Geological Survey
Percy Peak
Bear
Nome
Officera
Tahoma
Regestof Islands
Paper finds lost check in taiji weeds wind drift
In Washington New Jersey on September 18 after an eight hour search for a lost pay check proved vain Whitfeld Garey conductor of the Washington drill devised another piece of paper to locate it. The check blew from a window into tall weeds and the second paper was laid in the same spot picked up by the breeze and deposited beside the missing check.
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Washington
Washington, N. J
Whitfeld Garey
Candidate drives truck for Prohibition party in Hartford area
Special to The Washington Post from Winston Connecticut September 1 describes E L G Hohenthal the Prohibition candidate for Governor hitching his white horse to a fire truck to reach a Manchester blaze. He led Center Hoge No % volunteers to the fire and was cheered by bystanders with his campaign button in demand.
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Washington Post
Winston
Conn
Manchester
E. L. G. Hohenthal
Prohibition
Center Hoge
Good Horses for Marlboro
New York reports top racehorses from Metro stables P. 5. P. Randolph and Frank Piper plan Marlboro entries October 4 to 14. Horses from Saratoga will ship October 1 to Southern Maryland track. Montcalm and Capt. Swanson train under Frank Bray to be ready for opening day. Piper may enter Capt. Swanson in the Bowie cup at Pimlico alongside Bob TL Bennie Kelso Superstition and Countless. Besom and Racquet head Randolph’s entry list with Nat Byer training at the Springs. Besom seen as the likely best sprinter at Marlboro. A separate note from Keeneburg, Va reports Irving dl Zerega of Aldie Loudoun county injured after losing control of his car and crashing over an embankment. he is hospitalized with multiple injuries.
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Washington Post
New York
P. Randolph
Frank Piper
Malboro
Saratoga
Maryland
Montcalm
Capt. Swanson
Piper Stable
Frank Bray
Marlboro
Piper
Pimlies
Bob TL
Bennie Kelso
Besom
Racquet
Mr. Randolph
Nat” Byer
Kneesburg
Irving dl Zerega
Aldle
Loudoun County
Berlin swindle nets American $40,000 in gems
An American calling himself Emil Becker and an alleged Mexican partner used a Munich hotel box and a portrait painter to obtain $40,000 worth of jewelry. Becker later aided by a Frankfort firm member Koch and an accomplice named Blardney vanished after the deal. Becker was later arrested in the Bronx on burglary charges in 1907.
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Franz von Stueck
Becker
Koch
Frankfort
Koen
Deutsch Bank
von Stueck
Och
Emil Becker
Bronx
Wife Sues Husband for 2000 Damages in Marietta Case
Parkersburg West Virginia September 16 a rare suit is filed by Mrs Nancy M Hoff against her husband Austin Hoff for two thousand dollars damages alleging failure to provide for her. The couple have been married 32 years and no divorce or criminal charges are asked.
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Washington Post
Parkersburg
W. Va
Nancy M. Hoff
Austin Hoff
Marietta
Curse Coffin Claims Victims Across Eras in Thebes Priestess Tale
From the Kansas City Star, a lurid account traces Teheser Ka Ra, high priestess of Amen Ra, whose yellow coffin allegedly curses those who handle it. A chain of accidents, deaths, and misfortune follows the mummy case from Thebes to a Bloomsbury museum and England to America, with photographers, archaeologists, and an English household all struck by ill fortune. The tale ends with a likely sale to an American collector and a hope the curse may fade with new world winds.
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Kansas City Star
Teheser Ka Ea
Amen Ra
London
Lsten
Nes
Bloomsbury
Pyramids
Teheser Ka Rea
Snet
Temple of the Sun
Thebes
Thebes. As Such Theser
Moses
Egypt
Hiver Nile
Mustapha Ali
England
Tcheser Ke Ra
Smeglish
British Museum
Teheser Ka Ra
Amen Rg
America
the Sun
Bloomsbury Picture
Davies
Davieg
Fletcher Robinson
Tcheser Ka Ra
Tebeeau Calls For Peaceful Settlement Of Baseball War
Cincinnati Ohio Sept 16 President George Tebeeau of the Kansas City club in the American Association says he is not a member of the group seeking to force a third major league to a fight. He favors a peaceful adjustment with the national commission and plans to seek consent for a new major league with clubs in Chicago Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cleveland Indianapolis Columbus Kansas City and Milwaukee. He will visit Cincinnati soon to present his cases to the commission.
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Ohio
George Tebeeau
Kansas City Club
American Association
National Commission
Tebeau
Chicago
Prittsburg
Cleveland
Indianapatis
Columbus
Kansas City
Milwauke
Widow Carrie Lumsden Dies of Heart Trouble at Train Stop
Special to the Washington Post from Fredericksburg Va Sept 16 Mrs Carrie Lumsden widow of William Lumsden of Orange county died after alighting from a train at Tinders station. She fell and friends assisted. Death caused by heart trouble she was 50 years old.
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Washington Post
Fredericksburg
Carrie Lumsden
William Lumsden
Orange County
Tinders Station
Movements of Ocean Steamers Arrivals and Departures
Ships arriving and sailing for New York and other ports are listed with origins and scheduled docking times. Notable entries include Rotterdam Noordam from New York, Montreal Corinthian from London, and Cape Rae Mesaba from London for New York, with dock times around 5:30 p m to 9:30 p m and onward through the next two days.
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New York
Cherbourg
Freidrich Wilhelm
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London
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Naples
Germania
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Parisian
Boston
Negantic
Liverpool
Hemburg—Pring Oskar
Virginian
United States
Copenhagen
Llanconnet
Crette
Genoa
Cincinnati
Hamburg
Philadelphia
Southampton
Sablq Island
Menominee
Anthorp
Liverpost
Venessa
Marveille
Wil
le Lorraine
Neckar
Bremen
Cape Raée
Mesaba
Oceania
New Yorks
Potsdam
Finland
Antwerp
Mule Trade Causes Killing in Washington County
In Washington County Virginia Hadley Lockert was killed and his brother Leonard Lockert wounded after a mule trade with their brother in law James Rosenthal. They reportedly rode off with the animal and Rosenthal fired a double barreled shotgun. In Baltimore the B and O Southwestern appoints Charles W. Galloway as general superintendent to replace W H Brimson effective September 20. In Richmond a theater manager W T Thorpe was fined $20 after calling an electrical inspector a liar, then was knocked down by a strike.
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Bluefieds
W. Va
Hadley Lockert
Leonard Lockert
Washington County
Lockerts
James Rosenthal
Rosenthal
B. & C. Southwestern
Baltimore
Potter
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Today
Charles W. Galloway
Cincinnati
W. H. Brimson
Richmond
Crutchfield
W. T. Thorpe
Handsome Mission Clock Premium for Post Readers
The premium clock, 27 inches high with a high-grade movement and eight days power, is offered at 4.25 dollars plus one month in advance for the Daily and Sunday Post. Delivery is free within Washington city. outside, delivery costs apply. State if new or old subscriber.
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