Capitol Square Fortified by New Senate Office Building
A grand Washington scene unfolds as the new Senate Office Building nears completion with marble interiors and a $3.25 million price tag. Plans for a parallel House building, a law library, and a Temple of Justice frame a broader federal complex destined to become one of the world’s finest public architectural ensembles.
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Capitol
Federal City
Capitol Hill
Capitol Grounds
Washington
Capitol Building
Itis
New House
Senate
House
B Street
Library of Congress
Temple of Justice
Cannon
Hale
Congress
Newlyweds Escape Fire Escapes After Wedding
New York couple Daphne Dieterich and Schuyler Imbrie eloped with aid of two carriages ladders and a janitor slipping from a rear apartment door while guests waited hours. They used iron fire escapes crossed a courtyard and departed from Riverside Drive station for their wedding trip. Neighbors and guests searched the building before learning the couple had vanished.
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New York
Daphne Dame Dieterich
Riverside Drive
Imbrie
John F. Dietrich
Mr. Dietrich
West One Hundred and Nineteenth Street
Washington's native and foreign born population contrasts
The article compares Washington DC natives to foreign born residents with city figures from 1900. It notes Washington has a smaller foreign-born share (7.2 percent) than New York Boston Chicago Philadelphia St Louis and Baltimore. It adds state-born distributions and cites Charleston South Carolina as even more locally native.
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Washington
United States
New York
Boston
Chicago
Philadelphia
St.Louis
Baltimore
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
York
Empire
Pennsylvania
Charleston
S. C
South Carolina
Missionary Deaconess Publishes Dialect Bible Components
A Liberian missionary deaconess edits in the native dialect a book containing the Ten Commandments the Apostles Creed the doxology and hymns. It is the first book published in the dialect and the first successful effort to standardize it as a written language.
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Liberia
Buffalo Ghost Sightings Reported in Niagara Street
Two brothers, Fred and Charles Maigh, claim to have seen a translucent figure near the Sutherland home on Niagara Street, believed by locals to be the spirit of Alexander Sutherland, a man shot by his wife. The sighting followed a clattering sound and a shadowy man in a black shirt and trousers.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Niagara Street
Alo
Alexander Sutherland
Fred Maigh
Charles Maigh
Maighs
Sutherland House
Sutherland
Doctor Fights Hungry Seals at Avalon
Dr W A Pratt of New York, fishing on Santa Catalina Island, faced 40 minutes of attacks by hungry seals defending his albicore catch. Armed with a broom handle, he fought off the animals as they tried to board his launch and threaten his life before help arrived and he escaped with his fish.
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Avalon
Santa Catalina Island
W. A. Pratt
New York
Albicore
West Lake Park
Los Angeles
Horse Jumps to Death Over Embankment in Sioux City
Sioux City Iowa reports E Eppstein a peddler claims his horse killed itself by jumping from a 60 foot ledge after suffering dental trouble and a dangerous embankment left by the city. He seeks recovery for the animal and asserts intent by the horse. The horse was about 19 years old.
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Sioux City
E. Eppstein
Eppstein
Spirit of Sutherland Haunts Night Witnesses
Two brothers recount eerie nighttime sightings near the Sutherland home. They describe a man with a clutching gesture at the breast, no hat, and a figure moving by the barn resembling the deceased. The events echo the earlier Sutherland killing, prompting belief in a ghostly return.
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Specter
Scrivener Bros. & CO
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Hagan Gas Engine & Mfg. CO Incorporated
Winchester
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Charley
Fred
EF. Barnes
Grant Witt & Co
N. Main St
Winchester, Hy
People’s State Bank
J. L. Brown
J. M. Hodgkin
L. B. Cockrell
Office
Isss
Isos
Simpson
D. B. Hamptgh
F. Curtis
Cashie
THE
Clark County National Bank
Main Street
Kentucky
Bay
Wes
Gilbert & Botto
Capital
Winchester Bank
N. H. Witherspoon
W. R. Spear
Rawlins
T. C. Rawlins
Brown - Proctoria
Woodson Moss
Conkwright Transfer and Ice Co
North Main Street
Winchester Tailoring CO
M. & C. H. McKinney
Allan & Murphy’s
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