Court Hearing Reveals Ballew Bailey Divorce Dispute
Judge McClernan heard Matilda Ballew versus Frank Bailey with about a dozen witnesses. Baliew seeks divorce and child custody, while Bailey contests custody and accuses her of leaving home at night. Testimony varied, with both sides naming co respondents and detailing cross accusations. Another divorce case, Oakley Gelger versus Jerry Gelger, cites extreme cruelty and alimony issues, with Oakley Brady seeking divorce and name restoration.
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Matilda Ballew
Frank Bailey
Mcclernan
Baliew
Hsband
Balleu
Butte Ments
Ballew
A. Gelger
Jerry V. Gelger
Oakley A. Brady
Galesburg
Canning & Geagan
Restaurant owner sues building proprietor over insanitary premises
Florence A. Smallwood sues Olive Peris at 246 East Park Street for 982.20 claiming the restaurant equipment led to a city condemned building. Joseph H. Griffin represents Smallwood. Echo Springs Land Company seeks to clear title to a lot in Englewood after a 1916 judgment against M. A. Crooks and H. S. Smallwood. Joseph St. Grimn also appears.
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Olive Peris
East Park Street
Lillian Kahn
Florence A. Small
Echo Springs Land Company
Englewood
M. A. Crooks
Smallwood
Crooks
Sheri
H.S. Smallwood
Joseph St. Grimn
Christmas parcel drive fuels wartime mail surge
About 6 million Christmas packages have been dispatched to American soldiers overseas amid a nationwide campaign urging early mailing of gifts. Railroads and military postal authorities report weeks of parcel influx, with parcels opened and rewrapped but none rejected for size. Many packages weighed far more than the 20 pound limit, some reaching 100 pounds.
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Railroads
War Board
Man Convicted of Bogus War Charity Scams Receives Maximum Sentence
Gene Jess, first man convicted in a campaign against bogus war charities, gets the maximum term in Sing Sing prison: not less than one year three months and not more than two years six months. He was found to have solicited funds for a fake War charity concert to be held at the Metropolitan Opera House. Carpenters Notice.
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Gene Jess
Sing Fing
Jess
Metropolitan Opera House
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N. G
William Hare
Welsh ‘Church
Hursday
Tacmays
Postoffice
Tonia
Son
Boy Scout
Ante Toys
Toyland Downstairs
Kayser
Iy Ae
Ers
Timely Christmas
Hennessy's
Vian
Delft
Lynx
Kolinsky
Xmas
Butte
Centerville
California
Crosse & Blackwell
Sunkist
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Fane Jonathans
Rome
Fane Wagners
Mahog
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