Five Years Fight for Big Fortune in Divorce Suit
The Moore claim over a $225000 New Year gift and a wife's share in a Montana ranch stake traces to a 1906 Munich marriage. W A Smith’s heirs joined later, with a circuit court ruling awarding cash and $180000 in stock to Nellie Smith Moore, now disputed anew.
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William H. Moore
Att Lerson Avenue
Th Moore
Kels
Montong
John Mc Smith
Moores
Moore
United States Circuit Court of Apepeals
St. Dreme
Clean-up sale for men’s suits and overcoats starts today
Patrons of Touches enjoy an edge at a clean-up sale of men’s suits and overcoats beginning this morning. The San Francisco report notes a clearest opening, while other items mention the dissolution of a powder trust with Du Pont Powder Company ending its California presence and Atlas and Hercules absorbing its territory.
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San Francisco
Kocealled Powder Trust
du Pont Powde Company
California
Atlas and Hercules Companies
Fragmentary dialogue on treasury condition and deciphering notes
Jerrold and his wife struggle with a gibberish document from the county treasury. She cannot understand it, and Jerrold sighs with relief that she shares his confusion. The scene focuses on frustration and irony amid opaque writing.
Black pug and his wife hissed away by negroes at armory event
Report from Col John R Marshall of the Seventh Regiment describes New Year gala at an armory crowded by about 2500. A dispute arose when a prize fighter and his wife danced on the floor, provoking a public outcry and violent incident amid the crowd.
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Black Pug
Seventh Regiment
John R. Marshall
Illnois
John
Orchard Company Case Up To The Defendant Now
The government rested its case against A Bleh in Portland Oregon as defense motions for an instructed verdict were denied. The trial focused on bond sales tied to the Columbia River Orchards company with witnesses claiming they were swindled into buying bonds or pledging property for collateral. The defense will begin testimony tomorrow.
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Portland
Ore
A. Bleh
United States District Court
Columbia River Orchards Company
Bestin
United States
Orchards’ Company
Montreal Trees In Bud And Butterflies Flitting
Montreal reports an unusually mild January with trees already budding while the St Lawrence River remains navigable for the first time since settlement. A country correspondent notes open water later than January 1, a historic break in seasonal ice. A separate excerpt mentions Browning and Jerrold in literary debate, though the fragment ends abruptly with a misfit quote.
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Montreal
Canada
St Lawrence
Taxi driver refuses ride after foxes in dense fog
An engaged 10 from St James to John's Wood veers toward Clarence Kate where dense foxes force the driver to stop, deeming the route dangerous. The meter shows 1s 2d. passenger refuses payment. Court sides with the driver, noting good sense, and orders the passenger to pay the fare.
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St. James
8. John's Wood
Clarence
Parcel of Assinniboine May Be for Rocky Boy
Special Dispatch reports in Washington that a senate bill, urged by the interior department, would set aside townships 3 and 22 in several ranges of the abandoned Fort Assinniboine reservation with buildings for the use of Rocky Boy and his Chippewa Indians. The bill acts as a substitute for Peay’s plan to turn land and buildings over to Montana for an agricultural college or public instruction. Another measure, at department prompting, would place Blackfeet lands under federal laws to prevent sales to Indians. S. Clapp of Minnesota introduced both portions.
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Standard
Washington
Senate
Interior Department
Fort Assinniboine
Rocky Boy
Montana
Agricultural College
Clappe
Minnesota
Bill to obtain funds for land exchange study in Montana
Special Dispatch reports Representative Pray introduced a bill at Washington moving to authorize a 25 000 appropriation with a state match to study lands Montana plans to exchange with the federal government The measure aims to relinquish school land claims in the reserves and swap for forest reserve tracts as part of a broad land exchange program
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Washington
Pray
Norris
Montana
Algo
Babu
Harith
Parcel post delivers two wagon loads of payive bucks
Two wagon loads of payive bucks were mailed in Eydeana via parcel post, a curious and unusual batch drawing attention. The incident highlights irregularities in mail handling and raises questions about the legality and provenance of the tokens sent through the postal system.
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Eydeana
Parcel post chaos hits Washington and Gary offices
Washington reports two days of parcel post trials produced freak shipping, miswrapped parcels, and stamps misused as Hitchcock and Taft observe early lessons. In Gary, brick dealer Parry shipped 1000 bricks totaling 6000 pounds as samples, delaying clerks.
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Washington
Etter ‘Ofice
Pontotice
Taft
John “Wanamaker
Philadelphia
Hitchcock
Gary
Ind
W. H. F. Parry
John W. Call
Joseph Tracey
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Ile
Ehilas Ohio
Nellie Smith
Germany
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London
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Jerrold
Ray Ridge
Taesis
Eset
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Walker
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ED Noy
Chingo Tribune
Lawon Justice
England
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Indianapolis
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Browning
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