Marital Dispute Plays Out In Butte Court
Wives seek divorce amid claims of violent temper and beatings by husbands. In one case, a woman alleges assault and choking by Fred Rehfus and seeks dissolution of marriage from John Stephen Rehfus. Another suit involves Laura Hershey requesting alimony after her husband Watts Hershey deserted her seven years ago. Judge Lynch to hear motion on delays since judgment.
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Fred
Butte
Fred Wolf
Anaconda
Neel
Mtte
Grannis
Ee W. Grannis
Dil
Peat
Tie
Laura Rehfus
John Stephen Rehfus
Lynch
Smiths Divorce Case Explored in Kansas City
Rose Smith sues Philip S. Smith for divorce alleging cruelty After a 1914 Denver marriage the couple opened Gem Cafe on Front Street as partners She claims he scolded her and withheld business profits She left with $100 and now seeks support for two children and the court will decide on monthly payments and custody arrangements.
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Smiths
Rose Smith
Philip S. Smith
Denver
Gem Cafe
Front Street
Powell buys claims to satisfy bank judgment in receivership
Authorized by Judge McClernan, Mepowell acquires mining interests totaling a quarter of the Black Citet, three quarters of the Keokuk, half of the Six Thirty, and a sixth of the Morning Star to satisfy a State Savings Bank claim. The receiver will place the property with W. W. McDowell for 1996.73 dollars plus 84.75 dollars from a prior Jennie Adams judgment.
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Mepowell
McClernan
State Savings Bank
Keokuk
Morning Star
W. W. McDowell
Jennie Adams
Meek Western-leaning suitors sought by Louise Martin
A letter received by the Standard from Louise Martin of 62 Nicholas Street New York asks for a wealthy Western husband. She is a widowed businesswoman with fair salary, no family, and strong moral values who desires a 45 or older widower or bachelor with high standing and wealth to provide a good home.
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Butte
Louise Martin
Nicholas Street
New York
Deain
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Rinpast
Aman
Shackleton Still Holds Out Hopes for Rescue of 32 Men
London dispatch reports Lieutenant Sir Ernest Shackleton remains hopeful for rescuing 32 expedition members left on Elephant Island. Shackleton, aboard a Uruguayan rescue steamer, notes conditions worsen but believes another rescue party with an icebreaker may reach them.
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London
Ernest Shacklehabie
Elephant Island
Shackleton
Port Stanley
Falkland Islands
Parker's Chance Put Squarely Up to Him
News from Chicago and Salt Lake City report pressure on John M. Parker to stay on the Progressive ticket for vice president. Prohibition leaders note Parker's continued presence could draw Bayne support at their July convention. In Utah, sheriff deputies search the Wasatch for Larry Paul Tyrell Ty Italian after the farmer Neff was shot dead near his Salt Lake area farm.
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Chicago
John M. Parker
Louisiana
Progressive Party
Bainbridge Colby
New York
Charles E. Tinghes
Parker
Prohibition Party
Salt Lake City
Sheriff's Polars
Wasatch Pountains
Here
Larry Paul Ty Italian
Qimes B. Neff
Neff
Salt Ke
Uncle Sam as a Solomon in a Treasury dispute
The Washington Star recounts how the Treasury Department once acted as arbiter in a domestic quarrel over torn banknotes. A wife claimed half a $6 bill, the husband the other half, and the Treasury awarded $2.60 to each. The piece also notes a Chicago man who sent old notes to be reissued to his daughter as a wedding gift, a request that faced the department’s scrutiny.
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The
Washington Star
Treasury
Uncle Sam
Treasury Department
Chicago
Eoe
Weather guidance and patent worries in early communications
A town farmer complains that government weather maps are not freely usable as predictions and argues an Amateur weather prophet lacks official authority. Correspondence with the weather bureau is sought to clarify rights, while inventors warn of ideas being stolen and potential damages if a patent is granted to others.
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Weather Bureau
Bureau
Towan
Patent Office
Gras
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Chic
Cabola
Coca-Cola CO
Atlanta, GA
t.Lookir
Hamling
M. Parker
Solomon
Goodrich
B. F. Goodrich CO
Akron, C
Akron
Silver Bow Automobile CO
Pierce Arrow Pleasure
Pierce Arrow Trucks
Silvertown Cord Tires
East Broadway
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Sho
Iengta
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