Son Secures Sire’s Pardon in Ithaca Prison Case
Charles D Norris freed from Auburn prison after his 9 year old son delivers a petition to Governor Odell. Norris had served under two years of a five year sentence for stealing bonds and jewelry from a theater manager's car on a local sidetrack. The boy’s appeal followed the swift recovery of the stolen property and Norris’s family, left with little means, gained the chance to reunite.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Auburn
Charles D. Norris
Norris
Odell
Ter
Artistic Opera Glasses at Moore Sons 42 North Broad
Huntsville merchants will discontinue trading stamps after December 15 and the stamp company will quit the business. The move ends years of stamp use seen as a burden by merchants who had debated a general agreement. A binding agreement has been entered into, with no one expected to oppose the change.
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Ohn L. Moore & Son's
N. Broad St
Huntsville
Champion Beef Goes Begging at Auction
The champion steer Challanger from the International Live Stock exposition sold for 449 dollars at 26 cents a pound to Joseph Stevens of Buffalo. Prices showed a sharp drop from last year with Shamrock at 66 cents a pound and championship loads at 36.35 per 100 pounds, versus 14.50 last year. Also promoted is The Best Gift Book Forty full page illustrations Courtship Miles Standish from The Columbian Book Co. 81 Whitehall Street.
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Chicago
Joseph Stevens
Buffalo
Shamrock
New Christy
Courtship Mllea Standish
the Columbian Book Co
Whitehall Street
Kissed Girl Against Will Case Leads to Appeal
New York December 4 Deputy Sheriff Louis L Cook of Woodmore was found guilty by a jury of kissing Misa Mary Sullivan a school teacher against her will. He received three months imprisonment and appealed. Foreman Fell to Death Knoxville December 4 Edward Lindsay a bridge foreman for Louisville and Nashville Railroad died after a fall from Clinch river bridge near Knoxville. His neck and right leg broke and he lived five minutes. His home was Talladega Alabama. Chicago December 4 Chief of Police ONeill received $5000 from Chicago City Railway Company to aid widows of policemen who died pursuing bandits.
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New York
Louis L. Cook
Woodmore
L. L
Misa Mary Sullivan
Knoxville
Tenn
Edward Lindsay
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Clinch River
Knoxville, Lafollette and Jellico Railroad
Talladega
Ala
Chicago
O'Neill
Chicago City Railway Company
Judge Holds Franklin Union Guilty Of Illegal Acts
Chicago December 4 Judge Holdom found the Franklin Union of Press Feeders guilty as a corporate body of contempt for aiding and permitting pickets to obstruct printing firms. The union and its officers were ordered to appear tomorrow and face citation for violating court injunctions. The decision marks a historic first in U S union history for a union being found guilty of illegal acts as a corporate body. The court held the union responsible for strike pickets and their assaults and intimidation in Chicago's printing district.
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Chicago
Jesse Holdom
Franklin Union of
Holdom
Hothom
Franklin Union Age Corporation
Chicago Typotheta
Atrike
Union
Death Blow to the Mafia
A December 4 New York report claims a complete plan to exterminate Sicilian and Italian blackmail rings has been mapped. Secret service agents from Treasury and Post Office departments along with Inspectors and police in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago will join in targeting these foreign bands deemed highly bold in recent weeks. Chicago and Philadelphia are said to host powerful factions, but New York is believed to harbor the most formidable Mafia group in America.
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New York
Secret Service Branch
Treasury Department
Post Office Department
Onera
Philadelphia
Chicago
America
Court closes speeches in Archer Taylor case in Canton
In Canton Georgia on December 4 the defense and state arguments wrapped up with Col Dupree Coleman Morris and Col Jones Brooke leading for the defense and Solicitor Simpson for the state. Judge Gober planned to charge the jury after a Saturday morning recess. up to noon a verdict could come. Forty witnesses testified, including six kin of the accused, with Taylor making two statements amid a largely orderly trial.
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Canton
Archer-Taylor
Dupree
Coleman
Morris
Jones
Brooke
Clay
Arnold
Simpson
Gober
Talor
Archer Statement Read In Court In Sleepy Lindon Case
The 17 year old Will Archer testifies via written statement to jurors claiming he did not kill the women and admitting to being with Luther during the night of the shucking. He describes his upbringing, recent illness, a pistol in Luther’s pocket, and asserts his innocence while noting witnesses are related to Archer and Taylor.
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Will Archer
Iannot
Buther Dowda
Tom Cook
Dowda
Luther
Holcombe
Barbhert
Eye
Archer
Taylor
Mos
Rintal
Archer III
Four Men Convicted of Using Mails To Defraud
In Columbus four prisoners John A. Cobb W B McAlpin Leroy Jeffries and Louis 0 Boyle were found guilty of using the US mails to defraud Ed Sherlock of Chicago Heights. Cobb McAlpin each fined 100 and sentenced to two years in the Ohio penitentiary Jeffries and Boyle fined 300 each. G W Jaltz the chief conspirator is a fugitive from justice. W H Miller and S E A Birable of Newark pleaded guilty and were linked to Globe Realty Company with land deeds in Tennessee Kentucky Kansas and Texas.
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Columbus
Ohio
Tennessee
United States
John A. Cobb
W. B McAlpin
Leroy Jeffries
Louis 0. Boyle
Ed Sherlock
Chicago Heights
Ile Sherlock
W.H.H. Miller
EA Biroble
Newark
Globe Realty Company
Tennesse
Kentucky
Kansas
Texas
G. W. Jaltz
Captain Wherry Pneumonia Notice from Gainesville
Captain J. W. Wherry, popular conductor, confined to his home in Gainesville with pneumonia. Injunction by Chancellor Mayan blocks Mississippi railroad commission from setting grain rate at 3.5 percent on shipments from Vicksburg to Meridian.
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Wherry
Gainesville
Epecia
J. W. Wherry
Gainevile, Jefferson and Southern Railroad
Pneunonia
Jackson
Miza
Mayan
Mississippi Railroad Commission
Vicksburg
Meridian
United States
Sutor Esttlociant
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