Fingerprint System Seen As Best yet in Police Crime Fight
Washington dispatch reports the International Association of Chiefs of Police convention endorses fingerprints as the most accurate and inexpensive criminal identification method. Police praise the system’s simplicity, noting a ten year old can use it, with prints checked by the National Bureau in Washington and deserters exposed in minutes.
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Jonathan Winfield
Washington
International Association of Chiefs of Police
San Francisco
John Doe
Jack Deer
Navy Department
Navy
New York City
Kalamazoo
National Bureau of Criminal Identification
Bureau
Woman mail carrier besieged by suitors in Mass
Miss Florence S. Markham has traveled over 70,000 miles in 25 years delivering mail between Interlaken and Stockbridge. Married in Canaan to Archibald Boyd of Becket, her government contract renewed for four years at 300 dollars a year has drawn over 100 marriage proposals from suitors across almost every state.
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Lenox
Mass
Florence S. Markham
Interlaken
Stockbridge
Canaan
Conn
Archibald Boyd
Becket
Boyd
Maree
Marriage Boldens Writedown Riches for Mrs Sinclair
New York reports the marriage of Mrs Upton Sinclair to Hugh Bert Halliwell of Poughkeepsie enhances the groom's income from 3 50 a week to 150 a week after marriage with further raises on birth of a child. The couple, staying at Woodstock Ulster County, plan a fall wedding.
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New York
Upton Sinclair
Hugh Bert Halliwell
Poughkeepsie
Woodstock
Ulster County
Halliwell
G. W. Halliwell
Meta Fuller
William F. Fuller
West Eighty-seventh Street
Harry Kemp
Memorial Volume Published at Tech
A new memorial volume from the Georgia School of Technology celebrates 25 years since its 1888 founding. The book includes handsome engravings of campus buildings and a panoramic photo showing most facilities, contrasting with the original two-building plant described as a modest industrial school.
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Georgia School of Technology
Girl Saves Pupils From Prairie Fire
Miss Esther Smith a school teacher near Poplar Creek in the South country saved more than twenty pupils and herself from death as a prairie fire surrounded the log schoolhouse. Royal Northwest Mounted Police reported her calm actions and the class continued despite smoke and heat until the building burned to ruins.
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Moosejaw
Sask
Esther Smith
Poplar Creek
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Babies of St. Louis Tested for Efficiency
A city health census will be undertaken under the direction of three society women who just presided over a baby show. St. Louis babies will be examined for mental and physical efficiency, marking a systematic effort to assess infant welfare.
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ST. Louis
Shaw Attacks Government Over Pankhurst Arrest Timing
George Bernard Shaw criticizes Britain's government for rearresting Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst before Emily Davison's funeral. He argues the move was revolting and risks public sympathy, suggesting postponement and condemning the "cat and mouse" tactic as prolonging confinement without accountability. He faulted Asquith's stance on women's suffrage and warned that continued pressure could provoke violent public reaction.
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London
George Bernard Shaw
London Times
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emily Wilding Davison
Shaw
Gettysburg Offers Brides to Veterans
Gettysburg Burgess J Allen Holzworth opens an impromptu marriage bureau during the Civil War centennial celebration. He plans to pair visiting veterans with local widows or mature women who are good housekeepers and willing to marry and go West, inspired by a St James Missouri veteran’s note.
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Gettysburg
J. Allen Holzworth
Holzworth
St. James
36-Cent Picture Valued at 100000 Dollars
In Melbourne on June 21 a painting bought for 36 cents by a local auctioneer is now believed genuine Rubens. The current owner, who paid $250 at auction, values the picture at $100,000.
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London
Scotland Yard
Haymarket
Queenie Gerald
Rubens
Melbourne
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