Villa Sayo friendly Spaniards may return
General Villa announces a policy allowing Spanish subjects believed innocent to return to Constitutionalist territory in Torreon and surrounding areas. He notes expelled Spaniards who aided the regime should return cautiously to avoid future trouble, while families are allowed to remain under protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Villa Sayo
Chihuahua
Torreon
Laguna
Victoriana Huerta
Francisco Villa
Cure for dandruff and hair loss claimed by Cuticura ad
A testimonial from Olin, Kentucky, dated 1913, reports scalp disease scalp pimples itching and hair loss. After trying several remedies the writer credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment with curing the condition following a sample and subsequent purchases. The advertisement extols Cuticura for skin care and prevention and notes the soap and ointment are sold widely with free samples offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olin, Ky
R. L. Pope
Cuticura
Dept
Boston
Woman on July May Invalidate Trials
In TOCOMA June 27 officials said Mrs. Ida Utterback of Bayallup may force retrials of all Superior Court cases from the last session where she served as juror. Her husband A. & Utterback, a furniture dealer, was the named juror. she answered to his name on the panel and his name appears on the compensation warrant. Her own juror summons led to the substitution being found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tocoma
Ida Utterback
Bayallup
A. &. Utterback
Utterback
Throws Boy From Third Story Window
Newark police report John Beyer, 48, jailed at Fourth Precinct after allegedly throwing 11 year old Martin Kierstead from a third story window. Kierstead survived with a broken left arm and bruises after landing in rubbish. Beyer says he acted after being awakened by children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
John Beyer
Martin Kierstead
William Street
Fourth Precinct
St. Barnabas’ Hospital
Beyer
Kierstead
Races With Death Across the Pacific
Ensign Herbert Roesch U S N races across the Pacific to Pendleton to beat his father’s death. He hopes to reach his ailing father before William Roesch, pioneer brewer of Pendleton, passes away. Roesch senior’s condition worsened as the gunboat Helena was at Shanghai when the alarm began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pendleton
Oreg
Herbert Roesch
Pacific
William Roesch
Roesch
Ensign Roesch
Helena
Shanghai
Baby Hangs in Nightgown Tragedy in Maryland
In Lafayette Maryland Mrs Lee Marshal pinned the infant sleepless nightgown to the mattress to prevent a fall. The 7 month old baby was found dead suspended between bed and floor, strangled by the nightgown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette, MD
Lee Marshal
Mulberry
Commissions Govern Cities Economically
Census Bureau figures show 69 of 195 U S cities over 30,000 use commission government, reducing per capita costs in 61 cases since 1912. Allen town Pa records the cheapest at 6.47 dollars per resident, while Washington D C tops at 25.43 dollars per person. Denver has the lowest net debt at 3.82, and New Orleans runs the highest at 122.81.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Commission
Census Bureau
Allentown
Washington, D. C
Denver
New Orleans
Suit Over Clothes Started in 1894
In Wilkesbarre on June 20 a praecipe to revive a 1894 judgment prompts an answer from Re Ner Brun ner of Ashley. He filed an affidavit of defense in a case over clothes made twenty years ago. He says he ordered from James Sondheim, a Mauch Chunk merchant tailor, a suit while crippled with a shorter left leg. The suit arrived with the left leg long and the right leg short as specified.
Nine-generation baby born near Montclair
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Goble, 88, of Montclair, became a great-great-grandmother when a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lichtenstein of Bloomfield at Mountainside Hospital. The child Edward H. Lichtenstein has grandparents Edward H. Ackerman and his wife in Montclair, with numerous great-grandparents and other relatives in the area. All family members reside in Montclair and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montclair
N. J
Sarah Elizabeth Goble
Jacob Lichtenstein
Bloomfield
Mountainside Hospital
Edward H. Lichtenstein
Edward H. Ackerman
Isaac A. Dodd
Harriett Greevy Ackerman
Gets Seance and $19 Change for Trinket
In San Francisco on June 27 a man paid $1 for a seance to contact departed relatives. After the trance the medium handed back $20 but produced only $19 in change. Later she realized the piece was an exposition souvenir rather than genuine currency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Six Words a Will in Virginia Court Ruling
Richmond judge rules that the phrase I leave all to my wife constitutes a will after a two day hearing over the estate of I M Plicher valued at $20,000. The court found the deathbed statement valid despite disputed execution and witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
I. M. Plicher
Bevarty ‘T. Crump
Law and Equity Court
Pier
Mar
Panama fair buildings near completion at exposition grounds
At the Panama-Pacific International Exposition site in San Francisco, nine exhibit palaces are finished with more to come. The Palace of Fine Arts and Palace of Horticulture near completion, while several others including Machinery, Varied Industries and Agriculture are complete or nearing completion. The 635 acre grounds use a five court layout, with vivid color schemes and copper domes, and over 5,000 workers are preparing for the 1915 show from February 20 to December 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palace of Fine Arts
Golden Gate
Festival Hall
San Francisco
Gift of $1000 to help animals in 250 years
Evansville philanthropist Adolph Melzer announces a tentative $1000 bequest to Elbert Hubbard's community in East Aurora New York. The sum will be deposited for 250 years in a designated bank and compounded semi annually at 4 percent. In 250 years it would reach about 20000000 for animal welfare. The bequest was accepted by Mr Hubbard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
Adolph Melzer
Elbert Hubbard
East Aurora
Hubbard
Refuses Double Pay To Help Her Country
OLYMPIA June 27 State Superintendent Josephine Preston appoints Mrs Lizzie Jones Everett as Snohomish County superintendent to fill the vacancy caused by Miss Lena Kohn Island County resignation. Miss Kohn left a $100 a month teaching post to take the county superintendency at $50 monthly confirming her motive is educational elevation over pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olympia
Josephine Preston
Lizzie Jones
Everett
Snohomish County
Vocational Training Commission
Lena Kohn
Island County
Kohn
Girls in Knee Skirts Forge to Buy Finery
Kalamazoo June 27 Officers detain two young girls on forgery charges in one of the city’s youngest custody cases. The pair claimed to find two checks for 10 and 13 dollars, signed them correctly, and cashed them for ribbons laces and candy, spending nearly all the funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalamazoo
Fails to Remember Second Marriage
Lawrence Converse billed for bigamy after alleged marriage to actress Miss Reatha Watson under the name Max Lawrence. He was temporarily freed on 2500 bond supplied by his mother in law. Converse said he could remember nothing of the ceremony and would seek annulling the union in court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Lawrence Converse
Max Lawrence
Reatha Watson
Converse
Miss Watson
Marriage barred by new eugenics law in Reading
Register of Wills Newman refused a marriage license to Herbert Good and Leona Helman of Reading citing nonqualification under the new eugenic marriage law. Good’s grandmother, Kate E. Haas, challenged him saying he lacks a stable position to support a wife. Helman had Good arrested for a misdemeanor, though he wished to marry. This may be the first such case in the state since the law’s enactment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Register of Wills
Newman
Herbert Good
Leona Helman
Good
Kate E. Haas
Girls Locked in Tenement for Two Years Case in New York
affidavits filed in Juvenile Court charging Frank Brotan with neglect after Humane Society and neighbors reported two white children locked in a hot top-floor tenement at 4861 Broadway for two years. Jennie, sixteen, and Helen, three, a paralytic, were unable to leave daily, per Dr. E. A. Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. Smith
The
Humane Society
Tacoma Anti-Treat Rule Is On Again
Tacoma Washington June 27 The anti treating law favored by Mayor A V Fawcett is back in force in Tacoma No saloonkeeper may allow a man to buy a drink for another without risking arrest The law targets men using weekly pay to treat each other in bars and taverns
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Wash
A. V. Fawcett
Eating With Knife Not Divorce Ground
Los Angeles reports Adele T. Bryant an art critic failed to secure a divorce from Solomon E. Bryant, a Covina rancher, despite her claims of cruelty. Judge Monroe heard she left the city to wed him and noted Bryant’s habit of eating with a knife and sleeping in clothes, yet ruled the charges could not be classified as cruelty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Adele T. Bryant
Metropolis
Solomon E. Bryant
Covina
Monroe
Balloon sanatorium to float above Cleveland for heart patients
In Cleveland a balloon tied by a cable will house a night sanatorium 2,000 feet up next month for patients with heart weakness only. Dr Rudolph Heym Jr will oversee treatment, with Aeronaut Lee Stevens piloting the craft. The balloon ascends each evening and descends each morning as part of the proposed therapy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Rudolph Reym, Jr
Lee Stevens
New York
Heym
Dr. Heym
Stevens
Gates Heiress Receives 100 Dollar Pocket Money This Summer
Miss Dorella Angell eleven year old heiress of Mrs. John W Gates from St Charles Illinois will receive one hundred dollars a month for pocket money while camping in Wisconsin this summer Judge Williams also ordered the interest on her one hundred thousand dollar share from the late Gates estate be invested by her guardian The girl also inherits one hundred thousand dollars from John W Gates will as the sole direct heir to the Gates fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
Ill
Dorella Angell
St. Charles
John W. Gates
Wisconsin
Williams
Miss Angell
Cries Gates
Guarian
Gates
Boy Walks 100 Miles Home From School
GEORGETOWN DEL June 27 Three days after being put in charge of the officers of the Industrial School at Wilmington Bernard McCurdy of Georgetown walked back home in one day and night without food or rest. McCurdy aged 14 escaped and walked nearly 100 miles arriving exhausted with worn shoes.
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Georgetown
Del
Wilmington
Bernard McCurdy
McCurdy
Fourteen More Hindus Admitted to Canada
Vancouver reports the landing of fourteen additional Hindus from the Komagata Maru after the local immigration inquiry found they had valid grounds to remain in Canada. This brings the total landed Hindus from the Komagata Maru to twenty-two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
British Columbia
Board of Inquiry
Immigration Department
India
Canada
Aged Couple Omit Love Honor Obey in Wedding
Kalamazoo June 27 A Paw Paw couple aged 62 and his bride chose to omit the phrase love honor and obey from their marriage ceremony. Probate Judge Samuel Van Horn began the standard vows but was asked by the groom to drop that portion. The bride also consented to excluding the words.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalamazoo
Amos D. Rood
Paw Paw
Therese Bartholomew
Samuel van Horn
Tuberculosis in glands cured by Eckmans Alterative
Joseph B White of 257 Lauriston Street Philadelphia recounts marked recovery from glandular tuberculosis after starting Eckmans Alterative in 1909. He describes weight gain improved appetite and sleep with no sickness days since November 1910 and urges others to try the remedy. The notice promotes Eckmans Alterative as effective for bronchial throat and lung affections and upbuilding the system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eckman
Lauriston St
Philadelphia
Joseph B. White
Ecckman
Jacobs’ Drug
Hocklet
Edmonton Boards Propose New City Charter Reform
Edmonton proposes a new charter with elective commission, initiative, referendum, recall, preferential ballot, adult suffrage, and elimination of plural voting on debentures. A 50‑member advisory panel will review it before a popular vote, aiming to elect a five‑member board by next December, while taxes remain on land only and utilities operate for minimal costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
Alberta
McNamara
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Ohio
Asbert
America
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People’s Credit Clothing Co
W. Mitchell St
Atlanta
Roll Films
Cyko
South
Ansco
Express C. O. D
E. H. Cone, (Inc
South Georgia
Marshallville, Georgia
Piel
ATI
ANTA
Georgia
East Point
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