Insane Man With Two Names Finds Fortune in Richmond
Ralph A. Clarke of Brooklyn disappeared from a sanatorium five years ago and was thought dead. He reappeared as B. R. Benton in Rich mond Va., built a fortune, and later was identified as Clarke by friend Rowland J. Simes. In April Justice Blackmar restored $27,737 and dissolved the commitment notes in his favor.
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IW York
Lfe
Ralph A. Clarke
Brooklyn
Richmond
B. R. Benton
Clarke
Supreme Court
New York Sunday World
Rowland J. Simes
Hamilton Trust Company
New York
Tennessee
Brownsville
Jefferson County
N. Y
H. L. Judd
Chambers Street
Dean Street
The
Dike
Masons
Yukon Gold
Columbia Shoe Company
Smith & Hemenway
Middle West
South
Parker Chemical Company
Chicago
W. H. Parker
Ferguson
State Board of Health
Chemical Supply Company
Dr. Parker
Nannie Proffitt
East Cary Street
Washington
E. H. Swein
Second Baptist Church
Will Ketcham
Ralph Clarke
Strumpf's
Raleigh
Simes
Bernard J. ¥Ork
Justice Blackmar
Fia Richmond
Ralph A
American woman who has led the London gayeties
An American social host, Lady Naylor Leyland, led a premier early London ball for her son Sir Albert Edward Naylor Leyland. She danced with Prince Louis of Battenberg while royals joined American guests and ambassadors. The event showcased glamorous costumes, jewels, and noted American attendees.
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London
Lady Naylor-Leyland
Jennie Chamberlain
Cleveland
Sir Albert Edward Naylor- Leyland
Prince Louis of Battenberg
Princess Christian
Princess Louis of Battenberg
Victoria
Schleswig-Holstein
Lady Dufferin
Arthur Paget
Cooper
Decies
Waldorf Astor
John Jacob Astor
A Famous Thief Catcher Heads Gotham Police
George S. Dougherty, appointed deputy police commissioner of New York, is one of the era’s most famous thief catchers. He led the eastern Pinkerton Detective agency and handled pivotal cases including tracking Rudolph and Collins from Union, Missouri to Hartford, Connecticut and later aiding their capture and hanging.
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George S. Dougherty
New York
Pinkerton
United States
Mr. Dougherty
Rudolph and Collins
Union
Schumaker
Stanton
Dougherty
Hartford
Conn
Rudolph
Lansing
Kan
Collins
Woman’s record travel by foot across Congo wilderness
Mrs Marguerite Roby, traveling 2000 miles through the Congo wilds mostly on foot with occasional bicycle aid, returned to London. She hunted and packed big game including hippo, leopard, elephant, hartebeest, elands, and zebra, often guiding camp food supplies with her shooting. Six months of fever and porter shortages marked the journey, which included a stop near the Tijiji tree where Stanley and Livingstone once met.
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Marguerite Roby
London
The White Whale Beluga of Arctic Seas
Beluga or white whale inhabits Arctic Ocean bays and inlets and sometimes travels into fresh water seeking fish. It grows to 15 18 feet with a large mouth and sharp conical teeth. Natives catch it with nets and harpoons. flesh oil skins are used for food leather and trade.
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Herper
Arctic Ocean
Artistic Flattery Sparks Witty Portrait Trade
In a witty exchange, Artistic Flattery remarks on Miss Rich’s impression of a portrait. The jokey reply notes the artist added six more diamonds than she usually wears, turning the compliment into a playful boast.
Rich Woman Gives Time In Aid Of Working Girls
Portrait of Mrs. Raymond Robins of Chicago a wealthy reformer who leads the Women s Trade Union League. She lives modestly in a tenement flat while organizing working women, mediating labor disputes, and planning loans to aid workers without loan shark abuses.
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Raymond Robins
Chicago
Women's Trade Union League
Robins
League
Garment Workers
Death of Bishop William Paret Ends Long Episcopal Career
The venerable Bishop William Paret of Baltimore, the oldest wearer of the purple in the U S Episcopal Church, died at age 85 shortly after his wife Mrs Paret passed away three days earlier. Born in New York City in 1826 he studied at Hobart College and Columbia, was ordained in 1853, served at St John Clyde and Zion Pierrepont Manor before becoming Baltimore bishop. He helped elevate Maryland as a leading diocese in the church and remained a prominent ecclesiastical figure.
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William Paret
Baltimore
Hobart College
Geneva
N. Y
St. John's Church
Clyde
Zion Church
Pierrepont Manor
Maryland
Sympathy on Instinct in Farmyard Exchange
Farmers at a city station debate the meaning of sympathy. A showy storyteller offers an example with a cow and her calf. The crowd laughs as the joke turns on instincts versus sympathy and a twin calved misunderstanding.
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Wal
Jeat
King Alcohol Described as Hoary Tyrant of Manhood
The piece portrays alcohol as a crippling tyrant over body and mind, arguing it destroys moral center and intellect. It cites Dr. Axel H. Gibson, warns against warmth from drinking, and explains alcohol disrupts blood and white corpuscles, undermining bodily defenses.
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John Milton
Michael Angelo
Alexander Pope
Thomas Carlyle
Axel H. Gibson
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Nevada
No. 20
Broadway
Parker
Paing
Spuyten Duyvil
Fourteenth Street
Third Avenue
Knells
Sanitarum
Jersey
Trenton
Perryville
B.R. Benton
American Locomotive Works
Gotham Police
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