Murder, abduction, and a river of confessions unmask a crime ring
Tom Pryan and Chief Hanford close in on Parker and accomplices after a tangled web of abductions, blackmail, forgery, and murder. Templeton is killed by misidentification. Marian, Annie Templeton, and Parker's conspirators are captured or killed or sentenced. The narrative follows the rescue, confessions, and aftermath in New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Annie Templeton
Parker
Holbrook
Temple
Templeton
Preston
Tim
Tour
Pierson
Templetons
Ountain
Annie
Mr. Parker, Jr
Pam
Fountain
Union Square
Chief Hanford
Tom Pryan
New York
Hanford
Rauch
Min
Jove
Mr. Fountain
Marian
Hudson Street
James Preston
Hudson ‘Street
Henry Holroyd Templeton
George Parker
Scar Top Johnny
Hartford
Tony
Amie
Ken Noble
Fourth Avenue
Broadway
Twenty-sixth Street
Madison Square Garden
Gaion Square
Young Parker
Wessing
Philadelphia
Flora Ashgrove
Maurice
Curious Petition on Lotteries in New Jersey 1804
A 1804 petition from Montague and Sandistea congregants seeks legislative permission to run a lottery raising 400 dollars for a church meeting house repairs and minister salary. Signers include Johanuis D. Westbrook Abraham Westfall Joseph Ennis and fifty-nine others with Rev. John Demarest as pastor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey
Minisink
Valley Historical Society
Middletown
N. Y
New York Times
Montague
N. J
New York State Line
Port Jervis
New Jersey
Sandistea
Sussex
Yas
Johanuis
D. Westbrook
Abraham
Westfall
Joseph Ennis
John, Demarest
Augustus Seward
First Presbyterian Church
New York
Congo native writes to archbishop seeks more Gospel
A Congo native educated to read and write sends a first letter to the archbishop of Canterbury pledging service to Christ. City Mission Society of Stratford Connecticut purchased a lot to build a home costing 35 000 to 80 000 dollars funded in part by a 50 000 dollar bequest from the late Mrs. Lucey. Bulgaria plans to spend fifteen million dollars on railroads to aid missionaries abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congo
Canterey
Mrs. Lucey
Bulgaria
The Best of Love and a Club Anniversary
A reflective verse segment contrasts parental care with heavenly guardianship and ends with a pledge that God’s gardens hold mine in safety. A charter luncheon marks the Women’s New Century club tenth anniversary, with 320 attendees, 340 members, a cherrystone oyster menu, Augustin Baptiste serving, and toasts including one by Mrs. Edward Wetherill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Century Club
Augustin Baptiste
Cub
Mary Rockwell Hall
Edward Wetherill
Philadelphia Ledger
Minerva Parker Architect and Designer on South Broad
The Philadelphia letter highlights Minerva Parker as the city’s only woman architect and one of few nationwide. She prefers work as her advertisement, notes two other female architects in Rochester, and mentions current projects including railroad bridge plans, several dwellings, and a stable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minerva Parker
South Broad Street
Philadelphia
Plain Stylish Cotton Dresses With Simple Embroidery
Fashion Letter notes new cotton dress models favor severe plainness with rich but sparing embroidery. Fronts and yokes lose all over embroidery. A gingham dress for a slight figure features a round baby waist, full sleeve with narrow tucks, a simple full skirt with deep hem, and optional embroidered front or Vandyke collar and cuffs.
Birds and Bugs Fashion Wings on Evening Dresses
Fashion notes describe birds and insects as trimmings on gowns. Jet swallows flutter across skirts and bodices may feature swallow ornaments. Large butterflies of jet, gold tinsel, or pearls span the bodice, with smaller specimens hovering about shoulders and skirts.
Southern Literary Women in New York Circles
Southern literary women gain influence in New York society with Miss Frances Way Williams Mrs Mary E Bryan and Mrs Lee C Harby highlighted among others The piece notes a popular writer known as Bab draws large readership and mentions Austrian terrace competition for longevity with Vienna’s centenarian women Also listed are Chester white pigs for sale and local ads for Crayon work and home made boots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New Yorker
Frances Way Williams
Georgia
Mary E. Bryan
Lee C. Harby
South
Bab
New York Commercial
Ince
Vienna
Chester
C. M. Tucker
Belmont
N.Y
Also Mentioned on This Page
THE
Weekly Dispatch
Allegant
E.G. Helme
Church Directory
Bautist Cuthch
Bennett
A. Church
Gwynn
Presbyterian Church
P.m
ST. Pahilt’s Episcopal Church
Wilberforcé Wells
F.M
Societizes
Belmont Lodge
FE Awm
Bop
Mares
Crittenden
Sec
Y. Revere
Jas
Jolssay. Com
TEFFT
Adjt
Alo. UW
M. Burdick
M. RL
Fidelity
Klo.t. Mu
F.G, Hebme
Gro
L, Tucker, JR
K. R
Sir Knight's Legton
R. 1
Wilkinson
Ww. P, Clark
W.c.t
Baptist Church
V. A. Swillard
L.& H. Society
Frank van Campen
Pres
G.T
L. Hammonp
T H. E. Davis
J. Buliott Engine CO
BE. A. Newton
Poreman
Lonnie Hammond
W. J. Hardy,m.d
Homeopathic
W. J. Pas
H. A. Barney, M. D
Bellmmont, N
Court Streets
B. Bailey & Co’s
S.w. Crittenden
Sala
Ysters
J. D. Holden
J. W. Bartlett
City Bakery
J. Sortore & Son’s
California
Baker Factory
Wellsville Fair
J.ortpore & Son
Fuller
N. B. Fuller
W.grittenden
Belmont Mills
W H.vancampen
Proprietors
É de Rovers
Central Ave. Rocheser
Iver Y
Belmont, N.Y
Olbrook
Barclay North
New-York Evening Sun
Connecticut
Nellie Patterson
Mount Carmel
Nellie
United States
Central Young Men’s Christian Union of
Springfield
Mass
Hebrew Christian Church
St. Mark’s Place
Jacob Freshman
Jordan
Freshman
Holy Land
Tartford
Conn
Connecticut Bible Society
Catholic Apostolic
Eli Jones
South China
Sybil Jones
Liberia
England
Ireland
Norway
Germany
Switzerland
France
Spain
Central
Young Men’s Christian Union
London
Nice
Eugene Field
D. C. “Crofy
Jennie
New York State Forestry Association
Adirondack Woods
Wellsville
Tn Cremona
W. B. Coats
Wellsville, New York
Lester
Christ
Good Shepherd
New York Mall
Express
Austria
Europe
E. L. Lewis, Belmont
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