Dead voters alleged in New York Life and Mutual Life polls
A statement by the international policy-holders committee claims fraud in recent New York Life and Mutual Life elections. It describes proxies and ballots with dead policyholders and lapsees, false addresses, and lists filed at Albany with many incorrect names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
International Policy-Holders’ Committee
New York Life and Mutual Life Insurance Companies
South
Department of Insurance
International Committee
Mutual
New York Life
Albany
Night’s News List Oddities Spark Local Absurdities
Central City reports mayoral turmoil as James A. Gilmour dies before qualifying. Elks bury him after his daughter arrives from Mina. Mayor P Davies may stay in office under the city charter. New York dispatch notes Jack Wilmerding sues for absolute divorce from Vanderbilt Allen’s daughter, following a London marriage of Marie Fatimah Dex Wilmerding to James Coates in 1907.
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Central City
Col
James A. Gilmour
the Elks
Mina
Thut
P. Davies
Gilmour
Davies
New York
Jack’’ Wilmerding
Supreme Court
Vanderbilt Allen
Commodore’ Vanderbilt
London
Wilmerding
James Coates
Paddington
Marie Fatimah Dex Wilmerding
Coates
City Clerk and District Attorney Salaries Spark Bitter Eras War
In ers Kansas April 7 the city faces a heated municipal campaign after salary hikes for the city clerk and district attorney. Supporters of ousting incumbents demand an economic administration and pledge to curb what they call venal and extravagant city council spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ERS
Kan
Brain storms linked to storm cures insanity claim
New Orleans reports suggest that doctors at the State Insane Hospital in Jackson observed recovered calmness in chronic hysteria patients after a recent tornado storm. The storms appeared to relieve mental disturbance and restore equanimity in some inmates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
State Insane Hospital
Jackson
Wolves Rampant In Olmsted County Driveers Arm Themselves
In Olmsted County Minnesota crowds report large timber wolves roaming in daylight. Farmers and residents carry arms after several witnessed packs and some men claim close encounters or attacks near barns and farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul
Minn
Olmsted
Man Claims Woman Proposed, Jury Awards Damages in Breach Suit
Uniontown jurors awarded Miss Hanna Zundel $1500 against B W Patton after she sued for breach of promise. Patton testified he never proposed. she says she proposed first, he visited for 10 years and sat on the sofa, yet claimed no kiss was ever stolen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uniontown
Penn
B. W. Patton
Washington Township
Hanna Zundel
Patton
Dusters doomed as TB spreaders prompt cloth cleaning advice
Philadelphia on April 7 reports the Charity Organization Society urges replacing feather dusters with soft dry cloths or moistened cloths, stating dust stirring worsens tuberculosis risk. The group promotes shaking cloths outdoors and rinsing cloths in clean water to reduce dust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Committee On the Prevention
The
Charity Organization Society
Brides In Wilmington Prohibited From Throwing Rice Shoes
A $300 000 Pennsylvania Railroad elevated station in Wilmington Del will ban wedding relics after a bridal party hurled a No 10 shoe at a Pullman car window. The incident frightened passengers and prompted the order against such tossing.
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Wilming
Pennsylvania Railroad
English Actor to Wed New York Aristocrat
Miss Ida Chester Reid of an old New York Hudson River lineage will marry John Blair, a young English actor with Mme. Alla Nazi mova at the Bijou Theatre. The couple met in Cornish New Hampshire’s artistic summer colony linked to Augustus St Gaudens and Bishop Potter’s daughter. The ceremony is planned quietly at the Church of the Ascension on Fifth Avenue.
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New York
Ida Chester Reid
Hudson River Colony
John Blair
Mme
Alla Nazimova
Bijou
Cornish
N. H
Augustus St. Gaudens
Miss Reid
Mason Davidge
Bishop Potter
Blair
Church of the Ascension
Fifth Avenue
Tenth Street
A. Bertrand Reid
Peekskill-on-the-Hudson
Search for Lost Barge Spurred by Navy Tug Potomac
The naval tug Potomac departed Norfolk Navy Yard to search for the coal barge lost after breaking loose from the collier Caesar. Ten men were aboard the barge when it went missing last Thursday. The collier Aba renda would follow, and the cruiser Cleveland was expected to join the search soon.
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Norfolk
Potomac
Norfolk Navy Yard
Navy
Caesar
Abarenda
Cleveland
Marblehead Schooner Taura L Sprague Reported Ashore
The schooner Taura L Sprague of Marblehead Massachusetts is ashore off Ocracoke Inlet North Carolina late today. She measures 664 net tons, was built in 1890 at Rockland Maine, and has a crew of six or seven men.
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Norfolk
Taura L. Sprague
Pierce
Marblehead
Mass
Ocracoke Inlet
N. C
Rockland
Busy Boston Girl Leads Strenuous Life at Aiken
Miss Eleanora Sears of Boston is noted by Aiken society gossip for a packed day of fitness. She rises before 5 am for cold and hot water plunges, walks, reads mail, plays tennis, sails with children, leads pony cavalcades, rides steeplechase, and ends evenings on the veranda praising Boston society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleanora Sears
Boston
Aiken, S. C
Aiken
S. C
Miss Sears
Casey
Bears Visit Children At Brookline Hospital
Two bear cubs from the New England Forest Fish and Game Association toured Brookline and the Children's Hospital on Huntington Avenue. They fed from nursing bottles while doctors and Mr. Follett explained. Ill children unable to attend were visited by the bears on hospital beds, bringing cheer to patients and staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookline
Children’s Hospital
Huntington Avenue
Richard E. Follett
New England Forest, Fish and Game Association
Taft Arrives in Havana for Cuban Visit
Secretary of War Taft and party arrived in Havana aboard the Mayflower with Governor Magoon and Cuban officials greeting them. Taft declined to discuss politics, staying at the palace through Wednesday night before sailing to Puerto Rico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Taft
Magoon
Barry
Army of Pacification
Alexandre Rodriguez
Cuba
Mr. Taft
Porto Rico
Waited Fifty Years for Marriage Certificate East Longmeadow
Mr and Mrs James W Lull of Springfield finally obtained a certified copy of their marriage from the East Longmeadow town clerk after sixty years. They were married by a Springfield clergyman whose church record was incomplete. The couple, who celebrated their golden wedding anniversary this week, had waited decades for documentation.
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East Longmeadow
James W. Lull
Springfield
Lull
Mrs. Lull
Wedding Cards for Miss Howard Grant and Prof Fernald
The engagement announces the marriage of Miss Marjory Howard Grant of Providence Rhode Island to Professor Merritt Lyndon Fernald of Harvard College. The ceremony is set for Monday night April fifteenth. Fernald, a Harvard botanist and popular junior instructor, is 80 years old with a notable career in plant science and field experiments. He resides in Dover Maine and rooms in Weir Hall at Harvard.
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Marjory Howard Grant
Henry Grant
Providence
R. I
Merritt Lyndon Fernald
Harvard College
Merritt Lyngon Fernald
Harvard
Weir Hall
Dover
Low Sunday Church Services Reported Across Cathedrals
Catholic churches in the city marked Low Sunday with services at the Church of the Immaculate Conception and the Cathedral drawing crowds nearly equal to Easter week. Collections announced from the pulpits showed substantial totals, the Cathedral noting a slow collection compared to Easter.
Vaccines and public health in the late 19th century
Dr Theobald Smith lectures at Harvard Medical School on vaccines and anti-toxins as social tools to prevent infection. He cites Jenner and Pasteur, explains vaccine design to minimize disturbance, and argues for vaccination as essential when herd immunity and state action protect public health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theobald Smith
Harvard Medical School
Jenner and
Pasteur
Dr Krieger in Berlin With His Kidnapped Son
Berlin report says Dr George E Krieger formerly of Chicago and his son Holdie are in Berlin. Krieger plans to practice medicine and the boy wishes to stay with him. The mother, now married to dentist Dr Henry E McDonald of Chicago, intends to return there.
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Dr. Krieger
Berlin
George E. Krieger
Chicago
Holdie
Hamburg
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Calvin B. Cady
Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler
Oscar Mansfelt
San Francisco
Tremont Street
Sale Distributors
Ld Grist Mill
Gladden
Prof
Fernald Soon
Grant
Mrs. Knight
Worcester Cooking School
Crawford
Walker & Pratt Mfg. Co
Union St
Haverhill Street
A. McArthur CO
Washington St
Adams Square
the Home Furnishers’ Association of Massachusetts
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