Stillman Shadowed by Leeds Private Detectives
New York reports indicate James A. Stillman was under surveillance by Mrs. Florence Leeds private detectives for some time. The spying aimed to monitor rivals and a possible quarrel involving a former Century chorus girl. Affidavits in Stillman’s case allege Leeds used covert information to guard against threats to her East 86th Street household.
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New York
James A. Stillman
Florence H. Leeds
Stillman
Century
East 86Th Street
Leeds
Secret Service
Azaleas and orchids vie at National Rose Show opening
The National Rose Show opens at Horticultural Hall sponsored by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society with the American Rose Society. Cut roses including Pilgrim Hadley Killarney Crusader and Madam Butterfly headline a five day event. Professor Sargent’s azaleas led by hybrid Sanders win gold. Kumure azaleas from John S Ames estate in a Japanese garden also medal. Louise Hunnewell’s hardy azalea receives thanks and gold already awarded.
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Massachusetts Horticultural Society
American Rose Society
Hadley
Sargent
Holm Sea
Sanders
John S. Ames
North Haston
Japan
Louise Hunnewell
Walter Hunnewell
Society
Plans for Third Hague Conference Outlined
Dr James L Tryon of MIT and Professor George Grafton Wilson of Harvard will attend as delegates to a Washington convention of the American Society of International Law from April 27 to 30 where plans for a third Hague conference will be drawn up.
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Hague
American Society of International Law
Washington
James L. Tryon
Tech
George Grafton Wilson
Harvard
Noted Speakers Address Brookline Teachers Club
Last evening speakers addressed the Brookline Teachers Club at Edward Devotion School on Harvard Street. Rev Augustine Hickey represented Cardinal O Connell and spoke on Jean de Arc and Patriotism. Rabbi Henry Levi spoke on Education and Democracy. Rev Thomas van Ness discussed Impressions of the Orient. Miss Alice H Spaulding of Brookline High School presided.
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Brookline
Teachers’ Club
Edward Devotion
Harvard Street
Augustine Hickey
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Cardinal O'Connell
Jean de Arc
Henry Levi
Thomas van Ness
Second Unitarian Church
Alice H. Spaulding
Brookline High School
Arrest Made in Rankine Case Extortion Plot
Albert Kraft was arrested by New York detectives for allegedly attempting to extort 10 000 dollars from William Nye ex Secret Service man in return for locating Mrs Annette Rankine missing a week. Nye led a private probe into the financier widow’s disappearance.
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New York
United News
William Nye
United States Secret Service
Annette Rankine
Albert Kraft
Rankie
Nye
Secret Service
New Hope in British Coal Fight
London April 7 AP reports another tense day in the coal crisis with Prime Minister promising government participation in a conference on pumping before other issues. His eleventh hour intervention renewed prospects that the grave industrial crisis could be averted.
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London
Associated Press
House of Commons
Conference Proposal Shifts Miner-Pump Warning in UK Debate
Informal talks continue as moderates press miners to relent on pumping. Lloyd George returns to say a government backed plan calls for owners and miners to meet with officials before wage talks. Arthur Henderson laments lack of notice and says the Miners' Federation could not be consulted.
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Mr. Asquith
Lord Robert Cecil
Arthur Henderson
John Robert Clynes
Lloyd George
Thomas
National Union of Railwaymen
Miners’ Federation
Government defends wages amid miner crisis
The Board of Trade released a report outlining negotiations and denying a general attack on wages. It states the government and community aim to ensure wages are set at a level each industry can afford. The Independent Labor party urges members to support miners against organized capitalism.
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Triple Alliance
Board of Trade
Council of the
Independent Labor Party
Bodies of Three Missing Men Found in Adirondacks Pond
The bodies of A. D. Perkins Joseph F. Sharpe and William T. Perkins three Cortland railroad men were found in Third Pond near Long Lake after they disappeared last November during a hunting trip Guides and friends had searched for weeks. It is thought they died while crossing the pond in a shallow duck boat during a wind storm.
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United News
Adirondacks
A. D. Perkins
Joseph F. Sharpe
William T. Perkins
Cortland
N. Y
Third Pond
Long Lake
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