Two burglars escape Rockland jail before sentencing
Frank Wyman and Frank Martin, awaiting Sing Sing terms for burglary and grand larceny, escaped from Rockland County jail after attacking jailer John Van Nostrand. The jailer is badly injured, and a manhunt with constables and residents is under way. authorities suspect the fugitives fled toward New Jersey.
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Nyack
N. Y
Frank Wyman
Frank Martin
Sing Sing
Rockland County
John van Nostrand
van Nostrand
New Jersey
Salisbury Canonized Oxford Saint Portrait in Church Reredos
In All Souls Oxford a sculptor planned niches for Christian saints. Lord Salisbury then Lord Robert Cecil was chosen as a Fellow and became the model for a warrior saint in the reredos. The article notes he is depicted as he was four decades ago in noble attire with cloak and sword.
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Oxford
Eng
Lord Salisbury
All Souls
Oxford University
Robert Cecil
Wing delivers long awaited reunion as Alice returns home
Waltham April 13 Little Alice Wing returns to her foster mother Mrs Emma Hall after a two year court dispute in New York. The girl was custody fought by William I Wing and Mrs Edgar Pitt with habeas corpus actions. Alice cried at separation but agreed to go home to Waltham where Mrs Hall awaits with relief and plans for a comfortable future aided by a forthcoming inheritance.
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Waltham
Little Alice Wing
New York
Emma
Hall
Maine
Little Alice
Boston
Mrs. Hall
Alice
William I. Wing
Edgar Pitt
N. Y
Pitt
Adsit
Guardian
Pitts
Sawyer Jr
Knowledge the Root of Evil at Seventh Day Adventist meeting
A speaker at Deacon Hall says colleges like Harvard breed damning knowledge. He cites Eve’s desire for knowledge and Lucifer’s fall, alleges Mormon schools train obedient servants, and misstates Solomon’s learning to claim theology, science, and sociology were divinely imparted.
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Tke
Harvard
Professor Griggs
Deacon Hall
Adam
Eve
Lucifer
Hell
Christ
Mormon Church
Solomon
Nickerson Seeks Democratic Nomination for 11th District
Philip T. Nickerson, longtime Democrat active in Bryan circles since 1890, declares his bid for the Democratic nomination in Massachusetts’ new eleventh district. He notes past roles with the Massachusetts Bi metallic Union, Bryan Club, and Commonwealth Club, and argues representatives should pursue freedom for Americans and independence for Filipinos while serving district needs. He emphasizes common sense, experience, and ethics in promoting public welfare.
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Philip T. Nickerson
Congress
Ite
Governor Crane and Mayor Collins Invited to Ball
The 80th annual St Stephen's Society Ball will be held in Roughan's Hall this evening. The St Stephen's Total Abstinence and Benevolent Society is a longtime temperance group dating back to 1871 and a North End landmark.
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Crane
Collins
St. Stephen’s Society Ball
St. Stephen's Total Abstinence and Benevolent Society
Roughan’s Hall
Parson
North End
Dobson
Mami Lambhry
St. Stephen’s
Total Abstinence Society
Lizzie Degnan
St. Stephen's
Pretty Young Ladies Dance for Syrian Mission Benefit
The younger set in fashionable Catholic circles plans a charity ball on Monday evening, April 21, hosted by Miss Marie Durick in Tyler street. Miss Durick is assisted by several young ladies in organizing the event for the Syrian Mission Church.
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Benefit of
Syrian Church Mission
Marie
Durick
The
Syrian Mission Church
Tyler Street
Miss Durick
Younges
Dobson
Louise Dolan
Purdy
Theo Mackey
Boston bacteriologist disputes tunnel disease in America
Dr Hibbert W Hill of the Boston health department states that the so called tunnel disease has never appeared in Boston despite extensive subway construction here. He notes symptoms such as lassitude anemia and digestive troubles and questions claims from New York doctors about a parasite in city water. He adds Boston workers remained unusually healthy during subway work and suggests the disease may trace to southern European origins.
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Hibbert W. Hill
Boston Health Department
New York
Boston
St. Gothard’s
Europe
St. Gothard
Switzerland
L. H. Warner
Storm White
Warner
Hill
Boston Laboratory
America
Consul Campbell of Warsaw Resigns Over Comedy of Errors
Consul Campbell of Warsaw faced a storm over his bid to Warsaw, with charges of a fake birth place and past elopement. He traveled to the United States to resign, while Vladislaw Rawitz’s appointment faced scrutiny and mixed signals from officials in London and St. Petersburg. Campbell’s stance shifted as the affair concluded with his withdrawal from the Warsaw post.
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Consul Campbell
Warsaw
ST. Petersburg
Campbell
United States
Hay
Joseph Rawitz
Wladislaw Rawitz
Rawitz
W. R. Holloway
Charlemagne Tower
Russia
Vladislaw Rawitz
Rawitzes
Jeremiah Curtin
Herr Wolff
Sienkiewics
Curtin
A. Pierce
Holloway
Viadislaw Rawitz
Tower
Viadislaw Rawits
William M. Osborne
London
Mobell
Montreal
Canada
Chicago
Why Should It Be Thought Incredible God Will Raise the Dead
In a stirring sermon the speaker argues that physical decay gives way to a radiant resurrection. He cites cremation, ancient martyrs, and nature’s cycles as evidence that God can restore bodies and unite them with immortal souls for a glorious afterlife. The piece concludes with triumphant praise and a rebuke of death’s finality.
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You
Central Park
Bellevue Hospital
God
P. P. Bliss
Evangelistic Singers
Ashtabula Bridge
John Rodgers
Latimer
Ridley
Oxford
Pothinus
Blandina
Alexander
Marcus Aurelius
Christ
Paul
Agrippa
Bergerac
France
Egypt
China
Europe
William Tennent
Archibald Alexander
Carpenter
Mason
Holy Land
Giant's Causeway
Wiang
Mr. Moffatt
Earth
Heaven
Louis Klopsch
New York Excise Law Enforced Tightens Saloon Rules
April 13 report shows intensified enforcement of New York excise laws by police and State Liquor Dealers, restricting drink purchases to hotels with proper licenses and requiring sandwiches with drinks. Tenderloin and West Thirty-seventh districts see saloon closures and fewer daylight arrests as hotels profit under the Raines law.
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New York
State Liquor Dealers’ Association
Raines Law
Raines
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M. A. Cowan
Woman's Christian Rance Union
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Back Bay
J. Newman & Sons
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