Clark Mansion Set To Cost Five Million In Marble Palace
New York April 29 Senator W A Clark the Montana mining king directs in person the building of a Fifth Avenue mansion to be finished in modernized Louis XIV style using white granite from New Hampshire quarries. The projected cost exceeds 5 million including land and decorations with a two year construction plan and a grand ground floor reception area.
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Montana
Paris
America
Clark
United States
Europe
Metropolis
la Chap-pelle
E. M. Culver
Catharine Clark
William A. Clark
Culver
Fifth Avenue
New Hampshire
Rangley Lakes
General Gram
Woodlawn Cemetery
Mother Grief as Doherty Family Plunges in Tragedy
Seven Doherty children died earlier from the same cause. Owen Doherty age 39 a track master for the Boston Elevated railway died of Wood poisoning at 1 30 am after an earlier leg bruise and blood poisoning. His wife Hannah Doherty died next at 2 am, an apoplectic shock. The couple left an 11 year old boy and a two year old girl as orphans. Funeral set for St Josephs Church with burial Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Morton Street
Somerville
Owen Doherty
Hannah Doherty
Medford
Boston Elevated Railway
Doherty
Lawin
Charlestown
O’donnell
Durrell
St. Joseph's’ Church
Holy Cross Cemetery
Mild Smallpox Case at 1128 Harrison Avenue
A light smallpox case at 1128 Harrison Avenue shows no new exposure. Dr. Durgin, chair of the Board of Health, says the infected woman had limited contact and is housed at the Detention Hospital after thorough disinfection of the house.
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Harrison Avenue
Durgin
Board of Health
Dr Peters of New York Dies in Boston Church
Dr Madison G Peters of New York City died yesterday at Rugsie Street Church in Boston. He preached a sermon on Esther 4 14 and wondered about divine timing for such a time as this.
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Madison G. Peters
New York
Governor Allen Moves From Massachusetts to San Juan Palace
The governor relocates from a Massachusetts home to a large stone palace in San Juan Puerto Rico. The building, used by the Spanish and later overhauled by Americans, houses the main offices and living quarters. Governor General Davis currently occupies the living area. The military government bureaus occupy the official sections.
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San Juan
Governor Allen
Massachusetts
Porto Rico
Allen
Davis
Washington Administration
Marathon cross country rider dies from morphine overdose
Harry B. Martindale, a noted club man and cross country rider, died at New York Hospital from a morphine overdose. The Genesee Hunt Club member was injured in a November 1898 hunting accident that led to amputation and his declining health.
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Martindale
New York Hospital
New York
Harry
Theew York Hospital
Genesee Hunt Club
Little Jennie De Haan to Tender at Bethesda Hall
Testimonial planned for Wednesday night in South Boston bids fair to outdo any similar event in Bethesda Hall. "Little Jennie’s" talent as a child performer is well known and friends have secured Boston artists to ensure a grand success.
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Jennie de Haan
Bethesda Hall
Boston
Jennie
Vanderbilt Bride Elsie French Engaged to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
New York April reports the engagement of 18 year old Elsie French to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. She brings a $5 000 000 own fortune and carries noted beauty with Newport ties and Harbor View estate. The couple have known each other since childhood and draw family approval.
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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Elsie French
Miss French
Newport
Francis Ormond French
Manhattan Trust Company
Elizabeth French
Francis Eaton
Grenadier Guards
Lord Cheylesmore
Hisle French
Harbor View
Halidon Hill
Newport Harbor
Mr. French
Alfred Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Small Store Robbery Reported at Jenks Stationery
Early Sunday morning the stationery store of CC. E. Jenks at 337 Warren Street was broken into through a rear window. Thieves stole thirty packages of cigarettes, some cigars and $7 in change. three men involved, descriptions not available.
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CC. E. Jenks
Warren Street
Wages Are His Jack Mason Defeats Frohman Suit
New York April 2 John Mason wins a court battle to keep his salary from Daniel Frohman. Civil Justice Worcester dismisses the creditor’s push to seize Mason’s earnings under an assignment Mason signed in 1898. The decision declares the assignment void as against public policy.
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New York
John Mason
Daniel Frohman
Empire Theatre Company
Frohman
Worcester
Eleventh District Court
Mason
Fann Colgate
Marion Manola Mason
Shamed Into Death by Own Action at Post Office
Mrs Agnes Trotter, daughter of Postmaster Heath, killed herself with a revolver after a quarrel at the Grand Haven Michigan post office. The 30s and prominent church and Sunday school worker had been accused of improper conduct by Mrs Lysander Davidson during the ten minute dispute.
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Grand Haven
Mich
Agnes Trotter
Heath
Trotter
Lysander Davidson
Love of babes ruins Emeline Waters in Binghamton
Emeline Waters, known for craving children, harbored a passion for a brother’s infant and pleaded to keep the baby. When the father again refused, she consumed carbolic acid, dying shortly after, leaving the infant’s guardianship unresolved.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Emeline Waters
Walker
Emeline
Frank
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