Women in New York Arm Themselves With Revolvers
In New York the trend shifts from men behind guns to women arming themselves for home defense. Forty Miss Hazen's school pupils in Pelham Manor faced a burglar with revolvers. women seek small calibres like .22s for easy handling. Jewelry stores stock ornate gold and silver mounted models, priced from 50 to 75 dollars up to 250. Society hosts revolver practice and matches in private venues.
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New York
Greta Pomeroy
Marion Fish
Stuyvesant Fish
Adolf Ladenburg
Cuba Planners Seek Opinion On Foraker Law Impact
In Havana the Cuban Planters League votes to gather views from civil governors municipalities and provincial boards on the Foraker law and its effect on an agricultural bank. A circular will urge Spain and the Canaries to advertise Cuba’s labor opportunities amid rising harvest concerns.
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Havana
Cuban Planters’ League
Foraker
Planters’ League
Spain
Canaries
Cuba
Maximo Gomez
Antonio Maceo
Brooke
Senor Viondi
Michael J. Bady
Bady
Daughter of Captain Gridley defends pension at $30 a month
Katherine Gridley, eldest daughter of Captain Gridley who commanded Dewey's flagship at Manila Bay, speaks in New York to defend her mother's pension. She confirms the widow's $320 monthly pension and praises President McKinley and Admiral Dewey.
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New York
Manila Bay
Katherine Gridley
Gridley
Dewey
Miss Gridley
Miss Brown
Fifth Avenue
Erie
Mother
McKinley
John
Marine Corps
Admiral Dewey
Chelsea High School Dance Ends Ninth Annual Ball
Chelsea High School officers held the ninth annual ball at Armory Hall with about 500 attendees from nearby high schools. Major George Embas directed the grand march with Miss Edith Miller. assistants were Captain Henry F. Dewing Adjutant Delbert L. Jackson and Lieutenant Lawrence A. Haynes. Patrons included Adeline G. Simmons Annie L. Jackson and Antoinette Holbrook.
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Chelsea High School
Attalion
Armory Hall
George Emb
Edith Miller
Henry F. Dewing
Delbert L. Jackson
Lawrence A. Haynes
Ff Rty
Beer Barrel Crashes on Man at Freight House
George A. Gay of 133 Burlington Street Woburn suffered a crushed right foot when a barrel of beer fell at the Lower Street Boston and Maine freight house last evening He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment
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George A. Gay
Burlington Street
Woburn
Boston & Maine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts labor bureau reports charity statistics and employment review
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor publishes a bulletin on charity statistics based on 2636 families with two groups, old and new visitors. It details ages, literacy, nativity, housing crowding, and causes of distress, plus a quarterly summary of employment and cost of living across Boston and other cities.
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Bureau of Statistics of Labor of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Associated Charities of
Boston
Commonwealth
Brockton
Cambridge
Chicopee
Fall River
Haverhill
Olyoke
Lawrence
Lowell
Lynn
New Bedford
Peabody
Woburn
Worcester
Urns Theft Leads to Junk Dealers Arrests
Bernard Davidson and Israel Glick of 141 First Street were arrested on receiving stolen property charges for two copper urns valued at 600 dollars taken from Lincoln statue in Park Square. The urns were kept in a Common tool shed over winter. P J Gorman faced Municipal Court on theft charges and was held for Superior Court. Division 6 says the urns were bought by the two junk dealers.
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Bernard Davidson
First Street
Israel Glick
Lincoln
Park Square
Kelly
Division 4
P. J. Gorman
Division 6
Lumber accident leaves man with fractured skull
Peter Dimicola, 26, of 53 Prince Street, was unloading lumber on the speedway when a board went out of control and struck him on the head. He was taken to City Hospital with a fractured skull.
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Peter Dimicola
Prince Street
Holland's Queen May Wed The Kaiser's Son
Report says Queen Wilhelmina promised not to marry anyone but the Kaiser’s eldest son the Crown Prince. During a Potsdam visit she was seen with the young prince and reportedly pleased by his attentions while gossip placed her betrothed to Prince Ferdinand Joachim Albrecht of Prussia, Brunswick’s regent’s son.
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Wilhelmina
Flushing
England
Potsdam
Ferdinand Joachim Albrecht
Prussia
Frederick Albrecht
Brunswick
Kaiser Returns to Berlin Amid Courtship Rumors
Berlin reports say the Kaiser is back in the capital with diplomatic chatter centering on an engagement between Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. Reichstag members and diplomats confirm the chatter as credible despite circulating gossip.
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Frederick William
Germany
Holland
Reichstag
Wilhelmina
Netherlands
Woman from Somerville Takes Her Own Life
Mrs Victorine Roberts aged about 50 of Somerville was found dead by hanging in the cellar of her home at 18 Wigglesworth street yesterday afternoon by a neighbor. She had been demented for some time and lived with her husband and son while the husband was away in Boston at the time of the deed.
West Held in $1500 Bail on Ax Murder Allegations
Charles G. West, alleged assailant of his uncle Joan Barnard and two women, appeared before Judge Bolster. He pleaded not guilty to three counts of assault with an axe and intent to kill. The case was continued to December 13 with West held on $1500 bail.
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Charles G. West
Joan Barnard
Emma Lamaine
Elizabeth Jennings
Bolster
West
Death of Mrs. Mary Jane Wernberg in Brooklyn
Mary Jane Wernberg wife of Jere A. Wernberg prominent Brooklyn lawyer and politician was found dead in bed at 80 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn today believed to be caused by gas asphyxiation and considered accidental.
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New York
Mary Jane Wernberg
Jere A. Wernberg
Brooklyn
Lafayette Avenue
Family Pursued by Fate in Paterson and Binghamton
Martin Kane died in Binghamton New York from injuries after a wagon ran over him. His daughter Lizzie Kane lies in Paterson New Jersey Hospital with both feet crushed from injuries in the Lackawanna wreck, suffered about an hour after her father’s accident.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Martin Kane
Lizzie Kane
Paterson
N. J
Lackawanna
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