Death of Duke of Westminster Ends a Storied Era
London dec 22. The Duke of Westminster dies after a period of declining health. Renowned as one of the world’s wealthiest men his fortune was estimated from seventeen to two hundred million dollars and his annual income about five million. He was a famed sportsman and master of horse flesh with Eaton Hall in Cheshire as his principal seat. The heir is his 18 year old grandson at Cambridge.
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Duke of Westminster
Li Hung Chang
John D. Rockefeller
London
Engnd
United Kingdom
Eaton Hall
Chester
Hawarden
Gladstone
Westminster
Flying Fox
Marquis of
Grosvenor
Cheshire
Duke of Sutherland
Countess of Sutherland
Hugh Lupus Grosvenor
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Hugh Grosvenor
Eaton
Peigrayvse
Karl Grosvenor
Balliol College
Oxford
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House of Lords
Unionis
Hartingiton
Dsendon Landigras
Ritchie
Marrie
Constance Gertrude Leweson Gower
Katherine Carolina Cavendish
Lord Cheshire
Cambridge
Big Realty Deal Forms Syndicate for $1 Million Purchase
A syndicate led by Alexander Porter and T Dennie Boardman plans to buy John H Pray Sons Co property at 646 658 Washington St nearly opposite Boylston St for 1 010 000 with 700 000 raised so far Samuel Carr is trustee The six story brick building fronts Washington St 8 ft and Harrison Ave 76 ft total area 18 381 sq ft The plan calls for leasing the property for twelve years to Pray Sons Co which will be incorporated with 756 000 capital as J H Pray Sons Company
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John H. Pray
Washington Street
Harrison Avenue
Hersey Place
Essex Street
Boylston’ Street
John H. Pray Sons & Co
J. H. Pray Sons Company
Omega Oil Philosophy and Comfort in Dress
An Indiana man argues against stiff collars and tight shirts claiming discomfort in Western fashion harms health. He contrasts American dress with Chinese attire, praising looser clothing and Omega Oil as remedy for pains caused by unnatural fashion, urging readers to adopt natural living.
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Lim
America
Indiana
Grace Held on Swindle Charge in Chicago Police Station
Ellen M. Grace, a young elocutionist from a wealthy North Platte family, is in a Chicago police station charged with swindling. She denies intent to defraud, having taken money and jewelry from women acquaintances to buy Christmas gifts for friends.
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Chicago
Ellen M. Grace
Miss Grace
North Platte
Neb
Wed Same Woman Three Times In Oklahoma
John Crisman of Pa rry Oklahoma has married Pauline Rodenbaugh three times. They first wed at Bryan Ohio thirty years ago and divorced five years later for abandonment. Crisman moved from Chicago in 1889 and remarried his wife who followed him. A second divorce followed a year later and today a third divorce suit is filed as Mrs Crisman again left him. Crisman, a G A R member, has a son in the Philippines.
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Parry
Okla
John Crisman
Crisman
Pauline Rodenbaugh
Bryan
Oklahoma
Chicago
Philippines
Bates College Alumni Elect Officers at Annual Meeting
Bates College Alumni Association held its annual meeting at Young's last evening. Presiding was Hon. A. M. Spear ex president of the Maine Senate due to the regular president being ill. Attendees included President George C. Chase and doctors Jane Kelly and Thomas P. Smith of Westbrook. Elected officers were President V. Scribner Worcester Vice President A. M. ne Gardiner Me Secretary S. J. Jackett Boston.
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Young’s
A. M. Spear
Maine Senate
George C. Chase
Bates College
Jane Kelly
Thomas P. Smith
Westbrook
V. Scribner
Worcester
A. M
Gardiner
J. Jackett
Boston
Sentenced for Forgery Guilty Plea in Superior Court
Warren A. Oliver was sentenced to state prison for three to four years by Judge Hardy in the Superior Criminal Court yesterday afternoon. He pleaded guilty to forging and uttering checks in seven counts. Oliver lived at Nantasket and other resorts, spending the money his crime yielded.
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Warren A. Oliver
Hardy
Superior Criminal Court
Nantasket
Massachusetts Assessors Convene at State House Meeting
The Association of Massachusetts Assessors met in Room 49 at the State House. Hon Henry Winn of Malden urged state property assessment and warned wealth concentration harms prosperity. He noted slow growth in taxable property amid rising municipal debt. R. G. F. Cardidge supported expanding the society’s scope. Obituaries for Amos Getry of Newburyport and George B. Currier were adopted in resolutions.
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Massachusetts
Association of Massachusetts Assessors
State House
Hetry Winn
Malden
Ae Prt
R. G. F. Caridage
Society
Amos H. Getry
Newburyport
George B. Currier
Missing Woman Ties to Delinquent Tax Case
Philadelphia December 92 state representative Abraham L Allen is charged in a warrant by James McCormick chief deputy of the Delinquent Tax Bureau with embezzling city funds he collected as delinquent tax collector. Allen is brother in law of Harvey Newitt now in penitentiary for counterfeit scheme. Detectives seek Allen and a missing former church teacher.
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Philadelphia
Abraham L. Allen
James McCormick
Delinque Tax Bureau
Allen
Harvey Kk
Newitt
Gethsemane Baptist Church
First Mine Then Miner Chicago Returns Rich Klondike Wife
Dr Luella Day left Chicago for the Klondike two years ago. Now she is Mrs Edward McConnell wife of a lon dike mine owner who has cleared four million dollars in eight years. She was reported dead in a snowslide but instead found a rich claim and wed McConnell after a brief courtship.
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Chicago
Luélla Day
Klondike
Edward McConnell
Chilcoot
McConnell
Elida Wilbur Awakening from Two-Year Coma in San Francisco
Miss Elida Wilbur, in a coma for nearly two years, is slowly regaining consciousness at home in San Francisco Cal. Reports say the improvement is so great that her mother hopes for a full recovery and return to herself.
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San Francisco
Cal
Elida Wilbur
Webster Statue Unveiling Planned with Lodge Oration
Dec 22 report notes Representative Berry of Kentucky says rivers and harbors bill will be prepared this session. He does not agree with the chairman that no bill will be framed and expects the committee to take the arch view when members meet. Eastern Congressmen, including New England men, urge Boston Harbor improvements.
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Navy plan to refit Constitution as training ship
Secretary Boutelle discusses refitting the historic Constitution in Boston as a naval training ship. Massachusetts Daughters of 1812 offer to fund the work via popular subscriptions, viewed as a patriotic and worthy goal.
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Boutelle
Hong
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Long
Deficiency Bill Projects 51 Million for War and Navy
Washington dispatch reports the urgent deficiency appropriation bill is nearly ready and will total about 51 million dollars. War Department requests about 5.01 million and Navy about 3.14 million, with large items for transportation troopships subsistence pay and quartermasters supplies. Navy main items include ordnance 230 thousand coal and equipment 370 thousand and vessel preservation 2.5 million plus naval academy light plant 43,740.
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House
War Department
Navy Department
Naval Academy
Maine's dead burial ceremonies moved to 11 a.m.
Washington December 22 The Navy Department announced that the Arlington burial ceremonies for the Maine's dead arriving on the Texas will be held at 11 a.m. on the 128th inst.
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Washington
Navy Department
Arlington
Maine
Texas
Deluge of House Measures Reaches 6176 Total
Washington officials report 6015 bills 95 joint resolutions 65 simple resolutions and a grand total of 6176 measures introduced in the House. The tally shows a heavy volume of legislation in the session era.
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Washington
House
Kipling Loses Chicago Antipathy From Women’s Club
Chicago’s Woman’s Club rejects Kipling calling him low taste and unread by cultured readers. They deem the Anglo-Saxon laureate representative of today’s faulty literature. Mike Kirkland led the assault and criticized his Recessional as emblematic of nineteenth century life and letters.
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Chicago
Woman's Club
Kipling
Mike Kirkland
Arbitration at Lynn Unable to Fix Shoe Price List
The State Board of Arbitration at Lynn heard Bailey Curtis Co and its employees on a petition to fix a price list for a new shoe grade. The firm and workers, both union members, presented statements but could not agree due to insufficient information. The meeting adjourned to a future date.
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State Board of Arbitration
Lynn
Bailey, Curtis& Co
Frm
Bailey, Curtis & Co
Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union
New Annex Planned for Mattapan Home for Infirm Hebrews and Orphans
Trustees reveal a one story addition to the Leopold Morse founded home in Mattapan. The wing will hold dormitories for boys and girls a chapel a study room and large playrooms with showers baths and asphalt floors. Four memorial windows will honor Julius Levingston Jacob Peavy and Rosa Frank Hecht. The project expected to cost about 14000 dollars and will double capacity from 35 to about 70. A wrought iron gate donated by Godfrey Morse adds to the updated exterior. The home is led by Rabbi Schindler with unspecified further leadership.
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Mattapan
Leopold Morse
Julius Levingston
Jacob Peavy
Rosa Frank Hecht
Godfrey Morse
Schindler
Lawton Fund Receives Major Cash Gift and Public Support
Washington December 99 Adjutant General Corbin reports deposits totaling 2445 for the Lawton fund to aid General Lawton's widow and children. The fund’s total reaches 4534 with 1000 pledged by Milwaukee citizens as efforts to clear the Redlands estate mortgage advance. New York Bankers’ Trust named as depository with 1395 contributions collected locally. Telegraph carriers pledge free transmission of Lawton fund matter.
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Washington
Corbin
Lawton
Milwaukee
Redlands
Cal
Wytern Union Telegraph Company
Postal Telegraph Company
New York
Bankers’ Trust Company
No. 10
Wall Street
Monument Erected for Rhodes Ancestors in St Pancras Churchyard
An antiquarian notes Cecil Rhodes erected a large granite monument over the Rhodes family tomb in St Pancras churchyard London. The first Rhodes in London is said to be William Rhodes who settled in 1720 on land now used by the Foundling Hospital.
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Cecil Rhodes
St. Pancras
London
Rhodes
William Rhodes
Foundling Hospital
Marriages and a Boston death notice in brief
In New York on December 20 a marriage was performed by Minister Savage linking Miss Quve Lloopar Lunt of New York to Manson of Cambridge. In South Boston a December wedding joined George A. Willard and Josephine I. Holbrook. A death notice records the passing of Thomas Austin of Burberry Norfolk Avenue.
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Lunt
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Hever Minot
Iete
Austin
Norfolk Avenue
Borbury
Lee
Thomas Austin
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