Water Sold by the Gallon Amid Salt Lake City Freeze
In Salt Lake City a cold snap brings water sold by the gallon in the streets from sprinkling permits. Many laundries have closed and unsanitary conditions are reported. The city hopes relief comes with warmer weather and provisions by the City Council. The Bald pate Inn mystery continues in Earl Derr Biggers' serial in next Sunday's Post Magazine.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Baldpate Inn
Earl Derr Biggers
Post
Baldpate
Advertising sketch on mercorized wax facial care
A 19th century style ad proposes mercorized wax to shed rough blotchy skin. Apply a thin overnight layer then wash off next morning to reveal softer clearer skin. Repeats daily until complexion improves with saxolite as a wrinkle remedy and hazel wash.
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Beauty's
Morgan on Liner Aground
In dense fog New York harbor nearly blocked a White Star liner the Adriatic with 1600 passengers including J Pierpont Morgan and former Senator Nelson W Aldrich of Rhode Island grounded near Governors Island after noon and was freed about 7 PM.
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New York
New York Harbor
White Star Line
J. Pierpont Morgan
United States
Nelson W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
Governor’s Island
Hamilton of the Old Dominion Run Ashore at Fort Wadsworth
The Hamilton of the Old Dominion ran ashore at Fort Wadsworth and its bow stove above the waterline by striking a stone pier. It returned to North River pier tonight while Mr. Morgan and family observers waited on the Adriatic. The Adriatic resumed course toward Europe as mists cleared and ships moved to quarantine.
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Hamilton
Old Dominion Line
Fort Wadsworth
North River
Mr. Morgan
Herbert Satterlee
Helen Morgan Hamilton
Morgan
New York Yacht Club
Adriatic
Wells Faces Preliminary Hearing In Child Death Case
St Albans Vermont January 7 threats against her children and a claimed wish for their death will anchor the allegations against Mrs Anna May Wells at tomorrow's preliminary hearing over the death of her 6 year old son and 4 year old daughter. Authorities cite a reported remark about sending two children to a reform school and wishing the others were dead.
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ST. Albans
Anna May Wells
Peter Fisher
Julius Wells
Wells case reopens on arsenic theory and family links
The narrative recounts testimony and the strain of an inquest into two children's deaths. It notes possible arsenic findings at the state lab and defense questions about mattress or food poison. Julius Wells cites a dying pig as suspicious, with trial timing contingent on tomorrow's hearing.
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Mrs. Wells
Julius
Anna
Ellen Harding
Harding
Julius Wells
Wells
Woman Bound and Drugged on Train En Route to Jacksonville
Evelyn Stewart, bound and drugged in a Chicago to Cincinnati Big Four train berth, told police of an attack. She later identified Jacksonville as her home and Knoxville as her fiancé’s location in Tenn. Conductor and authorities investigate as wrists and throat show signs of assault. an atomizer with chloroform was found.
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Cincinnati
Evelyn Stewart
Chicago
Jacksonville
Fila
Knoxville
Tenn
New York
Stewart
Brown
Pullman
Colonel Samuel Newell Smith Civil War Veteran Dies
Springfield reports Col Samuel Newell Smith aged 80, former commander of the Seventh Michigan Regiment in the war's later years, died at Feeding Hills near the city. After the war he served as assistant postmaster of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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Springfield
Samuel Newell Smith
Michigan
Feeding Hills
Smith
Bridgeport
Conn
Convivial Swain Nelson Rejected by Lynn Bride
Alfred G. Nelson, the Boston sailor arrested for drunkenness and released on probation to wed Miss Maud V. Spidell in Lynn, fails to marry as his fiancée decides he does not meet her ideal of a husband.
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Alfred G. Nelson
Boston
Lynn
Maud V. Spidell
Miss Spidell
Spidell
James Spidell
Nelson
Lunenburg
N. Y
Spidell Calls Off Wedding as Boston Drunk Arrest Precedes
Miss Spidell ends plans with Nelson after his Boston drunkenness arrest and release on probation. He kept liquor, visited her Lynn home, stayed overnight, and was later dismissed as a fiancé. Nelson, a first mate, is leaving for a fishing voyage from T wharf amid scrutiny of past fines and fights.
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Boston
New York
Maritime Provinces
Four Men Acquitted on Counts In Mail Fraud Mining Case
In New York on January 7 the government rested its case against Julian Hawthorne Josiah Quincy Dr. William J Morton and Albert Freeman accused of using the mails to promote Canadian mining claims. Defense argued justification of the mining promotion. Adjournment set to Thursday.
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New York
Julian Hawthorne
Josiah Quincy
William J. Morton
Albert Freeman
Quincy not guilty on mail fraud counts in Temagami-Cobalt case
United States Judge Hough directed a verdict of not guilty on counts alleging illegal use of the mails by former Boston Mayor Quincy in promoting the Temagami-Cobalt Elk-Lake Cobalt and Montreal-James properties. The Hawthorne Silver & Iron Mines and Julian Hawthorne Company indictments go to the jury. Damon E. Hall, Quincy counsel, says no defense will be offered on those counts.
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Quincy
Temagami-Cobalt
Elk-Lake Cobalt
Montreal-James
United States
Hough
Boston
Hawthorne Silver & Iron Mines, Ltd
Julian Hawthorne Company
Damon E. Hall
Thomas W. Proctor
Hawthorne
Morton
Freeman
Postoffice Department
Dael Club Dance Tonight in Amory Hall East Boston
East Boston Dael Club hosts its annual dance in Amory Hall tonight with invited dignitaries including Mayor Fitzgerald Congressmen Murray Curley and Senators Brennan and Mc Gonigle. Dance committee led by Miss Agnes Tierney.
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Dael Club
East Boston
Amory Hall
Fitzgerald
Murray and
Curley
Brennan and
McGonigle
Agnes Tierney
Red Cross Cough Ropes Warm the Lungs on Cold Mornings
A brief item notes cough ropes from the Red Cross warming the lungs on chilly mornings with a mention of boxes and ad hoc details.
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Red Cross
Bc Box
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