Wealthy Waterbury Manufacturer Charged With Wife Beating
John H. O'Donnell prominent Waterbury Wire Die Company president and Waterbury Machine Company director was charged with beating his wife. Police recount say he threw her on a couch choked her and left her bleeding with injuries as Officer Kiersted intervened and knocked him down. Judge Burpee postponed the case for a week citing a conflict of interest.
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Waterbury, Conn
John H. O'Donnell
Waterbury Wire Die Company
Waterbury Machine Company
O'Donnell
Kiersted
Burpee
Secretary Root Sails for Rio Janeiro
The United States cruiser Charleston with Secretary Root and party on board sailed for Rio Janeiro from San Juan Puerto Rico at midnight. The departure was delayed several hours due to the breakdown preventing his son and daughter from arriving.
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San Juan
P. R
United States
Charleston
Root
Rio Janeiro
Noted Social Whirl Tracks Summers in New England
In society news Mrs. Starling Burgess prepares for a child as she and her husband stay quietly at their Marblehead villa on Nashua street. The piece also details visits by ambassadors’ relatives in Lenox, Newport, and Casca Paedia, with golf and yacht outings among prominent figures.
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Starling Burgess
Mrs. Burgess
Alexander H. Higginson
Mr. Burgess
Marblehead
Nashua Street
Casca Paedia
Canada
Frothingham
William B. O. Field
Giraud Foster
Lenox Colony
Florence Lyman
Walnut Street
Anna Lyman
Newport
Richard H. Weld
Beacon Street
Parthenia
Sag Harbor
New London
Family Celebrates Fifth Twin Births in Cleveland Home
In Cleveland on July 11, David Goldman and his wife welcomed twins for the fifth time, bringing their household to 14 children. Both 45, they hope to add 12 more, joking about aiming for triplets or quadruplets next, while eleven children remain at home and the mother recovers in bed.
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Cleveland
Stork
David Goldman
Woodland Avenue
Ss. E
Goldman
Illness Delays Haakon I Coronation Trip Queens Ailments
The departure of King Haakon is postponed as Queen Maud lies ill with a sore throat and fever. Crowned June 22, she has battled poor health since the ceremony, with the frigid Trondhjem air blamed for colds among attendees. Queen Victoria’s health also unsettled Madrid watchers amid reports of a chill and palace confinement.
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Trondhijem
Haakon
Queen Maud
Trondhjem
Organist Clarence Eddy Marries for Second Time
Clarence Eddy world renowned American organist wed Grace Mori Dickman at the Manhasset apartments New York. The bride, a Californian native and former Grace Patterson, had toured with Eddy as soloist and previously divorced her first husband.
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New York
Clarence Eddy
Grace Mori Dickman
Central Park West
Manhasset Apartments
One Hundred and Eighth Street
Broadway
Memorial Meeting for Dr Herzl Tonight at North Russell Street Synagogue
A memorial meeting for the late Dr Theodore Herzl is held at 7 30 tonight under the Thipheret Zion Association. Speakers include Rev M M Hichler Boston Zionist Council L Lyons A Alpert Ellenhorn and Levenson. A Yiddish Hebrew dialogue will be presented by Herz Cantor Hillman.
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Theodore Herzl
Thipheret Zion Association
North Russell Street
M. M. Hichler
Boston Zionist Council
L. Lyons
A. Alpert
Ellenhorn
Levenson
Herz Cantor
Hillman
Uprising in Transvaal Predicted for July 17
Reports from Johannesburg indicate disquiet in the Rand with rumors of a planned uprising on July 17. Native servants warn mistresses to seek safety while police dismiss the tales though anxiety grows. A conference paper from the Ethiopian church also cites open advising of the uprising.
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Johannesburg
Transvaal
Rand
How Prominent Bay State Women Spend Vacation Days
Mrs. John L. Bates wife of the former Governor will pass her vacation at her summer home in Annisquam surrounded by her children. She enjoys ocean breezes and quietly entertains friends making invitations eagerly sought. The former Governor joins in July and August on the Cape Ann shoreline with the children and at the seaside cottage.
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John L. Bates
Annisquam
Ocean
Bates
Cape Ann
Aged Judge Denies Custody, Critiques Stepmother
New Jersey man Frederick A. G. Schultze failed to win custody of his 15 year old daughter and 9 year old son in Newark Chancery Court. Vice-Chancellor Pitney, nearly 80, privately saw the children and refused to move them from their mother. He declared no known stepmother has been a good mother, though he noted a girl may choose to live with her father at 15.
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New York
Frederick A. G. Schultze
Rutherford
N. J
Schultze
Ocean Grove
Millionaire Walling Weds San Francisco Jewess Author
William English Walling, Chicago millionaire and Socialist, secretly married Miss Anna Strunsky, San Francisco Jewess author and slum worker in New York. The engagement was announced June 16 by J. G. Phelps Stokes. marriage occurred in Paris on June 26.
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New York
William English Walling
Chicago
Anna Strunsky
San Francisco
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Paris
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Ike
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Pocket Books
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SEBO
York State
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Victoria
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