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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1915
Page
7
Harbor Point Michigan July 18 Catherine Barker said to be the wealthiest young woman in the world will marry Howard Spaulding Jr of Chicago on July 31.
Miss Barker daughter of the late John H Barker owner of the Haskell Barker Company and inheritor of a 30 million fortune plans a July wedding to Mr Spaulding son of a Chicago jeweller Yale graduate and Haskell Barker officer The couple who met at age 14 have been secretly engaged for over a year and the event draws Harbor Point attention.
Sergeant Burke and a Chelsea squad raided an unlicensed Chelsea premises at 65 Walnut Street. They seized a large quantity of whiskey and beer, found caps bearing a well known temperance label, causing amusement at the police station.
Paris July 17 The ministry of colonies announces Franco British troops have captured Garua and Negaundere in Kametun German West Africa and say encirclement efforts near the Gulf of Guinea coast are advancing. The statement adds details of the operation and progress.
Allied forces seized Garua post in Kamerun and forced surrender, advancing to Ngaundere which fell on June 29. Ngaundere’s loss robs German resistance hub of supply routes and prompts a German retreat toward Tibati. Franco-British units then captured Dehane and Tjahe on July 14 to encircle remaining German forces.
Telegrams from the colonial office report the capture of Garua on June 11 and Ngaundere on June 29. Garua is a government school town in the Kame run. Ngaundere, a chief interior trading station, houses about 40 000 people and lies roughly 100 miles from the French Congo border and 450 miles from the coast in the Kameruns region of Western Equatorial Africa.
The New York World surveys the emblematic romance surrounding Field Marshal Sir John French and Lady Clonmell, an Irish peeress, detailing their London and Brighton ties, vast estates, and the wartime distances that separate personal life from command in France. It notes public scrutiny of British leadership, press influence, and a Calais meeting with Asquith Kitchener and French’s response to moral scrutiny.
Funeral services were held yesterday at 2 o'clock in Grand Army Hall Chelsea for Fitz Roy Grover former Chelsea Police Captain and 41 year member of the force. Rev B G Seaboyer officiated with services by Theodore Winthrop Post G A R.
Norris recalls Mansfield guiding Haworth through Julius Caesar and dominating crowds with bold self-promotion. He contrasts Mansfield’s intense theatrical presence with Haworth’s own power and notes Mansfield’s risky stunts, including a famous St. Louis week that netted $22,000. He praises Julia Marlowe and Warfield while praising Mansfield as a unique press agent of the era.
William Norris, renowned for his King Dodo role in Babes in Toyland, summers at Lake Sunapee with his wife and four year old son William Norris Jr. A late evening walk by the Van Harbor post office captured Norris and his son exploring the countryside as twilight painted the sky.
William Norris Jr and his father discuss stage versus screen as they tour a lakeside cottage. Norris argues movies lower prices and broaden audiences but won’t kill legitimate theatre, while noting talkies eventually become mechanical and salaries may fall after the fad ends.
An advertisement touts Poslam for eczema pimples and skin troubles claiming overnight improvement after first use. It promises itching relief soothing burning skin and rapid healing with Poslam and Poslam Soap for toilet and bath. Samples offered via stamps to Emergency Zapofsesities Newark City.
Catherine Lynch was found dead on the lounge at 10 Rutherford Avenue Charlestown early yesterday morning. Dr Duff certified death likely three hours earlier. Medical Examiner Magrath ruled natural causes.
Eleanor Sherman Thackera, wife of Alexander M. Thackera American consul general at Paris, died this morning. She was a daughter of General William T. Sherman famed Civil War commander.
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