Adah Richmond's Life Story and Will Contest
In court yesterday Ada h Richmond described her career and life with the late John Stetson Jr detailing her role as widow in the famous will contest.
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John Stetson, JR
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1897
Page
1
Remarkable Discoveries of Professor Trowbridge at Harvard
Harvard physicist Professor John Trowbridge has built a new large storage battery based X ray apparatus at Jefferson Laboratory. He photographed a living hand with a battery powered Crookes tube, defining bone structure and nails more clearly than prior shadowgraphs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Trowbridge
Department of Physics
Jefferson Physical Laboratory
Harvard
Holt
Trowbridge
America
Crookes
Professor Trowbridge
Trownedge
Europe
Benjamin Franklin
Cambridge
Tells of Her Relations With John Stetson Jr
A courtroom narrative recounts Adah Stetson and John Stetson Jr relations, meeting, and a Providence marriage claim. Testimony covers witnesses who knew her as Mrs Stetson and references to a theatre banquet in her honor. The case centers on challenging a will leaving the estate to Mrs Stokes Stetson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Stetson, Jr
Providence
Richmond) Stetson
Morton
Su Judicial Bench
Pers
John Stetson
Adah
Adah Stetson
R. M. Morse
C. E. Hellier
Alexander Machado
New York
William A. Gaston
F. E. Snow
A. F. Hayden
Morse
Ad Stetson
Mr. Stetson
Stokes Stetson
John Aden
Boston
Howard Atheneum
J. Stetson
Sheved
Nine civil service exemptions spotted at State Department
Posted placards in the State Department show nine positions exempt from civil service rules including three assistant secretaries, four laborers, one private secretary to the Secretary, and one confidential clerk. A similar setup exists in the War and Navy departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Civil Service
Secretary of State
War and Navy Departments
Verdict Awarded in Wilkinson v McCune Over Note
A verdict of 7200 was rendered yesterday in the case where Mrs. Alice B. Wilkinson sues Joseph R. McCune to recover the value of a 5000 note and interest. The note was indorsed by both parties with McCune claiming it was an accommodation endorsement and he would not be asked to pay. Wilkinson, widow of A Wilkinson who died before the deal, seeks the note's value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice B. Wilkinson
Joseph R. McCune
A. Wilkinson
International Commission
Sitia
Heraklion
Retimo
Here
Canea
Arrest of Frank Kerrigan in Overcoat Theft Case
Inspector Cleary and an officer from Station 3 arrested Frank Kerrigan aged 24 of 29 Pitta Street for allegedly stealing an overcoat valued at $20 from Louis Solomon of 25 Howard Street on Monday. The prisoner is described as a brother of Patsy Kerrigan the well known scrapper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inspector Cleary
Station 3
Frank Kerrigan
Pitta Street
Louis Solomon
Howard Street
Patsy” Kerrigan
Farmer Dies After Horse Drawn Wagon Accident
On Church street at 5 p m Patrick Glancy a farmer and milkman was thrown from his wagon while guiding a spirited horse and suffered a broken neck. He died an hour later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warh
Church Street
Patrick Glancy
Wilkman
Accident in Roxbury injures Gunganheiser daughter
Abraham Gunganheiser of Roxbury drove with his daughter Bertha along Harrison avenue near Dover street when their buggy was struck by a double wagon driven by Lawrence Decature. Bertha was thrown from the carriage but escaped with light injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham Gunganheiser
Highland Street
Roxbury
Harrison Avenue
Bertha
Dover Street
Lawrence Decature
Gunganheiser
Mother and three daughters drown near Brownsville ranch
A Mexican woman named Luiz Santos Rodriguez and her three daughters drowned at a ranch twenty miles from Brownsville. The eldest girl wandered into a lagoon beyond her depth, followed by two sisters who tried to save her. The mother jumped in to rescue them and all four died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
Luiz Santos Rodriguez
Secretary Sherman mails circulars to 40 diplomatic officers
Secretary Sherman has mailed circulars to 40 diplomatic and consular officers announcing his official appointment as Secretary of State. The message lists the recipients and reflects March actions, outlining the formal transfer of duties and ceremonial roles ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sherman
Eee Seetes
Parton
Donne
Greece Faces Potential General War as Ultimatum Refused
Canea Crete reports growing belief that Greece may be drawn into a wide war after rejecting the great powers ultimatum. Citizens fear a European-wide conflict if hostilities begin, with England France and Italy viewed as opposed to coercion. Reports say Greece prepares for fighting with troops moving to the Turkish frontier and transport of war materiel and horses to Volo Thessaly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canea
Crete
Greece
George
Turkey
Europe
Germany
Russia
England
France
Italy
Mediterranean
Athens
Constantin
Asume
Volo
Thessaly
Monastir
Salonica
Greeks Banished From Island Aboard Vessel
Mr Baraklis the Green vice consular official and several Greek reporters left the island this afternoon aboard a returning vessel. Admiral Canevaro insisted the order for their departure be obeyed. Major Bor the British officer recently appointed to command was mentioned in the dispatch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Baraklis
Greece
Canevaro
Major Bor
Surrender Bid in Crete Town Sparks Insurgent Assault
Advices from Hiera petra Crete report Mussulmans in possession of the town summoned to surrender by Christian insurgents investing the town. The Mussulmans refused. Insurgents then fired a volley into the town. Continued on Page 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canea
Hierapetra
Crete
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John Stetson SI
Stetson
Addar Richmond
Belle Stokes Bister
Mrs
K Stetsor
Urs Stetson
Mothey
Kate Stokes Stetson
Slsby
Joseph Amarann
Pedro Petralucki
John Schaffer
William H. Borst
Asher
Ashington
New England
Leif Erikson
Rueter & Company
Highland Spring Brewery
Yes
Porter
Wgctapster
Shawmut Furniture CO
Tremont Street
Hollis Street
Mahmoudieh
Hassan Pasha
Austria
Tewfik Pasha
C.H. Robinson & Co
Partment A
Washington St
Adams Square & Desk Sq
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