Rich Mrs Crockett sues for absolute divorce after baffling honeymoon blight
Mrs. Crockett, widow of a millionaire mother, files for absolute divorce from Rev John Addison Crockett in Bridgeport. The couple separated after a mysterious bond and a ghostly secret said to haunt the union for fifteen years. Crockett vows to contest, while Newtown socialite Mrs. Crockett bills herself with millions and a circle of "million friends."
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Bridgeport
Conn
John Addison Crockett
New York
Health boom promotes Cascarets as modern laxative cure
Enthusiastic citizens claim Cascarets Candy Cathartic as the secret to sustained health. Advertisers cite testimonials from various states praising relief from constipation and improved well being, urging readers to inspect the tablets for the genuine markings and beware of frauds.
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United States
Lottie Pfeiffer
Arlington
Neb
Seymour St
Adelphia
Cascargia
Minnie F. McCumb
Mianus
Chicago
New York
Turkish Minister’s Wife and Daughters Pine Away
Ali Ferrouh Bey the Turkish minister says his wife and the ladies in his household are pining away due to constant public attention and hidden living quarters. To protect the women and the minister from cameras, their quarters are tightly veiled and now to be relocated to an isolated residence with ample grounds.
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Washington
Ali Ferrouh Bey
Turkey
Needle found in patient during appendix surgery at St. Francis
Hartford doctors discovered a two and a half inch sewing needle in the appendix of a young woman during surgery for appendicitis at St Francis Hospital. The needle had been swallowed years earlier and caused late symptoms. She is expected to recover.
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Hartford
Conn
St. Francis ‘Hospital
Pistol Scene in Municipal Court Over Family Assault
Gertrude Goodsell testified in Municipal Court that her husband threatened her with a revolver on February 8 near the Boylston cafe and that she supports two children. The husband denied the claim, and a trial followed with a police and cruelty-to-children official testimony. Goodsell was sentenced to a year in the House of Correction with $100 bail on appeal.
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Gertrude Goodsell
Boylston
Harvard Street
Lagrange Street
Hervard Street
Lottie Rose
Goodsell
Smythe
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Children
House of Correction
Purim Celebrations Across City Venues At Night
The Purim festival was celebrated by Hebrews in the city with feasts, masquerades, and balls. Progress Club hosted a grand bal masque on Warren Street drawing 250 attendees with 150 masked. Utopian Club held its annual bal masque. Austrian-Hungarian Benevolent Association staged a large masquerade at Paine Memorial Hall with about 600 present. Janausechek Association held its fifth annual ball at Odd Fellows Hall for around 600 attendees. Bnai Zion Educational Society organized a Purim party for 600 children at Baldwin Place Hall. Helping Hand Home children enjoyed a party with Rabbi Schoher addressing them.
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Mordecai
Haman
Ahasuerus
Esther
Progress Club
Warren Street
Roxbury
Lester Mintz
Nat Sumensky
Austrian-Hungarian Benevolent Association
Paine Memorial Hall
Joseph Reed
Robert Frankstone
Bessie Sargent
Hyman Cohen
B'nai Zion Educational Society
Baldwin Place Hall
Rabbi Margolis
N. J. Tittebaum
Daly's Art Treasures Exhibition and Auction Preview
New York March 15 Galleries of the American Arts Association display Augus tin Daly's vast collection before sale on Monday to Wednesday. The library includes Grangerized Doual Bible forty two volumes and rare manuscripts from Garrick Kean and Sheridan.
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New York
Amerian Arts Association
Augustin Daly
Cunningham
Nell Gwyn
Pal Mall
Garrick
Edmund Kean
Kemble
Byron
Sheridan
School For Scandal
Drury Lane
Dickens
Hogarth
Thackeray and
Lamb
Union Rules Household In Chicago Eight Hour Day Implemented
The servants of Mrs. Emmons Faine in Chicago now work under union rules with an eight hour day. Cooks maids butlers laundresses coachmen and grooms are classified to eight hours per shift. The plan started about ten days ago and has drawn interest from society and club women. Clinton Locke praises the idea as practical for homes with full staff though he doubts aristocratic households will adopt it.
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Chicago
Til
Emmons Faine
Blaine
Clinton Locke
Maj Beartwich
Is a Wife's Right Divorce Suit Continues
Hartford Conn March 15 The divorce case of Dr George H Barber USN continues with Mrs Barber alleging their first quarrel over her bridesmaid Miss Walker who wanted to darn her husband stockings and she objected The lawyer asked why and she replied a wife's prerogative to darn her husband's stockings The husband claims habitual intemperance by his wife.
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Hartford
Conn
George H. Barber
Ill Yale student possibly smallpox at Middleton home
Roland Batley of Yale class of 1900 lies ill at his father’s Middleton Connecticut home. Attending physician fears smallpox but cannot confirm the disease, noting symptoms could indicate a serious measles attack. Batley, exposed to Gaius Perkins who recently fell ill with varioloid at Yale, raises concern of a more serious form.
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Yale
Orm
Charity Club Fund Receipts Reported at Vendome Meeting
At the Charity Club meeting the treasurer Mrs J Sewall Reed said no donation from Abbie A Coburn estate was received leaving total receipts of 4650 from the bequest of 5000. Other income included 100 from the visiting committee 25 from Lend a Hand Club and 140 by Mrs Albert aesay. County Fair entertainment treasurer Mrs TY Perkina reported receipts of 1493.61. Mrs Risteen noted a whist party for the hospital and announced the annual reception and breakfast on April 17.
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Vendome
J. Sewall Reed
Abbie A. Coburn
Reed
Lenda Hand Club
Albert Aesay
TY. Perkina
County
Rs. Risteen
Cambridge School Board Names Merrill School, Plans Future Expansion
The Cambridge School Board met briefly and voted to rename the old Fayette street building the Merrill School in honor of ex Mayor J. Warren Merrill. Dana schoolhouse on Centre street will close after March 16 with students moved to Merrill. The board endorsed a York and Berkshire street lot for a new fourteen room school and confirmed several teachers including Hattie Woodward Ida Holden Florence Hunter Martha Parker and Mabel Blake.
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Cambridge School Board
Fayette Street
York and
Berkshire Streets
Hattie B. Woodward
Harvard School
Ida M. Holden
Florence &. Hunter
Morse
Mabelle
Welsh
Taylor
Hannah Louise Kendall
Putnam
Martha A. Parker
Peabody School
Mabel B. Blake
Sleeper
Boardman School
Louise P. Parker
Rindge Manual Training School
Plunder Recovered From West Boston Bridge Find
Cambridge police expanded a theft probe at the West Boston bridge water find and recovered items from the Henderson residence two weeks after the burglary. The haul included two ladles a reading glass an orange knife two souvenir spoons three forks a butter knife a silver stein and a silver card case bearing Mary Hughes Pear Street cards. Earlier forks and spoons from the same break in were identified by Harry Henderson.
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Cambridge
West Boston Bridge
Henderson
Mary Hughes
Pear Street
Harry Henderson
Reed Fooled Doctors in Three Months of Illness at St Luke’s
Actor Roland Weed recounts a harrowing stay at St Luke’s Hospital with two surgeries after doctors declared him dead. He credits surgical skill and sheer will to recovery, noting the operating room felt like a tiny theater and that he was unaware much of the time.
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New York
Wieck
Roland Weed
St. Luke's Hospital
Agaoo
Regatta Girl score by McLellan at Koster Bials
Broadway notes report The Regatta Girl by Bath writer Harry McLellan opened at Koster Bials with dull reception and jetty music. News briefs note London and Paris theater moves, tours, extended seasons, and stars such as Olga Nethersole Ellen Terry and Maude Adams among others.
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Harry McLellan
Bath
Koster & Bial’s
Brieux
Paris
Mme. Rejune
William Seymour
The
Many Sanders
Little Nell
Olga Nethersobery
Sapho
Philadelphia
Ocal
Ellen Terry
Julia Arthur
George Lederer
England
St. Paul
Alberta Gallatin
the Grand
Kansas City
Grau Grand Opera Company
George McLellan
Edna May
Helen Lord Anly Shattuck
New York
Morton- Kirker
London
Liebler Company
Austus Thomas
Robert Hilliard
Morel Taliaferro
Fr. Rice
Boetie
Nie Seligman
Academy of Music
Pure Blood Labeled Remedy Claims Health Benefits
An advertisement touts Pure Blood as the best defense against disease and promotes Hos Tetters Stomach Bitters for health. It claims regular use keeps the bowels active and cures stomach disorders, dyspepsia, indigestion, sluggish liver, weak kidneys, malaria, fever and ague, noting the bottle neck must bear a Private Revenue Stamp.
Henry Miller at Ogston Museum in The Only Way
Advance sale for Henry Miller’s enc ement in The Only Way at the Ogston Museum next week shows strong interest. Sydney Carton, Miller’s role, marks career peak with the production praised as a noble drama echoing Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities. J. H. Stoddart and a fine supporting cast deliver superb theater to Boston audiences.
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Henry Miller
Charles Dickens
Chauncey Olcott
Clara Lipman
Louis Mann
Mrs. LeMoyne
Tremont
Geisha
St. Joseph
Primrose
Dockstader
Boston
Kennedy
Quatrelli
the Howard
Albert L. Guille
Keith’s
Columbia
Austin & Stone
Tremont Row
Castle Square
Rupert of Hentzau
Bowdoin Square
Lorimer Johnstone
Lieutenant O'Connor
Grand Theatre
Ogston Museum
Sydney Carton
De Fegnier Speaks on Michelet to French American Society
Henri de Fegnier addressed the French American Historical Society at its semi annual meeting and dinner at the Parker House. M J Guillet of Lowell presided, delivering remarks on the French historian and poet Michelet.
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Henri de Fegnier
Michelet
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Mary
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Telephone
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Filson
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Dixon
Biograph
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SSEE
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