Navy Surgeon Battles Wife Over Drinking In Divorce Suit
Hartford March 22 Mrs George Scomb Barber wife of a U S Navy surgeon testified she has drunk cocktails since girlhood in opposing her husband's divorce suit He alleged she was a drunkard and intoxicated at their wedding The witness admitted occasional social drinking and pawned a dress to buy shoes for her niece Judge Prentice ruled social drinking not a ground for divorce and favored her side
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Hartford
George Scomb
Widow recounts alleged abuse by Kellogg in Dean scandal
Emilie Goebel testifies in New York that James B Kellogg exploited her after an arranged courtship following her first husband’s disappearance. She says she pawned jewelry and mortgaged furniture to support him and was later framed as insane to remove her.
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Granite Strikers Reject EightHour Day Offer
Granite cutters in Quincy held a mass meeting and voted to refuse the nine hours pay for an eight hour day or a $2.52 minimum for eight hours. They pledged to revert to their $3 for eight hours demand if the manufacturers do not meet the compromise by midnight Saturday.
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Quincy
Comediettas in Cambridge at Brattle Hall
The Boston Comedy Company performed two comediettas, Man Proposes and Days of Yore, before about 500 at Brattle Hall Cambridge last evening. Grace Walcott Whitmore charmed as Belle Huntingdon with natural grace while Clarence Barrett Benedict played Captain Huntingdon in a comic cockney accent. Sherwin Cook also appeared.
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Clarence Barrett Benedict
Captain Huntingdon
Sherwin Cook
Agreement at Concord Ends Granite Strike
Concord reports a settlement between the Manufacturers' Association and Granite Cutters' Union after late talks. An eight hour day is agreed with a minimum wage set at cents per hour, and the plan was presented to the cutters at City Hall.
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Salvation Army Hotel lodger died of heart failure
A Salvation Army official told the Post that James Wallace who died at the Salvation Army Hotel could not have been lured by a hymn since no singing occurred then. The medical examiner ruled death from heart failure, not a broken neck. Wallace had stayed at the hotel for days, with headquarters on Common Street.
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James Wallace
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Dinner Held For M B Clark Before Rutland Move
A dinner was given to Mr. M B Clark the New England cashier of the New York Life Insurance Company by fellow employees at the Hotel Brunswick last evening before his departure for Rutland Vermont where he will assume management of the New York Life branch there.
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Bancroft Guest At MIT Arts Society Meeting
General W A Bancroft vice president of the Boston Elevated Railway was the chief guest at a Society of Arts gathering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He spoke at length on his company's operations.
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Boston Elevated Railway
Society of Arts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kelly Testimony Haunts Chicago Park Inquiry Amid Gripes
The aldermanic committee grilling the Chicago park department hears from William P. Kelly and gardener W. E. Fisher as witnesses. Allegations of fraud involve contractor J. H. McShane and superintendent Pettigrew, with ex governor Altgeld’s letter complicating the inquiry.
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Wedded Secret Revealed in California Romance
The Rev Joseph P McIntyre once Oregon battleship chaplain secretly wed Pasadena widow Lucy H Gordon nearly three years ago According to Mrs Gordon she kept the union secret to keep a $1 000 000 Australian estate to heirs from disclosure until the will terms were settled She now confirms the marriage prioritizing her name over wealth.
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Joseph P. McIntyre
Oregon
Pasadena
Lucy H. Gordon
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Clergyman Declines Dean Post at Cincinnati Cathedral
The Rev C H Brent yesterday announced he had declined the election as dean of St Pauls Cathedral Cincinnati Ohio and would remain as associate rector of St Stephens Church.
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St. Paul’s Cathedral
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