Evangelist Ira Sankey in serious condition in Brooklyn
Ira D. Sankey, the evangelist once allied with Dwight L. Moody, is reported in serious condition and near 65, after years of blindness and ill health. Born September 28, 1840 in Edinburg Pennsylvania, Sankey’s 29 year partnership with Moody shaped many converts before Moody’s death. He recently joined Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Ira D. Sankey
Ira David Sankey
Edinburg
Lawrence County
Penn
Dwight L. Moody
Moody
Mr. Moody
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
New York
Methodist Church
F. H. Revell Company
The Strenuous Hen Fable Ends at a Washington Soda Fountain
A suburbia man at a Washington street soda fountain uses a baking powder can to produce two mammoth eggs and orders a chocolate egg milk drink. The crowd stares as the eggs are cracked into glasses and the man finishes with three long swallows and a dime paid.
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Washington Street
PEEPING TOM IN MELROSE SCARE DRIVES POLICE APPEAL
Disturbed residents on Beach and Washington streets report a marauder dubbed a Jack the peeper who throws mud and stones through open windows. Frank Stebbins of 29 Beach Street has notified police as tenants fear for safety at night. Stebbins says he knows the suspect and an arrest may follow if disturbances continue.
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Melrose
Beach
Washington Streets
Frank Stebbins
Beach Street
Stebbins
Whaley Describes Find Of Dinosaur Skeleton In Missouri
W B S Whaley & Co mill engineer Whaley told a reporter how he and L P Andrews discovered an incomplete prehistoric skeleton in Pettis county Missouri along Lake Tebo. They found a vertebra a femur a skull and unbroken neck vertebrae with much of the trunk washed away. The pair left the fossil in place inviting scientists to examine it.
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W. B. S. Whaley
W. B. S. Whaley & Co
Mill Engineers
Lake Tebo
Pettis County
Missouri
Whaley
West
Wyoming
Peabody Museum
Harvard
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Kansas
Mr. Whaley
L. P. Andrews
Child Wife Pleads for Divorce in Chicago Case
Judge Healy grants divorce to John H. Crokin after a 13 year old bride Mrs Edna Crokin Kalamazoo Mich pleads for separation. A confession letter details an arranged marriage in 1898 and years of poverty abuse and a yearning for escape.
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Chicago
Healy
John H. Crokin
West
Madison Street
Edna Crokin
Kalamazoo, Mich
Crokin
Harry
Silver weddings debated by divorced and content couples
A Boston divorcee and Mrs. Mary Bragdon of Lowell are quoted arguing over whether widowed or unhappily married women should celebrate silver anniversaries. One side defends celebrating with or without a husband, while the other condemns it as bad taste for unhappy unions.
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Mary Bragdon
Lowell
Boston
Woman Dies While Working in Clinton Home
Miss Mary McCabe aged 60 was found dead at her Clinton residence. Grandniece Mrs Annie Gonyea arrived, alerted neighbors, and called Officer Joseph Lawson who forced entry. Medical Examiner Tobey said a hemorrhage caused the death.
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Clinton
Mary McCabe
Joseph Lawson
Annie Gonyea
Miss McCabe
Tobey
Wells to Give Company 11 a Three-Horse Hitch
Fire Commissioner Benjamin W Wells after inspecting East Boston fire houses orders Company 11 at Saratoga and Byron streets to receive a three-horse crane-necked engine replacing the current two-horse straight frame model. Work on Fireboat 44 speeding up with another vessel to be laid up for boiler repairs. eight new appointment applications filed. Chief Cheswell tasked to aid in selections with names to Mayor for approval.
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Wells
Cheswell
Mrs Elliot Weds Again in South Carolina
AIKEN, S C March 27 Captain Woodbury Kane and divorcee Mrs Sallie Hargous Elliot were married at Mrs Elliot s cottage home by the Rt Rev Ellison Capers. Elliot s wealth and Sal lie s Newport reputation shade a high society ceremony.
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Aiken
S. C
Woodbury Kane
Sallie Hargous Elliot
Jane Toppan Improves at State Hospital
Taunton March 27. Jane Toppan, once famed as a nurse and wholesale poisoner, is reported much improved at the State Hospital for the Insane. Authorities say she has gained weight, her hallucinations are reduced, and fear of poisoning is less frequent, though some delusions remain.
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Taunton
Jane Toppan
Lowell
State Hospital
Harvard Debaters Head to Meet Princeton Tonight
Harvard debate team left Cambridge for Princeton to argue against the resolution that the free elective system is best for undergraduates. Harvard’s B V Kanaley W H Davis and Abraham Tulin will oppose, facing Princeton’s R B Fosdick H Hogan and N M Thompson.
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Harvard
Cambridge
Princeton
Tigers
B. V. Kanaley
W. H. Davis
Abraham Tulin
R. B. Fosdick
H. Hogan
N. M. Thompson
Lowell Kills Tramp Dogs Tewksbury After Stray Cats
Lowell reports six tramp dogs killed in a wooden lethal chamber asphyxiation prompted by Humane Society. In Tewksbury, constables roundup stray cats to protect poultry. a bounty may follow if needed.
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Lowell
Tewksbury
Richardson
The
Humane Society
Manley
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