Open session debate at West Minster College ends in tie
In Fulton Missouri on May 21 West Minster College Philologic Literary Society and Olympian Literary Society of Synodical College held an open session. 17 students from Synodical voted to sustain the negative in the debate on whether coeducation serves students best, with 18 for the affirmative and 17 for the negative. Davis paroled after a drunken statutory crime sentence. parole requires nightly jail return, no drinking, wage surrender, and busfare limits. He found a grocery job and hopes to open his own store after release.
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Fulton, Mo
Philologic Literary Society
West Minster College
Olympian Literary Society
Synodical College
Washington Told White Lies Says Hulbert
Chicago May 21 George Washington told white lies according to Professor Archer B Hulbert of Marietta College who spoke on The Washington We Forget before the Mississippi Valley Historical Association at Evanston He said Washington in a Virginia Indian conference as a young man told them some of the biggest white lies in this country He added the tale of Washington never lying is untrue Such harmless falsehoods make the man more human and more to be admired
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Chicago
George Washington
Archer B. Hulbert
Marietta College
Marietta
Ohio
Mississippi Valley Historical Association
Evanston
Washington
Virginia
Hulbert
Heat crazed man asleep on ice in Norristown
Harry Rightnour 43 of Pottstown, driven by excessive heat, slept in the Hotel Rambo refrigerator with his coat as a pillow. He fought police when taken into custody and was sent to the hospital for treatment.
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Norristown
Penn
Harry Rightnour
Pottstown
Rambo
Rightnour
Righmour
Robert Porter
Prisoner earns eighteen dollars weekly in jail at Kansee City
In Kansas City Missouri May 21 John O Wis serves one year in county jail and earns $18 a week to support his wife and four children. He plans to use a future bank account to open a grocery store. He works daily in a grocery store and sleeps in jail each night except Saturdays when he may visit his mother or his sister-in-law.
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Joe Kanse
Undertaker Meets Alive Man At Train In New Jersey
In Newton New Jersey May 21 Mrs George Thompson believed her brother Harry Casterlin of Reading Pennsylvania was dead after a telegram said meet him. An undertaker went to the station with a coffin but Harry stepped from the train alive though ill and was sent to his sister’s home. He had previously been jailed in Newton on a farmhouse burglary charge but escaped and was missing for years.
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Newton
N. J
Harry
George Thompson
Reading
New Jersey
Woman of 97 Tells How to Live to 190
Brockton, May 21. Mrs. Mary M. Serigsens, who just turned 97, outlines rules to reach 100. Work hard, avoid gossip, never flirt, don’t read novels, resist vanity, stop hobble skirts, and stay away from dances and moving pictures to prolong life.
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Brockton
Mary M. Serigsens
Change to W designation for new and changed service
Post today, any new installations or changes that would normally be labeled L will be labeled W. This applies to present service changes and future installations. The switch affects labeling practice across all related documentation and workflows.
Peace Pact Signed in Mexico Ending Six Months of Hostilities
In Juarez at 10 o clock tonight officials from the Mexican government and the revolutionists signed a peace agreement at the custom house. The accord covers the principal points negotiated so far and records concessions by the government first demanded on November 20, ending six months of armed conflict. Telegrams announcing the signing were sent to revolutionary and federal leaders nationwide.
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Juarez, Mex
Custom House
Mexico
Peace Declared as Diaz Resigns and Reforms Focused
In a chamber once hosting Taft and Diaz two years earlier, peace was proclaimed with President Diaz and Vice President Corra set to resign. The agreement omits rebel proposals on provisional governors and cabinet members while pledging reform. Judge Carbajal represented the federal government. Vasquez Gomez, Francisco J. Madero, and Senor Pino Suárez spoke for the revolutionists.
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Diaz
Corra
Taft
Carbajal
Vasquez Gomez
Francisco J. Madero
Senor Pino Suarez
Risks life for tobacco on sinking schooner crewman
Roy Matheson of the schooner Hope nearly drowned at a wharf yesterday when he hung by his heels over the boat side to retrieve a plug of tobacco. A mate tossed the tobacco but it fell into the water. Matheson slipped from the rope, sank head first, and was saved by a sailor who hauled him aboard while he still clutched the tobacco.
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Roy Matheson
Hope
Matheson
Third Dimension of Man Topic at First Presbyterian Service
The Rev. Dr. William M. Tufts spoke at yesterday morning’s First Presbyterian Church service on the three dimensions of man. He described the physical, the breadth of mental power, and the third as altruism toward the needy and weak, asserting sincerity as essential to higher spiritual stature.
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First Presbyterian Church
Columbus Avenue
Berkeley Street
William M. Tufts
Brookline Fireman Dies on Sick Leave
James C. Lyons aged 42 engineer of Engine 1 Brookline Fire Department died suddenly at his home on Boylston Street Brookline after taking sick on Saturday and being granted a leave of absence. He died within 24 hours after the onset of illness.
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Brookline
James C. Lyons
Boylston Street
Street project in Fenway faces opposition at State House hearing
The proposed extension of Boylston Street through the Back Bay Fens draws strong backlash from Boston leaders who accuse real estate interests of driving the plan. A noon public hearing at the State House will present charges if needed.
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Boylston Street
Back Bay Fens
Boston
State House
Opposition to Extension Over John Boyle O'Reilly Statue
Miss Mary Boyle O'Reilly leads opposition to the planned extension citing the need to move or remove her father John Boyle O'Reilly's statue. The John Boyle O'Reilly Club and Moorfield Storey join in opposing the project, with Dudley L. Pickman warning the plan would ruin park land and serve as a money making scheme by real estate interests.
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Mary Boyle O'Reilly
John Boyle O'Reilly
A. Shuman
John L. Gardner
Moorfield Storey
Dudley L. Pickman
Notable visitors and events fill Boston hotels in June
Julius Caesar is cited as a humorous name drop at the Touraine. H O Shuey returns to Boston as a Seattle real estate magnate, visiting the Thorndike with Mrs Shuey. The Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association convenes at the Raleigh while Beeco Professor P M Rea attends a museum conference at the Brunswick. Hungarian violinist Alexander Szalay plans to bring his $7000 violin to the Lenox.
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Far West
Seattle
Wash
H. O. Shuey
Thorndike Hotel
K. O. Shuey & Co
Citizens National Bank
The
Equitable Building, Loan & Investment Association
Shuey
Hotel Men’s Mutual Benefit Association
Somerset Hotel
Beeco
Alexander Szalay
Edward VII
Lenox Hotel
Szalay
Budapest
Monté Carlo
Tramp Dies As Crutch-Bound Man Intersects Train
A one legged tramp using crutches attempted to throw a stone at a barking dog near Hanover Pennsylvania. He stooped on a Western Maryland railroad crossing at New Oxford and was struck by a locomotive as the train approached, ending his life.
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Hanover
Penn
Western Maryland
New Oxford
Five Roach sisters die in Utica restaurant fire
Five Roach girls aged 7 to 16 perished in a late night blaze at the family restaurant in Utica Kansas. The mother, burned by a lamp explosion, tried to rescue and leapt with her youngest child from a rear window. the father carried one girl from the bedroom as flames raced through the stairs. All five girls were found dead in their beds, Bessie 16, Leah 14, Ruth 12, Hazel 9, and Fern 7.
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Utica
Kan
Harvey Roach
Roach
Bessie
Leah
Ruth
Hazel
Fern
Rooster Floats Aboard Ship Adrift Off Maine Coast
A Plymouth Rock rooster fluttered aboard the schooner B. B. Hardwick about 100 miles off the Maine coast while fog hid land. The bird, weak and dying, likely arrived from an iceberg on May 15 after the ship left Annapolis with piles on May 12. A sailor suspected the bird was left on the iceberg and rode the drift to the vessel.
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B. B. Hardwick
Annapolis
N. S
Maine
Berry
Pastor Hulbert to resign from Portland church
The Rev. H. W. Hulbert, five years pastor of the High Street Congregational Church, announced his resignation today. The church has been considering uniting with the State street church, and the resignation will be placed in the hands of the church committee.
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Portland
H. W. Hulbert
High Street Congregational Church
State Street
Jailed Twice in 24 Hours Sees Larceny Suspect Re-arrested
Thomas P. Mathews, 23, of 41 Milford Street, arrested yesterday for the second time in 24 hours on larceny from the person. He had been bailed Saturday night and held again at the Tombs after Murphy identified him from the rouges gallery. The recovered watch, knife, and money were taken again, and Mathews was remanded across the street.
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Thomas P. Mathews
Milford Street
Mathews
Gaddis
Daniel Murphy
Albion Street
Dover Street
Morris Wolf
Murphy
Rouges’ Gallery
Wolf
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