Rich Artist Weds Nurse In Pittsfield Big City Union
Augustus Cortlandt Van Rensselaer of New York and Stockbridge married nurse Mabel Louise Watts of North Adams in Pittsfield. Van Rensselaer, 58, once a landscape artist, and Miss Watts, 26, wed at the Methodist parsonage with nurse friend Bertha Hannum present. They plan a wedding tour to Atlantic City and will reside in Pittsfield upon return.
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Pittsfield
Augustus Cortlandt van Rensselaer
New York
Stockbridge
Mabel Louise Watts
North Adams
van Rensselaer
Miss Watts
F. Gideon Watts
Bertha W. Hannum
Mr. van Rensselaer
Jeremiah van Rensselaer
Jones, McDuffee & Tratton
Boston
Central Railroad
New Jersey
Secret home remedy promises nerve strength and happiness
Advertised as a famed East virtue, the treatment claims to fortify nerve force and health, easing gloom, nervousness, insomnia, and tremors. It targets writers and busy professionals, offered for home preparation with a blended syrup and tinctures, claiming no opiates and safe use for women too.
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East
Civilized Way Pills Promote Bowel Health
An advert touts Blackburn's Casca Royal Pills as the civilized method to treat chronic constipation. It claims the formula nourishes bowel nerves without harsh laxatives and offers doses of 10, 25 cents at all druggists.
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Blackburn
Curious features in News of Day
Lafayette Choate pleaded guilty to harnessing his wife to a team of mules to harrow a field. He received 30 days in jail after four months awaiting trial. His wife sues for divorce.
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Liberty
Lafayette Choate
Dog Discovers Dying Master After 15 Foot Fall
In Wilmington Delaware 58 year old Joel D Finley fell 15 feet sustaining fatal head injuries after his skull was crushed and neck twisted. His dog led wife Mrs Finley to the scene as police and medical help arrived at Delaware Hospital. A separate 1911 will signing case details Morris and witnesses at a poker game and Mrs Morris contesting the will.
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Wilmington
Del
Joel D. Finley
Thirtieth
Bowers Streets
Finley
Harry Guion
George Silverstein
Guion
Morris
Silverstein
Prick of Pin Proves Fatal for Ellen Enright
Miss Ellen Enright of Bordentown New Jersey died after stepping on a rusty pin three weeks earlier. She suffered blood poisoning, was treated at St Francis Hospital in Trenton, and lived with her brother John Enright. She stepped on the pin at home and did not inspect her foot, leading to swelling and illness.
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Bordentown
N. J
Ellen
Miss Enright
St. Francis Hospital
Trenton
John Enright
Man asleep falls from window then goes drinking, robs friends
Evansville waiter Harry Bonner slept on the second floor above his restaurant. He wandered through a window, fell to the sidewalk, then went to a saloon and shook hands with friends before waking. He declared the incident, saying take what you want as they took items.
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Evansville
Ind
Harry Bonner
Plays poker then cuts wife in will in New York case
Justice Greenbaum and a jury in the Supreme Court weigh whether Nathan Morris, a merchant, signed his will after an all night poker game. The document left his wife a $250 bequest and raised questions of validity amid the defiant mood of the proceedings.
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New York
Justice Greenbaum
Supreme Court
Nathan Morris
Denied a Bath She Gets 250 in Damages
Ada A. Aaron of Brooklyn was awarded 250 damages by the New York Court of Appeals for being refused access to a Coney Island bathing house in July 1909 after she protested discrimination by an attendant. The action was against bathing house proprietor William J Ward.
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Albany
N. Y
Ada A. Aaron
Brooklyn
Coney Island
Court of Appeals
William J Ward
Prize Hog Now BarkS Like Dog
A 600 pound hog owned by Joseph Banta of Richfield New Jersey was found rabid after a dog chased it onto the farm and bit its neck. Dr Frederick Artopeous of Bloomfield ordered the animal shot on the spot. The hog had been fattened for a Thanksgiving eve roast and now barks like a dog.
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New York
Joseph Banta
Richfield
N. J
Frederick T. Artopeous
Bloomfield
Mrs Margar et Sullivan Divorce Case Sparks Testimony
In El Paso County Court Colorado Springs on November 22 Mrs Margar et Sullivan wife of Dr W P Sullivan of Brooklyn testified I bought him and paid for him and I dont want to give him up The couple married in New York in 1906 and the husband claims a past was unknown to him.
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Colorado Springs
Col
el Paso
Margaret Sullivan
W. P. Sullivan
Brooklyn
N. Y
Sullivans
New York
Navy training station head bans gum tobacco and smoking
Captain William Freeland Fullam assumed command of the Naval training station at Lake Bluff Chicago where President Taft had dedicated the site. He ordered that students in the school must not chew gum smoke cigarettes or chew tobacco as directed by the President.
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Chicago
Willia Freeland Fullam
Naval Training Station
Lake Bluff
Taft
Strongly on your husband's side when he objects
Advice to a reader from Another Mother about a wife keeping tabs on her husband’s personal affairs. The letter argues that seeping into his mail and spying destroys trust and invites suspicion.
The Wedding Ring
An old woman writes that wedding rings symbolize a husband’s vow to love and cherish his wife and criticizes the Sewing Circle for pressuring husbands to wear rings. She laments changing ideas of maidenly modesty and wifely duties.
Old-Fashioned Kiss on the Palm Plea from the Lady
In a letter titled Old-Fashioned Girl a correspondent laments the decline of hand kissing as a compliment. She recalls earlier social customs where men would kiss a woman's hand, sees it as respectful and ennobling, and urges men to revive the practice and readers to respond.
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Wintergreen
Love Dilemma Faces Boston Wife in Circles Letter
A 50 year old Boston woman, married 25 years with no children, asks the Sisters of the Circle for advice. She fell for a man in New York during a visit and wonders whether to return to him or remain with her husband, noting she is very unlike him. The letter seeks guidance on infidelity and loyalty.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Sisters of the Circle
Evrengh
New York
Boston
Never Smiles To the Sewing Circle
A distressed wife writes about four years of marriage marked by a cold husband who ignores his child, insults his mother in law, smokes excessively, avoids conversation, and wears three shirts to work, leaving her overwhelmed with housework and two small children.
Rheumatism Relieved by Eimer & Amend Remedy
If you are troubled with rheumatism Eimer amp Amend's New York 2851 will relieve you. T Metcalf Co Boston carry it.
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Tism, Eimer & Amend’s
N. Y
T. Metcalgf Co
Boston
Nine year old pleads in family note to readers
A letter from Lucille, a nine year old describing cold, high expectations at home. She contrasts a refined mother with a favored sister and brothers who pressure her. She works for her father, seeks another position, and asks what she should do.
Dear Second Husband Letter Warns of Brute Husband
Lady Alice scolds a man for keeping his second wife in cast off clothing and urges him to provide better attire or risk losing her, calling the husband unbecoming and unloving for earning only four dollars a week.
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Alice
Sully Loses Point in $1 500 000 Suit
Daniel J. Sully of New York once called Cotton King loses a point in his $1.5 million slander suit against John Hays Hammond. Justice Wright of the District Supreme Court finds collusion between Sully and equity plaintiffs led by William D. Doremus to set aside a voting trust in the National Cotton Development Company. Equity proceedings dismissed, Sully plans appeal.
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Washington
Daniel J. Sully
New York
Cotton King
John Hays Hammond
Wright
District Supreme Court
Sully
Hammond
William D.doremus
National Cotton Development Company
Persia to apologize to Russia and withdraw gendarmes
The Persian government informed London that under British advice it will comply with the Russian ultimatum. Gendarme withdrawal ordered, including troops sent to seize Shaa-Es-Sultaneh’s property, a brother of the ex Shah. The government will apologize to Russia.
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London
W. Morgan Shuster
National Council
Shaa-Es-Sultaneh
Persia
Russia
Taft Plans Large White House Dinner for Republican Leaders
President Taft will host a big White House dinner this winter for the Republican National Committee leaders and cabinet members. The event, not in the printed list, is slated to occur around December 11 with the national committee meeting to select a chairman and convention location.
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Washington
Taft
White House
Republican National Committee
Waite House
National Committee
Providence Bans Thanksgiving Turkey Raffles
Providence bars the yearly turkey raffles on Thanksgiving Eve after a police commission edict following a protest by the Federation of Churches public morals committee. The practice, long a city custom, is deemed a menace to community morals.
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Providence
Turkey
Raffles
R. I
Police Commissioners
Committee On Public Morals of the Federation of Churches
Pape's Cold Compound Promises Quick Grippe Cure
Advertisement touts Pape's Cold Compound as a proven remedy for colds and grippe. It claims rapid relief after the first dose, with dosing every two hours up to three doses, and asserts no quinine is used. The copy highlights three years of research and a fifty thousand dollar cost.
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Dr. van Vieck
Pape
Grippe
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