Miss Alta Rockefeller to wed Chicago lawyer Prentice
Miss Alta Rockefeller, heiress to founder John D. Rockefeller, plans to sail home to wed E Parmalee Prentice, a Chicago lawyer. The couple, long distance engaged, follow a prior broken engagement with the Rev L A Crandall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alta Rockefeller
Ston
Alta Rckefeller
E. Parmalee Prentice
Chicago
Rex Hter
John D. Rockefeller
Miss Rockefeller
L. A. Crandall
E Bucky Avenue Baptist Church
Cleveland
Shot to Piecesfully 200 Bullets In Negro Body
LAKH CITY Fla Nov 327 Spencer Williams a negro gambler was shot to death by a mob near this city after last night wounding City Marshal Strange and William Strickland during resisting arrest Citizens formed a posse and overtook Williams in a swamp this morning His body was brought to town placed at the courthouse gate and surrounded by a crowd all afternoon
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Lakh City
Fla
Spencer ‘Williams
Williams
Pensacola
Strange
William Strickland
Court House
McCrillis Held on Embezzlement Charge
Former Deputy Revenue Collector McCrillis remained in jail on $2500 bond after a December grand jury hearing. United States Commissioner Fiske presided as the government alleged tax shortages beyond recorded reports, with testimony from Collector Gill and witnesses including William Robinson and Caroline Moore detailing improper receipts and unreported funds.
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Ransom Fr. McCrillis
United States
Fiske
James D. Gill
McCrillis
Gill
Daniel M. Crowley
Danvers
William Robinson
Gloucester
Crowley
Robinson
Caroline Moore
Miss Moore
School Committee Scrutiny Halts Lighting Contract Bid
The Boston school committee defeated a belated bid for a lighting contract after controversy over its opening. The panel returned the contract to be readvertised by 17 to 8, while discussions over salaries and rules continued. Galveston relief and a Pan-American exhibit funding were also debated as part of school measures.
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George W. Anderson
School House
C. H. McKenney
West Roxbury High School
Anderson
Thomas W. Berridge
Mr. Berridge
Edward C. Baldwin
Augustine J. Bulger
Samuel E. Courtney
Merritt
Boston
Baldwin
Galveston
Buffalo
Hale appeals over will ruling in Taunton
Mrs Annie M Hale of North Attleboro filed an appeal from Judge Fuller’s decision in Taunton. The judge allowed Oscar M Draper’s will as originally written in ink rather than as corrected by pencil marks Draper made on the instrument. The court treated the pencil marks as a memorandum, not a legal correction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taunton
Annie M. Hale
North Attleboro
President's Rhode Island Turkey Missing Flows From Pennsylvania
The traditional Rhode Island turkey for the President's Thanksgiving was not sent from Westerly this year. Instead Dr. J. S. Troxler of Kutztown, Pennsylvania, supplied a 31 pound magnificent bird for the White House table, delivered by Horace Vose, the purveyor.
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Rhode Island
Turkey
Washington
United States
Westerly
White House
R. I
McKinley
Horace Vose
Indians in Colorado Face Arrest by Armed Posse
A Meeker Colorado telegraph says Game Commissioner Johnson led an armed posse from Meeker to arrest Utah Indians accused of slaughtering Colorado game. The group, warned to expect resistance, indicates a possible battle may occur.
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Denver
Col
Meeker
Johnson
Posse
Utah
Colorado
Edison Jr Sues for Divorce from Debutant Bride
Thomas A. Edison Jr announced at the Hotel Vendome his engagement of Se & Selkirk to file for separation from his wife Marie Tuohy after ten months of marriage. He claims desertion seven months ago and will seek court action while supporting her. He met her in the La Belle Helene company and has seen her only with her sister lately.
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New York
Thomas A. Edison, Jr
Hotel Vendome
C@se & Selkirk
Nassau Street
Marie Tuohy
Edison
Valuable Papyri to Be Sent to American Universities
One hundred and eighteen valuable papyri, including a candidate for the original St. John’s Gospel, will be sent to the United States from Egypt via the Egyptian Fund Society. Universities receiving portions include University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Hamilton, and Vassar. The manuscripts date to Greco-Roman Egypt, with careful copies and translations made, aiding Homer, Sappho, and Hadrian’s writings.
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Egypt
Egyptian Fund Society
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia University
Harvard
New Semitic Museum
Yale
Columbia
Princeton
Hamilton
Vassar
Oxford
Cambridge
Homer
Sappho
St.John
Ward 4 politician Davis case before Police Court
In Lynn, the case against John W. Davis charged with circulating a scurrilous election circular was continued to Saturday. The circular urged Alderman Fred W. Allen's renomination at Republican caucuses and referenced the telephone franchise. Miss Ola M. Kimball testified she mailed many circulars, while Merrill of the post office identified her and a similar circular. Davis testified he knew nothing about the slow circular.
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Lynn
John W. Davis
Ward 4
Berry
Fred W. Allen
Ola M. Kimball
Davis
Mr. Davis
Alderman Allen
Merrill
Post Office
Miss Kimball
John W Davis
Mowry Awarded 4500 In Suit Over Mathewson Estate
Martin Mowry, serving a life term for the Burrillville murder of Mrs. Abby Reynolds, won a $4500 verdict today in the Rhode Island Common Pleas Division of the Supreme Court. The suit was against the administrator of Elisha Mathewson’s estate, pursued through an administrator after civil death was declared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
R. I
Martin Mowry
Abby J. Reynolds
Burrillville
Common Pleas Division
Supreme Court
Elisha Mathewson
Mowry
Man Seeks Damages for Fifty Years of Services
The claimant states he was allowed to appear in court and testify and seeks five thousand dollars in damages for services rendered Mathewson during the last twenty years of his life.
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Mathewson
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Home For Wedding
DR. Pritchett
Otto H. Tittmann
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Bureau
Pritchett
Mssachusetts Institute of Technology
Cheviots
Viennas
Browning, King & CO
Washington ST
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Kneeland
M’crillis
Lucy T. Phelps
Ames A. Phelps
East
William Lloyd Garrison
Wendell Phillips
John Greenleaf Whittier
American Anti-Slavery Society
Billsworth
Upsee Agen
Messrs. Baldwin, Bulger and
Campbell
Hart
Mr. Seaver
Edwin P. Seaver
Bulger
Thomas J. Kenny
Boston Public Schools
Mrs. Hale
Fuller
Halifax
N. S
Maritime Provinces
Moncton
Codman's Hall Co
Dewey Square
Troxler
Cutztown
Penn
Globe Clothing Store
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M&kerseys
Kersey
Price Raglans
Madison
London Box
Waeww
Wiaw
Indians
Armed Posse
Washington and Brattle Streets
Richard Little
McKim
Little
Carrie E. Little
East Fifth Street
South
M. Fannie Osborne
James Little
Washburn
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