Woman claims common law marriage to Hiram Maxim
Helen Leighton Maxim, claiming to be the inventor's wife, narrates a life with Hiram S. Maxim, alleging a common law marriage and daughter Romaine born in 1879. She accuses a Boston woman Miss Sarah Haynes of complicity and describes years of separation, impostor wives, and abandonment across New York, Paris, and London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Helen Leighton- Maxim
Hirams
Maxim
Nell Malcolm
Boston
Sarah Haynes
Madix
Mr. Maxim
Winnie Weir
Jersey City
Hiram S. Maxim
Mrs. Maxim
Forty-first Street
Union Street
Brooklyn
Europe
Paris
Hotel de Didhon
London
Hiram 8S
Express Companies Pay War Tax, War Revenue Board Advice
A wartime advisory urges that express and parcel post firms include the mandatory war tax in charges and keep a detailed record of all payments. The committee recommends standardized reporting to ensure compliance and accurate accounting across carriers.
1 Cent War Tax Windfall for Express Firms Advised
The Boston Chamber of Commerce met to decide that express companies should bear the 1 cent war tax on all receipts. The group considered stamps for telegrams and steamship bills of lading, urging shipper records and noting possible court outcomes. A Concord memorial service for Sherman Hoar followed later in the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Elias J. Bliss
Jerome Jones
William H. Lincoln
Fitzroy Kelly
Geoffrey B. Lehy
United States
Congress
Governor Wolcott Opposes Muster Out of Eighth Regiment
In reply to Mayor D B Chase of Haverhill, Governor Wolcott states the War Department declares a public need to retain some state volunteer units in service. He cannot request any Massachusetts regiment’s return while the need exists and vows to continue aiding troop comfort and health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wolcott
D. B. Cnase
Haverhill
War Department
United States
Commonwealth
Massachusetts
Regiment Dispatches From Utuado Arecibo Ward Off Ills
Post correspondent notes a drop in hospital sickness to 136 with more expected to return to duty. The Sixth Massachusetts faces supply, water, and logistics challenges in Arecibo and Utuado while officers manage barracks moves. Fires and robberies drop as authorities arrest suspects. mail from Ponce boosts morale and steadies rumors.
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Utuado
Porto Rico
Washburn
Morse
Clarkson
Arecibo
San Juan
Ponce
Hatillo
la Isabella
Rev. L. McDonald
Concord
Mass
Kentucky
Senor Fuentes
Thomas Talbot
William L. Conrad
Barnstead
Edward 5
Thomas
Louis Buckner
Wilson
Camuy
Cook Will
Massachusetts
Adjuntas
William B. Gould
Rice
James Tolman
Whitcomb
la Croix
Emmanuel
McGillicuddy
Connor Given Three Months For Illegal Registering And Voting
John F. Connor was found guilty in Charlestown Court of illegal registering and voting. He received a three month sentence at the Deer Island House of Correction after being arrested at the Ward 3 Democratic caucus on September 26 following a challenged vote by Senator Shaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlestown
John F. Connor
House of Correction
Deer Island
Connor
Ward 3
Shaw
Midwife Nancy Guilford Remanded at Bow Street Court
Dr. Nancy Guilford of Bridgeport Conn admitted identity as Mrs Guilford sought by Connecticut police and was remanded for one week at Bow Street Police Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Nancy Guilford
Bridgeport
Notorious Brooklyn Burglar Captured at Grand Central
William JF Travis a professional burglar known as Dalton was arrested at Grand Central Station after years of undetected housebreaking on Schermerhorn Street Brooklyn. Police recovered two revolvers burglar tools and $200 worth of stolen silverware from his home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William JF. Travis
Schermerhorne Street
Brooklyn
Travis
Schermerhorn Street
Dalton
Bill Mason
Mason
Bullets Rained On the Sixth in San Juan Fight
Officers recalled a San Juan hill battle where about 1.5 million bullets were fired over 90 minutes as 1500 Spaniards and Mauser rifles rained fire on the Sixth, leaving only about eighty men marching back from the city last April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Juan Hil
Kennon
Cincinnati Enequirer
Mourning Burials Move to Family Lot at Mt Hope
The relatives of Clinton Berry who died last December of a fractured skull and was buried in a pauper's grave under the name Charles Porter had his remains moved last Thursday to the family lot at Mt Hope cemetery. The scene recalls a Clarion editor’s patient nod to a shaken newsroom and a lighthearted cartoon exchange about keeping the wolf from the door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Hart
Concord
Hospital No. 2
C. H. Cook
Company I
Hospital Corps
J. H. Pryor
Massachusetts
Quartermaster Sweetser
Arecibo
Clinton Berry
City Hospital
Charles Porter
Mt. Hope Cemetery
the Clarion
Lemuel
Washington Star
Puck
Thaulow Arrives to Judge Pittsburg Art Prize
Norwegian painter Fritz Thaulow arrives on the Champagne from Havre and will serve as a foreign judge for the Pittsburg Library annual artistic competition. He lauds New York gallery and European masters, noting works like Le Lage Beu and La Vieille Fabrique. he previously judged the 1876 Philadelphia exposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fritz Thaulow
Pittsburg
New York
Havre
Ainter
Andrew Carnegie
Srize
Central Park
Thaulow
Europe
National Gallery
London
Tie
Les Sauies
Riviere @’Arques
la Vieille Fabrique
Luxembourg
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Chamber OF Commerce View
S. A. Eliot
Hoar
Sherman Hoar
Unitarian Church
Samuel Atkins Eliot
Cambridge
Henry King
Trinity Church
Woodson Hudson
Murray Ballou
R. R. Barrett
Captain Gilmore
C. F. Heywood
G. S. Keyes
C. O. Pratt
C. W. Prescott
D. F. Smith
Richard Olney
C. S. Hamlin
Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association
Middlesex Club
Chamber of Commerce
American Unitarian Association
Concord Company
Harvard
William L. Putnam
Everet Jansen Wendell
Joseph R. Worcester
Richard M. Bradlee
Robert Codman
Henry D. Warren
John H. Stover
Frederick M. Stover
Godfrey L. Cabot
Thomas C. Thacher
Frederic Warren
Willian D. Waite
Samuel A. Eliot
Weston
Forest Hills Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
J. Wilson Brothers
Tremont
Post
Gault
Parsons
Messrs
Lyford
Kemp
Massachusetts General Hospital
City Hospital of
F. E. Moore
McNeilly
Howland
John L. Gilson
Stoneham
Whce
Volliffe
Corporal Moore
Frank E. Gray
Wakefield
L. G. Hunton
Lowell
Gardner W. Pearson
L. L. Gilman
Bell
Barrett
Copeland
Ramsdell
Newell
Bridge
Kelly
Charles D. Pettigrew
H. H. Stearns
W. O. Cutliffe
H. M. Hewitt
Gilman
Q. G. King
G. W. Braxton
Massachusetts Volunteers
J. F. Connor
Nancy
Cascarets
Fred Wartman
Gormantown Ave
Philadelphia
Candy Cathartic Cavacaeve
SOFT
Sterling Remedy Company
Culeage
Montreal
San Juan Hill
Berry
Eamus ND
Aris
Eritz Thaulow
American
Pittseburg
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