JAP USED JIU JITSU ON SPOUSE IN DIVORCE FIGHT
Greta A Cho Yo, wife of Kazan Cho Yo a former University of Tokyo instructor, testified in Chicago that he used jiu jitsu cruelty during their two year marriage beginning in 1904. She described being tortured with arm holds and shoves that injured her back neck and ribs and led to divorce with alimony. Cho Yo also wrote a chess book noted by experts.
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Chicago
Kazan Cho-Yo
University of Tokyo
Greta A. Cho-Yo
Cho- Yo
Cho-Yo
Valetta Runs Aground Off Wood Island In Heavy Seas
The two masted British schooner Valetta, lumber laden from St John New Brunswick to Boston with deals, struck Dansebury ledge near Wood Island. She leaks badly but may be pulled off at high tide. Captain McCloney and three crew escaped with belongings to Wood Island and were aided by Fletcher's Neck Life Saving Station crew.
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Biddeford
St. John
N. B
Boston
Dansebury Ledge
Wood Island
McClney
Fletcher’s Neck
Pink Pills advertised to aid women ills and nerves
An advertisement extols Dr Williams Pink Pills as a tonic for women weak with illness. It cites Florence A Jordan of Farmington Maine who recovered after two boxes, claims the pills are safe and non habit forming, and notes price details and a free booklet for readers.
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Dr. Williams
Florence A. Jordan
Perham Street
Farmington
Dr. Williams Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Rockefeller offers million to fight hookworm disease
John D. Rockefeller proposes a five year campaign funded up to one million dollars to combat hookworm in the rural South. He invites a conference of medical professionals public health officials boards of trade churches schools and the press to form a cooperative movement. The Rockefeller Commission for the Eradication of Hook Worm Disease is formed to organize practical work.
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Rockefeller
Conferrees
Charles Wardell Stiles
United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
South
Rockefeller Commission For
Gazzam Heiress Denies Winning Clark Affair Cash
Miss Antoinette Elizabeth Gazzam, Pennsylvania heiress with a Cornwall mansion, answers Mrs. Marshall Clark’s $150,000 damages suit over alleged alienation of her husband. She confirms meeting Clark in Los Angeles in March, denies Hotel Lankershim meetings, argues ordinary professional fees, and asserts her status as Jackson H. Dorsey’s real wife amid a fraud claim on a divorce.
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New York
Antoinette Elizabeth Gazzam
Pennsylvania
Cornwall-on-the-Hudson
Marshall Clark
Professor Niblo
Chicago
Los Angeles
Lankershin
Miss Gazzam
Mrs. Clark
Jackson H. Dorsey
Dorsey
Acid attack at Bermondsey by election protest
London October 28 Mrs Chapin a suffragette attacked a ballot box at the Bermondsey by election with corrosive acid injuring election officers. She aimed to destroy ballots to protest women being denied the vote and was arrested. Her action sparked debate over tactics in the suffrage movement.
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London
Pankhurst comments on Chapin incident in New Haven lecture
English suffragette Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst spoke in New Haven on October 28 and commented on the Chapin incident saying she would not say she is delighted. Her remarks critiqued the episode while underscoring ongoing suffrage activism and public discourse.
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New Haven, Conn
Emmeline Pankhurst
Chapin
Awarded $5000 for Electric Shock Injury on Boston Car
John B. Hoar received a $5000 jury award in Superior Court for injuries from an electric shock that passed through his body while riding as a passenger at the Dudley street terminal of the Boston Elevated Railway Company.
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John B. Hoar
Superior Court
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Dudley Street Terminal
Tannery Fire Damages Blank Bros. Plant in Winchester
A blaze at Blank Bros. tannery on Lake Street in Winchester caused about 25000 in damages. Fire crews battled the flames today with no immediate report of injuries.
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Winchester
Blank Bros
Lake Street
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Schr. Valetta
Maine
Amberol
Sousas Band
Stars and Stripes Forever
Sousa
Edison Amberol
Edison Phonograph
National Phonographompany
Lakeside Avenue
Orange, N. J
George McManus
Judge Caputch
Penitentuaiyy
QOLD
George
Judge Beeswax
By A. P. Carmichael
Gee? I
John D. Rockefeller
Gazzam
Clark
Washington Street
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