Society Belle and Boy Friend Arrested for Robbing Homes
Miss Ruth Taylor and Donald Clapham, heirs of Sea Cliff area families, were arrested after police traced stolen silver from several summer houses. Clapham confessed to four robberies. Taylor initially denied but later admitted her role. Bail bonds set at $1,000 each for Taylor and Clapham. homes of actress Alice Watson and others reported burgled.
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Society
Long Island
Ida Stirs
Func
John Conlin
Ruth Taylor
Clent
Clapham
Garnetines Ve
Miss Taylor
John= Conlin
Ghelacur
Frank Himan
Maple Street
Flatbush
Lucinda B. Taylor
Wittenberg
Conlin
Henry Scheefer
Abram’s
Flatbush Avenue
Ice Watson
Iss Taylor
Schaefer
Clapham, Jr
Donald
Clapbham
Alice Watson
Alice Hutchins
Harry Watson
Poe
Bickle, Watson and Wrothe
B. J. Winterroth
Manhattan
William Woods
Woods
James
Pearce
Wanda Arrives With Pine Lumber for Burritt Co
The British schooner Wanda from St. John New Brunswick arrived this morning in harbor carrying a pine lumber cargo for A. W. Burritt Lumber Co. Captain George L. Ward commands the vessel.
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Wanda
St. John, N
Harbor
A. W. Burritt Lumber Co
George L. Ward
Gurdon Street Receives New Mail Delivery Service
City mail delivery granted to Gurdon Street residents after they met regulations by numbering houses installing mail boxes and providing sidewalks. Also note Warner & Swasey Co of Cleveland denies reports its works were enlarged to manufacture shrapnel.
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Gurdon Street
Warner & Swasey Co
Cleveland
Lusitania Survivor News and Other Curious Tales
A Lusitania survivor Virginia Loney arrives in New York aboard the St Paul from Liverpool, recounting how her parents drowned when the ship went down and her escape in a lifebelt. The clipping also shares brief anecdotes about Tissot’s art, a diver’s haunting sea encounter, a smart village schoolboy, a San Francisco concert reaction, and wartime truce makers in Paris.
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New York
Virginia Loney
Huntington
N. Y
American Line
St. Paul
Liverpool
Miss Loney
Allen D. Loney
Lusitania
Postage Change for Letters to Dutch West Indies
After July 1 the prepaid rate of postage to the Dutch West Indies will be 2 cents per ounce or fraction thereof for letters mailed in the United States. Unpaid or insufficiently prepaid letters will be dispatched with a charge on delivery equal to double the short postage.
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United States
Dutch West Indies
Post Office Warns Against Fraud in Daily Bulletin
A Fraud Order has been published in the Daily Bulletin of Orders Affecting Postal Service against the Security Farm Loan Assoc and the Farm Mortgage Clearing Co and their officers and agents at Boyce Building and 30 North Dearborn Street Chicago. Farmer Want Ads One Cent a Word.
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Daily Bulletin
Postal Service
Security Farm Loan Assoc
Farm Mortgage Clearing Co
Boyce Building
North Dearborn S8t
Chicago
Til
Her Knowledge of Music in a Listener’s Surprise
A reader reflects on how musical piece names can mislead audiences about mood or meaning, recounting a recent listening experience that challenged assumptions and highlighted composers’ intent.
Russia the immensity of a land empire
The Brooklyn Standard Union notes Russia as one vast landmass with no overseas territories and no accessible winter-free saltwater ports. It spans one sixth of Earth's land, houses 160 to 170 million people, and grows by about two million annually.
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Russia
North America
Canal
Caribbean
Great Britain
Germany
France
Brooklyn Standard Union
Why You Wink Page Explains Eye Protection
A concise explanation of winking and its role in eye health. It notes the eyelids protect the eye by closing quickly, washing the surface, moistening to counteract drying air, and cleaning to remove dirt. The tear gland inside stores tears to maintain lubrication.
Gissing remembered by Burgin in Bookman piece
G B Burgin recalls meeting George Gissing at a garden party in St Johns Wood. He describes Gissing as curiously picturesque in loose clothes and a slouch hat, noting his remark that he writes with "infinite pain and labor" and his comment that much of authorship is "dreary stuff."
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Gissing
G. B. Burgin
Bookman
George Gissing
St John's
Mr. Burgin
London
Evangelist George Whitefield Early Stage Beginnings
The future evangelist George Whitefield showed early talent on stage in Gloucester acting in girls clothes before the mayor and council. By fifteen he was a skilled ale drawer and his youthful stage experiences reportedly shaped his later powerful preaching and dramatic delivery.
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George Whitefield
Corporation of
Gloucester
London Chronicle
Lord Chesterfield
Whitefield
He Had Found His Specialty anecdote from London
A barrister, once briefless, marries a widow who dies. He repeats the pattern marrying for dower and becoming a widower. He then asks a judge for guidance, who advises him to “Stick to the probate and matrimonial.”
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London
Supreme Court
His Revenge and a Post Election Quip
A defeated candidate quips that the plain people are wise, while the elected man laughs at the joke. The excerpt contrasts two newspapers with brief, clipped dialogue about trust, wisdom, and humor after an election.
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St Louis Post-Dispatch
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