Yale Instructors Named for Pastoral Course at Divinity School
Yale Divinity School announces instructors for next year including Dr. C. H Parkhurst, Rev. Charles Stelzie, Dr. Lyman Abbott of New York, Rev. S. Parke Cadman, Rev. Nehemiah Hoynton of Brooklyn, and Rev. Elwood Worcester and Rev. Frederick E. Emrich of Boston.
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New Haven
Caen
Yale Divinity School
C. H Parkhurst
Charles Stelzie
Lyman Abbott
New York
S. Parke Cadman
Nehemiah Hoynton
Brooklyn
Elwood Worcester
Frederick E. Emrich
Boston
Must Pay The Extra Dollar Law Demands
The second year with an extra dog tax fee prompts complaints from owners who must register by May 1. Some residents say paying dog taxes with real estate taxes would avoid two trips to city hall, but Town Clerk Weber says the law allows no change. A separate card notes Foley's Honey and Tar refunds if it fails to cure coughs, with a yellow package as authenticity.
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Weber
Neare
Foley
F. B. Brill
Russia and China Sign Manchuria Railroad Accord
Peking May 12 Russia and China signed an eighteen article agreement on a joint administration method for the Russian railroad zone in Manchuria. The pact rests on Chinese sovereignty guarantees and outlines shared governance.
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Peking
Russia
China
Manchuria
Peru to provide work for unemployed via public undertakings
Lima officials announce a government driven meeting with representatives of public companies to create jobs for the unemployed. The Lima municipality will inaugurate several public works projects to relieve hardship and stimulate employment in the capital.
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Lima
Peru
Suit Against B. and C. for Balance of Tax
Baltimore, Md. May 12 State Attorney General Straus announces he will institute a suit to recover from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad one million seven hundred seventy-eight thousand seven hundred forty-six dollars as an unpaid balance of the gross receipts tax that has accumulated since 1898 when the rate rose from one quarter of one percent to two and a half percent.
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Baltimore
Straus
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Actor Excused from Jury Service Under Old Law
London on May 1. An actor summoned for the Grand Jury claimed an old act of Parliament declared actors rogue and vagabonds and thus unqualified. The court upheld the plea and excused the actor from serving as a juror.
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London
Gen Cassius Clay’s child wife Dora Richardson Thomas divorces again
Dora Richardson Thomas, formerly Dora Richardson, the child wife of Gen Cassius M. Clay, obtained a divorce from Samuel Thomas in Lexington Kentucky on May 13. She is not yet 25 and has had two prior marriages to Riley Brock and Thomas. She retains property given by Gen Clay amid family efforts to annul the marriage.
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Lexington
Dora Richardson-Clay-Brock-Thomas
Cassius M. Clay
Samuel Thomas
Dora Richardson
Gen. Clay
Clay
Dora
Riley Brock
Thomas
Roosevelt shoots giraffes at 400 yards in Kenya hunt
Col Theodore Roosevelt adds two giraffes and a buffalo to his East Africa trophies near Machakos. Leopard and two cubs captured. Roosevelts's party reports the 17 species for the hunt. cubs' fate undecided as the safari continues.
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Bwana Tumbo
Warrington Dawson
United Press
Nairobi
British East Africa
Theodore Roosevelt
Machakos
Tumbo
Mr. Roosevelt
Harvard President Eliot Receives Rising Sun Honor
Cambridge May 12 President Charles W Eliot of Harvard last night was presented with the Japanese insignia of the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese ambassador to the United States. The honor, conferred by the Japanese Emperor, was handed to Eliot in a ceremony marking the acknowledgment of his stature.
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Cambridge
Mass
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard
Order of the Rising Sun
Aires
Another Customs Fraud Weighing of Olives
New York May 12 Still another series of weighing frauds at the port is disclosed by the Federal Investigation. The latest series the third to be discovered recently concerns the weighing of olives and alleges the Government was cheated out of many thousands in duties.
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New York
Austrian Prince Works as Machinist in Cleveland
John Orth, once a machinist in Patresville Ohio earning $15 a week, claims to be Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria Prince of the House of Hapsburg. He says he married Emilie Stubel in 1890 and renounced his honors, sailed for South America, and that the vessel never reached its destination and he and his wife were given up for dead.
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Cleveland
John Orth
Patresville
Ohio
Johann Salvator of
Austria
House of Hapsburg
Emilie Stubel
South America
Westward excursions entice with low fares to the west
The Lehigh Valley promotes attractive low rate trips to the west with $87.50 round trip from New York to Seattle for the Alaska Yukon Exposition and options to visit Yellowstone, Colorado scenery, Salt Lake City, California, Niagara Falls. Decoration Day fairs show $39 to St Paul and return and $55.50 to Denver. Los Angeles round trips listed at $88 among many others. Steamer trips on the Great Lakes offered with little extra charge. Full dates and ticket details available from N. W. Pringle at 39 Church St New Haven Conn.
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Lehigh Valley
West
New York
Seattle
Yellowstone National Park
Colorado
Salt Lake City
California
Niagara Falls
St. Paul
Denver
Los Angeles
Great Lakes
N. W. Pringle
Church St
New Haven
Conn
Death of Miss Kate F Camp at Hartford Hospital
Kate F Camp a former Newtown teacher with service in Bridgeport Trumbull Collinsville Minneapolis Hampton VA and church schools in New York Idaho Missouri died at Hartford hospital after four months illness The funeral will be at Trinity church Newtown Friday at 2 pm Interment in village cemetery Survived by sister Mrs E L Johnson five nephews including Bishop Frederic Johnson of South Dakota and William C Johnson Newtown representative in the present legislature.
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Kate F. Camp
Hartford Hospital
Miss Camp
Beach
Catherine H. Camp
Taunton
J. Johnson
Bridgeport
Trumbull
Collinsville
Minneapolis
Minn
Hampton
New York
Idaho
Missouri
Trinity Church
Newtown
Comeerytery
E. L. Johnson
Frederic I. Johnson
South Dakota
William C. Johnson
John T. Keane
Zoar
Pearl Pareona
Smith College
Ethel P. Finch
Sandy Hook
Newtown Inn
Town Hall
Daniel Keane
John
Bright Boy
Robert Keane
Katherine Payne
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ITY Savings Bank
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Bridgeport, Conn
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Garner
Bridgeport “Land & Title CO
State Street
Heal Estate
Europe
Loewith & Co
Bank ST
Crane A Idgeport. CO
Hayes’ Market
Water Street
WEES
Kossuth
OME Cafe
Ee Sarees
OTS
Oscars
Ictly
Foe
Ait da
Dan Cooney
Corner Cedar
East Main Street
George S. Baker
Bunnell and Deacon Streets
WATS
Edison Phonograph
GesarMlisch
YALE
Hyomei
Booth’s
Hyomei Co
Buffalo
N. Y
M. J. Buechler the
Optician
Fairfield Ave
Col. Roosevelt
Eliot
Prince
Glenwood Range
Frankforts
GUS Broce & Son
Park City Cycle and Enameling Company
Broad Street
Bridgeport Wet Wash Laundry Co
Brooklawn
A- Bae
Gregory
Stratford, Conn
Westport
Hawthorne Vnn
Boston Post Road
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Aundry
Depoe
Union Hotel
Farrele
Kerr & Barnes
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Keith
Liberty
Liberty Local
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