Court upholds Converse bequests to Masonics and banks
Judge Leonard J. Nickerson rules legacy gifts totaling 76 000 to two New York bankers clubs and two Pennsylvania Masonic bodies valid under Connecticut law. He emphasizes Masonry as charitable and religious, and that charitable gifts extend beyond direct almsgiving to moral improvement. The decision, mirroring broad charity precedent, covers twelve pages.
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New York City
Bankers’ Clubs
Pennsylvania
Edmund C. Converse
Greenwich
Leonard J. Nickerson
Superior Court
Bankers’ Club
New York
Liberty Club
Allaquippa Lodge F and AM
Pittsburgh
Tancred Commandery
KT Br
A.M. Pittsburg
Converse
Connecticut
Nickerson
Tadie Nikerson
New York State
Gilbank Twiggs Fruit Grower Tries Suicide After Quarrel
Washington May 13 A nurse his wife had hired to keep him from suicide Gilbank Twigg a wealthy Virginia fruit grower shot himself just below the heart and was taken to a hospital in a serious condition A quarrel with his wife is believed to have led to the attempt
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Washington
Sludine
Suiave
Gilbank
Twigg
Virginia
Twieg
Threat of injunction delays Westport Bridgeport road work
Dispute stalls widening of the Westport to Bridgeport highway awarded to Bridgeport Construction. Objectors threaten legal injunctions as contractors await guidance from the State Highway department. The project aims to expand pavement from 18 to a broader width to handle rising motor traffic between New York and Bridgeport. The contract is valued at about 140 thousand dollars.
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Westport
Norwalk
Bridgeport Construction Company
Emmet Donnelly
State Highway Department
New York
Bridgeport
Love tragedy trial in Los Angeles over Mann Act case
Fred H. Brown son of a former Rochester mayor faced a Mann Act trial in Los Angeles for bringing Bessie Pritchett to the city. She refused marriage, despite welfare workers pressuring her and her expectation of motherhood.
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Fred H. Brown
Rochester
Mann
Los Angeles
Bessie Pritchett
St. Coula
Brown
Belief in Deities Not Necessary to True Religion
Boston May 13 A Wakefield Staten of the Pacific Unitarian School for the Ministry told the 86th annual Alliance of Unitarian Women meeting that belief in deities is not essential to true religion. He argued liberal faith will be agnostic on immortality and unprovable matters, and that sociology may outrank theology in guiding society.
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Boston
Associated Press
A. Wakefield Staten
Pacific Unitarian School For the Ministry
Alliance of Unitarian Women
Slaten
God
Satan
Hife
Angela
Norwalk man bound over on child beating charge
James St Clair forty of Tome New York confessed assailant of nine year old Isabella Goliusky of Wyattsville avenue Monday morning was bound over to the Superior court in bonds of ten thousand dollars Local physicians pronounced timely following an examination yesterday Dr William J Track who treated the child said This is the most atrocious crime in the history of Norwalk The child suffered lac erations on the face and bruises on the body Her entire side was bruised from the beating she received
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Norwalk
James St. Clair
Tome
Isabella Goliusky
Wyattsville Avenue
Superior Court
Tim Gane
William J. Track
Chief Justice Dissents Over Libel Award In State Ruling
The state supreme court upheld a $2,500 libel damages award to James Monezport against Lodgeport Publishing Co Inc and editor Cornelius Usengradi. Justice Beach delivered the opinion. Chief Justice Wheeler dissented. The original verdict was $5,000, cut to $2,600 on Maltbie’s remittitur.
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James Monezport
Lodgeport Publishing Co, Inc
Cornelius Usengradi
Supreme Court of Mrrury
Beach
Wheeler
Horn
Maltbie
Monetport
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