Rockefeller Will to Give Large Gift to New York City
A Herald report from New York claims John D. Rockefeller Jr. plans a vast gift upon his father’s will, potentially at least 59 million dollars, split between religious education and charitable causes. The plan includes major endowments to educational institutions and charitable housing for the poor, with churches receiving limited direct aid.
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the Herald
John D. Rockefeller Jr
John D. Rockefeller
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Rockefeller
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Herald
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Five Inch Scissors Removed From Mrs White Thigh
A Wichita hospital report describes the removal of five inch surgeon scissors left in Mrs W R White of Braman Oklahoma four years ago after a tumor surgery. The instrument migrated through the body causing pain until discovered by X ray. The case highlights long term surgical retained foreign objects.
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Witchita
Kan
W. R. White
Braman
Okla
Wichita Hospital
Veterans denounce Oklahoma convention action in war clause
The United Spanish American War Veterans of the District of Columbia condemn a Oklahoma constitutional convention clause that would disfranchise veterans who served in various wars. They urge Commander in Chief Hamilton Ward to convene a national council meeting to consider moving the next encampment from Oklahoma City.
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United
National Council
Oklahoma City
First Texas onion car tops Chicago market
Roy Campbell reports the first Texas onion car from Corpus Christi to Chicago sold at 2.65 per crate. The 500 crates brought 1 365 dollars, the highest price for a Texas onion car shipped out of the state, and the shipment arrived two weeks earlier than any prior Chicago load.
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San Antonio
Roy Campbell
Southern Truck Growers’ Association
Corpus Christabott
Bradicy Offers Million Dollar Royalty to Oil Concession
C M Bradicy of Muskogee proposes to give $1,000,000 in cash and a 10 percent royalty on every barrel of oil produced from wells on the roads of the new state if he is granted exclusive prospecting rights forever by a constitutional provision. The offer was made to delegates at the constitutional convention.
Contempt Charged in Lake Charles Court Case
Acting District Attorney Stewart was sentenced to twelve hours in jail and fined $50 by Judge Lee for contempt. A state supreme court writ freed him. The court faced tension with seventy five deputies present as the Reid contest case proceeded.
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Lee
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Porter Survived Head Wound Twenty-Two Days After Dance Shooting
Tony Porter sustained a clean through head bullet wound on February 23 at a Claremore area dance and lived until March 15 in Muskogee. Indian suspect George Walker was transported to court under deputies’ escort after being charged with the shooting.
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Tony Porter
Claremore
I. T
Porter
George Walker
Marshall Webb
Weleetka
Explosion of 250 pounds dynamite damages city area
An explosion at the site of the new city hospital in Cincinnati on March 18 breaks windows within a half mile radius, blows out storefronts, damages furnaces and disrupts sewers. Fort Worth baseball hosts the Phillies, winning 5 to 3 as Dupree limits hits and Waddell surrenders two triples and five singles.
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Child Victims Die In Oklahoma Dugout Fire
Guthrie March 18 two small children of J H Harrison living on a claim west of Geary died in a dugout fire caused by a lamp explosion. Parents were in the cotton field when the timbers collapsed. Poisoned peaches claim lives in Richmond two Virginia boys die from ptomaine poisoning after eating canned peaches.
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J. H. Harrison
Geary
Richmond
Melvin
Leonard L. Ives
W. W. Ives
Hampton, Va
Noted ranchman in Rio Verde killed in jealous murder
San Luis Potosi March 18 dispatches report prominent ranchman Juan Fluano assassinated his sweetheart and her daughter at his home. Jealousy is named as the motive.
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Mex
Rio Verde
Juan Fluano
Landly
Actor Savige Charged in Nurse Shooting Case
New York on March 18 W C Savige an actor is under arrest charged with perhaps mortally wounding Miss Roselyn D Wilbert a trained nurse.
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New York
W. C. Savige
Roselyn D. Wilbert
River Inundates Shippingport as City Alerts Evacuations
On Saturday the Ohio river rose and flooded Shippingport prompting Mayor Barth to order residents to evacuate. In Atlantic City J Keevan sixty? no, forty eight, proprietor of Youngs hotel widely known across the country, died.
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Louisville
Ohio River
Barth
Atlantic City
N. J
J. Keevan
Young’s Hotel
Three Spans Collapse on Cincinnati Viaduct
Three fifty foot spans of the eighth street viaduct over Mill creek collapsed causing a $150,000 loss in Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
Eighth Street
Mill Creek
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