Marital Scandal Rocks Pittsburgh First Presbyterian Church
Rev R A Boyce, former assistant pastor at Pittsburgh's First Presbyterian Church, has married Miss Sarah Kindred Williams in New York. The affair ends with Boyce’s resignation and a divorce from his wife, amid rumors connecting his involvement with the contralto singer. The couple reportedly reside apart as Boyce and Williams travel.
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Pittsburg
First Presbyterian Church
Maitland T. Alexander
Charles Parkhurst
New York
R. A. Boyce
Sarah Kindred Williams
Norfolk
Boyce
Allegheny City
Nellie
A. D. Armstrong
Allegheney
Armstrong
Shark Attack Fears As Captain Brethren Captures Giant
Twenty young women at Rocky Beach flee in alarm as Captain James Brewer wages a dramatic duel with an eight foot man eater. The shark is subdued with a grappling hook and hauled to shore. its skeleton is destined for Yale museum.
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New Haven
Conn
Rocky Beach
James Brewer
Miss Daisy Stone
Brewer
Miss Stone
Yale
Quebec Bridge Disaster Claims Eighty Four Lives
A section of the St Lawrence bridge near Quebec collapsed on Thursday killing about eighty four workers. Ninety men were at work. the fall occurred as the whistle blew and rescues continued through the night with sixteen bodies recovered by 10:30 pm. The span was to cost ten million dollars with federal provincial and municipal subsidies.
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Quebec
St. Lawrence River
Levis
Glenmont
St. Lawrence
Gulf
Phoenixville Bridge Company
Montreal
Quebec Bridge
Methodists to Build Aged Preachers Home in North Alabama
North Alabama Methodists plan a home for superannuated ministers at Decatur or New Decatur. Donors include J E Penney and J L Brock who gave a New Decatur lot, and a Athens woman contributed 1000 dollars. The home will honor the late Rev. Anson West, a veteran Alabama Methodist clergyman.
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Decatur
Methodists
North Alabama
New Decatur
J. FE. Penney
J. L. Brock
Athens
Anson West
Alabama
Family feud sparks riot in Roumanian settlement
A quarrel over saloon business in Terre Haute's Roumanian settlement led to a small riot and six arrests for assault and battery. The dispute centered on John Nichols and Dan Albin with both men operating Ash Street saloons. The disorder spread from Nichols’ place to John Chicu’s at 1460 Ash Street as Patrolman Fortune was assaulted amid a larger neighborhood disturbance.
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Terre Haute
Ind
John Nichols
Ash Street
Dan Albin
South End
Albin
Nichols
John Chicu
Fortune
Buck Finds No Corpse in Clymer Case Amid Wife Disappearance
Johnstown Pa Aug 30 Micheal Buck Barnesboro undertaker agent went to Clymer Indiana county to fetch a rumored deceased man only to learn no one died. On returning home Buck discovers his wife is missing and has not been heard from since. G J Smelko City hotel Barnesboro sued on a serious charge by Buck and has given bail.
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Johnstown
Micheal Buck
Barnesboro
Carrolltown
Clymer
Indiana County
G. J. Smelko
Buck
Platform falls at lottery drawing in Porto
A platform set up by a local newspaper for a lottery drawing in Porto Portugal collapsed on Friday. About 500 people were on the platform when it gave way, killing ten and injuring eighty.
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Porto
Portugal
Reunion of Aged Brothers in Rockport Meeting
Findlay Ohio August 30 after sixty years Robert Jesse and George Auchmuty aged seventy seven eighty and eighty three years met at Rockport and held a reunion.
Obscene card dealer arrested in Philadelphia
Gustave P. Lang operating as the P. C. Novelty company was arrested by U S postal inspectors for wholesale selling obscene post cards. Authorities say Lang is a nationwide wholesaler with agents in many cities and large orders from firms, with more arrests expected soon.
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Philadelphia
United States
Gustave P. Lang
P. C. Novelty Company
Lang
Rome
N. Y
New York
Lang Io
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Texas
Joe B. Reed
Friend-In-Need Society
Joe B
Reed
M. H. James
Bryan Steam Laundry
Hearn
Roletos
WEDS
Siibtt
Presbyterian
New Bridge
Dominion of Canada
Methodists of
James & Nunn
Dr. Pepper
Coca-Cola
Parsons
Bottling Works
Or W. A.watkins
Gordon-Sewall Grocery Company
Dr. J. F. Eaves
Smith Building
FOLEY
Foley & Company
Chicago
Riz Otto
Parsons’ Building
North Main Street
R. H. Harrison
Emmet & Maloney’s
Bryan
R.H. Brogdon
Batte
Spencer Ford
J. D. Ganter
Jeweer
Ali
N.jametta
Bryan Xas
B. Hudson
Bryan, Texas
W. Wilson
Franklin
Hudson & Wilson
Attorneys At Law
Bryan and Franklin, Texas
Brazos and
Robertson Counties
W. H. Lawrence
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