Woman near death after apparent stabbing in Brooklyn home
New York February 17 Mrs Caro Mee Le Hart lies dying at Seney hospital after being found unconscious in a Brooklyn Prospect avenue hallway from a deep throat wound. Police seek grandson Samuel Hagaman who is believed involved as she gasped that he stabbed her when she refused to give him money.
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New York
Caro- Mee le Hart
Seney Hospital
Prospect Avenue
Brooklyn
Samuel Hagaman
Mauretania Sets New Transatlantic Daily Distance Record
New York February 17 The Cunard liner Mauretania smashed records by covering 671 nautical miles in a single day averaging 26 21 knots per hour. This top daily distance surpasses the Lusitania’s previous westward mark by twenty one miles.
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New York
Cunard
Mauretania
Lusitania
Girl's case baffles Great City's police
A 19 year old girl suffered severe abuse at a strange room in Wellington hotel episode. She was bound, gagged, and drugged with laudanum and later regained consciousness to accuse a prominent man and accomplices in a persecution plot. Miss Joyce, a stenographer, was drawn into the defense by attorney P. H. O Donnell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
Indicted Hopdens Police Raid Prompted Crackdown
Police continued raids on hop dens, arresting twelve Chinese and six white individuals for inhabiting dens and gambling. Opal Curtis released on bond faced further arrest for fraud, while others await hearings before Justice Bruner. A separate note lists eminent figures alleged to be vilified in Panama canal related charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cora Johnson
John Ogelvie
James A. Johnson
Thompson
Ben Curtis
Opal Curtis
Cheyenne
China
Washington, D. C
Joseph Pulitzer
Caleb M. VanHamm
Robert H. Lyman
New York World
Delavan Smith
Chas. R. Williams
Indianapolis’ News
Panama Canal
Theodore Roosevelt
Wm. H. Taft
Elihu Root
J. Pierpont Morgan
Charles P. Taft
Douglas Robinson
Wm. Nelson Cromwell
Pet dog foils burglar alarm in Derry robbery
Mrs. Dennis Crowe, returning from a neighbor, saw her dog run to the door and then to her home. She found burglars had entered through a window and stolen watches, jewelry, and silverware valued at 900 dollars and a purse with 70 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derry
Conn
Dennis Crowe
Sugar in Eyes Tied to Suicide Attempt in Ban Bernardino
Manuel Morena, a Porto Rican awaiting trial for alleged diamonds, attempted suicide by rubbing sugar into his eyes. He confessed resorting to a means to end his life and described it as a local custom among his people to deter opposition.
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Bernardino
Cal
Manuel Morena Y
Porto Rican
Moreno
Mabel Doyle Arrested After Train Jump Reveals Sex
Seventeen year old Mabel Doyle dressed as a man and lived as a man since childhood is held at the East St. Louis police station with Del Brown, eighteen, on theft charges. The sex was exposed when she jumped backward from a moving train. She used the name James and took up smoking and chewing tobacco to conceal her gender. She previously lived with an elderly couple in Waverly, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bretrays
St. Louis, Mo
Mabel Doyle
East St. Louis
del Brown
Waverly, N. Y
Angell Resigns Michigan Presidency After Long Service
In Ann Arbor on February 17 Dr. James B. Angell submitted resignation as University of Michigan president effective next June. The board of regents offered him the chancellor post, noting his tenure since 1871 and his age over 80.
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Ann Arbor, Mich
James B. Angell
University of Michigan
Board of Regents
Créh
Angell
Four Walk Across The Brink Of Niagara Falls
Four Niagara Falls residents achieve a daring crossing from the American shore to Goat Island near the brink of the falls. They risked slipping on the wet rocks and falling to the rocks below while looking down over the edge.
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Niagara Falls
Niagara River
Goat Island
Thie City
Lemp’s Brother Charged With Forgery in St. Louis Case
An information charging forgery was carried by the prosecution today against M. Dwight Fortune father in law of Mrs William J. An Jr who disappeared after a transaction publicized yesterday. The charge stems from Tulley the indorser on a check for 12 000 Fortune profited 12 000 Tulley claims he did not sign the check Fortune is said to have gone to Chicago.
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Bt. Louis
M. Dwight Fortune
Wiliam J. An, Jr
H. C. Tulley
Fortune
Tulley
Chicago
Double murder in speeding taxicab
In Reading on February 17 Stella Rocktasher, 18, was shot dead by her companion George B. Kraut, 20, who then killed himself after directing the chauffeur to a hospital. Unclear if a quarrel or planned suicide preceded the deaths. Driver Lewis Brecker cannot explain the tragedy.
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Reading
Stella Rocktasher
George B. Kraut
Lewis Brecker
Miss Block Weds J Mooney In New York Ceremony
Adele Block once starring in The Devil with Henry Savage's company married J Monney Toledo board of public safety president. Ceremony at St John the Evangelist church in New York. Couple to honeymoon in the South then settle in Toledo.
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New York
Mias Adele Block
Henry Savage
J. Monney
Board of Public Safety of
Toledo
St. John the Evangelist
O'Connell
Mrs Carter weighs ambition and domestic life in interview
New York February 17 Mrs Leane Carter says she prefers acting to domestic drudgery but would mend her husband socks if necessary She argues professional careers do not prevent motherhood and criticizes women who waste time pandering to men while praising independent achievement
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zaza” Carter
New York
Leane Carter
Margaret Islington
Daniel Hman
Approve Lock Plan Ends Debate On Panama Canal Completion
The president endorses the lock plan and praises engineers for their report on Gatun dam. The engineers say Panama’s canal work improves workers' conditions and that completion by January 1945 is feasible. They cite the Gatun dam as central and the overall project as sound.
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Congress
R ‘Ularly
Panama
Gatun
Ion
Eers
Blackmailer Turns Texas Man in Sudden Confession
In Kansas City a man who tried to extort seven thousand dollars from L. M. Jones confessed to being Robert Benjamin Bledsoe from near Dallas. In Nashville the Copper-Shrape murder trial heard disputed testimony as Miss Skeffington recounted meeting Sharpe and quoted a remark about Duncan Cooper shooting Carmack.
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Kansas City, Mo
C. M Garnett
L. M. Jones
Robert Benjamin Bledsoe
Dallas
Texas
Nashville
Tenn
Senator Carmack
Mary Skeffington
Sharpe
Duncan Coper
Carmack
Daisy Lee
Robin Cooper
Mrs Gloeckner Sues Undertaker Over Dog Bite
Mrs. Augustus Gloeckner of 15 South Eighth street Sued John P. Collins undertaker of 617 Walnut street for 10000 dollars claiming her husband Carroll B. Gloeckner was bitten July 14 1908 by three dogs owned by Collins while crossing his yard. The suit alleges prior cheerfulness but post bite melancholy and distress.
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Lues
St. Louis
Augustus Gloeckner
South Eighth Street
Sait
John P. Collins
Walnut Street
B. Gloeckner
Collins
Glockner
Williams Buys Touring Car for Upton Sundance Stage Line
Lee Williams has purchased a large touring car to operate as a stage between Upton and Sundance, Crook County seat, a thirty mile route from the railroad. The machine is the first of its kind used in the region.
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Upton
Wyo
L Lee Williams
Sundance
Crook County
Quiet wedding at the Nagel home in Mira Leonte Tschudy's care
A quiet wedding occurred last Tuesday at the home of Mr and Mrs B R Nagel. Mira Leonte Tschudy sister of Mrs Nagel and Mr Ed Feyh a Union Pacific firefighter united in marriage by Rev Fitzgerald. Becky Cook played the wedding march. Guests included Rev Fitzgerald and Misses Hattie Boice Jecky Cook Elizabeth Nagel and B R Nagel. Upton Hay Church First Methodist near completion.
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Nagel
BE. R. Nagel
Mira Leonte Tschudy
Ed. Feyh
Union Pacific
Fitager
Becky Cook
Fitzgerald
Ei. Feyh
Hattie Boice
Jecky Cook
Robert Nagle
Elizabeth Nagel
B. R. Nagel
Maine mine disaster claims many lives as rescuers search
In a Maine coal mine accident 147 workers were trapped yesterday. Only 37 men were brought out alive as rescuers reached the bottom levels and recovered several bodies amid afterdamp. The wreck and missing workers prompted authorities to consider lifting the ship Maine from Havana and plan memorials at Arlington as an aid bill moves forward.
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Newcastle, Hing
Weal Stanley
Vaal
Representaty
Newy York
Maine
Havana
Arlington
Legislature Haste Marks Fast Page On Bills
The house disposed of forty five measures with little debate while a few contesta arose over Senate File No. 69 on cattle inspections. A committee of the whole passed election integrity measures and opened season antelope bills. Senate backed funding for Lander agricultural school and experiment station amid university concerns and northern budget items.
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House
Senate
Price
Committee of the Whole
Lander
Holliday
McClellan
State University
Wrecked and All Democrats Feast at Fire Tonight
A second explosion wrecked mine No. 18 of the Deering Coal Co seven miles southeast of Benton Wyoming sealing the mine after fire started rescue efforts failed to reach the bottom. In Cheyenne Democrats host a banquet with speeches by Judge Gibson Clark and others, urging attendance and a royal welcome.
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Benton, II
Deering Coal Company
Democrats of
Cheyenne
Industrial Club
Gibson Clark
Charles L. Rigdon
5. S. Pearlstine
John Charles Thompson
John D. Clark
William
Full pardon sought for Cole Younger
James A Reed former Kansas City mayor asks Governor Johnson to grant a full pardon to Cole Younger once of the Jesse James gang. Younger, pardoned conditionally in 1903, has served over 25 years and now promotes an Interurban railroad from Lee's Summit Missouri. Reed cites ongoing freedom limitations due to past public appearances as a traveling show.
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Cole Younger
St. Paul
Minn
Jesse James
Northfield Bank
Johnson
James A. Reed
Kansas City
Lee's Summit
Reed
Younger
Daly faction loses in Daly-West mine control fight
In Park City Utah the Daly faction's bid for control of the Daly-Weast mine failed as J B Bamiger was reelected president and W S McCornick kept the treasurer post. The Daly faction suffered defeat.
Marion man found guilty of second degree murder
W T Carr, 20, was found guilty of murder in the second degree for killing express messenger C A Bailey on a Topeka Santa Fe train between Marion and Newton in 1907. The state alleged Carr attacked Bailey with a hatchet to rob him. Carr was a friend of Bailey.
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Marion
Kan
W. T. Carr
C. A. Bailey
Newton
Carr
Batley
Oxford's Poo Bah Moves Into Barn
Oxford Connecticut February 17 for the next two years the town government will be housed in a barn. J Birdsey Sanford longtime town clerk and register of vital statistics has been elected judge of probate and treasurer. He moved the town offices and three large safes containing century old records to the barn.
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Oxford
Conn
J. Birdsey Sanford
Sanford
The Great Alexander to be Nailed in Box at Atlas Tonight
The Atlas management announces a remarkable stunt by The Great Alexander. He will be nailed in a strong box built from inch boards by a carpenter and escape from tin plate sight of the audience. Many will attend to witness the feat.
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Alexander
Atlas
Contempt of Legislature Faces Charleston Journalist
The Charleston senate adopted a resolution summoning George Lynne, a local newspaper man, to appear before the bar of the senate amid contempt proceedings. The move follows his refusal to disclose the source of information claiming 39,000 was used to defeat the prohibition amendment in the last session.
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Charleston
W. Va
George Lynne
Che’ser
Ate
Senate
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