Duchess of Manchester Accused of Being Deceived
Special Despatch reports the Duchess wore imitation pearl necklaces, bought in New York for 695 dollars with a dealer seeking 4695 dollars in a suit. Frederic's Pearland Diamond Company asserts the pieces were imitations and warns no intent to mislead, noting the Duke paid for the gems and that they were clearly described.
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New York
Duke of Manchester
Commercial Tribune
Duchess of Manchester
England
Bredway
Duke
Frederic
Pearland iDamond Company
Elf
Habib Ullah Khan Declares Afghan Policy After Regency
Habib Ullah Khan informs Lord Curzon that Afghan policy will follow his father’s path and seeks continued Anglo Afghan friendship. A despatch notes Habibullah’s brothers fled Kabul with their faction at their father’s death and now Afghan forces guard the capital while he considers aid from the Emperor Nichols.
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Simla
Habib Ullah Khan
Ameer
Afghanistan
Lord Curzon
India
Bokhara
St. Petersburg
London Daily Telegraph
Cabul
Presbyterians Prepare Anti Canteen Campaign in Synod Meetings
Pittsburg Oct 11 The Permanent Committee on Temperance of the Presbyterian General Assembly plans to oppose the canteen repeal. William Lilley challenges Sternberg's army view linking post exchanges to alcohol declines. Anticanteen literature is being readied for 32 synods and 2,000 churches to petition Congress.
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Pittsburg
Presbyterian General Assembly
Sternberg
William C. Lilley
Congress
Spectacle purchases poised to aid Maryland voters
Despatch from Baltimore reports the 1920 ballot law will require glasses in polling booths. About 250000 pairs of glasses will be bought by Republican and Democratic state committees, with 100 gross ordered by Republicans. Glasses vary in strength and are tested by oculists to aid illiterate voters in reading long candidate lists.
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Commercial Tribune
Baltimore
Republican
Democratic State Committees
Republican Party
Findlay High Students Strike Over Class Colors
In Findlay Ohio on October 1 thirty four junior pupils refused to attend classes and marched from Findlay High School in protest. The juniors refused to walk beneath the senior colors above the entrance. They face indefinite suspension and expulsions for the leaders.
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Findlay High School
Commercial Tribune
Findlay
Students press for Carnegie as lord rector at St Andrew's
A mass meeting of St Andrew's University students in London urged Andrew Carnegie to become lord rector, succeeding Prof. James Stuart whose term ends in November.
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London
St. Andrew's University
Andrew Carnegie
James Stuart
Prophet’s omen hastens physician to death in Louisville
A Louisville doctor, Dr. Alfred C. Lemberger, received a prophecy that within nine days his mare, cost, hunting dog would die and he would die. The mare and colt died, the dog vanished, and on the ninth day he collapsed during a card game. The coroner ruled heart disease, but worry over the prophecy is believed to have hastened his death.
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Commercial Tribune
Louisville
Alfred C. Lemberger
Lemberger
Skeleton in woods identified as missing man Klein hart
In Bucyrus Ohio a farmer Keller found the skeletal remains of Klein hart hanging from a low limb after bumping into them in a wooded area. Hart disappeared last June from the Burger farm, and relatives remain unknown. The case suggests suicide by halter rope and leaves investigators perplexed about his origin.
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Commercial Tribune
Bucyrus
Keller
Kleinhart
Burger
Congregational Home Missionary Society Recommends New National Committee
Hartford, Oct 11 The committee report on the society relation to auxiliaries proposes a National Committee for three years with one delegate per 10,000 church members plus one per state association. It would elect the Executive Committee, estimate income, and allocate funds by state. State societies may become auxiliaries handling all state home missions.
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Hartford
Conn
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Home Missionary
National Society
Sultan Honors Gen Porter and Mrs Porter in Constantinople
Sultan received General Horace Porter, United States Ambassador to France, and Mrs. Porter in private audience in Constantinople. The Sultan presented Porter with a valuable souvenir and awarded Mrs Porter the Grand Cordon of Cherakat. They later tea in Yildiz Park.
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Constantinople
Horace Porter
United States
France
Miller Wins New Trial In Franklin Syndicate Case
The Appellate Division grants a new trial to William F Miller, manager of the defunct Franklin Syndicate of Brooklyn, who induced investment with a stated 520 percent profit promise. Miller was convicted April 30, 1900, and sentenced to ten years at Sing Sing by County Judge Hurd.
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New York
Supreme Court
William F Miller
Franklin Syndicate
Brooklyn
Miller
Sing Sing
Hurd
Admiral Schley Receives Chadwick Testimony at Court
Captain Chadwick says Admiral Sampson sent signals about May 1898 but did not give them to Schley due to timing and risk of exposure. He recounts Sampson’s shift in view on Cervera’s fleet, and Schley’s loyalty to Sampson amid questions on signal codes with Cuban insurgents near Cienfuegos.
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Washington
F. E. Chadwick
Sampson
New York
Spain
Captain Chadwick
North Atlantic
Chadwick
Admiral Sampson
Commodore Schrey
Cienfuegos
McCalla
Marblehead
Schley
Commodore Schley
Cervera
Key West
Havana
the Ark
Rothe
Airai Sampson
E. L. Bennett
Theodore G. Dewey
Dewey
Massachusetts
Adelbert Althouse
Francis Boughter
French E. Chadwick
Mr. Hanna
Captain McCalla
Price
Santiago
Mr. Rayner
Caprin
Powers Jury Panel Grows as Trial of Caleb Powers Starts
Ten jurors accepted for the Commonwealth versus Caleb Powers case in Georgetown Kentucky with peremptory challenges ahead and a special venire of 100 Bourbon County residents to join by tomorrow morning. Judge Cantrill schedules continuing juror examinations and plans round-the-clock court sessions as evidence presentation may begin Monday.
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the Commonwealth
Caleb Powers
Cantrill
Bourbon County
Scott County
T. E. Gayle
Joseph Gardiner
Art Perry
Eugene Marshal
B. S. Calver
J. D. Lancaster
Andrew Gribble
J. D. Vallandingham
Tom Jones
George Mulberry
John C. Breckinridge
Commonwealth
Powers
Frankfort
Judge Sims
W. C. Owens
Andy Gribble
Arthur Goebel
Must Pay Miss Stone's Ransom Without Delay
Urgent second appeal from Boston clergymen urges Americans to fund the $110000 ransom for Ellen M. Stone held by Balkan brigands. Nearly half the sum remains. public donations directed to Kidder Peabody in Boston or Paring Magoun in New York. Funds refundable if not needed, per organizers.
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Miss Stone
Boston
America
Ellen M. Stone
Balkan Mountains
Washington
Kidder, Peabody & G Co
Devonshire Street
Paring
Magoun & Co
Wall Street
New York
United States
Ransom Paid Sought After Stone Kidnapping
Ottoman forces suspend pursuit of brigands who abducted Miss Stone as Washington requests, fearing her death if pressed. Arrangements are made to pay the demanded ransom.
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Constantinople
Washington
Miss Stone
Death sentence confirmed for Commandant Lotter Boer rebel
Middleburg Cape Colony Oct 11 Lord Kitchener confirmed a death sentence on Commandant Lotter the Cape rebel whose largely rebel force was captured by Major Scobel south of Petersburg early last month Five of Lotter s comrades were sentenced to life imprisonment a youth received twenty years with corporal punishment to be followed by terms finishing their sentences
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Cape Colony
Lotter
Cape
Scobel
Petersburg
Kitchener
Ters
Labor Uprising at Democratic Headquarters In Columbus
Columbus paper reports a brief labor uprising at the Democratic State headquarters led by Colonel Kilbourne. Seven women stenographers threatened to quit until Secretary Gilliam offered 25 cents an hour after supper, with a silent pact to keep the incident secret.
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Gilliam
Olonel
Kilbourne
State House
Pauline
Dre Gilliam
Tanes
Kill
Germany repudiates Venezuela claim over Porto Cabello clash
Berlin reports Germany rejects Venezuela’s claim that its territory was breached in the October 6 affray at Porto Cabello between sailors from the German cruiser Viheta and the town’s populace. Germany reserves the right to reply further as needed.
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Berlin
Germany
Venezuela
Porto Cabello
Viheta
Re Pa Oneibad O
Ca- Rérsiany Las
Foulke May Be First Vacancy on Civil Service Commission
Washington dispatch reports William D. Foulke of Richmond Indiana as a Civil Service Reform League member who visited the White House and discussed civil service matters with President Roosevelt and Civil Service Commission President Proctor. The White House hinted at offering Foulke the first vacancy on the Civil Service Commission as Rodenburg may retire to run for Congress.
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Washington
Commercial Tribune
William Dudley Foulke
Richmond
Ind
United States Civil Service Reform League
White House
Rodenburg
Congress
Foulke
McKinley Arch Memorial Group Forms in Washington
The William McKinley National Arch Association organizes a national subscription drive to raise 2 million dollars for a memorial arch at the Washington approach to a bridge linking Washington and Arlington. Henry B. F. McFarland presides as president. Gage named treasurer. Honorary and vice presidential roles include leading national figures from government, military, education, and religion.
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Washington
William McKinley National Arch Association
Arlington
Henry B. F. McFarland
District of Columbia
Gage
Justice Fuller
Dewey
Miles
Helen Miller Gould
Charles W. Fairbanks
the Daughters of the American’ Revolution
Walter S. Logan
The
Sons of the American Revolution
John Lee Carroll
Sons of the Revolution
Eli Torrence
Grand Army of the Republic
John B. Gordon
United Confederate Association
Cardinal Gibbons
Potter
New York
Edward C. Andrews
Francis E. Clark
D.D
Boston
United Societies of Christian Endeavor
Eliot
Harvard University
Hadly
Yale University
Patton
Princeton University
Harper
University of Chicago
Jordan
Stanford University
Santos Dumont Fails Deutsch Prize Run After Rudder Breaks
Brazilian aeronaut Santos Dumont attempted the Deutsch prize flight but his craft suffered a rudder accident after about fifty yards, forcing an immediate return to the start.
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Paris
Santos Dumont
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