Judge Blames Parents In Juvenile Fire Case
Six Palisades Park youths aged 13 to 15 were ordered to clean streets on Saturdays as a form of probation after fire setting at a Morsemere building. Judge Seufert held ringleader Joseph McCullough for reform and blamed parents for lack of supervision. The boys face strict supervision, with weekly reports to Recorder Viewly and school officials, and bans on discussing the case with classmates.
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Hackensack
N. J
Palisades Park
Seufert
Morsemere
Joseph McCullough
Jamesburg
McCullough
Palteades Park
Recorder Viewly
Hole in Man's Heart Plugged Life Restored
Kirksville Missouri Earl H Fisk of Helena Montana survived a self inflicted gunshot to the chest after Dr George A Still opened the chest and plugged the heart wound with a twisted tissue plug and drained clots. Fisk recovered after several days in hospital and the bullet was later removed.
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Kirksville
Earl H. Fisk
Helena
Mont
George A. Still
Fisk
Still
Flo
County Judge Seufert Seeks School Discipline Penalties
The County Judge plans careful use of penalties for school law violations to address boy behavioral issues without prison terms. He shows a strong interest in guiding boys and young men and aims to punish wrongdoing while avoiding confinement where possible.
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Sible
Seufert
Illness not linked to wound as Fisk recovers at home
Fisk leaves Kirksville with his mother for Helena. They visit Minneapolis where Fisk contracts the grip but is said to have recovered. No motive for his attempt to die is given. His father killed himself last September and his grandfather also took his own life.
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Kirksville
Helena
Minneapolis
Fisk
Oil pennies alimony case shocks Sedalia reader
Mrs. George Arbuckle receives her first monthly alimony in a can filled with pennies worth 3500 cents and oil. She pays 45 cents express, washes the coins for a week, and learns that pennies are not legal tender above 25 cents. She plans to refuse future remittances if repeated.
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Sedalia
George Arbuckle
St Louis Women Study Law Draws Attention
Fifty members of the Wednesday club, a top St. Louis women’s group, applied to Secretary of State Roach for Missouri corporation laws as part of a trend toward studying corporate law.
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St. Louis
Wednesday Club
Roach
Missouri
Watch Found After Eighteen Years in Mill Race
In Penn Yan New York Henry W Townsend county supervisor of the poor lost a watch while cleaning a mill race and unloading straw. The race was later cleared and the watch recovered in good condition. Townsend said the watch still ran, likely kept wound by the swift water.
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Penn Yan
N. Y
Henry W. Townsend
Townsend
Dawn's early light yields ten piglets for Ches hire hog
In Connellsville Pennsylvania farmer W E Meiér celebrated when his prize Ches hire hog gave birth at dawn to ten piglets three blue four red and three white indicating a remarkable litter in the farmyard news text notes the newborns and the proud parent with local pride.
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Farmer
Connellsville
W. E. Meiér
Largest US man Sam Harris of Temmersville weighs 535 pounds
The item notes Sam Harris, 42, claimed as the nation’s largest man, detail his extraordinary measurements from head to toe including height, waist, limbs and shoe size. It reports his dieting attempts reducing meals to two, then one per day with a seven pound gain in three months and a return to hoarding food.
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Stamford
Texas
United States
Sam Harris
Temmersville
Preserve Tie Good Old Rattan in Schools Protest
Boston teachers and citizens urged preserving corporal punishment in schools arguing against a bill to end it. Principal Edgar Copeland and Lynn leaders defended the rattan, citing need to control obstinance and pranks, while advocate William Mignault pressed protection for children from sudden teacher anger. Senator Chapman and Rep Wall supported the measure.
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Boston
Mass
Committee On Education
Molly
John SJ. Witzgerald
Ward 8
Fitzgerald
Lynn
Edgar Copeland
James W. Applebee
William T. Mignault
Dorchester
Senator Chapman
Representative Wall
Electric Hobo: California’s New Railway Stove User
In Marysville California a new traveler known as the electric hobo uses a patent stove powered by a third rail to cook his meals. He unfolds a folding iron plate with copper wires, grills jackrabbits vegetables coffee and flapjacks. Rancher Co B Harter witnessed him heating water and shaving with items from his pockets.
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Marysville
Cal
Wanderera
Northern Electric Company
Co. B. Harter
Sutter County
Model logging camp boosts efficiency at Cherry Valley
Clarence Hebnail and other workers emerge from a modern bunkhouse at Cherry Valley near Everett, where the Cherry Valley Logging Company redesigned the camp with iron beds baths bathrooms a library and running water. Manager R A McDonald says the upgrades attract skilled workers and raise productivity. Old timers may scoff but the business case is clear.
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Seattle
Clarence Hebnail
Cherry Valley
Cherry Valley Logging Company
Everett
R. A. McDonald
Great North Woods
His Farm Is Tramps Heaven at Reading Farm
Henry Heft of near Adamstown sheltered 595 tramps in the past year at his Reading area farm. Hoboes slept well and ate well while performing farm chores in return. Monthly counts show a steady stream of guests from January through December.
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Reading
Henry Heft
Adamstown
Heft
Bluff and fainting blow by tramp at Edwood home
Mrs. George Wilton, of Edwood Indiana, was bluffed by a tramp who forced entry to her home but fled when she summoned her husband who was away. She fainted after the altercation and is under medical care.
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Edwood
Ind
George Wilton
Elm planted by King Edward VI cut down in Independence Square
The large elm in Independence Square Philadelphia reportedly planted by Prince of Wales Edward VI during his 1861 visit has been cut down after long decay.
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Philadelphia
Independence Square
Edward VI
England
Prince of Wales
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