Chance meeting lovers end in marriage in New York
A long suppressed romance ends in marriage as Stacia Walsh heiress and Thomas Wells, heir to a fortune, wed in Hoboken after a secret engagement. He recently bought a $30,000 stock exchange seat. she planned to work in New York as a manicure artist before they wed.
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New York
Stacia
Tom
Belasco Theatre
Thomas H. Wells
New York Stock Exchange
Stacia Walsh
Phillip Walsh
Iron and Steel Man
Youngstown
Mr. Wells
Miss Walsh
Wells
Motchkins School
Connecticut
Yale
Pittsburg
Hoboken
Mr. Well
Harperly Hall
Wella
H. B. Hollis
Stock Exchange
Mrs. Wells
Jackson Named Postal Telegraph Agent at This Place
W H Jackson has been appointed agent for the Postal Telegraph Company at this place and will take charge soon. He has four years as telegraph operator with Louisville and Nashville Railroad and previously served at Mt Pleasant and Gle ndale. Son of Postmaster Jackson, he is praised as an affable energetic worker and expected to do well in the new role.
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W. H. Jackson
Postal Telegraph Company
Mr. Jackson
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
Mt. Pleasant
Glendale
Oklahoma Social Setbacks Face Inaugural Ball plan
Oklahoma City society women face a bitter disappointment as the inaugural ball, planned as the state's closest social event with formal evening dress for guests, is thwarted by Governor-elect Tee Crece who refuses to wear a claw-hammer and to read the grand march, halting the ceremonial arrangements.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma
Adrminston
Crece
Husband claims wife’s spirit harassed him in divorce case
Kansas City dispatch reports Marvin Minnear, a bookkeeper, files for divorce claiming his wife’s spirit nags him. He alleges the spirit controls her body and shadow, reports his thoughts, and forces him to confess to alleged infidelity. The petition seeks separation despite the strange claim.
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Kansas City
Aled
Marvin Minnear
Annie Minnear
Minnear
Repentant Hobble Skirt Inventor Seeks Divorce in Europe
Harriet Lorraine, vaudeville performer and originator of the hobble skirt, arrives from Paris in a tight black velvet model and laments its fashion craze. She plans two New York appearances, then a divorce from her New York banker husband to marry a European baron and live in Italy.
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New York
Europe
America
Paris
Baltic
Harriet Lorraine
Ming Lorraine
London
St.Petersburg
Congress Enters Holiday Recess After Brief Sessions
Washington December 21 Congress adjourned for a half day recess after brief sessions in both chambers They plan to reconvene January 6 The Senate focuses on a report from the privileges and elections committee regarding bribery charges in Senator Lorimer Illinois The House debated a Taft proposal to annul a Mexico boundary change affecting New Mexico and Texas The House devoted time to codifying judiciary laws.
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Washington
Senate
House
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Wm. Lorimer
Ilinois
Taft
Congress
State of Mexico
New Mexico
Texas
Fitzhugh Needs Four Votes to Win in Tennessee
Memphis dispatch says G. T. Fitzhugh is favored to win a U.S. Senate seat with four Shelby county votes added to pledges. The Legislature election could pit Patterson and Gen. Luke Wright against him, with the Shelby delegation expected to be uninstructed.
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Memphis
Tenn
Friends
G. T. Fitzhugh
Guv. Hooper
Shelby County
Fitzhugh
United States Senate
Frazier
Patterson
Luke Wright
Philippines
Christmas Tree for Poorhouse Inmates
Mrs J H Erwin will give the Christmas tree for the inmates of the poorhouse on Saturday afternoon at three o clock. Anyone wishing to send gifts to the inmates are invited to do so on Friday and Saturday.
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J. H. Erwin
Bogota Mayor Denies Divorce Papers In Suit
Bogota New Jersey December reports Mayor Smith denies any divorce papers or co respondent notices in a $50 000 suit filed by Ray Gaul of Patterson over alleged alienation of Gaul’s wife. He vows to prove his innocence as his lawyer brands the allegations false.
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Bogota
N. J
Mayor Smith
Ray Gaul
Patterson
Gaul
Smith
John W. McKay
Cutaingl
Balt
Plead Guilty to Selling Votes in Adams County
Fifty Republicans and Democrats in Adams County pleaded guilty to indictments charging vote selling at the November election. They were disfranchised for five to seven years and fined 25 each plus costs. The pleas accompanied the return of seventy nine indictments, bringing total to 241 indicted on the charge. Predictions said nearly a thousand more may be indicted as the grand jury continues.
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Manchester
Adams County
Dr Birkett Likely To Accept Cumberland Call
Rev F Birkett has not yet replied to the First Cumberland Presbyterian church call but is expected to accept. Christmas sermon at the Cumberland church will be delivered Sunday by Dr James D B Clark editor of the Presbyterian Advance.
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F. EB. Birkett
First Cumberland Presbyterian Church
The
Cumberland Church
James DB. Clark
Presbyterian Advance
Israelites Marry in Jubilee Year Against Sect Doctrine
Benton Harbor Mich December 21 Forty members of the Israelites sect who shun love cast their doctrines aside and, despite leaders protests, thirteen marriages occurred in the evening with seven in the afternoon. William Hanna Ford sparked a wave of engagements leading to a mass wedding performed by Justice Weldon. The couples, in white robes and wedding garb, left no journeys afterward as they returned to the colony.
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Benton Harbor
Mich
William Hanna Ford
Ford
Justice Weldon
Comb Explodes. Snyder Is Dead
Pettburg dispatch reports Stockdale Bender aged 82 of Wilson Scully died hours after a metal explosion. The blast sent fragments of material that set his clothes ablaze and caused fatal burns.
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Comb
Snyder
Pettsburg
Stockdale Bender
Wilson Scully
Remains of William P. Watson Sent to Nashville for Burial
The remains of William P. Watson who died in Seattle last Tuesday will be sent to Nashville for interment, arriving Sunday. He had health problems for months, with heart trouble listed as the cause. He leaves a wife and three children, including a daughter Rebecca who has been with them in Columbia. Watson was a Yale graduate, civil engineer, and longtime manager of the Sycamore Powder Mills. He lived in Seattle for several years and was 60 years old.
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The
Herald
Seattle
Wash
Wiliam P. Watson
Nashville
Mr. Watson
Rebecca
Columbia
W. J. Whitthorne
Charlotte
Elizabeth Watson
Samuel
Charlotte Watson
Sycamore Powder Mills
Ashland City
William P. Watson
William Whitthorne
Yale University
Massachusettes
Bay State
Col Edgerton to Lead South in Charity Game
Col J B Edgerton, famed from Vanderbilt, will start in the big South versus Harvard all stars charity game next week. The South lineup includes Schultz center guard Buard Faulkenberry Sewanee Powell D McGugin Haslock Cheape Stone Neel Stewart Covington Brown Holgerton Neely Williams Duglass with multiple Vanderbilt and Sewanee players listed among the starters.
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Col
J. B. Edgerton
Vanderbilt
Stars of
South
Harvard All Stars
Schultz
Buard
Faulkenberry
Sewanee Powell
D. McGugin
Suard
Michigan
Haslock
Vanderbilt Cheape
Sewanee Stone
Stackle
Vanderbilt Neel
Vanderbilt Stewart
Vanderbilt Covington
Vanderbilt Brown
Sewanee Holgerton
Vanderbilt Neely
Vanderbilt Williams
Vanderbilt Duglass
Woolard Slaughters Over Seven Hundred Hogs for Markets
Noolard of near Fly's Store in the county has slaughtered over seven hundred fifty hogs this season for the markets. He is the man who placed the Woolard Hams on the market. He completed the large slaughter recently and due to warm weather will not kill any more for several days.
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BE. N.oolard
Fly's
Waynesboro Circuit Court Likely to Start This Week
Judge Turner is expected to establish a circuit court at Waynesboro this week, signaling a new judicial chapter for the area. The move aims to streamline local legal proceedings and improve access to court services.
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Turner
Waynesboro
Dan Cupid and Old Santa Hand in Hand at Xmas
A county court note shows rising marriage license activity before Christmas with a record likely this year. Four licenses issued in one day equals prior December totals as couples rush to wed. the week before Christmas has seen high counts, while Christmas day remains light due to the holiday.
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Little Dan
Santa Claus
Thomas
Strange disease may be run down
New York, Dec. 22. The mysterious illness that killed Charles Carpenter of White Plains remains unsolved. An autopsy at St Luke's Hospital revealed malignant growths in the spleen and liver. doctors planned microscopical tests to identify the tumor type, noting no prior record of similar cases.
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New York
Charles
Carpenter
White Plains
St. Luke's Hospital
Austin Hollis
O. D. Kingsley
Henry H. Janeway
SALE OF VALUABLE LAND TRACTS IN KENTON AND OBLON
JW Nichols attorney at law announces the sale of two land tracts in Tennessee. One 232 acre parcel near Kenton with high cultivation potential and timber, priced at 6000 dollars. A second timbered tract of about a thousand acres between Troy and Oblon offered at 10600 dollars. Located in the Ulian drainage district with growing value as cultivation expands.
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Kenton
Tenn
Troy
Oblon
Uhlan
Nichols
Alioroey
Trenton
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