How He Became A Stepfather Story of a baby left in a box
A young man Walter Bonner unwittingly receives a box with a newborn baby left by a hurried woman at a train station. The tale follows his attempts to dispose of the infant, the failure of the foundling asylum, and his secret care for the child amid disbelief from family and fiancé. Tensions rise as his sister and fiancée confront the situation and threaten his engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Bonner
Walter
Foundling Asylum
Mrs. Brown
Miss Charles
Statue of a Roman Soldier in Paris Studio Prank
A party of American visitors in Paris toured sculptor Chapman Barnes’s studio led by Theodore Guthrie. Miss Mabel Douglas praised a plaster Roman soldier while a skeptic, Mr. Williams, damaged the statue with a claymore. The reveal: the statue was a Barnes fabrication, a fraud that misled critics in Paris.
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Paris
Chapman Barnes
Theodore Guthrie
Barnes
Mabel Douglas
Guthrie
Mr. Williams
Williams
Miss Douglas
Miss * Douglas
Miss Duglas
Theodore
Tye
Pompeii
Vesuvius
Douglas
Walle
Guthriel
Beemat
Notable Deaths and Legal Battles in Early 1900s News
The piece reports on William H. Bailey, longtime pension bureau chief clerk, dying in Washington and notes connections to President McKinley. It also covers William Pinkerton's will valuing an estate at 3 million dollars, and other items including court rulings on Standard Oil, torpedo boat destroyer contracts, and various drug ads.
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Washington
William H. Bailey
Pension Bureau
McKinley
New York
Wm. R. Pinkerton
Chicago
Grosscup
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Landis
District Court
Secretary of the Navy
Metcalf
Cramp & Son
Philadelphia
Bath Iron Works
Bath
New York Shipbuilding Company
Camden
N. J
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Tattersall
Dillon
Mont
LON Furniture CO
1. T. Paul
Patterson
Lesale Liquors & Cigars
Dillon, Montana
Loring
Aul Brown
Llistere
Eopath
San Francisco
DeWitt
Riley
Weather Bureau
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Hollister
R. L. Riley
St. Louis
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
London
Canada
Board of Trade
Dominion
Riley’s
Dr. King
Richmond
Robert A. Lancaster
Association For the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Jamestown Island
War Department
Carrie Nation
Post Office Department
America
Unnanimou
National Association of Retail Druggists
Roosevelt
Diaz
Foley
City Drug Store
Emma Goldman
Congress
Amsterdam
Russia
Oyster Bay
President Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Boise
Ida
U. S
Wm. E. Borah
Idaho
Kennedy
Zion City
Ill
Wilbur G. Voliva
Christian Catholic Church In
Zion
Alexander Dowie
New Mexico
Berlin
Germany
Adolph Harnack
University of Berlin
Luke
Brights
City
L m
Pittsburg
Edwards
Ada
Ohio
Amos Clark
Lewistown
Here
Clark
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