Mystery surrounds death of Mrs Culbertson in Vincennes
March 26 Vincennes Indiana police shift from murder to self inflicted death in the case of Jessie Overton Culbertson wife of a three month marriage. Coroner and chief pursue remaining leads to trace her Texas based relatives and the Nashville Overton families while a mysterious black clad figure may hold past secrets.
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Vincennes
Ind
Jessie Lee Overton Culbertson
Nashville
Tenn
Overton
Beckes
Chief Evans
Culbertson
William Freinekamp
Nine Year Old Girl Sings Sensational Song in New York
A nine year old girl named Marion writes a song titled Bong I Want to Be a Man Like Washington that has stirred New York public schools and nearby suburbs. Born in New York, her family moved to Jacksonville, Florida, when she was about two, returning to New York in 1906. She studied piano there with Prof. William Meyer and began composing around age nine after returning to New York.
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New York
Washington
Jacksonville
Fla
Marion
William Meyer
Woman Denies Involvement In Vincennes Case
Mrs Etta Longwell 708 West Madison Chicago declares she can prove an alibi in the death of Mrs Russell Culbertson of Vincennes Ind. She says she was once engaged to Culbertson, broke it off New Year’s day, has not seen him since, and has never seen his wife. She knows Virgil Culbertson and claims no motive to harm.
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Woman In Black
Mrs. Culbertson
Culbertson
Chicago
New Orleans
Mr. Culbertson
Mrs. Brazleton
Etta Longwell
West Madison Street
Russell Culbertson
Vincennes
Ind
Epidemic Closes School In Wabash
In Wabash Indiana on March 27 Dr N H Thompson city health officer closed the South Side school housing nearly 500 pupils and ordered South Side churches not to hold services Sunday due to scarlet fever confined almost entirely to that section.
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Wabash
Ind
N. H. Thompson
South Side
Wireless phone station coming to Fort Wayne soon
Fort Wayne will within six months host a wireless telephone station like those in great lakes cities. H A Lewis of Great Lakes Radio Telephone Co returns from Chicago after arranging on top of the Anthony hotel building a 129 foot tower for system elevation. The venture, with boats and cities across the lakes, aims to cut long distance rates and establish a local relay and distribution point for the south and between Chicago and Toledo.
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Fort Wayne
Great Lakes
H. A. Lewis
Great Lakes Radio Telephone Company
Chicago
H. J. Keenan
Anthony
DeForest
Marconi
Radio Company
Rochester
N. Y
Duluth
Indiana
Logansport
Muncie
Indianapolis
Toledo
Lewis
Wireless telephone service explained by Mr Lewis
The text describes that storms will not interfere with service and may aid it through rapid etherial vibrations. Mr. Lewis illustrates usage by city stations where patrons call the central for the wireless and provide the address name and desired party’s number. Tunings prevent delays if others are talking between cities and voices are heard as clearly as spoken.
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Mr. Lewis
Millikin estate leaves Decatur college big endowment
The will of James Milliken, banker and philanthropist, who died in Orlando on March 25, leaves nearly all his $1.5 million estate to five trustees for education and charity in Decatur. It assigns $400,000 to Decatur College of James Millikin University if the Presbyterian church matches $400,000 within a year. otherwise the sum becomes residuary estate.
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Decatur, AL
James Milliken
Orlando
Fla
Decatur
Decatur College
James Millikin University
Providence Steamer Towed After Paddle Wheel Breaks
Newport March 27 The Providence of Fall River line was towed to Newport after its port paddle wheel broke in the night near Point Judith leaving about six hundred school children among its one thousand passengers unaware of the accident. The wireless call summoned the Commonwealth to standby until tug Teaser arrived to tow the Providence in. All passengers were transferred to a special train bound for New York.
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Newport
R. I
Providence
Fall River
Point Judith
Washington
New England
Commonwealth
Teaser
A.apecial
New York
Boy's Plack Saves Many Who Were In Peril
New York March 27 An elevator boy William Vanderhorf directed residents of the Robert apartments West One Hundred and Seventh street to safety as smoke-filled the building He ran the elevator to evacuate all six floors and save twenty four families In Huntington Ernest Smith five years old nearly drowned but was saved by nearby children who pulled him from a rain barrel during the incident.
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New York
Robert
West One Hundred and Seventh Street
William Vanderhorf
Ernest Smith
Huntington
Father shoots daughter in crowded street near Upper East Side
New York March 24 a public school teacher Miss Anns A Mangano of East 102nd Street was shot and killed by her father Mangano a court interpreter who then attempted suicide but was stopped by Adolph Schwartz. Two policemen captured him. A bank book with names Anna and Phillip Mangano identified the killer.
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New York
Upper East Side
Anns A. Mangano
East 102Nd Street
Mangano
Adolph Schwartz
Schwartz
Anna Mangano
Phillip Mangano
Frank Lacatira
Lacatira
Pealice
Lexington Avenue
Black Hand Murder in Brooklyn Shocks City
New York reports another Black Hand crime as Joseph Genaro a Brooklyn cigar maker is shot by seven Italians. Police arrest several suspects including Antonio Cincotta a saloonkeeper under suspicion. Mrs Genaro plead for mercy as the attack occurred. Also note Lydia McNown died at Langro.
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New York
Brooklyn
Joseph Genaro
Cincotta
Black Hand” Society
Love and scandal shake Trenton social pages
In Trenton, Miss Elsie Dunn Corneil a city schoolteacher and Charles Forst Swell, an artist and clubman, sent society into a stir with engagement news and a tale of a hospital cure. Critics claim a romance sparked by Cupid allegedly opened a sensational path through the state hospital for the insane last summer. Relatives reportedly oppose the match, adding to the uproar over the unforeseen union.
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Trenton
N. J
Cupid
Elsie
Dunn Corneil
Charles Forst Swell
New Jersey State Hospital
Milas Corner
Mr. Swell
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THE
Jessie
Overton Culbertson
Suic
H. W. Held
Dr. Held
Jessie Overton
Texas
Marion Kahn
Black Hand
Lydia McNown
Langro
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