British bigamy case tops London court session
Samuel Woodward alias James Walker faced charges of bigamy forgery and theft with ten marriages alleged. Evidence from five cases led to committal for trial while other testimonies detailed rapid marriages to women in Huddersfield Southport Bristol and Newcastle amid vanished spouses and missing funds. A separate hearing on an endowment scheme for a hospital institute failed with Justice Joyce ruling a Beit bequest of £25 000 and £5 000 remaining disputes. London University did not participate.
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London Daily Mail
Samuel Charles Joseph Woodward
James Walker
Sykes
Jane Prittie
St. Luke's
Skerton
Lancaster
Fatihy Henderson Davies
Southport
Holy Trinity
Huddersfield
England
Windsor
Ontario
Edinburgh
Hull
Liverpool
Canada
Frances Day
Gloucester
Arthur John Ford
Los Angeles
Cataline Island
California
Lily Teresa Blandford
Bristol
James Johnson
Eliza Dawson
Newcastle
London
Alfred Bell
Justice Joyce
Waterloo Schools Exchange Gifts Across Continents
The Sydney suburb Waterloo School sent an album with Australian views and staff photos plus a Union Jack to Waterloo read school. In return the London school sent two albums of photographs and postcards and the flag of the Commonwealth. Each child contributed a card with donor name and address.
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Sydney
New South Wales
Waterloo Road
Surrey
Waterloo
Waterloo Read School
London
Commonwealth
Fate of Crystal Palace and government funding questions
The piece notes no government funds will be provided to maintain the Crystal Palace. A forthcoming meeting at Mansion House, chaired by the Lord Mayor of London, will review the palace’s finances and future. Moving the structure to London for a profitable site would require a complete rebuild.
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Cetal
Ifune
Lord Mays
London
The
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Carnegie
Lost legacy dispute over £25000 for medical fund
A Chancery Division decision settles a dispute over a £25000 bequest from the late Alfred Bell to the University of London's Institute of Medical Fund. The 1902 scheme aimed to establish an institute and fund at the university.
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Alfred Bell
Univer of London
Institute of Medical Fund
The Deadly House Fly at Buxton Congress
At the Royal Institute of Public Health meeting in Buxton experts argued house-flies spread summer diarrhoea and typhoid. Dr Gordon Hewlett cited evidence of flies transmitting disease while Sir James Crichton Browne noted flies carry up to 100000 bacilli per leg and urged eradication for future generations.
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Royal Institute of Public Health
Buxton
Gordon Hewlett
James Crichton-Browne
British Museum
King Decorates Nine Miners at Investiture to Honor Brave Rescue
Buckingham Palace welcomed nine miners and an A B from Devonport Naval Barracks as King Edward VII awarded the Miners V C and Albert Medals for bravery. Yorkshire miners led rescue at Hamstead colliery on March 4, with John Welsby posthumously honored through his widow.
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Buckingham Palace
Naval
Devonport
Herbert Gladstone
Home Secretary
James Whittingham
Jas. Cranswick
James Hopwood
Alefts
John Henry Thorne
J. Clifford
R. Outram
Tankersley
John Welsby
Six Year Old Hero Rescues Girl From Stream in Kent
John Collins a six year old boy from Marden Kent showed extraordinary coolness and resourcefulness when Isabel Briant seven fell into five feet of water. He broke an ash branch then crossed a narrow eleven inch plank to extend the branch to the drowning girl and pulled her fourteen feet to brick work where he safely landed her as parents arrived, earning praise for bravery.
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John Collins
Marden
Kent
Isabel Briant
A Jubilee in Israel and Jewish Members in Parliament
The article recalls the 1858 royal assent allowing Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild to sit as the City of London MP, ending centuries of Jewish disabilities. It notes the gradual acceptance of Hebrew members in Parliament and comments on current debates about women’s franchise and public roles.
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Lionel Nathan de Rothschild
City of London
House of Commons
Rural spirit endures in national progress echoes
A brief note recalls how the country’s resilience and rural vigor, once seen in 1858, underpin present efforts and rewards from public service, stressing continuity of traditional values.
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Certhe
Wedding Day Tragedy and Royalist Plot Exposé
A former sergeant of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, Alfred Hendly, shot himself in the fiancee's home in Lincoln Street Brighton hours before a planned Catholic ceremony. The tragedy shadowed Miss Alice White and the wedding plans, while a London ad linking to a royalist conspiracy and "Helen of New York" drew attention to a separate, sensational political scheme.
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2Nd Dragoon Guards
Alfred Cecil Hendly
Hounslow
Brighton
Lincoln Strait
Hendry
Alice White
Churchill Warns Licensing Bill Faces Threat at Hyde Park Rally
Hyde Park hosted a massive demonstration in support of the Government licensing bill with observers estimating at least 150,000 participants around twenty platforms. Mr Winston Churchill warned the bill was in jeopardy and urged Parliament to use financial leverage to sustain the legislation despite Lords opposition.
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Hyde Park
Winston Churchill
House of Lords
House of Commons
Death of Sir Thomas Stevenson Home Office poison expert
Sir Thomas Stevenson, 70, eminent Home Office scientific analyst on poisons, died at Sandhurst Lodge Streatham. A Yorkshireman, he served 26 years as official analyst in major murder trials involving poison, including Maybrick case arsenic findings, Neil Cream trial, and other high profile prosecutions. He witnessed for the Crown in multiple landmark cases.
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Sandhurst Lodge
Streatham
High Road
Thomase Stevenson
Home Office
Sir Thomas
Maybrick
Neil Cream
Severino Klosowski
George
South London
Maud Marsh
Arthur Devereux
Kensal Rise case and Croydon mystery linked deaths
Two young children at Kensal Rise and a body found in a trunk sent to a depository. Last year Sir Thomas faced the Croydon mystery when it was proved Barh ard Brinkley murdered Mr and Mrs Pack by poisoning stout.
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Kensal Rise
Sir Thomas
Croydon
Barhard Brinkley
Pack
British King Makers in Morocco Rail Future Ties
Six enterprising Britons push Mulai Hafid toward the Moroccan throne hoping for open markets and peace in Europe. They have penetrated deep into Morocco and joined Hafid’s circle. In exchange for unofficial British aid Hafid offers railway and mine concessions, financial reforms, key posts, and partial customs control to the British syndicate led by Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett.
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Mulai Hafid
Morocco
Europe
Abdul Aziz
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett
Proposal to curb sweating of women workers in home trades
A committee report outlines a plan to create two wages boards with employers and workers to set minimum time and piece rates for home work in shirtmaking underclothes tailoring baby linen and lace finishing. Home workers must register and homes inspected for cleanliness ventilation and crowding. Employers cannot hire unregistered workers or pay below board rates. If successful the law could be extended to other trades.
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Committee On Home Work
Britain Leads in World Shipping Says Lord Morley
On board the Worcester Lord Morley presented Britain as the leader in sea tonnage. He cited global steamship totals, British ownership at 46 percent, and a large share of new steamers built recently. He noted many foreign-flag ships were actually British.
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Worcester
Lord Morley
Britain
United Kingdom
British Mercantile Marine
Suez Canal
Rothschild Marriages Highlight Family Unity and Cousin Ties
The Rothschild founder Mayer Amschel urged five sons to stay united and consult their mother on major matters. Nathan, London founder, entrusted much of his fortune to his wife and required her consent for major undertakings. Across generations, many marriages linked cousins, with notable cases of intra family unions and later marriages outside the faith.
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Rothschild
Mayer Amschel
Red Shield
Frankport
Vienna
London
Paris
Naples
Moses
Nathan
Cohen
Sidonia
Williams and Truly Engaged in Mississippi Campaign Banter
In a Mississippi election context Representative John Sharp Williams figures in coverage of a turbulent race. Prohibition themes and religious voices surface as a Methodist minister questions Brother Truly about whiskey. The exchange highlights campaign tensions and moral stakes.
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John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
Jeff Truly
Brother Truly
Cleveland Leader
Home of Gutta-Percha From Malay Forest Trees
Gutta-percha is obtained from the sap of the isonandra gutta, a tree native to the Malay Peninsula and nearby islands, supplying the material used for insulation and other purposes.
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Malay Peninsula
Islands
Workmen’s compensation act case shows weekly life annuity
The Preston County Court and English Court of Appeal rule a charwoman employed weekly is a regular servant under the act. Damages are weekly seven shillings for life, prompting debate on social consequences and insurance needs for household workers and broader U.S. implications.
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Lngland
Preston County Court
Dewhurst
Court of Appeal
Supreme Court
Illustrated London News
England
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