Value of City Shade Trees Wins High Awards
A Washington Herald excerpt notes New York Court of Appeals approving damages of 500 dollars to a property owner for each destroyed shade tree and 1000 dollars for incidental estate damage. It argues city shade trees are civic assets, vital to health, comfort, and real estate values, urging preservation and planting of more trees as a public good.
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Washington Herald
New York Court of Appeals Haa
Washington
Nude maniac fights police in Atlantic City incident
Leonard Southball, a former pugilist, went berserk at North Carolina and Atlantic avenues. He swallowed bottle glass pieces, shed clothing, and attempted to dash toward a horse trough despite below freezing temps. Police subdued him after ten minutes. he is jailed in a straitjacket.
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Atlantic City
Leonard Southball
North Carolina
Atlantic Avenues
Ther Southtal
Many Beg For Communion In Famine Stricken Regions
In 1891 famine woes recur in Orenburg and Turgal territories and towns of Astra Bay Russia. Starving residents crowd to towns begging for fast communion from church authorities. Croog of Orenburg reports below average bread and heat. Authorities issued appeal to government for aid to the needy.
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St. Petersburg
Orenburg
Turgal
Trap Lost For 20 Years In Dexter Area
Oscar Trotter, a farmer and trapper near Nexter Missouri, had four traps lost twenty years ago. In late years, a wooden box with the long missing traps was found. Mink, pogsm, and raccoons were common in the lowlands near Dexter, where markers showed trap locations, but Trotter failed to mark this one. While cleaning a ground parcel recently, he recognized the recovered trap.
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Nexter
Oscar Trotter
Dexter
Trotter
Trap, Cypress Knee, and a St. Louis Hardware Trade
A curious old trap stood four feet high among a cypress knee, growing beneath it and embedding the device. The chain broke when the trap rained. Trotter allegedly presented the curse to William Smith, a salesman who had given the trap away years earlier. Smith then handed it to F. A. Witte of St. Louis, who keeps it in his office.
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William ‘Smith
Hin
Bmnith
F. A. Witte
St. Louis
Fleas On Dog Stir A Town In Venice Beach
A Venice Beach town debates a bizarre crisis as a honeymoon quarrel prompts scientists to test whether a dog sheds fleas or fleas infect the dog. Landlords blame dogs for fleas, police say otherwise, and a terrier undergoes indoor housing followed by baths to count shedding.
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Venice
Cal
French swindler Mme Germot arrested in Paris case
A French court detains Mme Germot after detectives arrest her in Paris on charges of swindling a French colonial official, an army officer, and other wealthy men by posing as aristocrats and promising marriage. Her husband refused to intervene in her affairs.
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Mary
Mar. Germet
Wilmingtom
Dettie
Basee-Dingre
Orleans
Paris
Mme, Germet
Vichy
Bourbonnaly
Francs
Mme, Germot
Garrizon
Bim
Rue de la Palz
M. Hamard
Germot
Merchant Returns to Cult in Denver and Point Loma
Malionaire merchant Neresheimer and his wife plan to sell all holdings in Denver and move to Point Loma California to rejoin Mrs Katherine Tingley’s theosophist colony known as The Purple Mother. He previously led a New York diamond firm and once headed the Theosophical Society of America. The couple’s move follows rumors of leaving the sect and the Point Loma colony remains a frequent newspaper topic.
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Denver
Calo
E. A. Nereshelmer
Nereshelmer
Point Loma
Cal
Katherine Tingley
Neresheimer
New York
Theosophical Society of America
Paint Loma Colony
Polat Cama
Point Loma Colony
George L. Patterson
Newcastle
Mra. Tingley
Yonkers youth awakens from coma after roof fall
Saniel Conley twenty years old of Yonkers surprised doctors and his mother at St Joseph's Hospital by recognizing his mother after a three week coma following a roof fall on October 30. Doctors hoped for recovery after a delicate operation but he briefly improved before lapsed into unconsciousness.
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Yonkers
St. Joseph's Hospital
Saniel Conley
Cabinet of soil samples from all states presented to Hartford
Hartford, Gonn-Salomon Close of Stamford, Civil War veteran, donated a cabinet with soil samples from every state and U S possession. The collection spans global sites and includes soil from St Helena, Napoleon's tomb in Paris, Paul Jones birthplace area, Flodden and Bannockburn battle sites, and Burns’ grave. Also noted is a separate item about Alfred Attwater, a former Pittsford grocer clerk, who was accused of laboring for $148.10 for one day at a hotel.
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Hartford
Gonn-—-Salomon Close
Stamford
Union
United States
Flodden
Bannockburn
Robert Burns
New York
Alfred Attwater
Pittsford
Mass
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