Love by Phonograph and Marriage Follows
Columbus Ohio April 18 A romantic tale unfolds as Chariton V. Howe of Philadelphia marries Miss Fannie Sargent of Columbus after a year of courtship sparked by a frontispiece, a magazine portrait, and a phonograph correspondence that began with a spoken romance and a blank cylinder. The couple left for Philadelphia to reside.
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Columbus, CO
Philadelphia
Fannie Sargent
Columbus
Charles P. Zaner
Mr. Howe
Miss Sargent
Secret report cites 19000 loss in church investments
A New England Methodist conference committee reports that the preachers' fund will lose 19000 due to bad Western investments by trustees over 25 years. Most trustees are dead except one Boston man. The panel urges amicable settlement with the current board and warns of lawsuits if a fair accord is not reached.
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Boston
Mass
New England Methodist Conference
Ward 1 Democratic Club and Spanish Club Meeting Notices
Ward 1 democratic club will meet Friday night at 1901 Hills teave. The Spanish Club will meet at Miss Sloan's residence 604 N Meridian Saturday at 4 pm. Senor Zubiaur from Buenos Aires is expected to be present. Engine 191 and 173 bumped together at Pennsylvania St and Union tracks Thursday afternoon but no one was hurt. Engine 191 lost its driving rods on one side and the pilot was torn away. Henry Austin Adams will deliver his lecture on Cardinal Newman at Tom Linton Hall Wednesday evening April 30. The local council of Knights of Columbus have the affair in charge as part of their educational course of lectures.
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Hills
Teave
Miss Sloan
Meridian
Senor Zubiaur
Buenos Ayres
Pennsylvania St
Union Tracks
Henry Austin Adams
Cardinal Newman
Tomlinton Hall
the Knights of Columbus
Man Sits by Wife's Coffin in Eternal Honeymoon
Jonathan Reed, 69, makes daily pilgrimage to his wife Mary Guild Reed’s tomb in Evergreens Cemetery Brooklyn. For nine years he speaks to her, tends the tomb, preserves mementos, and asserts their lifelong honeymoon while awaiting death’s embrace. Born in Rensselaer County, he built wealth in New York after marrying wealth, then devoted his days to the grave.
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New York
Jonathan Reed
Evergreens
Brooklyn
Mary
Orient
Mr. Reed
Rensselaer County
Tammany Hall
Mary Guild
Reed
Child swept 400 feet through irrigation pipe in Duarte
In Monrovia California a one year old boy fell into an underground irrigation standpipe and was carried 400 feet through a cement pipe. A bystander pulled him from the exit as he was expelled from the pipe and responders performed rescue breathing to revive him.
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Monrovia
Cal
James McAlean
Duarte
Idol of Ebony and Rosewood Traveled 10000 Miles to Die
R Sidney Welch, a wealthy traveler from Hokian gi N z, spent Thursday in St. Louis seeking someone to cremated an ebony and rosewood idol two feet long he says brings him disaster. The Missouri crematory chief refused at 25 dollars, Welch offered more. He claims to have traveled 10000 miles with the idol and to have suffered repeated calamities. He says the piece came from his grandfather via a Moob chief and will seek destruction in New York.
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Louis
R. Sidney ‘Welch
Hokiangi
N. Z
St. Louis
Welch
Missouri Crematory
London
Thames
San Francisco
New York
Locked in the Vault at Trenton State House
A woman, Mrs. W. A. Phares, entered the adjutant-general's office to use a phone and accidentally locked herself in the vault. She knocked on the door and, after realizing no sound emerged, called the janitor from another part of the building. The janitor arrived and freed her.
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Trenton
N. J
Tramps Gatepost Signs and a Motherly Welcome
Walter Jones, actor and former tramp, reflects in Good Housekeeping on crude gatepost drawings left by hobos. He recalls dog of warlike figure, crossed saws, and a simple table with coffee as signals. The gate posts hint at meals and hoped for human kindness from a kindly, homey hostess who may seek the wanderer’s message for her missing son.
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Walter Jones
Good Housekeeping
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