Roberts Wins Cake Eating Record in York Contest
Joseph L. Roberts claimed a cake eating record of 73 in a contest run by Dr Gilbert at Water Street York Pa. He defeated Paul Gilbert who managed 48 cakes before dropping out as Gilbert’s son fainted at No 4 and two cooks prepared more cakes.
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Monument Planned for Granny Gilbert at Grand Old Lady of Stage
Chicago theater community launches a fund to honor Ann Hartley Gilbert, famed as Granny Gilbert. A Carara marble statue will depict her seated in a chair from the drama Vor wealth for fame my goodness I don t care a Gilbert. The memorial aims to crown a pedestal with the play’s last line. Gilbert died December 2 in Chicago Sherman house apartments, after a career across the stage with husband and son. In Washington, Senator Fairbanks and wife learned their grandchild was born to Mr and Mrs Warren Fairbanks of Chicago, prompting news of grandparent status.
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Sherman House
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Hotel firms escape involuntary bankruptcy ruling
United States circuit court of appeals held that hotel companies cannot be forced into bankruptcy by creditors. The decision limits involuntary bankruptcy to manufacturing trading printing publishing or mercantile concerns. The case involved United States hotel company and the Weddell house in Cleveland, reversing a Cleveland federal judge's trader classification and establishing a new precedent.
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Cincinnati
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Hotel Company
Weddell House
Cleveland
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Court of Appeala
Faithful dog guards master's remains after train death
Beskia the setter owned by William C. Coleman found dead near Falmouth on railroad tracks. The dog gathered flesh and clothing, placed fragments by the trunk, stood guard, and restrained rescuers until officials removed the body. The death site echoed where Coleman’s father was killed four years earlier.
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Scripfs-M’rae
Falmouth
Beskia
William C. Coleman
Coleman
Tighten divorce laws debated at Commercial club
Ministers and chosen delegates met at the Commercial club to draft a bill to make divorce harder. Provisions include longer deferral after a failed suit, three years residence required, and limits on uncorroborated testimony. Committees were formed with Nicholson, Dean, Ritter, Pearson, and Sigound.
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Timothy Nicholson
Dean
E. F. Ritter
M. C. Pearson
Sig
Inn County
Assault with carbolic acid in Chicago attack
An unidentified man, while Miss Mary Heldick was leaving for a night chemistry class, grabbed her by the hair and dashed carbolic acid in her face. Doctors fear potential loss of sight. Heldick, a former Englewood Union Hospital nurse, did not know the attacker and he fled.
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Chicago
Mary Heldick
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Englewood
Englewood Union Hospital
Hotel clerk wins prize in world's fair guess contest
F B Kee nan, clerk of the Cape hotel Greensburg Pa, is notified he won the first prize of 37,000 in a guessing contest for the total attendance at the world's fair. His guess was 19,000,000 and he made the nearest estimate among entrants in Pittsburg.
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F. B. Keenan
Greensburg
Cartoonist Charles Nolan Dies After Illness
Charles Nolan, long time cartoonist for the New York Globe, died at 6 46 am Wednesday in Cave Springs Gu He had suffered a stroke three days earlier but remained conscious and cheerful to the end His body will be taken to Bis olebonne for burial in San Akron Q This item notes Nolan's death and funeral plans with a brief carrier path.
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Wilson Burns Murders Wife and Man Then Kills Self
In Rochester Indiana on December 7, Wilson Burns aged 60 shot dead his wife and Joseph Cripe during supper, wounded Mrs Martha Braman, and then killed himself. Jealous of Cripe, Burns had threatened violence after his wife refused to return. Cripe’s mother and neighbors alerted authorities as Burns blew out his own brains at his sister’s home.
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Six more election workers sentenced in Denver fraud case
Six democratic election judges and workers in precinct No 5 ward 6 were found guilty of contempt in election frauds. Barker William Reid Dixon and Bullivan received months in jail and $500 fines, Bunch and Spencer three and four months respectively. Seven already jailed, four bound over to the federal grand jury, forty more under arrest awaiting trial before the supreme court.
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Five Are Convicted in Land Fraud Case Verdict
In Portland Oregon the jury in Judge Bellinger's court returned a verdict of conspiracy against Emma L. Watson A D Pater Horace G McKinley D W Tarolay and Frank H Wolgamot with Mina Marie Ware having no sufficient evidence to convict. No punishment was fixed in the verdict. The five convicted defendants face conspiracy charges. William Hoke killed in Frankfort Indiana by a bursting emery wheel. An asthma cure tale from Buena Vista Ohio praises Macateo the Austrian discovery via a New York City source No E Fourteenth Street.
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Buena Vista
G. A. Klein
Macateo
New York City
Affidavit in Chadwick Case Promises More Arrests
Mrs Chadwick and her son moved from Halland House to the New Amsterdam hotel where she fainted in the reception room. Secret service monitored the move as detectives spread word of an affidavit from Carnegie linking forged notes of 306000 and 24000 to others, signaling possible charges and further testimony.
Mrs Chadwick Under Surveillance at New Amsterdam Hotel
New York dispatch reports Mrs Cassie Chadwick and her son Emil occupy rooms 102 10 and 16 on the fifth floor of the New Amsterdam hotel with a maid while U S secret service officers guard an adjoining room. Receiver Lyon and F F Oldham stay at the Waldorf Astoria and expect Carnegie to verdict forgery notes worth 50 000 and 500 000 as collateral, with grand jury action anticipated in Elyria Ohio and Washington inquiries ongoing.
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New York
Cassie B
Chadwick
Emil
Frieda Swanson
New Amsterdam
United States Ceret Service Offcera
Lyon
Citizena( Nation) Bank of Oberlin
Chase of Mrs. Chadwick Sparks United States Arrest Scan
Cassis 1 Chadwick arrives from Paria with rumors of incognito residence. Officials report preparations for arrest as affidavits and warrants are sworn at a conference. Telegraph lines connect Toledo to New York Central officials racing to relay the warrant.
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Securities Attached in Chadwick Bankruptcy Case
Acting on the motion of Receiver Lerser a federal bankruptcy court appointee Deputy U S marshal Fanning served papers at the Reynolds home of banker Mr Chadwick attaching securities claimed for Mrs Chadwick. The banker was absent in New York and service was at Reynolds, order restrains disposal of the pledged securities and requires them to be preserved at the bankruptcy hearing Monday.
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Lerser
Federal Bankruptcy Court
C. L. Chadwick
U.-S
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Reynolds
Chadwick
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Meged Securities
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Retain Old Postmasters as Terms Expire
Washington dispatch reports Postmaster-general Wynne says no good man will fear his job as he would be reappointed at term end, regardless of whether appointed four or eight years ago. The statement suggests a continuity policy for postmaster positions.
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Wynne
Explosion on Norwegian Steamer Kills Several
A Marseilles telegram reports an explosion aboard the Norwegian steamer Oledwyll, killing several persons. Details are not yet available from Marseilles.
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Marseilles
Oledwyll
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