Fortune Await Boy If He Fulfills Odd Conditions
Chicago July 11 The will of Robert George Dyrenforth former assistant commissioner of patents lays out a 16 year program for his grandson and ward Robert St George Dyrenforth to inherit nearly a quarter million dollars. Education discipline travel religion and warning against women are specified with guardians and executors to enforce. The boy now 12 must meet these milestones or lose the estate.
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Chicago
Robert George Dyrenforth
Robert St. George Dyrenforth
Patents
Dyrenforth
Washington
Harvard
Oxford
Military Academy
West Point
France
Spain
Italy
Greece
Germany
Denmark
Russia
Wm. H. Dyrenforth
Elmhurst
Whfe
Col. Dyrenforth
Robert
Carrie Dyrenforth
Rose Marie Knowlton
William H
The Gat Came Back Via the Mail Sack
A New York Tribune cat rode in a Boston bound mail sack by mistake and was cared for by a thoughtful railroader before being shipped back to Park Row. The tabby resumes its basement policing duties at the newspaper.
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New York
Uncle Sam
New York Tribune
Boston
Tribune
Pouch
Cat
Grand Central
Park Row
New Yor County
Monroe
Nancy A. Herrick
Wyeth
Coffin Home Beat in South Omaha Adds Unknown Man
Mr and Mrs Michael Shea of South Omaha hold a body they plan to dispose of at a bargain. Their son James Ghes had recently gone to Cornell BK to visit friends. A telegram from an undertaker said James was killed in a railroad accident and the parents prepared the body for burial.
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South Omaha
Neb
Michael Shea
James Ghes
Cornell
Cornel
James
Turns to new sport of flying in airship Newport
July Mrs Thomas Hastings, society whip of Newport and New York, is the next woman Clifford B Harmon will take up for a flight through the air over the Hempstead Plains. The noted horsewoman, spurred by Mrs Harmon and Mrs W K Vanderbilt Jr, is anxious to test the sensation of whizzing through the air and expects to try aeroplaning next week.
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Newport
Thomas Hastings
New York
Clifford B. Harmon
Hempstead
Plains
Harmon
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Fight Merely Started Says Vic Murdock
Victor Murdock, Kansas insurgent, said he will return home for an uncontested re election. He warned that the Congress fight will continue with insurgents aiming to strip the Speaker of the power to appoint committees, the last major bulwark. He spoke at the Hotel Astor in New York.
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Vic” Murdock
New York
Victor Murdock
Kansas
Hotel Astor
Man Goes Broke for Spendthrift Wife
Spokane report says Lord Sholto Douglas spent his fortune on his wife Miss Margaret Mooney known as Loretta Addis. He left Spokane to work with a Canadian Pacific Railway surveying crew earning $2 a day. Sholto is brother of the Marquis of Queensbury.
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Spokane
Wash
Lord Sholton Douglas
Canadian Pacific Railway
Lord Sholto
Marquis of Queensbury
Sholto
Margaret Mooney
Loretta Addis
Armor Plate Defects Trigger Navy Conference
Defects found in armor plates for the battleships North Dakota and Utah provoked a lengthy navy department conference. Representatives from New York Shipbuilding and Midvale Steel joined government experts in reviewing the legal aspects of the issue.
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Washington, D. C
North Dakota
Utah
Navy Department
New York Shipbuilding Company
Midvale Steel Company
Roosevelt couple avoid publicity on Santa Barbara honeymoon
Theodore Roosevelt Jr and his bride arrived at Miramar near Santa Barbara ten days ago and have used novel schemes to dodge attention. Their latest stunt was driving a buckboard drawn by a scrawny horse into Santa Barbara instead of using the service automobile.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Theodore Roosevelt Jr
Miramar
Santa Barbara
Blythe Writes Copy Like A Master Of Cryptic Text
A Washington correspondent Samuel G Blythe famed for unreadable typewritten copy. He supposedly places foolscap on a top desk and falls into the machine. His work and methods puzzled the White House era readers and even Wu Ting Fang praised his mysterious script.
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American
Samuel G. Blythe
Washington
Blythe
Buffalo
Buffalo Express
Home Life
Treasury
Insane Asylum
Potomac
William Loeb Jr
White House
Roosevelt
Loeb
Patent Office
Senate Press Gallery
Sam
Saturday Evening Post
Eureka
Wu Ting Fang
Pickpocket Coughs Up Twenty Dollar Bill in Lima
Lima Ohio July 11 detectives failed to locate money on James Burke an alleged pickpocket when he coughed and spat a twenty dollar bill he had secreted in his mouth Burke accused of robbing Max Lukhoff was held to the grand jury
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Lima
James Burke
Burke
Max Lukhoff
Pickpocket Robs Chicago Man of 1500 in Sheboygan
August Leffin of Chicago was robbed of $1,500 in cash by pickpockets in Sheboygan Wisconsin or shortly after boarding a train. He had shown his money in a saloon a short time before the theft.
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Sheboygan
Wis
Leffin
Chicago
Art fakERS exposed by London critics
Paris gossip and alleged exposé claim art dealers critics and artists conspire to fake old masters and promote new mad painters. The Gil Blas quotes widespread frauds from boomed canvases to staged auctions, with critics and amateurs aiding dealers to inflate value and ruin artists.
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Paris
Gil Blas
Girl Driver Runs Down Woman in Nora Incident
Margaret Ryan of Nora Indiana was driving alone Sunday afternoon in Ray Bron son’s auto when she became confused at Illinois and Washington Streets and struck Pearl Kindle at 2428 Oxford Street. The slow vehicle caused no injuries and Miss Ryan was arrested by Corner Policeman Woodward.
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Margaret Ryan
Nora
Ind
Ray Bronson
Illinois
Washington Streets
Oxford Street
Miss Ryan
Woodward
Fortune Hunter chapter ends with Josie confrontation
Nat Duncan faces choice between a fortune and his growing affection for Josie Lockwood while Kellogg pressures him to honor a secret agreement. The store loyalties, old Graham, and betrothal stakes collide as Josie seeks a private talk about Wednesday night.
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Graham
Kellogg
Tracey
Josie
Roland
Roland Barnette
Nat
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