Women in Automobile Band Robbery Suspects in Chicago
Chicago police seek two stylishly dressed women described as expert thieves called the cleverest burglars to visit the city in years. They targeted Mas K. EB. Wilson a furrier, stealing $1,007 worth of avifeles after a late afternoon visit and asking to set them aside until morning. Police suspect male direction, with daytime scouting followed by burglaries at night.
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Chicago
Mas K. EB. Wilson
Avifeles
Petition Signers Push Conventions Over Philippine Withdrawal
Ex Attorney General William H. H. Miller signs a national petition urging both parties to include a platform plank favoring U S withdrawal from the Philippines. The drive aligns with Gen Harrison’s views stated before death. Intermixed items note Spring Valley cemetery interment plans and a Cincinnati Latonia race track receivership with stockholder dispute. William Lee banker’s death reported in Uruguay and burial in Chicago.
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Wm. H. H. Miller
United States
Philippines
Miller
Harrison
Various Local Misfortunes and Crimes in Briefs
A string of short notices reports thousands displaced by the Sand Creek flood near Newton Kansas, several marriages including Ethel Barber and Ernest Edman, a near-lynching escape in Findlay Ohio, and a Memphis forgery arrest. Also notes tornado injuries in Tekamah Nebraska, a Houston streetcar strike effect, and various murders, suicides, and legal actions across several states with names and places listed.
Bride Refuses to Marry at Connecticut Church Door
Waterbury June 3 A 17 year old bride to be Franette refused to marry Teunis Lavalle of Springfield arriving at the church door in bridal attire. She told her bridesmaids she loved him but could not become his wife. Lavalle, deeply grieved, left with his best man and usher after bidding her goodbye.
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Waterbury
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Conestance Franette
Teunis Lavalle
Springfield
Lars Ique
Lavalie
Lhall
Nations rank warship construction amid world powers
A parliamentary return lists the seven strongest navies and their ships. Russia is credited with 11 submarines building plus 175 ton vessels, though some may not have commenced. The United States leads in battleship construction with 14 projects, Britain with 12, and France follows with armored cruisers building. In other news, Rev Newell Dwight Hillis says future generations may deem wealth vulgar.
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Russia
Fontante
United States
Great Britain
Great
Burglars' Revenge Strikes New Jersey Home
In Paterbon New Jersey on June 3 burglars entered the home of Angust Wunscler while the family was away. They sprayed the house with canned tomatoes and food, damaged furniture, cut dresses and coats to pieces, threw garments into the kitchen range, and took about 3 cents in money along with a few dresses and a hat. The act is blamed on theft gone wrong as revenge for the break-in.
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Paterbon
N. J
Tornado Wrecks Barns in Kansas Town
A tornado swept through Coldwater Kansas on June 3 wrecking many barns and destroying farm property. Writchard was struck on the head by a timber and seriously injured. The piece also notes the American humorists association meeting next year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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A. Tomany
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Liberty Bell On Tour Through Major U S Cities
The Liberty Bell travels from Philadelphia to St Louis as part of a nationwide tour. It will spend minutes in each principal city before returning to Philadelphia, where it is kept in the old state house. The bell, made in 1752 and recast in 1753 and 1776, has historic ties to independence and has long been associated with national celebrations.
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Army Post
Spring Valley Cemetery
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St. Staoula Fal
St Will Viall
Coun
St. Louis
Wade
Starchall
Hnnae
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