Widow Sues Over $6 Million Brooklyn Property Scheme
New York March 14 Mrs Jennie M Stephens a widow seeks court approval to inspect books of W Bayard Cutting and charges him and his late lawyer Michael Cardozo with fraud. She claims Cutting profited from a vast Gowanus bay tract valued at about 6 million while she signed away her one million stake for 100000. She asks to set aside the sale and force accounting. Judgement reserved by Justice Newburger.
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New York
Jennie M. Stephens
Enogreme
W. Bayard Cutting
Michael Cardozo
Cutting
Cardozo
Twenty-eighth Street
Third Avenue
Brooklyn
Stephens
Thirtyninth Street Ferry Company
Peal
Francis H. Bergen
Rockefeller reads editorials on his foundation
Waukegan Gazette receives a note of thanks from Chas A Heyd in New York on behalf of John D Rockefeller. The letter expresses pleasure that the Gazette editorial on the Rockefeller Foundation received cordial approval and notes Rockefeller’s interest in articles about him.
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Waukeegan
John D. Rockefeller
Waukegan Gazette
Rockefeller Foundation
Editor Gazette
John Db. Rockefeller
Move for federal health bureau to extend American life
New York March 14. The Committee of One Hundred proposes federal action to create a national bureau of health. Members include Hoy Lyman Abbott Archbishop Tr?land Joseph H Choate George Shiras and Jane Addams. They argue stopping tuberculosis typhoid and infant deaths could add 15 years to life and save vast economic losses.
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Hoy
Lyman Abbott
Archbishop Treland
Joseph H. Choate
George Shiras
Wi. A. Townsend
Federal Bureau of Health
Taft
Bureau of Health
Department of Agriculture
America
Congress
Gove
Movement For Health
Girl Waif Finally Gets A Good Home
In Oregon City Oregon on March 14 1910 a Denver physician sold a baby girl for 25 dollars to Helen Conklin who took the child to Delta Colorado. After a series of moves and a protest by Trelen Conklin the Oregon City minister and his wife secured permanent custody and legal adoption of the girl Elizabeth Hayworth born 1907 in Denver.
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Oregon City
Ore
Denver
Lelta
Elizabeth Hayworth
A. Hayworth
Laura Page
Delta
Hayworth
Baptist Church
Helen Conklin
Trelen Conklin
Day
Los Angeles
Schoolgirl Wins $1 075 in Expulsion Suit Against Fitchburg
In Fitchburg Mass on March 14 the jury ruled Pauline Jones wins 1 075 dollars from the City of Fitchburg. The 1908 Ashburnham Street pupil was assigned as school police officer and expelled after dispute with Principal George F Hopkins. Her father sued claiming unlawful expulsion hindered education and questioned the city's schooling role.
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Fitchburg
Mass
Pauline Jones
City of
Ashburnham Street
George F. Hopkins
Tafter
Belmont Sued With Shonts For $504000
George B. Burton of New Ipswich New Hampshire filed in the U S circuit court a summons against August Felmont and Theodore F P Shonts as directors of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company and later of the New York City Railway Company. He seeks 504000 damages for alleged patent rights infringement by installing improvements on lines leased to the New York City railway company in 1902. Since the New York City railway company is insolvent, Burton targets Felmont and Shonts directly.
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George D. Burton
City Railway Company
August Felmont
Theodore FP. Shonts
New York City Railway
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
New York City Railway Company
Felmont and Shonts
Denver Man Kills Man and Seeks Divorce After Year in Prison
C Burdette Bell, after nearly a year in the state penitentiary for a killing, has consented to divorce his wife Mabel Bell. He told reporters the confinement proved she wasn’t worth it and he won’t see her again. Mrs Bell began county court divorce action alleging her conviction of a felony as grounds. She had planned to file in district court but postponed after visiting Bell in Canon City. Mrs Bell’s mother gained custody of their daughter, and friends say she plans to remarry soon while pushing the divorce.
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Mabel Bell
Canon City
Bell
Drury
Babies Sent to Southland by Trainload
New Orleans report details 61 foundlings from the New York Orphan and Foundling asylum allotted to childless couples at Illinois Central Union station. Numbers 44 onward were given amid curious crowds and cheering. Couples carried credit slips matching neck tags as they selected boys and girls, with milk supplied en route and various destinations noted.
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New Orleans
New York
Foundling Home
Southern Pacific Railroad
Miss Reynolds
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Jimmy
John
Alonzo Hammond sues for alienation of affection in Mass
Alonzo H. Hammond of Acushnet sues William C. Warden in Superior Court claiming Warden caused his wife to lose affection and left him. Hammond seeks damages of 3000 though the suit notes the couple have been separated about a year with the wife having left of her own accord. The writ is returnable this week.
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New Bedford
Mass
Alonzo H. Hammond
Acushnet
William CC. Warden
Hammond
Worden
Hammonds
Plaintif
Aged Women Escape Fire At Old Ladies Home Denver
Fire broke out in the basement of the Old Ladies Relief Home in Denver as inmates at breakfast faced smoke from the furnace area. Matron Mrs. M L McIntosh calmed the residents, deterred a panic, and notified the fire department. Firemen extinguished a small blaze caused by an asbestos pad slipping from its plate.
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McIntosh
Woman Resists Robbery as Escaping Thief Flees
Miss Mabel McCord of 938 North Jefferson Avenue was attacked near her home on Saturday night around 10 o clock. A highwayman demanded her purse, gripped her throat, and fled when loud screams drew residents to her aid. The escape occurred within three houses of her residence, and the assailant vanished through an alley.
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Mabel McCord
North
Jefferson Avenue
Estate battle looms after L G Tewksbury death
Violet Aubrey Tewksbury widow of Lewis G. Tewksbury arrives in New York from San Francisco to seek letters of administration for the late financier and producer. She is joined by their five year old son as attorney Gerson Oppenheim files surrogates papers and notes possible guardianship and libel actions.
Poodle Buried Elsewhere After Cemetery Refusal
Miss Lot tie M. Champion’s 17 year old poodle Bebe died of pneumonia in Atlantic City. Cemetery rules blocked burial on her lot so she had the body embalmed and shipped in a metal coffin to Pittsburgh on the same train. The mourner, in deep mourning, followed the coffin.
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Atlantic City
Bebe
Miss Champion
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