Heiress Marry Rumsey in Arden Church Wedding
Miss Mary Harriman, daughter of the late E. B. Harriman, wed Charles Carey Rumsey of Buffalo at St John s Episcopal Church in Arden New York on Thursday. Only family attended the ceremony and a new church carpet was laid. Bride s sister Carol Harriman was maid of honor and Lawrence D Rumsey was best man. The couple greeted guests at the Harriman mansion and begin a brief wedding trip with a longer honeymoon at Arden where the bride serves as chief executive.
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Arden
N. Y
Mary Harriman
E. B. Harriman
Charles Carey Rumsey
Buffalo
St. John’s Episcopal Church
E. H Harriman
Carol Harriman
Lawrence D. Rumsey
Rev. J. Holmes McGuinness
Harriman Mansion
Adren
Washington society wedding of Mathilde Townsend Gerry
Miss Mathilde Townsend, daughter of Mrs May Scott Townsend, married Peter Goelet Gerry in Washington. Taft and Sherman hosted guests at the Townsend home. A 15000 dollar white lace gown, a breakfast for 100, and gifts including a Fifth Avenue residence marked the lavish ceremony and plans for a European honeymoon.
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Mathilde Townsend
Washington
May Scott Townsend
Peter Goelet Gerry
Elbridge T. Gerry
New York
Taft
Sherman
Townsend
Roland Cotton Smith
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Fifth Avenue
Opera Hats Likely to Cause Walk-Out in Paris
Paris coffin bearers threaten a strike over cap versus opera hat usage at funerals. They demand permission to replace the opera hat with caps, giving undertakers two weeks to decide. If refused, pallbearers plan a street procession wearing caps with opera hats in hand.
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Paris
Undertakers
Caps
Unloaded gun saves babe but hits aunt in accident
Special to The Sun reports Bedford Indiana May 26 Mrs Jack Meadows aimed a loaded old handgun at her baby held by her sister Minnie Hawkins who cried out when the gun discharged striking Hawkins in the right thigh. She is reported to be dying.
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Bedford
Ind
Jack Meadows
Minnie Hawkins
Stone Deaf Thief Hears After Indictment Read
In Lebanon, Charles Brown, who feigned deafness since arrest, suddenly heard as Prosecutor Adrey read an indictment accusing him of stealing a horse and revealing he stole two. He was sentenced to two to fourteen years after the court and sheriff exhausted efforts to provoke his hearing.
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Lebanon
Charles Brown
Adrey
Brown
Abe
One Vote for John W Curn in Ward Primary Mixup
A Fifth ward Democrat cast a single, misplaced vote for John W Curn in a state senate race. The write-in appeared on no official ballot and was not tabulated, while Reginald H Sullivan and William E English remained the Democratic and Republican options.
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Fifth Ward
John W. Curn
Reginald H. Sullivan
William E. English
Curn
Roosevelt Receives LL D at Cambridge University
Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the LL D degree by Cambridge University in a quiet ceremony. He spoke briefly to about 3,700 students, toured Pembroke College and the Fitzwilliam museum, and showed interest in antiquities, libraries, and the castle gateway linked to William the Conqueror.
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Cambridge
Eng
Theodore Roosevelt
Cambridge University
King Edward
Roosevelt
Bacon
Newton
Pembroke College
Peter House
Arthur James Mason
Seabroke
Robert Ball
Baron Waltzenham
Baron A. von Huegel
Museum of Archeology
Fitzwilliam Museum
Trinity
Madalen
William the Conqueror
STARTS TOWN FIRE KILLS COKE FIEND IN WISTER BLAZE
Fire started by a cigarette dropped by a cocaine fiend destroyed 25 business buildings and left Wis ter in ruins. Fort Smith reported limited telephonic contact with Wister, 45 miles away, as dynamite was used to combat flames. The cocaine fiend died. no other deaths were confirmed. Loss expected to exceed $100,000.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Wister
Okla
Democrats Demand Probe Into Lorimer Scandal
Democratic senators vow a public investigation into Senator Lorimer amid bribery charges over his senate seat. Senator Clay of Georgia says action is needed regardless of Lorimer's planned speech, while Lorimer's secretary notes he will not speak Thursday and is preparing a reply.
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Washington
Senate
Lorimer
Clay
Georgia
Benzoate Not Essential In Catsup In Hearings
State witnesses Alphonse Lieberhard F E Payne and Frank Guryette testified Thursday that catsup can be preserved without sodium benzoate and remained free of molding. Chemist W J Brewster presented experiments suggesting sodium benzoate affects digestion even in small amounts.
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Alphonse Lieberhard
F. E. Payne
Frank Guryette
WJ. H. Brewster
State Laboratory
Aged man struck by interurban car. leg severed
Samuel Davis, 7, resident of Hartwig Kalley home at 38 E Washington, was struck Thursday morning by an outbound interurban of the Terre Haute Indianapolis and Eastern. His right leg was cut off above the ankle, he was taken to City hospital and not expected to survive. Davis, father in law of Huntington jeweler Oliver Grafton, was beneath Belt track elevation when the car passed over.
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Samuel Davis
Hartwig-Kalley
Washington Street
Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company
Davis
Mr. Davis
Oliver Grafton
Huntington
Woman accused of murder and bigamy in St Louis trial
State opens case against Dora E Doxey alleging she married William Erder while his wife was Dr Leon Doxey. Twelve jurors seated to hear claims she used poisons and motive of money to kill Erder. Prosecutor argues no mercy for a woman in a so called weaker sex.
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ST. Louis
Dora E. Doxey
William J .Erder
Leon Doxey
Rosskopf
Cleveland Police Chief Suspended
May 26. Mayor Herrman Baehr suspended Fred Kohler, Cleveland's famed "golden rule" chief, from duty. Acting Chief John Schmunk assumes command as Kohler faces trial on charges of gross immorality, habitual drunkenness and disobedience of orders, likely next Tuesday before the civil service commission.
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Cleveland
Fred Kohler
Herrman Baehr
Civil Service Commission
John Schmunk
Kohler
First accident at motor speedway injures driver
The first accident of the season at the speedway occurred Thursday when a Knox car driven by Bell overturned. The driver was injured and the vehicle demolished.
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Motor Speedway
the Speedway
Knox
Bell
Belle Moore Sentenced in Immorality Case
New York May 26 an indeterminate sentence of not less than two years and six months nor more than five years was imposed by Judge Crain on Belle Moore a Black woman convicted last week of selling two girls for immoral purposes. Her attorney Alexander Carlin obtained a stay of execution of sentence pending appeal.
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Bellemoore
New York
Crain
Belle Moore
Negress
Alexander Carlin
Hogs and Money Gone After Drinks in Indianapolis
Charles Hannon drove hogs to Indianapolis and sold them for 870 dollars. He awoke beside a railroad track with no money or hogs, far from Boone county, and faced grand larceny charges. The hogs were not Exhibit A.
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Charles Hannon
Indianapolis
Boone County
Charles Vanlandingham
Pritchard
Preservation Bid Aims to Save Harrison House at Vincennes
Rep Cullop introduces a bill to buy repair and remove the Harrison house in Vincennes Indiana with a $5000 appropriation. The site recalls Harrison’s 1806 governorship and Tecumseh treaty. It could be a monument to pioneer life Clark’s victory and Revolutionary War history under D A R care. A second bill requests $50000 to set up a rescue mine station at Linton Indiana.
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Northwest
New World
Gen
Rogers Clark
Harrison
United States
Tecumseh
Cullop
Patriotic Societies
Indiana
Francis Vigo
Vincennes
Bureau of Mines of the
Department of the Interior
Linton Ind
Dangers danced on when light went out in Columbus
In Columbus Indiana on May 26 an electric outage occurred at midnight during a society dance. Despite the lights failing, the musicians kept playing and the dancers continued to dance for two hours, showing calm to the unexpected outage.
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Columbus
Ind
Investigation Urges Review of Stockton Townships Books
State Board of Accounts examiners urge full investigations into Stockton township Greene county for 1904 through 1908, citing extravagance and shortages. Former trustee Will L. Parke paid 15.60 to current trustee A. J. Myers in 1910, with Myers held to account for 382.80 including 100 to Mrs. Parks for clerk services.
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State Board of Accounts
Stockton
Greene County
A. J. Myers
Wright Township
N. G. McIntosh
McIntosh
Jefferson Township
John I. Specker
W. A. Owens
Washington Township
Theodore S. Rainbolt
George W. Carpenter
Lyons
George Davidson
Smith Township
Elias Hulley
R. M. Buskirk
Capt. Jones Dies Oldest Annapolis Graduate
Capt. John Pembroke Jones, 85, oldest graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars, died at his home in Asadena California. Born in Virginia in 1825, he entered the academy in 1843 and graduated in 1847, the same year he served as a midshipman in the siege of Buena Vista.
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Jones
Asadena
Cal
John Pembroke Jones
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Virginia
Annapolis Naval Academy
Buena Vista
Many Years Ahead in White Plague Fight
New York report grimly projects it will take 45 years to provide hospital beds for all indigent consumptives under current progress. Last year 7,000 beds were added. campaign aims to reach 35,000 nationwide by 1912. State bed counts show New York leading with 5,476. Massachusetts 4,403. Connecticut 2,437. Colorado 1,439. New Mexico 1,004.
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New York
United States
National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
New York State
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Colorado
New Mexico
One Coon Gets Away in Marion Coons Hunt Planned
Marion Ind May 26 Special report on the egg-eating gosling-killing coons that escaped from Goldthwaite park last week. One coon remains missing prompting plans for a hunt.
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Marion
Ind
Goldthwaite Park
Golden Medical Discovery touted as germ defender health cure
The article claims germs thrive in poor vitality and urges fortifying the body with Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It asserts the remedy cleanses impurities, enriches blood, aids digestion, and has no alcohol or habit forming drugs, with a 40 year record of cures.
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Dr. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Osigubors
Submarine Pluviose Sinks After Collision Off Calais
The French submarine Pluviose, 150 feet long and 45 tons, sank near Calais after colliding with the Ville De Calais packet. Twenty seven crewmen, including the commander and two officers, are missing after the half submerged sub attempted to pass beneath the steamer in full daylight. Lifeboats and rescue craft searched the scene as the packet returned to Calais with damage and crowds watching.
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Alais
Ville de Calais
Ville de Calaia
Calais
Fara
Cherbourg
Horse Thief Sentenced in Indiana After Pursuit
Noblesville Indiana May 26 Six tours after his arrest Charles Brown a confessed horse thief was sent to the penitentiary for a term of two to fourteen years. Brown was chased by a posse of farmers for two miles before capture. He confessed stealing horses from Frank McKnight Westfield and from Thorntown. He was arraigned and sentenced soon after his capture.
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Noblesville
Ind
Charles Brown
Brown
Frank McKnight
Westfield
Thorntown
New Officers Chosen for Local Police Force
John B. Long and N A Allen appointed to the police force by the Board of Public Safety on Wednesday. Patrolman Andrew Pressley promoted to bicycleman replacing Albert C Gibney who resigned last week to become a chauffeur.
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N. A. Allen
Board of Public Safety
Andrew Pressley
Albert C. Gibney
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