Actress sues Mansfield over kiss and breach of contract
New York report says actress Katherine Grey sues Richard Mansfield company for 3500 dollars claiming harsh treatment and a humiliating kiss on December 26 led to illness. She alleges breach of contract after agreeing to a September 29 1899 engagement. Trial will reveal details of the kiss and alleged conduct.
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New York
Katherine Grey
Richard Mansfield
Miss Grey
Roxane
Mansfield
Eloper Captured in Arkansas After Elopement
Ames Harvey of Woodlawn Jefferson county left his wife and newborn to elope with his 14 year old sister in law Edith Gardner. Harvey and Gardner were captured at Black Rock Arkansas by authorities and will be brought back. Mrs Harvey was ill but improving after the shock.
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Nashville
Ames Harvey
Woodlawn
Jefferson County
Babe
Eloven
Edith Gardner
Black Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Harvey
Helen Gardner
Mary Ellen Lease Seeks Divorce From Charles Lease
Mrs Mary Ellen Lease plans to file for divorce in Wichita Kansas from Charles E Lease this week. She cites incompatibility and failure to provide, notes they have lived apart three years, and that the couple married in 1873 with four children. Lease owns a drug store and differed politically. She is currently in New York.
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Wichita
Kas
Mary Ellen Lease
Charles E. Lease
Lease
New York
Hir
Coupe
Woman A Spendthrift Incurred By Curios and Rugs
Miss Victoria Bergen a Brooklyn recluse known as The lady of furs faces insanity proceedings after sisters claim her curio and rug habit has driven her finances toward ruin. Her estate once valued around $250,000 includes jewelry. furniture and house assets foreclosed. an auction sold furniture for 1800 while property value cited as high as 30,000. Judge Smith held papers awaiting decision.
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New York
Victoria Bergen
Oxford St
Brooklyn
Adelaide T. Barre
Josephine L. Ketcham
Supreme Court
Fie
Miss Bergen
Wife Seeks Separation After Coxey’s Army Visit
In Chicago on November 28 1893 Mary Burglewicz testified in Judge Bishops court about living with Andrew Burglewicz at Thirty first and Morgan streets before Coxey's army rode through. He disliked work and studied sociology. He vanished as the march ended. a rocking chair he used to watch his wife sit grew cold. She heard nothing since his name appeared in a Washington arrest list for trespassing on grass.
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Chicago
Andrew Burglewicz
Mary
Thirty-first
Morgan Sts
Coxey’s
Bishop’s Court
Burglewicz
Photographer at pistol point in Kentucky legal scare
Shelby Taylor a Hartford lawyer was forced at gunpoint by itinerant photographer Justice Jackson to pose for three negatives in a deserted road then released after a pursuit by Taylor's kinsman. Jackson fled and is missing.
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Hartford, Ky
Shelby Taylor
Taylor
Justice Jackson
Jackson
London Ladies Enter High Stakes Bridge Craze
London society embraces bridge as a gambling fad with women as primary participants. Stakes rise from a farthing a point to a sovereign a point, causing lavish losses and O U notes as rooms in tea shops and dresshouses host gambling sessions. Officials warn of scandals akin to Tranby Croft as the trend spreads.
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London
West End
England
Caught Flying Child in Cincinnati Rescue
A Cincinnati mother watched her 17 year old daughter Maggie Lindsey pause on a third floor window sill and threaten to jump. The father sprinted to the scene and caught her under the armpits, preventing injury though he was strained. The doctor said catching under the arms was the only safe method from that height.
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Cincinnati
Daugher
Maggie Lindsey
Maggie
Indiana Guard Praised for Expansion and Funding Request
Adjutant General Gore asks Governor Mount to raise the Indiana national guard appropriation from 45000 to 75000. Start of year listed 11 infantry companies and two batteries, with many new detachments added from towns such as New Castle Muncie Monticello and Fort Wayne. A Fort Wayne battery is organized. Unspent 10000 of 30000 allocated for prewar clothing is to be reappropriated. About 1000 soldiers unlocated, many in the Philippines, will receive back pay when found.
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Adjt
Gore
Mount
Indiana National Guard
New Castle
Muncie
Monticello
Lebanon
Auburn
Rochester
Bloomington
Crawfordsville
Greencastle
Union City
Elkhart
Lagrange
Danville
Tipton
Washington
Columbia City
Franklin
Winchester
Fort Wayne
Greenfield
Indianapolis
Philippines
Bloomers barred by Oswego normal school teachers
Oswego New York November 2 A steady wail goes up from the State normal school's girls basketball team as faculty withholds bloomers for play. Two years ago bloomers were allowed when gym was opened. now they must wear a short skirt over bloomers, making basketball a delusion and snare.
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Oswego
N. Y
State Normal School
Mary V. Lee
Snakes By The Pound From Klamath Falls
Snakes at 25 cents a pound are shipped from Klamath Falls Oregon to a Minneapolis oil rendering house. Millions of harmless constrictors averaging three feet and half a pound populate the riverbanks streets and waterways attracting residents who gather them by the thousands for shipment. The snakes do not strike when picked up.
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Klamath Falls
Minneapolis
Washington Whiffs Renewed Navy Debate Touches Officers
The Sampson Schley feud likely to resume this winter as the secretary of the navy proposes reviving the office of vice admiral. Former commissary general of subsistence Eagan, notable in the canned beef probe, asks the president to remit suspension and place him on the retired list.
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Sampson-Schley
Secretary of the Navy
Prig
Eagan
Subsistence
Thanksgiving Food Drive By City Schools
School children collect vegetables groceries and cash to aid the hungry on Thanksgiving day. Schools notify Charles S Grout secretary of Indianapolis charity organization for wagon pickups. Half funds go to the Free kindergarten society and half to a general fund for teacher vote usage.
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Charles S. Grout
Indianapolis Charity Organization
Free Kindergarten Society
Potatoes Seen Nearing $1 to $1.50 Bushel
Chicago reports potato prices likely to rise with the next harvest. Current prices run about 23 cents higher than a year ago. Conservative forecasts put winter prices around $1 while some expect $1.50 due to October weather damage.
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Chicago
Victory for Manhattan railway tax ruling shocks Albany
The New York Court of Appeals fixed Manhattan Railway Company property value at 9.492 million dollars for taxation, lowering by about half the prior assessment of 17.860 million. Taxes due to the city are estimated between 300 thousand and 400 thousand dollars under the decision reached Tuesday. The case began in 18 as the city’s dispute over the former assessment and valuation.
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Albany
N. Y
Court of Appeals
Manhattan Railway Company
Court ‘of Appeals
Transit Times Revealed for Various City Routes
A fragmented OCR list shows train and bus times between Peoria Bloomington Columbus Springfield Dayton and other points. It notes arrivals and departures with evening and morning slots and includes several abbreviations for locations and routes.
Cincinnati Rail Schedules From City Ticket Office
Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton Railway lists daily departures from 2 W Washington St. Includes Cincinnati fast mail 8.21 am to 6.50 am, Cin and Det ex 10.45 am to 10.35 pm, Cin and Dayton ex 8.45 pm to 11.45 am, Cin Toledo Detroit 7.07 pm to 7.30 pm, and Dec and St Louis ex 4.4 pm to 2.10 am, plus various connections and special trains to Chicago Tuscola and more.
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Leule
LS W. Lim
de Ch.Gam
St. Louis Limited
T. H. & Mattoen Ac
St. Louis
Lafayette Accom
Lafayette
Chicago
Columbus & Spring
Ohio
Lynn
City Ticket Office
Washington St
Cincinnati
Sess
Cincinnati Fast Mail
Det
Dayton
Dayton Lim
Toledo
Detroit
Dec
Chicago Express
Chicago Vestibule
Train Schedule Fragments From City Station and Nearby Corners
An OCR readout shows multiple station ticket offices and departure times with routes linking Baltimore Washington Cincinnati Columbus Logansport Knights Rich Vernon Madison Martinsville Vin Pittsburg East Dayton Spring Springfield Columbus Indiana Madison Illinois and other points. Times listed include early morning 3.35 am and evening departures around 6.50 am to 12.38 pm with various connections.
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Washington
Phil
Baltimore and Wash
Col
Ind
Louis
Vernon
Madison
Martinso
E & Vin
Dayton & Xenia
Pittsburg & East
N.Y
Logansport & Chi Knights
Balti
Wash
Dayton & Spring
Springfield
Columbus
Martins
Pittsburg
East
Martinsville
Colum
Louis, Phil
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Moses Optical CO
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Moses
I. M. Row
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J. A. Sutcliffe
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Chas. D. Githens
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Delawarest
Oda
Central Passenger Association
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Freaney Bros
Ohio St
Schol
Geo. Leininger
R. Geo. Leininger
Cee Hee
Earth
Ney Ay Nea Hyde
Leininger
Manhattan
DH. J. J. Byuh
E. Ghiost
YORK
Taggart Bakery
the Sun
SUN
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Aynich
Becsme
Davol Medicing Gore
Ken Franciate
Cel
Wages Loan Drug CO
Washington Bt
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Cleveland Line
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Benton Harbor Line
Benton Harbor
ST. Louis Line
Chicago Rine
Greensburg
Cin
Flex
N. Ver
Le’ia
D.s
N. Ver. & Louis
Peoria Line
Peoria
Bloom
M &Ex
Peoria & Bloomington
Fox
Uwnwam
Champaign
Peoria & Bloom
Springfield and
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway
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Decatur & Western Ry
Lake Erie & Western
R. R
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Chi Lim
L’porte
Louisrlis
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St. L
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St. Lince
T. H
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