Love and Duty Divide Maud Gaston and Dr Parker
Maud Gaston ends engagement to Major Norton to pursue nursing life while Dr. Ralph Parker, long parted by distance and duty, returns in time to uncover a new union. Miss Emery, Parker's fiancée abroad, prepares to marry another, as Maud faces a dramatic reunion with the doctor who won her heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Gaston
Major Norton
Philippines
Dr. Parker
Maud Gaston
Ralph Parker
Europe
Lfe
Miss Emery
Fio
Parker
Misg
Crowd gathers as boy chased by pursuer after street incident
In a brief street scene a small boy explains he was chased after being hit by another boy. Royse, carrying a basket, continues on to the grocery, indicating a simple local disturbance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royse
Marketmaster Decides Police Court Assault Case
Marketmaster Tom Shufelson dep utized to decide an assault case in police court. Judge Stubbs could not resolve it, two prisoners were discharged, and a later street brawl involving peddlers over rotten potatoes led to injuries and mistaken identity. Casady was whipped and later apologized, with Shufelton praising the incident and recommending discharge. Numerous complaints followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Shufelton
Stubbs
John Casa‘iv
Wary
Joseph Alexander
Xing
Alexander
Casady
Shafelton
Tragic Burglary Tale of Dr. Squires and Miss Stetson
In a Victorian suspense snippet, Burglar No 1 and No 2 divide loot after a raid. Goddard, medically frail and entangled with Dr Squires, hosts Miss Stetson. Tensions rise over a suspected leprosy diagnosis while love and loyalty clash with crime. The narrator, a loyal servant, watches fevers and fears unfold as a step toward tragedy.
Royse Causes Neighborhood Frenzy On Misdirected Run
Advertising agent Harry Royse rushed from his 821 Dawson Street home after a barking rumor of a kidnapping. He chased two men and a boy for blocks, alarming half the neighborhood before realizing no one was endangered and returning home to calm his worried wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Royse
Dawson St
Royse
Harry
Rovae
Nuisance Case Warns of Workhouse Sentence
A police report notes a growing nuisance from thrown decayed vegetables at the market. The judge warned that any future similar offense would incur a workhouse sentence.
Two World’s Greatest Surgeons Travel to Operate on Lolita Armour
Vienna reports Prof. Adolph Lorenz and Dr. Fritz Mueller will fly to Chicago to perform an orthopedic operation on five year old Lolita Armour. The dislocated hip joints have caused extreme hardship for her millionaire father J. Ogden Armour and Mrs Armour as they seek a cure. Dr Lorenz has prior European success with this procedure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Adolph Lorenz
University of Vienna
Fritz Mueller
Chicago
Miss Armour
Lolita Armour
J. Ogden Armour
Europe
Lolita
John Ridion
Efforts to Set Child’s Hips Fail to Restore Use
A surgeon spent months studying a case to set the hips and joints hoping for proper alignment. Despite careful operation and post operative care, the child did not gain the use of her legs.
Smallpox Through Sauerkraut Question Analyzed
J N Hurty secretary of the State board of health considers a Chicago kraut maker’s inquiry about smallpox transmission via sauerkraut after a report of one case in Schereville Indiana. He weighs public health risk and potential impact on kraut sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. N. Hurty
State Board of Health
Lincoln’s Death Secrets May Now Be Told
Samuel Arnold aged 72, once jailed for Lincoln assassination involvement, died at his Masonville home in Anne Arundel county. He and Dr. Mudd were exiled to Dry Tortugas for life but pardoned by Johnson after impeachment acquittal. Arnold claimed a forthcoming statement would exonerate him, but it is unclear if he left it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Squires
Mr. Goddard
Miss Stetson
Belle
Charles
Baltimore
Samuel Arnold
Abraham Lincoln
Masonville
Anne Arundel County
Arnold
Dr. Mudd
Johnson
Lincoln
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Menter, Rosensbloom & Co
Credit Clothiers
America
For
Iain Processers
Grosenbloon
Pennsylvania Street
Tom Shufelson
Police Court
F. M. Buckles & Co
New York
Charles Goddard
Belle Stetson
Goddard
Squires
Godard
Wayside Brook
Merrell Souls Co
Syracuse
N.Y
Will
Hurty
Schereville
Ind
Malta
Vita
Taivita
SEM Fiat
eoLienatee
Vita Pure Food Co
Battle Creek, Michigan
Toronto
Canada
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