A Home for a X'mas Gift Rent Plan Ad in Jeffersonville
A classified advertisement promotes a rent plan offering a three room cottage in central Jeffersonville. It claims $7.00 monthly payments will cover rent and lead to home ownership, contrasting with regular rents of $6.00 to $8.00 with no ownership. Contact E. A. Decker at 722 Spring Street or phone 836.F.
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Jeffersonville
E. A. Decker
Spring Street
F. Adv
Citizens Trust Co’s. Christmas Savings Club
Christmas Savings Club
Citizens Trust Company Cor
Spring St
Court Ave
Baroness Bab's Suit Against Hurley Dismissed in St Louis
A breach of promise suit filed by Ursula Bar bara Von Kalinowski Baroness Bab of Wiesbaden against Michael J. Hurley of St. Louis was dismissed in U S district court. The $2 5 million case in federal court near St Louis, Missouri, was thrown out according to officials.
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St. Louis
Michael J. Hurley
Ursula Barbara von Kalinowski
Bab
Wiesbaden
Germany
United Stats District
Court Dismisses Prosecution in Baroness Bab Case
Judge Dyer dismissed the suit for want of prosecution after finding neither Baroness Bab nor her New York attorney George C. Fleming present. Filed a year ago, the case was set for Monday at Fleming’s request as a crowd gathered in the courtroom for the high profile international romance story told by the plaintiff in a deposition in New York last summer.
Needle in Crime On a Paris to Bordeaux Train
A French traveler on a Bordeaux to Paris first class car awoke with a numb nose after a fur clad stranger left the compartment. His pocketbook with $200 vanished at Paris. Doctors say he was injected with a narcotic through a surgical needle, a lethal possibility.
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Bordeaux
Paris
Renal
Watch-Winding Puzzle: When Will the Clock Run Down
A reader asks if reducing nightly wind from 12 to 10 turns starting Monday will let the watch run down. The solution explains each turn covers two hours, so 10 turns give 20 hours, reaching 2 AM Wednesday after a sequence of winds, with the watch finally stopping at 10 PM Wednesday.
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Strand Magazine
Claflin bankruptcy report reveals huge subsidiary debts
Chicago reports that H. B. Claflin Company and 24 subsidiaries claim nearly 37 million in assets liabilities near 40 million. Notes issued by subsidiaries to Claflin and discounted nationwide swamped the chain, with Whitehouse Spokane owing over 1 million on 200k assets. Hennessey Butte notes about 1.7 million, Kelly asserts lack of knowledge. Public statements show bold bank support before collapse.
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Chicago
New York
Claflin
H. B. Claflin & Co
H. B. Claflin
Bo Powerful
Claflin Paper
Whitehouse Company
Spokane
Wash
J. B. White & Co
Augusta
Hennessey Company
Butte
Mont
Charles J. Kelly
Hennessey
Mr. Kelly
Clafiin
Hennessy Company
Indictment Shocks Japan Over Honganji Buddhist Leader
Five Buddhist priests face embezzlement charges totaling about 4 million dollars in Japan. Abbot Count Otani resigns and plans to move to Chile after selling Rokkosan mansion and assets amid a debt crisis of the Honganji sect, one of the empire’s largest religious bodies.
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Tokio
Imperial Palace
Count Otani
Chile
Hfe
Japan
Count Ortani
Kioto
Central Asia
Nagoya
Otan
Rokkosan
Kobe
Osaka
Aton
Alleu‘tvas
Imperial House
Bank Wrecker to Be Subject of Legislative Inquiry
A legislative inquiry will examine the pardon of John A. Hall of Southbridge the bank wrecker. Representative Washburn will seek a summary of facts behind the pardon noting Hall served about four years of a twelve year sentence for thefts totaling 3200 000 from savings banks over 29 years and that Lt Governor Barry's vote helped seal the act.
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Res Cn
John A. Hall
Southbridge Navvnes Bank
Washburn
Hall
Hill
Stzva
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Evansville
Ind
Edward Pregler
Progler
Lee
Bellboys
Texas
John Campbell
County Armagh
Ireland
Vanderbilt
H. B. Chanden
San Antonio
John
Indiana
New Haven
SHORT
East
China
India
England
House of Peers
Europe
Australia
Pacific
South America
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Kate Penner
Ness
Spencerian Commercial School
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