Queen Victoria of Spain to Operate on Prince Jaime in Switzerland
Geneva reports confirm that Queen Victoria of Spain plans to bring her second son Prince Jaime to Switzerland late this June for an operation on a speech defect. The piece notes widespread disability among Spanish rural children believed to stem from Alfonso's marriage and suggests a hereditary pattern affecting both physical and mental health.
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Stranger sheltered by janitor robs Moody Institute
Thomas Ryan, janitor at the Moody Institute in Chicago, said a man he sheltered for months stole all his clothes and belongings after being taken in as a stranger. Police are investigating the theft and the man's identity.
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Chicago
Thomas Ryan
Moody Institute
Cat hatches chickens in Westfield
Thomas Tappen, a respected Baptist in good standing, reports his cat hatched four chickens and he is caring for them. He plans to send the brood to Taft.
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Westfield
N. Y
Thomas Tappen
Taft
Sage to give $20,000 pulpit to Cathedral of St John the Divine
In memory of Bishop Potter Mrs Russell Sage will present a $20,000 pulpit to the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York. The donation honors the late bishop and funds a ceremonial installation in the church.
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New York
Potter
Russell Sage
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Pope's Illness Raises Fears of Fatal Outcome
Rome reports the pope's health remains under physician watch with denials from officials. Attacks of gout grow more frequent and heart weakness plus arterial degeneration threaten his life, any attack potentially fatal despite limited mobility.
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Rome
Vatican
Papal
England's growth slow as census shows small rise
The United Kingdom population in the last decade rose by 9.1 percent to 45,216,665. Ireland stands at 4,382,000, down 77,000 since 1901. The 1891 UK population was 41,976,827.
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London
United Kingdom
Ireland
Mercy Sister Mary Antonio Revealed as Mercedes Author
Sister Mary Antonio of Beaty Pennsylvania and St Marys Academy fame is identified as the author Mercedes who penned poetry and prose for major American magazines. Cardinal Gibbons awards her the doctor of literature degree at St Josephs Academy graduation recognizing religious and moral literary work.
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Mercy Order
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St. Joseph's Academy
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Fiance Secures Clemency for Lifter Then Marries
In Canon City Colorado on June 16 1923 or 16 1924 Mabel Manning freed from the penitentiary after her fiance pleaded for clemency for shop lifting. The couple married at once and departed for Arizona.
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Mabel Manning
Arizona
Roosevelt Bear Receives Dental Visit At Joplin Clinic
Two bottles of beer were given to Teddy Roosevelt a black bear at a Joplin dental clinic. The drink allegedly dulled pain as dentists extracted three molars from the bear's jaw.
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Teddy Roosevelt
State Dental Association
Teddy
Texas Solon Far From Gavel's Call
Washington reports Representative Martin Dies of Texas and his bride Genevieve Miller enjoy a private respite at Mount Rainier Maryland. Dies says he will not seek re election after divorcing his former wife and marrying his secretary while continuing to draw government salaries.
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D. C
Martin
Texas
Mount Rainier
Dies
Maryland
Marion Davis
Genevieve Miller
Sam
Two Americans Killed in Alamo Lower California
Two Americans Patrick Glennon and Dr Easter were killed at Alamo in Lower California according to state department dispatches. The department protested the outrage to the Mexican government. Serious outbreaks were reported from Ensenada.
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Washington, D. C
Patrick Glennon
Easter
Alamo
Lower
California
State Department
Ensenada
She Changes Mind in Chicago After Jewelry Heist Mood
Mrs. Louis D. Frede, in a huff, left home with all her jewels. Her husband, fearing burglars, called a policeman who found her crawling up the fire escape seeking reconciliation.
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Chicago
Louis D. Frede
Troy nurse graduates hear justice railing against heels
Justice Howard told the Troy hospital nursing graduates that high heels are heathenish and as destructive as rings in the nose and as destructive as rum during the June commencement.
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Troy
N. Y
Justice Howard
Troy Hospital
Wit and Justice in a Street Phrase
A reader quotes a terse exchange about violence and charity, recalling a scuffle line and the question Where did the fellow hit you. The fragment hints at moral contrasts between giving and receiving in a tense moment.
Witness collapses in Big Four embezzlement trial
In Cincinnati on June 16 Jeanette Stewart Ford fainted on the witness stand during Edgar S. Cooke’s embezzlement case. Her condition was deemed serious and she was removed in an invalid chair, likely ending her testimony. The session’s key moment was Frank Comber, former Big Four treasurer, admitting a funds shortage and a claim that $22,000 of $24,000 was embezzled by Cooke.
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Cincinnati
Jeanette Stewart Ford
Edgar S. Cooke
Big Four
Ford
Frank Com
Kankakee
Cooke
New York
Fusiliers from New Brunswick to Parade in Boston
June 16 report that the Second Fusiliers of St. John New Brunswick travel by train to Boston to take part in Bunker Hill day celebration. Massachusetts authorities grant special permission to carry arms. The unit is expected to march in an on street parade tomorrow.
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George V
Bunker Hill
Fusiliers
St. John
New Brunswick
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