Miner’s daughter offers to marry for debt relief
A 19 year old miner’s daughter from Frackville Pa writes to the New York American offering to marry any man who will pay 9000 to her debt ridden father to save their home. She explains debts including a 7000 mortgage and other bills totaling about 29000 and notes her father's hard work as a miner. A separate local notice mentions a box social at Spring Creek School on Dec 2 led by teacher Hilda Vernson.
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New York
Frackville
Spring Creek School
Hilda
Vernson
Danbury Man Wins Annuity In Hatters Case After Years of Loss
Danbury Connecticut November 30 AP broken in health and facing total blindness the man who won the celebrated Danbury Hatters case twelve years ago at the cost of his personal fortune is to receive an annuity of 5000 dollars a year. Dietrich Loewe now 74 faced years of labor conflict including a boycott from 1902 to 1915. Loewe prevailed in 1912 with a district court judgment later upheld by the Supreme Court affirming a threefold liability against union members under the Sherman act. The long legal battle left Loewe and his company in danger of bankruptcy by 1926. A settlement funded by creditors and national groups is to support Loewe through his remaining years.
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Danbury
Conn
Danbury Hatters
Dietrich E. Loewe
Loewe
Federal Supreme Court
District Court
Loewes
Supreme Court
United Hatiors of America
Lef
D. E. Loewe and Company
Ward Straits
Loewey
Blue canaries promise next sensation in bird breeding
London reports at the Inter-Club Cage Bird exhibition a canary described as the advance-guard of a new race. The green cinnamon crossed canary shows faint blue tinting on the back, among other rare specimens. A pale buff Yorkshire hen canary valued at $500 was also exhibited amid factory demonstrations and advertisements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Canaries
German children to get many gifts this Christmas
German households expect a surge of military and toy gifts for Christmas featuring uniforms and paper steel helmets for boys, flying gadgets marked Berlin New York, toy jazz bands, locomotives and fire engines, while girls favor dolls and lifelike animal toys.
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Berlin
Nuembert
Thetenof
Berlin-New
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