European Relief Efforts Highlight US Aid Totals
A New York report details US war relief totaling 25 million in cash and a grand hundredfold in supplies since the war began. Belgian relief nears 8 million with total Belgian aid at 115 million while Teutonic aid is estimated at 5 million. prominent Americans like Robert Bacon lead efforts and receive praise from allied nations.
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New York
United States
New York City
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
Belgium
Europe
Robert Bacon
France
Bacon
American Ambulance Hospital
Paris
England
Aged rancher loses fortune in St Paul mummy scam
John McMahon, 65, a former longshoreman and rancher, came to St Paul last December with $1,160 from selling his Bowman, North Carolina ranch. He was bilked by a couple showing him a six legged sheep and two fake mummies as carnival attractions, losing about $700 after a string of diversions and a dismissed court case.
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St. Paul
John McMahon
North Dakota
McMahon
Eme
Bowman
N. C
Joseph la Porte
la Porte
Honest Girl Returns 200 and Receives 75000 Heir
In New Brunswick New Jersey Ethel Adele Wood returned 200 dollars to the board of education for teacher training expenses and later learned she inherited 75 000 dollars from a deceased cousin William B French The story highlights honesty and unexpected reward spreading across the coast.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Coast
Ethel Adele Wood
Board of Education
Pacific Coast
Los Angeles
William B. French
Many Jobs for Big Boy in New Egypt
Thomas Van Horn, a sixteen year old six foot three inch, 300 pound high school junior in New Egypt New Jersey, is Ocean county’s champion big boy. He works in a canning factory, serves as theater cashier, is official scorer for the New Egypt baseball team, and helps in the family business while pursuing athletics and scout merit badges.
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New Egypt
N. J
Thomas van Horn
Ocean County
Young van Horn
William C. van Horn
Boy Scouts
Office Boys Made Skaters At Remington Plant
Bridgeport notice reports Remington Arms and Ammunition office boys using bicycles and eighty five pairs of rubber roller skates to speed work through long plant corridors. Skates are noiseless and enable fast delivery before messages are picked up. In Woodland California a man dies after a fall from a county bridge causing a fractured jaw and starvation due to inability to eat. The victim, an experienced orchardist, had lived in Woodland for years.
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Bridgeport
Woodland
Cal
Tancred
Wedding delays in Greenwich prompt ham and eggs breakfast
A New York couple Earl R. Fisher and his bride waited in Greenwich Town Hall after a late arrival for a morning wedding with Justice Albert F. Mead. They could not marry until the justice woke, so they ate at a lunch wagon and proceeded to wed. Witnesses included Crystal Sheperd and Ray Howard.
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Earl R. Fisher
Justice of the Peace
Albert F. Mead
Greenwich
Worcester
Mass
Nicolet
Canada
Providence
Fisher
Mr. Fisher
Crystal Sheperd
Ray Howard
Mr. Tloward
Earl
China
Romance of a Button Led to a Wedding in Kansas
James H Newston a Williamstown Utah banker found a button on a fencepost after a two day stay in Edgerton Kansas He received a note claiming the button belonged to Laura Ellsworth a schoolteacher She wrote that the button would be worn over her heart the next day They met married and set off for a San Francisco honeymoon by car.
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Gardner
Kan
James H. Newston
Williamstown
Utah
Edgerton
Newston
Laura Ellsworth
Miss Ellsworth
San Francisco
Old Man Cave Dweller Found Near Cedar City
Deputy state highway commissioner H B Bode reports Callaway county authorities discovered a cave dweller in a bluff northwest of Cedar City. Local children found him sleeping on leaves with a smoldering fire near the mouth and stone cooking utensils nearby. He carries fagots daily to keep the fire alive and appears to live there comfortably. The man, described as kind with a long beard, was observed by curious children.
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Fulton
H. B. Bode
Callaway County
Cedar City
Proof of DGG's Death Asked
Lacrosse Wisconsin. The absence of corpus delicti hampers a will case over Mrs. Mary Johnson's bequest to her dog Willie. Dog died before probate. heirs claim under the will contest. Court says relatives may receive the estate once the man who buried Willie is produced. Woodland California. Lucio Sernia, 62, has his twenty fourth child, a boy, making his total twenty one daughters and three sons.
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Lacrosse
Wis
Wisconsin
Mary Johnson
Willie
Health Department
Woodland
Cal
Lucio Sernia
Sernia
Foreclosure Sale Notice by Chelan County Sheriff
In Chelan County Washington Sheriff Chas Kenyon gives notice of sale under a 1916 judgment lien against George Dean. The property lies in sections 9 27N 16E WM and will be auctioned May 6 1916 at Wenatchee Courthouse for cash to satisfy the judgment costs and fees. First publication April 7. fourth April 28.
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Masie Bollman
L. Lathrop
Jane Doe Lathrop
Frank H. Hutchings
Chelan
Washington
Ralston
Leavenworth
Wenatchee Avenue
Court House
City of
Wenatchee
Chelan County
A. D
George Dean
County of
Chas. Kenyon
Ghelan County
H. K. Lemmon
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