Woman, 68, Bride for Tenth Time Despite Years
Evansville era reports Mrs Polly Weed Baker of Newburg aged 68 wed Simon Shippert aged 60 in Burlington Ind marking her tenth marriage and ninth husband. She has seven former spouses in graves or alive, with a chaotic record including divorces and a suicide. She continues to marry, recalling no names of earlier mates.
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Evanaville
Ind
Polly Weed Baker
Newburg
Simon Shippert
Burlington
Newbury
William Baker
Ife
Beker
Henry Fuquay
James Fuquay
James Henry Robinson
Warrick County
George S. Boyden
Evansville
R. Weed
Nawbure
Boydon
Chey
R. E. Edwards
Baker
Telegraph code saves man from airtight vault at hotel
At the Planters' hotel in St Louis Miss Benson used Morse code via tapping a steel door to relay a vault combination to Bonneville, a trapped clerk, after Jack Shannon locked him inside. The vault was airtight. Shannon and others watched as Benson's message and Bonneville's penknife signal led to the release.
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St. Louis
Cora Benson
Planters
E. Bounsville
Bonneville
S Hott
Bonnavilla
Jack Shannon
Shannon
Miss Benson
Misa Benson
Child Holds Up Train on Greenwood Lake Trench
A three year old boy wandered onto the Greenwood Lake tranch of the Ilo railroad in Belleville New Jersey dragging a tin horse. The engineer stopped the train after several whistle blows failed to deter the child. Passengers exited the cars in fear before the boy was moved aside by a trainman. The child resisted removal and was described as belligerent while attempting to whip the engineer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Greenwood Lake
Ilo
Silver Lake
Belleville
N. J
Lad, & Son
Antonio Steffanelli
Rampaging bull terrorizes Jersey City business district
A large bull escaped from Keeper at Washington and Bay streets and rampaged through Jersey City’s business area. It charged a woman in a red dress, knocked her down, trampled two schoolchildren, herded hundreds back into a school, wrecked a fish shop and a tailor, and was finally killed after police fired 15 shots from a patrol wagon.
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New York
Washington and
Bay Streets
Jersey City
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Korg
Colley
Boston
Causa
Thisme
Farm Journal
Maesa
Iuer
N. Y
Mother Earth
Storm
Willim of
Pineants
Helen
Bears
Cexntaur Company
NEW _ YORK
Castoria
Pacific Coast
Seattle
Alaska-Yukon- Pacific Exposition
Great Northern Railway
St.Paul
Minneapolis
Duluth
Superior
Chicago
St. Paul
Tacoma
Puget Sound
Great Northern
W. Pitts Gen
Clark St
E. B. Clark
Stolz
Tad Majestic
Detroit
Mich
Milwaukee
Wis
Moving Pictures
Moving Picture Theatres
Standard Film Exchange
Standard Film Exchange Dept
Dearborn Street
Illinois
SPOHN
Chemisivand Bacteriolegmia
Gosken. Tod
U.d.Ae
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