Heirs Demand Exhumation in Will Contest Case
A New York will dispute over William Wessell s 300000 estate prompts heirs to seek exhumation. Lawyer Ferguson cites conflicting death causes pneumonia and Bright s disease while detailing drastic bequests to relatives and many small or zero sums to others. Detective work and affidavits accompany the bid to inspect the late man s grave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ferguson
Weisell
Logan
Taylor
Jerome
Wiliam Wessell
William Hull
R. H. Macy & Co
Saratoga
Hull
Lexington Avenue
Frederick Flinte
J. B. McKenzie
No. 94 West One Hundred and Fourth Street
Philip Freed
Wessell
Welsell
Morris Stern
Stern
McKenzie
Charlotte Lederer
Mrs. Lederer
Lillie
Mollie
Leonora
Miss Lederer
Morris
Hugo
Freed
Charlotte Salmonski
Max Freed
Carrie Freed
Mr. Welsell
Nathan
Joseph
Isaac Ritter
Mr.Welsell
Avid Freed
Minnie Hirsch
Lewis Hess
Ess
Hess
Hilip Freed
Lillie Lederer
Joseph Ritter
Carletta
Elizabeth
Alr. Weisell
Olsell
Slace
Anecdotes From Anywhere Highlight Odd Early Life Tales
A parade of brief vignettes features misadventures of Ethel Smyth child’s musings on marriage and women, Swinburne’s baby study, Olivia Langdon Clemens’s recovery, and family interactions surrounding Robert E. Lee Jr. plus garbled barber humor and exaggerated baroque masquerade gags.
Titled Wives for Sale at Bargains in London America
English society eyes a seasonal migration of titled English women to the United States to marry American millionaires. Prominent families and nobles such as Roxburghe, Lady Margaret Orr Ewing, Miss Poe, and the duchesses and countesses named plan visits or departures to New York and beyond, hoping to secure alliances and restore noble fortunes. The trend is framed as a strategic cross-Atlantic marriage market with London as the clearinghouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
America
England
Roxeburge
Miss Goelet
Sybil Cutting
Roxburghe
Margaret Orr Ewing
Major Orr Ewing
Miss Poe
Barrymore
New York
Algernon Gordon Lennox
Fabbricotti
Marchioness of Granby
Duchesss of Rutland
MarjJorie Manners
Marjorie Manners
Viola Tree
Marquise de Mores
Miss Frewen
Sybil Ada Roche
Lord Fermoy
James Burke Roche
Miss Work
Sybil Roche
Cynthia Roche
Europe
Sybil Cuffe
W. Bayard
United States
Cuffe
W. Bayard Cutting, Jr
Mrs. Bayard Cutting, Jr
Mrs. Cutting
Sea Serpent Sighting Coincides with Arkansas Monitor
Report notes Mississippi waters near Louisiana harboring a sea serpent sighting by Mississippi residents and the monitor Arkansas observed in the same period. The pairing prompts curiosity about potential links between folklore and naval activity along the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Courier Journal
Arkansas
A Darker View of the Vatican and Italian Autonomy
The author argues Italy bears Rome’s consecrated enmity with the Vatican while foreign Catholic powers threaten Italy’s capital. He notes Rome’s long occupancy by the papacy as proof of Italian stability, questions Prussia and American meddling, and critiques clerical manipulation for profit in Rome and France.
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Vatican
Italy
Paris
Washington
Rome
Prussia
Berlin
Republic
Christendom
Leo
Ireland
Mr. Low
Mr. Jerome
Tammany Organ
Richard Crocker
France
Remarkable Paris Airship Exhibitions by Lebaudy and Santos Dumont
The Lebaudy brothers and Santos Dumont staged notable airship displays in Paris amid rain and wind. Lebaudy’s craft logged 37 kilometers in 1 hour 36 minutes, while Santos Dumont tested No 9 with a 30 yard maneuvers drill in Bois de Boulogne despite authorities’ objections. No. 9, smallest built, aims to test No. 10 for 12-person capacity with 2,100 meter cubes. No. 7 also prepared for St Louis exposition contests. The Temps noted the performances as significant given the weather, with the Lebaudy team and Dumont claiming precise control and improved speed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lebaudy Brothers
Santos Dumont
Paris
Lebaudy
St. Martin
Mantes
Limay
Rosay
Santos-Dumont
Neuilly
Bagatelle
Bois de Boulogne
Santos- Dumont
Aeronaut
St. Louie
M. Juohmnes
Grover's Early Days and Cleveland's Honor
Judge Yeomans recalls two incidents showing Grover Cleveland's rigid sense of honor. Cleveland refused a Buffalo mayoral ticket with an untrustworthy comptroller candidate and insisted the order be reversed in nominations. He also opposed defending a contractor's corrupt case, saying he would rather prosecute than aid graft. Drunkenness in the army has doubled since the canteen was abolished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Judge Yeomans
Washington
Cleveland
Buffalo
N. Y
Mr. Cleveland
Yeomans
The Baby in a Neat Room Eyes Lost Strewings
A speaker recalls the home as orderly and quiet until thoughts of a child who used to scatter belongings return. He longs for a time when The baby would again be seen moving objects about the house, restoring the familiar chaos he now misses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Watterson
Kentucky
Desperado
Louis XIV
Salvator
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
Washington
Jackson
DeSoto
Paul Ones
Nelson
Addison
Arragut
Aristotle
Trafalgar
Eilgrim
Fate’s Helping Hand Upsets Lovers’ Plans
Evelyn Follis schemes to reunite her friends Frank Fornes and May Houston but a surprise engagement reveals their betrothals to others. A planned reconciliation collapses as May’s fiancé Robert Barrett appears with his own secret, and Evelyn must accept fate as she exits the scene amid wedding ambitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn Follis
London
Paris
Frank
May
Frank Fornes
May Houston
Frank Fornet
New York
Miss Follis
Fornes
Evelyn
Houston
Tom Fornes
Evvy
Robert Barrett
Herosition
Byelyn
Ethel Thors
Evelynsilis
Louis Henig
Reflections of a Bachelor in New York Press
The item offers social commentary on marriage, gender roles, and women’s fashion with satirical jabs about digestion salvation and repeated marriages. It notes a Romanian minister recommending peasant attire for teachers to fit a Picturesque Wallachian look.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Roumania
Minister of Public Instruction
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Wm. Weisell
Ethel M. Smyth
Miss Brown
Ethel
Mamma
Algernon Charles. Swinburne
Mr. Swinburne
Samuel Clemens
Olvia Langdon
Mr. Clemens
Wimira
Clemens
Miss Langdon
Mr. Langdon
Robert E. Lee, Jr
John L. Sullivan
Grover Cleveland
Lee
Fitzhugh Lee
Joseph E. Willard
Colonel Lee
St. Louis
John Li
New York Weekly
Net
Harper's Weekly
Long Island Sound
Atlantic
Kansas City Journal
Pilgrim Rock
Plymouth Rock
OCR
Grover
Portland
Oregonian
Fate
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