Man indicted over elopement with teen in Kentucky
Frankfort, Ky. Roger W. Dale alias Frank Hancock pleaded guilty to Mann Act violation for bringing sixteen year old Bessie Lucille Smith of Toledo to Frankfort where they have lived since October. The girl said a trance medium helped facilitate messages between them. Dale claimed they were married and produced a certificate.
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Roger W. Dale
Frank Hancock
United States
Wiard
Bessie Lucille Smith
Toledo
Ohio
Dale
Putnam Street
Indict Nelson and Son in Wisconsin Conspiracy Case
Congressman John M Nelson and his son Byron were indicted by a federal grand jury in Madison Wisconsin on a conspiracy to violate the selective service law. Byron previously faced charges for failure to register. They will face trial in December. Byron now is at his father’s ranch in Canada after briefly registering when the warrant was served. Bail was set at 2560. The government alleges Byron ignored registration on his father’s advice. Nelson contends citizens abroad need not register but must do so within five days after reaching an American port. 1,250,000 French Killed In War. One and a quarter million Frenchmen have died and many wounded out of an army of 7,000,000, according to Representative Johnson. He says France now fights defensively and Britain and the United States must carry the main burden. Germans in Loyal Prayer. Native-born Germans and descendants prayed for President Wilson and fallen soldiers at St James Catholic Church Baltimore. Nicholas Wagner, who died aboard the destroyer Chauncey, was remembered. about 120 German-descended members serve in the U S. Train Hits Motor Kills Two. A race with a railroad engine and caboose killed Walter Prickett and Charles Cowperthwaite, both 25, near Flemington Junction, N J. They died at a hospital in Easton, Pa. Neck Broken by Fall. John Titlow, 54, died after falling from a roof in Bethlehem Pa while slating another worker. Titlow’s neck was broken.
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John M. Nelson
Byron
Madison
Wis
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Sanburn
Byron Nelson
Congressman Nelson
Representative Johnson
Washington State
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Johnson
France
Great Britain
United States
Germany
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Chauncey
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Charles Cowperthwaite
Medford
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Coatesville Man Denounced by Mayor Quits Town
Arthur Hoopes, ordered to leave Coatesville after pro-German remarks, will not return. Moving trucks lined his curb as Hig family goods shift to West Chester. Hoopes and his wife and mother-in-law left their home. destination unknown, reportedly Phoenixville.
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Arthur Hoopes
A. H. Swing
Coatesville Trust Company
West Chester
Hoopes
Phoenixville
Treasury Cash Reserve Surges to 4.77 Billion
The treasury of the United States reports total cash holdings reaching an unprecedented 4 772 081 791 dollars. The official tally marks a historic peak in government liquidity and cash reserves.
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Treasury
United States
Takes First Drink at 74 in Butte Jail
Peter Sullivan, jailed on a drunkenness charge in Butte, Montana, says he had his first whisky at 74 and vows it will be his last, joking about being led astray and worrying about stunting his growth. A jailer quips the arrest, while a separate note from St. Louis reports Private Clarence Willard at Camp Funston will receive a 300 foot long letter from friends sent by parcel post after his departure.
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Mont
Peter Sullivan
Sullivan
St. Louis
Clarence Willard
Camp Funston
Willard
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claim and Reward Offer
A 19th century advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure for catarrh, asserting internal action through the blood to the mucous surfaces. It offers a one hundred dollar reward for any case it fails to cure and invites readers to request testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
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