Purdy scandal tale of love and a pawned brooch
Mrs. Mattie Mae Purdy of New York, jailed in Philadelphia, confessed love for medical student Grace Garnsey. Garnsey allegedly pawned a $600 diamond brooch to fund his medical studies, drawing police attention. The couple planned elopement. Purdy planned to return to her husband while Garnsey faced charges.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Mattie Mae Purdy
C. Franklin Purdy
New York
Grace Garnsey
Medical College
Orace
Garnsey
Sound Beach
Purdys
Conn
Ater
Government forms tea import protection commission
The Treasury Secretary appoints a expert commission to test and set standards for tea imports, effective May 1. Members are top traders from across the country including George Hewlett, George Macy, Herbert Osborn, A P Irwin, George W Caswell, Herbert G Woodworth, and Frederick Hellyer, with $50 honoraria plus travel and hotel reimbursements.
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Custom House
George B. Cortelyou
the Treasury
Congress
Treasury
George Hewlett
Hewlett & Lee
George Macy
Carter, Macy &Co
Herbert Osborn
New York
A. P. Irwin
Irwin, McBride, Catherwood & Co
Philadelphia
George W. Caswell
San Francisco
Herbert G. Woodworth
Boston
Frederick Hellyer
Chicago
English buyers purchase Webster County tobacco crop
The 1966 pooled crop of tobacco in Webster County was sold to English buyers. It will be shipped from Madisonville to New Orleans and then to Liverpool. The sale totals 825 hogsheads, arranged into a sixty car train.
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Madisonville
Webster County
New Orleans
Liverpool
War over Jones's grandson in Georgia custody case
In Cartersville Georgia Mrs Sam Jones widow of the late Georgias Sam Jones gained legal custody of her 2 year old grandson Sam Jones Sloan after allegations that the childs father H W Sloan and his wife were improper guardians The father previously tried to kidnap the child and was arrested with the boy Sloan bonds were posted and custody awarded with visit rights set by Judge Fite
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New York Times
Cartersville
H. W. Sloan
Sam. P. Jones
Sam Jones Sloan
Georgia
Sam Jones
Fite
Prison fire in Valdosta kills Black prisoners
In Valdosta Georgia on January 18 a mob burned Echols County jail in Statenville housing Black prisoners Andrew Johnson and Steve Sms. The inmates were in a steel cage on the second floor during a civil unrest incident between white workers and Black mill employees. The fire killed both prisoners as whites feared an acquittal and set the jail ablaze, despite a dying inmate being visited by a doctor shortly before.
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New York Times
Valdosta
Andrew Johnson
Steve Sms
Echols County
Statenvile
Mahan Guilty of Murder of His Niece
Verdict finds Alfred Mahan guilty of second degree murder in the death of his four year old niece Ethel Mahan in North Bennington. Vermont law imposes life imprisonment for second degree murder.
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Bennington
Alfred Mahan
Ethel Mahan
North Bennington
Vermont
Yale Surgeons Treat Lad The Best Known New Haven Dog
Three Yale surgeons operated after Lad, a valuable dog owned by Prof. William Lyon Phelps, was crushed by a car on Whitney Avenue. Drs. Bacon and Foster removed skull fragments. Lad has a fair chance. Phelps laments cruel drivers and recalls Lad as a faithful companion to students and faculty.
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New York Times
New Haven
Lad
William Lyon Phelps
Yale
Phelps
Harrison Whitney
Francis Bacon
J. P. C. Foster
Engine Falls From Bridge Into River Near 37th Street
A small engine used to haul rocks for the Pennsylvania cut project sank in the North River off Thirty-seventh Street after a switch error caused five loaded freight cars to roll down a grade. The locomotive lies 100 feet from shore in thirty feet of water as Merritt-Chapman crews work to recover it. officials expect it to be refloated by noon.
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Pennsylvania Cut
Thirty-fourth Street
Ninth Avenue
North River
Thirty-seventh Street
Merritt-Chapman
West
Thirtyseventh Street
The Greatest Furniture Sale Announcement
The store proclaims the largest furniture sale in its history with straight reductions from regular prices. Every piece has a tag showing the savings. The sale runs for several weeks with many bargains ending after the first days. visit tomorrow on the third to fifth floors.
Bayonne Recorder to Fly Test of New Machine
Prof Paul Al hausen of Bayonne will test a bird shaped flying machine with twenty foot wings on February 1 at Boulevard and Twenty-ninth Street. Hyman Lazarus, president of the manufacturing company, will accompany the inventor on the trial. The gasoline powered craft is being finished next to the Opera House on Avenue C.
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Paul Alhausen
Bayonne
Twenty-ninth Street
Hyman Lazarus
Opera House
Avenue Cr
Robbery on Williamsburg Bridge Told by Mrs Paretti
Mrs Theresa Paretti of 22 Barrow Street reported to police that she was robbed of $1000 from an underskirt pocket on a trolley car crossing the Williamsburg Bridge. She described a 40 year old thick set man with a black mustache sitting beside her and that after leaving the car at Sixth Avenue the money and two plain gold rings were missing. Her outer skirt remained intact and she noted her underskirt pocket had been cut V shaped.
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Quaker City
Purdy
Nassau Street
Riverside Drive
Dorothy
Pier ‘Ire Purdys
Sound Beach
Con
Waterbury
Conn
Harvard
Garnsey
Pugilist
Tufts
Wee
Alfred Purdy
C.F. Purdy
Theresa Paretti
Barrow Street
Williamsburg Bridge
Sixth Avenue
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society Auxiliary Reunion at Astor
The annual reunion of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society Orphan Asylum will be at the Hotel Astor on Wednesday with luncheon followed by entertainment. St Gabriel's Academy Alumnae Association, meeting at the Waldorf, plans a midwinter excursion at the Astor on Feb 45. About fifty members of New York's medical fraternity attended the Medico Surgical Society dinner at the Hotel Manhattan with brief papers after the meal.
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Ladies’ Auxiliary
Hebrew — Sheltering Guardian Society
Orphan
Hotel Astor
St. Gabriel's Academy Alumnae Association
Waldorf
Astor
Medico-Surgical Society of
New York
Hotel
Manhattan
Tuthill
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Statenville
Mahan
Sity
Tad
Prof
W. L. Phelps
Pennsylvania
Suililil
Brooklyn
America
B. Akman & CO
Albatross
Brussels
Point D'Applique Laces
B. Akan& CO
Morrow
ANG
Wilton
34Th Street
35Th Street
St Avenue, New York
Alcott & Weekes
West 33Rd Street
Coats
A. Jaeckel & Co
Fifth Avenue
Tligh Class
London
Fifth Avenue, New York
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