Mrs Walker fights will contest over 60 million estate
Philadelphia dispatch reports Mrs Anne Walkers legal reply to the Orphans Court petition backing Mrs Jones Wister to break William Weightmans will. She alleges Martha Weightman was induced to sign guardianship papers and rebuts claims of Weightmans weakness while detailing family tensions and Weightmans unconditioned bequest to Mrs Walker.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Anne Walker
Orphans’ Court
Mr. Weightman
Lfe
Mrs.Walker
Rittenhouse Square
Rain Delays Camp Parade At Peekskill Sevent h Regiment
Special to The New York Times from Peekskill June 11 describes rain stopping the Seventh Regiment evening parade. Col Appleton ordered no ceremony while crowds sought shelter in tents. Only a guard mount occurred. religious services were held in the morning led by Rev Dr McCord and Father Paul preached in the afternoon. About 50 soldiers remained in camp with one wounded private reported.
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New York Times
Peekskill
Seventh Regiment
Appleton
William E. McCord
Father Paul
Eringle
Killed on day of divorce in Chicago accident
Hartley, just divorced from his wife hours before his death, was to wed Miss Berdice Edwards soon. Edwards, arriving from the East a month ago and staying at 710 Michigan Avenue, may not know of Hartley’s death. Hartley paced the docks as divers searched for his body, unaware the divorce had been granted.
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New York Times
Chicago
Wilson
Hartley
Berdice Edwards
Atiss Edwards
Michigan Avenue
Hart- Leyes
Awke
Greeks Defeat Bulgarians In Balkan Skirmishes
In Panthhatin near Vosena on June 27 Greek forces suffered three dead while Bulgarian losses reached twenty eight killed or wounded and seventeen prisoners executed. Earlier on June 8 at Libadi west of Camendra three Greeks and sixteen Bulgarians were killed. Turkish troops arrived to prevent total Bulgarian annihilation amid ongoing clashes in the region.
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Salonica
Turkey
Panthhatin
Vocena
Libadi
Camendra
Poisoning Charge Against Madoc Woman in Death
In Madoc Ontario on June 11 Mrs William Diamond, 74, was jailed for poisoning her daughter in law Mrs William Diamond last January. The victim died after taking medicine. exhumed body showed strychnine. The prisoner denied buying poison but a druggist record proved she purchased strychnine. Witnesses spoke of violent quarrels between the two.
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Madoc
Ontario
Williama Diamond
Illiam Diamond
Vintage Tableware Price Hints From Fixtures Sale
A list of suggested prices for china bowls, fruit compotes, water jugs, champagne jugs and service pieces. Items include 8 inch bowls at 2.25 3 and 4 dollars, 9 inch bowls at 5 and 6.50, 10 inch bowls at 8 9 10, and sugar or cream sets at 4 and 0 dollars with regular prices noted.
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Wanamaker
New York
Philadelphia
United States
Tenth Street
Ninth Street
Our Most Beautiful Dresses Reduced on Broadway Sale
A windowed clothing notice touts drastic reductions on foreign dresses and tailor-made suits on the second floor at Broadway. It advertises twenty eight tailor-made suits formerly $60 to $100 now $50 each, twenty six linen gowns once $75 to $250 now $50 to $16, and linen dresses previously $38 to $90 now $25 to $60, highlighting exclusive designs and summer wear.
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Broadway
Fine Brass Bedsteads Under Price
Bargain notice highlights Wanamaker Brass Bedsteads offering durable construction and steady workmanship. Describes six regular-stock patterns with prices from 28 to 38 dollars, detailing sizes, pillar types, top rails, and finishes. Fourth-floor display and Colonial designs emphasized.
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Wanamaker
Landscape artist in a cell in Newark hatchet attack
Fritz Weber a 30 year old landscape artist of 334 Waverly Avenue was locked in a padded cell at the Fourth Precinct Police Station on charges of attacking his wife with a hatchet. Five policemen subdued him after he smashed his home and damaged paintings. His wife fled the room crying for help as neighbors intervened. Police Surgeon Clark was to examine him tomorrow.
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Newark
N. J
Fritz Weber
Waverly Avenue
Fourth Precinct
Samuel Saslow
Weber
Clark
Policeman Injured Jumping From Burning Brooklyn House
Police officer Elmer E. Gians of the Classon Avenue station was hurt after he forced entry and warned tenants in a four story brick building at 312 Classon Avenue. Fire forced him to jump from a second floor window. he was taken home to 208 Grand Avenue with possible internal injuries and fractures to his right ankle. The blaze caused about $3000 damage and no other injuries were reported.
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Elmer E. Gians
Classon Avenue
Brooklyn
Grand Avenue
Glans
Collision Victim Identified as Adolph Elzer Found
The body identified at the morgue as Adolph Elzer, who was drowned during a lower bay incident a week ago Saturday, was recovered yesterday from the southern shore of Staten Island. Elzer and another man were cruising in a launch that was run down.
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Adolph Elzer
Staten Island
Elzer
Sloop Captain Claims NJ Waters In Registry Case
Capt. Spies of the schooner Marshall O. Wells argues the fatal accident near Robbins Reef occurred in New Jersey waters. He was held in $500 bail awaiting the body’s finding and contends New York authorities lack jurisdiction after surrendering to them on Custom House officials’ advice.
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Marshall O. Wells
Robbins Reef
Spies
New Jersey
New York
Custom House
Old Soldier Seeks Ceremony Over Long Bridge
Ambrose Hammond ex-Sergeant of the Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry writes to the President urging a Civil War veterans ceremony before the Long Bridge across the Potomac is demolished. He proposes cutting the wooden bridge into pieces and distributing them to old soldiers who crossed it in the war and on the return in 1865.
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New York Times
Washington
Ambrose Hammond
Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Hammond
Potomac
Hunt Cotton Report Leak Shifts Inquiry to Major Cities
Washington reports say an inquiry into leakage of crop condition information from the Department of Agriculture has moved to large cities as Secret Service agents conduct days of questioning. A full report is not expected for a week or ten days while Secretary Wilson confirms John Hyde, the department statistician, was asked to return to the United States. There is no suspicion against Hyde, according to Wilson.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Secret Service
Wilson
John Hyde
Europe
United States
Hyde
Lillian Russell's Fox Terrier Missing Sparks City Search
Anxiety and grief filled Miss Lillian Russell's Brooklyn home on Second Avenue and Seventy sixth Street as her fox terrier Jack vanished shortly before noon. The search spanned Bay Ridge through the afternoon with family, police, and a general alarm mobilized to locate the pet.
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Lillian Russell
Second Avenue
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