Cure for the Duke of Portland Nose and a Double Life
An affidavit recounts how a man from India cured the Duke of Portland’s diseased nose, then became entwined in a sensational tale of a double life as Mr Druce a Baker Street bazaar figure. The narrative describes a staged burial plan, Welbeck Abbey visits, subterranean tunnels, and a claim to the Portland estates tied to Druce’s supposed death.
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Sir Morell Mackenszie
Duke of Portland
Sir Morell
Australia
Melbourne
United States
Old Country
George Bentinck
Welbeck Abbey
Thomas C. Cruce
Mr. Druce
Baker Street
Highgate
Druce
Caldwell Confirms Bogus Funeral Admission
Caldwell admits authenticity of a statement that he arranged the bogus funeral of Thomas Charles Cruce, known as the fifth Duke of Portland. He declines to discuss motives, speaks from a second-floor apartment in a suburb, describing himself as about 70, tall, with white hair and mustache. He lives with his daughter in modest surroundings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Caldwell
Tres
Thomas Charles Cruce
Fifth Duke of Portland
Caldwell
Justice Court Refuses Stay in Updike Estate Dispute
Judge Holt denied a restraining order to Mrs. Sarah E. Updike of Hackenack N J delaying Arthur J. Mace from disposing of a one million dollar Mace estate left by his mother Malinda G Mace who died in 1906. Updike claims a 250000 dollar interest from a secret trust, alleging she was wife to Edward J Mace and that Levi H and Malinda G Mace promised a trust and share. Mace rejects the claim saying the elder Mace would have named her in his will if he intended any bequest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holt
United States Circuit Court
Sarah E. Updike
Hackengack
N. J
Arthur J. Mace
East
Houston Street
Malinda G. Mace
Edward J. Mace
Levi H
Mace
Polike
Dillon
Williamsbridge
Sheavers
Corsican to Join Allan Line Service Next Month
The 11,000-ton twin-screw steamer Corsican completed her trial on the Firth of Clyde with an hourly average speed of 17.6 knots. She is set to enter the Liverpool to Quebec and Montreal service next month.
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Allan Line
Montreal
Firth of Clyde
Coler Launches The Bulletin A Brooklyn Gazette
Coler announces The Bulletin a new Brooklyn weekly with editorials and a small sports note. The maiden issue from 4708 Third Avenue features editorials on municipal debt and city government, plus a short note on Public School No. 10s baseball title.
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Coler
Bulletin
Brooklyn
Charles Frederick Adams
John A. Heffernan
Color
Adams
Sane
Ralphaldo Emerson
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Hefferman
Sporting News
Public School No. 10
Third Avenue
Rooklyn
Missing Doctor Bennie Zitner Appealed By Mother
Police release public appeal for Dr Benjamin W Zitner 28 missing since June 11 after a call to Greenpoint. Cornell Medical College graduate lived with his 50 year old mother at 820 East Fourth Street. Friends fear foul play or memory loss. Mother Hannah pleads for information to bring him home.
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Benjamin W. Zitner
Cornell Medical College
East Side
East Fourth Street
Zitner
Greenpoint
New York
Williamsburg Bridge
Bennie
Hannah
Mutiny and Civil Unrest Shake Midi Region In France
Mutinous units flee to cautionary posts and crowds bring food to soldiers as Premier Clemenceau faces conflicting statements and a tight cordon of martial law. The Chamber backs the government as troops pour into Narbonne Montpellier Béziers Agde and other centers to quell disturbances and restore order.
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Larzac
Béziers
Seventeenth Regiment
M. Clemenceau
Agde
Bailloud
France
Journal Des Débats
Frankenstein
Clmenceau
War Office
Narbonne
Montpellier
Clemenceau
Marcélin Albert
Wine Growers
Priests Rescue Drowning From Burning Launch
Eight young professors from St Ignatus College led by Rev Father George Picket rescued three men from a burning gasoline launch on Cleveland’s lake near Villa Loyola. They pulled the men into three rowboats as the burning boat drifted, the engineer among the rescued badly burned. The men refused to give names.
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New York Times
Cleveland
St. ' Ignatus College
George Picket
Villa Loyola
St. Ignatus College
Picket
Storm shocks prisoner as he confesses in court yard
Pottsville, June 21. Stricken by lightning in the county prison yard, Charles Wawson of Shenandoah cowered in his cell and confessed to shooting his sweetheart after she refused marriage. He said $400 was hidden and his claim of being robbed of $300 was false, admitting he had shammed infancy since arrest.
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Pottsville
Penn
Charles Wawson
Shenandoah
Wawson
Retired General Turcas Amid Post riot Unrest at Narbonne
Narbonne reports the retirement of General Turcas under mob pressure as rioting victims’ funeral proceeds peacefully. A solemn service drew widespread rural attendance with delegates from public organizations and maidens in white near the slain girl’s coffin. Troops and a strong prefecture guard presence contrasted with later relaxation as crowds dispersed.
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Narbonne
Turcas
AML
Sturgis Coffin Dies by Suicide in Connecticut Home
Stamford Conn June 21 Sturgis Coffin wealthy Brooklyn manufacturer of 287 Henry Street committed suicide at his country home in New Canaan during a period of melancholia. He died instantly from a gunshot wound as officials later confirmed. his death’s cause had been kept quiet until the Medical Examiner’s report. Born 1845 in Poughkeepsie he rose in New York’s perfumery business, founded Ladd & Coffin, and left a widow Elizabeth Shipman and two children who did not survive. Rumors in Brooklyn link the act to mourning over a deceased married daughter.
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New York World
Duke of Portland
Druce
England
Perry Allen
Portland
Australa
Highgate
Harcourt House
Cavendish Square
London
Baker Street
Thomas Charles Cruce
Caldwell
Margaret Hamilton
Mr. Druce
Elizabeth Crickmer
Countess of Cork
Cruce
Duke
Eath
George
John Crickmer
Home Secretary
George Cruce
Australia
United Ability Company
Lord Howard de Walden
Coldstream Guards
Baron Bolsover
New York Times
Stamford
Conn
Sturgis Coffin
Henry Street
Brooklyn
New Canaan
Doten
Bridgeport
Coffin
Mr. Coffin
Poughkeepsie
New York City
Henry Coffin
Ladd & Coffin
Elizabeth Wadsworth Shipman
Hammond Incompetent Found by Sheriff's Jury
James Bartlett Hammond inventor and President of the Hammond Typewriter Company was found to be incompetent yesterday by a sheriff's jury. He has been in a sanitarium in New York City for some time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Bartlett Hammond
Theammond Typewriter Company
Hammond
New York City
Ex-Gov Pennypacker Testifies on Capitol Furnishings Scrutiny
Harrisburg inquiry into nine million-dollar Capitol furnishings reveals loose awarding and billing processes by the Board of Grounds and Buildings. Ex-Gov Pennypacker criticizes single-contract approach, notes potential missteps, and argues the Capitol may have cost under thirteen million while warning of possible fraud if not. The session ends with questions about Sanderson’s role and overall contracting, adjourned to next Tuesday.
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Harrisburg
Penn
Board of Grounds and Buildings
Capitol
Pennypacker
Senator Sisson
Pennipacker
Sanderson
Mrr. Sisson
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Walsu
BRR
Crick
Pullt
Walsup
Mr Druce
Prince
Thomas Charles Druce
Walsup Station
Morell Mackenzie
Mr. Caldwell
Allen
Broad Street
Wellville
Atlantic City
Pennsylvania Railroad
West 234
Desbrosses Cortlandt Streets
Midi
Paris
Tobey
America
The
Tobey Furniture Company
32Nd Street
Fifth Avenue
Sturgis
Man
Daughter
J. B. Hammond
Eady
St. Ferry
C.rr
National District Telegraph Co
East 23d Street
Union Central
Madison Av
Broadway
National Biscuit Company
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