Mrs Bull Bullied Swindler In Will Insolvent Estate
Transfer tax appraisal in Surrogate's Court shows the estate of Mrs Marie Nevins Bull is insolvent after her death on February 7 1911 at Newport Rhode Island. Provisions of her will conflict with limited assets. John A Qualey convicted of swindling her of 35000 via Magnesia Asbestos Co. executions and legacies detailed across New York Rhode Island and local properties. Bit part on Paul W Bartlett monument design. Benjamin Robinson 84 dies, discoverer of fish glue, in Gloucester Massachusetts.
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Marie Nevins Bull
John A. Qualey
Ellen Dunlop Hopkins
Qualey
Sing Sing
Rhode Island
Young
Dr. Bull
Hoadley, Lauterbach & Johnson
James G. Biniie
Morning News Miscellany of Personal and Public Notes
A jumble of brief items covers bereavement insolvency and court cases. Prolific names appear in legal and political notices including Sulzer Me details of marriages and withdrawals. Section headings suggest a broad era daily brief with entertainment theatre and weather updates.
Pupils Slaves to Drugs Prompt Probe in Ohio
Cleveland reports detectives from the State Board of Pharmacy found hundreds of West Technical High School and Central High School pupils addicted to heroin. Investigations target druggists expected to be arrested soon. A girl pupil admitted stealing to buy heroin, prompted by a local drug ring near a high school. Police had suspected thefts by youths tied to morphine use, with free samples fueling addiction. In Rock Island, Emil Sparrey, a wrestler, killed Grace Campbell and then himself in a jealousy tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ury Temgrayn
Flandermeyer
Mlandermeyer
Lorain-West Hid Street
French View on Excluding Japanese from California Citizenship
Paris reports Professor Emily Hovelaque urges caution on Japanese land ownership laws in California. She frames exclusion as a clash of federation versus state sovereignty, cites Anglo-Saxon pragmatism, and warns against undermining universal rights. The piece notes long allied ties and hopes for unity under shared principles.
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The
Tribune
Paris
Emily Hovelaque
Pub- Me Instruction
France
Japan
United States
California
William H Mayer Funeral Held in Middletown
Members of the winter colony attended the funeral of William H Mayer at his Middletown home. The service was led by Rev. Stanley C Hughes. After the service the family requested Ironbar, Mayer’s famed horse, be shot and buried behind the farm stable.
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Seueprapn
Tribune
Newport
William H. Mayer
Middletown
Stanley C. Hughes
Paroled Prisoner Flees in Washington
In Washington DC Governor Blease grants parole to James Johnson known as Portland Ned, who had just left the state penitentiary after a ten year term for safe robbery in 1902. He walked into a corridor and vanished as a federal warrant for Plymouth NC post office robbery in 1898 awaited him. A strangled note mentions a separate schoolteacher’s parole involving a homicide.
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Portland
Blease
Impending Duel in Paris Between Noted Fencers
Paris in April sees a planned duel in Paris between H. C. Verger the son of a Paris deputy and Georges Breittmayer after a quarrel years ago. Verger recently married and initially refused to fight but then challenged an acquaintance following a new dispute. Breittmayer says he is ready to fight at once with seconds exchanged.
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Paris
Aprit Zo
Pari
H. C. Berger
Georges Breitzmayer
M. Verger
M. Breittmayer
Breittmayer
Prince Pignatelli d Aragona Escapes In Speed Case
Freeport police stopped a man driving 45 mph en route to Hewlett Bay Park for a Rockaway Hunting Club meeting. He flashed a Ritz Carlton card and objected to the nickname Jack, identifying himself as Prince Pignatelli d Aragona. He agreed to appear in Lynbrook court Monday before Justice Nell.
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Jack
Freeport
Long Island
Shim
Prince Pignatelli d'Aragona
Ritz-Carlton
Prince
Rockeaway
Hewlett's Bay Park
Mrs Bourne Secures Divorce From Senator Bourne
Mrs Lilian Elizabeth Bourne obtains a divorce from Jonathan Bourne former Oregon United States Senator on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. She states he insulted her refused to host guests and spoke coldly while they lived apart in Washington. The suit followed her February return earlier filed April 7.
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Portland
Ore
Lilian Elizabeth Bourne
Jonathan Bourne
United States
Oregon
Washington
Bourne
Franklin Wyatt
Bryan’s Coast Visit Shapes California Anti Alien Debate
In San Francisco and Sacramento the Bryan trip is viewed as political theatre rather than a turning point for California’s anti alien land law. Democrats and organized labor mobilize to maximize the moment, while Progressives and Republicans push anti alien ownership as a central campaign issue amid long running battles dating back to Roosevelt and Taft.
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The
Tribune
Francisco
California
Bryan
Sacramento
Toryan
Organized Labor
Les
Roosevelt
Federal
Organized
Taft
Hiram W. Johnson
Johnson
San Joaquin
Legisature
Progressive Party
Wilson
John 4. Sanford
Washington
Oregon
Sulzer Defies Party Enemies In Plain Words
Governor Sulzer refuses to yield to Tammany pressure and warns he will push through his state wide primary. The machine retaliates by ordering the legislature to kill measures the governor supports as the political clash escalates in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tammany
Sulzer Defies Democrats Over Direct Primary War
Governor Sulzer threats to purge any Democratic chairman opposing him mark a fierce clash over a state wide direct primary. Albany hearing drew GOP and Dems into a tense battle as leaders sought to rush or block emergency measures and adjournment loomed amid party divisions.
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New York
Democratic Party
Senate
Assembly
Frawley
Finance Committee
Levy
Albany
Gernor
Afor Busses
Murtaugh
Mrs Wilson Visits Poor Boy Dying of Tuberculosis
Mrs Woodrow Wilson made an unannounced visit from the White House to a dying tuberculosis patient, aided by Dr Cary Grayson. She collected spring flowers and accompanied him to the sick boy’s home, as neighbors began to spread the news.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Cary Grayson
Baths for Chorus Girls Debate Ends Unsettled
The Minneapolis council debated after hours access to Riverside Baths for chorus girls from the Philadelphia Chicago Grand Opera Company. A draft restricted openings after 11 p.m. to council acts and barred extra privileges. Aldermen Chase Hills opposed, Peterson defended the ad for the city amid witty exchanges.
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Tetegeaon
the Tribune
Minneapolis
Riverside
Committee On Public Recreation
Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company
Alderman Chase
Hills
Peterson
Chase
LIFTED THIEF BY COLLAR
Mounted Patrolman William Lenahan stops a chase on Madison avenue after a suspected pickpocket is grabbed from a horse. Angelo Dubin of Philadelphia is named by broker Le mesius Neilson as the wallet thief, charged with grand larceny after a collision of crowd and pursuers.
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Madison Avenue
5Th Street
William Lenahan
Angelo Dubin
South 2d Street
Philadelphia
Lemesius Neilson
Broadway
Dubin
14Th Street
Neilson
Lenahan
Fireman Rescues Woman and Baby as Eleven Horses Die
Policeman Frank Burke of East 61st Street station saved Mrs Mary Crookes her infant and her seven year old daughter Florence from a third floor stable blaze at 225 Fast 61th Street last night. The fire caused about $10,000 in damage and claimed eleven horses. Fire Chief King ordered a second alarm due to the nearby hospital and a garage next door, but it proved unnecessary as the blaze was quickly controlled.
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Frank
Burke
East
Ith Street
Mary Crookes
Florence
61Th Street
Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital
King
Ramona Borden Reunited With Father After Escape
Ramona Borden, seventeen, daughter of Gail Borden, was found after a cross country chase and reunited with her father in Boston. They then traveled to Worcester by car and checked into Hotel Warren, with plans for medical care and no legal action planned.
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Hamona Borden
Gail
Boston
the Tribune
Ramona Borden
Gail Borden
New York
Youngs
Vate
Toraine
South Station
Worcester
Warren
Helen Sheldon White
Ramona Horden
Pompton Lake
N. J
Hotel Vendome
Miss Horden
Burns
Theodor A. Backe
Brooklyn
Ramona Orden
Kyle
Raymond Burns
Misa Borden
Vendome
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Gloucester
Mass
Benjamin Robinson
Yul
White
Borden
Bulzer
Murphy
Tee
Robinson
Maywood
ENEB
Sulzer
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Capitol
Aeign
Dublin
Queen Mother
London
Mra
Belmont
Montencaro Abdul Ham
Beandal
Transeau Simple
Extruder
Russia
Editorial
Army and Navy
Cleveland
Peitane
Rock Island
Emil Bparrey
Grace Campbell
Liberty
Hovelaque
Brotherhood
Greece
America
W. H. Mayers
Columa
Erner
11Th Street
Sulser
Wagner
Assemblyman
Judiciary Committee
Lnter (Han
Mrs. Wilson
Gallarden
Mr. Borden
Raymond J. Burns
William J. Burns
Burns Detective Agency
Touraine
Front Street
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