Thaw Trial Hearings Feature Dramatic Doctor Testimony
In the Thaw case Dr. Evans and Dr. Wagner testified about Thaw’s statements and mind state. District Attorney Jerome cross-examined, challenging evidence and protesting the codicil. A lively clash arose over accusations of misconduct as the trial progressed. Also in Washington Senator Hopkins offered a two thirds expulsion test amendment on Reed Smoot.
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Bolton
criminal courts
Thaw
Jerome
Evans
Charles G. Wagner
Binghamton
phisician
Mr. Jerome
Delmas
attormes
Washington
Hopkins
Reed Smoot
senate
GOUsUHIg ter
Utah
Smoot
Herpicide touted as scalp germicide remedy
In a product pitch, the Herpicide Co of Detroit proclaims that washing with soap cannot remove hair problems. It claims Dandrutt and baldness are caused by scalp germs and promotes Newhro's Herpicide as the original germicide that kills the parasite feeding on hair roots. Available in 50 cent and one dollar sizes. samples offered via stamp payment. g. A. Willismoen named as Special Agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newhro
Herpicide Co
Detroit
Mich
g. A. Willismoen
A Problem and a Solution in a 19th Century Row
A letter complains of a money loan to a friend who then marries the widow who lent the funds. The wife demands repayment from the borrower, while the husband, now her spouse, cannot repay. A reader asks for guidance in this tangled debt case and jokes about avoiding widows. Nearby, a grisly murder is reported in New Brunswick with a farmer discovering an axe-blow victim along a road. No suspect is named.
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Denver Post
New Brunswick
N. J
Ira Warne
Madison township
Thaw Kills Stanford White Trial Details Read in Court
The Feb 19 New York report covers Harry K Thaw describing his motive and the will and codicil admitted as evidence. Alienist Dr Evans relays Thaws statements claiming he sought public humiliation of Stanford White. The trial enters its fifth week with wills and mental state testimony key to the case.
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New York
America
Providence
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Britton
Evans
Jerome
Thaw
White
Pittsburg
Charlies H Parphurst
Authour Comstoch
lirs Hammond
Jelliffe
ds caida
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Del
Belair
William Francis Brand
St. Mary's P. E
Emmerton
Harford county
Dr. Brand
New Orleans
Maryland
Protestant Episcopal church
Wallace
Idaho
Fred Trier
Steve Adams
Tyler
Reforms in U S Printing Cut Government Costs
Washington reports the joint Senate House committee on government printing completed its investigation. It cites over 1.5 million dollars saved this fiscal year and proposes further reforms to regulate congressional and departmental printing to reduce abuses and costs.
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Washington
senate
house
congress
Platt
Landis
Five Men Die In Dynamite Explosion Near Hazel Patch
London Ky Feb 19 five railroad workers from Louisville and Nashville were killed when 103 sheds of dynamite thawing around a fire exploded at tunnel No 4 north of Hazel Patch. Names listed include Hugh Sutton foreman Fran Reiss Carl Epps and Andrew Cleveland. Debris scattered over nearby area as investigators race for clues.
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London
Louisville & Nashvile railroad
Hazel Patch
dea
Hugh Sutton
Fran, Reiss
Carl Epps i
Invalid Will of Ex Chief Justice Paxson Declared Void
In Philadelphia on February 19 Judge Penrose of the orphan’s court ruled a clause in the will of former Chief Justice Paxson invalid due to missing subscribing witnesses. The will left 1,500,999 dollars to a chantry and 100.04 dollars toward founding an agricultural school, with residuary bequests to Paxson’s widow’s heirs and other beneficiaries amid contested claims.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Penrose
orphans’court
Paxson
supreme court
chantry
hess
Pwo nopieas
Edward
Hream D Paxenn
deviswr
Frick Coke Announces Wage Increase for Mine and Coke Workers
The Frick Coke Company announces a wage advance across its Connellsville region. Effective March 7, miners get a 10 percent raise, draining coke and related labor receive 15 cents per day more, with further increases for other labor classes. The move makes Western Pennsylvania coke workers among the highest paid in the world.
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Frick Coke Company
Copasiissie Pa
flirt mn
Connellsville
neu
Frick’ Coe
Western
Pennsylvana
Japanese Children Admit to San Francisco Schools Under Restrictions
Washington reports a new agreement among President Roosevelt Secretary Root Mayor Schmitz and the San Francisco school board to admit Japanese children to white schools with limits while barring Japanese laborers from the United States and excluding American workers from Japan. The plan preserves preexisting segregation for certain adults and outlines that only Japanese children under 16 may attend with white students. A mass protest by Japanese groups is planned in Tokyo over mainland exclusion.
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Washington
San Francisco
Japan
United States
Roosevelt
Root
Schmitz
board of education
ios
Pokce
Claims He Was Mistreated Aboard American Liner
Alonzo F Simms of Washington DC says two broken ribs resulted from an assault while aboard the St Louis bound for home. He claims he was shanghaied onto a British steamship at Newport News and to England, before working as a coal passer on the St Louis, and seeks redress.
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New York
Alonzo F. Sivams
hainess
Washington, D. C
United States
St Louis
Southampton
Terresua Hay- Tan
Newport News
Simms
Washington
Schley
England
St. Louis
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