Many Claimants for Old Estates Across the Nation
A Washington court case over an inch and a half strip of land held by an asylum opens a string of old estate and will lawsuits. The article cites Manhattan myths of Anneke Jans and notes multi‑million-dollar claims across New York, Maryland, and DC with centuries of history and disputed deeds, often ending in costly rulings.
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New York
Washington
Maryland
District of Columbia
Nellie Drake Pascoe
Prince. George’s County
James Anthony Drane II
America
Lord Baltimore
New York City
Paradise
Manhattan
New Jersey
Unnike Jans Bogardus
Manhattan Island
Anneke Jans
Roele Jans
South
BE. L. Brooks
Title Guarantee and Trust Company
Greenwich Village
Washington Square
Death by own action warns papers and cops of his plans
Zamora, a 45 year old press agent in Centre California Yale, notified papers and the sheriff he would kill himself, wrote a glowing self description and a note citing ill health and friendlessness, paid a messenger $20 to deliver copies, and died at a hotel from cyanide after officers broke in.
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E Centre
Cal
Yale Zamora
Wie
Zamora
Long Fight Ends Over Rights of Chapman Heiress
A decades long legal battle concludes with a woman finally recognized as legitimate daughter of George M. Chapman who died in 1887. Earlier this year a 66 year old woman received 5242 from an aunt after a 15 year wait, the sum kept in a bank account she unaware of.
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George M. Chapman
Electricians' Union Bans Cursing on Job
The Montreal Light Heat and Power employees face a language ban after a union resolution led by R. Blanchett and W. P. Lavertue. The electricians’ leadership asks company cooperation to enforce the rule and urges the public not to provoke workers with abusive language.
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Electricians
Montreal
Montreal Light, Heat and Power Company
R. Blanchett
W. P. Lavertue
Electricians’ Union
Kick Causes Stroke in Cedar Rapids Boy
Laurence Heaton twenty two son of a farmer from Elberon is in a local hospital with paralysis on the right side after a horse kicked him while harnessing a team. The incident occurred when one of the horses struck him as he handled the rig.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Laurence Heaton
Elberon
Winds That Blow Up And Down Create Thunderstorms
A National Geographic bulletin explains vertical winds drive most weather, lightning, hail, and thundercloud dynamics. Upward gusts form highs and lows, towers like Shenandoah’s destruction reveal rapid air shifts, and charge separation powers lightning as raindrops are blasted and frozen, growing hailstones through repeated skyward trips.
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Washington
Shenandoah
National Geographic Society
Bulletin
Apple tree yields color early, creates six thousand dollar nest egg
In Mullica Hill New Jersey an apple tree limb painted red weeks before others led to a $6000 payment to Lewis Mood for early color fruit. The money is set aside for his son’s college education as nurserymen commercialized the trait.
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Mullica Hil
N. J
Lewis Mood
Mullica Hill
Soacre
Mood
Lewis, Jr
Practical Recipes From The Kitchen Cabinet Column
Green peppers feature in stuffed peppers onion chowder baked peppers and corn dishes. Also included are quince honey pineapple fluff prune salad and cottage pudding with Monroe sauce plus Lyonnaise potatoes and Bird's Nest pudding. The piece stresses balanced meals and avoiding two starchy vegetables at once.
Yangtze Gorges to Chengtu Promises Change in China Travel
A National Geographic prepared survey describes the Yangtze upper gorges from Ichang to Kweichow, noting majestic scenery and peril, and foresees a railway linking Sze-chuan to Hankow and Cheng-tu. It details river trade, Chinese urban growth at Chung-king, and the ethnic diversity of Szechuan, with travel by sedan chair still dominant.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
China
Yangtze River
Central Asia
Yangtze
West China
Ichang
Steam Navigation
Kweichow
Marco Polo
Sze-chuan
Chung-king
Tongking-Yunnan
Ching-king
Cheng-tu
Northwest China
Manchuria
America
Hankow
Orient
Woosang
Sush
Gorges
Kialing
New York
Chengtu
Szechuan
Western
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