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Philadelphia Times

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Jun 15, 1902

Page

18

Submarine oil boom in Summerland stirs vast wealth hopes

An obscure Southern California hamlet, Summerland, has become a submarine oil prospecting hub with hundreds of offshore derricks and daily output rising as wells reach oil sands. Promoters drill from a sea wharf using giant casings while divers attend the seabed and investors await success amid international interest.

Pacific Coast Ocean Pacific Slope California Summerland Pacific West Baku Bibi-Eibar Swiitoi Romany Lake England Russia Rook Detroit News- Tribune

Chinese husbands are henpecked humorists reveal gender bias

In a Columbia University lecture, Professor Herbert Giles recounts a Chinese humorous tale about ten henpecked husbands forming a society to resist wives. Nine bolt, the tenth dies of fright, while wives laugh at the failed revolt and a host jokes about fears of the Inner ones.

Herbert Allen Giles University of Cambridge Columbia University Professor Giles Giles New York Tribune

The Shah and the Kaiser in a Diplomatic Banquet

A playful sketch imagines the Shah of Persia dining with Kaiser Wilhelm in Italy and Germany. The rulers trade quasi religious banter, boast of shared Faith, and ponder loans and loyalties while hinting at future topics and poems by Omar Khayyam.

Persia Italy Germany Kaiser Wilhelm Tempelhof Omar Khayyam Russias Omar

Finland Freedom Near Its Crisis

A Finnish constitutional crisis intensifies as Russia presses Russification with conscription laws and language rules. Czarist policy reduces Finland to a dependent province, suppressing press, universities, and local governance while conscripts resist and petitions plead for constitutional oath and autonomy.

Finland Grand Duchy New York Sun Poland Sweden Landtag Alexanders Nicholas Nicholas II Russia Imperial Council St. Petersburg Bobrikoff Customs Helsingfors

Texas storm heroine Bessie Purl saves child and survives

Cuero Record recounts 19 year old Bessie Purl amid the Goliad storm. She shields children and retrieves Alice’s severed artery, tying it with a dress string to stop bleeding. The Purl family suffers severe injuries. Bessie shields her siblings and later discovers her parents are dead or dying.

Bessie Purl Purl Kansas J. W. Purl Frank Hart Bessie Walter Maude Alice Hart Maurice Ife Mr. Purl Oscar Little Alice Cuero Tex

Court docket of multiple mortgage and assumpsit suits

Court No 1 and 3 4 5 list numerous cases involving executors trustees mortgagors real owners assumpsit trespass ejectment and mandamus with named attorneys including Hinckley Gessner Wilkinson Van Dusen Kissling Wildermuth Nardi Donkel and others across several courts in a consolidated docket.

Robert H. Hinckley Walter W. Hood Edward J. Gessner John C. Hinckley George Matchell George Heppe Assumpsit Knittel Horace B. Morse John Beakey P. M. MacLaren Theodore Wasieliski Joe Cackowska John R. McLean Grace D. Lucas William Alexander McConaghy John McConaghy van Dusen A. Howard Ritter John BR Clemons A. H. Ritter Rachel Farrell Albert Irwin Va The Union Traction Company N. 8 Koons Newell Booth Company J. A. McGuckin H. E. Kohn Ellenora D. Boyd William McConaghy G. R. van Dusen Edward Gessner J. ©. Hinckley Joseph Doyleya Philadelphia National Catholic Benevolent Association Mandamus Dittmann Harris Leavy Joseph Levin T. J Duff the Real Estate Trust Company George Allen Trustees Samuel 8S White Mortgagor Junkin New Plan Building and Loan Association Edwin Donkerly Ursula Christian

Judgments Filed in Common Pleas Court For Debt and Notes

Judgments entered against numerous debtors including J Elwood Gibson and Lillie M Richardson for 1087.33 and others for various notes and executions. Damages to several claimants listed with amounts and garnishees. inventories filed show multiple names and sums. jury awards for Ve nango street grade changes and a Delaware river dock project total 433, (approx) 18,100 to Hughes, 12,500 to Lehigh Coal, no benefits.

Common Pleas Court J. Elwood Gibson Lillie M. Richardson Sarah L. Stratton Benjamin A. Rhelostrom William H. Lorimer's Sons Company William B. Collins G Speese Black Diamond Coal Company Charles Fretz Charlee W. Gutekunst Fretz & Gutekunst B. Ridgway & Son Harrison Carrie A. Neiman William L. Hartley John C. Cahill Merrill & Baker James J. Farmer South George Gebbie Emilio Nunez & Co William MacDonald Annie Walker Kate W. MacDonald Hugh Irwin Henry F. Fuss Edward Samuel Gabriel Gudobn Devlin Giacomo Chiosso Frank Cuneo George Phillipp C. B. Cooke Benjamin P. Ryder The Model Marine Motor Company Garnishee W. Moore Wharton Venango Street Edgemont Street Bath Street Jury of View W. W. Frazier George B. G. Pilger Et C. Walter Joseph A. Johnson Dora Gilligan Pauline Knedle Isaiah D. Buck Anna Mrophy James and Annie McKim Jane Kerr John J. File William Reynolds W. H. Lee Dorothy T. Frohock Edward J. Melvor Samuel T. Brown Amelia Miller Valentine Miller Margaretta Krauss Susan A. Hoffman Delaware River Aramingo Avenue Robert J. Hughes William H. Hughes Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

Common Pleas Notes Foreclose on Asbestos Suit and Juror Call

Referee recommends judgment for defendant in Asbestos Manufacturing Co vs David Kt Burne for 500.64. Philadelphia Ball Club attachment sought for Lajoie and Bernhard. Jurors summoned for the Court of Oyer and Terminer and Quarter Sessions second period with extensive lists of residents and petit jurors in Philadelphia.

Asbestos Manufacturing Company David Kt. Burne Common Pleas Court Aintiff John I. Rogers Philadelphia Ball Club Lajoie and Bernhard Anl Supreme Court Philadelphia Court of Oyer and Terminer G. Beamer Cherry Street Casper M. Berry Wolf Street Leidy Bilger Point Breeze Avenue Alfred H. Blaker Pine Road William Bethel Snyder Avenue Alfred Bowen North Fairhill James Bowers Dupont Street J.H. Bowers North Thirteenth Street John Burns North Eighth Street Edward Campbell Walnut Street Charles W. Carnes Madison Square William Clay North Lawrence Street William Curry Helgrade John Dawson Master Street Charlies FE L. Drake Andrew Flood Gray's Avenue Robert Foulke Monmouth Street Harry Fox South Twentieth Street John Furgerson Franklin Street John Garrett South Sixteenth Street Geo Gaul East Susquehanna Avenue Charles B. Gordon Wallace Street John Gunson Carpenter Street Frederick Herzog Frank H. Hess Lancaster Avenue John F. Howell Allman Street Joseph Howard Cleveland Avenue Wiliam W. Jones North Sixth Street Charles W. Keely Oxford Street William Leadbeater Oxford Pike Charles McAleer Winter Street Edward McCabe Hope Street George H. McFadden Walput Edward Page, Jr Pine Street Edward Paramore Wharton Street Thomas FE. Prettyman South Forty-sixth Street Fred Schrandt South Second Street Henry Seldenberg South Fifth Street Mt. Vernon Street David Summers Boston Avenue Michael Tierney East Allegheny Avenue Charles Bi Wilder Street al Clary Germantown William Waddy Felton Street M. J. Walsh Thomas Warnecker South Eleventh Street Daniel Webster North Eleventh Street John Ziegler Brown Street

Death notices dated June 1902 list multiple local obituaries

Death notices from June 13 to 18 1902 announce numerous funerals in Philadelphia including infant William J Blakeley 9 weeks James Clifton Ellen Comfort Esther Dandurand Joseph Duffy Julia C Fullerton James Garrety and others. Details give names ages addresses church and cemetery plans with times and venues for services and interments at Mount Peace Westminster Holy Cross Cathedral Holy Cross Saint Ignatius and Green Mount cemeteries.

Blakeley William J Thomas Caroline Blakeley North Hutchinson Street Clifton Elizabeth James Clifton North Alder Street Mount Peace Cemetery Comfort Ellen C Thomas F. Comfort Manayunk Avenue Manayunk St. John the Baptist Church Westminster Cemetery Dandurand Esther Alexander Dandurand North Eighth Street Duffy Joseph Stephen Margaret Duffy Patrick Ma Harkins Rutherglen Scotland Ellsworth Street Holy Cross Cemetery Wilmington Fullerton Julia C John H. Fullerton Thomas and Mary Quinn Moyamensing Avenue Joseph Aloysius Robert Elizabeth Hart Frankford Avenue Old Cathedral Cemetery Heilman John Maria Heilman Ernest Linderme Lancaster Avenue St Ignatius Church Hugo Herman Lewis Minnie Hugo Frankford Rad Hanover Ground Kain Thomas Kain Hewson Street 8Th Ward St. Michael's Church New Cathedral Cemetery Lin Willie Joseph Nee Nam and Mary McIntyre Wuaeeukebeane Lenox Avenue Broadstreet Erie Avenue Ahan Francis Lote John Maban Seale Shamokin Street Reuiem Marest Cathedral Church Megonigle Arch Street Annie Megonigle Morris Ellen James Rs Tantry St. Teresa's B. V. M. Sodality Jener Teenth Street Jem Mase St.Teresa's Church Interon Cathedral Cemetery Noone Edward Annie Noone Eerie Ju'e Artheson Eli Williams J N. Huteh- Cladshie Madison Sq Chludziniski Maine Mercy Cramer Camac Eal Martha D New York Catharine A Mountain Donelly Morton Philadelphia Egner Josephine Epstein Eva Ada Fay Edwin J Farson Ganny James Anderson Gee Fixwater Goldberg Jos Gourley James R Gretts Iolet Warnock Haber Elizabeth J Hall Annie T Haestner Pauline Girard Ave Hanna William Heisman Jose Lancaster Ave Henon Chas Houseman Amelia F Ambe Houston Lombard Howard Wm. H Hoyle Hannah Gloucester N. J Huga Herman L Frankford Ave Hykens Nathan Jewish Foster Home Ri Johnson, Edith Moe Tae Kohn Hicks Kram Annie M. M O Kunle Rosina Lewis John Filbert Lewsandowski Livingston Florence Clarion Merrick Thos Chew Tesewe Aveccue B Church Lane McGlinn McGlone Bridget Plunket T. Lawrence W. Rittenhouse Porter Martha Taylor Postel Emma Fairhill Quinn Matthew Wood Robert J. Wilkesbarre Ramsey Louise H Rehill Julia N. Leithgow Rick Winfield E. Cumberland Norristown Sprankle Continental Hotel Tomes Kate Sunnyside Turner Charlotte Wyle

Bar Harbor stable boy helps desperate traveler rise to judge

A Hermon Maine man, W A Cormick, who once gave up his Bar Harbor job to a stranger, has sold his farm and moved to Minnesota to become general manager of a new lumber company. The former stable boy aided a traveler who wished to end his life. that man is now a Minnesota judge and a founder of a major lumber venture. The narrative links a single selfless act to lasting success.

W. A. Cormick Minnesota Minneapolis Hermon Mifloe Cormick Bar Harbor Boston McCormick

Orphans Court Decrees Discharges and Exemptions Reported

Several court orders discharge administrators executors trustees and executors in estates including William Boyd Charles Lee Emma Bartholomew Adam Knapp Susannah Hattal and William McMullen. A rule allowed James Gillespie to show cause on arrears to Real Estate Title Insurance and Trust Co. a widows exemption petition for Lewis Evans was granted and James Palmer was discharged as guardian of Ada Bowers.

Orphans Court HANNA—Mary E._ Boyd Catharine P. Knapp Ashman John J. Bartholomew Emma M. Bartholomew Edwin F. Scbweley John B. T. Phelps Susie A. Jago Susanna Hattal Penrose James L. Gillespie William McMullen Ferguson Lewis B. Evans James N. Palmer Ada Bowers

Guardians Appointed for Local Minors In Estate Proceedings

Guardians were appointed for multiple minors in estate matters yesterday. Names include Brennan, Willy Land Title and Trust, Cantrell, Patterson, Kilser, Harland, and others with guardians and guardians ad litem listed in the docket.

Toa Eee John McGlinwood Commonwealth Teast Company Brennan Trust Company Willy Land Title and Trust Company Bentznors Continental Trust Company Patterson Germantown Trust Rdian Kilser Han K. MacMullen Cantrell Frederick J. Ocaterle Ad Litem Roberts Sarah G. Thomas Milan Beale H. B. Stewart Hornners Cmerans Trust Company Har- Land Title and Trust Company Carson Sam F. A. McCann Walter Thomas O'Keefy Katie O'Keefe

Estates adjudicated in Orphans Court yesterday

Balances as specified were distributed in estates adjudicated in the Orphans Court. President Judge Hanna presided over Asa Packer and Ernest estates. Judge Ferguson oversaw John H. Grove and King estates.

Orphans’ Court Hanna Asa Packer Ernest Ferguson John H. Grove King

Estate of Margaret P. Brooks Grants Letters to Meredith Hanna

A decision by the Register of Wills assigns administration of Margaret P. Brooks's estate to Meredith Hanna. Brooks, who died in November in Germantown, left about $46,000. A petition requested a citation to show cause why letters should not be granted to a trust company, but the Register instead selected a new admin. Elizabeth K. Sherman, admitted to devise her entire estate, amounting to unspecified value.

Russian War Department Czar St. Petersburg Helsingfors Swedish Boundry Senate Finland Siberia Empire Margaret P. Brooks Meredith Hanna McCallum and Ellett Germantown Register Elizabeth K. Sherman

Girl Saves Negro From Gallows in Colorado Pardons Move

A Fort Worth telegram reports the Colorado Board of Pardons commuted the death sentence of Lawrence Hex, a colored man who murdered William White and Lizzle Alley in Pueblo. The act followed a plea from ten year old Lizzle Hutchins, cashier Hutchins’s daughter, who saved Hex from a runaway team years earlier and urged clemency.

Fort Worth Tex Colorado Clororado Board of Pardons Lawrence Hex William White Lizzle Alley Pueblo Little Lizzle Hutchins Hutchins Fort Worth National Bank Hex Lizzie

Marriages Recorded in Orphans Court Licenses

Cler k in the Orphans Court issued licenses for multiple couples including Michael J. Collins and Ellen A. Dwyer, William K. Simon and Emily F. Warga, Arthur J. Hebi and Messy A. Weaver, Charles S. Smith and Margaret Sweeney, Joseph H. Adams and Auntie Hemphill, Job J. Coughlan and Julia F. O'Brien, Thomas J. Sullivan and Aova BE. Morgan, and others across Philadelphia area streets and towns.

Clerk Bird Orphans’ Court Michael J. Collins North Fifth Street Ellen A. Dwyer North Sixth Street William K. Simon Pearl Street Emily F. Warga North Third Street Arthur J. Hebi Girard Avenue Messy A. Weaver South Thirteenth Street Charles S. Smith Parrish Street Margaret Sweeney York Road Jenkintown Joseph H. Adams Elleworth Street Auntie Hemphill Forty-seventh Street Job J. Coughlan Madison Avenue Julia F. O'Brien Central Avenue Revere Mass Thomas J. Sullivan South Thirty -Third Street Aova BE. Morgan East Broad Street Cheater George Apes Ott, Lovering, Wet Manayness Bert ‘Omlinson Tmbria Manayunk Morris Brosky Manton Street Fannie North Fifth Street F. Plosdort Willerd SR Ratagases Mary Beifuss Sixteenth Street Michenet Teotie M Pender Halnes

Residents Listed At Multiple Philadelphia Addresses

A list of residents appears with their street addresses including Mary R McEwen at 539 East Westmoreland street and Robert Hessler at 1888 North Fourth street. Also named are Amelia K Kramer 1738 North Third street and Wiktor Milewski 126 Bainbridge street with Konstancea Lisiewiex at the same address. Additional names include Richard Worley Port Kennedy and Emma Kneisel, Samuel Krekstein 2826 North Seventeenth street and Katé Schwartz 620 North Third, Thomas Eimister 1326 Mifflin street and Ellie Dalton 2226 South Fifteenth street, Jace Benites 122 Spruce street and Mara Cabello at the same address.

Mary R. McEwen East Westmoreland Street Robert Hessler North Fourth Street Amelia K. Kramer North Third Street Wiktor Milewski Bainbridge Street Konstancea Lisiewiex Richard Worley Port Kennedy Montgomery County Emma Kneisel Samuel Krekstein North Seventeenth Street Katé Schwartz Thomas Eimister Mifflin Street Ellie Dalton South Fifteenth Street Jace Benites Spruce Street Mara Cabello

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