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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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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the Shah and
Tional
Texas
Court No
William A. Hirschfield
Gerson Hessler
W. H. Hepburn
Samuel Belichowsky
Isaac Kershaw
J. J. Murphy
John T. Armour
James Dorney
Eugene Stal
J. McConaghy
J. George RK. van Dusen
William Memghy
L. H. An Margaret
DD. Clemens
Michoes
Benjamin Ont
Lousy Ty
Fannie Silberman
Catherine Fox
Isabella Anabough
Eleanor M. Cauley
Common Pleas
Petit Jurors
Christ Allen
Ogden Street
Daniel A. Bisbee
Euclid Avenue
Edward Black
Indiana Avenue
Charles P. Bowman
North Twentieth Street
John Chalmers
Clearfield Street
Frank Clinton
Christian Street
Hymann
South Third Street
Linford
fAil_ Cope
Thompson Street
Thomas Dryden
Chadwick Street
Robert Dunn
Washington Avenue
Lewis G. Dutton
Woodland Avenue
Lady Engelkamp
Ja Fay
Fairmount Avenue
John R. Gray
Phillena Street
A. W. Hartzett
Dauphin Street
Robert Hart, Jr
C. BH. Houstis
Baltimore Avenue
Charles Lazaillerd
Dudley Street
William B. Keen
Hutchinson Street
Leopold Ketterer
Race Street
Eugene Lanigan, Jr
Stella Street
Oliver Lawson
M. F. Lee
Thomas Loftus
Andrew McClay
Wyoming Avenue
Thomas McCrossin
Oliver McDaniels
Kern Street
Richard McDaniels
Tulip Street
Frank McDermott
South Twelfth Street
George McFierm
Jefferson Street
John J. McKnight
William Sadler
William Sadler, Jr
Columbia Avenue
Andrew Sandstorm
Jacob Scheetz
North Seventh Street
John H Scherer
Creighton Street
Warren Schriver
East Haines Street
F. Schwaemmle, Sr
B. Sheridan
Vine Street
Jonathan B. Shinn
Elisha Smith, Jr
Harrison Smith
Forty-first Street
W. A. Spencer
Fifteenth Street
F. W. Starling
Twenty-sixth Street
John Stewart
Cadwalader Street
James H. Thomas
Edwin Tracy
Woodstock Street
William R. Wagner
Bustleton Pike
Charles Williams
North Thirty-Second Street
John Wood
Henry Zellner
Mary E
Mary Reed
Dee
Te Ee Ven
Napa Street
Bear Prairty- Fret
Wharton Streets
Reilly
Philip
Annie Reilly
Slee Yee S
Phen
Sharp
Carston Street
Elijah Edwin Sharp
Lizzie Hutchins