Hair Pulling Disorder Lands One Sister-In-Law In Jail
Davenport brief covers a street hair pulling bout between Ella Martins and Stella Smith. Stella testified of insults and a clash near Washington square. Ella was found guilty in police court and given a 15 day sentence suspended for good behavior. Also noted are cautions about saloon prosecutions, a priest transfer to Armagh Iowa, an obituary for Claus Ruhser, a dramatic Cayuga Lake swimmer tale, and an ad for Dr King’s New Discovery with testimonials.
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Ella Martins
Stella Smith
Stella
Ella
Washington Square
Justice Roddewig
Claus Henry Ruhser
West Fifth Street
Ruhser
Holstein
Germany
Davenport
Moline
Anna
Walter H
Harry W
Chicago
George
Peoria
Ill
Harriet
Silvis
Riverside Cemetery
Williams wife to return to stage to earn livelihood
The minstrel evangelist Billy Williams has been found in Moline after wandering in a dementia. His wife plans to relearn the stage to support herself and one child, while two other children may enter a charity institution. Sam Small coordinated Williams’ care and possible transfer to hospital or Kansas City for treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moline
Billy” Williams
Des Moines
Williams
Sam Small
Georgia
Small
Kansas City
Y M C A Relay Run From Auburn To Chicago
Immense crowds lined Auburn streets as Y M C A relay runners carried the message from Mayor McClellan of New York to Mayor Busse of Chicago. Syracuse’s Louis Robinson passed the silver tube to Mayor Koening at 11 01, then to John Turner for the fast leg, ending at midnight with Frank Parker receiving the tube after nine miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Cayuga
New York
Chicago
Auburn
N. Y
McClellan
Busse
Syracuse
Louis Robinson
Koening
Godspeed
John Turner
Frank Parker
Olympic Games Trip by New York Evening World Writer
Martin Sheridan reports on the American Olympic team voyage to London aboard a ship. The crew trains at sea with weight throwers and sprinters, faces seasickness, and enjoys meals at a special table. Mike Murphy motivates the team as Ralph Rose Flanagan and McGrath set eating records and discipline is praised.
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Martin Sheridan
New York Evening World
London
New York City
Southampton
Flanagan
Rose
McGrath
Coe
Mike Murphy
Ralph Rose
John Flanagan
Matt McGrath
Cee
Boston
Dan Kelly
Griffith
Rector
Huff
Cartwell
Moffit
Pennsylvania
Kelly
Dan
Matt Halpin
Halpin
Eighty Six Year Old John Brown's Son Performs Daring Lake Swim
At Euclid Beach Park in Cleveland Jason Brown, aged eighty six and son of the famous John Brown, defies a bath house rule and dives into Lake Erie. He floats on his back and performs a sequence of front, back and side strokes for about an hour, calling it merely a little dip.
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John Brown
Euclid Beach Park
Cleveland
Jason Brown
Agend Brown
Harpers Ferry
Lake Erie
Brown
Idiotic Conventions Criticized by Champ Clark in Kansas City
Congressman Champ Clark arrived in Kansas City after a business trip and blasted national conventions as idiotic performances. He urged reducing delegates and holding conventions in halls for 2 500 people to preserve decency and order. A separate note recalls a Cleveland man telling his child about Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit.
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Champ Clark
Kansas City
Denver
Remus
Cleveland (Qc
Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus
Rabbit
Twins Confuse Family in Rosenhayn Rose and Hattie
In Rosenhayn near Vineland New Jersey the Arrab household struggles to tell twins Rose and Hattie apart. Rose needed medicine one day and Hattie took it by mistake causing distress. From the start of the sequence Hattie wears a blue ribbon to distinguish her from Rose, who remains unnamed as misidentified in the text.
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Walsh
Chicago Medical Institute
Rose
Hattie
Isaac Arrab
Rosenhayn
Vineland
N. J
Texas Onion Crop Looms Large In State Earnings
Texas onion growers forecast gross receipts near 750 million dollars this year. Excess rainfall damaged recent shipments, and without the downpour earnings might have reached one million dollars, according to industry estimates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Device to Save Figuring by Edward Craycroft
Edward Craycroft of Kansas City Missouri has created a multiplication table enabling any product of numbers from 1 to 100 to be obtained at a glance and has applied for a copyright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Craycroft
Kansas City
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Civic Federation
Armagh
Joseph O'Donnell
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Iowa
Father McCarville
Father O'Donnell
Cayuga Lake
Seneca County
Parker
Arthur Adams
West Shore
Adams
Seneca Falls
Sylvan
Republic Iron & Steel Company
Pittsburg
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
Steinbrader
E. J. Bray
T. R. Egan
P. J. McArdle
National Organization of Steel Workers
B. F. Jones
Uo Lyman
Freeman
Lake Geneva
W. W
Young People’s Society of the
Swedish Lutheran Church
Rock Island
Universal
Forest. H. Montgomery
Commercial National Bank
Universal Adding Machine Company
St. Louis
Security
Tri-City Loan Co
Beth
Brady Street
Ueare
Murphy
America
Shepherd's Bush
Washington Post
Drs. Walsh, Walsh & Walsh
Medical Institute
Main St
McCullough
Frank
New England
L. Frank & Son Company
Milwaukee
New York Central Lines
Lake Shore
Michigan Central
VIA
Canada
Adirondack Mountains
St. Lawrence River
Warren J. Lynch
Cardus
H.C. Beaver
Unicoi
Marbleton
Tenn
Dr. Martin
Advan
State
Ha St
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