Ward contest over Saunders estate tied to vanished daughter
In San Francisco on April 18 a claim arises over Mrs. Helen Saunders estate. A mohair chair reportedly contains bonds worth 4000 dollars and is sought by C B Ward who asserts right through his wife Georgiana Saunders, who disappeared twenty five years ago. Over 150 women have presented themselves as the missing heir.
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San Francisco
Helen Saunders
C. BE. Ward
Georgiana Saunders
Ward
Georgana
Moonlight Schools Spread Illiteracy Fight in Kentucky
The Moonlight Schools program led by Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart began in Rowan county in 1911 and expanded statewide. Volunteers from public schools taught illiterate adults at night, drawing about 1,200 attendees and inspiring broader education efforts across Kentucky and beyond. One teacher R G Jaggers in Hart county taught 76 illiterates in a single night session and filed letters from participants with the Kentucky Illiteracy commission.
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Cora Wilson Stewart
Kentucky
Stewart
Rowan County
Congressman Fields
R. G. Jaggers
Hart County
College Girl Proctor Walks Beat in Rain
In Philadelphia near Bryn Mawr campus a lone unofficial copette, a proctor, patrolled her drizzle beat. She chided a male officer for the term copette and insisted she is a proctor, not a female of his kind.
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Philadelphia
Ual
Ahe
Vital Statistics From Beattie And Seattle Area Listings
A long list of marriages births and divorces appears with names ages places and dates. It includes Vernon Paul and Agnes McMachern Beattie Arthur Caldwell and Marie Logan Seattle area couples and many birth notices showing prominent local names and addresses. Also listed are divorces filed and a number of deaths with ages and locations.
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Vernon William Paul
Beattie
Agnes Irene McMachern
Walla Welle
Arthur Joseph Caldwell
Marie Catherine Logan
Finn Regge
Eva Nelson
Michael J. Warden
Orting
Mary A. Herings
Beattie A. Meary Force
J. J. Behmits
Beattle
Thomas Woodson
Kartington
Christine M. Howten
Beattie Frank Pagsey
Marguerite Maloney
Perry B. Day
Marion Virginia Perkins
Farsuel Wo
Hill
Philadelphia
Ada Alice Frana
Michele M. Pietro
Julienne Marieto
Gustave Biederman
Alice Sherwood
Everett
Earl G. Knox
Helen McFarlane
James J. Cooper
Delina Campbell
Seattle
S S S Purely Vegetable Blood Remedy Ad
Scientific claim of a vegetable blood treatment promotes S S S as safer than mineral medicines. It touts herbs and barks to cleanse the system and cure blood disorders including rheumatism catarrh ulcers and syphilis but reads as advertising copy from a 1900s periodical with address for inquiries in Atlanta Georgia.
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Swift Laboratory
Atlanta
Virginia Faces Rum Running Epidemic Says Special to The Star
Richmond reports Virginia facing a liquor smuggling surge with trains from Maryland searched high speed autos entering the state. Prohibition agents have shot three men near Danville on the North Carolina border. Disturbances involve impersonators, hold ups, and police-style gun fights across Cumberland valley and the Valley pike routes.
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the Star
Richmond
Virginia
Sveemea
Michigan
Maryland
Prohibition
Danville
North Carolina
Pullman Berthe
Valley Pike
West Virginia
Cumberland Valley
Governor Adopts War Orphan No 1000 for Utah
Salt Lake City April 18 Governor Hamberger will adopt French war orphan No 1000 for Utah and will fund the effort when others in the state provide for the remaining 999. He has already adopted one late French orphan. Orphans will be maintained in France by subscription, not brought to Utah.
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Salt Lake
Hamberger
Utah
France
Man's False Teeth Freeze Up in Glass
BWAR TAWOOD New Jersey April 18 Jepha Stoll a farm hand was forced to ride six miles on a cold morning to get a match to thaw his false teeth out of a glass. He had stored them in a glass on an open window sill and found them frozen solid when he reached for them. He then drove to the nearest store three miles away to obtain matches to boil water.
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Bwartawood
N. J
Jepha Stoll
Stoll
Rome
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