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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1912
Page
3
A trained monkey escaped from a visitor’s pocket during bath day at a San Francisco city jail. The creature seized the shower indicators and sprayed a score of prisoners, causing injuries.
Robert Cameron Rogers, author, bank director and Morning Press publisher, died in Santa Barbara of appendicitis. He composed The Rosary which earned him international fame. He is survived by a wife and three sons. In Los Angeles a separate brief notes Mary Cupic, 17, seeks a guardian to protect her from an unwelcome suitor after cancelling plans to marry Tony Rasich.
Dr. Francis F. Johnson a San Francisco druggist and physician sues for divorce alleging his wife Alice caused him misery by acts including breaking down his office door with an axe during a patient session and striking him in the mouth.
Senator Dixon predicts the South will break from Taft and support Roosevelt in Chicago. He cites Rooseveltage delegations in South Carolina as evidence that the Taft card house is falling down. An unrelated Toledo report notes a county clerk safe burglary delaying voting forms. A Venice suicide notes Titanic brooding widow M A Stuehler of St Louis.
Vincent Astor son of John Jacob Astor inherits the bulk of the 200 million dollar Astor fortune after his father's death on the Titanic. He becomes head of the American Astor lineage and official representative in many enterprises. A tale from last summer says Vincent showed interest in Madeline Force before his father wed.
Mrs. Bertha M. Bonhan files a divorce complaint alleging she prepared so called niece meals for Orlando Taylor Bonhan who would not eat them. He stayed silent morose at home and drank to excess. The couple married May 1907 and separated in December 1908.
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