Woman Dies at Same Spot Where Husband Fell
In Kalamazoo Michigan on August 23 Louise Fisher aged 82 died at her son’s Cooper township home after collapsing on railroad tracks exactly where her husband was killed two months earlier. In Washington on August 22 the Senate approved the new budget bill as in the House extending appropriations for the commerce court through March 4. Taft expected to sign tonight.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Louise Pisher
Cooper Township
Washington
Senate
House
Commerce Court
Taft
Lord Devonport’s Rise and Dock War Draws Ire of Strikers
A London dispatch profiles Lord Devonport born Hudson Eubanke Kearley 1856 as a self made tea merchant and dock authority chair whose hard line against dock workers sparked a 1911 strike and a subsequent hunger protest. The piece portrays him as the embodiment of employers’ revenge amid growing famine pressures and public funds to aid starving families.
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Lord Devonport
Grosvenor Place
William Caeneend
London
Mport
Tower Hill
Devonport
Hudson Eubanke Kearley
Fort London
Crusher
Hudson Kearley
Mother Love Drives Mother to Testify at Son's Murder Trial
In San Francisco on August 22 Mrs. Annabelle Bonner testified to reveal painful family secrets in hope of saving her son Charles Bonner 18 from the death penalty for the murder of Bernice Go. The emotional courtroom scene highlighted a mother’s plea amid the capital case.
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Boy
United Preae
San Francisco
Annabelle Bonner
Chas. Bonner
Bernice
Markets and trial fragments mix in dated report
The page lists average prices paid by local commission merchants and retailers with notes on first grade standards. It then shifts to a court scene where 17 year old Jane Bonner testifies about family influence as her father fights an insanity defense for Charles Bonner. The mother pleads for mercy as evidence unfolds.
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Commission
King
Egees
Jane TA
Hair
Soba
Bonner
Charles
Hoff Cook
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Valencia
Oran Peary
Kettle Cleaners
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Ae Fieng
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Smawrz
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Windsor
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Timothy
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