Widow Alcorn Sought By Daughters Of Confederacy
In Los Angeles a group claiming to be Daughters of the Confederacy said they assisted an aged woman who claimed to be Mrs. Jas. Lusk Alcorn widow of a former governor. The woman, with a 16 year old companion said to be Lily of Fries Point, sought English relatives and other messages, as the claimant persisted in being Mrs Alcorn.
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W Oingeles
Daughters of the Confederacy
Los Angeles
Ppl
Jas. Lusk Alcorn
Memphis, Tenn
Alcorn
Foreign noble seeks American wife for fortune
In New York a Scot Machlaine seeks a wealthy American bride. He offers $40 cash and a promise to work, wanting a petite pretty American wife to marry for money and to further his fortune. Dave Cowlick recalls escorting a Miss Flinghammer home when fare fell short.
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New York
Amer
Machlaine
Duke of Argyll
Lochbute
Dave Cowlick
Miss Flinghammer
Dream Until Wednesday and Other 1900s Screenings
A catalog of film titles and programs showing across multiple venues including Melbourne Alhambra Circuit Grand Black Cat Yesler and Society listings. Highlights include The Golden Wedding Claw at the Theatre The Smuggler s Daughter Betty s Bandit The Oyster Industry The Cheyenne Massacre and The Pride of Innocence among many reels and weeklys.
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Clawence
Pathe Weekly
Alhambra
Betty
Grande Chartreause
Seattle crowds roar for The Crisis at the Theatre
One thousand six hundred eighty five well dressed Seattle citizens packed the Theatre at Third and Cherry last night to applaud Churchill's Civil War tale The Crisis. The Bailey Mitchell Company presents the drama without Trust ties and offers 20 30 and 50 cent seats, with matinees Thursday Saturday and Sunday selling out. DAS WANDERER.
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Seattle
Third mv
Cheryst
Churchill
Trust
Bailey & Mitchell Company
Marital mix up ends in courthouse tale of three marriages
In Jessup Georgia a tangled tale unfolds as Nathan Jones, 60, marries Hattie Jones, 16, amid claims of prior marriages to Alice Driggers and a Mrs. Thomas. Investigations reveal forgotten divorces and overlapping spouses, with both sides disputing legal histories and loyalties.
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Joneses
Robertsons
Thomaxes
Driggers
Mr. Jones
Pretty Hattie Jones
Nathan Jones
Nathan
Wayne County
Hattie
Thomas
Alice Driggers
Alice
Odd World Events Spark Reader Reflections
A collage of brief items includes a Roseland New Jersey couple finally marrying after 46 years of courtship. Dr Harvey Wiley notes men peak after 60. A Baraboo Wisconsin hunter finds a tag reading Votes for Women on a captured heron. Nine Cornell men enroll in domestic science to learn cooking for marriage. A Rochester man sleeps on a cement doorstep and is chiselled free. Springfield Massachusetts duelist fined for carrying a revolver.
Bargain Music Store Opens With Deep Discounts
A curtailed Recital Hall renovation is announced as Seattle's music store, Eilers, clears inventory with heavy discounts. Pianos range from $400 to $500, with numerous strings, violins, guitars, mandolins, and accessories heavily reduced to attract customers.
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Seattle
Eilers
Jennie Nelson’s Danish Theater Beginnings Move to Fame Hunt
Jennie Nelson, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, was a violinist and artist’s model who performed for four years at the King’s Theatre in Denmark. She then left for this country in search of fame and greater fortune, pursuing opportunities in a new land.
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Jennie Nelson
Copenhagen
Denmark
Sheila
King's Theatre
Theatres This Week Include Moore Lyman Howe Pictures
Seattle showings feature Moore Lyman Howe traveling pictures and Metropolitan John Drew in The Perplexed Husband. Halley Mitchell stock in The Crisis appears in Seattle with a slate of vaudeville at several venues.
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Moore
Lyman Howe
Metropolitan
John Drew
Seattle
Halley & Mitchell Stock
Orpheurm
Clemmer
Melbourne
Alhambra
Woman star from Lubin plant in Philadelphia studio
The article profiles a female lead who has worked in Paris New York and Philadelphia studios and now stars at the Lubin motion picture plant in Philadelphia. She declares she would rather fight a bucking broncho than toy with a bottle and a bird. The photo features Misa Nelson in typical makeup.
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Paris
New York
Philadelphia
Lubin Moving Picture
Misa Nelson
Market price list shows varied buying and selling prices
Local commission merchants report average prices paid to farmers and charged to retailers. Prices cover fruits vegetables meats and poultry with ranges for fresh produce onions potatoes carrots cauliflower and greens, plus dairy and feed components. Variations reflect freshness quality and grade.
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Washington
Puget Sound
Urges License for Spooners
Minneapolis May 13 A preacher called for a license based on character for persistent public spooners in a sermon titled When to Kiss He urged quarantine from the cold hearted public and police supervision with a smile not a skull every time they kiss He advised girls to make their lips an altar of incense and warned against ill bred suitors
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Minneapolis
Minn
G. L. Merrill
The
People's Church
Life Sentence for Baby Strangler at Mount Gilead
Marion Ohio May 13 The jury sentenced John C Morrow to life in prison for strangling 18 month old baby of Mrs Luella Platt at Mount Gilead He killed the child believing it blocked elopement with him, the verdict states.
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Marion
John C. Morrow
Luella Platt
Mount Gilead
Morrow
Man faked death to dodge alimony on Erie ferry
Emanuel Rubenstein admitted to his father in law that he staged a fake death by own action on an Erie railroad ferry to avoid paying $40 a month for alimony. He threw his hat and coat marked with his name into the water and cried man overboard to cause a rescue frenzy, New Jersey reports say.
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Passais
N. J
Emanuel Rubenstein
Edward N. Kevitt
Erie Railroad
Westport
Dean's Kidney Pills Endorsed for Backache and Kidney Trouble
A Seattle reader from West Forty-fifth Street testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills relieved kidney pain and lame back. The ad warns that heavy work harms kidneys and could lead to dropsy or Bright's disease, urging use of the remedy.
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Bright
Dean
Seattle
S. C. Roe
Wash
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