Diva Wins Divorce and Leaves for Bayreuth Festival
Mme Ernestine Schumann Heink was granted a divorce from William Rapp Jr after a Chicago trial where letters from Rapp to Mrs Catherine Dean of New York surfaced. Judge Sullivan directed a verdict in the plaintiff's favor. Heink expressed happiness and said she would depart immediately for the Bayreuth Wagner festival to assume a leading role.
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Mme
Ernestine Schumann Heink
William Ranp, Jr
Catherine Dean
New York
Chicago
Sullivan
Schumann Heink
Rapp
Dean
Schumann-Heink
Bayreuth
Wheat Crop Boom Expected From 900 Million Bushels This Year
The Agriculture Department reports a bumper wheat crop totaling about 900 million bushels, about half the world’s supply and a new U.S. record. The forecast exceeds all previous U.S. annual yields by 137 million bushels, with a crop condition at 93.7 percent, well above the ten year average. Oats and barley yields are also poised for historic highs.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
Hats Rain Down on Quigley in Delta Theta Phi Showing
Hats of all sizes and colors showered Attorney Eugene Quigley of Cleveland in a dramatic salute by members of the Delta Theta Phi law fraternity. Lids were delivered by messenger and parcel post to Quigley’s office before he turned the hats over to the Salvation Army.
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Delta Theta Phi
Quigley
Eugene Quigley
Cleveland
Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity
Salvation Army
Duryea Put in Asylum for Paranoia Hallucinations
Chester B. Duryea of New York, who on May 5 shot and killed his father Hiram Duryea, the millionaire starch manufacturer, was committed to the state hospital for the criminal insane at Matteawan after physicians testified he suffered from hallucinations and a paranoiac condition.
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Wih
Duryea
Chester B. Duryea
New York
Hiram Duryea
State Hospital
Matteawan
Deschanel Re elected Speaker in French Chamber
Paul Deschanel, a member of the Immortals, was reelected speaker of the French chamber of deputies by 411 votes to 24 for other candidates. The vote tally reflects a strong cross party endorsement for his leadership.
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Paul Deschanel
Chamber of Deputies
Pennybacker Clubwoman Endsorse Suffrage and Style
P B MAS and Pennybacker described as clubwoman who supports suffrage and contemporary women’s fashion. The item notes her approval of suffrage and present day styles in women’s clothing.
Lincoln Convention Set for July 28 with 1013 Delegates
Omaha June 11. Republican leaders Currie and Epperson fixed July 28 as the date for the Nebraska state convention in Lincoln. It will have 1013 delegates with one for each 1106 votes and an extra for major fractions. No proxies allowed and credentials due five days before. County committees to elect their delegates and report to state committee at Broken Bow.
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Omaha
Currie
Epperson
Lincoln
Broken Bow
State Pardons Board Meets in Lincoln
The state pardon board met at the penitentiary with only one pardon application to consider while parole cases are to be heard. Thomas Collins, serving a life term for the 1899 murder of saloonkeeper Shorty Groves, seeks another chance after an earlier confrontation at Groves’ Thirteenth and Dodge street establishment.
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Lincoln
State Pardon Board
Thomas Collins
Douglas County
Shorty
Groves
Thirteenth and
Dodge Streets
Collings
Morehead not worried after fishing trip and Neb. news
Lincoln reports Governor Morehead returned from a weeklong fishing trip in Long Pine and Brown and Cherry counties. He said he had not heard of Richard L. Metcalfe filing for governor and has given little thought to it. Also in Lincoln the University of Nebraska Alumni association elected officers and opposed university removal by a large margin. The board of regents granted degrees to the largest class in U Nebraska history, with 361 graduates. In Stella, Joe Umland owns the region’s largest wheat acreage, and in Omaha Mrs. Mary Wagner, 48, died by hanging, heat suspected.
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Lincoln
Morehead
Long Pine
Brown
Cherry
Democratic Party
Richard L. Metcalfe
Hanna
Wood Jake
Marsh Lake
University of Nebraska Alumni Association
R. O. Williams
Eva O'Sullivan
Omaha
Treacher
N. Z. Snell
Fred Hunter
E. M. Pollard
Nehawka
J. D. Ringer
South Omaha
E. F. Huse
Norfolk
Harry Landin
Seward
C. M. Barr
Hastings
Owen Frank
Scottsbluff
Stella
Neb
Joe
Umland
Board of Regents
University of Nebraska
Mary Wagner
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Diva
Schumann-Heik
William Rapp
Sidney, Nebr
Marshall
L. C. Fundingsland
Owner
C. J. Hellwig
Sidney, Nebraska
Laddy
Celer
Ss. P. Jones
Nebraska
North Side
Blacksmith
L. M. Garey
Pabst
Fremont
Sidney Marble Works
A. A. Clark
Prop
Mas, P. B
Pennybacker
American Press Association
Metropolitan Hotel
Lloyd Mann
E. Harper
Cc. M. Wright
Cheyenne County Abstract
C. M Hadley
H. T. Doran
Cheyenne County Abstract Co
American Surety Co
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Brown and Cherry
University
J. C. Johnson
Lodgepole, Nebraska
M. W. Osborn
Hotel National
Myron
My Place
N. W. Olson
Sidney, Neb
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