Joliet twins court case sparks conflicting explanations
Chicago papers challenge the Joliet court record on Catherine and Margaret Edwards. Their mother Mrs Mary Gillespie Edwards plans to take the girls to Oklahoma City as controversy over guardianship intensifies amid public scrutiny.
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Chicago
Ewing
Makbad
Douglas
Joliet
Eloige
Catherine
Court House
Aas
Merritt
St.Mary
Th Joliet News
21St Place
Chicago News
Margaret Edwards
West 21St Place
Ladi
Margaret
Mamma
Mrs. Edwards
Oklahoma
Mary Gillespie Edwards
Oklahoma City
Okla
Fragmented interview notes on custody and garments
An article fragment discusses bias in reporting and a family dispute over children. mentions Judge Pinckney, Mrs Foss, and a Douglas park dispute. The text recalls children not being cold during transfer, clothes removed, and later regret over not showing dresses to the court. ends with tension between parties at St Marys home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred’ Foss
Chiews
Pinckney
Rs. Foss
Edwards
Encourt
Douglas Club
Douglas Parken
St. Mary's
Look After Peat Bed Nuisance Shifted to Michigan Central
The seventh ward nuisance from burning peat bed and smoke is assigned to the Michigan Central after Colonel Bennitt paid the taxes on the fire site. The Crowley estate ground, leased to the railroad, will be excavated for stone and gravel to raise track elevation. Old quarries on the tract may be extended and burning ground moved to prevent future trouble.
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Seventh Ward
Michigan Central
Bennitt
Crowley
The Man Behind the Rifle
A Chicago Record-Herald poem condemns the relentless hunter’s boastful frontier bravado. It portrays guides in Adirondacks and Wisconsin as targets of violent leisure, noting dawn hunts and fatal shots amid pine and deer. The piece laments killing for sport and the grim, repetitive toll on guides and wildlife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adirondacks
Wisconsin
Maine
Chicago Record-Herald
Stoll Heads West From Joliet to Los Angeles
W L Stoll of 610 Nicholson street sold his Joliet home and plans to spend the winter with his wife and daughter in Los Angeles. He formerly lived in Joliet for many years and was a merchant of Mokena.
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California
W. L
Stoll
Nicholson Street
West
Los Angeles
Policy Critics on Worth Tied to Life Insurance Amount
A controversial policy stance argues that judging a man’s value by life insurance carried is misguided. Advocates warn against equating wealth protection with personal worth.
Juror Denounces Lawyers as Court Schedules Delay
A juror from Lockport, Heary Alexander, interrupted Judge Marshall’s court to denounce Will County lawyers for delaying cases at taxpayers’ expense. The incident halted proceedings in the Lea v Bartkewicz case and the McQuade estate matter, drawing shocked reactions from the judge, attorneys, and spectators.
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Nadelhoffer
Joseph M. Lea
Felix Bartkewicz
Coll McNaughton
Louis Lagger
Ed Nadelhoffer
Stella McQuade
John D'Arcy
Alexander
ArademoWer
Dutte
Léa
Artkewica
McNaughton
Emecantt
Outside Visitors Demand Equal Access to Joliet Records
Henry J Weeks and the Title Guarantee and Abstract Company protest county records access rules in Joliet. They report spending 25000 to 30000 dollars in six months and argue state law guarantees all persons free access to records and public indices. They note Cook County costs and urge fair treatment for competing abstract firms with public space and copy rights.
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Joliet
Cook
Court House
Cook County
Chicago Title Trust Company
Will County Recorder's
Iilnvs
United States
Ilinois
Chicago Title and Trust Company
Jerome J. Danforth
Recorder’s Office
Cancer
Henry J. Weeks
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Fins
Mrs Fossells
Fred Foss
Plainfield
Mead
Healy Alexander
Court
Margaret and
Eloise Mead
Mes, Poss
Recorder
Centaid Ag
Duciers «Ner
Hardom
G. E. Jarvis
Nogey
Robt. Meers
Jefferson St
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