Kidnapping Story Declared Fake By Family And Officials
New York April 24 Miss Romana Borden a 17 year old heiress is back at a New Jersey sanitarium from which she was kidnapped yesterday. Sanitarium authorities say she returned after dining with friends in Newark and a nurse calls it a lark not a mystery. Counsel for Gail Borden explains the episode as a late unplanned outing rather than a true abduction.
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Jer Eee Presa
New York
Romana Borden
New Jersey
Newark
Missen
Conner at sixty four to take another wife
Washington Everett Conner, longtime Wall Street figure and former Gould associate, will remarry at age sixty four. Jeannette Thurber, daughter of Mrs. Francis Beattie Thurber, is engaged to Conner, she is about eighteen years his junior and linked to her mother’s operatic ventures. Conner helped mold Gould deals and later helped acquire the Wheeling and Lake Erie stake now part of the Wabash extension into Pittsburgh. He remains active in New York’s exclusive clubs.
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Associated Press
New York
Washington Everett Conner
Jay Gould
Russell Sage
Wall Street
Francis Beattie Thurber
Jeannette
Conner
Miss Thurber
Mr. Conner
Gould
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
Wabash Railroad
Pittsburg
Caruso and Cobb Visit Atlanta Penitentiary
Enrico Caruso and Tyrus Cobb visited the Atlanta federal prison where eight hundred inmates heard Caruso sing in the chapel at the warden's request. The audience, moved by the Pagliacci aria, cheered Cobb as he departed for Detroit after the event.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Enrico Caruso
Tyrus Cobb
United States
Caruso
Meyer
Robbins kills son then fatally wounds himself in New York
William Vincent Robbins a New York and Norfolk lawyer shot his nine year old son then slit his throat at his brother in law Clarence Levy's uptown apartment. Robbins a Yale Law School graduate had arrived in New York from Norfolk three days earlier. Despondency over his estranged wife is cited by police as the probable cause.
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Associated Press
NEW_ YORK
William Vincent Robbins
New York
Norfolk
Clarence Levy
Robbins
Yale Law School
Robinson
Wilson backs senator’s postmaster pick in Texarkana
President Wilson affirmed the right of a U S senator to name the town postmaster. He chose P G Henry brother of Representative Henry of Texas for Texarkana post. The Texarkana line divides the state with the post office on Arkansas soil and Arkansas and Texas factions clashed over who should appoint.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
United States
P. G. Henry
Representative Henry
Texas
Texarkana
Texas- Arkansas
Sheppard
Arkansas
Wingo
Public officials in Washington attend Washington Boston game
In Washington the baseball series drew high justice department officials including James A. Fowler and James C. Adkins amid Sherman Act scrutiny. Spectators believed a probe. observers said the officials were merely fans as Washington scored a run.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Baseball Trust
Department of Justice
James A. Fowler
Buster
James C. Adkins
Gallagher
Scientists Spend Day Exploring Washington Bureaucracy
Delegates from the National Academy of Sciences plan an election of officers and routine business before sightseeing in Washington. They will split into groups to visit government laboratories and Secretary Daniels offers the navy yacht Mayflower for a Potomac trip to Mount Vernon and Washington’s tomb.
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Associated Press
Washington
National Academy of Sciences
Daniels
Navy
Potomac River
Mount Vernon
Negro Advance Conference Opens With Calls to Improve Self and Return to Soil
The fifth annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People opened in Philadelphia with speakers urging self improvement and a return to the land. Mayer Blankenburg welcomed attendees as Rabbi Josef Krayskopf D W E Du Bois the Rev J Chalmers Richmond and Moorfield Storey president of the association presided.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
National Association For the Advancement of the Colored People
Mayer Blankenburg
Jospeh Krayskopf
D. W. E. Dubois
Wilson's Capitol Visit Breaks Precedent in Appointments Talk
President Wilson made a notable trip to the capitol to confer about appointments before the senate session, choosing the president’s room for quicker talks with senators. The visit, a first in its aims, followed earlier address readings and reflects time-saving outreach.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Capitol
Senate
White House
Mutinous Chinese Crew Quelled by Gunfire on Freighter
On the Glen Mediver at Staten Island pier a mutinous Chinese crew attacked guards after officers denied shore liberty. Private detectives were present. Second Officer Simpkins fired three shots, wounding Chick Lee and fatally injuring a crewmate. Police arrested 37 Chinese sailors.
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Associated Press
New York
Glen Mediver
Staten Island Pier
Singapore
John Lind
Simpkins
Chick Lee
Burleigh Undergoes Second Operation at Johns Hopkins
United States Senator Edwin O Burleigh of Maine underwent a second operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Surgeons reported the preliminary operation a success and the final procedure performed yesterday left him with a clear road to recovery.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
United States
Edwin 0
Burleigh
Malne
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey Restores Health Says Gustave Petaillet
Gustave Petaillet of Fenton Mississippi reports eight years of stomach catarrh and intestinal trouble relieved almost immediately by Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey after three bottles. He notes loss of appetite and sleep, weakness, and fatigue prior to treatment, and credits the remedy with regained health and energy.
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Duffy’s
Gustave Petaillet
Fenton
Miss
Duffy Malt Whiskey Co
Rochester
N. Y
JAS. McPhillips Gro. CO
Eee Commerce
Dauphin Streets
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