Death and elopement stain Norwich family tale of Almys
Major Leonard Be Almy died at Norwich after a romance with Miss Almy led to a secret wedding at Paul Smiths in the Adirondacks. He reportedly left an estate near 400000 dollars to his children and the bride, with 50000 each to the granddaughters from a Ballou grandmother. The couple married amid illness and family opposition and spent months in the Adirondacks before the bride returned to Connecticut following her father’s death.
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Leonard Be Almy
Norwich
Donald Chappell
London
Ballou
Allyn
Louis P. Allyn
Mystic
Paul Smith
Adirondacks
Alti
Almy
Chappell
New London
Gordon S. Allyn
Neilson Poe . Carey
St. James’ Church
New York
Christ Episcopal Church
South
Legless hunter vaults a fence in bull encounter
Will Evert of Big Laurel West Virginia, legless but famed marksman, aided by his brother John on a squirrel hunt. A bull charged after they crossed a fence into an enclosure. John fled for a gun while Will disappeared, later found perched in a tree twelve feet high, as the bull roared below.
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Big Laurel
W. Va
Will Evert
John
Will
Middle Fall
Nashville Near Beer Rumor Hints Sale Soon
A Nashville rumor says near beer three and one half percent may be sold soon in select saloons if Judge Neil allows it. The plan allegedly limits sales to places not already under his orders and requires deniers to sign pledges not to sell whiskey.
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Nashville
Tenn
Chattanooga
Nash
Tp Neil
Criminal Court
Neil
Foster mother adored by child found after five years
A mother who searched five years for her child learns the infant was raised by foster parents near Kimira. Mrs Jagendorf abandoned the baby who was sent to Bellevue hospital and adopted. The foster mother resists returning the child, fearing her husband and wife will suffer.
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Kimira
Bella
Man to Tarkawa with $54 Foiled by Theft in Kansas City
A man who gave the name Killigan from Tarkawa Oklahoma arrived in Kansas City with $54 and a watch on a pawnshop loan. After staying at a rooming house on Union Avenue his room was broken into and his money disappeared. He told police he saved his watch by wrapping its chain around his toe and sleeping with it, but forgot to do the same with his money. The municipal pawnshop chief Ralph Perry advanced $9 on the watch to cover the fare home.
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Kansas City
Killigan
Tarkawa
Okla
Union Avenue
Ralph Perry
Perry
Tarkana
London Crime Record Shows Increase in Offenses
London’s Metropolitan Police report for the past year records 128,604 offenses, up 8,118 from 1911. Drunkenness rises 3,967, police-act offenses 1,728, betting 798, gaming 298, and pece 487, with felonies 2.16 per 1000 people. Property stolen valued at 920,000, recovered 223,000. 642 suicides and 541 self-harm attempts. 37,000 dogs castrated. Lost Property Office returned 84,876 items including 32,250 umbrellas and 10,164 satchels. Metropolitan Police total 20,529, up 551.
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London
Metropolitan Police
Girl Elopes With Driver After Rope Route Scene
Dorothy Eckhoff 16 leaves home via rope from her window and wed Zerface 21 in Ellwood Indiana. The couple married by a justice of the peace at the Peters home and then in a church ceremony arranged by her father. Dorothy's parents had learned of the romance and protest was limited to home reception.
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ST. Louis
Dorothy
Clem
Zerface
Appa
Ellwood
Ind
Peraes Eckhoff
Eckhoft
Charles Peters
Peters
Eckhoff
Hoosier
Henry J. Eckhoff
Zerrace
Hersace
Eckhoffs
Squire Zerface
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Imitation leopard robes and other furs
The article notes imitation leopard robes for the season made from wool that closely resembles real leopard skin. It also mentions wool imitations of other furs, claiming none are as convincing as the leopard. A separate remark praises a good cook who can create something from nothing and jokes that every man believes he could be a great mechanic with a full kit of tools.
Dapper thief given the lash in Delaware whipping post
Cornelius Street, a dapper young man, was convicted of robbing a Du Pont family member William Winder Laird and sentenced to twenty lashes at Newcastle County Workhouse. Officials and Governor Miller opposed relief. Street served as he bore the sentence, returning to serve ten years after the incident.
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Wilmington
Del
Delaware
Cornelius ,Co. Street
William Winder Laird
du Pont
Newcastle County
Evans
Montana
Streat
Miller
Crawford
Bride Trades Bracelet in Wedding Exchange Tale
Miss Helen Francis and Raymond Fowler wed in Jeffersonville Indiana. The bride admitted buying her new husband from her bridesmaid for a gold bracelet. The bridesmaid Miss Francis had agreed to the exchange in Louisville before the couple returned to Indianapolis.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Helen Francis
Raymond Fowler
Indianapolis
Hay
Guy F. Lepper
Ruby Henderson
Louisville
Misa Francis
Salvation Army meeting stirs as man is found guilty
At a Washington Salvation Army gathering an individual was declared guilty after a trial that faced delays and a hoped reprieve. An audience of eight watched as the sentencing lashing was postponed from morning to afternoon pending possible clemency.
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Salvation Army
Washington
Street
Fragmentary Notes on Office Chairs and Fabrics
A jumbled OCR fragment mentions squeaky chairs and silk sweaters with pastel shades. It references colors described as vegetable ivory and matching bits, but lacks coherent action or clear entities to summarize a concrete event.
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Wee One
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Carter
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Ivoy
Perisian
Tvory
Congress
Hood
Howe
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