Romance and Pinkerton chase stain a Chicago wedding tale
A Chicago romance leads to a post wedding intrigue as Harry Gaunter, Myrtle Goad, and a husband unnamed face a Pinkerton inquiry over forged signatures. Detectives interview the bride at Rush street hotel as police question possible annulment and the groom’s whereabouts after a June ceremony.
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Harry Theodore
Myrtle G. 90d
Magnolia Avenue
Kramer
EB. R. Polk
Reaper Mill” Repute
Ain
O'Brien
Pinkerstive Agency
4En
T. Kray
Kragg
Phe
Pinkertons
Chicago
A. 8
Mulcahey
Central Staff
Seregants Williams
Gustave Christiansen
Stata
sA&nd
Kray
Rush Street
Peete
Baroness May De Pallandt Faces 20000 Fraud Suit In London
Chicago papers reveal new details about the Baroness May De Pallandt once linked with wealthy men including John D Kilpatrick who died by suicide after their association. The baroness previously lived in Menominee Michigan and visited her mother annually, owning a luxury summer home and Parisian automobile.
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Chicago
May de Pallandt
High Court of Justice
London
Ernest Villiers Appleby
University of Minnesota
Pinkertons
May Duggs
Menominee, Mich
John D. Kilpatrick
Hir
Kilpatrick
Europe
United States
New York
Waldorf-Astoria
Menominee
Mich
Iron County
Upper Michigan Forest
Paris
Fat Cure Fakers Exposed in Massive Fraud Ring
Post notices reveal Cunningham, linked to Texas Guinan's late manager, ran two fake obesity cures and a mail order school swindle that earned about 750000 in two years. He formed the Women’s Protective Association to expose frauds, but Burleson revoked the group’s mail privileges. The letter explains a genuine fat reducing method offered for 1 dollar membership.
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Washington
W.C
Santaghene
Marjorie Hamilton
Texas Guinan, Inc
Cunningham
Suckers
Post Office Department
Burleson
Women’s Protective Association
Protective Association
Woman’s Protective Association
Grayce
Los Angeles
Cal
America
Women's Protective Association
Woman's Protective Association
Showers of money end as officer removes collector
Forty down and outs in Chicago crowded State and Eighth as patrolmen eject H. J. Hilligoss, collector for George A. Ogle & Co, from the Rand McNally building after a ten minute fusillade of dollar bills and coins. The crowd listened to a phone call and guessed at the rest, leaving the scene unsatisfied.
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Chicago
State and
Eighth Streets
H. J. Hilligoss
George A. Ogle & Co
Rand McNally
Hilligoss
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League of Pulpy Persons
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Reiss Mercantile Co
Just
Crea VJ
Silk
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