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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1913
Page
5
Denver, Sept. 27. C. F. Thompson, 28, lured five brunettes with tales of wealth and promised lavish trousseaus and homes, ordering luxury cars and a castle for them. He collected money advances, then vanished, leaving the women fearing exposure as he faces arrest for false pretenses. He boasted of a swift escape plan and a tuberculosis diagnosis.
Mme Riana wife of the new Spanish ambassador is acclaimed as the premier lace maker of the diplomatic corps. She learned in Spain after marriage and has refined skills rivaling nun lace from Spanish convents. She studied under a master lace maker and designs many delicate patterns for gowns and gifts.
Miss Mary Peary Abrighito of Newfoundland is engaged to Donald McMillan the Arctic explorer who accompanied Rear Admiral Robert Peary on the pole dash. McMillan leads the Crocker Land expedition from Brookyln Navy Yard, and Mary Peary, born near 77 degrees north in 1893, regards Arctic exploration as her hobby. In Exeter probate news Mrs Annie A Barbour of Stratham left a small estate with her dog Dompy as sole beneficiary before its distribution to heirs.
Matilda Tommet larges gifts to relatives by marriage in her probate filing. Odd items include old shoestrings, a best bedspread and half the towels, a high backed chair, and specific directions to take the north side of the sideboard. Chickens, feed, vegetables, lard, a father's clock, and old coal heater complete the distribution.
Deput y Sheriff Jack Donahue captured a mysterious man near Camp Taylor who spoke only to write Ani Bey possibly Anthony Benko. The Unknown sat on the courthouse lawn eating grass while authorities investigate his identity and sanity. Former U S district attorney John L. McNab represents the hermit’s estate in the case.
Ada Oklahoma September reports on Chickasaw tribal justice before relocation to Oklahoma. The eye for an eye principle governed punishment for murder, with kin enforcing penalties and deaths rare. post East Mississippi exile, property rights favored siblings, and prisons were unknown. Monarchy gave way to republican government around 1840, signaling sweeping legal shifts.
International News Service reports farmers on the Delaware Maryland peninsula hunt a tongue slayer accused of killing cattle and horses for fifteen years. Prominent farmer Philip Graham found three blooded cows with tongues cut out. earlier incidents trace to James H. Jarrel and others amid lynching talk.
In Georgetown Delaware on September 27 Aunt Harriet Law, aged, awoke from a presumed corpse in a bed as undertaker John Carey prepared to embalm. Mrs Derrickson and her son, who had gone to view the body, fled in fright when Harriet rose. A gust of wind shut the door and Harriet sat up to astonish the family.
John Zigmo rman 79 known as John Cinnamon dies in Columbus at the house he occupied for thirty years without paying rent. Owner Francis T Crump had confronted him about the unpaid rent and the matter ended with Zigmorman angrily leaving the scene.
In San Francisco area on September 27, Sheriff Keating and a deputy captured a so called wild man near Camp Taylor Marin. He will be held for inquiry on sanity. The camp showed primitive and civilized setups within three hollow trees serving as sleeping quarters kitchen and storeroom with animal skins a potato patch and stored berries. The man’s clothes suggested Turkish style and Oriental appearance.
In Galveston Indiana on September 27 the Armstrong twins created unusual interest as both parents the minister and a family friend are noted as twins. The couple Dr BE Armstrong and Mrs Armstrong wed with Rev T C Probert officiating the ceremony performed by another twin, Capt S B Wallace. The event foreshadowed more twins in the family.
Charles W. Litten, Methodist and chautauqua lecturer, received a grand divorce in Des Moines Iowa after testifying his wife had a habit of swearing immediately after he said grace. He claimed she mistreated his flock and caused him to change pastorates seven times in ten years. He said she attacked him with a knife at Shenandoah and his life was saved by his mother's timely interference.
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