Pearl divers in Arkansas as in Orient in 1910s
Newport Ark October 30 This report on White River pearl fisheries highlights in detail how divers work mussel beds along 500 miles of shallow water. It profiles Jesse J. Wilson the "Pearl King" who built a pearl and shell business with divers, rafts, and a line of negro workers, earning thousands of dollars from shells and pearls and a 36,000 necklace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
Ark
White River
Jesse J. Wilson
Earl King
Wilson
Chinge
Thia
Wilkon
Bus Receipts Highlight Dark London Mood
London on October 30 saw bleak streets as bus receipts rose and the public preferred paying to cross the street over tying a foot in place. The report notes a grim mood in the city with heavy reliance on transit amid economic strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
British subjects in Yokohama urged to register
In Yokohama Japan October ob. the British consul general calls on British residents to register amid wartime uncertainty. The Japan Gazette notes registration is voluntary but urges full participation to create a complete record of all British residents and available services. Residents should state their abilities in case of need.
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Yokohama
Japan
Far East
Britih
Pastor Resigns After Service With Peace Society
In London on October 30, Rev. W Evans Darby LL D announced his resignation as the secretariat of the peace society. A Welsh born authority on international law, Darby authored Magnum Opus International Tribunals which gained attention across monarchies. A second edition served delegates at the Hague congress and a third edition honored the czar of Russia, while Tufts College awarded him an honorary LL.D. degree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tondon
W Evans| Darby
Peace Society
Dastor Darby
Carmarthenshire
Wales
Hague
Tion
Tufts College
United States
Moral Purification Aims At Kyoto Coronation
Kyoto officials and foreign delegates are urged to witness Japan's push for higher morality during the coronation period. The Japan Women's Reform Association has issued a manifesto calling for moral cleanliness at autumn accession ceremonies and for geishas or dancing girls to be barred from public meetings. The group plans tents and organized work across festivals to improve public morale in the ancient capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kyoto
Japan
Japan Women's Reform Association
Actors in Costume Face City Film Permit Rules
Magistrate Paul Krotel in Jefferson market court warned actors filming in public without a permit can be punished. George Bick el Dan Crimmons and Max Morse, employed by George Kleine, were arrested by Policeman Knealy in pirate costumes from a cab toward Vacant Sgt near Fourth Avenue and Thirteenth Street. They were charged with disorderly conduct for appearing in masquerade, found guilty but sentence suspended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW+ YORK
Paul Krotel
Jefferson Market Court
George Bickel
Dan'' Crimmons
Max Morse
George Kleine
Knealy
Sgt
Fourth Avenue
Thirteenth Street
Krotel
Count Maz Loudon Identified as De Passy in New York
In New York the indicted bigamist Maz Lynar Loudon is identified by German authorities as Count Albert Marcel de Passy. The fugitive’s crimes include forging, bigamy, and sensational escapades. Under the De Passy name he wed Mme Lilla Allendorf on August 29, 1911, and visited Governor's Island posing as a German general. His sensational career is noted amid theater crowd disturbances and broader public unease over recent events.
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New York
Maz Lynar Loudon
Albert Marcel de Pansy
de Passy
Loudon
Mme
Lilla Allendorf
Governor's Island
United States
Pease
Mystery Farm cash hoard found at Savatery Farm site
Brank Oakes, new conservator for Mrs Deslarge, uncovers ten thousand dollars mainly in gold hidden in cans and tins around the Savatery Farm. The Deslarge family history notes a long seclusion on the farm after Miss Ardel Deslarge wed Edward Ransford and moved to Evansville.
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Jean Desfarge
Mra
Ransford
Evansville
Ind
Oakes
Deslarge
Jean Deslarge
ig _khowm
Ardel Deslarge
Edward Ransford
Tragic Michigan Man Kills Wife Then Takes Life at Ochan Springs
Louis Wade of Michigan forced entry at a locked Ochan Springs home, killed his wife who had sued for divorce, tried to shoot his son in law, then shot himself. Family troubles over five or six months led to the tragedy after Wade traveled from Michigan upon learning of the divorce suit. The son-in-law survived. Wade died lying across his wife’s body.
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Ochan Springs
Louis Wade
Michigan
Oberlin Girls Rally Against Restrictive Color Rule
A protest erupts among Oberlin's female football fans over a Senate ruling barring coeds from displaying the school's red and gold except on football grounds. Supporters mocked the policy while noting the colors clash with their skin tones as they voice frustration at the restriction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oberlin
Women's Senate of
Atraete
Cleveland
Man Electrocuted Working On City Wires In Kansas City
Two men in a wagon north of Seventeenth Street headed toward Quindaro Boulevard to work with telephone wires. One man touched a live wire and was killed instantly by a 2300 volt charge from the city lighting system. The dead man was identified as Carl Pearsole, an ex convict previously arrested for stealing wire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Seventeenth Street
Quindaro Boulevard
Wiseman
Kansas City Home Telephone Company
Lnter
Carl Pearsole
Western Union
Won't Let Jury See Her Knee Abandons Personal Injury Suit
In St Louis, Mrs. Gertrude Yankausky withdraws from a case against East St. Louis and Suburban Railway after debate over proving a knee scar. Attorneys clash over whether witnesses or jurors may view the injury. The judge facilitates a potential non suit as the matter ends. A side note mentions a capstand and block and tackle capable of handling 1,000 to 4,000 pounds.
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ST. Louis
Vandeventer
Gertrude Yankavsky
East St. Louis and Suburban Railway Company
Thomas Webb
Yankausky
James Farmer
Missouri
From Slave to Pastor Aided by U S Army Bonds
Pueblo recollection recalls a boy sold at auction as a slave who, aided by Captain Thomas Gannon in Missouri and later the Ninth Missouri Cavalry, escaped bondage to become a respected African Methodist pastor. Rev. Watson, born in Virginia, rose to serve St. Pauls and St. Johns churches, with lifelong ties to Gannon and the freedmen’s uplift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monte ‘Vista
Gannon
Ninth
Missouri Cavalry
Sitty
Watson
African Methodist Church
Captain Gannon
Leadville
Mr. Watson
Gannonald
Boys In
Blue
Islave
Virgini
Lynchburg
Robert Barnett
Bowling, Green
Pike County
Missouri
Watton
West
Pueblo
St. Paul's
St. John’s
Whigon
Smart loses mayoral bid after late night letters
In Uniontown Pa Oct 30 a story circulates about Wal am H Smart losing a mayoral nomination after a primary stunt. He mailed night letters to citizens the eve of the primary to gain support but telegraph delays left many voters angry and voting against him.
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Uniontown
Walam H. ‘Smart
Smart
Telegraph Company
Movie Attendance Plans Upset Duluth Schools
In Duluth Minnesota superintendent R I Denfeld reports to the school board that over 4,000 of about 19,000 public school pupils attend movies at least weekly. Principals gathered data showing varied attendance frequencies from once to seven times weekly across many students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duluth
Minn
Board of Education
R. i Denfeld
Convicts Enlist in German Army Amid War Strain
Berlin Oct 30 The Association for the Betterment of Criminals reports released convicts now under its observation largely enlist in the army or take civilian work. Of 538 applicants for jobs, all but nineteen have found employment as war mobilization raises demand. Paroled prisoners show an unusually high apparent reform since the war began.
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Aquocsarer
Berlin
Germany
Association For the Betterment of
Settlement Listings From Haithond History of HarclomiGay
A long list details 400 acre land grants and settlements from 1772 to 1778 along Cheat river Little Kanawha and Buckhannon areas. Names include John P Duvall James Workman Robert Harding Robert Connor William Stewart and many assigns to land along Beav er Fork Mill Creek and Lee's Creek with notes of preemption and improvements. The article promises continuation next Sunday.
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John FP. Duvail
Sassignes
Martin I Worthington
Puli Creek
John P. Duvall
Hugh Hans
Shinn‘srun
Robert Harding
Goose Oesk
Robert Conner
Cheat River
James Conner
John Tucker
Sammel Merrifield
West Fork
Williamt Stewart
James Workman
Snd
Workman
William
John
Lewia Rogers
Coimion
Mitt Creek
Robert Cunningham
Chent River
James Parsons
Sala‘thial Goff
John Plummer
Tuarta Valley
Pettyjohn
Peter Springstone
Mill Lreek
Bilas Barker
Robert Woods
Andrew Scott
Lee's Creek
General Washlington
Andrew Robinson
Amirow Scott
Andrew Stott
Ohio
John Boggs
David Mc‘Ohiire
Kennicke
Kansas City
John Knox
Beaver
Mill Creek
Chicago
Johnson
Croek
William Robinson
Mam Harden
Galt Wick Creek
Tohn Morrison
Keanawha
Henry Morrison
John Chew
Thomas
Haymond
Balt Ck Creek
Jol Hardesty
Salt le Creek
Adaea Hydar
Hydar
Aks
William Roblnton
Sanleies
Beedie
David Wilson
Bugle Cannon
Jacob ‘Brakeay
Mage Inlay
Henry Rhodes
Uchannon
Acob Brakes
Christopher Hidnnaman
Grey
Stewart
Ee Aaron Smith
Blupy
Crook
I MeIntire
Daniel Wink
Donnie
Murphy
Wink
Buckhannon
Jeliide
Ysaac Edwards
Marge
Charles Harris
Galleroreek
Poplar
Rade
Joneph Wilkimon
Simpson's Creek
Sami Wilkinson
John Yeoakum
Bankeer's Creek
Olichae Yeoakin
Sugar Creek
Witsonin Gibson
Japanese banker Soyeda to lead imperial railways
Jiichi Soyeda, famed in the United States for his work on the California land question, was appointed president of Japan's imperial government railways. He previously led the Industrial Bank of Japan for over a decade, aiding monetary reforms and foreign capital. He negotiated the Franco-Japanese bank in Paris and advocated friendship with the United States and mutual understanding.
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Tay
Pnece
Tokio
Jiichi Soyeda
United States
Hia
California
Imperial
Industrial Bank of Japan
Japan
Paris
Manciera
Soyada
Remarkable 81 Year Old Enrolls in Fresno Normal School
EATAMOUNT Fresno Oct 20 Mrs Rachel Sheldon of Fresno age 80 will turn 81 January 11 and has enrolled in Fresno normal school to study psychology. She recalls studying mental science sixty four years ago in Springfield academy and believes she can help herself and others by becoming more companionable and useful to women.
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Fresno
Cal
Rachel Sheldon
Fresno Normal School
Remarkable skin graft saves railroad victim in southwest
In Dallas on Oct 30, engineers David Deed of Dennison Missouri Kansas and Texas recalls a dramatic recovery after steam scalding in a train wreck. Surgeons report a ten inch stripe of skin grafted onto his back, the fifteenth patch healing well four months post accident, renewing hope for the severely burned patient.
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Dallas
David Deed
Dennison
Southwest
Reet
Mournful Horse Leads Funeral at Humboldt Grave
In Humboldt Tennessee on October 30 J J Pratt was killed at the county fair when a tent pole fell crushing his skull. His educated horse stood with bowed head at the grave before being led away. The horse had been exhibited widely across the United States.
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Humboldt, Tenn
J. J. Pratt
United States
Burglar Waits Until Woman Turns Corner
Mrs. Adolph Menzel of 1221 North Sarah street heard a front door noise about 4 pm and seized a revolver from under a pillow. She saw a man moving a wire in the keyhole, ordered him to raise his hands, and told him to wait there until police arrived as she turned a corner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Adolph Menzel
North
Sarah Street
Love Powders Scheme Tells of Fortune Teller Scam
Harris Connick, director of works at the exposition in San Francisco, helped a young woman recover 3800 she paid for love powders from an Armenian fortune teller. The woman said she was told to drop powders in her beloved's coffee to keep him, but a friend warned of a scam. Connick recovered part of the money, but the powders failed to secure the romance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ban Francisco
Cal
Harris Connick
Connick
Duthe
Ashes Sent to Japan by Parcel Post
The ashes of A Ninomiya a Japanese who died here several days ago have been started for Japan by parcel post. Shortly before his death Ninomiya requested cremation and the ashes were sent to hima Japan where he was born. The ashes were placed in a hermetically sealed metal receptacle.
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West Palm Bdach
Frs
A. Ninomiya
Japan
Ninomiya
Hima
Preacher Is Paid in Supplies
In St Louis, Oct 30, Methodist circuit riders faced hardships at a city conference. One preacher received twelve dozen eggs and another collected $19 over two months, while parishioners went without funds or warmth before winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Miniatera
Methodist Supiscopal Church
Seventy Year Old Man Sues for a Divorce
A seventy year old man files for absolute divorce from his wife in Hagarstown Oregon. The court action stems from a breakdown after a separation and alleges desertion and abandonment. The case cites previous marriage affiliations and names potential witnesses and parties to the suit.
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Hagarstown
Ord
Conway
Ark
Washington
Green
Kentucky
Sybott
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Methodist Episcopal Conference
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