Had Five Wives in West Springfield Clergyman
The Rev. Charles C. Walker, pastor in West Springfield, faced a police court in Springfield charged with bigamy after reportedly marrying five women without divorces. His case was continued for further hearing. He was arrested April 9 for breach of peace after attempting to visit his latest wife and allegedly slashing his mother-in-law.
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Charles C. Walker
West Springfield
Heady
Walker
Lem Humphrey
Wild White Family Descent From Ramapo Sparks Nyack Quandary
Nyack New York May 1 a wild man from the Ramapo Mountains with an unwashed wife and four ragged children arrived in Pearl River. They occupy a tumbling shack and show no schooling or names for family. Nyack faces a community dilemma over what to do with the unfamiliar family amid concerns of past lynching stock. A cited political anecdote from Indianapolis News underscores the humor in miscommunication between campaigners and local committees.
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Town Board of
Ramapo Mountains
Thompson
Pearl River
Justice in a Jim Crow marriage case in Clark County
In Clark Circuit Court Judge James W. Fortune sentenced Carl Johnson to one to ten years in the Indiana Reformatory and a $1000 fine for marrying a Negro woman. The judge lamented the punishment could not be harsher, reflecting on racial injustice while contrasting with imagined harsher outcomes for interracial couples. The report also notes upcoming Cleveland public school museum collaborations and plans, with a museum expected to be built in a few years.
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Indiana Reformatory
Carl Johnson
Clark
Jeffersonville
James W. Fortune
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Museum of Natural History
Louisiana inventor unveils semi-Diesel fuel oil engine
A Louisiana inventor develops a semi-Diesel fuel oil engine with reduced compression, an improved fuel injection jet, and preheated oil. The design promises smooth power impulses without explosions, enabling lighter construction for passenger cars and motor trucks, per Popular Mechanics.
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Louisiana
Popular Mechanics Magazine
First French Woman Doctor Found Living in Poverty
The London Herald reports Mme Madeleine Bres, the first woman doctor to practice in France, now blind and starving. Born a poor child, she supported her sons while studying medicine, later aided by Empress Eugenie, yet she spent years near destitution and declined public charity.
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Madeleine Bres
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London Herald
Baltimore Gasholder Rises as World’s Second Largest
The second largest gas holder in the world is under construction in Baltimore. When fully inflated it will stand 228 feet high and hold a capacity of 10,000,000 cubic feet of gas.
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Baltimore
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