Opium Joint Raided Across Seventh Avenue Amid Police Connivance Hints
Customs raiders busted two opium dens near Seventh Avenue, arresting four Chinese men and seizing $19,000 in opium and paraphernalia. Letters suggested police chiefs in major cities including Philadelphia Boston and Pittsburgh aided the operation, with a Chinatown figure nicknamed Boston tied to the scheme. District Attorney to investigate as inspectors seek wider federal action.
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Edward R. Norwood
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Shields
No. 496
United States District Attorney's Office
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Murray
Emmett Kyte
Norwood
Boston
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Federal
Chinatown
Arrest Stops Elopement in Lebanon
In Lebanon Pennsylvania on January 26 police arrested 17 year old Harry Fisher son of a local farmer preventing an elopement. Also taken into custody was Mrs Louis Seibert wife of a former Lebanon newspaper man who had insisted on accompanying Fisher to City Hall. At the station Fisher learned his betrothed was already married and had posed as Miss Bertha Smith of Harrisburg. Fisher returned home with his father while Seibert caused the arrest of her own husband Myrs Seibert a 31 year old attractive man.
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Harry Fisher
North Lebanon
Reading
Louis Seibert
Fisher
City Hall
Bertha #Smith
Harrisburg
Seibert
Mvys
Town Almost Wiped Out By Fire In Gowganda Ontario
Dispatches report Gowganda Ontario nearly razed by a large fire destroying many structures. Total loss around 150000 dollars. The Canadian Bank of Commerce burned out though books and cash were saved. Fire began in a drug store.
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Canadian Bank of Commerci D
Vice President and Mrs Sherman Attend Dinner in Washington
The Vice President and Mrs Sherman were the guests of honor at a Washington dinner hosted by the Speaker of the House and Miss Canno. The event was part of a busy social schedule in the nation’s capital.
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Washington
Sherman
Miss Canno
Philadelphia Heiress Roberta De Janon to Wed New York Man
Report from Los Angeles says Roberta De Janon of Philadelphia will marry Stephen Glasser, a New York man now in California. She is granddaughter of the late Robert Buist and heir to a fortune estimated at 500000 to 1000000. The teenaged heiress once eloped with a Bellevue Stratford waiter and faced claims of abduction. she later vanished to Los Angeles.
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Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Roberta de Janon
Stephen Glasser
New York
California
de Janon
Robert Buist
New York City
Miss Delanon
Pretty Girl Sues Blind Man in Breach of Promise Case
In Honesdale Pennsylvania Josephine Oldesski a 17 year old girl from Prompton sues 80 year old William F Taylor a blind Philadelphia resident for 10000 dollars claiming breach of promise. Taylor formerly operated mines and owned hotels and employed Oldesski as a maid years ago.
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Honesdale
William F. Taylor
Philadelphia
Josephine Oldesski
Prompton
Taylor
West Virginia
Oldesski
Barnard Statue Draped as Plaster Covers Nudity
In Harrisburg on January 26 the first marble figure of the George Gray Barnard group was unveiled and found wrapped in plaster of Paris. Plaster will stay to cover nudity until Barnard or state officials order its removal, per reports from those in charge of the statues.
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Harrisburg
Ceorge Gray Barnard
Paris
Barnard
Groenps
Bride Starves in Woods After Boarding House Escape
Harry Smith and his young wife fled a Baltimore boarding house over unpaid bills and wandered three days in woods near Dundalk. They slept in outhouses and barns, foraged raw turnips from truck farms, then broke into a pump house for shelter and water before being arrested.
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Baltimore
Harry Smith
Dundalk
Halifax Judge Orders Attaching Five UMWA Members
Judge Longley in Nova Scotia supreme court orders attachment against five United Mine Workers of America members Joseph Moss Milton Cameron Thomas Long Lionel Debar and James Price for disobeying a restraint on picking and interfering with Cumberland Coal and Railway Co employees at Springhill during a strike. An appeal will be taken.
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N. S
Longley
Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
United Mine Workers of America
Joseph Moss
Milton Cameron
Thomas Long
Lionel Debar
James Price
United Mine Workers
Cumberland Coal and Railway Company
Springhill
No Trace of Stolen Thaw Jewelry
After following many leads that might recover $20,600 worth of jewels stolen from Mrs. William Thaw Jr during dinner, Pittsburg police admit they have no clue.
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Pittsburg
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William Thaw
Jowett Accepts Offer To Lead Fifth Avenue Church
Rev John Henry Jowett D D M A accepts a pull of 12000 dollars annual salary plus a home from the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church New York and will start duties late March or early April He is about 46 years old born in a Yorkshire town educated at Edinburgh and Mansfield Oxford His decision followed intense pressure from England where leaders and bishops urged him to stay.
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New York
John Henry Jowett
England
Fifth Avenue Prebyterian Church
Jowett
Ross Stevenson
Jewett
Birmingham
Yorkshire
Edinburgh University
Mansfield College
Oxford
Mack Twain
Silver Wedding Gift to House Chaplain Stimulates Surprise
Washington notes that 300 silver dollars were given to Rev. Henry N. Couden, the blind chaplain, in honor of his silver wedding anniversary. The Democrats organized the gift, aiming to confirm his continued chaplaincy in the 62nd Congress, with Champ Clark delivering the presentation as Mrs. Couden joined him.
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Washington
Henry N. Couden
Couden
Attacked Servant Alma Lammers Found in Attic in Cincinnati
Police found Alma Lammers bound gagged and struck in the chest in an attic at 622 West Ninth Street. Neighbors reported the house open and she identified a Black assailant. She remains in critical condition. the Loeb family employed her.
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Cincinnati
Alma Lammers
West Ninth Street
Benjamin Loeb
Sway
Death of Dr Emil Munsterberg noted in Berlin
Berlin reports the death of Dr Emil Munsterberg brother of Hugo Munsterberg Harvard professor He served as the German delegate to the 1908 jubilee of the United Charities Societies in America His passing marks a notable loss in academic and philanthropic circles
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Berlin
Emil Munsterberg
Hugo Munsterberg
Harvard
United Charities Societies
America
Reds Sign Shamrocks Outfielder Arthur Hauger
Cincinnati report states outfielder Arthur Hauger of the Shamrocks has signed with the Cincinnati Reds. The New York Giants showed interest in him before the deal was completed.
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Cincinnati
Arthur Hauger
Shamrocks
Cincinnati Reds
New York Giants
Market Report New York Provision Market Summary
New York market data for January 25 shows Wheat No 2 red f o b 1.00 and No 1 northern spring 1.221%. Oats standard 38% and Corn No 2 red f o b 53%40. Pork Mess 22.25 to 22.50. ButterCreamery 26 to 25. Eggs state white 28. Goods list price shifts across Buffalo and East Buffalo markets with prices for wheat corn oats flour butter cheese eggs and livestock including cattle hogs sheep lambs and yearlings.
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State
Pennsylvania
Long Island
Buffalo
Winter Family
State Creamery
East Buffalo
Market Report Cornered Prices for Timothy and Grains
Timothy No 1 fresh on track at 15.00. Timothy No 2 at 16.09. Straw, wheat and oats quoted at 7.50 and 78.00 respectively.
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