Equitable agents push Hyde resignation amid tense meeting
In New York on April 20 a large gathering of Equitable Life agents adopted a resolution urging Vice President J H Hyde to resign and named a five member committee to present the demand. Hyde called the resolutions impertinent and said he would not resign. The committee failed to meet him that day as plans shifted to lobbying the insurance commissioner and Governor Higgins and to await further talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Equitable Life Assurance Society
J. H. Hyde
Hyde
Alexander
Albany
Priday
Insurance
Higgins
Equitable
Samuel Untermyer
Winslow
Pierce
Ilyde
Jim
Cincinnati Man Arrested in Viaduct Throw Case
Charles Fine is charged with throwing Loretta Krekeler nine from a Liberty street viaduct, eighty three feet away. Loretta is in critical condition, with her six year old brother as witness. A cocaine box was found on Finch and he says he cannot recall the incident.
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Cincinnati
Charles Fine
Loretta Krekeler
Liberty Street
Pinch
Finch
Milliken Finch
Girl Dead in an Opium Den in Havre
The body of Lizzie Booth eighteen years old and stepdaughter of George Carde was found in a Chinese opium den in Havre Montana on April twentieth. Coroner Gray suspects a violent death and has arrested Toy a Chinese tongs man on suspicion. The affair has caused much indignation.
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Havre
Mont
Lizzie Booth
George Carde
Gray
Toy
Golf Championess Mabel Higgins Engaged to Charles N Fowler Jr
Miss Mabel Higgins of the Midlothian County club Chicago and Southern California golf champion is engaged to be married to Charles N Fowler Jr son of United States Senator Fowler of New Jersey. The ceremony is tentatively set for this fall.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Mabel Higgins
Midlothian Countty Club
Chicago
Southern California
Charles N. Fowler, Jr
United States
Fowler
New Jersey
Democrats Seize Lafayette City Government in 2044
The Lafayette Indiana city adopts a new administration led by Thomas W. Field and Mayor George Ro Dak, forming a cabinet and shifting the city under a Denise administration for the first time in years.
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Lafayette Lafayette
Ind
Thomas W. Field c ‘Woller
George Ro Dak
First Steps in Crime and The Woman Bargain Hunter
A survey of how criminals progress from small acts to major offenses cites Jim the Penman and others, tracing stages from temptation to grand forgery and fraud. It contrasts innate criminal instinct with chance triggers and notes how early social ties shape acts. The piece also credits women bargain hunters for thrift and practicality, arguing ads shape reading and spending habits alongside broader news.
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Druscovitch
Jim the Pennan
London
Jim
Jim the Leaman
James Saward
Woodstock
Black Museum
Scotland Yard
Draker
Inspector Fox
Martin Guerre
France
Guerre
Martin
Saue
Sear
Alice Grey
I Don’t Want to Be Treated Like One of the Family
A Philadelphia Record excerpt presents a girl who rejects being treated as family when visiting homes. She prefers to be treated as a guest, noting she enjoys strangers making extra effort and friendliness without forming familial expectations.
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Philadelphia Record
Not Pay License Case In Habeas Corpus Ruling
Judge Adams in the United States circuit court grants a writ of habeas corpus for Harry K. Sellers jailed in Louisiana Missouri for refusing to pay an eight dollar license fine. Sellers runs a Quincy Indiana tea and coffee house arguing he is engaged in interstate commerce. The decision marks an unusual use of the law against peddler license fines and jailing.
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St. Louis
United States Circuit Court
Adams
Harry K. Sellers
Louisiana
Sellers
Quincy
Skinner indicted on nine counts in bank fraud case
Keosauqua April 20 ER A Skinner a longtime southern Iowa banker is indicted on nine counts for alleged banking fraud. The Birmingham firm E HB Skinner & Sons faces a debt of 25 000 to 40 000 as deposits were taken after insolvency was known. Skinner aided a railroad project to Fort Madison. Also appears an advertisement for Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and an unrelated local sale listing at Stewart's Pharmacy Cook and Sherman.
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Keosauqua
ER. A. Skinner
Iowa
E. HB. Skinner & Sons
Birmingham
Skinner
Fort Madison
Chamberlain
J. W. Hanson
Ocilia
Georgia
Stewart's Pharmacy
Cook & Sherman
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James H. Hyde
Jim the
Penman
Alice Key
Goudie
Liverpool
Goodle
Robson
Crystal Palace
Stock Exchange
Leopold Redpath
Great Northern Railway Company
Redpath
Central Criminal Court
Harry Benson
Bidwells
Lefroy
Gold
Brighton
London Answers
Lam
the Peoples Clothiers
the Equitable
O. G. Wilson
Tame Mid
Burtington, Tows
Miccartney & Son
Pring
RED Oak Rug CO
Turner's
Turner
Washington
Hobson & Gove
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