New York Negro Found Guilty in White Slave Case
In New York a colored defendant, Robert Spriggs, proprietor of a resort accused of detaining white women, was convicted after a brief jury deliberation. Police testimony described basement raids uncovering three other women, one prisoner Hattie Warren.
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New York
Mattie Warren
Cora Chester
Robert Spriggs
Henry Berbenich
Berbenich
Spriggs Place
Spriggs
Hattie Warren
Spriggs Testifies in Abduction Case in New York
Spriggs recounts meeting Hattie Warren in a New York house of ill repute in 1890 and claims she stayed seven to eight months at his house, left when ordered, and that he did not imprison her. He says tenants were white women, and denies striking or employing watchers. A jury convicts him of abduction after deliberation. sentence pending. Sallie Bennett pleads guilty to abducting Alice Harris and is remanded for sentence.
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Spriges
Hattie Warren
New York
Swriggs
Spriggs
Hattie
J. S. Jones
Jones
Sallie Bennett
Alice Harris
Iowa Regents Bill Passes Senate to Oversee Education
Des Moines March 23. The state regency bill provides for a governor appointed board of fifteen regents to manage Iowa educational institutions. The measure has passed the senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Des Moines
Senate
Pagoda at Triplicane in Madras Visited by Prince and Princess of Wales
The famed pagoda at Madras known as Tada was seen during the recent royal tour. The article notes the pagoda’s towerlike form and intricate carvings and mentions the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales.
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Triplicane
Madras
Prince OF Wales
India
Orient
Tada
Prince and Princss of Wales
Washington Shadows on Sunday Labor and Lawmakers
A Washington report quotes Congress members debating Sunday labor limits and prohibition. It recalls Senator Kittredge, Senator Warren, and Senator Lodge clashing over bill wording and definitions. A New York constituent asks for a permit to carry a weapon for a merry-go-round crowd. The piece also notes House exchanges linking tariff talk to broader reform debates.
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Kittredge
Pixpert
Warren and
Lodge
Merrysereo
Man
Arthur W. Dunn
Washington
District of Columbia
Congress
House
New York State
Not Worth the Living Not Worth the Living
Advertisement touts Miona a digestive remedy for stomach troubles and nervous irri tation. It claims to restore digestion, aid nutrition, soothe inflamed stomach walls, and strengthen nerves with a money back guarantee from The Columbia Pharmacy for 50 cent boxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Miona
Columbia
Mio Na
Nervous Women and a Cure Through Vegetable Compound
A claim that many nervous ailments in women stem from bodily derangements and can be cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad features Mrs. M. E. Shotwell praising relief from nervous prostration, backache, sleeplessness, and irritability after use.
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Lydia KE. Pinkham
M. E. Shotwell
Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn
N. C
Lydia BE. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Tam
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G.P
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Teeter & Lathros
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Mark Alter
Spriges’ Place
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