Rule in Haiti Witts Praise From Pomerene Visit
Senator Pomerene reports satisfaction with conditions in Haiti and the Dominican Republic after a two week delegation visit. He cites American road building sanitation education and machinery as transformative and notes one established case of cruelty by Capt Merkel in the Dominican Republic with officers taking action after report.
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Associated Press
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Pomerene
Democrat
Ohio
Senate
Ita
Hughes
Republica
Marvelou
Merkel
Marine Corps
Senator Attacks Exaggeration of Native Atrocities
The senator argued that reports of atrocities by Americans were largely exaggerated. He cited native government failures to follow treaty debt stipulations and noted a Dominican Republic loan under the 1907 treaty grew from 3 million to 16 million before commissions reduced claims to about 4.04 million. American occupation forces improved revenue administration.
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Commission
Dominican Republic
United States
Daughters Lose Suit as Chicago Estate Sells Property
Four of Otto Young’s daughters lose their claim to a portion of the late multimi llionaire’s estate after Judge Ryner approves a 2.5 million dollar sale of a Michigan Avenue block. The ruling leaves 14 grandchildren to receive the fortune with an additional 20 million hotel planned on the site.
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Chicago
Otto Young
Young
Ryner
Michigan Avenue
Seventh Street
Selma Cecile Young Heyworth’ von Kerwin
New York
Baron von Kerwin
Marie Julia Kaufman
Stort Hills
N. J
Catharine Osborn Hobart Wickes
Brooklandville
Laura Elizabeth Martin
Samuel K. Martin
Open Hill estate fight filed in probate court
Louis F. Hill, chairman of the Great Northern Railway, applied for appointment as administrator of his mother Mrs. James J. Hill estate. The $16 million estate has dispute among heirs over previous designation of Northwestern Trust Company and the transfer of Worth Oaks farm ownership in 1919 amid her illness.
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St. Paul
Minn
Louis F. Hill
Great Northern Railway
James J. Hill
Empire Builder
Hill
Worth Oaks Farm
Gloria Caruso to inherit half of Enrico Caruso estate
An agreement among Caruso relatives assigns Gloria Caruso one half of the estate and 500,000 lire. The New York administration will collect assets and pay creditors while the Italian estate handles the rest. Remaining shares go to Rodolfo, Enrico, Dorothy Benjamin, and Giovanni Caruso.
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New York
Associated Press
Enrico Caruso
Gloria
Naples
Banca Commerciale
Florence
Caruso
Rodolfo
Enrico
Dorothy Benjamin
Giovanni Caruso
Turner's love life ends in court and prison
In the Bronx supreme court Benjamin Turner sat manacled to a prison guard as his marriages unravel. Mrs Mamie Turner filed for divorce naming Mrs Fannie Madison Turner as co respondent after Turner wed in 1914. Fannie testified Turner proposed to her without revealing prior marriage and she obtained an annulment before Turner returned to Sing Sing to serve a 4 6 year bigamy sentence.
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New York
Benjamin Turner
Supreme Court
Bronx
Sing Sing
Mamie Turner
Fannie Madison Turner
Fannie
Madison Turner
Turner
Blame Crash on Destroyer Lights Ignored by Regulations
New York reports that the destroyer Graham caused the collision with the Panama by sailing with mast lights burning contrary to naval rules. Counsel for both ships argued the lights misled the Panama's navigator. Damages were assessed at 135000 for the destroyer and 12000 for the Panama.
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Graham
New York
Panama
Naval Board of Inquiry
Bishop H. C. Morrison dies at 79 in Leesburg Florida
Bishop Henry Clay Morrison of the Methodist Episcopal Church South died after a long illness at his Leesburg Florida home aged 79. Friends report his body will be brought to Atlanta for interment. He was a leading figure in Southern Methodism and was ordained bishop in 1898 and retired by the church’s 1913 general conference.
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Atlanta
Henry Clay Morrison
Methodist Biscopal Church
South
Leesburg
Fla
General Conference of the Church
Morrison
Baltimore
Porto Rico Appointments Favor Natives in Island Government
President Harding cited in a Senate letter that since July, when Gov Kelly took office, 49 continentals and 6911 natives staffed the insular government, with continental staff reduced to 45. Gov Reily made 25 island appointments, only two to continentals, both longtime residents who had held prior posts. Senator King called the letter reassuring amid criticisms of Reily's administration.
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Porto Rico
Harding
King
Utah
Senate
Gov.Kelly
Islands
Gov. Reily
Gov. Rally
Taft
Wilson
MRS GOULD SILENT ON DIVORCE SUIT
Edith Kelly Gould arrived from London aboard the Panhandle State. Her attorney said a new motion to reopen divorce proceedings in the United States will be argued next week.
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New York
Edith Kelly Gould
Paris
London
Panhandle
Handkerchiefs Clearance Sale Offers Linen and Embroidered Pieces
Clearance sale features women's plain hemstitched pare linen handkerchiefs and men's hemstitched embroidered linen handkerchiefs with values up to 75c to $1.00, all at 50 cents each. Includes Madeira pure linen embroidered linens, lace edge items, and assorted tea napkins and tea sets at reduced prices.
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Washington
V. Shipley Division
13Th & F Streets
Union Station
the Sunday Post
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Haitt
Hill Estate
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Atic
Joseph McReynolds
N. Ww
Ebak
E.R
Hale
Caruso Estate
New Jersey
Court
Divida
Yale
H. C. Morrison
Island
Milton E.ailes
WM. J. Flather
Wid President
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Rob T. V. Fleming
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Weprel
AVON
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Cashier
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Weaal Counerl
Charles C. Glover
J. Flather
John
Larcombe
Shas. Carroll Glover, Jr
Weney B. Spencer
Vlius Garfinele
Fleming Newbold
James Marion Johnston
Powell Minnigerode
William M. Bitter
Clark Harry Feane
Z “Hogan
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Washington D.C
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U.S. Treasury
SM Woses& Furniture Carpets
Draper
Anne Pene
Bar Harbor
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