Cat Free to Trespass Court Rules Angora Harmless
Hartford court details a Connecticut case about a Thomas Angora cat that bit neighbor Teresa Bischoff. The Supreme Court of Errors upheld that cats are generally harmless and that trespass by a domestic cat cannot be used to claim negligence, absolving the owner.
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Hartford
Monn
Supreme Court of Errors
G. le Roy Cheney
New Haven
Thamas Angora
Carris C. Woodcock
Thomas
George W Wheeler
Central High Alumni Meet Sees Expanded Officer Slate
Nearly 300 Central High School alumni gathered for the annual reunion at Seventh and O streets NW. Supt Ernest L. Thurston and others attended as guests of honor while the association elects officers and expands its vice presidents from four to eleven to broaden activity.
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Central High School
Seventh and
O Streets
Ernest L. Thurston
S E. Kraemer
Hmary Wilson
Gether
Pupris
Frederick Fishback
Retirog
G. A. Lyon
Robert C. Greene
Robert C Greene
SM. Farr
Harry English
Fred Fishback
Helen Coolidge
Emily Aleman
Georges W. Hodgkins
Mitton Kaufman
Arline Pollock
J. & Pratt
Helen Sturdevant
John M. McLachlen
Mildred Dear
Women to Entertain Vets in New Year Reception
Mrs Georgia D Van Sleet leads the Potomac Department Woman’s Relief Corps in a New Year reception for the Army of the Republic at the Ebbitt House white parlors from 1:30 to 4:00 PM with department commander James K Grea son and staff assisting. Invitations extend to allied groups, former presidents, and officers. Arlington burial for Mrs Catherine Howard Carnahan notes her death at Fort Sheridan and services at St Matthew’s Catholic Church. she leaves a husband two children and three brothers. A Fort Myer musicale, under Chaplain P FP O Heefe and the K of G Koral Society, is planned in the administration building tonight at 15 dollars.
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Department of the Potomac
Woman's Relief Corps
Mra
Georgia
Catherine Howard Carnahan
Harry Carnahan
U. S
Fort Sheridan
Arlington Cemetery
George T. Toward
John M Cooper
St. Matthew's Catholi Church
Carnahan
Chapleon P. FP
O'Heefe
Fifth Cavalry
T S. A
K. of G. @Koral Society
James Dickinson
Fort, Myer
Polar Bears Swim Season Opens at Coney Island
New York reporters note 52 bathers at Coney Island to start the winter sea season. Water 42 degrees, air 25, half are young women. Miss Jeanette Ehrman wins a 50 yard swim as crowds watch bathers and a beach lunch near a big fire. Participants belong to Polar Bears Arctica Snow Birds Icebergs and Sea Gulls clubs.
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New York
Coney Island
Diplomatic Abstinence Marks War Era Dinners
Washington reports diplomats and notable guests increasingly adopt total abstinence at official dinners amid wartime food and drink restrictions. Relations tighten as officials, including Mrs. Henderson, host wine and meatless meals while foreign ambassadors endure alcohol-free menus.
Divorce Trial Details Unmusical Husband Absent During Song
Mrs. Laura L. Wipfier testifies during the divorce suit against August Wipfer in St. Louis that he left a friend's porch as she sang and disappeared when she joined him. She recalls asking him to fetch the furnace and says he refused. The couple wed in 1905 and separated in May, with Wipfer denying the charges and suing her parents for damages.
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St. Louis
Laura L. Wipfier
Chreuit
Withrow
August Wipfer
Wipfer
John A. Musick
Fudge Withrow
Wipfler
Girl maimed for life after mother forces face to hot stove
Charlotte Heath, 19, disfigured after her mother Margaret Moore held her face against a red hot stove. Moore, janitor of an apartment house, was arrested on a complaint by her son William. The girl, frightened, escaped to her stepfather's mother after sustaining injuries.
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Washington Post
New York
Charlotte Heath
Ismn Knickerbocker Hospital
Margaret Moore
Diamond Horse Shoe Lures Society To Opera Not Music
Century Opera Company managers say society uses opera as a display of clothes, not a art form. They blame lack of general public support and New York benefactors for a failing season at the Auditorium, noting aristocrats attend only at high prices. Real music lovers are scarce, few attend with genuine enthusiasm.
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Washington Post
Chicago
Century Opera Company
New York
Rlllianeires
Otto H. Kahn
Thoase
Walters Art Galleries
Poor Association
Baltimore
H Walters
Charles
Centre Streets
Harris & Water Company
Pennsylvania
Hotel Belvedere
Stait ‘Ford
National Press Club elects officers in annual vote
Frank B. Lord was reelected president with 194 of 198 votes. Grafton Wilcox became vice president unopposed. Charles Hart won the secretary post 97 to 93 over William Van Bennchoten, while John Smallwood edged Morton Milford for treasurer 119 to 77. Anandgi secretary Donald A. Craig reelected with 36 against. Three new governors named Harry Brown, Robert Ginter, and James Wright. Installation set for Monday night.
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National Press Club
Frank
Lord
Grafton Wilcox
Associated Press
Charles CC. Hart
Spokane Spokesman-Review
William A. van Bennchoten
Detroit Free Press
John BR. Smallwood
The
Star
Morton M Milford
Indianapolis Newa
Smallwood
Donald A. Craig
New York Herald
Anandgi
Board of
Harry J. Brown
Fortsand Oregonian
Robert M. Ginter
Pittsburgh Gazette, Times
James L. Wright
Detroit News
Stephen T. Barry
Private detective Siegel jailed for forcing wife into white slave trade
In New York in 1913 Leo B. Siegel, a private detective, was sentenced to Sing Sing for five years six months to ten years six months for making his wife a white slave and taking her earnings. The trial included his wife indicted for perjury after refusing to testify again. She had alleged Siegel forced her on the streets while he lived with another woman. The court described Siegel as a menace to society.
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Edwards
Siegel
Alderman Smith
New York
Leo B. Siegel
Ronalsky
Sing Sing
Resaleky
Capt Bill McDonald at 65 Takes Texas Bride
Special to The Washington Pont Dallas Tex December Capt Bill McDonald aged sixty five famous as a Texas ranger and former President Wilsons bodyguard announces he has married Miss Pearl Wilkin daughter of Quanah Tex McDonald began his career at Quanah fighting bad men where he met his first wife He says I sure feel like a young colt.
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Washington Pont
Dallas
Tex
Bui” McDonald
Wilson
Pearl Wilkinson
Quanah
McDonald
Farmer Charles St Berry Injured By Wagon Collision
In Rockville Maryland on December 2 3 Charles St Berry a farmer in the county upper section had both legs broken when trying to control two horses hitched to a cordwood wagon he fell and the wagon passed over him Saturday afternoon.
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Rockville
Charles St Berry
Marriages on a Fifteen Minute Schedule in Waterloo
In Waterloo Illinois a fast marriage market operates with a 15 minute cycle. Justice de Mint and Squire Bremser issue licenses and perform ceremonies for couples arriving by St Louis streetcar. Cars may be run to the courthouse door as Waterloo spencer seeks to attract revenue and speed, with Justice de Mint noted for rapid knot tying.
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St. Louis
Waterloo
Thetta
St. Gouls
Mata
Marrigage Trust
Justice Loula
de Mint
Squire Hugo Bremser
Squire Bremser
Justice de Mint
Clayton
Missouri River
Maerrisgs Market
St Louie
Marie Taller Engaged to S Bryce Wing of New York
Special to The Washington Post from New York December 28 announces the engagement of Miss Marie Taller to S Bryce Wing. Both are popular Long Island social figures with country homes in Richfield Springs and Millbrook. No wedding date has been set.
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Chicago
Washington
The
Evening Post
Diplomatic Corps
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Navy
Bryan
Daniels
Marie Tailer
New York
Belle
S. Bryce Wing
Washington Post
James Lea Teller
Haat Seventy-second Street
Marie Taller
Bryce Wing
L. Stuart, Wing
West Forty-eeath Sireet
Long Island
Eet
America
Newport
Piping Rock
New York Athletic
Senate rejects numerous nominations in ongoing stalemate
In a continuing fight since President Wilson’s inauguration the Senate rejected a series of nominations for posts including postmasters, a U S attorney, and a consul. The most noted clash involved Thomas D. Jones’s bid for the Federal reserve board, withdrawn after a heated fight led by Reed, Hitchcock, and others.
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Wilson
Senate
Thomas D. Jones
Chicago
Federal Reserve Board
Reed
Hitchcock
Faw
Alabama
Lynn
New York
Collins
Kangag City
Weat Find Citizens' Association Passes Resolutions
The group at Kidder's Hall urged Congress to fund a dental clinic linked to District schools and allow voters to decide welfare matters. They also asked for a pension system for firemen and policemen, a temporary halt on liquor dealer actions, and recommended moves on aqueduct bridge location, a District house of detention, juvenile court expansion, and keeping criminal courts open in summer.
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Weat Find Citizens’ Association
Kidder’s Hall
Congress
Washington
Thompson School
Secretary of War
Aqueduct
Hostreet
Honduran Consul Arrested in San Francisco Fire
San Francisco reports Honduran Consul General Fernando Morales Vivas was arrested on arson charges after investigators found his home heavily doused with oil and turpentine. Fire evidence included oil-saturated papers and flammable materials. police noted his diplomatic status but stated immunity does not apply.
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San Francisco
Dec
Fernando
Moza Vivas
Hero
Republic of Honduras
Ele
Womanhood of Europe Set Back by War Avers Mrs Spencer
Mrs Anna Carlin Spemes told the Ethical Culture Society in Philadelphia that war pushes European womanhood back 3000 years by roiling traditional roles and marriage fees. She warned of a return to subjugation as soldiers marry during leave and women face renewed industrial and social limits.
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Europe
Spencer Avers
Philadelphia
Anna Carlin Spemes
Ethical Culture Society
Broad Street
Conmon
Spencer
England
Germany
Countess Cornet A Mother Daughter Born to Former Colorado Girl
Christmas day birth of a daughter to Count Paul Cornet and Countess Gladys McMillan, formerly Miss Gladys McMillan of Colorado Springs, announced by cable from their Brussels estate. The Countess, allied to the Penrose family, remained in Belgium through the war with limited correspondence.
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Colorado
Belgium
Washington Post
Colorado Springs
Colo
Paul Cornet
Countess Cornet
Gladys McMillan
Spencer Penrose
McMillan
Michigan
Penrosea
Brussels
Gecauas
Lady Harrington
London
Hugh Mccfillan
McMillans
Penrose
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STAG
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Virginia Theater
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C. E
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Ing
John B Henderson
Missouri
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Press Club
Bill” McDonald
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Ill
Mesriage Trust
P. A Jonas
Coffeyville
Kans
M. BR. Merrill
Wheatland
Wyo
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McComb
S. S Gullatt
Royston
Otto R. Meyer
Dickinson
N. Dak
James C. McNally
Nuremberg
Bavaria
Robert Boyd
Dothan
Ala
Alberts. Snowden
Paragould
Ark
Edward T. Warner
Searcy
F. C. Cogbill
Wynne
G. T. Breckinridge
C. Rettenmaier
Albany
Minn
John H. Bloom
Devils Lake
Benjamin F. Roberta
Meredith
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Dirk B. Siligman
Las Cruces
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Robert E. McBride
Bad Cloud
Nebr
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N. Dek
Jones
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Fifth Ave
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Fitwell” Worsted Union
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Malaga
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Hille Bill
Windermere
Oreste Vangelis
Edward Paulton
Alexander_ Clark
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Charlon ‘Angsle
Leola Ener
Vincant Bulleven
Garden Jr
Daniel Frohman
Willt Oe Farnum
Strand Fitas
Famous Players
Mary Pickford
Cinderella
F. Keith
Carter de Haven
Walter C. Kelly
Valerie Bergere & CO
Doyle & Dixon
Mr. Hymark
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Winnie Heloings
Fred
Adele Astaire
Ags
ADELE
Yamolcs Frimna Donna Chorus
Sistadech Charies Frebmar
John Drew
Empire Theater
Boston Symphony
National Theater
Fritz Kreisler
Droop's
13Th
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Sano
A. Brady
Frank Craven
FIM Garrity
Pricer
Ake
Mets
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Tressis
Ladien
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North
Circular
National Radio School U
Washington College
Btudie
Belasco ‘Theater
Emily Fred Barnes
Sievesth Street
Theart
Prud'homme
Hechive
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