Robins Must Stand Trial In Bank Case And Bridge Tale
New York January 31 Joseph G Robin alleged bank wrecker faces eight indictments for first degree larceny. A jury deemed him sane, despite alienist testimony, while defense counsel Jerome praised the verdict. Bank examiner Hutchins offered his side, detailing stock dealings and a $3,000 check, and Robin claimed misconduct by the banking department amid a broader social note on Washington dressmakers and bridge whist losses.
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New York
Joseph G. Robin
Banks
Swan
Court of General Sessions
William Travers Jerome
Robin
Frohin
M. W. Hutchins
State Banking Department
Riverside
Northern Bank of New York
Robin’s
Hutchins
Frederick
Wieburn
Fidelity Development Company
Mb. Kilburn
S.nd
Atlas Vey
Matuling
Argue
Kilburn
Caneel
Sen Tlande
Taiching
Ron
Paiel Iim
S. Allan McLane Lhamilton
Smith
Charles LF. Dana
Austin
Ani Hey
Hellelebin
Walt
Jerome
Wwetty
Mrs Schenk Narrowly Survives Ohio River Flood Incident
In Wheeling West Virginia January 2 a flood stranded residents on Wheeling Island with the Ohio River up. Mrs Laure Parussorth Sehrenk recovering from a recent jury trial for poisoning narrowly escaped death when a skiff overturned in the rising waters. Rescued unconscious from the craft she was brought to a neighbor’s home as rescuers worked from the shore.
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Wheeling
W.va
Janu
Laure Parussorth Sehrenk
Mistake Swamps Farmer With Offers to Marry
George F Adams, a 53 year old farmer, says a mistaken newspaper notice sparked a flood of marriage proposals from women in Maryland Virginia and DC. He sought a housekeeper not a wife and plans to manage housekeeping himself. Letters demand secrecy and many candidates request his names remain private.
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George Francis
John
Benning Road
D. C
Adams
Hale
George FL Tama
Mar
G. F. Adams
Automobiles and Letters Highlight Early 20th Century Industry
Emerson and Ormé unloaded two carloads of Detroit electrics and one carload of Regals, with a Detroit shipment including a gentleman's roadster a two-passenger through an, and a ton-and-a-half delivery wagon. Zell Motor Car Co to exhibit a Chalmers 30 chassis from the New York show at their salesroom today. Adams jokes about a mail misdirection involving women ages 18 to 82 and a man’s bachelor life while letters from suitors flow in. Moon exhibits for auto shows arrive, and Diamond Rubber Co preserves travel views of Hawaii's volcano, while a Moon 30 and toy tonneau reach J S Larcombe Jr. Engine knocks are blamed on worn small-end bearings requiring piston hole restoration and larger gudgeon pins.
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Emerson & Ormé
Detroit Electrics
Regals
Detroit
Zell Motor Car Company
Chalmers
New York
Washington
Aon
Railroads plan 1673 mile double track expansion
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific executives approve 1673 miles of double tracking from the Missouri river to San Francisco and along Oregon routes at a cost exceeding 75 million dollars over five years. President Lovett says current conditions are temporary but growth requires expanded facilities and future extensions are planned over six years to serve rapidly developing western regions.
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New York
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Missouri River
San Francisco
Oregon
Union Pacific Marinear Granger
Wyo
Huntington
Oreg
Columbia River
Portland
Robert S. Lovett
Lovett
Omaha
Northwest
Society Notes From St Petersburg And London Ties
Am bassador Rockhill hosts a reception in St Petersburg for the emperor during a credence ceremony with court attire and tight security. London society embraces suffragist fashion, simple life campaigns, and nobility engage in high society reform debates. Edith Hoyt, 9, wins a Fifth Avenue skating race against Vanderbilt and Gould, signaling the debutante generation's athletic rise.
Dietetics Pioneer Advocates Diet Over Drugs
Dr Yorke Davies of London, a veteran physician with eighty years in practice, argues that health deviations are better remedied by dietetic means than medicines. He states diet can be a permanent cure, while drugs are only palliatives, and that expert diet combined with air and sound routines yields lasting health beyond constitutional ailments. His views come from Diet and Condition, 1992.
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Yorke Davies
London
Go to era supreme Court may fill in blank in A F L case
In a contempt case against Samuel Gompers and associates the phrase Go to is debated. The lawyer quoted Gompers saying he had seen the phrase in ancient literature and not as an injunction, while the court and counsel discussed its meaning amid the argument.
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Supreme Court of U. S
F. of L
Supreme Court of the United States
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
Gompers
Buck's Stove and Range
Davenport
Supreme Court
Mr. Davenport
Tender Nerve Centers of the Feet Cause Suffering
An old advertisement details sensitive nerve centers in the feet and promotes Calocide compound as a quick cure. Soaking feet in hot water with Calocide for fifteen minutes allegedly relieves soreness and treats corns callouses bunions sweaty feet frost bites and chilblains. The notice urges daily use for several nights and claims doctors used it before pharmacists now stock it.
Figures and their unreliable count in housekeeping
A writer muses on figures as both helpful and deceitful in keeping house accounts. They warn that sums can mislead, recount an $89 mystery, and humorously blame figures for tempting extravagance while urging cautious budgeting.
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Anantas Club
Housekeeping
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Empty Smilady
Washington Association of Hiusbands
Bridge
Mrs. Schenk
Ohio River
Farmer
Fetter
Senger
Diamond Rubber Company
Akron
Ohio
Hawaii
Volcano Stables
Transportation Company
Hito
J. S. Larcombe, Jr
The
Motor Sales Company
Union and Southern Pacific
Rockhill
St. Petersburg
Monnday
Furshtadskaia
Tauride Gardens
Mrs. Helmont
England
United States
Duchess of Rutland
Marchioness of
Downshire
Countess of
Kinnouil
Countess of Warwick
Muriel Watkins
Malcolm of
Puolalloch
Helen Hooper
Beacon Street
Boston
Back Bay
Lathrop Brown
Harvard
Charles Stell Brown
Lexington Avenue
Miss Hooper
Robert C. Hooper
Somerset
Oliver Ames
West Manchester
Mr. Brown
Bermuda
Edith Hoyt
East Seventy-sixth Street
Manhattan
Cathleen Vanderbilt
Gloria Gould
Fifth Avenue
Billy Hoyt
Walter 5. Hoyt
Edith
Central Park
Seventy-ninth Street
Sixty-ninth
T. J. Allen
Joseph B. Bowles
Wilson
Tey Oundekeeper
Barbara Boyt
Jim
Schoen & Company
West Lexington Street
Baltimore
Rue de Hautville
Paris
H Street
N. W
Sthand L Sts. N.W
Haley
Union Trust Company
15Th and H Sts. N.W
Howard J. Stellwagen
Y. D. Rosen
Kenois Boatlding
Sunday Post
Post
Philipsborn
A.J Arnstam& Co
Fifth Ave
Marinello
Abe
HeKimian Co
Hekimian Co., Inc
Conn. Ave
Eye St
Fahiye
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