Divorces Testimony On Ante Nuptial Pact And Baptism Clash
The divorce case recounts Mires Woll and Tewnp gt against her husband over an ante nuptial agreement surrendering religious control of a child before age seven. The document allegedly signed under trick by the husband, a revolver threat cited, with testimonies about baptism and church rites, and a decoy letter. Evidence includes claims the baptism and ante nuptial papers were dated similarly and the husband’s temper and threats described.
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Mires Woll
Tewnp
Sonry
Tuire
Witten
Tito
Lemps
H. Decdt
Loup
Retirement plan talks shift toward age limit and service years
Management weighs broad retirement under a new system for about 60000 Baltimore and Ohio employees, applying to those 63 with twenty years service. If adopted, it would precede compulsory retirement and affect relief department staff and others. Debates follow as unions press for or against the plan amid broader labor issues.
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Baltimore
Waterboy
Baltimore and Ohio
Change of Venue for Janer Case in Baltimore
Brooklyn man Joseph Janer, indicted for mistreatment of 11 year old Catherine Loerch, was granted a change of venue to Baltimore County after pleading not guilty. He claimed risk of prejudice in the city and the trial set for Monday March 1.
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Brooklyn
Baltimore
Joseph Janer
Catherine Loerch
Janer
Big City
Baltimore County
Tewaon
West Virginia Prison Investigation Begins in Moundsville
The special legislative committee arrives in Moundsville to probe graft charges at the state penitentiary. Delegate E S Moore, who filed the charges, declares the probe will yield the greatest sensation in the history of the state.
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Leguslator
West Virginia
Wheeling
W. Va
Moundsville
E S. Moore
Inaugural Ball Aids Not Handome Men Says Host
Thomas F Walsh announces March 4 dinner for invited aids from states and territories to support the inaugural ball. The selections are community figures of standing not for looks or status, aimed at broad national participation and boosting ticket sales.
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Walsh
Helief
Gulf
Pacific
Canadian
Mashington
Teast
Washington
Gist Blair
Tlee
NO PAGAN NAMES AT BAPTISM IN JERSEY CITY
The Rev EA Kelly, rector of St Lucy's Catholic Church in Jersey City, urged parents to choose plain saint names for children. He advised against girls with stylish names like Evelyn or Dontees and urged boys not to be named Homer Socrates or Hannibal, recommending Joseph, Peter, James, or John instead. He argued plain and beautiful saints’ names prevent lifelong handicap from pagan hero names.
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EA Kelly
St Lucys Catholi Chuch
Jersey City
Tle
Iasparisa
Evelyn Dontees
Lillian
Ike
Mary Agnes Lucy Teresa
Margaret
Homer Socrates
Hannibal
Joseph
Peter James
John
Peanut Factory Burned in Suffolk. Loss Over Twenty Thousand
Fire on the fifth floor of a Suffolk peanut plant owned by Milton T Elliott & Co. destroyed the factory and contents, with losses around 20000 and 21000 insured. The blaze, aided by a large stock of nuts, burned within an hour as the plant, active for only a year, faced remaining competition from seven other mills in town.
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Washington Sun
Suffolk
Milton T Elliott & Co
New York
Oil Trust Rate War at Pittsburg Demand Sparks Ultimatum
The Standard Oil Company seeks to control and set railway rates for coal shipments to the lakes and seaboard. Hawley syndicate figures in a stock move for the Chesapeake and Ohio, with Rea and Green of the Pennsylvania to retire from the board and Vanderlip Castles among replacements. Officials discuss directorate changes and rate strategies amid market pressure and rival rail lines.
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Hawley Syndicate
Breadway
Vanderlip
Castles
New York Conference Road
Bpeckal
Washington Post
Pittsburg
Standard Oil Company
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Seaboard
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Standard Ol Company
Samuel Rea
John G Green
Chesapeake and Ohio Eirectorate
Standard Oumen
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Ince
Chesapeake and Olio
New York
Tech
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Kuhn Loch & Co
New York Central
Confederate Parades to Include United States and Confederate Veterans
New Orleans february 8 military and civic groups will join the fall parade with representation from United States troops at Jackson barracks and a Barrancas Florida military band. A Louisiana State Guard contingent and Confederate Veterans camps prepare for the march. secretary of war Wright has no objection.
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Louisiane Militia
United States Troops
United ‘Confederate Veterans
Wright
Jackson Barracks
Barrancas
Fla
State Guard
Castlemin
Louisiana Confederate Veterans
New Haven
William H Taft
Connecticut Society of Colonial Danes of America
Thomas Welles
Taft
Connecticut
Harriet Coline
Isaac Clinton
Milford
Yale
Bishop Horner's Mother Dead in Oxford NC
Heb Mrs Sophronia Horner widow of James Horner founder of Homer Military School died last night in Oxford. She descended from the Moore family of New York, who started the Mount Tirzeh colony. She was mother of seven children including Bishop Horner of Asheville. Post Want Ads offer free classifieds.
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Washington
Oxford
Heb
Mra
Sophronia Horna
James Horner
Homer Military School
Moore Famile
New York
Mount Tirzeh
Bishop Horner
Asheville
Tucker for Local Option in Virginia Governor Race
Special to The Washington Post Richmond Feb Harry J George Tucker seeks governor of Virginia and favors local option. He plans a statewide platform on public questions and will present it to the people. Tucker has long backed local self government and local option laws and opposes statewide prohibition.
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Washington Post
Richmond
Harry &J. George Tucker
Virginia
Norfolk
Three Children Die In Fire In Browntown Virginia
In Norfolk Virginia on February 8, James Wilson and his wife left three sleeping children aged 5 6 and 9 in a Browntown Browntown Princes Anne County home. A caller helped them away but returned later to find the house with flames trapping the children. The parents could not reach the fire and watched the home burn.
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Norfolk Va
Joan Wilson
Browntown
Princesa Anne County
Plumber Sues Contractor for 5000 Damages in Hagerstown
George W Highman sues George J Wolfe, a Hagerstown builder, for 5000 alleging Wolfe swore out a search warrant in October and searched Highman at his home for a missing diamond stickpin. Highman says most of his clothes were removed during the search and the diamond was later found in Wolfe’s daughter’s coat pocket.
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Hagerstown
George W Wighman
George J McClellan Wolfe
Highman
Wolfe
Justice Hartle
Lieut Bille Indicted Over false pretenses charge in New York
Waldemar H Bille formerly a lieutenant in the Louisiana National Guard and son of the late Dr Waldemar F Bille faces grand jury indictment for false pretenses. He allegedly secured 120 from the J M Stein tailoring firm by posing as an army officer. He was arrested in New York and posted bail. He claims innocence and says he went east to settle business. Additional notes mention his extradition battle and connections to his late father’s property. John G Mason indicted for second degree murder in the Blue Plains Maryland case. Eight counts of embezzlement against John J Stanislaus, a bookkeeper for George T Keene, amounting to about 20. Other indictments include Richard Barnes for housebreaking, Arthur Norris and Edward Swalles for assaults with a dangerous weapon, and James M Baucum for violation of postal law.
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Louisiana National Guarda
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New Orleans
New York
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Mathew McCrossin
Mason
Blue Plains
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Merry
George T Keene Stanislaus
Richard Barnes
John C Nelson
District of Columbia
Arthur Norris
Edward Swalles
James M Baucum
United States
Abducted Arizona Miner Hides Ship Name in Tacoma Hospital
C A Cox of Arizona, hospitalized in Tacoma, claims he was shanghaied from San Francisco. He says he was drugged in December, boarded a vessel, robbed of jewelry and $700, then set adrift near Tacoma. He withholds ship name hoping to pursue abductors in California courts while serving as general manager for Arizona and Pittsburgh Mining and Smelting Company in Tucson.
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Arzona
Tacoma Hospital
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Tacoma
San Francisco
St Joseph’s Hospital
Cox
California
Arizona and Pittsburg
Balloon Race Announced for Indianapolis Start May First
The Aero Club of America announced a national ballooning race to be held in Indianapolis next June with Indiana club cooperation. A gold cup valued under $1,000 serves as the prize with a 5 dollar entry fee refundable on actual start. Entries close May 1 at noon, under Indiana supervision from the motor park grounds.
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New York
Aero Club of America
Indianapalia
Aero Club
Aero Club of Indiana
Indiana Motor Park
International Aeronautic Federation
Weather Bureau
United States
Glass not candidate gives views on prohibition
Representative Carter Glass of Lynchburg Virginia district says he will not run for governor this summer. He sent a December 17 letter to James Lindsay explaining no entry into the race and stressing he would not use a prohibition stance as a political asset. He seeks an independent administration and asserts statewide prohibition should not be his prime political weapon.
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Ynehburg
Glass
James Ho Lindsey
Charlottesville
Lindsay
Henry C Stuart
Europe
Richmond
Glas
Stuart
Dr Bulla
Virginia
Hay
Lynchburg
Wireless law Congress urged to require ship radio gear
President Theodore Roosevelt sent a message to Congress urging enactment of legislation requiring ocean going passenger ships to carry wireless telegraphy equipment and trained operators for passenger safety. He cites Navy coast stations and global adoption, notes efforts to prevent monopoly, and seeks swift action before adjournment.
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Great Oil Volcano Grows Near Tampico
Special to The Washington Post from Tampico Mexico reports the Dos Bocas oil and water volcano 7% miles southwest of Tampico expanding over more than 4 acres. Water and oil pressure rise daily with temperatures climbing one degree Fahrenheit in three days. Locals expect molten lava to follow as the caldron lake pours millions of barrels of water daily. Scientists debate sources of the vast water supply, including a possible underground Pacific connection.
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Washington Post
Tampico
Mexico
Dos Bocas
Ctiginak &Inch Hole
Lake Tamlah
Pacific
Chimpanzee Miss Tony Dies In Ohio Parlor
Miss Tony the famous chimpanzee owned by Mr and Mrs Gus Lambrigger of Orrville Ohio has died and lies in state in a $100 casket. Cremation will follow and ashes kept by the family. The chimpanzee known worldwide charmed many, played a tiny piano and taught table manners. It loved children and joined in games at parties last summer in Iow a and elsewhere.
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Washington Post
Orrville
Ohio
Miss Tony
Gus Lambrigger
Taft
Panama
Europe
Misa Tony
Vinton
Iowa
Tony
Eleventh juror finally seated in Curley murder trial
In the case State versus Duncan Cooper Robin Cooper and John Sharp, a weary jury process continued as juror 11 W A Adcock, a young farmer, was accepted after long examination. Before his selection 221 talesmen were questioned. seven qualified and six were dismissed. About 200 names remain to fill the remaining seat, with many from remote rural areas unread or illiterate. The defense excused one man who could not read and write and had not heard of Carmack’s death. Court adjourned at 6 o clock with one vacancy still in the panel.
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Col Duncan
Cooper Robin J Cooper
John D Sharp
W A Adcock
Nash
Trond
Balle
Bafere
Bannister
Joe Templeton
Carmack
New Bills in Raleigh Move on Immigration, Bonds, and Taxation
In Raleigh North Carolina the senate introduced a bill to repeal the immigration law with a 5900 dollar annual appropriation and a measure to ban capital punishment except for felonious assault. A fire escape requirement for all public places was set as a special order for Tuesday after heated debate. Senator Manning proposed issuing 1.5 million dollars in bonds to enlarge charitable and educational institutions. The appropriations committee favored a 500 UK bond issue to enlarge the State Hospital for the Insane. A bill taxing fishing nets in all counties was placed on special order for Friday. In the house the State treasurer forwarded to the governor a letter from South Dakota about the market value of ten state bonds totaling 27 400 dollars, with others redeemed at 92 dollars per bond, noting movement in South Dakota to return the money from those bonds.
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Senate
Manning
Committee On Appropriations
South Dakota
Duke Abruzzi Plans Himalayan Expedition to 20000 Feet
Abruzzi aims to reach the Karakoram range in the Himalayas with a goal of 20000 feet or more, seeking the ascent of Godwin Austen Peak at 28278 feet if feasible. Previous records top at 22000 feet. He intends to depart toward the end of March.
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Rome
Italia
Karakorum
Himalaya
Godwin-Austen
Mareb
Special Honor to Japanese Envoy Made Cousin King
Rome February 8 The king conferred upon Prince Kin yoshi Kun the special envoy of the Hxguerer of Japan the collar of the Grier of Annie making him cousin to the king.
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Itatan Nging
Rome
Printe Kiniyoshi Kun
Japan
Veils His Warning Against Japanese Emigration Policy
President Roosevelt sends a lengthy telegram to California leaders urging patience with immigration limits and warning that federal action could test the treaty with Japan. He defends the current policy as mutually respectful and argues any abrupt change would risk mischief.
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Joosevelt
Stanton
Futh
Japan
United States
United States Supreme Court
Pacific Slope
Congress
Speaker
Theodore Roosevelt
Hoomvel
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