Engagement of Miss Willard to Kermit Roosevelt
The Washington Post reports from Madrid via cable that Miss Belle Wyatt Willard, daughter of Joseph E. Willard of Richmond and Washington, will wed Kermit Roosevelt, second son of Theodore Roosevelt, likely at the American embassy in Madrid next April. The couple plan to reside in Sao Paulo, Brazil after the wedding.
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Court of St. James
Brazil
Washington Post
Fochmenu Va
United States
Ambassaoo
Spain
Joseph E. Wilard
Washington
Misa Belle Wyatt Willard
Kermit Noosevelt
Theodore Hoogevelt
Madrid
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Roosevelt Home
Hi Jas
Sao Pao Brazil
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Belle Villam
Miss
Roosevelt
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Fairfan
Isa Willard
Daushtr
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Faurr- Tax
Tui
Fairfax Courthouse
Kermit
Skei
Sident
Kermit Rosell
Groton
Harvard
Theodore Rosevelt, Jr
Michel Roosevelt
Dr Darby
New York
Prince Troubetzkoy Swindled by Card Sharps on Voyage
Prince Paul Troubetzkoy and Princess arrived in New York to fund a bust of Charles MacDonald and reported being swindled by card sharps on New Year’s Eve. He lost money before realizing the game was crooked and warned passengers to avoid auctions and poker with strangers for the rest of the voyage.
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Washington Post
New York
Prince Paul Troubetskey
Amelia Rives
Princess Troubetskey
United States
Charles MacDonald
America
Slew Slayer of Her Husband Widow of Venezuelan General
In Venezuela at oro a widow avenged her husband’s death after a fatal clash within Cipriano Castro’s forces. General Lesaro Gonzales and General Urbina were killed in the turmoil with government troops. Urbina died after a quarrel with Gonzales, then Senora Gonzales, aided by a friend, shot Urbina.
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Cipriano Castro
Revolutionary Army
Lesaro Gonzales
Urbina
Gonsales
Senora Gonzales
Paris Grand Duke’s Dinner Scene Ends With Lost Cigarette Case
In a Paris restaurant near Montmartre a grand duke was dining with leading actresses when a $3,000 cigarette case disappeared. After a dramatic moment the case was recovered by one actress who was forced to walk out with her clothes in her stockings and undergarments, tears streaming as she complied.
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Montmartre
Divorces Him for Staying Home at Night
Cincinnati jan 3 Mrs Nevada Hopping sues for divorce citing her husband Hopping’s preference for evenings at home by the fireside over theater social calls. The suit, reportedly first of its kind here, led Judge Warner to grant the divorce.
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Spenl
The
Washington Post
Nevada
Hopping
Warner
Mutiny at Tourah Prison Ends in Slayings in Cairo
Four convicts were killed and about 50 wounded when inmates at Tourah penitentiary rose in mutiny during a search. Guards fired warning shots then returned with ball cartridges as prisoners overwhelmed warders in the courtyard. The attack subsided after the mutineers surrendered.
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Cairo
Egypt
Tourah
Radium theft cripples cancer treatment in New York
Half a dozen cancer patients at Hahnemann Hospital lose radium treatment after a $2,000 piece vanishes. The missing disk endangers lives at Hahnemann and St Luke's, with authorities seeking other suppliers and detectives at work. Three New York cases show improvement using a Curie-origin radium tube. Berlin professor calls radium a swindle, warning against unskilled handling.
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Calle
Hahnemann Hospital
Park Avenue
William H. Diefenbach
St. Luke's
Chicago
Frederik Dieffenbach, Jr
Broadway
Smeffenbach
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Dieffenbach
Death of Dr Frederick C Busch at State cancer lab
From the start, Dr. Frederick C. Busch of the State cancer laboratory died of cancer this afternoon after all science could do. Six weeks earlier he underwent an operation by Dr. Howard A. Kelly using radium valued at 128000, but radium failed to save him. Representative Scott Ferris announced a plan to withdraw radium bearing public lands from entry, allow surveys, and report discoveries to Congress. A proviso would permit nominal removal of radium for medicinal and experimental use to aid hospitals, but Ferris warned against private control and foreign exploitation.
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Hght
Charlies R. Hancock
Hancock
Howard A. Kelly
Belthmore
Earp-Thomas
Mme. Curie
Berlin
Ernst Schweninger
Munich
Prof
Schweninger
Buffalo
Frederick C. Busch
State Cancer Laboratory
Dilay
Scott Ferris
House
Committees On Public Lands
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
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Verris
Lind departs for Mexico as Wilson stays aboard Chester
President Wilson offered little detail on the Lind mission to Mexico noting no change in policy and no specific measures discussed. Lind will remain in Vera Cruz indefinitely while his son George, a navy yeoman aboard the Chester, saw a brief farewell before the ship sailed.
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Oruiver
Chester
Teeririf
John Lind
Mexico
Wilson
Mr. Lind
Winona
Lind
Washington
Vera Cruz
Pauline Menzisen
Bay St. Louis
George
Navy
Merzzizen
Warns US Citizens Not to Enter Mexico
State Department warned Americans against returning to Mexico after leaving the country. Officials cited no changed economic or political conditions and warned that misrepresentations about conditions remain. The note accompanied limited brush with other news of the Chester and presidential activity as the article covers various events.
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Mexico
State Department
Department
Judge Landis Unmoved by Black Hand Threats
Chicago January 3 Judge Landis of the United States court has received more than twenty Black Hand letters threaten ing to blow up his home over five years. In a case against John Folie charged with writing three such letters the judge said the writers merely intended to scare him Folie was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.
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Washington Post
Chicago
United States Court
John Folie
Storage trust probes spread to many cities
U S Attorneys seek aid as investigators probe the cold storage trust. Agents are assigned to key cities and reports will be reviewed in Washington to determine if Sherman Act antitrust actions are warranted. Officials say owners rarely store their own goods. commissions merchants and producers mainly rent space.
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Department of Justice
Washington
United States
Department
Commission
Tango spoils mews feet in Michigan freshmen study
Ann Arbor January 3 The tango has drawn fresh critique as rubber soled flat shoes without heels leave many male University of Michigan freshmen flatfooted. Dr A May reports 182 of 961 examined freshmen in literary and engineering programs are flatfooted, up 69 from last year, blaming the low heelless footwear.
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University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Mich
A. May
Pellagra Panic Drives Push for Southern Hospital Plan
Secretary McAdoo and Surgeon General Blue urge Congress to fund a Southern hospital and laboratories to study pellagra, now spreading nationwide with 44 states and the District of Columbia affected. The disease, likened to leprosy in menace, concentrates in the Southeast and requires urgent research and control measures.
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U. S
McAdoo
Blue
Public Health Service
Congress
District of Columbia
Investigators of a Century Ago Propose Broad Solution
Report notes that seasoned investigators urge a wide experience approach to an old problem. They stress learning, systematic methods, and originality as essential to finding a lasting resolution, arguing for careful, broad analysis beyond traditional methods.
Job for "Big Bill" Edwards Newark Appointment
New York Street Cleaning Chief Big Bill Edwards takes a two year general manager role for Newark street clearing after competitive bidding. Contractor Joseph Marrone had bid for Edwards services as rumors of his departure spread. Formal contracts signed setting Edwards above his prior New York salary.
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Newark
Edwards
New City Administration
OY. J
Joseph Marrone
Bill
Justices Meet in Secret for Expected Abundant Rulings
The Supreme Court held a prolonged secret conference yesterday afternoon signaling a large number of decisions to be announced tomorrow. About 10 cases remain undecided, including the intermountain rate cases that have been under consideration all summer.
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Supreme Court
Intermountain Rate
Artist Earle in Jail as Son Abduction Case Unfolds
Ferdinand Wincey Earle, American artist, is jailed in Christiania Norway on charges of abducting his son Harold from a Paris area school. The boy, in the care of French officials, is being returned to France as extradition papers proceed. Earle says little and claims the boy learned to love him.
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France
Christiania
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Harold
la Motte Beuvron
Marie Plachbacher
Earle
Satsset
Minn
Heriotte
Eiine
Toten
Picard
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M. C. S. Steeg
Harle
Farle
New York
Ferdinand Pinney Earle
Europe
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Canada
Harold Ervin Earle
Paria
Mme
Marie Famille Fischbacker
Mme. Kiechbacker
Mme. Fischbacker
Evans
Public retracts slander case in Wisconsin church row
Frank M. Stewart admitted the charge of falsely accusing Father William D. Malone of immorality after private hearings in Kenosha Wisconsin. He offered a full retraction and apologized to the clergyman who accepted it and set him free. Contractor Frank Monteen pleaded guilty to circulating the same slander and paid a fine.
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Frank M. Stewart
William D. Malone
Stewart
Frank Monteen
Storm Delays Marines Departure From Philadelphia Yard
A northeast gale off the Delaware capes delays the Hancock's voyage to Culebra Puerto Rico. The transport's commander postpones departure from the Philadelphia Navy Yard with the first advance base regiment of Marines until Sunday morning.
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Delaware Capes
Hancock
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Culebra
Immigration Chief Seeks Stricter Border Patrols
Commissioner Caminetti returns from the Pacific coast and begins his annual report with recommendations to curb oriental immigration. He cites students as disguises for laborers and calls for a more rigid patrol on both borders from the Cascades to the ocean and from Arizona to the sea to prevent smuggling of immigrants and opium.
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United States
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Canada
Bureau of Immigration
Caminetti
Washington
Pacific Coast
Walere
Campinetti
Cascade Mountains
Arizona
Island sugar men protest in Porto Rican supply row
Gov Yager of Porto Rico asks the Department of Justice to break up a New York sugar buyers’ combination he says will lower Porto Rican paid prices. The Cuban duty drops March 1, 100 pound standard, but New York buyers reportedly set February 1 prices based on the lower rate, gaining a month. Antitrust action unlikely. lowering prices due to competition possible.
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Yager
Porto Hicolas
Department of Justice
United States
Department
Recluse Widow Leaves $100000 Will to Hebrew Charities
Mrs Amelia Marks of New Brunswick dies and her will probated by Surrogate D M Clayton. The will directs $200 to each poor Hebrew girl who marries a Hebrew, with $4,000 to two relatives, and gifts to St Peter's and Wella Hospitals. After ten years the residuary estate goes to United Hebrew Charities.
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N. J
Washington Post
Metchun
Amelia Marks
Israel Marks
New Brunwick
D M Clayton
St Peter's Hospital
Wella Hospital
United Hebrew Charities
Boston Society Woman Alleges Relatives Conspired To Drive Her Insane
Mrs Francis Due Kei a Back Bay society figure known in London Paris and Vienna and in Boston says certain relatives plot to have her declared insane and seize her property. She camps with her Italian maid in an unfurnished unheated mansion where guardian William A Dunbar is taking legal action.
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Francis Due Kei
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