Rises to Fame Then Hounded Back to Prison Says Illinois Convict
Convict No. 2420 known as Robert A Ward and Leslie G Shannon tells Warden Zimmer of Joliet prison a dramatic life from Chicago ne’er-do-well to celebrated writer and crumbling romance with Cornelia Rice, niece of late Vice President Sherman. He recounts arrest, marriage abort, rehabilitation, and plea for clemency in March 1916.
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Illinois
Sherman
Chicago
Joliet
Zimmer
Robert A. Ward
Leslie G. Shannon
Cornelia Rice
James Schoolcraft Sherman
Parole Board
Vanderbilt
New York
William K. Vanlerbilt
Uticn
Mra Rice
Mra
Azu
Jolet Urban
Walla
Pan
James §. Sherman
United States
Utica
Washington, D. C
Albany
Adirondacke
Ward
Stooke
American Express Company
Sxonvigt
Robert Ward
Newt Perss
N. Y
Rice
Warden Zimmer
Lambs’ Club
New York Press Club
Lambs* Club
Chicago Press Clu
Hey
Sunday Globe
Michael Zimmer
Iminoia State Penitentiary
W. T. Baker
Society of
Shannon
Mra. Rice
Adirondacks
Spannon
Henry J. Cookinham
St Jacob's Oil Promises Quick Rheumatic Pain Relief
An old time advertisement touts St Jacob's Oil as a harmless, penetrating liniment that soothes rheumatic joint pains. It claims quick relief from pain, stiffness, and related ailments without skin burning, urging readers to get a trial bottle at a local drug store.
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St. Jacob's
St Jacob's OH
Wn Drug Store
Dent
Dr Benjamin F Gibbs Dies at 57 in Columbia Heights
Dr Benjamin F Gibbs longtime civic leader of Columbia Heights district died in his sleep at 3126 Fourteenth Street NW aged 57. Funeral at 2 pm tomorrow at family home with interment at Glenwood Cemetery. He helped found Northern Dispensary and Emergency Hospital and campaigned for playgrounds. Survived by wife Hila Fort. Also note: death of Charles C Rutherford in Bristol at 27.
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Benjamin F. Gibbs
Columbia Heights
Fourteenth Street
Glenwood Cemetery
Gibbs
Sherman Avenue
Irving and
Kenyon Streets
Gibba
Woodmen of America
Homeopathic Association of
Hila Fort
New Jersey
Edward F Brooks Dead After Heart Illness in Philadelphia
Edward Fuller Brooks died at his home in Lane Downe of heart disease. A former general superintendent of the Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington Railroad, he retired last April due to ill health. Born September 20, 1843 in Cumberland West Virginia, he joined the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1873 and later headed the New York division in 1891 1892 and again in 1895. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
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Philadelphia
New York
U, R, RK
New Jersey
Bergenland to Join White Star Fleet New York Service
Belfast report says the Bergenland, nearing completion for Red Star Line, will join the White Star fleet on the Liverpool to New York run. Its first voyage is planned for spring and it will be renamed Homeric. The 33,000 ton liner will carry about 3,000 passengers.
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Belfast
Ireland
Bergenland
Red Star Line
White Star
New York
Former Wife of Love Pirates Finds New Matrimonial Alliance
Eva May Metz, now linked to Edward De St. Ma, recently married in San Francisco and left on a honeymoon for southern California. She had previously accused Rev Frank Horn, a Richmond Cal pastor dubbed the love pirate, of dramatic imposture. Horn fled the country amid sensational allegations claiming Metz was his wife under another assumed name. The case tangled with rival claims of a De Torrea/ Horn marriage and mentions several others in the volatile saga.
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Washington Post
San Francisco
Eva May Metz
Edward de St. Mathe
California
Eva Mae Metz
Frank Horn
Richmond
Cal
Horn
Owen F de Tovrea
Richmond Pastnor
de Torrea
Mephistopheles
Torren
Fires at two powder mills near Huntingdon and Pottsville
Jan 15 reports detail a third fire in two weeks at the Aetna Explosive Company plant seven miles east of Huntingdon causing about 15000 dollars in damage with unfinished powder and machinery destroyed. In Pottsville a fire destroyed a storehouse of cotton and two loaded cotton cars on a railroad siding of Atlas Powder Company causing about 25000 dollars in damage. cause unknown.
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Huntingdon
Aetna Explosive Company
Here
Pottsville
Atlas Powder Company
Earthquake felt in Yuma and Imperial Valley
A slight earthquake shook Yuma Arizona and El Centro California on January 15 causing concern but no damage. Irrigation works remained undamaged and no harm was reported across the Imperial Valley.
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Imperial Valley
Cal
Yuma
Ariz
el Centro
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Great Rug and Portiere Sale
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