Mrs Marshall Freed Seeks Divorce Over Religion Clash
Mrs Marie Louise Marshall files for divorce from Banacd Joseph Marshall on cruelty grounds in St Louis, citing February separation due to religious hostility. Marshall, English-born, left Episcopal Church for Catholic and pressured her conversion. he planned to join a Canadian regiment bound for war.
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St Louis
Marshall
England
Episcopal Church
Washington Post
Marie Louise Marshall
Joseph Marshall
Montreal
Philip Coghlan
Joseph Coghlan
Jan Catholi
Suffragists Use Telephone Day To Promote Votes
New York July 12 The Empire State campaign committee selects July 25 as Telephone Day to urge women’s suffrage by phone. Suffragist heads in New York and other states will contact governors and mayors, urging support. Each suffragist in the state will call two men to press for a vote on the suffrage amendment.
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New York
Empire State Campaign Committee
Fuls
Helr
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Massachusetta
San Francisco
Honeymoon Spy Detention Traps Baltimore Actor
Baltimore hears a German spy scare befalls George Orchard Williams of 1624 Lamont Avenue while on his honeymoon with Dora Treening of Ross-on-Wye England. The couple, touring Buffalo and Niagara Falls, were halted on the suspension bridge to the Canadian side by British border guards. A Niagara relative secured their release after suspicions arose.
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Baltimore
George Orchard Willama
Lamont Avenue
Willamg
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Willams
Dora FE
Treening
Ross-on-Wye
Hereford County
England
Niagara
Williams
William
Women Mission Conference At Mount Vernon Place Church
District branches of the Methodist Episcopal Church South women’s missionary societies met in general conference at Mount Vernon Place Church. Mrs M J H Robinson and Mrs Henry Knowles led devotional and spoke on Christian Stewardship. Mrs J J Printup discussed missionary literature. Mrs F J Copeland delivered a general address. Men’s Club also met in the church vestry with President Martin presiding.
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Women's Missionary Societies of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Mount Vernon Place
Mra M JH Robinson
Pra-1
Henry Knowles
J. J. Printup
Washington
Baltimore
Mra F J Copeland
Mount Vernon M. BE
Warden Returns Marriage License After Cancellation Request
Arthur H. Warden obtained a marriage license with a young woman at 10 o clock at night. He later returned the license and asked it be canceled while William Willams of the District Supreme Court clerk's office worked late. Warden did not explain, saying to the clerk to ensure it does not reach printers. The woman was cited as 21 and a resident of the northwest city section.
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Arthur H. Warden
Gerk
William Willams
District Supreme Court
Kenya
Willams
Wife of Bishop Hamilton Dead
Mrs. Auttell Hamilton, wife of John Wil Ham Hamilton bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died suddenly Monday evening at Dr Sylvester hospital in Hut from organic disease of the nervous system begun with prostration due to the San Francisco earthquake. Born Fairmont West Virginia November 25 1955. Boston Massachusetts July 18.
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Auttells Hamilton
John Wil Ham Hamilton
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Fishing for Death Traps and the Courage of Minesweepers
The piece honors British and Allied minesweepers during the war, praising their nerve and endurance as they clear deadly sea mines under all weather. It lauds their crucial role, the danger they face, and the discipline needed, urging readers to respect their sacrifice and not doubt the patrols’ effectiveness.
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Great Britain
France
London Beauty Specialist Revealed As German Spy
A famed Bond Street beauty expert, Mme. Trost, living near Kensington Gardens, is exposed as a German spy. Scotland Yard linked her to intelligence work while she hosted lavish at homes for the idle rich. Arrest followed after she sought a British marriage to dodge exile.
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London
Mme. Teast
Ken
Kensington Gardens
Madame
Mme. Trost
Bond Street
Scotland Yard
Frankfort
Bertha Trost
Vienna
Recelpta
England
Mother Love
Germany
Birmingham
Bartholdi Fountain Lighted for Night Show at Botanic Garden
The Bartholdi fountain in the Botanic Garden at Pennsylvania Avenue and First Street Northwest will be lit at night with a circle of large white globes enclosing electric lights. The display aims to enhance the city’s luminations. Bartholdi, designer of the fountain and the Statue of Liberty, also created the statue on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor.
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Botanic Garden
Bartholdi
Pennsylvania Avenue
First Street
Bedloes Island
New York Harbor
Metropolis
Wealthy Col Calhoun linked to alimony suit and broken agreement
Special reports from Washington and Philadelphia detail Col John C. Calhoun of 67 Madigan Avenue facing a $100,000 suit by his daughter-in-law Mabel Snyder Calhoun alleging alienation of affection, a separate bid for $200 weekly alimony and a $2,500 counsel fee, plus a third action to vacate a separation release she claims was signed under false pretenses. In another item, Miss Trene Baker, 28, a former Philadelphia resident now in Blackwood, N J, died by suicide at her grandmother's home, amid social status pressures and a rumored engagement to a theology student. the case includes love letters and questions about the fiancé's social position.
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Washington Post
New York
John C. Calhoun
Madigan Avenue
South Carolina Statesman
Supreme Court
Mabel Snyder Calhoun
James Edward Calhoun
Col. Calhoun
Calhoun
Washington Pont
Philadelphia
Trene Baker
Blackwood
N. J
Pauline Beckley
Mise Baker
Charles P. Baker
G. F. Baker & Co
Mount Vernon Street
George
Miss Baker
Haddonfield
Miss Reker
Mra Beckley
Secret Service Created Within Internal Revenue Bureau
Treasury Secretary McAdoo made permanent a special agent force within the Internal Revenue Bureau to detect fraud across the country. Commissioner Osborn sent letters authorizing agents to act as the commissioner’s eyes and ears, cooperating with regular revenue officers to uncover frauds including oleomargarine schemes.
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Treasury
United States Bureau of Internal Revenues
McAdoo
The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Osborn
Internal Revenue
Secret Service
Internal Revenue Force
U. S. Trials Nets Against Torpedo Attacks
The United States Navy is testing wire nets on Chesapeake Bay to shield battleships and fire ships from torpedoes. European nets use parallels, but earlier trials were inconclusive as some projectiles pierced the barriers. The British cruiser Triumph survived a torpedo in the Dardanelles while surrounded by nets, and there is a growing move to abandon their use.
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United States Navy
Chesapeake Bay
Trig
Triumph
Dardanelles
Elks Elect New Grand Officers At Baltimore Session
The grand lodge of Elks opened its session in Baltimore with formal officer elections. James R. Nicholson of Massachusetts named grand exalted ruler succeeding Raymond Benjamin of California. Other officers elected include W. F. Schad Milwaukee grand leading knight William Lown Saginaw grand loyal knight EB. R. Ingersoll Seattle grand lecturing knight Thomas E. Donahue New London grand tuler and Charles Black Oklahoma City grand inner guard. Frederick C. Robinson Duque and Charles A. White Chicago reelected secretary and treasurer. Baltimore won the 1918 convention by 770 to 259 over Atlanta.
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UN WaDsen
Los Angeles
Grand Lodge of Elks
James R. Nicholson
Massachusetts
Rarmond Benjamin
California
W. F. Schad
Milwaukee
William Lown
Saginaw
Mich
EB. R. Ingersoll
Seattle
Thomas E. Dona
Dr. Affonso Costa Dead Leader of Portuguese Democrats
Madrid reports Dr. Affonso Costa a key figure in Portugal’s Democrats is dead in Lisbon after a career as premier finance minister and justice minister. An outspoken advocate of church state separation he faced exile and imprisonment including during the abortive January 1908 revolution.
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Vie
Paris
Affonso Costa
Demoocrats
Lisbon
Dr. Costa
Portugal
Twenty Five Bishops Open Canadian Euchariatic Congress
In Montreal at Notre Dame Church Cardinal Begin presides as 25 bishops and many priests and lay delegates from across the Dominion gather for the two day Canadian Euchariatic Congress opening tonight.
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Montreal
Cardinal Begin
Quebec
Dominion
Canadian Euchariatic Congress
Notre Dame Church
Workmen's Law Upheld by New York Court of Appeals
Albany July 1 Halted by the Court of Appeals three opinions uphold the constitutionality of the New York State workmen's compensation act. The rulings hold that employees of interstate railroads and railroad-owned boat lines operating within New York come under its provisions.
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Albany
N. Y
Court of Appeals
Mrs Pankhurst To Lead Great Patriotic Women's Procession
London July 18 Women from across the United Kingdom prepare to march in a West End procession to show the minister of munitions their resolve to defeat the Germans. Mrs Pankhurst will lead the parade with at least 30 bands and 100 banners, joined by notable signatories including Mme Clarahutt Mme Marcheal Lady Glanusk Lady Dupplin Hon Mrs Frederick Guest Lady Byron and Mrs Waldorf Astor.
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Washington
London
United Kingdom
West End
Annie Kenny
Pankhurst
Mme
Clarahutt
Marcheal
Glanusk
Dupplin
Frederick Guest
Byron
Colebrook
Princesa Sophia Shuleep Singh
Waldorf Astor
Atlantic City Broadminded on Bathing Suits in 1920s
Special to The Washington Post from Atlantic City describes a liberal shift in bathing attire. Chief beach surgeon Chas. L. Bossert notes knee-length Jersey suits for women, bans fish-colored hosiery, and permits sleeved pieces with varied cuts, while men face restrictions on one piece suits and light colored trunks.
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Atlantic City
Washington Post
Chas. L. Bossert
New Jersey
Dr. Boasert
Coeds Foil Burglars In West Virginia Room Raid
Wellsburg July 13 two burglars entering the room of Mary Hogg and Dorothy Dare at West Liberty College were blinded by face powder and pummeled with a hair brush and a pitcher by the two coeds. The attackers fled after being beaten and tossed from a window. Nearby Jersey City romance ends with a wedding upset over disputed payments. Ben Kareen returns $60 of $270 but sues for $310.
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Washington Post
Wellsburg
W. Va
Mary Hogg
Dorothy Dare
West Liberty College
West Liberty
Here
Miss Dave
Miss Hoge
Slide Again Blocks Canal in Panama
A July 13 earth movement on the east bank of the Gailtard cut closed the canal to ships of more than 23 feet draft delaying the USS Wisconsin USS Ohio and USS Missouri with Naval Academy cadets aboard. The slide was not seen as serious and ships later passed through a dredged channel.
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Panama
United States
Wisconsin
Ohio
Missouri
Naval Academy
Augustus Thomas Named Art Director of Frohman Co
Thomas succeeds Frohman as art director of the Charles Frohman Company, created to run theater operations after Charles Frohman perished in the Lusitania sinking. Producer's Enterprises reports the appointment on July 13 in New York.
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Producer’s Enterprises
New York
Augustus Thomas
Charles Frohman
Darken Gray Hair Look Young Hair Color Restorer
An old advertisement promotes Q-Ban Hair Color Restorer claiming it darkens gray hair without dye or mess. It promises thicker, shinier, darker hair and helps stop dandruff and shedding. Sold as Big 702 bottle for 50 cents at James O'Donnell's Drug Store in Washington DC.
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Q-Ban
James O'Donnell
Washington, D.C
Arms Plant Labor Trouble in Bridgeport Strike Looms
Bridgeport July 13. Little progress toward settling the Remington Arms Company labor dispute threatens to involve about eight thousand machinists and ironworkers. Officials of the arms company and Stewart Construction Company deny responsibility, while labor leaders seek control over millwrights to join the carpenters union. Jurisdiction over millwrights sparked the clash.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Remington Arms Company
Geome
Tre
Arma Company
Stewart Construction Company
New York
Carpenters’ Junion
Arms Company
Carpenters
Roosevelt Sits Up at Naval Hospital After Operation
At the Naval Hospital last night encouraging reports were given on Franklin D Roosevelt Assistant Secretary for the Navy. He was allowed to sit up for the first time since the appendicitis operation about two weeks ago. If steady improvement continues he may leave by week’s end.
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Naval Hospital
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Navy
Roosevelt
Records Show Savings in 1915 Recorder Reports
The recorder of deeds reports for the year ending June 9 1915 shows total revenue of 38065.60 dollars, down 925.80 from 1914, with unexpended revenues 10549.62 dollars up 4586.29. Expenses were 27516.98, down 3960.17. Records include 22 020 instruments and 354 articles of incorporation filed, a drop of 68 from 1914, while incorporation revenue fell by 28.5 dollars.
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Recorder of Deeds
Robert W. Dutton
Prelates Body In State For Archbishop Quigley
In Chicago the first of three funeral services for Archbishop James E Quigley who died in Rochester was held at the Roman Catholic cathedral. Bishops and priests from the U S and Mexico attended as Bishop A J McGevick celebrated the requiem high mass. Bishop Paul P Rhode preached tributes to Quigleys work. Tomorrow prayers will be offered in all churches. The body will lie in state at Healy Name Cathedral. Final services Thursday morning and interment at Mount Carmel mausoleum later.
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Chicago
James E Quigley
Rochester
Mexico
United States
A. J. McGevick
Paul P Rhode
Healy Name
Mount Carmel Cemetery
Postmasters Meet in Washington for National Convention
Washington selected as assembly site for National Association of First and Second Class Postmasters to convene October 20 21 and 22. About 4600 postmasters from across the United States will attend. President J J Cleary of Terre Haute secretary BE 3 Shannon of Nashville and F Stiles of Harrisburg organize the event.
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Washington
National Association of
Raleigh
United States
B. 5. Shannon
Nashville, Tenn
Idepartmenta
J. J. Cleary
Terre Haute
Ind
Shannon
Nashville
Tenn
F. ©. Stiles
Harriaburg
Albemarle Show Opens With Night Sessions In Virginia
Charlottesville July 13 The fifteenth annual exhibition of the Albemarle Horse Show Association opens tomorrow with three performances including a night show under electric lights. Twenty day classes and six night classes run until 10 30 and the horse show ball will follow at Jefferson Park. Prominent horsemen from Fredericksburg Baltimore Elberon Madison Run and Front Royal serve as judges while Mrs Allen Potts Dr C V Churchman and Charleston exhibitors are noted entries. A silver plate will be awarded for the ladies harness class and the merchants cup closes the night program.
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Washington Post
Charlottesville
Albemarle Horse Show Association
Jefferson Park
Allen Potts
Happy Creek Farm
C. V. Churchman
Charleston
W. Va
Morris
Julian Morris
Harkamp
Fredericksburg
J. K Culver
Baltimore
Harry W. Sprat~ley
Elberon
Walter W. Sanford
Madison Run
Capt
W. W. Whiteside
U 84
Front Royal
J. Anderson Chisholm
Association
Death of Col Henry J Turner Veteran Leader at 1
Col Henry J Turner civil and Spanish war veteran and former commander of the Fleet regiment Illinois National Guard died suddenly Monday from apoplexy. He endured a sunstroke during the Spanish war. Born August 26 194 in Oberlin Ohio.
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Henry L. Turner
Chicago
Henry J. Turner
Fleet Regiment
Ilinois
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