Washington Woman Files for Divorce After Husband Locks Her In
Fragmentary OCR notes recount a Washington woman seeking a divorce after her husband allegedly locked her up by 8 p.m. A mix of war reminiscences, political notes, and society items follow, including mentions of Mary Landon Baker, Prime Minister Baldwin, and a chaotic collage of events from Paris to Persia. The piece cites civic figures and a broad array of topics with periodic literary allusions and social commentary.
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Theresa
Washington
Poincare Survives Ruhr Vote Amid Political Clash
Paris May 20 The chamber backed Premier Poincare 506 to 67 approving 35 800 000 francs for Ruhr occupation in June. Tardieu harshly criticized policy while pledging support to the appropriation, prompting a tense debate over methods and France’s allies and debt concerns with Poland Roumania and the United States referenced in the discussion.
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Tardien
Chamber
Poland
Fonmasia
America
Paris
A. P
Poincare
Chamber of Deputes
Ruhr
Eriticn
Yardien Lents
Tardieu
M Poincare
Baltimore Plant Fire Causes $500000 Loss
A blaze at Baltimore’s Lafayette Mill and Lumber Company tonight caused an estimated $500,000 in damage. The fire began in the arables area and spread rapidly, consuming the yard and plant. Two freight cars on a Pennsylvania Railroad switch were destroyed and several passenger cars were held up.
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Baltimore
Lafayette Mill and Lumber Company
Claude Kitchen in Critical Condition in Wilson
Representative Claude Kitchen remained in critical condition tonight in Wilson after hospitalization for stomach trouble and influenza symptoms. The Associated Press report notes a rapid decline from a brief illness and lists him as a minority leader.
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Claude Kitchen
Wilson NC
Woodard
Claude Kitchens
Associated Press
da Cole
Richa
Machine Guns Used To Slay 2 Serpents Attacking Soldiers
In Lisbon on May 29 two Portuguese republican guard soldiers guarding a road suffered a surprise attack by two gigantic serpents. The massive beasts unseated a soldier and wounded a horse before a nearby town sent guards with a machine gun to finish the battle.
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Lisbon
Republican Guard
Portugal
Shrine Week Bouge Reply From Bandits
A fragmented report notes bandits claim a raid during Shrine Week with pirates allegedly stealing 100000 dollars. The text mentions ships sank and a survey about U S action remains urged amid older restaurant concerns and a writer claiming Peking caused lawlessness.
1000 REPORTED KILLED BY QUAKE IN PERSIA
Reports from Teheran via the Pioneer claim Turbat I Haldari in Khurasan suffers a deadly earthquake with about 2000 fatalities. The disaster devastates Turbet I Haldarite and surrounding villages as tremors continue for hours near Mashad, the Khurasan capital.
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Persia
Allahabad
British India
Pioneer
Teheran
Turbat-I-Haldari
Forest Fires Fanned By Increasing Winds
Reports to State Forester W T Cox say winds have raised fire danger as forest fires burn near Cramer and Cannon Lake. About 75 men raced to the scene north of Duluth while officials warn a strong wind could spark widespread, destructive blazes across Douglas County and the Superior National Forest in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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St Paul
Minn
North Woods
W T Cox
Cramer
Cross River
Caxnon Lake
Duluth
Superior
Wis
Douglas County
P A. Mimeld
Bolen
Wisconsin
Superior National Forest
Minnesota
Forest Service
National Forest
Five Plague Cases Reported In Paris Suburb
Paris reports five plague cases in the Saint Quentin suburb over ten days, with two fatalities and three recoveries. Health officials say outbreak appears ended after rapid isolation and vaccination of contacts. The affected residents are described as slum dwellers likely infected by rats.
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Paris
St Quen
Ministry of Health
CLOCK SAVES HIM FROM JAIL
Vladimir Amery, picked up by a Ventnor officer and jailed for vagrancy, claims he slept on a park bench to beat his charges. He showed a working clock that kept exact time to prove he was en route to a new job in Ventnor and thus earned release by Magistrate Endicott.
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Washington Post
Atlantic City
Vladimir Amery
Ventnor
Endicott
Amery
Ventnor Tate
Lehigh clerks gain hourly pay increases across system
The Lehigh Valley railroad announced a general wage hike for clerks effective May 2, with four cents more per hour for staff over five years, three cents for ten to five years, and two to three cents for one to two years. Train call carriers, crew callers, and baggage clerks receive raises from one to three cents based on service length.
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Baziston Po
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Thone O
Messerges
Nervaaes
Downtown Fire Forces Five Families From Gen Company Store
A blaze at the Gen Company store on 714 Seventh Street Northwest last night damaged women’s apparel stock and caused five families living above to evacuate. Firefighters entered smoke-filled areas with gas masks as flames spread from the basement to the first floor, drawing hundreds of onlookers. A resident named Mire MH Murray first spotted the fire and alerted others.
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Womens Apparel
Gen Company
Seventh Street
Murray
Tex
William Gerb
Mina Eatie Cain
Sergt
Irwin Luckey
W KR Bing
Engine Company No 14
Norwegian finance minister rebuts bank crisis rumors
Christiania reports finance minister A Berge denies any banking difficulties in Norway and urges the public to ignore circulating rumors. A Berge is expected to be named as successor to Olaf Halvorsen, per a Central News Dispatch from Kristiania dated May 29 and May 2 in London.
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Christiania
Norway
A Berge
London
Berge
Lheizte
Olaf Halvorsen
Christinmia
Memorial Day Ties North and South in Observance
Attleboro Massachusetts May 39 A gray cape with scarlet insignia worn by a Confederate veteran Captain Carter Bishop of Petersburg Virginia is made a member of the Grand Army of the Republic tonight. He will march with Massachusetts veterans to Woodlawn cemetery and assist in placing Stars and Stripes. The town aims to strengthen ties with Virginia through letters between the two cities as 6 000 messages have passed. Memorial Day tomorrow is a day of consecration with no baseball, golf, or races.
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Union
Johney Rab
Petersburg
Peggy Caffer
Baldwin
Robert Cecil
Reginald Anne
Knocke Poincare
Peewing
Chamber of Deputies
Attieboro
Mass
William A. Streeter
Grand Army of the Republic
Carter
Woodlawn Cemetery
Roefer
Auacertion
Massachusetts
Bishop
Virginia City
John Smith
Virgins
Virginie
Aeldier
Young Louisville Boy, 9, Accused of Auto Theft
William Nuckols of Richmond Va visiting an uncle in Louisville was caught driving an automobile he allegedly borrowed Sunday night. He admitted learning by watching others start and stop. Police found him touring again yesterday and he remains in detention awaiting possible prosecution.
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Louisville
Iocal
William Nuckols
Richmond
William
Ian
Court Releases Man Who Guarded Wilson
New York May 2. Gabriel De Laurent a former secret service agent who served in France as President Wilsons bodyguard day caused Magistrate Oberwager to dismiss a charge of extortion brought by Miss Josephine Lynch. She said he entered her apartment posing as a police vice squad member and demanded 200. The magistrate said President Wilson would not have had a man in his party with such a doubtful character.
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New York
Gabriel de Laurent
Secret Service
France
Wilson
Pt Day
Madistrate Oberwager
Josephine Lynch
Oberwager
Marathon knitters tie after 86 hour effort
Milwaukee reporters describe two women, Mise Peart Bennett and Mrs Robert Staub, as world champion marathon knitters in Milwaukee on May 29. After hours of sleep deprivation they decided to forfeit the $109 prize and quit the contest.
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Milwaukee
Mise Peart Bennett
Robert Staub
Heiress Wins Control of $2.4 Million Stewart Estate Guardians
Riverhead New York May 29 Mrs Mary Honeyman heiress to John K Stewart fortune fights to oust guardians Leander La Chance and Martin Taylor. The Surrogate Court settles litigation over Stewart-Warner Speedometer Corp and related estates. Honeyman accuses guardians of mismanagement padding accounts and inflated fees totaling about $500 000.
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Riverhead
Marian Stewart Honeyman
John K. Stewart
Stewart
Stewarts
Jean
Honeymen
Artess
Jason
Moe
Honeyman
Brooklyn
la Chances
Stewart-Warner Speedometer Corporation
Chicago
Taylor
New York
Four death threats sent Miss Larrimore
New York May 29 Louis Brodsky counsel for Miss Larrimore announced the young actress exonerated yesterday of a charge brought by Geraldine Farrar that she withdraw from the divorce case against Lyu Tellegen. Four letters threatened her with death if she did not withdraw. Brodsky said he might file a $2 million suit against Farrar and pursue criminal charges against those responsible for testimony against her.
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New York
Louis
Brodsky
Stelia Larrimore
Charmer
Geraldine Farrara
Lyu Tellegen
Miz Larrimore
Supreme Justice
Lehman
Parras
Tenuere
Mrrodsky
Mies Larkshore
Hudson River
Hudson River" .the Others Were of Similar Tenor Mr Redaky
Gotion
City Hall Riot Wounds 30 in Buenos Aires Clash
In Buenos Aires on May 29, rival factions stormed Rozario city hall during a heated session between the mayor and councilors. About twenty people were wounded, some seriously, as breaks, lamps, and gunfire marked the disorder. Police restored order and municipal business was deferred.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Rozario
Clifton and 8 Others Indicted in Rum Case
John W Clifton prominent Washington lawyer and Thomas Craven president of Cumberland Chemical Company plus seven others were indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to defraud the government under the Volstead Act. They allegedly led a bootlegging syndicate diverting whisky from bonded warehouses to bootleg channels with help from dry agents. Craven reportedly boasted of Washington influence to obtain withdrawal permits for export. Craven and Clifton were arrested after deliveries of alcohol to dry agents. A stock of liquor valued at $89,000 and about 13,000 cases of alcohol were seized from warehouses. many papers indicate shipments from Havana and Montreal routed via Halifax.
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Washington
Washington Restaurant Association
Washington Peat
New York
John W. Clifton
Thomas C Craven
Cumberland Chemical Company
West Street
Federal Grand Jury
Clifton and
Craven
Mias
Emily BR. Levy
Edward N Fries
Frank Keller
Frank Dorian
Joseph Ordina
John Lazarua
John Mortimer
Gravey
Clifton
Sav Grill
William Dungans
Frank Rickey
Phcard Avenue
Sort
Yorkleg Tyndicate
Gail
Lewis
Euid
Bis
Baltimore
William Jennings Brien
Woodrow Wilsons
the Treasury
Robert Lansing
Mr Bryan
Craven-Cliffe
Cumberland Chemike Company
Montreal
Cuba
Havana
Germe
Craven Regently
Halifax
Ifrst Street
Leeust Avenue
Bronx
Cravens
John Haley Clark, Jr
United States
Craven Waa Lewest
Seisure Federal
Saul Grill
Dominion ‘Warehouses Inc
West Broadwat
Casshamas
Dry
Creo
Charles “Raver Bether
Oras
Raven Sas
Neveh Keene &Eo
Iugmer
Naan
Vineyard Haven
Federe Agente
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Toms
M Tardieu
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Lenis Iy Feu
Roumania
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Louis Loucher
Cuturle
Jeng Mareau
China
Bright
U.S
Je B. Powell
Peking
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Prince
Association
Shrine
Transportation Committee
Harry F. Cary
Geneal Dasnenger
Dogtheen Railroad
Pen Achels
Ida
Citizens’ Committee
That&hy
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Aimes
Nim
Restaurateurs
United States Attorney
Russia
Tanochwang
Joh Powell
Paotzuku
B Powell
Paodtzuku
Shanting
Teachwang
Althou
Menthe
Peentig
Absornia
John Dwight
Leather Bay
James A Craven
Lyndhurst
Thomas A Craven
Enid
Anid
Newport
John Dewisht
Gabm
Malcolm J Carmichael
Derney City
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Nquor
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