Chorus Girl Victim Identified by Rings as Susan Geary
Cambridge woman Mrs. Catherine Geary identifies rings on a dress suitcase victim as those worn by her daughter Susan Geary a chorus girl known as Ethel Darrell The Shepherd King company traveling from Boston to Pittsburgh spurred by a Sept 10 disappearance and seven weeks of worry. police and family connect the rings to the missing performer with a fatal suspect subsequently discussed in Lowell and Lynn reports.
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Catherine Geary
Cambridge
Mass
Susan
Ethel Durrell
Boston
J. D. Geary
Winthrop
Geary
Shepherd King Company
Ethel Darrell
Shepherd King” Company
Pittsburg
Cathirvine Ealy
Winthrops
Bost
Shepherd King’ Company
Lowell
Lina
Morris Nathan
Sheperd King’ Company
Lynn
Susie Sair
Nathan
Miss Géary
Miss Geary
Ethel
Eithel
Trio of Death Notices and a Missing Fiancée Case
Obituaries record the deaths of Laura Estelle Wy and Myrtle Maples in late October 1905, with funeral details and family invitations. Separate report covers Nathan Durrell’s United States tale of Ethel Geary, missing after leaving a Boston engagement, with his belief she may be involved in the dress-suitcase mystery and his defense of her character amid sensational press coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry
Laura Estelle
Duloved Daughtef Wy
Amy Hart Herry
Sears
Ing
Satur
Yboom
Fred Drew
Emma M
Tting
Sires
Fourth Street
Ratto
Yrtle Street
Walsh
E Street
Margaret J Walsh
John F. Walsh
Andre
Arldam
Marriage and death notices to appear in multiple papers
Notice lists a broad syndication service for marriage and death announcements, stating they will appear in several morning newspapers upon request and without extra charge. The garbled text includes many newspaper names and stray phrases, indicating a historical cross-publish service and formatting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
NY Att Enquirer
K Times
Boston Globe
Buffalo
Chicago Record
Herald
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Pittsburg
Providence Journal
Rochester Herald
SP Louis Republic
Eyracuse Post-Standard
Sv Pall
Tribune
Billion Dollars of Trade: Materials for Manufactures Rise
A Commerce Department bulletin reports calendar year 1905 US trade for manufacturers to exceed one billion dollars. Nine months to September show imports of manufacturing materials at $422 million and exports of manufactured goods at $424 million, with materials 48.4 percent of total imports and manufactured exports 19.26 percent. Tropical products imports exceed $500 million in 1905.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
Bulletin
United As
Four Sisters Reunited After Forty-Six Years In Chicago
Chicago Dispatch reports four Gutzler sisters aged between fifty six and sixty four gathered at John Stryker’s home at 439 North Ashland this week. The siblings, once part of a fourteen child family born to Philip Gutzler of Alsace who settled in Deerfield, have rarely met in decades and may not reunite again. They were photographed together to mark the reunion.
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Chicago Dispatch
New York World
John Stryker
Ashland Avenue
Philip Gutzler
Alsace
Deerfield
Lake County
Elizabeth
Liv
Stryker
Elizabeth Stryker
Mary Jaquet
Ving
Sterling
Lydia Himmel
J. Himmel
German Tevangelical Church
Englewood
Sarah Speelman
Buena Vista
Minn
Gutzler
Vatican reports Taft hears Philippine church land grievances
Reports from Rome say Secretary Taft during a Philippines visit pressed Catholic rights and property issues. Bishops urged court action to recover land and government aid for parochial schools, but Taft said aid conflicts with church state separation.
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Philippines
Rome
Vatican
Raft
Mer. Ambrose Agius
Frians
Leo
Rampolla
United States
Taft
Supreme Court
Aglipay
Philippine Commission
James F. Smith
Washington
Murdered Italian Found Dead Near Oswego in Oswego County
Special to The Washington Post. An unidentified Italian about forty was found shot in the head, buried in brush four miles west of Oswego. Decomposition suggests death weeks ago and robbery as motive. An envelope from Marrone & Laffaro of Utica addressed to Antonio Gotta was found, but locals deny knowledge of him.
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Oswego
N.Y
Washington Post
N. Y
Fred Bilhart
Carpenter's Woods
Marrone & Laffaro
Bankera of
Utica
Antonio Gotta
Albany Street
Man Who Knows Not the Kiss
Louis S. Mulford of Denver declares he will remain kissless until he meets his ideal. son of a New Jersey millionaire, he lives at 158 Pearl Street, drives an automobile, and attends the Presbyterian church. He once ended a serious affair and now pursues beauty while avoiding romance.
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Denver
Louis S. Mulford
Mr. Mulford
New Jersey
Millonnaire
Pearl Street
van Dyke
Yoourself
Mulford
Western Bank
Mark Blair
Leonard B.imbexien
The
Presbyterian Church
Birthday of a Veteran H Wetzell Honored on 75th
W H Wetzell oil resident of Washington and longtime government employee marked his seventy fifth birthday at home on 2135 H street NW. Born in Carlisle Pennsylvania in 1830 he joined the army commissary during the Civil War and since 1862 has served in the War Department. He is among the department’s oldest workers with forty four years of service. He and Mrs Wetzell hosted a large gathering with grandchildren assisting in greeting guests.
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H. Wetzell
W. H. Wetzell
Washington
H Street
Wetzell
Carlisle
Cumberland Valley
Army
War Department
Masonic Veterans’ Associaton
Columbia Lodge
Cthildiren Lorine
Cnll
No 2
Locomotive Explodes Near New Brunswick Injuring Three
A Pennsylvania Railroad freight locomotive exploded near Deans New Jersey at noon today killing Fireman Charles Eshelman and badly injuring Engineer Harry B Sterling and head brakeman Charles Mervine. The blast hurled debris into nearby homes, with stunned residents and doctors rushing to the scene.
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Washington Kot
New Brunswick
N. J
Pennsylvania Railroad
Deans
Charles Eshelman
Philadelphia
Harry B. Sterling
Charles Mervine
Sterling
Charlies Mervine
Dominick Cassino
Cassino
Amboy
Georgetown Priest Backs Arthur Duffy Purity in College Athletics
Father Maxey, Georgetown athletics chief, endorses Arthur Duffy’s articles calling for absolute purity in amateur contests. He says rumors of Georgetown defending Duffy are a provocation and that abolishing faults may cost wins but improves intercollegiate sport nationwide. Maxey stresses support for pure sport or none at all.
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Georgetown
Father Maxey
Georgetown University
Arthur Duffy
Duffy
Maxey
Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletics
Bible names for horses trot through Kentucky farms
A Louisville Courier Journal anecdote columns on a Kentucky farmer who names twenty five team horses after Bible figures then shifts to Shakespeare for the second crop. Neighbors joke at the quirky system with Moses paired to Lear and Nebuchadnezzar to shoes, while Hamlet and Adam, Eve and Henry VIII appear in other pairs. Also cited: a New York Herald note on Western Union losing 215755 amid wire service refusals to paolrooms.
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Louisville Courier-journal
Blue Grass
Moses
King Lear
Nebuchadnezzar
Falstaff
Solomon
Hamlet
Adam
Eve
Henry VIII
New York Herald
Western Union
Dyspepsia Tablets Claim Fast Relief and Gain
A promotional notice argues that Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets digest flesh forming foods like eggs beefsteak and bread aiding thin or dyspeptic people to regain vigor. It claims natural tones digestion without harsh drugs and lists broad availability in the United States Canada and Great Britain at 50 cents for complete treatment.
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Stuart
I Stuert
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Remarkable Navy Yard Wireless Feat Reaches Key West
The Navy Yard wireless telegraph station intercepted a message from the West Virginia off Key West, traveling from New Orleans to the city, marking the greatest distance received since the station began last May. The office, near the water, uses a mast and 20,000 volt transmitter, with Capt. Leutze in charge and operators Gagan, Martin, and Cameron. Messages from Newport and Annapolis are regular, and the system is shown as a powerful, ongoing operation.
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Navy Yard
West Virginia
Key West
New Orleans
Leutze
P. F. Gagan
J. A. Martin
Arthur Cameron
Newport
Washington
Annapolis
New York
Savannah
White House Simplicity in Roosevelt Reception Described
An Austrian professor recounts a Viennese journalist’s record of meeting President Roosevelt at the White House. He notes the noble simplicity of the residence, the quiet reception without guards, and Roosevelt’s elemental yet refined presence, blending force with diplomacy as he speaks in German despite claiming no mastery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
Roosevelt
White House
Hofrat
Jakob Miner
Neue Freie Presse
Vienna
Washington
Congress
The Garrison Centenary Observed After Decades
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes William Lloyd Garrison died after the Civil War era reforms, as the South reconciled to abolition. A Boston statue memorialized him and tributes followed his death. The centennial of his birth is observed many years later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Inter Ocean
Garrison
Boston
Reed of Pennsylvania Rejects Offer to Sell Country
James W. Head comments on widespread legislative corruption and boodle, recalling the Continental Congress rejection of conciliation with Britain. He cites Mr Reed of Pennsylvania who refused a £10,000 bribe and a sought after office, urging Pennsylvanians to remember his integrity amid widespread malfeasance. The piece ends with a satire on gloom in public faces from the Charleston News and Courier.
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France
United States
Lord Carlisle
Wiliam Eden
Gov. Johnstone
America
Congress
Reed
Pennsylvania
Tam
England
Charleston News and Courier
Chauncey M. Denew
Gas kills infant as family sleeps at party street home
Nathan Rabinowitz found his flat full of gas at noon after his wife Ethel and two children lay unconscious in a back room. The 19 month old Julian died, while the wife and older child were expected to recover. Authorities believe an accidental detachment of a rubber tube from a chilling jet to the stove caused the leak.
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Washington
Julian
Peter
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Indianapolis News
McCurdy
14Th St
NEW Publications
S. T. Rorer
Hester Price
Janet McKenzie Hill
the Lapies’ Home Journal
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Horn
Chestnut Farms
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