Will Pay Claim After 60 Years For Home Sweet Home Author
United States to pay $205.92 to heirs of John Howard Payne, author of Home Sweet Home, for funds owed at his 1852 death in Tunis where he served as U.S. consul. Treasury lists living heirs as Thatcher T. Luquer Eloise Luquer Lea Luquer and Clara Ada Payne Doyce.
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John Howard Payne
Tunis
United States
Washington
Sweet Home
Treasury
Treasury Department
Eloise HB. Luquer
Mr. Payne
Lucy Taylor Payne Osborn
Thatcher Taylor Payne
William Payne
Hast Hampton
N. Y
Payne
Thatcher T. P. Luquer
Eloise P. Luquer
Lea M. Luquer
West Fortieth Street
New York City
Clara Ada Payne Doyce
Wye Court
United States Senate
New York
Brooklyn
Paris
Marseilles
Descendant of Stuyvesant to Wed Cyril Hatch
Miss Barbara C. Rutherford daughter of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, heir to a prominent New York family, will wed Cyril Hatch. She descends from Lewis Morris and John Rutherford, notable revolution era figures, and Peter Stuyvesant as an ancestor.
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Barbara C. Rutherford
W. K. Vanderbilt
Cyril Hatch
Lewis M. Rutherford
New York
Lewis Morris
John Rutherford
Peter Stuyvesant
Workmen Uncover Mastodon Remains in Basement Dig
Sioux Falls workers excavating a basement found mastodon bones. The remains indicate a large ancient elephant relative with teeth about ten inches long, square tusk bases around four inches, and a tusk curved over six feet long.
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Sioux Falls
S.C
Washington Census Tables Show Women Live Longer Than Men
The U S census bureau will publish vital statistics tables showing women outlive men by over three years and native whites and blacks by more than 34 years. The life expectancy figures cover six New England states New York New Jersey Indiana Michigan and the District of Columbia based on 1910 population and three years 1909 1910 1911 mortality.
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Washington
United States Bureau of Census
Division of Vital Statistics
New England
New York
New Jersey
Indiana
Michigan
District of Columbia
IS CRUSHED BY JUNK IRON
James Fish of Springfield Mass. was crushed when junk iron in a gondola collapsed onto his legs after a west bound Wabash freight train broke in two near Lafayette Indiana. He slept at the end of the car and could not free himself until several bumps freed the mass. He was taken to the hospital in a badly crushed condition but likely to recover.
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Lafayette
Ind
James Fish
Springfield
Mass
Fish
Fisk
Coal Carts Parade Through London Streets
Westminster shows coal shortages as go carts replace coal carts in daily life. Rich and poor face storage challenges with few cellars in high rent flats. When the coal man is late, neighbors rush out with pails bags and shuttles to raid remaining stock.
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London
Westminster
Maya Hieroglyphs Study Opens For Students
The Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of American Ethnology releases An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Morley. The primer explains Maya glyphs, time reckoning, mathematics, and inscription methods with plates. Morley aims at beginners, detailing habitat, customs, and the rise and decline of Maya civilization.
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Washington
Bureau of American Ethnology
Smithsonian Institution
Atlantic Coast
Mexico
Central America
Sylvanus Griswold Morley
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Morley
Yucatan
Campeche
Tabasco
Chiapas
Guatemala
Honduras
New World
Mr. Morley
Moorley
America
General Obregon Weds Maria Tapis de Obregon
General Alvaro Obregon and his wife Maria Tapis de Obregon were married recently. Obregon, a trusted adviser of General Carranza and former secretary of war, lost his right arm in a battle with Villa.
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Alvaro Obregon
Senora Maria Tapis de Obregon
General Obregon
Carranza
Obregon
Villa
Gasoline Jag Cited As Deadly Habit In Oklahoma Visit
In Pittsburgh a visiting oil man from Oklahoma warns that inhaling gasoline vapors, called gasoline jags, can give a whisky like effect and lead to a dope fiend like habit and death. Also reported is the seventy second wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs BE R Johnson of Mitchell South Dakota, married April 14 1854, with a Civil War veteran son living with them.
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Pittsburgh
Oklahoma
W. M. Daugherty
Mitchell
S. D
BE. R. Johnson
Johnsons
Wilmington
N. Y
Great May Rug Sale Invites Quick Home Finds
The Great May Rug Sale offers deep discounts on AXMINSTER BODY BRUSSELS ROYAL WILTON and BIGELOW rugs in multiple sizes and patterns. Prices range from $2.25 to $8.50 with May Sale premiums highlighted and limited-time note urging shoppers to view the assortment in person.
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Wiltons
Axminster
Royal Wilton
ART Room
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Count de Cippico
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Bigelow Wiltons
Axminsters
Bimelow Electric
Alay Sale
Vogue
Eastern
Louis Bischof
Big Store
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