Nick Carter Stories No. 139, May 8, 1915: The Pressing PerilCarter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 139, May 8, 1915: The Pressing Peril
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
Many of the elite of the Chinese colony, which is not to be confused
with Chinatown, witnessed the ceremony. Miss Fun Hin Liu, a Wellesley
graduate, was the bridesmaid, and Mr. Lo Lam, a student from Columbia,
was best man. After the ceremony, which was the simple Presbyterian
ritual, delivered in English by the pastor of the church, Professor Ou,
of the Canton Chinese College, made singing noises while the newly
married pair had their pictures taken.
Mrs. Fong met her husband ten years ago while he was serving as dean of
the Canton Christian College. Since then the two have kept up a
correspondence, which grew so ardent on his side that it finally lured
Mrs. Fong across the Pacific and to Chicago, where her husband-to-be met
her and brought her to New York.
Starved, Fight for Food.
Owing to the extended shutdown of the mines in Venetia, a small mining
town in Washington County, Pa., 480 persons, including many women and
children, are slowly starving to death. This message was received in a
letter sent to a local newspaper. Barks and herbs are the only food that
the starving people can obtain, and the pangs of hunger have so affected
many that they fight one another for the bark and herbs that can be
found in the fields and woods.
New Flag for Marshall.
Vice President Marshall is the first vice president of the United States
to have a naval flag all his own. The necessity for the creation of such
an ensign was brought about by the intended visit of Mr. Marshall, as
the president’s representative to the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San
Francisco.
When the vice president determined to go, and arrangements for his
reception were in progress, the navy department found that, while the
president and the secretary and assistant secretary of the navy each had
a flag, the vice president had none. The duty of providing a vice
president’s flag proved simple. The new banner will be the reverse of
the president’s flag in the color distribution. It will be of white,
with the arms of the United States--a spread eagle bearing on its breast
a shield of stars and stripes. The eagle will be of blue and the shield
in red, white, and blue.
J. B. Brady Aids Woman.
James B. Brady, noted as “Diamond Jim,” while sitting as a member of the
New York grand jury, was so touched by the story of one of the witnesses
that he suggested taking up a collection for her. Just to start things
off, he tossed a brand-new one-hundred-dollar bill on the stenographer’s
table, and when the other jurors had added their contributions, there
was $130 in the purse.
Mrs. Marka Buila, of 1324 First Avenue, was the woman whose plight
touched Mr. Brady’s heart. She told the jury that she had been robbed of
all her money, jewelry, and clothing, and when she was summoned to
testify last Monday, had to walk to the Criminal Courts Building from
her home in Harlem.
The man against whom the woman was testifying was indicted.
Army of Institutions.
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