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FORTUNE WAITS SOL RAABE
Transcribed by: Rita Timm
Rocky
Mountain News,
Denver, Colo.
July 4, 1911 Page 12
Last Heard From 18 Years Ago; May Be
Auctioneer In Denver.
A share in a large estate
awaits Sol Raabe, providing he can be
located within a reasonable length of time. This information was
conveyed in a letter to Deputy County Clerk Henry
C. Smiley yesterday. The letter was written by S.
Ginsberg of Los Angeles, Cal., who said that [all]
trace of Raabe was lost a number of years ago and that the last heard
from him was about eighteen years ago, when he lived in Colorado and
followed the vocation of auctioneer.
NEW REFUGE FOR GIRLS
Transcribed by: Rita Timm
Rocky
Mountain News,
Denver, Colo.
June 4, 1911 Page 3
Presbyterian Society Rents Smedley
Home on Clear Creek Avenue.
The former home of Dr.
Chester E. Smedley, on Clear Creek Avenue between West Thirty-fifth and
West Thirty-sixth Avenues, has been leased by the American Missionary
Society of the Presbyterian Church for use as the new home of the Good
Samaritian Refuge for Girls, which will move from its present quarters
at 2217 Market St. next week.
The Smedley residence
consists of twelve large rooms with spacious gounds and pleasant
surroundings. The activities of the society will be broadened and
special efforts will be exerted in rescue work among the fallen women of
Denver's tenderloin district. The inmates of the home will be given a
better home and at the same time will be removed from the environment of
the lower part of the city to the new quarters.
The location of the present
quarters has proved one of the chief drawbacks in the rescue work of the
mission.
Old Man Seeks Jail To Spend Winter
Months
Transcribed by: Rita Timm
Rocky
Mountain News,
Denver, Colo.
October 21, 1911 Page 2
Once Killed a Trespasser and
Became Addicted to Life Behind The Bars.
A score of swallows may not
make a spring, but Otto Robinson, aged 64 is a sure harbinger of winter.
The furnace fires at the county jail are not allowed to die after
Robinson smilingly appears with "his papers," at the jail door and asks
to be placed in his cell.
Robinson appeared at the
county jail yesterday and asked for admittance. "Here's my papers," he
said, and handed to Deputy Bert Lake an order from Judge Morris' court
for his confinement for ninety days on a charge of vagrancy. He was not
accompanied by an officer.
The county jail has been his
only home in winter for the last six years when he came to America. His
parents settled on a ranch near St. Louis in 1850. Shortly after the
lad's father died and after a respectful widowhood the mother married
Robinson, whose name the boy took. When he was 17 the family moved to
Kansas, filing on a homstead there and building a small shanty.
Robinson and his step-son
later went to work in a nearby coal mine, and while at this occupation
the step-parent was killed. The lad and his mother decided to return to
the homestead, prove up and make it their home. They found there a
squatter who approached and brought a rifle to his shoulder.
"I, too, had a rifle," said
Robinson, "and quickly realizing the danger we were in, fired upon him
first. He dropped dead. I was arrested and spent several years in jail."
The trial dragged month
after month and Robinson became addicted to life in a cell, before
released from the charge. While confined his mother died, the cruelest
blow he had suffered, and which is believed to account for the morose
brooding life he has led.
FRIENDS OF BELGIAN WOMAN SEEK DAUGHTER IN
DENVER
Transcribed by: Rita Timm
Rocky Mountain News
January 27, 1915 Page 2
Friends of Mrs. Anne
Josephine Boivin, a Belgian refugee 78 years old, now in London,
Eng., made inquiries of the Denver Police Department yesterday
concerning a Mrs. Tom Sawyer, supposed to be a
married daughter of the Belgian exile and living in Denver.
The letter of inquiry was
written by Martin De Backer from No. 8
Little Goodge Street, London, and states that Mrs. Boivin, unable to
take care of herself, has been committed to an infirmary.
Enclosed with the letter of
inquiry was a photograph of Tom Sawyer, his wife,
the daughter of Mrs. Boivin, and two children of the
Denver couple. The picture was said to have been taken in 1892, at which
time Sawyer's address was either 122 Tremont , or 2823 Lawrence St.,
Denver. The police have found no one at these addresses who know of the
family.
SEEKS FATHER IN COLORADO
Transcribed by: Rita Timm
Rocky
Mountain News,
Denver, Colo.
July 2, 1911 Section II, page 3
Christopher Finlayson,
reported to have long been a resident of Colorado and a mine operator,
is sought by his daughter, Mrs. Cassie Bollen of
Paleston, Mich., according to a letter received by the postmaster.
Finlayson is said to have left home thirty years ago and to have come to
Colorado.
LOS ANGELES WEDDING SEQUEL TO DENVER
AUTO ACCIDENT
Transcribed by: Rita Timm
Rocky
Mountain News
August 26, 1911 - page 2
Weds Girl He Runs Over
Love
Affair, Interrupted Once, Is Brought To Successful Conclusion Through
Chance Meeting.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25.--It
isn't customary to knock the young woman down whom later you are to
marry and it can't be said to soften the blow if you do it with an auto.
But anything can happen in a
love story, and that's the story behind the wedding today of Veda
Ella Doty, 18 years old, to John Barnes Livezey,
a young mining engineer of Phoenix, Ariz., and son of John
Livezey of Leadville.
For some time Livezey held
the automobile record between Denver and Los Angeles via Salt Lake City.
He was spinning through Denver one day when his machine struck Miss
Doty, knocked her down and seriously injured her. Livezey picked her up,
bundled her into the car and rushed still faster to the nearest
hospital.
For the next two weeks he
was a daily visitor. Then he was called away to examine a mine and when
he returned Miss Doty had been discharged, cured and had left for El
Paso, for her mother's health.
FINDS CHARMER AGAIN.
But Livezey knew nothing of
that--he only knew that the girl he was beginning to love had gone and
that he had no trace of her. Time passed as it always does in properly
constructed romances, and when March came round to Los Angeles, it
brought with it Miss Doty, who became a telephone operator at the
Hayward Hotel.
Enter Livezey one evening to
meet a business engagement. Well.......
A man tricked that way by
time and distance and all the other trials of fate isn't going to be
nipped at the same game twice. This time Livezey made sure. Within a
week he had Miss Doty's promise and today she kept it.
BURGLARS GET HAMS, SUGAR, OYSTERS; LUNCH
ON THE JOB
Grocery Store is Looted
Thieves Get Enough Provisions to Start Shop of Their Own and Make
Escape.
Transcribed & contributed
by: Rita Timm
Rocky
Mountain News,
Denver, Colo.
Monday, October 23, 1911 Page 1
When A.
T. Sheldon opened the front door of his grocery
and meat market at 1925 Welton Street, yesterday morning, he almost
fainted.
The store had the appearance
of having been swept with a cyclone, so thoroughly had burglars
ransacked the place during the night. Everything was overturned, and as
soon as Sheldon recovered himself he made an inventory, and among other
things missing were:
Thirty-five hams.
One
hundred and forty-three pounds of butter.
Forty pounds of coffee.
Sixty cans of vegetables.
Twenty cans of oysters.
Sheldon also found several
opened cans that had contained oysters and sardines, and two loaves of
bread, partly consumed. In addition, too, he found a lot of bacon
missing, and sugar and miscellaneous groceries that totaled a financial
loss of $375.
"The robbery is a mystery to
me," said Sheldon. "The burglars must have secured a key and opened the
front door and walked in. The front curtains were drawn down Saturday
night when I left the store, so that they were safe from observation
from Welton Street. However, they must have had a wagon to cart away all
they stole."
TWEAKS LAWYERS NOSE
Transcribed by: Rita Timm
Rocky Mountain News
Aug. 11, 1911 Page 3
A verbal combat that nearly ended in blows was staged in Magistrate Morris' Court
yesterday with Deputy District Attorney W. R. Eaton and
Attorney George W. Taylor as the
principals. During the course of the trial of Mrs.
Mattie Rowen, accused of grand larceny, Taylor passed the short and
ugly word and Easton tweaked Taylor's nose. Taylor swore out a warrant
charging Easton with assault. The court refused to affix his signature
to the document.
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ORPHANS BY THE SCORE
Transcribed by Rita Timm
The Denver Times
January 1, 1895, page 7
ST.
VINCENT'S ASYLUM HAS 167 CHILDREN TO CARE FOR.
Happy Mites With Not a
Thought Of Trouble–Sweet-Faced Sisters of Charity Who Make the Asylum A
Home For the Waifs Who Know No Father or Mother–Noble Work
Accomplished–The Ball Tonight.
Nowhere in the city of Denver is a more happy New Year being spent
than in a big, light-colored house out in Highlands on the Rocky
Mountain Lake line. In front of the spacious building is a big sign
announcing to the public that right there, set in a wide garden, is
Mount St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum.
A merry crowd of boys and girls rushed from the dormitories to wish
one another a Happy New Year this morning, and at breakfast there was a
subdued chatter about all the expected joys of the day. It must be
understood that the children of St. Vincent's are very well behaved and
that they are never rude or boisterous. They are decorous, well-trained
little men and women, who dwell together in harmony. They spend busy
contended days that are so full of something to do, time flies at a very
rapid rate.
Beneath the hospitable roof of St. Vincent's there were today 167
children, many had never before celebrated a new year, not that they are
devoid of the true holiday feeling, but you see they are so young. A
score count their years–that is they would count their ages if they knew
anything except to drink milk from a bottle–by weeks or months. Between
the ages of 3 weeks and 4 years there are 79 little children. Twelve
years is the limit in point of age.
These 167 young folks are very happy–a brighter, healthier group
could not be found anywhere. They are all orphans. In most cases they
have lost both parents, but some of them have come into the world
without any distinct claim to a name, much less to a father and mother.
But the children do not mind. They are real philosophers who take each
day as it comes and don't mind looking backward or forward.
The mother superior is the kindliest gentlest most big-hearted woman
in the world. She can smile on the children so that they feel the whole
world must be a beautiful place. Thirteen sisters of charity assist her
in caring for the home. One takes charge of the nursery, two teach in
the school and one has supervision of the kindergarten. Sometimes when
the babies decide to express their dissatisfaction on the subject of
colic, it requires nearly all the good sisters to look after them.
Among the 167 inmates of the asylum there is not one that would have
a home if the doors of St. Vincent's were not open. Such is the serene
confidence of childhood that none of the orphans care for another home
or harbor any fears about the length of their sojourn with the sisters
whom they love with the abandon of youth. Instead of one mother, they
have 14 and they would be ungrateful indeed if they borrowed any
trouble.
THEY ALL WANT HOMES.
It is the aim of the management to procure home for the children.
Less trouble is found in disposing of the babies than of children that
are several years old. The boys are sent away as soon as they reach the
age of 12, and the girls are put in private homes when they are old
enough to be helpful.
St. Vincent's is a large, conveniently arranged building. It is
situated where there is a wide sweep of horizon always in view–where
there is pure air and plenty of sunshine. It is an ideal place to rear
children. The broad doors are closed on no unfortunate little one. The
sisters have gathered beneath their protecting care, babies of all
nationalities children born into any and every church or into no church
at all.
The expenses of running a home for 167 children are very large,
although the greatest economy is used and the most self-helpfulness
prevails. In order to help support St. Vincent's the Catholic societies
of Denver have been for several weeks making elaborate preparations for
a ball, which will be held this evening in the spacious dancing room of
the handsome Progress Club building. Many tickets have been sold, and a
large attendance of prominent persons is expected. Music will be
furnished by a line orchestra and every arrangement will be made for the
enjoyment of the guests.
WILL GRADUATE 21 GIRLS
Transcribed by: Rita Timm
Rocky
Mountain News,
Denver, Colo.
June 5, 1911 Page 10
Wolcott School Commencement Will
Take Place Tomorrow Morning.
Twenty-one girls will
receive their diplomas on Tuesday evening at the Wolcott School.
Commencement exercises will be held beginning at 8 o'clock and at 9:30
there will be an informal reception in honor of the event and of the
members of the class. The exercises will take place in the auditorium of
the school.
Dr. Henry G. Curtis of Clark
University, Worcester, Mass., will deliver the commencement address and
Chief Justice John Campbell will present the diplomas. Invitations have
been sent out to friends of the girls who will graduate. The members of
the class of 1911 are:
May Almira Babcock
Gertrude Louise Bent
Caroline Helen Blood
Anna Clough Farrer
Edith Hanington
Mary Olive Hensley
Elinor Hensley
Vileta
Susie Jackson
Emily Corinne Johnson
Ruth Kassler
Evelyn
Elizabeth Knight
Anne Elizabeth Malone
Dona Emma Victoria
Medina
Katherine Maud Morley
Lucille Sands Ravenscroft
Katherine Norton Rice
Norah Leigh Robinson
Clara Gillie Sauer
Alice Margaret Schleter
Cornelia Elizabeth Schuyler
Persis
Augusta Tabor
GIRL SEEKS FATHER TO SHARE FORTUNE
WITH HIM
HE LEFT HER AS INFANT
FOSTER PARENT, TO WHOM HE INTRUSTED BABE, BEQUEATHED WEALTH TO HER
WHEN HE DIED.
Transcribed by: Rita Timm
Rocky
Mountain News,
Denver, Colo.
July 31, 1911 Page (torn pages unable to read)
Special to The News
GREELEY, Colo., July 30--Determined to find the man who she believes is
her father but of whom she has ony the faintest recollection, in order
to share with him the fortune left her by her adopted father, Miss Madeline
Simpson, of Urbana, Ill., spent most of yesterday and Friday
looking over public records and talking with pioneers here.
She thought that if he died
here, there would be a record of his death, but the name of Abel
DuBois does not appear.
Encouraged by this, and to
follow a clue which she unearthed in Greeley, she will leave tomorrow
for Atlanta, Ga., to prosecute her search.
HAD HARD TIME
According to the story of
Miss Simpson, her father came to Greeley from Canada in the late 80's
with her mother, who died when she was born. DuBois had a hard time
making a living on a homestead in this vicinity. His only intimate
friend was J. B. Crook, then a Methodist
minister, but later clerk of the district court and of the supreme court
in Denver.
His name was the only one
which she could recall, and she does not know where he is now, although
she has reasons to believe that he is practicing law in the South.
APPEALED TO FRIEND
When times got hard in 1904,
DuBois fell ill, and believing he was about to die, had a letter written
to a Henry Clay Simpson, a boyhood friend,
asking him to look after his daughter.
In the letter he stated that
he felt he had not long to live, but his daughter believes he recovered.
Simpson died over a year ago
and left her a comfortable fortune, with which she wishes to make her
father's declining days happy. The only token of her childhood she
possesses is a baby ring with the words, "Madeline D. August 12, 1885."
Pioneer and Wife Hold Golden Wedding
Jubilee
Transcribed by: Rita Timm
Rocky
Mountain News,
Denver, Colo.
July 13, 1911 Page 3
Stroehle Came To Denver With His
Bride Across The Plains in 1864.
(Special to The News)
BLACK HAWK [Gilpin
COunty], COLO., July 12--George Stroehle and
wife today celebrated their golden wedding at their home in Chase Gulch
in this city and were greeted by old friends of the city and county,
many of whom resided here when the family arrived from the East in 1864.
The couple were married in
Rock Island, Ill., in July 1861, and in September of that year, Mr.
Stroehle enlisted in the Forty-fifth Illinois regiment, serving a year,
and took part in the engagements at Fort Henry, Fort Donaldson, Corinth
and Shiloh. He crossed the plains for Colorado in 1864, and when
crossing Cherry Creek, Denver, where the city hall now stands, his mules
were caught in a bed of quicksand, and but for the prompt assistance of
other teamsters his whole outfit would have been engulfed. He arrived in
this city the early part of that year and has resided here ever since.
There were ten children,
born to the couple, only three of whom are living, Mrs.
W. W. Huntington of Denver and two sons, John and Fritz.
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