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...operation. Navy men and the permanent white residents of Honolulu boiled with outrage and indignation. Mrs. Fortescue hurried from her Long Island home to the islands to comfort and help her pretty daughter. Brought to trial for the attack were five brown-skinned young bucks, among them Horace Ida and Joe Kahahawai. The court proceedings were a publicity circus for the half-caste natives. Mrs. Massie testified to the events of her horrible night, identified Kahahawai as the native who had beaten her repeatedly on the ride out of town, had broken her jaw in two places while raping...
Early this month a hung jury caused the release of five islanders charged with the first rape. Fourteen thousand Army & Navy men on the island boiled with .rage. Fortnight ago a Japanese, Horace Ida, was seized by three carloads of sailors from the Pearl Harbor base, whisked across the island to the Pali precipice. After threats to throw him over the 1,207-ft. cliff, Ida was stripped, beaten with belt buckles and pistol butts, kicked and cuffed, left half-dead...
...Birthdays. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 79; John Philip Sousa, 77; Ida Minerva Tarbell, 74; Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgium's heir...
...named William Thompson Dewart, who is now president of the New York Sun, took a bulky envelope to an apartment in Manhattan's then-fashionable Fifth Avenue Hotel. He was ceremoniously received by an imperious little old lady, her sister and her daughter. The little old lady was Ida Mayfield Wood, whose husband, Col. Benjamin Wood, brother of onetime Mayor Fernando Wood of Manhattan, had died the year before. Col. Wood had been publisher of the New York Daily News* a Tammany Hall mouthpiece which lifted most of its news and somehow managed to earn $100,000 a year...
...Marcus Monroe Brown's Rockefeller in Education & Religion, 1905 (charitarian); Ida Minerva Tarbell's The History of Standard Oil, 1904 (anathema...