New York Is Building As Never Before
New York and New Jersey see a vast expansion in construction with an estimated 1.2 billion dollars to be spent over five years, including 620 million for Brooklyn Bronx Queens and New Jersey. Fire losses and unsafe concrete mixes drive a push toward safer construction and the Underwriters Laboratories in Chicago showcases new fire prevention methods.
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New York
Metropr Olia
Brooklyn
Bronx
Queens
New Jersey
Manhattan
Rice
Chicago
Sale of an island all covered by sea
New York May. By order of the Jersey Court of Chancery 19.15 acres of Oyster Island and 7.29 acres of Robbins Reef, underwater in New York Bay near the First Ward, will be sold at auction on Montgomery Street Jersey City by Frederick Wolbe. The sale follows long disputes over riparian rights and jurisdiction between New Jersey and New York, tied to historic grants and a treaty. The Robbins Reef sale preserves U S government rights for a lighthouse station, and the action echoes centuries of jurisdictional contention.
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New York
Jersey Court of Chancery
Oyster Island
Robbins’ Reef
First Ward
New York City
Frederick Wolbe
Montgomery Street
Jersey
George Cook
New Jersey
Treaty Commission
Supreme Court of New York
Court of Appedls
Prof
Cook
Robbins Reef
United States
Women leaders plan missionary offering across churches
Beveremy Blake and Rev Phoebe Hanaford head major women associations in New York and New Jersey as they prepare a missionary offering by church men. The Pennsylvania diocese aims to raise 100000 dollars for missions at the general convention. The missions board reports record growth in churches and missions in the past year.
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Wie Beveremy Blake
New York Legislative League
Phoebe A .Hanaford
New York Women's Press Club
Mise Ada Fuller
New Jersey Womens Press Club
Charlotte B. Wilbonr
Soroxis
William Gerry Shade
National Society, Daughters of 1812
Bora Bourne
New Jersey Woman'se Christian ‘Temperane Union
Diocese of
Pennsylvania
Board of Missions
No Rifle Shooting Allowed for Naval Cadets at West Point
West Point cadets will not engage in rifle practice outside routine duties. Superintendent Geneval A L Mills says time is better spent on academy work, declining to include rifle training in athletic programs. The piece notes potential future participation in national matches and a planned May baseball game against Annapolis. The report also mentions the 122nd convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Pennsylvania at St Luke and the Epiphany, commemorating 300 years since Jamestown's church founding.
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West Point
N. C
Geneval
A. L. Mills
Military Academy
Seagirt
Naval Academy
West Pointers
General Milla
Annapolis
Philadelhia, Pa
Protestant Episcopal Church of
Diocese of Pennsylvania
Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany
Thirteenth Street
Spruer
Jamestown
Feat Extraordinary Of An Aged Pedestrian
Edward Payson Weston starts a walking journey from Philadelphia city hall to New York at age 68 aided by physicians and guides. crowds cheer as he leaves, with prior requests to walk for science and planned readings at the ferry in Jersey City.
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Philadelphia
Edward Payson Weston
New York
City Hall
Weston
Scence
R. Ogden Doremus
Westot
Pennsylvania Railroad
Jersey City
Library Begins in Kentucky and Lancaster Lutheran Meeting
The program opens with remarks by Swager Sherley and Col. R. T. Durrett to speak on the Fifth district. A benediction by Rev. T. M. Hawes and cornerstone laying by Charles F. Grainger mark the Lancaster ceremony as the Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania convenes at Christchurch. The conference proceeds with reports, routine business, and a discussion on the Tithing System in Systematic Benevolence led by Rev. J. W. Smith, closing Wednesday afternoon.
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Swager Sherley
Congress
R.T. Durrett
Kentucky
T. M. Hawes
Charles F. Grainger
Louisville
Lancaster
Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania
Christchurch
R. G. Welder
J. W. Smith
Costa Rican Liberal Victor Viquez Inaugurated President
San Jose May 9 Senor Viquez formerly minister of finance under Exquivel was yesterday inaugurated as president of Costa Rica. He belongs to the liberal party and won the last election by an overwhelming majority. The ceremony drew unusual public enthusiasm with no disturbances.
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Costa Rica
San Jose
M. Gonzales Viques
A&suniecs Exquivel
Inau Mirated
Senor Viquez
Liberal Party
Republic
Veterans of Mexican War Hold Reunion in Washington
The thirty third annual reunion of the National Association of Veterans of the Mexican War opened in Washington D C for a two day session. Attendance is large with many veterans accompanied by wives and families. The program includes social features and a visit to President Roosevelt at the White House.
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Washington, D.C
National Association of Veterans of the
Roosevelt
White House
Arkansas doctors meet at Hot Springs convention
In Hot Springs Arkansas a medical convention gathers with large attendance and a contentious program debating quarantine for bubonic plague. Meanwhile Indiana’s Supreme Court rules smoking cigarettes legal, prompted by social dynamics. A Cleveland man composes a satirical poem about the San Francisco earthquake.
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Arkansas
Sere Hot Springs
Ark
Indiana Supreme Court
Indiana
Cleveland
San Francisco
Knights of Columbus New York meet at Poughkeepsie
The New York Knights of Columbus state convention opened at St Marys church Poughkeepsie with high mass led by Mgr La Yelle. Delegates from across the state attended as sessions begin and a banquet is planned for tonight.
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Poughkeepale
N. Y
Knights of Columbus of
New York
St. Mary’s Church
Mgr. la Yelle
St. Patrick's Cathedral
William Livingston
St. Gabriel's Church
St. Peters, Poughkeepsie
Henry O'Carroll
St. Patrick's Church
Newburgh
Daniel Cunnion
Mission For Home
Bowery
Church of St. James
George M. Hine
Campbell steam plow shown at Las Vegas farm demonstration
The Campbell steam plow, repaired and ready, operated at the demonstration farm near Las Vegas with Secretary Williams of the Campbell System Farming association witnessing. The Campbell company may open a similar farm near Trinidad, while a dispute in Las Vegas led to a public altercation ended by bystander intervention. A separate incident in Davis and Sydes store sparked a tense freight discussion between Big Moye and J. of Lax Vo ene.
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Campbell
Las Vegas
Williams
Campbell System Farming Association
Grant Board
Campbell Company
Trinidad
Donahue
Mr. Tooker
Mr.Moye
Ike Davis
Big. Moye
J. Er
Lax Voene
Davis & Sydes
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New York City Nation
University Heights
the Water Company
Railroad Avenue
H. B. Fergusson
South Second Street
M. W. Flournoy
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D. E. B. Sellers
First National Bank
NEW Public Library
Voulaville
Fourth and
York Streets
Col. Bennett
Columbus Knights
Connecticut
Wallingford
Conn
Knights of Calumets
H. & Hall
Old Granite State
Nuiua
N. H
May
New Hampshire
Knights of Columbus
Weil
Massachusetts
Knights of
New Haven
Bonaparte
Mrs. Stanley
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Kansas Kiss
W. E. Stanley
Hoch
Kansas
Mack Rake
Jim Garfield
Norm Hapgood
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Lawson
Teddy
Ramparte
John D.akiddoo
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