New York Gossip and Curiosities of the City
A rapid collage of New York tales covers Italian blackmailers and the Black Hand, a dangerous Bronx burglary wave, a Park Place fire in two vaults, a discovered Palisades dinosaur skeleton, newsboy rise to society, and a sharp twelve year old suing the streetcar for damages while claiming to write only high grade fiction.
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New York
Black Hand
Palisades
155Th Street
Manhattan Island
International Automobile Show Opens in New York
New York hosts the Eleventh Annual International Automobile Show at Grand Central Palace as independent manufacturers display autos and accessories. Importers' Salon opens at Hotel Astor next Monday and the National Automobile Show follows at Madison Square Garden next Saturday under the licensed manufacturers association.
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New York
Grand Central Palace
Hotel Astor
The
Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers
Madison Square Garden
Tampa Crowded With Race Followers At Opening Meet
Tampa Fla Dec 31 city teems with trainers owners and turf followers as Florida Midwinter Fair Association hosts a field of rapid horses for the Tampa Racing Association meeting opening Monday and running to mid February officials expect the most successful southern Florida meet ever with strong stakes and purses.
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Tampa
Fla
Florida Midwinter Fair Association
Tampa Racing Association
Florida
Shorter Workday Adopted by Lithographers
New Year brings an eight hour day for 20 000 to 30 000 lithographers across the nation. The change, approved last May by the National Association of Employing Lithographers, ends nine hour shifts. A sick, accident and life insurance plan will also start at no cost to workers. A. Schingeck of Buffalo praises Dr Kings New Life Pills for chronic constipation. Pills sold 25 cents at local shops.
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New York
National Association of
Dr. King
A. Schingeck
Elm St
Buffalo
N. Y
W. J. Smith & Bro
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Bible Parade by Gideons Street to Hotel Rooms in Chicago
In Chicago on New Year's Eve 1910, about a thousand young men from churches and religious groups marched from the Central Y.M.C.A. carrying six Bibles each. They delivered 6,000 Bibles to downtown hotels to promote Bible reading, placing them in hotel rooms as part of the Gideons’ gift to the city. Also cited is a Fayetteville NC reader praising King’s New Discovery for Coughs as a cure. The ad notes the usual price points and trial offer.
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Chicago
Ill
Association of Gideons
United States
A. D. McDonald
Fayetteville
N. C
W. J. Smith
H. R. Palmer & Bons
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Italy
Bronx
Down Town
Metropolitan Fire Insurance Building
Park Place
Gotham
Edward Dissiel
Knickerbocker Hotel
Perth Amboy
N. J
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Michael
Athens
Michael’s
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