Growth chart projects New York City population boom and shift
A Hudson Realty circular by Joseph Caccav ajo outlines rapid transit driven growth estimates for New York City ending in 1950. Manhattan peaks around 1920–1930 and then declines to 2.5 million, with Brooklyn and Queens expanding to 7 and 6 million respectively by 1950, while Staten Island remains small.
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York
New York City
Hudson Realty Company
Joseph Caccavajo
Public-Service Commission
Manhattan Island
Richmond
United States
Caccavajo
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Bronx
Queens
Fifty-ninth Street
Fourteenth Street
Thirty-fourth Street
Morse Walks Free From Tombs For Daily Wall Street Business
Charles W. Morse, banker convict, is released daily from the Tombs to visit Wall Street locations with an U S marshal and deputy beside him. He attends meetings with attorneys and creditors at the Assets Realization Company while his wife, son, and former associates greet him. He returns to the Tombs by 4 15 pm as he awaits a possible new trial on charges of diverting bank funds.
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New York
Charles W. Morse
Morse
Wall Street
United States
Mr. Morse
Assets Realization Company
Freak Dinner Delicacies Dazzle Canadian Club Diners
At the Hotel Astor the Canadian Camp club held its annual dinner featuring outrageous dishes such as ostrich, boa constrictors, snake steak, roast monkey with tails, whale blubber, shark fin fricassee, roast owl, ground hog bacon, camel steak a la desert, hyena pans, stuffed caterpillars and pickled horse nose. The coffee used sawdust bran and molasses with milkweed cream.
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Hotel Astor
Calcutta
Vanderbilt Funds Model Tenement Housing for TB Clinic
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt plans a $1,000,000 gift to the Presbyterian Hospital tubercu losis clinic to build four model tenement houses on East Seventh and Seventy-eighth streets New York. The complex will house 375 to 400 families, surround four inner courts, feature open air stairways, and remove dark hallways to reduce disease spread among patients and families.
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Vander
Bill
East Side
Gstairway
May stir up feud over royal tomb list in Hawaii
Honolulu reports tribal trouble as Queen Liliuokalani prepares an eligibility list for the new royal mausoleum. The list omits most Kamehamehas, excludes Prince Jonah Kalanianaole, and may trigger lawsuits from Bishop estate interests and challenged burials, foreshadowing a fresh Hawaiian royal dispute.
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Honolulu
Hawaiii
Hawaii
Kalakaung
Kamehamehas
Kalakau
Lilifuokalani
Kamehameha
Washington
Liliuokalani
Jonah Kalanianaole
Congress
Pushi
Charles R. Bishop
Los Angeles
Bishop
David Kawanakoa
Will squander a million as young private learns of fortune
Gustavus Williams, a 25 year old coast artillery private at Fort Hamilton, received news that an uncle in Sweden left him one million dollars. Asked what he would do, he replied that he would blow it in, startlingly candid as he toiled in the barracks power-house in a dirtied blue jumpsuit after running away from home.
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Sweden
Alphonso
Ella
Williams
New York
Gustavus Williams
Coast Artillery
Fort Hamilton
Strange finds in old city at Janiculum temple site
Rome. Sig. Rava, minister of public instruction, reports excavations since last June uncover a temple cell and a large triangular altar. A bronze Kronos statue wrapped by a serpent and eggs preserved around it were found, indicating a major sacrificed site of unparalleled archaeological importance.
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Rome
Sig. Rava
the Janiculum
Bernabei
Kronos
Now 5 Time 10 Die Laboring Class Luxury War Among Undertakers
A Jersey City advertisement attacks local undertakers, promising bargain funerals for the laboring class. It touts low prices from 75 to 110 dollars, with free death notices and luxury funeral finishes, framing rivals as predatory and urging residents to die “now” in Jersey City to save money.
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Jersey City
N. J
Formation and Shape of the Human Spine by Dr Willard
Philadelphia osteopathy professor Dr Earle S Willard spoke to Igorrotes at 11 Chestnut about spine evolution. He argued no spine is perfect and claimed Igorrote spines are more abnormal than any he has studied, noting comparisons among whites, negroes and Indians.
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Philadelphia
Earle S. Willard
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia College of Osteopathy
Willard
Ife
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Vanderbilt
Colorado
Clinehinst
Washington, D. C
Henry M. Teller
Simon Guggenheim
Guggenheim
Mexico
Thomas M. Patterson
Old City
New Jersey
Doctor
Ciinedingt
Waelinton
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Denmark
G. T. Shannon
Cass
Atlantic
Musson
B. K. Gaylord
Atlantic Drug Co
Chestnut St. Musson
Atlantic, Ia
W. W. Chamberlain
I.C. Seaman
Liz Collins
West Fourth St
Bell
Iowa
Rass Lang
Atlantic Hotel
Walnut Street
Musson Bik
Midland Line
C. J. Litterst
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