Morse Convicted Bank Crook Sentenced to 15 Years
The conviction of Charles Wyman Morse and his 15 year term at Atlanta federal prison remove a feared financial menace from New York's banking scene. Morse’s future influence is deemed negligible and he remains blacklisted by national and state banks and Wall Street interests.
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York
Charles Wyman Morse
Atlanta
New York
Morse
National Banking Department
State Banking Department
Wall Street
Frenzied Financier Morse Faces Decline After Prison Term
A notorious financier known for aggressive, guerrilla style methods faces a 15 year sentence with partial parole. Born in Bath, Maine, he rose to wealth before the 1907 panic and now controls a fortune estimated between two and five million dollars. If free, he would likely resume trading aggressively.
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Morse
New England
Bath
Gould alimony fight reveals $70,600 yearly living costs
Mrs. Gould files an amended answer detailing expenses to support a luxurious New York lifestyle, including $57,000 in jewelry and $76,000 annual disbursements. She claims debt and hotel bills, while denying husband’s hotel and cafe accusations. Gould says he has paid $109,308.40 toward her bills plus $2,059 monthly since last November.
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Gould
Katharine Clemmons Gould
Delares
George Gould
Mr. Gould
Costliest New York hotel project aims to mimic Paris style
Carl Berger of the Casino at Newport says a French English syndicate plans a 10 million dollar Fifth Avenue hotel modeled on the Ritz London with open-air cafes and tea gardens. The project would convert a block into a Parisian boulevard near a park, with sidewalk seating and no barriers. Berger expects to manage the hotel and cafes after a final London conference.
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Fifth Avenue
Carl Berger
Newport
Gotham
Paris
Mr. Barger
Collis P. Huntington
Fifty-seventh Street
Ritz
London
Berger
New York
City's Household Expense Bill Huge For 1900 Budget Totals
The board of estimate tentatively sets next year’s city household expense at 157 million. Borough allocations include Manhattan 2.70 million, Brooklyn 2.33 million, Bronx 1.29 million, Queens 1.29 million, Richmond 772 thousand. Coler in Brooklyn gains 309 thousand, Cromwell Richmond up 35 thousand, Ahern Manhattan down 46 thousand, Haffen Bronx down 22 thousand. The rise stems from a four percent sewer and highway maintenance increase.
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Board of Estimate
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Bronx
Queens
Richmond
Bird
Coler
Cromwell
Ahern
Haffen
Henry’ ‘Brueré
Bureau of Municipal Research
Ahearn
Mayer McCilfan
Finance Department
Life in the Mills Describes Family Struggles and Child Labor
The piece portrays mill families in Fall River where both parents work and children start work young. It follows Lillie, a weaver who elopes with a French-Canadian teamster earning seven dollars, challenging her mother's control. The text argues wages drop with children, leaving little for nourishment and care, and foresees hardship as more children arrive.
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Fail River
New England
Fall River
Lillie
Rheta Childe Dorr
Hampton
Broadway
Zivla
William
The True Lion Puzzle in a Landlord’s Arrears Joke
A London Tit-Bits anecdote recalls an inspector testing pupils on month mottoes. The class debates sayings like February snow predicting summer, while a pale boy quips that the lion in like a lion and out like a lamb is their landlord when arrears are settled.
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London
Duty of Chinaman in Wellington to pay weekly alimony
A Chinaman in Wellington, New Zealand, was ordered by the court to pay 8s 6d weekly for his wife's maintenance. The initial month’s alimony included a note addressed to the Great Prince of the Temple in Justice, quoting a taunting message about compliance from Sydney Mail.
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N. Z
Temple
Sydney
Australia
Not for Her dialogue on chemistry and propriety
A professor explains that chemistry relies on affinities while Miss Prym interrupts to demand the conversation stay respectable and away from scandal. The exchange highlights tension between scientific discourse and personal propriety.
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Miss Prym
Of More Importance
Reading dialogue about restoring oil paintings prompts a query for an umbrella restoration ad. The brief exchange highlights a reader asking if a man who repairs umbrellas is advertised, noting the loss of an umbrella yesterday.
Anecdotes Show Even Academicians Erred in Spelling
A Baston Transcript tale notes that even members of the Academie Francaise slip on spelling. An anecdote recounts Gaston Boissier and Renan auction letters with misspellings affecting value, illustrating how grammar can mislead. A 1868 Compiegne dictation by Prosper Merimee and others produced many errors, thwarting candidates.
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Baston
M. Gaston Baissier
Academy
Hegan
Renan
M. Boissier
Rue Drouot
Flend
Compiegne
Eugenie
Victor Dupuy
Prosper Merimee
Curious Basket Uses in Mexico From Baskets to Cock Cages
The piece highlights unusual Mexican basket uses including gamecock cages woven or made from a sombrero. It notes cock fighting as widespread, peasant owners caring for birds, and a striking image of a man carrying his great grandmother in a large basket begging for alms.
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Mexico
Providence
Magasine
Cats to Scare Squirrels at a California Dam
Three eastern investors arrived a year and a half ago to locate a site on the coast. H. J. Macomber explains they built a $25,000 dam nearly 40 feet high with seven miles of ditches feeding water from the Tres Pinos and San Benito rivers. To deter squirrels, guards with guns patrol the dam while a cat colony and ribbon crosses at each squirrel hole frighten the pests away.
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H. J. Macomber
St. Francis
Paicines Ranch
Tres Pinos
San Benito
San Francisco Chronicle
Serious Omission. Two neighbors discuss son’s college success
On a street, two old neighbors chat about Sam’s son Bill finishing college. One quips about Bill’s seven languages, then laments that college did not teach him ideas to express with them.
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Bill
Society Baby Fumbles With Heredity Quip
A society baby quips to his nurse that his inclination comes from heredity and asks how his inclinations tend to manifest. He answers in comic fashion that he wants to bawl, revealing a humorous misfire in social talk.
Guide in the Maine woods recalls war veteran insight
A mild-mannered man replies yes to a question about his past and reveals he has been where bullets felt thickest. He clarifies he is not a war veteran but a guide in the Maine woods, indicating a rugged field experience.
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Maine Woods
Four Hohenzollern Sisters Shine Amid Court Parade
The Kaiser’s sisters Princess Charlotte Victoria Sophie and Margaret are described as bright, athletic and witty. Charlotte and Sophie are noted for youth and charm. Victoria for horse skills but cleverness lacking. Margaret mirrors their mother Victoria. Stories reveal Charlotte’s humor about the Kaiser’s songs and court formality.
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Saxe-Meiningen
Victoria
Adolf of
Prince Frederick Charles of
Hesse
Charlotte
Sophie
Greece
Turkey
Constantine
Duke
Sparta
Adolf
Prince Alexander
Battenberg
Bismarck
Alexander
Crown
Prince Adolf
William
Queen Victoria
England
Prince Frederick
Prussia
Emperor Frederick of
Germany
Europe
Margaret
Princesa Vistoria
Princess Charlotte
Bank Notes Found After Dustbin Ordeal Near Paris
Ten 1000 franc notes linked to a Nanterre resident were discarded in a dustbin with an envelope. Carters mocked the find and tore the notes, but two market women recovered the fragments and, after verification, the entire sum was returned to the owner two hours later.
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Nanterre
Paris
Vanderbilt Fortune and Warderbilt Wealth Explored
McClure's Magazine notes the Warderbilt fortune as the greatest financial power in the United States with about 300 million dollars at the time. It highlights William Kligam Vander and the family heirs, who together hold around 100 million, while 15 to 19 descendants share the remaining 200 million among Commodore’s estate.
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