New Boy-Only Hotel Opens in New York City
A five story fireproof hotel at Lexington Avenue and One Hundred Twenty-seventh Street opens as a home and lodging for boys. About 50 are registered with room for 100 more. rates begin at 1.05 dollars per week. Funded by a generous donor for the Children's Aid Society, the hotel aims to build character through cleanliness discipline and self-help, treating guests as guests in a true hotel rather than a charity lodging house.
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York
Lexington Avenue
Children’s Aid Society
Elty
Thaw Sanity Trial Costs County Cities Hearings Cost
New York County spent forty years in the headlines as the Thaw case unfolds. The expense of the sanity trial to date totals 54837.45 with stenographers at 7264.43 and alienists at 21799.80. The district attorney argues the trial should stay in New York County, noting witnesses out of state and commissions would raise costs further.
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Justice Mills
Newburg
Harry Thaw
Stanford White
New York County
Westchester
Jerome
Brooklyn Boy Steals Germs For Science Study
A 14 year old from Brooklyn stole glass slides a microscope and an X ray machine to study bacteria. Police found he was handling cultures of typhus and other germs at his home laboratory. His母 poverty driven act led to his arrest and admission of thefts from a hospital lab.
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New York
Irving Benton
Brooklyn
Mrs Clarence Mackay Joins Suffrage Council
Mrs Clarence H Mackay joined the Interurban Woman Suffrage council at the Marl Martha Washington headquarters soon after being elected twice to Roslyn New York school board. She paid her dollar signed her name and expressed interest in helping with the November bazar and charity efforts.
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Clarence H. MacKay
Interurban
Woman Suffrage Council
Roslyn
L. 1
Martha Washington
Substitution Aid: Dante’s Inferno Not Available
In a bookstore exchange a customer asks for Dante's Inferno and the clerk offers Who's Who in Chicago from Life as an alternative. The brief underscores stock limits and customer service in a retail setting.
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Chicago
Ambulance surgeon fights madman to save patient
Dr Mary Crawford of Williamsburgh Hospital describes a brutal attack by Michael Ford as she and Police Officer Selvey and driver Hugh Gromley fought to control him and deliver aid. Ford seized her throat, she pressed his optic nerves to stop blood flow, and morphine was used to subdue him before final transport to the hospital.
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New York
Mary Crawford
Williamsburg Hospital
Policeman Selvey
Hugh Gromley
Crawford
Brooklyn
Thea Drug
Bedford Avenue
North Highth Street
Ford
Selvey
Jord
Dr. Crawford
Gromley
Land of the Living
Spectacular death by own action in a den of lions
Laval France. Jean Grollier a 19 year old youth who loved a traveling show acrobat entered a lions den after being rebuffed by the girl, locked the cage door and was attacked by a lion. He died from the mauling, a farewell letter to the woman found in his pocket indicating deliberate self destruction.
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Laval
France
Jean Grollier
Grollier
Grolier
Life in a Turkish harem in Constantinople reveal's tragic reality
The narrator a former harem resident describes a life of captivity behind palace walls on the Bosphorus. Masters rely on distrust, eunuchs guard every move, and women struggle with lack of personal liberty, forced marriages, and constant competition among wives and slaves.
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Fngland
Samy
Turkey
Constantinople
Gluridi-Zade Hilmay Pasha
Tarem
Esther
Onnce
Pulse Tana
Bosphorus
Arras
Husband Lived In Toolshed After Garden Dispute
London. At Grimsby police court William Brown an ex farmer faced separation from Ida Brown over persistent cruelty. She claimed he threatened her and believed she preferred to live with his money. He refused to leave and for eight weeks resided in a toolshed in the garden. After a failed attempt to move him, a magistrate ordered the husband pay five shillings weekly.
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London
Grimsby
William Brown
Ida Brown
Brown
Two Great Irish Cities Population in 1901
The census figures show Dublin with 447,266 residents in 1901 and Belfast with 344,965. The data highlight Dublin's larger population and Belfast's growing urban size within Ireland.
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Dublin
Ireland
Belfast
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