ASK RELEASE OF CHAUFFEUR
Grounded on sufficient punishment a petition of over twenty residents seeks the release of Benjamin Smith the Hamilton chauffeur recently sentenced to three months for drunken driving He is Frederick Prince’s chauffeur and son of Congressman Gardner’s coachman He has served about a month at Deer Island officials may defer to the Superior Court and the district attorney and probation office will be asked to consent to release
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A. P. Gardner
Frederick J. Prince
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Tie
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Smith
New Theatre of New York Aims for Continental Style
The New Theatre of New York to open next November under Winthrop Ames on Central Park West. It abandons a pure auditorium design for a continental layout with foyer, grand staircase and public rooms. The elliptical auditorium places seating close to the stage for optimal sightlines and hearing.
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Winthrop Ames
Castro Undisturbed by Caracas Disturbances
In Berlin on December 16 President Castro of Venezuela remained calm amid alarming Caracas reports. Dispatches claimed the people rose against him, burned his portraits and statues in public squares, attacked allied businesses, and several deaths occurred. He doubted the reports and noted he was in Germany privately.
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Berlin
Castro
Venezuela
Caracas
Holland
Germany
Uprising in Caracas Against Pres Castro
Caracas rebels rise against President Castro with mobs wrecking property of his supporters and burning statues and pictures in public spaces. Officials indicate Castro's rule may be ended as protests spread despite coastal tensions. Fire in New York destroys two factory buildings in Manhattan.
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Caracas
Pres. Castro
Roosevelt plans Africa hunting trip and museum collection
President Roosevelt outlines a proposed Africa expedition to hunt and collect specimens for the National Museum. He asks Smithsonian secretary Walcott to arrange field taxidermists and transport, noting most items should go to the museum with few personal trophies kept. The plan spans May to March and aims for big game, smaller mammals, and birds.
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Smithsonian Institution
Africa
Charles D. Walcott
Institution
Board of Regents
National Museum
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Waterman White, longtime New York Herald figure dies
Thomas Waterman White of New York, a 52 year Herald staffer, died at his home 215 West Fifty-first Street from valvular heart disease with other causes. Born August 31, 1850, he came from a prominent Irish New York family with ties to the Whitneys and Roosevelt lineage. An early amateur athlete, he first walked a seven minute mile during the 1870s heel and toe era. He was related to notable writers and biographers including Gerald Griffin and Bernard O Reilly.
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New York Herald
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James W. White
Superior Court
Rhoda Elizabeth Waterman
General Waterman
Whitneys
Binghamton
White
Roosevelt
Gerald Griffin
Mer
Bernard O'Reilly
Pope Pius IX
Leo XII
Advocates a Death Test to Prevent Burial Alive
Dr George R McEwen urged after death electrical revival tests to detect apparent deaths at a South Side Woman's Club talk on Sanitation and Cleanliness He recommended using a strong electric battery immediately after death to revive the nervous system and heart and cited revived cases.
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Chicago
George R. McEwen
New York
Rush Medical College
South Side
Manslaughter Charge Leads to First Degree Murder Conviction
In Hartford Connecticut on December 16 Peter Rubaka and his nephew John Saverock were found guilty of murder in the first degree for the October 15 stabbing death of Michael Woerdak by a Hartford Superior Court jury this morning.
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Hartford
Conn
Peter Rubaka
John Saverock
Michael Woerdak
Lodge Against Foraker Bill
Senator Lodge debated the Brownsville affair in the Senate. He supported the Warner bill to restore innocent soldiers and opposed the Foraker bill to compel the army reentry for both innocent and guilty men. He asserted the shooting was by Twenty-fifth Infantry at Fort Brown and cited multiple committees and reports.
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Brownsville
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Foraker
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Fort Brown
Citizens’ Committee of
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Senate Committee On Military Affairs
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