Liability for Drunks Acts by Interborough R T Company
New York appellate court reverses a lower ruling, holding Interborough Rapid Transit employees must protect passengers from intoxicated or violent riders. The company is liable for damages if staff fail to eject or restrain a drunken passenger, as in the Wachser case from Eighty-fourth Street to Thirty-fourth Street. The decision frames duty of conductors to intervene.
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New York
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Supreme Court
Charles Wachser
Third Avenue
Eighty-fourth Street
Wachser
Thirty-fourth Street
Justice Page
Sinking Vessel Towed to Port
The schooner Silver Spray from Machias Me. towed to Wilmington N C with six feet of water in her hold after leaking near Cape Fear. She left Darien Ga Sept 20 toward Millsbridge Me and was taken in tow by tug Blanche to Newport News for permanent repairs. Captain and crew exhausted after a prior tow to this port.
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Wilmington
N. C
Blanche
Newport News
Use Bathtubs as Coal Bins in Gary Housing Plan
United States Steel reports some Gary residents do not bathe. In 1930s housing for 600 Hunky workers included bathtubs, but a New York inquiry found tubs used as coal bins, potato bins, refuse receptacles, and storage, prompting plans for shower baths in new West End houses.
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Gary
Ind
United States Steel Corporation
New York
Men of Ninth Regiment Attend Memorial Mass at Cathedral
The Ninth Massachusetts Volunteers held its second annual memorial service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. A grand Catholic ceremony featured high officials, a full military procession, and a sermon by Rev. Dr. P. J. Supple honoring fallen regimental members and praising Catholic unity and patriotism.
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Army
Navy
Ninth Regiment
Massachusetts Volunteers Militia
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
E and TI
John J. Sullivan
United States
Mer
Michael J. Splaine
James Lee
Revere
P. B. Murphy
South Boston
Cherubini
Sig. Pio DeLuca
James T. Whalen
Alois Bartschmidt
Louis A. Frothingham
John F. Fitzgerald
Walter Ballantyne
Cathedral
East Newton
Washington Streets
Sullivan
Signal Corps and Heavy Artillery
Reilly
Grady
Bogan
Drum
Connor
Thurifer
P. J. Supple
St. John’s Church
Roxbury
Supple
Massachusetts
Army of the Potomac
the James
Ninth
Malvern Hill
Cass
Cuba
Grim Reaper
O'Connor
Peard
God of Armies
Health theory draws Boston crowds at Epstein's store
Western stomach expert R. T. Ballard drew a steady stream of visitors at Epstein's drug store on Scollay square as he outlined his treatments. Boston hotelier Bernard W. Hill and Stoneham resident Eugene F. Sullivan boosted the claims, saying Ballard's therapy relieved rheumatic and digestive ailments and even eliminated a tapeworm. Ballard urged removing stomach trouble as the key to many illnesses and extended hours to 10 o'clock Saturday night.
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R. T. Ballard
Scollay Square
Bernard W. Hill
Commonwealth Hotel
Bowdoin Street
Hill
Boston
A. B. Hill
King William Court House
Ballard
Eugene F. Sullivan
Pine Street
Stoneham
Mass
Catholic Soldier Creed Encourages Duty and Unity
A Thanksgiving Day address to Ninth Regiment soldiers praises the Catholic church as a guiding mother and calls for obedience, discipline, and reverence for leaders. The speaker hopes yearly services deepen fraternal bonds, civic duty, and devotion, making soldiers better citizens and exemplary community members.
Death Penalty Protests Suppressed in St Petersburg
Nov 24 report from St Peters burg describes extra precautions to curb anti capital punishment demonstrations. Bridges from the university quarter were closed and police along with infantry and Cossacks cleared Nevsky Prospect. A number of people were injured though none seriously.
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ST. Petersburg
Cossacks
Nevsky
Wiley Targets Middleman in Farm Food Standoff
Pittsburg reports Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, government chemist and farmer, attacks middlemen for inflating consumer food costs. He cites lumber pricing as an example and urges publicity to cut farmer returns and consumer prices, arguing publicity can shift profits from middlemen to producers.
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Pittsburg
Washington Monument
Harvey W. Wiley
Dr. Wiley
Virginia
West Virginia
Carolina
New Cholera Cases Reported in Rome
Rome reports seven new cholera cases and three deaths in the last 24 hours. As a precaution, 101 residents of a suspected neighborhood are moved to quarantine.
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Rome
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