Drowned Engineer in Park Avenue Tunnel Wreck Case
John M. Wisker, 40, engineer blamed in the Park Avenue tunnel wreck that killed several and injured many, fell from a pier into the North River and drowned near Forty-fifth Street. Indicted for manslaughter in 1902, he was acquitted. Cocaal Company laborers and witnesses described the fatal plunge as he loosened from the stringpiece.
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New York
John M. Wisker
Sit’ East isTth Stret
New York Central
Park
Genus
Curis-Blaisdell Coal Company
Fortieth Street
Wisker
Park Avenue Tunnel
Fitty-elgsth Street
Sixty-third
Fifty-eighth Street
Hand
Frank Moss
Railroad Land Wars and a War Dept Shakeup
Southern Pacific challenged by Los Angeles tide-lands suit seeks fifty year leases to gain land control. Captain Fries, government harbor engineer, publicly urged public opposition causing trustees to withdraw SP request. Fries then reassigned amid questions of rail connections and prior affiliations of his chief Jacob Dickinson, Taft era War Secretary.
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Southern Pacific Company
Southern Pacific
Fries
Los Angeles
Jacob ‘M. Dickinson
Ilinois Central Railroad
Harriman
Taft
War Department
Colonel Addis Dead Traveled the World
New Haven Aug. 11 death of Col Thomas Emmet Addis formerly general agent of the Winchester Repeating Company occurred Monday night at his rooms in the New Haven House after months of illness. He was 69 and never married. Addis spent most of his career traveling for the gun maker and was named colonel during the campaign against Maximilian in Mexico. He resigned in 1901 to retire but continued roaming the world, last across Eurasia and the Trans-Siberian railway. He was a ship’s captain at 19 and a skilled mechanic who enjoyed solving difficult problems.
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New Haven
Col ‘Thomas “Emmet Addis
Winchester Repeating ‘Company
Col
Addim
Winchester Company
Alfonso II
Isk
Bosin
Maximilian
Mexico
Eurasia
Yucatan
Col. Addis
Gayley Admits Divorce Suit in Nevada Plan
Brattleboro Vt Aug 11 James Gayley former first vice president of United States Steel Corp a noted metallurgical expert and New York club member has admitted separation from his wife begun about a year ago in New York may lead to divorce proceedings in another state likely Nevada He arrived from New York on a motoring tour and is inspecting property He said the divorce would be likely filed on incompatibility grounds and that he and Mrs Gayley have not discussed the matter further He added Mrs Gayley is in Italy and he had no comment on the incidents leading to the separation He went to Nevada earlier this year on mining interests and said the Nevada trip was to look after those interests
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Brattleboro
James Gayley
United States Steel Corporation
New York
Gayley
Brooks
Judge Forsakes Law To Become A Day Laborer
Kenosha Wis Aug 10 Joseph BR Starkson former judge of the district court of Omaha wandered away and was found in Illinois He will forsake his lucrative practice and become a laborer Judge Clarkson for the second time in eighteen years was seized with a desire to perform manual labor He shaved his beard sold his clothing and bought rough salt He tramped the countryside hiring out to farmers for a day’s work Wealthy friends will send him to a farm near Ken under strict surveillance a friendly guard will permit his passage until his passion subsides.
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Kenosha
Wis
Joseph BR. Starkson
District Court of
Omaha
Illinois
Wil
Clarkson
Ken
Eas
Stamford pension gift to aid auxiliary work
Abram Scofield, a retired New York businessman who formerly lived in Stamford, offers the Women's Auxiliary of the Stamford Rural Association ten thousand dollars. The interest will fund the Auxiliary’s work, especially reward schools, as reported in Fairfield County News.
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Abram Scofield
New York
Stamford
Women's Auxiliary
Stamford Rural Association
Automobile Accessories List From Historic Trade Catalog
A fragmented OCR item lists automobile accessories including gas burners tubing bags graphite horn bulbs batteries battery connections cotter pins washers lamps patches cement soapstone and related hardware. The readable portion hints at a catalog or supplier inventory of repair parts and fittings for vehicles and electrical components.
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Warner
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Legisla
Foley
Colonel Addis
Fairfield County News
Canaan
Danbury
Mark Wilbur Norman
Darlew
Oyster Bay
Midnent
Charles E. Williamson
George R. Smeth
Darley
Ernest Green
Morlock & Husk
Tokonske
Carrington
Newtown
Stepney
Data
Parker's
9 Arcade
South Bend
Enig
HBO
The
Alling Rubber Co
Main ST
Parker, Jeweler
Arcane
Frisbie’s
All Grocers
Lyman
Optician
Hoom 9
City Hall
State Street
James H. Rooney
William M. Lounsbury
General Registrars of Voters
Otel Longacre
Broadway
Meigs Balldine Bee
Evermore
Paving and Sewer Commission
Edne Street
Cleveland Avenue
Royal Hotel
Wdsdbic
POLIS
Sim
Schnitzelbank
Rockville
Lighting Company
Burr & Knapp
Main ST. Hone
Bridgeport
James Staples & Company
Bankers and Brokers
Simte St
Bridgeport, Conn
Holzer
F. T. Staples
Rockwell’s Hotel
Luzerne, New York
Hudson River
Lake Luzerne
Adirondacks
Switzerland of America
Saratogs
A. G. Oushman
Everard’s
Broad and
Cannon Star
D. Cook & Son
Water Street
United Illuminating Co
John Strett
Henry C. Reid
Main Street
Library of Music
House of Quality Wissner Pianos
Raymond
East
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Shopa Jet
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Buffalo
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Bachman
Wilma M. Bachman
Gisle St
Mollan
Oxfords
Melisa
W. K. Mollan
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Steeple Chase Island
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Percy Henry Dally
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Norwalk
Conn
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