Board of Health Approves Budget Request for Garbage Service
The Board of Health met with all commissioners present to review allocations. They voted to request 44 000 for garbage collection and salaries, aiming to cover expenses for the coming year, and appointed a committee to study a dental clinic in schools while allowing the president and health officials to finalize the remaining budget.
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Board of Health
Slaughter House
Starline
Bmrcation
D. M. Trecartin
Heaith
McLellan
Lynch
Eagan Appoints Georges J Hagan as Permanent Fireman
Georges J. Hagan, a painter, was appointed to succeed William A. Madden on Truck No. 5 after Madden retired. The election was unanimous by Commissioner Hartigan. Charlies T. Kerr of Erie No. 8 received back pay for absence due to his father’s death amid several applications and a $25 check from Gottlieb and Gorman for appreciation of fire crew work.
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Georges J. Hagan
William A. Madden
Began
Hartigan
Charlies T. Kerr
Erie No. 8
Gottlelb and Gorman
Process server resumes pursuit of Rockefeller subpoena
New York, Dec. 28. Charles Riddell and deputies renewed efforts to locate William Rockefeller for Pujo committee testimony. They visited Standard Oil offices but found no clues as Rockefeller was not linked to the dissolved company and not listed as a director of the surviving entity in New York.
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New York
William Rockefeller
Charles Riddell
House of Representatives
Pujo Money Trust
Washington
Riddell
United States
Standard Oil
No. 26 Broadway
Standard Oil Company
Supreme Court
Standard Oil Company of New York
Rockefeller
Oil Magnate William Rockefeller Elusive to Sleuths
Tarrytown reports the elusive William Rockefeller laughing at Pujo committee efforts to compel him as a witness. A process server missed him in his car on Orchard Street and failed to secure a policeman escort to Rockefeller Hall. Rockefeller has stayed at Rockefeller Hall all fall and been seen about town in an electric car.
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Tarrytown
William Rockefeller
Pujo Committee
Washington
Rockefeller
Orchard Street
Rockefeller Estate
Rockefeller Hall
Oyster Growers Plan Bills to Restore Connecticut Oysters
A Connecticut oyster growers committee plans bills for state inspection of oyster beds and packing houses, bacteriological testing of waters and oysters, certified beds, and strict sale rules. The move follows Rhode Island laws and aligns with national efforts to restore consumer confidence and gain legislative support.
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State Oyster Growers Association
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Connecticut Oystermen
Oyster Growers and Dealers Association of North America
National Association
New Haven
Connecticut -Oyster Growers Association
State Grand List Tops Billion for Connecticut
Hartford December 22 For the first time in Connecticut history the total grand list in 1911 as corrected by the board of equalization exceeded one billion dollars The corrected total is 1 041 324 019 and the number of taxable property owners rose from 178 309 in 1909 to 187 544 in 1911 The report also covers tax rates legislation and water company taxation among other topics.
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Hartford
Connecticut
William H. Corbin
Board of Equalization
General Assembly
City Sealer Seeks 4529 For Next Year Office
Dennie Kelly city sealer of weights and measures files with City Auditor Bernard Keating for a 4529 requisition to fund the office next year. Principal items include salary 1500 new office equipment 313.75 transportation 500 garage charges 3990 repairs 100 and new public scales 515. He says a larger appropriation is needed to safeguard public interests and plans to relocate the 10 ton wagon from quarries to central spot if allowed.
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Dennie Kelly
Bernard Keating
Mu & Central
Year End Fur Bargains At Terrill Millinery
Extraordinary sale lists fur scarfs and muffs long cloth coats shirtwaists marabou feather boas and muffs with ter millinery offerings Readable items show a late 19th or early 20th century department store promotion.
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Inter Millinery
Automobile News Highlights From Early 1910s Era
An array of automobile topics covers garage costs and servant quarters, Ohio road plans seeking 1.7 million dollars for 88 counties, a Los Angeles group forming a Western Automobile Association, and hunting by car in South Texas. It also notes mohair tops from Turkey, a Chicago motor truck delivery idea, and Paris street sweeping tests for driver skill. Plans for an Ocean-to-Ocean Highway fund and a coast-to-coast road project are described with costs, routes, and governance details.
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Ohio
Hast
Los Angeles
Cal
Mesquite
Turkey
United States
America
Chicago
Paris
Indiana
National Committee
New York
San Francisco
Carl G. Fisher
Indianapolis
Fisher
Association
Two American Detectives Freed by Froest in London Tale
In London, two American detectives trapped by handcuffs on a hotel divan after a day of work await release. An American humorist clubs them together, and with no key available they endure the prank until Frank Froest, then a Plain detective inspector, is awakened. Froest travels from the suburbs to rescue them at the Victoria Hotel.
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London
Frank Froest
Scotland Yard
England
United States
Hotel Victoria
Hawkshaws
Froest
Victoria
New York Sun
Kean
Pradelphia
Rew
Bill Smithers
Samuel
Collier
Johnson County
Missouri
Pantheon
Razors in China From Old Horseshoes Prolific and Cheap
Chinese interior blacksmiths forge knives and razors from discarded horseshoes, mainly soft iron from Glasgow and Hamburg. Small shops employ one or two men and sell low cost blades to the poor, with blades barely two inches long and rapidly dulled by use. Blades are case hardened but not tempered as in Western cutlery, causing frequent rethreshing and re-stropping to shave.
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Empire
England
Continent
Glasgow
Hamburg
Tientsin
Australia
Salary increases sought in several city departments
City officials pressed for pay raises and reorganization of salaries at a Common Council ordinance committee hearing. Key figures proposed include $4,500 for the city auditor, $2,000 for assistant auditor, $1,500 for the city treasurer, and $1,700 for the superintendent of machinery and fire alarm staff. The discussion covered shifting to straight salaries and eliminating outside work. Avon-Bertram Froidevaux named as West Point candidate by Senator McLean.
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Common Council
Bernard Keating
Kesting
Mr. Keating Sina Eet
Keating
Public Works Department
Paving Commission
Henry J. Waters
Board of
Fred W.hall
Hall
A. H. Terry
New York
Wallace G. Taylor
Board of Fire Commissioners
Taylor
Avon
Bertram C. Froidevaux
McLean
West Point
T. C. Connell
Stonington
Albert L. Ford, Jr
Milford
The TanE Smith Murray Co Pikemen of Old
The article describes pikemen with armor and a sixteen foot pike. It notes the pike’s ash shaft iron head and butt spike for ground fixing, plus a rapier. It praises the showy parade and gives a detailed instruction on positioning after the command Order your pikes from the Westminster Gazette.
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Westminster Gazette
Outfit He Was Advised to Carry In the 1780 Travel Guide
A Pall Mall Gazette excerpt summarizes a 1780 traveler’s guide listing extensive luggage musts from clothing to personal gear. It also notes a humorous anecdote about a man who marked a borrowed book with pencil and claimed he could not read. The piece closes with a short toast about boiling meat properly and a rural poet’s tale of a highway robbery.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Cleveland Plain Dealer
To Rent CHOICE APARTMENT and New House on Poplar Street
Classified ad items list rental properties for January 1 1813 with 6 rooms and bath steam heat hot water at 43 dollars and 104 106 Poplar Street new house with steam heat rooms and bath 25 dollars and 246 dollars. Interwoven quotes from miscellaneous newspaper clippings about poetry theft a holdup gag and light jokes appear.
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Poplar Street
New House
Passport to the North Pole Passports Issued by Tobolek Governor
A governor in Tobolek province grants a passport to the north pole after two men sought credentials for a polar expedition. He notes the pole could be in any province and that no police would verify records there, yet issues a document to ease their passage.
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North Pole
Tobolek
Arctic Ocean
Pole
Cem
Exchanges of Compliments and Doubtful Love Proved
A humorous dialogue shows Arriet doubting Bill’s love while Bill retorts with memories of shared meals. The exchange blends light teasing with assurances of affection as the pair playfully test trust and demonstrate their bond.
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