Millionaire Feasts At $300 A Plate And Atlantic Alpha Club
New York reports extravagant dinners costing up to 300 dollars per plate with a 5000 dollar bill for twenty two courses. The Alpha Club founded in 1861 prepares to close after fifty years, with relics and a cash surplus to be divided among remaining members. The piece also notes increased corporate publicity and public control moves by Steel, American Telephone and Telegraph, and Pennsylvania Railroad, plus a record bag of game birds seized by New York fish and game wardens.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Lucullus
Alpha Club
Jamies G. Blaine
Chestere A. Arthur
Greater
Lower East Side
Dunderberg
Welles
Hughes
Steel Corporation
American “Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell Telephone
Interstate Commerce Commission
Big Telephone Company
Steel Trust
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Fish and Game Commission
Princeton
Grover Cleveland
Park Row
State Controller’s Office
South American forests in danger and olive trees disappear
An American dispatch reports South America began forestry reform with Colombia and Argentina debating forest policy. It details widespread destruction of orange groves and olive trees in La Rioja Mendoza and other provinces, citing examples of labor and governance failures, and notes U S government conservation efforts and penalties. eggs and a New York saloon contrast with forest losses.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
South America
Republic of Colombia
Argentine Republic
South American
France
la Nacion
Buenos
la Rioja
Paraguay
Mendoza
Seru
San Juan
Santiago del Estero
Salta
Catamarca
Jujuy
Tucuman
Avellaneda
United States
City Investing Building Opens View Above Manhattan
A New York City article describes the City Investing Building at Broadway Cortlandt and Church as a 400 foot high vantage point. Readers glimpse three states rivers and seas, with Lower Manhattan roofs and notable bridges below.
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Manhattan
New City Investing
Broadway
Cortlandt
Church Streets
Custom House
Grace Church
New York
Mother Defrauded Her Declares The Ranch Title
Denver April 19. In a Supreme Court brief defending her El Paso County ranch title Mrs. Norton recounts eleven years in a Pueblo smallpox hospital and alleges her mother and a stepfather conspired to deprive her of earnings. The daughter says the deed was placed in the mother's name and she did not know her own name was needed for the title.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
Denver
Col
Supreme Court
el Paso County
May Norton
Pueblo
Dusty roads linked to disease and public health
Special Dispatch notes Dr. Allerton Cushman linking dusty road conditions to disease and weak public health. California fruit traders spurred road dust control after dustless oiling raised prices. Oil types vary. true dust control requires durable binders rather than greasy residues, or roads fail to curb dust.
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Staffordshire
California
Califfornians
France
Cushman
Mystery Woman in Black Haunts Shawnee Streets
Shawnee Oklahoma residents report a mysterious woman in black seen at night in all parts of the city. She appears without speaking to anyone and has caused widespread excitement as sightings continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
Shawnee
Okla
Vast New Hudson River Tunnels Office Telephones
New York April 19 The New York and New Jersey Telephone Company installs what is described as the largest office telephone system in the world in the Hudson River tunnel buildings. Twenty two floors will house direct line telephones with capacity around 3 000 lines, using nearly a thousand miles of wire and 100 000 pounds of cable weight.
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Coal and Iron Exchange
Cortlandt and
Church Streets
Delaware & Hudson Railroad Company
Commercial Tribune
New York
Hudson River Tunnels
Cortlandt
Fulton Streets
New York and
New Jersey Telephone Company
St. Louis
Singer
City
Broags Exchange
Waldorf-Astoria
Moonshiner Benjamin Riley Captured After Ten Years
Benjamin Riley, an alleged moonshiner from Baxter County, was arrested in Big Flat while visiting his old home. He had vanished a decade ago after an arrest, with no trace until this latest capture in Fort Smith area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
FT. Smith
Ark
Benjamin Riley
Baxter County
England Extends Wireless System Across Coast Guard Network
The Admiralty installs wireless at Whitehall and plans three more stations this year. By April 1 eleven coastal wireless stations exist, with 167 total reach including war signal posts. Stations under the Admiral command coast guard and reserves to deter surprise by foreign foe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Kingdom
Coast Guard
Father and son jailed together after horse theft plea
Or ville Connors and B Connors son and father pleaded guilty to horse stealing. They were manacled together and moved toward Walla Walla penitentiary. The estranged pair spent days jailed together learning their relation and the father refused to reveal the truth to the son. The son had rebelled in Waterville jail before being kept for transfer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wenatchee
Wash
Orville Connors
B. Connors
Walla Walla
Prohibition Wave Reaches Canada Prohibits Liquor Clause
In Essex north riding Grace Epworth League and Maidstone Methodist Church petition Ontario Legislature to repeal the three fifths clause of the liquor act. Premier Whitney and Provincial Secretary W J Hanna face a wave of local option sentiment as petitions flood the Legislature.
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Commercial Tribune
Toronto
Ont
North Riding of
Essex
Grace Epworth League
Maidstone Methodist Church
Maidstone
Whitney
W. J. Hanna
Less Crime in England and Wales in 1906 Compared to 1857
London reports that total indictable offenses reached 5 079 in 1906 versus 64 657 in 1857. Despite more criminals, population rose from about 19.25 million to 34.5 million, so serious crime per capita fell about 40 percent. Key comparisons follow.
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London
England
Wales
Boy Impaled on Fence While Reaching for Kite
In Nantonio Texas on April 19, nine year old George Plumber climbed a fence to retrieve a kite and fell onto a picket paling. The wood penetrated his body six inches and he was saved by women who rescued him.
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Dispatch
Commercial Tribune
Nantonio
Tex
George Plumber
Probate Court Accounts Filed for Numerous Estates in Cincinnati
Hamilton County Ohio notices accounts and vouchers filed by administrators and executors for many deceased persons. The court suspends confirmation and will hear exceptions on May 12 1908 with Judge Charles F. Mallbury presiding. deputy clerk F J Behle issued the notice in Cincinnati on April 18 1968.
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State of
Ohio
Hamilton County
Hamilton
Robert Kidney
John Schulte
Harryp. Johannigman
Rachel Koehler
Louis Burrus
Susan Powell
Josephine Zoller
Andrew Zoller
Frances Zoller
Warner Oliver
Bridget McCarty
John F. McSorley
Wm. H. H. Johnson
Anna Miller
Sophia Krafzick
Charles H. Jackson
Louis S. Becker
Betty Banks
Jessie A. Dolan
Charles S. Holder
Mary A. Duncan
Redmond Roach
Martin A. Stall
Isaac G. Whetstone
Clemens Willenberg
Joseph Martin
Annie Morris
Edward E. Jones
Louis Hart
William Jung
Charles Bode, Sr
Jacob Brill
Philipp Hoffmann
Mary A. Evans
Johanna Davis
John Merz
Minnig Meier
Frederick Muller
John Stevens
Anna M. Schmidt
Wm.Deprez
Anna Bohnert
Barbara Freeman
Adolph Grimm
Theresa Heuer
John H. Heuer
Anna Rassenfoss
Johann G. Pleisteiner
Chas. Gerstler
Caroline Remmy
Elizabeth Liggins
Francis E. Wilson
Marcel H. Bernard
Anthony Sauer
Anna Furlong
Fred W. Burke
Anna R. Brunsmann
Mary Desch
Sarah J. Anderson
Frances Berheide
Lucinda Edmiston
Maggie Edwards
Isaac Kimball
J. Henry Bosse
Consuelo P. Bulla
Bernard H. Lucken
Ann Gibson
John H. Brown
Catharina Bunthoff
Bernardine Fischer
Thomas Lyfthouse
Johanna Murphy
William Glenny
Clara Leist
Maria Sarah Gundlach
Louise Hibben
Catharine Hoene
Charles T. Morgan
Frank G. Tullidge
James M. McDonald
Edward Wall
Lena H. Devinny
Jacob Hassel
George Stribley
George M. Thompson
Anna Warner
Martin Simon
George Plucker
Gunther F. Schuchardt
G. H. Verkamp
Michael Sc
Jacob Rudolf
Frank M. Kraemer
Nathaniel Bartlett
Daniel Cash
Eliza A. Gaither
Joseph Longworth
John F. Brandt
Chas. F. Mallbary
F. J. Behle
Cincinnati
Sealed Bids Sought for Colerain Avenue Bridge Repair
The Board of Public Service in Cincinnati invites sealed bids by April 27 1908 for supplying and delivering materials to repair the Colerain Avenue Bridge with a wood dock roadway. Bids must include full names and be backed by a bond or certified check equal to one tenth of the bid. The board may reject any bid and bids must use printed forms.
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Board of Public Service
City of
Cincinnati
State of Ohio
Colerain Avenue
John J. Wenner
Bid Notice for Central Avenue Improvement 1908
Sor of Cincinnati Ohio bids due May 4 1908 for grading curbs paving drains and inlets on Central avenue from Eighth to Ninth streets in Cincinnati Ohio. Bid bond 2000 dollars required with stamped forms bids may be rejected by the Board of Public Service April 11 1908 John J Wenner Clerk
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Board of Public Service of the
Sor of
Cincinnati
State of Ohio
Central Avenue
Eighth Street
Ninth Street
Board of Public Service
John J. Wenner
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Washington, D. C
Allerton’ S. Cushman
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Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
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Lubbock
Dr. Cushman
America
Woman IN Black
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Companion In Irons
Connors
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Son
Douglas County
Waterville
Canada
Ontario
Moler Barber College
Fourth St
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R. Holterhoff
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