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New York Temperance, Frauds, and a Dinners for a Cent
New York 1877 report covers the Law and Order League crackdown on hotels and bars, the way liquor is sold by rooms, and trials of life insurance frauds led by Case and related figures. It details Vanderbilt family estate litigation, a pennies dinner venture on Grand Street feeding hundreds, and broad weather and technology notes including phonograph promises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Law and Order Ague
Crosby
Rand Mills
Tim Rafferty
Fifth Avenue
Raffer
Rafferty
Fifth
Astor
League
New Lchean
Gilman
Robert I. Case
Ritten Concern
Case
Lambert
Stedwell
William II
Cornelius
Scott Lord
William
Woodhull
Claflin
William H. Vanderbilt
Commodore
Henry L. Clinton
William H
Jeremiah Black
Grand Street
Goodyear
Goodyear Rubber Curler Co
Broadway
Chicago
St. Paw
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Winona
Green Bay
Lake Shore
Michigan
Michigan Central
Baltimore and Ohio
Pittsburg
Ft. Wayne
Kankakee
Pan
Chicago and Alton
Taois Central
Jess
A. Cately & Co
Wm Cor
Eighth St