New Marvel Café Tower At Coney Island Debuts In Summer
The New York Sun describes a 700 foot high revolving restaurant tower rising at Coney Island with 500 tables for 2500 diners, plus a ground floor auto garage and upper level attractions. It sets the scene of a bustling harbor resort with crowds seeking novelty and entertainment. 10000 crooks noted in city with pickpockets and detective reports, while calls for playgrounds and improved schools for children accompany a critique of urban dining options and changing New York eateries.
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Sun
New York
Coney
Perennial
Vickers
Dreamland
Luna Park
Hipprodrome
Madison Square Garden
Academy of Music
Metropolitan Opera House
New York Theater
Washington Monument
Bunker Hill Monument
Philadelphia City Hall
Park Row Building
Masonic Temple
Chicago
Itony
Way
United States Weather Bureau
Wireless Telegraph
Knickerbocker
Tte
Board of Education
George H. Martin
Massachusetts
Luther H. Gullick
New Rubber Boots Man on Canal Job
Major A W Goethals will head Panama Canal work with Major W L Sibert as assistant the rubber boots man. Sibert, West Point 1884 graduate, heads Ohio River waterways and has dug deeper channels on the Ohio Great Lakes and Arkansas. He served in the Philippines and led Manila Daimapan railroad.
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Pittsburg
A. W. Goethals
Panama Canal
Army
W. L. Sibert
Sibert
Ohio
West Point
Great Lakes
Arkansas
Philippines
Manila & Daimapan
Cured by a Call in Cooksville Correspondence
The Cooksville correspondent reports Mr. Gustavus Warfield is recovering after spending time with Mrs. Mary Higgs on Sunday last in Baltimore Sun.
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Gustavus Warfield
Mary Higgs
Cooksville
Baltimore Sun
Wrecks Prompt Indiana Rail Commission Rules Push
The Indiana Railroad Commission urges a block system, higher telegraph operator ages, and stricter train rules after investigating Fowler and Sandford wrecks on the Big Four. Reports cite negligence, single-track danger, and excessive speeds, with bills to install block systems and annual operator exams and rule adherence.
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General Assembly
Indiana Railroad Commission
Fowler
Sandford
Woodville
Baltimore & Ohio
Chicago
Whey
Tie
Rumning
Swanington
Pension Fund Receives 3 Percent Increase at Pennsylvania RR
The Pennsylvania railroad reports a 3 percent increase in its annual pension fund for retired employees, raising the allowance to 600 dollars per year. The 1908 distribution neared 2.5 million, with 1,910 on the pension rolls and 231 new retirees offset by 20 deaths. The system began in 1900 with 1.19 pensioned workers and has since grown under a highly organized program.
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Sun
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
SRO
Pension Department
sq@ivonad
Peninsylvania Railroad
Thore
Commission weighs causes of deadly train disaster
The panel discussed shoes, fireboxes, or smokestacks as possible causes but found them untenable. It leans toward human agency as the explainer and considers the possibility that people were aboard the car during the disaster.
Patriotism not inborn lecture notes principles
Mrs George Smallwood of Washington delivered a talk on Patriotic Education asserting love of religion and philanthropy are inborn, while love of country, deference to elders, obedience to parents, and kindness to inferiors must be taught.
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George Smallwood
Washington
First Woman Federal Attorney Aids Poor In New York
Mrs May Urace Quackenbos, the first woman federal attorney, is noted for aiding the poor in New York. She helped save an impoverished Tolla woman from a harsh seven year prison sentence.
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May Urace Quackenbos
New York
Tolla
Daling
Luckiest Man in Jersey Wins Big Prizes in Phoenixville
William S. Todd of Atlantic City, an insurance man, was told by mail he won two paintings valued at 14 each, then a lace work piece valued at 10, and a $50 piano after a firemen's fair drawing. He arranged shipment of the trophies to his home.
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The
Sun
Atlantic City
N. J
William S. Todd
Phoenixville
Todd
Living the Simple Life for Detached Wage-Earning Women
Kate J. Kimball promotes a simple lifestyle in a New Hampshire pamphlet for the board of agriculture. She built an eight room camp on a hill for 1800 dollars, with weekly living costs of four dollars, offering a full rest and weekly exposure to a simpler way of living for detached wage earner women.
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Kate J. Kimball
Board of Agriculture of
New Hampshire
New Hampshire ‘Hills
Guards siege Jersey mansion in millionaire feud
Frantic appeals flood to Gov. Stokes as New Jersey authorities weigh calling out the state militia to quell the siege at a country residence where Albert G. Spalding and David Lamar, two Wall Street millionaires, feud over possession. Skirmishes have broken out around the estate, with both sides maintaining guards and a prolonged standoff.
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Den
Albert G. Spalding
Gov. Stokes
David Lamar
New Jersey
Spaulding
Lamar
Mane
Tas Lamar
Innk
Saimar
Mad horse terrorizes Meriden then is shot
A horse owned by Thomas Kearney in Meriden Conn developed rabies after a dog bite and terrorized the south end, chasing a man up stairs and injuring others before being lassoed and shot. Dr Yseckley confirmed rabies. authorities rounded up unlicensed dogs to curb spread amid a months long outbreak.
Clean Streets Initiative by New York Juvenile League
The Woman's Municipal league of New York forms a Waring juvenile league to keep streets clean. The motto comes from Ezekiel Thus shall they cleanse the land. The league is composed so far of boys and excludes girls.
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Woman's Municipal League of
New York
Not a Luxury in Cells Says Suffragette Protest
The dispatches on suffragette imprisonment in London include a facetious claim that Florence Bright protested missing looking glasses. The remark asks why men’s cells lack mirrors, noting such items are needed to maintain decency and self-respect.
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London
Florence Bright
The Largest Blackfish Catch in Cape Cod History
In November 1884 Cape Cod fishermen harvested a record school of blackfish along South Wellfleet. About 30 fishermen sold the 1,500 fish on the beach at auction for roughly 315.09 money per fish, with total wholesale value near 25,000. Oil yields varied, and shares ranged by boat and person. The event is described as the greatest American fish catch in three parallel measures of quantity, size, and value.
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Cape Cod
Mass
Annals of American Fisheries
Blackfish Creek Bay
South Wellflear
Skillea
Ohio Magazine
Conflicting Sentiments From Sneedville Times Appeal
A brief carnival tone notice from Sneedville Tennessee urging readers to support the Times with real goods. It offers barter instead of cash asking for meat or corn in exchange for a dollar. The piece frames poverty in service to religious duty and questions reader loyalty.
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Sneedville
Tenn
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