Chipped ornaments defaced rich man's residence sparks legal bid
Col Franklin Bartlett cried out in horror when a mason chipped away at the carved red sandstone front of his 26 West Twentieth Street home. The mason and foreman were arrested after Bartlett sought relief from police. Title Guarantee and Trust Co says the house already sits within a one and three quarter inch building line. Bartlett plans injunctions and damages of 25000 dollars against the flat house owner and the Title company. The property sits on land once part of 1787 Warren deed to Lady Southampton.
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Jefferson Market
Title Guarantee and Trust Company
William C. Dewey
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Peter Warren
Lady Southampton
Local Character Bemoans Delay On W Washington St Bridge
A city loafer nicknamed Happy watches the W Washington St bridge progress with a comic zeal. He explains the coffined pillar construction and pump work, noting high water delaying the project while insisting workers persist through winter.
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W. Washington-St. Bridge
Picturesque Congressman Cannon in Danville Home Tale
Congressman Joseph G. Cannon, favorite for speaker, has lived in his red brick Danville Illinois mansion for 25 years. The piece paints his quaker roots, habit of smoking and chewing, cluttered library, and simple attire. It notes his political rise from 1861 and his long service, famed for memory and constituent favors, with a sharp retort to Sulzer in debate.
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Terre Heure
Cincinnati
Shelbyville
Tuscola
Misa Mary Reed
Ward H. Lannon
Abraham Lincoln
William Sulzer
Esquimo Emulsion Ad Highlights Fatty Nourishment
An old advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion as a fat rich nourishment for cold exposed lumbermen and others with thin bodies or consumption threats. The copy cites fatty foods as a remedy and promotes the emulsion as highly digestible and palatable.
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Scott
Straw Man Becomes Center at Mock Wedding Feast
At a Paterson celebration for Miss Josephine Jerdoch and Raymond Hopper, a bridegroom prop, a straw man, was welcomed by guests who teased him with playful pranks while the real couple’s advocates watched. Jerdoch had been engaged for six months as friends joined in the lighthearted ruse.
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Jerdoch
Raymond
Bride-to-be Hosts Odd Dinner With Cardboard Groom
Sudden break up ends a prospective marriage. Miss Jerdoct, disguising a straw-filled suit as a groom, dressed in a derby and masked head, staged a feast for guests who arrived ready for a wedding. She declared no wedding would occur yet hosted the table and entertained. She said the real Raymond Hopper would not have married her anyway.
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Miss Jerdodt
Miss Jerdoct
Party War in Congress Over President’s Trust Tariff Plan
Washington November 2 developments expected a party caucus within 71 hours after the message reading to set policy. Two factions to form Roosevelt and anti Roosevelt wings. Lodge Hanna Aldrich oppose radical action in the senate while Sereno Payne Cannon Babcock Grosvenor oppose in the house. In the house the president will look to Littlefield and in the senate to Cullom. Lodge opposes tariff Sevistan but supports other goals.
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Lodge
Hanna
Aldrich
Sereno
Payne
Cannon
Senate voices on canal and tariff reform in 1903 era
The article notes Senator Hanna opposing any Nicaragua Costa Rica canal talks, while the president and cabinet act as a unit. It highlights western lawmakers Payne Shaw Hitchcock and Wilson backing tariff reform and cites Root Moody Hay and Knox as aligned with the president, signaling broad political unity and shifting times.
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Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Payne
Shaw
Hitchcock
Wilson
West
Root
Moody
Hay
Knox
Cupid's Success In The Choir Loft
New York reports the wedding of Minnie L. Smith and Bertram F. Ferrant ends the Zion Lutheran choir of Jersey City as a once thriving group dissolves after Cupid leads to marriages. The old choir, famed for its marriages, dwindled to two engaged singers who wed, while a new choir formed with a one year singleness pledge and a 100 dollar penalty.
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New York
Son Lutheran Evangelical Church
Jersey City
Minnie L. Smith
Bertram F. Ferrant
William Sanft
Old Zion Lutheran
Miss Smith
Mr. Ferrant
Ola
Wright to push voting machine bill in Marion county
Legislator elect Granville M. Wright plans a bill to require voting machines in Marion county and to authorize bond issuance for their purchase. The move signals a push for modernizing local elections and funding options.
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Granville M. Wright
Marion County
Struck by Car in Wabash. Hart Injured by Traction Car
George Hart, 65, was struck and probably fatally injured by a traction car in Wabash Indiana on November 23. A household remedy advertisement for Dr. Thomas Electric Oil follows, touting cures for cuts sore throat croup catarrh asthma and other conditions.
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George Hart
Thomas
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