Deficit Reported at New Jersey Soldiers Homes
The Home for Disabled Soldiers at Kearny closes its year October 31 with a deficit near $10,000 amid total receipts of $156,865. Inmates number 559 with 88 deaths. lawmakers urged supplemental annual increases. Similar shortfalls noted at Vineland and Boonton Firemen's Home, with rising inmate counts and funds drawn from reserves.
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Trenton
Kearny
United States
Board of Managers
Soldiers' and Sailors' Home
Vineland
New Jersey
Boonton
Special Improvement Account
Miss Tillie Van Brunt Hosts Birthday Party
Miss Tillie Van Brunt entertained friends at her home 668 Buttonwood avenue last Friday evening for her birthday. About four guests from Red Bank Freehold New Brunswick Holyyoke Mee Pit'sy Branch attended. Music dancing and games followed a midnight collation.
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Tillie van Brunt
Buttonwood Avenue
Red Bank
Freehold
New Brunswick
Holyyoke
Mee Pit
Co operative firms in New Jersey face uneven fate
In a December report from Trenton, Winton C. Garrison outlines New Jersey co operative societies from 1884 through 1912. Of 64 societies approved, two thirds ran stores while many production ventures failed. revival since 1898 led to fourteen organizations in 1911 and 1912, including Italian and Lithuanian worker groups in Newark Paterson.
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Trenton
New Jersey
Winton C. Garrison
State Bureau of Statistics
Garrison
Fellowship Farm Co-operative Association
Stelton
N. J
Newark
Paterson
Bureau of Statistics
Allies Present Peace Demands At Conference
At London on December 24 the Balkan allied powers outlined terms for peace with Turkey including surrender of Scutari Adrianople and Janina, evacuation of the Balkan peninsula to the Tchatulja lines, cession of Aegean islands to Greece, annexation of Crete to Greece, and a war indemnity. Austria-Hungary called the Balkan problems approaching a satisfactory solution after Servin apologized to Vienna and Belgrade expressed hopes for renewed friendship with Vienna.
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London
Balkan
Scutari
Adrianople
Janina
Turkey
Agai
Austria-Hungary
Servin
Priszend
Adriatic
Vienna
Francis Joseph
M. Jovanovitch
Viena
Belgrade
Labor Against Violence in Dynamite Trials
Attorney Clifford Langsdale argued at the dynamite conspiracy trial in Indianapolis on December 24 that organized labor disavows violence. He defended W. Bert Brown and William J. McCain of Kansas City and questioned a Kansas City barber’s testimony about inviting him to dynamite Los Angeles.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Clifford 8. Langsdale
Langsdale
W. Bert Brown
William J. McCain
Kansas City
Missouri River
Ortie FE
McManigal
James B. McNamara
McNamara
Brown
Los Angeles
Supreme Court backs federal immunity from local telegraph taxes
In Washington on December 24 the Supreme Court ruled that states and municipalities cannot levy special license taxes on telegraph companies engaged in interstate business. Talladega Alabama had imposed a 100.40 dollar annual license fee on messages sent to Alabama points. Western Union resisted, its local manager arrested, and Alabama’s high court upheld the ordinance with no further appeal.
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Supreme Court
Western Union
Washington
Talladega
Ala
Alabama
Supreme Court of Alabama
Saloon Crusade in Chicago Sparks Police Sale Controversy
Citywide protest greets Chief of Police Weeny's decision to allow liquor sales until 3 a m on New Year’s Day. Hotels in the theater district face clergymen’s rebuke over dances and champagne sales. Mayor Harrison promises no investigation.
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Chicago
E Weeny
Champragne
Harrison
Little Girl Mortally Struck By Wagon While Following Santa
Eight year old Beatrice Kessy of 994 Decatur Street Williamsburg chased a Santa Claus costume figure in Brooklyn. She stepped into the path of a butcher wagon driven by Jacob Schessler at Moore Street Broad Street and was run over. Schessler stopped, carried her to the sidewalk, but she died en route to Bushwick Hospital. The incident was deemed an accident and no arrest was made.
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New York
Beatrice Kessy
Decatur Street
Williamsburg
Santa Clus
Jacob Schessler
Moore Street
Santa Claus
Bushwick Hospital
Sr. Valenta
Indeterminate Prison Term For Boy's Slayer Hickey
J Frank Hickey, 47, was sentenced in Buffalo to an indeterminate term in Auburn state prison for second degree murder of seven year old Joseph Joseph, killed Oct. 12, 1911. He testified calmly, stating birth in Lowell Massachusetts and a prior petty larceny conviction at eighteen. Judge Charles Brown imposed no comment on the verdict as police blockaded the courthouse.
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Buffalo
N. Y
J. Frank Hickey
Joseph Joseph
Lackawanha
Auburn
Flickey
Lowell
Mass
Charles Brown
Patrick's Happy Christmas in St Louis Family Reunion
Miss Lilian Patrick, sixteen, to spend Christmas with her father Albert T Patrick recently pardoned from Sing Sing after twelve years for the murder of William Marsh Rice. Her mother Mrs Edward T Patrick and the Denver duo arrived to join at sister's Milliken home in St Louis.
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Milliken
St. Louis
Dee
Lillian Patrick
Albert T. Patrick
Sing Sine
William Marsh Rice
Patrick
Edward T. Patrick
Denver
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Jersey
Red Bank, N. J
Miss van Brunt
Herr Ener
Mexgendorfer Blatter
Daily ’Record
Horlige
Horlick’s
Co-Operative Cos
Janini
Constantinople
Salib Pasha
Rechid Pasha
Nizami Pasha
Hickey
Orangeburg
Weehawken
Steinbach Company
Asbury Park
Neiw Sersey
Broadway Theatre
Gertrude
Gretchen Hartman
Comedienne
Mayer & Fromme
Carpenter
the Prima
Donna
Lavelle
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