New York Pie Joke Case Prompts Agent Casting
New York police heard a tale of a husband and wife staged pie throwing as humor. The wife testified the act was a joke, while the husband faced arraignment for striking her in the eye with a loaf of bread. The magistrate sent the case to the next hearing.
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New York
Moving Picture
John Pitello
Seventeenth Avenue
Long Island City
Long Island Y Police Cour
Magistrace Doyle
Charley
Council Holds Brief Session Near Year End
An adjourned regular session of the Common Council was held Friday evening with most aldermen present except Alderman Davis. The annual report of the Board of Public Affairs was discussed, filed, and the clerk and treasurer reports were read and filed. Water frontage tax provisions were set for properties served by city water but not using it. An adjournment to December 31 at 5 p.m. was scheduled to complete the final business.
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Punneil
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Cole
Grant 4th Wins Corporal’s Strife in Spartanburg
Ulysses Grant IV, descendant of the famed general, was promoted to corporal in the Ammunition Train. He enlisted from New York after the war began, rising through volunteer regiments as history and memory of Grant inspired his service.
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Spartanburg
Aig
T. S. Grant
United States
U. S. Grant
Duc
Ee York
France faces serious wheat shortage and rationing
France confronts a 36,000,000 hundredweight wheat deficit as Minister Vicar Boret warns of strict rationing. He notes civilian stocks at 607,609 hundredweight and outlines measures to boost production, with oats and sugar rationing tightening to curb misuse.
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Vicar . Boret
United States
England
Italy
M. Boret
Montgomery Hica School sees uneven weather and turkey prices
December report from Montgomery notes attendance at Hica School amid bad roads and weather, with turkeys priced around 45 cents, ducks 35 cents, chickens $2.00. Rev Edward West Willer of the village accepted a call to Locust Valley Reformed Church and plans to move when conditions allow. In Saguen's Place Jeffersonville, George W Wolf serves as acting NY port appraiser during John K Sasue's Shanghai mission, after starting as a clerk and rising to deputy appraiser.
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Montgomery Hica
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Edward West Willer
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Oyster Bay
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Jeffersonville
George W Wolf
Callicoon Bor
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New York
John K. Sasue
Wilson
United States
Shanghai
China
Wolf
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