New York City Faces Wave of Local Color Crime and Civic Satire
Ninety one New Yorkers are added to a growing list of local heroes as the U S Life Saving Service distributes medals and diplomas. The piece lampoons city politics with exhibits in the Civic Museum and a Montague Street “Chamber of Horrors” while recounting a Roosevelt witness plea over a dog ownership dispute and a Long Branch Salvation Army clash with cottages on the coast. The column also reports a pastor’s off color quote and a swindling arrest of Yogi Barnett alias William Barnett, tied to stock schemes with two fugitives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Life Saving Service
Hero-Fund
Gotham
Miss Purity
Times Square
Civic Museum
Committee of One Hundred
Sixteenth Street
Central Park
Riverside Drive
Brooklyn
Chamber of Horrors
Committee of
One Hundred
Montague Street
Roosevelt
Billy
Rex
Sixty-Fifth Street
Fifty-sixth Street
Bobby
Col. Roosevelt
North Long Branch
Salvation Army
Falms
Garrison
William F. Barnett
Garnett
Capudine Ad Promises Immediate Headache Relief
A vintage ad touts Capudine for nervous headache and upset stomach with quick relief from grip and female troubles. It also warns not to use graphite tar on tin roofs and outlines paint guidance. Brown Bakery to sell bread and tickets for cash only starting November 1. Read Easterling Gordon real estate list on page 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell & Denney
Brown Bakery Company
Easterling & Gordon
Remarkable Recovery After Robinson Spring Water
The letter from Dr. H. F. Ashford of Pocahontas Mississippi describes treating Mrs. Dalton Costello aged 27 in August 1908 for acute Bright's disease with heavy urine burden. After three weeks on Robinson Spring water she recovered fully, with Dr. John B. Elliott of Tulane University endorsing its kidney benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton Costello
Bright
Robinson
H. F. Ashford
Pocahontas
Miss
John B. Elliott
Tulane University
New Orleans
Schedule of Trains Lastbound and Northbound
Schedule fragment lists train numbers and arrival times for V S P lines. Northbound and southbound services show arrivals at 10:21 am and 7:30 pm with multiple daily slots, including No 12 and No 11 arrivals and No 9 leaves. The clipping also references Iron Mountain and Soo lines with unclear times and station notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rtifor
Iron Mountain
Arrivas
Mo. & Agtives
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J. W. Harper Rye
Old Hlarper
Grayling Lumber Company
R. B. Ireland
DeSiard Street
Pal Saur
Pru
Quachita-Woonroe Gun & Bicycle Co
Monroe, la
Fifth Avenue
W. G. Lawhead
Icks’ Capudine
Robinson Springs
Teenee
Little Rock
S. L. Scola
Merchant Tailor
DeSiard St. Monroe, la
Adams Street
J. S. Flewellen
H. L. Gregg & Co
Ouachita Valley Bottling Works
Bastrop
Memphis
Eldorado
Kansas
Hamburg
ST. Louie
Crossett
Warren
Chicago
Fordyce
Nashville
Pine Bluff
Louisvill
Detroit
Hot Springs
ST. Paul
FT. Smith
Colorado
A. D. Nichols
T. J. Shelton
V., S. & P. Railway
Via
Vicksburg, Jackson, Or
Taft
Shreveport
Eas. Prowse
MO. F. Swain
West Texas
E. P Turner
Dallas
Texas
Louis Boon
Norway
Mich
Foley
D. H. Key
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