Hudson and Manhattan Tubes Open to Public Travel
The tunnel project linking Hoboken and New York City through twin tubes completes a vast underground network. President Roosevelt may press the start button while Governors Hughes and Fort announce the opening. The Morton Street uptown tubes reach Sixth Avenue, with downtown tubes to Cortlandt Street nearing completion. A Newark branch and a Jersey City feeder extend the system, totaling about eighteen miles of transit under the river.
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Hudson River
New York City
Manhattan Island
Long Island
New Jersey Shore
Hoboken
New York
Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company
Roosevelt
New Jersey
Noble Hudson
Charles E. Hughes
Empire State
Franklin Fort
McAdoo
North River
Pennsylvania Railroad
Sixth Avenue
Nineteenth Street
Morton Street
Uptown
Jersey City
Great Terminal
Cortland and
Fulton Streets
Manhattan
Jersey Shore
Newark
Ninth Street
Astor Place
Interborough Company
Underground Hudson Tunnel Opens With Fireproof Carriages
The new Hudson tunnel system under the Hudson River offers steel fireproof cars and ventilated tubes for rapid travel from Hoboken to Manhattan. The Hudson Terminal building near Sixteenth Street is nearly finished, with two sections and a skyward city of offices for 10 000 people and 39 elevators. The project cost about 70 million dollars and promises fast, safe urban transit with streamlined passenger flow and emergency ventilation features.
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Hudson Terminal
Lower
New York
Jersey City
Key Street
Democratic county committee to be reorganized after primary
The Democratic county central committee will be reorganized at a meeting called by County Chairman Emile Depaguier, likely this week. The primary produced a Zenorite majority on the committee, with talk that a Democrat from that faction may become chairman, replacing Emile Dupaquier who is favored for re election.
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Democratic County Central Committee
Emile Depaguier
Oppoeigk
Democratic Party
John J. Lyons
Cox
Zenorites
Enmile Dupaquier
Kidney Cure Restores Health After Years of Illness
An Evaneville resident writes that after five years of kidney and bladder trouble and three doctors failing, Foley's Kidney Cure relieved pain after the first bottle and cured him after the second, prompting the question why not let it help you.
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Virginia
Evaneville
Foley
Q. D. Knoefel
Lost Purse Brings Pair Together in Rainy Bayville
In a February downpour on Broadway a rain soaked Miss Helen Merrill loses a purse. Clayton Marshall finds it, returns it at Bayville home, and the two admit shared honesty as they plan a future together.
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Broadway
Bayville
Helen Merrill
Mr. Marshall
John
Clayton Marshall
Miss Merrill
Marshall
Hransom
Rayvile
Helen
New York
N. Y
Noah
Helen Gayly
Sixty Years of Oddities in Old Newspaper Snippets
A collection of short notes spans diverse topics from a 1907 lynching record drop and a 1755 cider tumbler used as a communion cup to banana tree growing in Springfield greenhouses and the price of a ward room in Nashua. Also noted are a Rev Lytle quilt with 674 names and the unusual practice of biennial votes for state officers.
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M. Everett
Penacook
N. A
Edward B. Beals
Springfield
Mass
Nashia
New Hampshire
E. Bruce Lytle
Memorial [Reformed Church of
York, I.a
York
Multimillionaire Demands Fare Rebate After Seasick Return
A resentful traveler described in Punch Almanack as a mean multimillionaire endured seasickness on his return voyage to New York. He allegedly demanded a fare rebate and claimed special terms as a “returned empty” passenger.
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New York
Punch
Debates on Dowry Tax and International Marriages
Rep Charles McGavin of Chicago introduces a bill to tax dowries in international marriages as 80 such unions are noted. He mocks nobility trading wealth for American heiresses and cites concerns over snobbery and loss of virtue. Also notes biographical details of William B Craig and Sen. Henry Davis with age and career highlights.
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Charles McGavin
Chicago
Charles M’gavin
Sabath
McGavin
Committee On
Wall Street
Europe
Mr. McGavin
Ilinois
William B. Craig
Selma
Ala
Alabama
Cumberland University
Lebanon, Tenn
William B. Craio
Southern Railway
Irene Kunst
Weston
W. Va
Alabama National Guard
First Cavalry
Second Infantry
Two Sculptors Portray Nathan Hale as Yale Hero
A Yale alumni group visits William Ordway Partridge’s New York studio to view his Nathan Hale statue destined for Yale. The piece contrasts with Frederick MacMonnies’s New York Hale, erected in 1893, each work shaping Hale’s athletic youth and patriotic sacrifice from no surviving portraits.
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Nathan Hale
Yale
William Ordway Partridge
New York
College
Partridge
Hale
Mace- Monnies
MacMonnies
Yartridge
Sona of the Revolution
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Hud-son
Upper Manhattan
Hudson
New County Central
Acciee
Dent In Market Street
O. D. Knoefel
Davay
East Market Street
Louisville and Northern Railway and Light Company
Stotsenburg & Weathers
Robert Richardson
Sies
Arthur Curl
Secks
Orino
O. D
Koupefel
Popley
M. M. Cunningham
First National Bank
Uncle John
Nome
W. B. Graig
Congress
Maud Ashford
Henry Gassaway Davis
West Virginia
Davis
Miss Ashford
Miss Maud As1i- Ford
Nathan Bale
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