Pearl Street Fire Traps Tenement Victims In Deadly Blaze
A fire at 470 Pearl Street destroyed a long outdated tenement trapping residents and horses. Miss Julia Isola, 22, leaped from a window and died later. Firemen rescued most occupants including Michael Conway who saved his mother. Thirteen saved. two died in smoldering stalls. several firefighters treated for gas exposure.
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Isola
Yulia
Rudolph
Ida
Lizzie
Julia
Thomas Conway
Michael
Pearl Street
Mike
Daniel Hanlon
John
Woods
Mike Conway
Morgan
Charlie
McConnell
Engine Company 7
Bridge Whist vs Church Duty Sparks Rector’s Edict
The Rev Dr G C Houghton of the Little Church Around the Corner condemns bridge whist during evensong hours. He urges worship over pleasures, noting Lent devotion should deepen. He refused to name the churchman who raised the issue and said evensong times will not change.
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G. C. Houghton
Immigration Probe Bill Aims at Crooked Bankers
A New York movement to shield immigrants from dishonest private bankers spurred a bill in Albany proposing a state commission to investigate immigration practices with a $10000 appropriation. Gov. Hughes reportedly backs the Page measure as a substitute for Merritt while banking officials resist extending supervision to deposits and ticket sales.
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East Side
Commission of Investigation
National Civic Federation
Albany
Senator Page
Hughes
Page
Merritt
State Department of Immigration
State Banking Department
Civic Federation Committee
Iine
Marcus M. Marks
Joseph N. Francolini
Italian Savings Bank
Francolini
Bank For Savings
No Babies in This City Warns of Rabies Safety
Supt. Thomas F. Freer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals told the Woman's Municipal League at 19 East Twenty-sixth Street that rabies and hydrophobia are virtually absent in the city and that bites from pets pose little risk when wounds are cauterized. He cited 15,000 bites by 26 animal catchers over 14 years during 1,155,513 captured small animals with no rabies cases, and argued fears are fueled by vivisectionists and Health Department fundraising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas F. Freer
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Woman's Municipal League
East Twenty-sixth Street
Health Department
Staten Island
Increased Mental Capacity Reported After Switching From Coffee
An Illinois woman describes improved kidney and bowel function, steadier nerves, and greater mental endurance after replacing coffee with Postum Cereal. She notes increased brain power and the ability to perform hard mental labor with less fatigue, praising the product and its advertising claim There’s a Reason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek, Mich
Wellville
Eclectic Club split over $25 000 rent at Waldorf Astoria
The Eclectic Club of New York debates taking a 16 room Waldorf Astoria apartment at a 25000 a year rent. Half the members oppose citing expense and club identity while President Dore Lyon defends the plan. The move would expand resident membership to 500, with visiting guests and daily tea service.
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Eclectic Club
New York
Waldorf-Astoria
Eclectic
Waldorf- Astoria
Richard H. Stearns
Regga
Widow No 2 Turns Up Over Seifert Estate
Mrs Caroline Seifert of College Point defends her wife status and property rights in the estate of late sculptor Emil C Seifert against Mrs Marie Seifert of Brooklyn who seeks widow’s dower and back alimony, claiming prior separation and remarriage voided the original settlement.
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Caroline Seifert
Eighteenth Street
Fifth Avenue
College Point
Emil C. Seifert
Marie Seifert
Brooklyn
Seifert
Eifert
Mabel Baldwin
Walter Baldwin
Whitestone
Emile E. Seifert
Violet Seifert
Marie Nagel
Atlantic Avenue
Paris
America
Grand Jury Minutes Missing in Kissena Park Inquiry
In Queens, Justice Garretson learns sections of Kissena Park investigation minutes are missing. The first transcription had been moved to Nathan Vidaver in Manhattan, outside county custody, prompting a court demand for return by noon. Edlson claimed no knowledge of the minutes’ whereabouts.
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Kissena Park
Queens County Grand
Garretson
Flushing
Joseph D. Edelson
Jackson
Runaway horse injures five in Sixth Avenue crash
A wagon driven by James Boggano on Greene Street ran away after a train scare. It bucked into an elevated pillar, then the horse struck down three men and a woman at Twenty-second Street. Miss Evelyn Goddo, a teacher, was taken to New York Hospital with severe injuries. Four other men also were hospitalized. The horse was stopped at Sixteenth Street.
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James Boggano
Greene Street
Thirty-first Street
Sixth Avenue
Twenty-eighth Street
Twenty-second Street
Evelyn Goddo
West Thirty-first Street
New York Hospital
Frank Pierce
Elizabeth Street
August Bresso
West Forty-fifth Street
Francisco Piso
Sixteenth Street
Judge rejects Flora Colt's bid for residuary legacy
In Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Crane ruled against Mrs. Flora A. Colt in her suit to force executor Cornelius O'Connor to include her as a residuary legatee under Thomas W. Kiley's will. Colt had claimed a prior agreement and sought $260,000, but Crane found she had signed away the claim.
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Supreme Court
Crana
Brooklyn
Flora A. Colt
Thomas W. Kiley
Kiley
Colt
Riley
Justice Crane
City Debt Bill Withstanded Amendments Moves to Senate
After two conferences on Saturday and yesterday, Controller Metz, Corporation Counsel Pendleton, Tax Commissioner Lawson Purdy, State Senator Page, Edgar J. Levy, and the Citizens' Union Legal Committee agree on amendments to the Travers-Lee bill. As amended, it will be introduced in the Senate by Mr Page this week. The bill aims to exempt dock and rapid transit bonds from all calculations of the city debt limit. The measure must pass two successive Senators and then be submitted to voters for ratification. The sponsors seek quick passage this session to enable bond issuance about January 1, 1910.
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Metz
Pendleton
Lawson Purdy
Page
Edgar J. Levy
Citizens' I’nion
Travers-Lee
Senate
Adams Flanigan Co opens new dry goods store
Adams Flanigan & Co starts a new dry goods store at 150th Street and Third Avenue. The partners are John Flanigan Thomas Ef Adams Clay Nanafurd Horace Flanigan, formerly with the Adauns Company sixth VER.
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Adams, Flanigan & Co
150Th Street
Third Avenue
John Flanigan
Thomas Ef. Adams
Clay Nanaf Urd
Horace Flanigan
Adauns Company
Whitestone man hides savings in wall vault estate case
Testimony in Queens Surrogate Court shows William H. Wilkins hid about 7682 in old coins inside a wall vault behind a kitchen door. His daughter Ann Elizabeth Horton as executrix says the estate totals around 14569 and will be divided equally among his four daughters.
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William H. Wilkins
Whitestone
L. I
Nabla
Queens County
Ann Elizabeth Horton
Wall Savings
Wilkins
Ten Years For Shoenland In Abduction Case
Frederick Shoenland of 142 Norfolk Street was sentenced by Judge Mulqueen to ten years’ imprisonment after a second conviction for abducting Jennie Tolberg of 1458 Boston Road. Earlier jurors urged leniency after the first conviction and a longer sentence was set aside. Union R R Receivership Permanent. Frederick Whitridge appointed as receiver for Union Railway in Bronx and Westchester, also serving as receiver for the Third Avenue line.
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Frederick’ Shoenland
Norfolk Street
Jennie Tolberg
Boston Road
Mulqueen
Rosalsky
Schoenland
Union R. R
Lorain Steel Company of Pennsylvania
Union Railway System
Bronx
Westchester County
Lacombe
United States Circuit Court
Frederick Whitridge
Ieeeany
Whitridge
Third Avenue
Song Service at St Marys Church in Brooklyn
The choir of St Marys Church at Classon and Willoughby Avenues Brooklyn will perform The Seven Last Words of Christ by Dubois and O Day of Penitence by Gounod tomorrow evening at o clock. Soloists are Master Joseph Toner soprano Berrick von Norden tenor and Hanford C Adams bass. N Lindsay Norden is the organist and choirmaster.
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St. Mary’s Church
St. Mary's Church
Classon
Willoughby Avenues
Brooklyn
Ging
Christ
Dubois
Tenor Alessandro Bonel Buys Amityville Property for Summer Home
Tenor Alessandro Bonel purchases five Florida Street lots in Amityville L I from Bonsignore Realty Corporation, planning a handsome Summer home as part of the developer’s large local tract.
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Alessandro Bonel
Amityville
L. L
Florida Street
Bonsignore Realty Corporation
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Houghton
Freer
The
Grand Jury
Barton & Gues
Pramce
U. S
U S
E. la Montagne's Sons
N.Y
Carli Schultz
26Th Street
N. Y
City
Madison
Brokaw Brothers
Astor Place
Fourth Ave
Browning, King & Company
Broadway
St. Cooper Square
Fulton Street
Dr. Lyon
Southwestern Limite
Nik Iase
St.louis
Shoenland
Bone
Fifth Avenue Art Galleries
Abraham J. Adler
Firm
Fishel, Adler & Schwartz
James P. Silo
Tribunl
Fafe View
Fortieth ST
Blakeslee
Herald
Thomas E. Kirby
the American Art Association
East 23d Street
Madison Square South
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