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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1908
Page
14
The New York Times asks readers to provide information to remove fraudulent advertisements from its Board and Room sections. Information will be confidential and used to support the paper's campaign against scams.
Multiple lost items including a small brown pocketbook with a gold chain, keys, and money. watches, jewelry, and personal effects reported missing around Madison Avenue, 34th Street, and East 23d Street with rewards offered. Objects range from sunglasses and cufflinks to a diamond studded watch fob and sought items listed with contact references.
Classified notices and employment ads list room, board, and job opportunities. Including dentists, clerks, advertising solicitors, stenographers, teachers, servants, and salesmen with addresses and box numbers in Times Square and surrounding streets.
Miss Katherine Miller and William Young will wed on the Jacob Stamler Deep Sea Hotel moored at the foot of Twenty first Street North River. The Rev Dr Roach will officiate and a reception will follow before a possible honeymoon run to New Jersey coast resorts on the afloat hotel.
Justice McCall signed an interlocutory decree of divorce yesterday in favor of Mrs Helen Bloodgood Gunther against her husband Charles Van W Valkenburg Gunther. The couple married in this city in 19. Mrs Gunther is daughter of the late Dr Eugene Garretson and lives at 504 West 142d Street with her. Other Miss Lenora Garretson.
In United States Circuit Court the trial of Thomas O Connor and Frances McLain OConnor for fraudulent use of the mails closes with Mrs O Connor fainting on the witness stand. Defense and prosecution finish closing arguments as Judge Holt prepares to charge the jury.
The Public Service Commission moved to boost ferry service with a proposal urged by Commissioner Bassett. It asks Long Island Railroad to justify a roughly 50 percent increase in rush hour trips from Thirty fourth Street foot to Long Island City, with smaller hikes at other times. A public hearing is set for April 23.
The American Bankers Association has invites from Saratoga New York Denver California and Hot Springs Arkansas to choose the next convention site. Invitations go to the Executive Council on May 4 for a final decision on time and place.
A jury in the Supreme Court awarded Mrs. Magdalena Simon eight thousand dollars against the New York City Railway Company for the death of her husband Frank Simon killed when his milk truck was struck by a car at Third Avenue and Fifteenth Street on January 28, 1907.
James A Baker, accused of murdering a West Virginia postmaster on December 29 and robbing thirty one post offices nationwide, claims from the Tombs on Tuesday to be a Boer war hero and a friend of Sir Hector MacDonald, though he was reportedly a hotel half-boy in Columbus during the Boer War.
George W. Wanmaker port appraiser departed New York yesterday aboard the Mallory liner Rio Grande for a three week Southern tour. He proceeds directly to Mobile Alabama and will spend the entire trip in the South. He is accompanied by his daughter.
Eiler Elarson, 40, of TS Central Avenue, severely injured after contact with a third rail at the Prighton Beach Railroad yesterday. Magistrates protest police photo practice before arraignment. County Judge Lewis Fawcett improving after surgery. Lizzie Allen 32 and Mary McLoughlin held for vagrancy. detectives Callahan and Williams say the pair homeless and sleeping in hallways.
Trustees issue invitations for dedicatory exercises of new buildings on St Nicholas Terrace on Thursday morning May 14. Commissioner Smith says Easter flowers display in Central Park conservatory East 106th Street will be especially attractive with extra preparations to surpass any previous floral show in the Park.
A garbled street ledger lists numerous names and addresses with scattered amounts and times. It mentions Thompson Street, E 150th Street, 114th Street, Broadway, 441 FE, and Grand Union among others, with small monetary figures like 250 and 200 interspersed.
Representative Lilley of Connecticut testifies before a House committee that the Electric Boat Company earned excessive profits on U S government warship contracts. He argues the issue involves business competence, not deliberate corruption, and references a supposed Yellow Dog fund as part of the inquiry context.
In Harlem Hospital in New York City an eleven month old boy Benjamin Costelnek died from morbus maculosis a rare disease first known in the city. Physicians struggled to diagnose as a vein leak drained blood from the arm causing skin discoloration and threat of total blackening. Autopsy consent may be sought from his parents Mr and Mrs Jacob Costelnek of 322 East 100th Street.
Rev. Lee W. Beattie sued to revoke Cornelius Curwen’s liquor tax license for a saloon at Ninth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street, arguing proximity to a church and lack of adjacent residents' consent. Supreme Court Justice Fitzgerald dismissed the case, the third in a series favoring Curwen.
The Friars hosted a dinner at Skane's Chop House in New York featuring guests including Daniel Frohman Augustus Thomas Col Watterson and Col Cody. Col Cody recounted Parisian and foreign experiences while Daniel Frohman clarified a mistaken identity saying the Daniel Frohman present was replaced by his grandfather.
Mrs. Ogden Goel et accompanies homeward ride when Bicycle Patrolman Madden halted a speeding chauffeur at twenty miles an hour in Central Park South Drive opposite East 65th Street. The chauffeur claimed to be Jean B Gulhemolnia of 354 West 55th Street and was held as Goel ets security with residence 60S Fifth Avenue.
The Hope Clothing Company announces a May 12 move to new premises after a building shift at Stew art. A special Easter Sunday sale showcases the latest 49 inch models and brown shadow stripe coats at ten dollars, with items priced higher elsewhere. The event aims to demonstrate Hope value amid a temporary relocation halt.
Suits for young men from 17 to 50 feature the latest kinks of spring styles. New fabrics include checks and over-plaids in tan brown and slate with Java shades in worsteds and tweeds. Merchant tailors offer suits at 25 dollars while good clothiers price from 16.50 to 20 dollars. Hope says:
Rich Black Vieuna with pure silk facings and net Venetian body linings mark a line of high class spring overcoats. Prices never fall below three and vary by store with some items commanding higher sums in Oxford’s shops. HOPE says:
Hope offers men's spring suits at ten dollars in grays browns olives and blues. Fine mixtures include worsteds serges and Thibets with up to date cuts for every build and contrasts to $16 to $20 rival prices.
The Hope Clothing Company faces a peculiar situation caused by the Stewart Building. The article hints that the end is in sight and that next week there will be significant activity related to the matter.
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