Mark Twain Speaks as Child Actors Shine at Educational Theatre
A crowd of larger boys surrounds the Children's Theatre at East Broadway as Mark Twain speaks after the first performance of Editha's Burglar. The Educational Alliance plans a bigger theatre and new directors to expand the program, with Clemens as honorary president and a board including Robert Collier and Rev. Percy Stickney Grant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Children’s Theatre of the Educational Alliance
Jefferson Street
East Broadway
Mark Twain
Children’s Theatre
Editha
Spence
Axl
Mrs. Whitmore
Ae Ky
Eiseer
The
Educational Alliance
Mark Twin Seanester
Clemens
Po Ming
Educatonal Theatre For
Robert Collier
Collier’s Weekly
Percy Stickney Grant
Stanley Hall
Clarke University
La Belle Chasseuse at Berkeley Lyceum Society show
Students of Miss Spence’s School present La Belle Chasseuse a two act comic opera at the Berkeley Lyceum in aid of crippled children. Grace Hollingsworth and Grace R Henry wrote the music lyrics and book. Cast includes Constance Pratt Olive Hitchcock Marion Stevenson Jacqueline Kelley and others.
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Berkeley Lyceum
Hearts and Hounds
Jule
Comtesse de Berlier
Constance Pratt
Jack Murray
Philippe
Castognay
Miss Henry
R. ©. Jenkins
Margaret Roosevelt
Anne Crane
Jacqueline Kelley
Grace R. Henry
Molly Bangs
Alma Adams
Katharine Bushnell
Eleanor Townsend
Wedding Plans Highlight Multiple Aristocratic Nuptials
Miss Alice Crary to wed Arthur Taylor Sutcliffe of New York April 10 at the Eller Mansion with her brother Robert Fulton Crary Jr as escort and Rev. Dr. Crary performing. The bride descends from Robert Fulton. gown from Cornélia de Peyster lineage. Several other weddings loom, including Miss Elizabeth Hall and Judson Todd on May 14 at 107 East Sixty-fifth Street with sister as attendant, and Joseph Meredith and Maria Sheate Douglas set for May 12 at Grave Church Chantry, followed by family dinners and receptions. The Howlands plan a Grace Church, Amherst, Mass., ceremony May 23 for St John Smith and Florence Howland, with multiple ushers and future European travel.
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Alice Crary
Arthur Taylor Sutcliffe
New York
Eller Mansion
Robert Fulton
Crary, Jr
Crary
Sutcliffe
George B. Ford
Boston
Greer
T. H. Toop
Matteawan
Oliver ‘Toler
Ardrew Teller
Sophia van Cortlandt
Muzabeth Newcomb Fiall
Judson Scott Todd
TIMES
Henry 3
Hall
East Sixty-fifth Street
Miss Hall
Reginald C. Robbins
Denny Brereton
Tod
J. Warren Bird
Frederick Porter Kimball
Harry W. Hayden
Edwin Gc.dusenbury
Bertrand S Drake
New. Rochelle
Whitman Fhiaff
Frederick Douglas
Henry Montgomery
William T. Meredith
Wiffieth Street
Amfiss Douglas
Meredith
Miss Douglas
Florence. Howland
Walter Morton Howland
Chicago
Grace Church
Amherst
Mass
Howlands
Howland Place
Chorus Cast and Ushers Named for City Performance
Frances Lamont Edith Landon Marion Stevenson Olive Hitchcock and others form the chorus with Mrs Douglas Bosworth Isabelle Corbiere Evelina Deyo and more listed. Ushers include Mrs Hi T Ashmore Mrs David Taylor and several Misses. Tickets available from Miss Christine Roosevelt at 804 Fifth Avenue. A second performance tonight and a final show tomorrow evening.
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Frances Lamont
Edith Landon
Marion Stevenson
Olive Hitchcock
Gertrude Buree
Cornelia Montgomery
Douglas Bosworth
Isabelle Corbiere
Evelina Deyo
Fleaner Fowler
Helen Glover
Gardiner Hi Miller
Dorothy Read
Edna Reynolds
Dorothy Ruxton
Mary Vanderhoe
Clara’ Fleitman
Corinne Gelshenen
Mathilde Leverich
Gertrude Leverich
Natalie Morrison
H. Robinson-Smith
Beatrice Pratt
Pauline. Wells
Jeanette Wilson
Rosamond Burr
Lucia. Burton
Janet
House
Alien Lawson
Dorothy Raymond
Ruth Wales
Hilaire Sooysmith
Louise Trowbridge
Hi. T. Ashmore
David Taylor
E. W. Tweed
B. St. Romeyn
Ruth Ashmore
M. C. Lyon
AL Hollingsworth
Evelyn Poor
Janet Blackwell
Blarinet Alexander
Thursday Wyverine Club entertains final meeting at Parsons home
Mrs. Wilam Barclay Parsons hosts the Thursday Wyverine Club at 35 East Street Columbia University night event. Lectures on electricity by Nahan Franko featured music and supper. Several club officers and members attended, with Mrs. Douglas Robinson and Mrs. J. West Roosevelt among organizers.
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Wilam Barclay Parsons
Wyverine Club
East Street
Columbia University
Eleche
Nahan Franko
Stra
William. Pierson Hamilton
Il Dana
Arthur M. Dodge
J. Draper
Draper
and Fa
J. Russell Soley
James Roosevelt
Ham
J. Hoyt
and Tosonser
Hillborne
L . Tinchird ‘Tuckerman
Charles Ebon
Handler Robbins
Richard Welof
Elis
Douglas Robinson
J. West Roosevelt
Co. Grant la Farge
Newbold
James B. Ludlow
William AL. Schieffelin
May De Sousa Delays Voyage Joins Berlin Review
May De Sousa appears in a Berlin Winter Garden musical review after abandoning a Cherbourg sailing to take a Berlin offer. Charles Frohman plans to bring her to New York for the Dollar Princess, seeing her potential as a hit like the Merry Widow. Frohman travels to Berlin to finalize a deal as German managers praise her Moulin Rouge and Comédie Francaise success.
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New York Times
London
de Sousa
America
Zerlin Winter -Grden
Cherbourg
Miss de Sousa
Perlin Winter Garden
Berlin
Charlies Frohman
New York
Comédie Francaise
Mr. Frohman
Children Enjoy Matinee Benefiting New York Exchange for Woman's Work
The annual benefit by the New York Exchange for Woman's Work drew a full house at Wallack's Theatre with seats at $2 and boxes at $20. Prof Lyman Unterwood of MIT spoke about a bear fostered by a human, showing age-progressive pictures, delighting children, while cartoonist R C Mohr entertained. A large list of patronesses attended, including Mrs W G Choate, Mrs Carnegie, Mrs Gould, and Mrs Speyer, among others.
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New York Exchange For
Rple
Ammons
Alex Sander
Fos Gerwind
Andrew ©Aynegie
George Jay
Gould
Way Down East Fails to Please London Audiences
Special cable from London reports a tepid reception at the Aldwych Theatre for Way Down East. Critics focus more on the storm scene than on plot or acting, noting the New England characters’ charm did not translate to the London crowd.
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New York Times
London
Aldwych Theatre
New England
America
Anglin to Tour Australia Under Nethersole Management
Louis Nethersole announced plans for Miss Anglin to appear under his management for five years starting 1908 09. Anglin will sail from Victoria BC May 22 for a brief starring tour in Australia with J C Williamson in a repertoire including The Thief The Awakening of Helena Ritchie and a new Mackaye play. Nethersole will accompany Anglin to Australia.
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Louis Nethersole
Margaret Anglin
Miss.Anglin
New York
Iary Miller
Miss Anglin
Victoria
BB. C
Australia
J.C. Williamson
Taliaferro Doubles Back on Stage Retirement Plan
Mabel Taliaferro has reconsidered her retirement from the stage at season’s end. In private life she is Mrs. Frederic Thompson, and her husband’s role as a manager provides her ongoing opportunities. Next season she may tour Polly of the Circus in one or two leading cities with Edith Taliaferro as successor, returning to New York for a new production.
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Mabel Taliaferro
Miss Taliaferro
Frederic Thompson
Polly
Circus
Edith
New York
Sioux Chief and six braves attend Lew Fields show
Chief Iron Tail and six Sioux members left the Wild West Show with Col. Cody’s permission to see Lew Fields in The Girl Behind the Counter at Herald Square Theatre. Fields boasted he would make any Indian laugh, but Iron Tail and his party remained unmoved and did not smile throughout the performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chief Iron Tail
Col. Cody
Lew Fields
Herald Square Theatre
Chief Fields
Wild West
Iron-Tail
Boston Couple Engaged Miss Dorothy Perce to Ingesor Emery
Boston announces the engagement of Miss Dorothy Perce a sister of Mrs Thomas Barbour of New York and cousin of Mrs Lewis Cass Led yard Jr to Ingesor Emery of Boston. Mr Emery is a Harvard graduate class of 1902.
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Boston
Dorothy, Perce
Thomas Barbour
New York
Lewis Cass Ledyard, Jr
Ingesor Emery
Emery
Harvard
New York Social Notes From Plaza and Hotels
The New York Auxiliary of the Southern Industrial Educational Readaptation hosts a bridge and hearts party at the Plaza to aid mountain poor white children. Cele monico’s hosts the final Assembly dance of the season, with Sherry’s last Friday dances tonight. Notables at the Buckingham include Griswold Thompson Helen D. Christian and Mrs H C Chamblein, Dana-Collier wedding guests James Fenimore Cooper and Jr. attenders. Philip Dexter of Boston and Hamilton Carhart of Detroit at the St Regis. Mr and Mrs Edson Bradley of Washington and Mr and Mrs Murray Potter of Boston at the Plaza. The Easter sale and entertainment for St Mary’s Summer Home at Keyport was yesterday at 145 West Forty-sixth Street. Mrs John W Mackay, arrived from abroad, stays about three weeks at Hotel Gotham. The Princess Stigiano Colonna is due soon with the body of Mrs Hungerford, Mackay’s mother, who died about a year ago.
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New York
Southern Industrial Educational Readctation
Plaza
South
Celemonico’s
Helen D. Christian
H. C. Chamblein
Richmond
Dana-Collier
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper, Jr
Albany
Buckingham
Philip Dexter
Boston
Hamilton Carhart
Detroit
St Regis
Edson Bradley
Washington
Murray Potter
St. Mary’s
Keyport
West Forty-sixth Street
John W. Mackay
Gotham
Stigiano Colonna
Hungerford
The Pass Word at Brookside Home Benefit and More Onstage Notes
The article lists theatrical events including a Brookside Home benefit at Garden Theatre featuring Loise Randolph and Charles Lane with a new one act Tama The Pass Word. Also Onaip the Hindoo Mystery near return at Hippodrome. White Rats benefit shows at New York and Liberty Theatres. Fourteenth Street Theatre shifts to ten cent vaudeville and films. Firemen auction seats at Metropolitan Opera House.
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Loise Randolph
Charles Lane
Garden Theatre
Lewis Wailer
London
Onaip
Hippodroms
New-York
Liberty Theatres
White Rats of America
Fourtenth Street Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House
Opera House
Jacques Cohen
Jae Veber
Peter Dalley
Charles J. Ross
W. H. Crane
Maris Dressler
MISS COLLIER A BRIDE IN SEASONED FAMILIES WEDDING
Richard Turner Dana son of Mrs Richard Starr Dana and Miss Georgette Adee Collier daughter of Mrs Maurice Dwight Collier wed at Grace Church. The ceremony featured Rev William Relluntinston and Rev Harold Arrowsmith with a coronet of orange blossoms and lilies of the valley. Guests included Ethan Hitchcock, Commander William Sims, and Winston Churchill relatives. the couple plans a Western honeymoon before returning to New York in June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Turner Dana
Richard Starr Dana
Georgette Adee ‘Collier
Maurice Dwight Collier
Race Church
William Relluntinston
Harold Arrowsmith
Trinity Church
Lenox
Mass
Interior
A. Hitchcock
Pres Winley
United States
Russia
Juliet Adee
Valerie Tradden
Carolyn Fellowes
Aleid Schenck
Anita Peabody
Rosamund Dixey
Adele Colgate
Countess of Strafford
England
Richard T. Dana
Isaac Wistar Kendall
Joseph C. Burden
Thomas Adams
John C. Greenleaf
George Townsend Adeé
Samuel Frothingham
Harry Markoe
Lydig Hoyt
Grace Church
Miss Maud Morgan
Hitchcock
William Sims
Sims
Winston Churchill
George A. Adée
Adee
Ernest Adee
Philp Henry Adee
David T. Turner
Ebenezer Turner
H. C. Chamblin
Helen D. Christian
Richmond
Paul Dana
Miss Dana
Charles Dana
Charles FE. Dana
Philadelphia
Dana—Collier
New York
William R. Huntington
D. D
Wedded at Biltmore in a New York Society Wedding
All Saul's Church at Biltmore Asheville heard the ceremony for Miss Marie Baxter Rees and Augustus D. Sheppard at noon. Rev. Dr Rainey Rush Swope officiated. Attending were maid of honor Rita Rees and best man Barritt H. Sheppard with ushers from New York and Biltmore. A wedding breakfast followed at Isenworth Lodge and the couple departed for New York.
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New York Times
Asheville
N.Y
All Saul
George W. Vanderbilt
Augustus Sheppard
Vanderbilt
Sheppard
New York
Isenilworth Lodge
Gen Linevitch Dead in St Petersburg
London telegram reports Lieut. Gen. Linevitch dead in St Petersburg. He served as Commander in Chief of the Russian Army in Manchuria and fought in the Crimean War, Russo Turkish War, and Caucasus campaigns. He helped relieve Peking during the Boxer troubles and held several key commands including Vladivostok and the Manchurian Army.
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ST. Petersburg
Linevitch
Manchuria
Tie
Caucasus
Peking
Amur
Vladivostok
Admiral Alexieff
Kuropoltkin
Ifa
Mukden
Samuel Cooper of Stapleton S S dies at 96
Samuel Cooper 96 oldest Stapleton resident died of old age at his home on Richmond Road after a long illness. He came to Staten Island from England seventy six years ago and left a widow 53 with a son Samuel Cooper Jr and daughter Mrs George Ware.
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Samuel Cooper
Stapleton
S. S
Richmond Road
Mr. Cooper
Staten Island
England
Samuel Cooper, Jr
George Ware
Douglas
William Scott ‘Douglas
Douglas Manufacturing Company
Henry Street
Brooklyn
George B. Douglas
The
Mercantile Exchange
Ladd &_ Coffin
Westchester County Poor Chief Smith Hopkins Dies
Smith Hopkins aged 54, superintendent of the poor for Westchester County, died yesterday at his White Plains home from acute indigestion. A known farmer statesman, he had just been elected to the post last November.
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Smith Hopkins
Westchester County
White Flains
Russian Actress Blasts American Art and City Life
Mme Vera Komisarzhevsky criticizes American audiences for preferring vulgarity over simplicity and laments language barriers hindering Maeterlinck’s Sister Beatrice. She calls New York a monster city with little art in architecture and laments the public’s lack of critical appreciation while noting some actors show talent. She departs on Touraine after a tearful parting with the Countess, with Niagara Falls to visit, while Cap’n Kidd plays at Carnegie Lyceum tonight and tomorrow.
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Mme
Vera
Komisarzhevsky
New York
Kaiser Wilhelm Il Ny
Everett Trouse
Touraine
Niagara Falls
Ixomisarzhevsky
Beatrice
Maeterlinck
Brooklyn
Greece
Mme. Komisarzhevsky
Daly's
Tar
Europe
Williams Leiter engagement hints at June wedding
Washington reports Col John R Williams announces the engagement of Juliette Williams to Joseph Leiter, son of Levi Leiter. The couple, both from prominent families, plan a simple June ceremony due to differing faiths, with no firm date yet set and details still to be discussed.
Wolfe Birth Announcement for Towns End Family
On April 16 a daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Towns end Fb Wolfe in a local arrival notice.
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Wolfe
Townsend Fb. Wolfe
Marriages listed in 1908 newspaper notices
A sequence of marriage notices dated April 1908 from New York area churches records unions including Gourlis Appleton to Francis Appleton Jr Collier to Dana Adee Collier to Townsend Adee Collier and multiple others. Names include Goodhue Milean Dana Howland Settle Dana Roberts Frazier Scott Moffit Shepard Rees Waters Shaw Abell Cawley Davis Denny Gilroy Graham Millard Randolph Sweent Thurston Holbrooke Van Dusen Foley Beecroft Yeaman.
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Hilea
Alice G. Him
Charles T. Abell
Davis—Cawley
Reba Cawley
Paul P. Davis
Denny
Millard
Bercha D. Denny
Clarence L. Millard
Gilroy—Murphy
Helen © Murphy
Arthur
Gilroy
Graham—Gackle
Elizabeth _Gackle
Robert Graham
Minnie A. Beecroft
James D.wells
Yiaman—Farrell
Anns T. Farrell
Stephen M. Yeaman
Obituary notices and funeral announcements list in Hoboken area
A jumble of death notices records multiple obituaries and funeral plans across New Jersey and nearby towns. Entries name the deceased, residence, age, and burial or service times at various churches and homes with scattered family references and lodge affiliations.
Evans announces engagement of Nell Evans to Dr Joseph W Johnson
Nell Evans daughter of Mr and Mrs Evans of Chattanooga engages to Dr Joseph W Johnson of this city. Miss Evans has connections in New York and Washington. Mrs Evans’s other daughter is married to Lieut Sellers of the Navy.
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Chattanooga
Tenny
Evans
Lieut
Sellers
Wavy
Notable Obituaries From Local Death Notices
Frederick Rirhle aged years died at home in Wondniten after an operation leaving a widow and four children. Nicholas Howers aged 70 died at home in Lyons from paralysis. ordained in 1558 and survived by widow and three sons. Samuel Traum aged 63, retired furniture dealer, died at his stove on Vernon Avenue with two daughters and four sons surviving. Thomas G Trelot aged 89 0 sixth Street Prockton served as Fort Collector for 27 years and died of heart disease. Isaac Costa aged 0 mother of Assistant Corporation Daniel Costa died at St Joseph’s Home for the Blind in Jersey City. Jubilee marked in marriage to Jacinto Costa.
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Thelev
Nicholas Howers
Lyons
Samuel. Traum
Vernon Avenue
Williamsburg
Big Aviden
Thomas G. Treloat
Sixth Street
Prockton
Aud Tlenty -Wednessy
Isaael Costa
Daniel Jacinto Costa
St. Joseph'a
Jersey City
Jacinto Costa
Obituary notices from Brooklyn Jersey City April deaths list
A Brooklyn Jersey City memorial page lists numerous individuals dying in late April. Entries include Laura Archer Pauline TiaH Beneken William Beneken Elizabeth Bobl Martha Ganliner Augusta Greenwaldt Ida Herack Jannet Dickson and others with funeral details or private interment noted.
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Sterling Place
Brooklyn
Elizabeth Bobl
Borst
Gates Av
Esther Borst
E Breucer
Mil Burdwick
Brrooklyn
A. H. F. Tener
Cockpiull
18Th St
Alffred Cackerti
Delaney
Warren S&j
Tulia-Delaney. Dickson
Hean
Brook
Jannet A. Dickson
In Memoriam and Mass for Morrissay at St Marys Church
In Memoriam for Willcox notes death on April 24. Mass for John J Morrissay at St Marys Church Bensonhurst scheduled today at 8 AM.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mark
Society IN Comic Opera
la Belle Chasseuse
Miss. Crary
Fulton
A. T. Sutcliffe
Kneipp
William Parsons
Charles Frohman
May DE Sousa
New York Exchange For Woman's Work
Taliaferro
Dorothy Pierce
Social Notes
Sherry's
Griswold
Thompson
Smith & Matson
Chippendale Library
H. Michaelya Rug
Sth Av
Miss Collier
R. T. Dana
Biltmore
A. D. Sheppard
Marie Rees
Gen. Linevitch
Japan
A. Smith Hopkins
Cap’n. Kidd
New York University
Cap'n Kidd & Co
Carnegie Lyceum
Willam Faversham
Wei
Joseph Leiter
Col. J. R. Williams
New
Leiter
du Pont
Miss Williams
Lester
Miss Willams
Henry €. Corbin
Manila
Corbin
Williamses
Connecticut
Georgetown
Japeland
Flushing
J. L. Helen Kent Shaw
Bertram Gordon Waters
Loston
Dird
Hoboken Councy
R. A
Highwood Park
Lutheran
Pouglas
Henry &J
William
Scott Douglas
Orlitia Staker
Jatire
Henrietta L. Doustas
Folwell
Phi
J. J
Joseph A.folwell, Jr
John A
Sarah C. Post
Paterson
N. J
Hascall
Washir Square West
Myra Fiske Hascall
William Sterne Hascall
Josiah
Peters
Fiske
Grace Chantry
Keeseville
Charles Fitzgerald Pierman
Hamilton Place
Manhattan
Prankard
Adelaide Marshall
Francis T. Prankard
Halsey St
Shipman
New Haven
Conn
Tharsis
Charlotte Durand
Charles K. Shipman
Lawrence St
Towner
South Swan St
N. Y
Samuel Bartow
St. Peter's Church
Willets
Hoslyn
L. L. Adelaide
Taber
Walter Willets
Nell Clax Evans
Spockit
Frederick Rirhle
Maison St
Annia Mi
Eiden
Wat
West 47Th St
Flynn
Gandinet
Douglss St
Ooklyn
Martha A’ Ganliner
Greenwaldt
Apri Augusta
Funseral Privata
Siaack
Wadeworth
Ida Herack
Wuneru T To-Iay
MM. Harkin
West 36Th St
Punerel
Fay
Hughes
Thomas Hayes
Ti-Tay
Hemming
Henrickson
Nassau
McDougall
Charles Hennine
Hintze
East
O W
Augusti
Chaurevey
Arulins A. Efurley
Jdosephine Kell
Eared Kelly
Newton A M
Umeral To-Cay
Lampe
Georra J. Lame
Leh Mann
Rosetusto St
Bertha D. Laine
McCaffrys
Pulas
Bronx
Ellen
Dora Y
McCafthy
Mains
Herkimer Stenek Ata Apxt
Howard P. Manns
Mead
West 129Th
Alicia
Funrral T-Morroww
M. Meyer
Ralph St
Barbara Mayer
Muller
River St. Hoboken
Gustav Muller
Murphy
Watts &T
John Murphy
Omara
Palmets
Reberca Palmér
Sth Ave
St. Parker
Rav
Bensonhurst
Emma M. Parker
Oes Philips
West 54Th St
Kawin B. Phillips
Ot Phillips
Bergen St
Ene J
Elizabeth ‘Pillips
Rahmel
St John's Place
Frederick
Terment
Riotte
Huson County Boulevard
Carl
Riette
Rosenthal
Heyward St
Minnis Rosenthal
Roth
Michael _ ‘Roth
Cornelius P. Tubbs
Aay
M. Wilkenloh
Harman St
Mildred Wilkenloh
Wundral
Wiencke
Hackensack Plank Road
Town of
Union
Carolina
Joan H. Wilmurt
Withers
Elizabeth Thers
Woodlawn
Harlem
Grand Central Station
Webster and
Jerome Avenue
N. E
Undertakers
Frank E. Campbell
West
Chalom
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