Felix Isman Declares Eviction For Belasco Victoria Lease
Philadelphia real estate operator Felix Isman announces he has acquired the land at Seventh Avenue and Forty-second Street housing Hammerstein's Victoria and Belasco Theatres. He says Hammerstein violated lease terms by housing wild animals on the roof garden and vows eviction proceedings.
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Felix Isman
Philadelphia
Broadway
Seventh Avenue
Forty-second Street
Hammerstein
Victoria
Belasco
Isman
Oscar Hammerstein
Flammerstein
Mr. Hammerstein
Mr. Isman
Gerry Estat
Ismanj
Belasco Theatre
Victoria Theatre
Davidson
Saratoga
The
Marc.oR.lerlanger
Turkey
Taree
Tane
Salome
Escapes from River Crest Sanitarium
Chapman Dwight, 65, inmate at River Crest Sanitarium in Long Island, vanished Wednesday afternoon. A clothing bundle washed up on the Long Island Sound shore near Astoria, with a letter addressed to Aevighi in a coat pocket. Dr J W Saftsell of the sanitarium identified the clothing as Dwight's.
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Chapman Dwight
River Crest Sanitarium
Long Island
Long Island Sound
Astoria
J. W. Saftsell
Dwight
Mrs. Longworth's Joke On Oyster Bay Visit
Mrs Abe Roosevelt Longworth and Fthel Roosevelt greeted a touring party in Oyster Bay on August 21. An elderly man asked for directions to President Roosevelt and for a chance to see Mrs Longworth. She answered go straight ahead and then fled into a jewelry store laughing. The bystander later revealed the group had been speaking with the Roosevelts daughters.
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New York Times
Oyster Bay
Abe Roosevelt Longworth
Fthel Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Reverend George Fitzhugh seeks marriage to 10-year-old adoptee
The Protestant Episcopal Church authorities have not acted on Rev. George Fitzhugh age 67 who obtained a license to wed Twuly Virginia Frazier a 10-year-old girl he adopted. Fitzhugh is ill with heart neuritis and had earlier tried to marry the girl, claiming adoption would make her his heir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Baltimore
Protestant Episcopal Church
George Fitzhugh
Twuly Virginia Frazier
Bishop Hart
Richmond
Gen. R. E. Lee
Bourne Jewel Robbery Denied by Bourne Family
Alfred Bourne and Alexander Mair deny a $50,000 jewel robbery at Indian Neck Hall in Oakdale. The tale arose after a mislaid necklace incident and a July trip to the Thousand Islands. the Bournes report no loss, no detectives, and ongoing remodeling with workers present.
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New York Times
Oakdale
L. 1
Ave
Commodore Frederick G. Bourne
Alfred Bourne
Indian Neck Hall
New York
Alexander Mair
Used can opener on jail wall in Crandon Wisconsin
Deputy Marshal John Webber returned empty handed from Crandon after burglars escaped from the county jail. Charles Otto had entered Nashville store near Pelican Lake taking stamps and cash from the Post Office. The wall, painted to resemble concrete, was cut from the outside with a can opener allowing the inmates to flee.
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New York Times
Milwaukee
Crandon
Wis
United States
John Webber
Charles Otto
Nashville
Forest County
Otto
Burns
Oneida County
Pelican Lake
Loss of Appetite Treatment Ad Copy
An advertisement advises half a teaspoon of Horsford's old Phosphate dissolved in half a glass of water after meals as valuable for treating exhaustion.
Mine Rioters Shoot Negro From Ambush in Pratt City
Birmingham dispatch describes a black non union miner, Anthony Davis, shot and fatally wounded near his Pratt City home after his house was dynamited. Gov. Comer weighs troop deployment as strikes intensify and deputies warn of plots to target miners and officers.
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Birmingham
Ala
Aethony Davis
Pratt City
Davis
Gov. Comer
Lewisburg
White
National_organization
W. R. Fairley
National Secutive Board
Faulk
Birmingham Mineral Railroad
O. Z. Dent
Blockton
Duggan
Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company
District Captain Arrested Over Harlem Juvenile Olympic Games
Robert Lax election district Captain in Harlem held a juvenile Olympic style event at a stadium on 120th Street and Eighth Avenue. Police officer Fitzgerald halted the marathon after Lax refused to stop. Lax was arrested as a disorderly person. parents and Alderman Marx led a push to have him released.
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120Th Street
Eighth Avenue
Robert Lax
West 119Th Street
Harlem
Fitzgerald
West 125Th Street
Lax
Alderman Marx
Detective seeks release for sister held in Amityville sanitarium
Charles A. Flay of 440 East Eighty eighth Street claims his sister Mrs. William Long of 37 Tenth Avenue Rockaway Park is illegally detained in an Amityville sanitarium. He asserts she was kidnapped June 1 by three men and a woman, rendered unconscious with morphine, and taken to the asylum in a car. Flay says papers of commitment have not been shown and that a writ of habeas corpus issued by Judge Blackmore is returnable next Tuesday.
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Charles A. ‘Flay
East Eightyeighth
William Long
Tenth Avenue
Rockaway Park
Amityville
L. I
Flay
Blackmore
Brooklyn Supreme Court
Seven Billion Tax List Reveals City Property Values
The Tax Department sent its annual report to the Mayor showing total city property assessment at 7 158 190 400 dollars. Ordinary real estate value stands at 6 141 500 119 with a 457 400 407 rise in ordinary real estate. The report notes per capita increases and compares New York City with Buffalo Niagara Falls Watervliet and Rensselaer in personal property assessments.
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Florida
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Oregon
Wyoming
New York
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Watervliet
Rensselaer
Music for Baby Reginald Ronalds in Erie Garden Party
Nine month old Reginald Ronalds of Erie is honored with a garden party hosted by his grandmother Mrs. Charles H. Strong. An orchestra of forty under Nahan Franko will perform, with over $1,500 spent on music. A private car will carry Franko and his team from Jersey City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reginald Ronalds
Erie
Penn
Charles H. Strong
Pierre Lorillard Ronalds
London
Ronalds
Strong
Richard Townsend
Washington
Mathilde Townsend
William L. Scott
Blood Poison Kills Doctor in Brooklyn Home
Dr. George H. Smith a longtime Brooklyn homeopath died of blood poisoning at his Reid Avenue home after a brief illness. He suspected infection from an operation and was among Kings County’s best known homeopaths. Born November 12, 1843 in Milton Ulster County New York he educated himself while working as a streetcar conductor before graduating in 1860 from the Homeopathic Medical College of New York. He leaves a widow three daughters and two sons and was active in the Union League Club Masonic Veteran Association among others.
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George H. Smith
Brooklyn
Reid Avenue
Dr. Smith
Kings County
Milton
Ulster County
N. Y
New York
Homeopathic Medical College of
Union League Club
Masonic Veteran Association
Chased Thieves Over Rooftops in East Side Break-In
Police pursued and captured two young men, believed to be the burglars behind a Sumner-area break in. The suspects, both 17 and reporting Italian-sounding names, were rounded up after a roof-to-roof chase ending in Joseph Haverman's East Sixty-first Street home. Detectives say the pair planned a second theft that night. two more men are being sought. In the house, valuables and furniture were stacked by the front door, and the suspects had entered posing as telephone line workers.
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Upper East Side
Fitzpatrick
Mulvey
Brady
East Sixty-seventh Street
Joseph Haverman
East Sixty-first Street
Haverman
Patrick McDonough
Second Avenue
Robert Lyons
East Seventy-fourth Street
Lyons
Girl Drugged in Auto in Bronx Incident
Florence Huber twenty living at 787 East 165th Street was found unconscious on a Morrisania doorstep at 10 20 last night after saying two unknown men drugged and attacked her in a car. She described a ride from 165th Street and Forest Avenue and was taken to Fordham Hospital by ambulance. Police issued a general alarm for the suspects but she could not provide details.
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Florence Huber
East 165Th Street
Louis Huber
Bronx
Southern Boulevard
Freeman Street
Kessler
Morrisania
Fordham Hospital
Norman
165Th Street
Forest Avenue
Opon
Woman A Suide in a Prison Cell
Marion Desmond 36 of 116 West Sixty-fifth Street hanged herself in Jefferson Market Court Prison after reading a magazine story The Long Reckoning. She used a rope torn from her cot to strangle herself and was found by Night Matron Elizabeth Kelly. Coroner Harburger and officials noted new steel cots with no ropes and questioned inspection routines. She had been arrested for shoplifting a shirt waist at Eighteenth Street and Sixth Avenue and held on $500 bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Desmond
West Sixty-fifth Street
Jefferson Market Court
Elizabeth Kelly
Desmond
Kelly
John O'Connor
Bellevue Hospital
Bradley
Harburger
Eighteenth Street
Sixth Avenue
Central Office
Baker
Mae. V. Walsh
Crane
Keeper O'Connor
Grace Hardy
Won't Wed Divorced Couples in Newport
Newport officials and clergy move to bar marriage for divorced individuals. The Harriman case prompts the Ministers Union to refuse uniting divorced couples, joining Episcopal practice already in place. New Rhode Island divorce laws threaten Newport’s notoriety as a Mecca for divorced people seeking marriage.
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New York Times
Newport
Superior Court
Herbert M. Harriman
Ministers’ Union
Episcopal
Mecca
Rhode Island
Roaches Bed Bugs and Mice Exterminated
Rae Disinfecting Co located at 517 West 45th Street conducted extermination services for roaches bed bugs and mice in a local property. The notice highlights municipal pest control efforts and a licensed provider performing the work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rae Disinfecting Co
West 45Th St
Impact Test Breaks Speed Records on Penn 9-Mile Run
A special Pennsylvania Railroad train carrying university and industry experts exceeded 100 miles per hour on a Pierceton to Warsaw test, aiming to study rail impact at high speeds. Another run reached 92 mph, stopping within 700 feet after the engineer released steam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Warsaw
Ind
Pittsburg
Fort Wayne
Reprieve Delays Baxley Hanging for Neal Ryals
Neal Ryals a colored prisoner sentenced to be hanged at Baxley Ga for attacking a woman was reprieved to September 12 while en route to Baxley. Sheriff Branch delivered the reprieve to Macon as a mob gathered at Baxley and Ryals remained in Bibb County Jail for safety.
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Macon
Neal Rvals
Baxley
Bibb County
Sheriff Branch
Ryals
Hawks Attack Swimmer At Sea Off Asbury Park
Special to The New York Times reports musician William Prell of Congress Hall was attacked by two large fish hawks while swimming 100 yards from shore. A school of weak fish drew the birds who nibbled at his head as he fought to stay afloat until Lifeguard Jackson arrived with a lifeboat to rescue him.
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New York Times
Asbury Park
William Prell
Congress Hall
Prell
Jackson
Professor Cole Declines Michigan Chair Opportunity
Professor Rufus I. Cole of Johns Hopkins has declined the University of Michigan invitation to succeed Dr. George Dock as Chair of Medicine. He is expected to become director of the Rockefeller Research Hospital in New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Arbor, Mich
Rufus I. Cole
Johns Hopkins University
George Dock
University of Michigan
Cole
New Rockefeller Research Hospital
New York City
Typhoid Epidemic Grips Pennsylvania Statewide
An alarming typhoid fever outbreak spreads through Pennsylvania with rising cases in Rogersford Spring City and surrounding Chester and Montgomery Counties. Hospitals fill as 23 cases rise at Phoenixville and daily tallies grow in Carbondale and Morganza Reform School. Public health measures urge boiling water and avoiding Schuylkill swimming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Schuylkill River
Rogersford
Spring City
Chester
Montgomery
Schuylkill
Phoenixville Hospital
Carbondale
Morguanza Reform School
Pittsburg
Union
Fairbanks Only Had A Cold In St Louis Visit
Vice President Fairbanks arrived in St Louis from Excelsior Springs with Congressman Coudrey but missed the train. He dined at Planters Hotel and toured the city then headed to Mansfield Illinois to visit his farm. Mrs Fairbanks remains at Mackinac.
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ST. Louis
Fairbanks
Dxcelsior Springs
Coudrey
Planters’ Hotel
Mansfield
Ill
Mackinac
Chicago
Henrotin Memorial Hospital
Futterer
Fire at asbestos plant draws twenty engines and four boats
A late night fire at the H. W. John Mannville Company asbestos drying building on Thirty-ninth Street and the river front in South Brooklyn required twenty engines and four fireboats. The blaze spread to a nearby paint warehouse but was contained with about $150,000 damage. Crowd control was orderly as police reserves were called.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. John Mannville Company
Thirty-ninth Street
River Front
Brooklyn
Michael Murphy
Fourth Avenue
Bryan Attacks Tariff Plans at Des Moines Rally
Democratic candidate William J. Bryan spoke at a baseball park in Des Moines arguing for a revenue tariff and income tax to balance taxation. He criticized Republican tariff revision promises and urged voters to support the Democratic platform on taxation and direct election of U.S. Senators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic Party
Fia
Bryan
Frank W. Brown
Lincoln
Robert F. Rose
Savery Hotel
A. J. Mathis
Des Moines
Sears
Sioux City
Jerry Sullivan
Wade
Fred B. White
Iowa
A. B. Cummins
Young Men's Bryan Club
Baseball Park
United
Chicago
Mr. Bryan
Taft
Phrauses
Congress
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Auto Party
Deny Bourne
Alabama
Sister
Tax Board
Charles Strong
New York Orchestra
G. H. Smith
Cat
Negro
HAWKS
Prof. Cole
Rockefeller Research Hospital
Chicago Hospital
South
Tarife
Aus
Ing
William J. Brean
Canduite
Lican Party
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