Connecticut's New Trap for Autoists
A Connecticut scheme uses a Colonial style roadhouse on the Stamford Danbury road to lure motorists into a faux old fashioned room. A party touring the trap encounters a white dressed hostess and a dinner scene as Sally hawks antique furniture and collects payments from visitors and diners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
Long Island
Stamford
Danbury
Nhe
Norwalk
Wilton
Prisvila
Sally
Priscilla
Seek Queens Investigation into Grand Jury Graft Probes
Queens reform committees gather material for a fall Grand Jury inquiry into alleged graft in borough affairs. They accuse officials of awarding jobs to favored individuals and vendor cuts on bills in the Department of Buildings and Public Offices. Committees from Flushing and Bayside monitor highway spending in preparation for presenting evidence to Gov Hughes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borough of
Queens
Metz
Queens Department of Buildings
Department of Public Buildings
Queens Borough
Flushing
Bayside
Gov. Hughes
All Stars At Christening For Little Starr Of Jamaica
Invitations issued by Mr and Mrs Hugh L Starr invite a celebrity guest list including Jay Gould Roosevelt Taft Devery Depew Bryan and others for the christening of their daughter Ruth Starr at their Jamaica residence on August 23 1908. Grace Lord Starr wed in January in Brooklyn with Alderman Sullivan officiating.
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Ruth Starr
Washington Street
Jamaica
Bill’? Devery
Chauncey
M. Depew
John Gates
Tim” Sullivan
Julia Marlowe
Jay Gould
Hugh L. Starr
President Roosevelt
Wiliam H. Taft
Williams. Devery
Chauncey M. Depew
William J. Bryan
Leslie Carter
Lillian Russell
William Waldorf Astor
T. D. Sullivan
John D. Crimmins
Charles F. Murphy
May Irwin
Mary Mannering
James Hogan
Magistrate Finn
Starr
Grace Lord
Brooklyn
St. John’s Church
Alderman Sullivan
Manhattan
Financial distress hits American Machinery Company
A bankruptcy petition targets American Machinery Company at 651 West Forty-third Street with creditors including Johannes Degenhardt for 8000 dollars, Architectural Record Company 187, and Wilson Company 122 for advertising. The firm allegedly insolvent on April 28 and made preferential payments to Pottery Park National Bank and assigned a contract to Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Machinery Company
West Forty-third Street
Johannes Degenhardt
Architectural Record Company
Wilson Company
Park National Bank
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company
Charles 5S
Rosenberg
Charles 38
East 148Th Street
J. J. Steindler
Holzman &Rosenberg
Irm
Appelbaum Brothers
Walker Street
Pincus, Sack & Co
Harris Appelbaum
Bronx
Bronx Home Realty Company
Nathan Appelbaum
Harris
Ambiguous Trade Figures From Bailey Co and Clayton Mfg Co
Partial financial notes show Aron J I Bailey Co with 208 and Alpert M Clayton Mfg Co tied to Coal and Iron National Bank of New York with 449 in unspecified accounts or transactions. No full context or dates provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aron
J. I
Bailey & Co
Alpert
Clayton Mfg. Co
Coal & Iron National Bank of the
City of New York
Public notices of 1904 1908 debts and judgments
Record lists several individuals and entities with dated amounts and currencies. Donovan B J A Cantor dated July 6 1904 shows 105 dollars. Galgane Nicholas City of New York dated June 8 1908 shows 118 dollars. Kirty Emma F S Rosen dated June 25 1908 shows 447 dollars. Rothermel Arthur Pietrowski JKonap Co dated March 28 1908 shows 456 pounds.
Commandant Howze to Leave West Point for Porto Rico
Lieut. Col. Robert Lee Howze, long time West Point Commandant of Cadets and Medal of Honor recipient, will relinquish his post early next year to command troops in Puerto Rico. His career includes the overcoat incident and leadership in the Sioux and Philippine campaigns, with strong presidential and War Department backing for his move.
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Robert Lee Howze
West Point
Porto Rico
Col. Howze
Col
Howze
Galveston
Texas
Blonze
Roosevelt
Hugh I. Scott
Academy
Mrs. Ayres
Taft
Cal. Ayres
Philippines
Ayres
Cadet Bock
Missouri
Coventry
Bock
Sherman
White River
Little Grass Creek
South Dakota
Lieut
Gilmore
Navy
Tinio
Luzon
Desperado
Far East
Tinlo
Col. Hare
Weather forecast for cotton and grain states by the Weather Bureau
The forecast covers Sunday and Monday across the cotton and grain states with variable showers and fair conditions. Local showers are expected in North and South Carolina Georgia and Utah while Louisiana Oklahoma Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Missouri North and South Dakota Nebraska Kansas show fair to partly cloudy weather with mild warming in portions.
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New York Times
Washington
United States Weather Bureau
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Louisiana
Utah
Oklahoma
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Five Young Women Rescued From Locked Fifth Avenue Loft
Five young women were rescued after being locked in by mistake in a five story loft at 566 Fifth Avenue. Police used a roof access from 572 to reach the fifth floor and free the workers who had been using curling irons for marcel waves. Crowds cheered as they emerged on the roof.
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Fifth Avenue
Marcel
Moschcowitz
Mae Ferguson
Marie ‘ Mizner
Anna Bertha
Mrs. Orlander
Ida Warner
Murray
Friesch
Plagg
No- 566
No. 566
No.5
Elevator mix up at midnight ends in extra work
Richard V. Oulahan head of the Literary Bureau of the Republican National Committee faced an after hours mishap in the Metropolitan Life Building when an arrangement to run elevators after midnight required staff to walk ten flights. A watchman reminded them the bell would reopen the elevators after ringing.
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Richard V. Oulahan
Republican National Committee
Metropolitan Life
National Committee
Mr.Culahan
Qoulahan
Oakdale Lots at Auction for Great South Bay Bungalows
L I W K Aston will offer thirty two Oakdale bungalow sites next month through Bryan L Kennelly. Sale set for Thursday Sept 3 in Vesey Street salesrooms. West Shore Road Oakdale plots average 75 by 150 feet five feet above high water with dry shore land. Peperidge Hall estate will care for unoccupied bungalows. Oakdale grows in importance with the Long Island Automobile Parkway terminus at Lake Ronkonkoma and a national motor boat club forming to locate there.
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Oakdale
L. 1
W. K. Aston
Bryan L. Kennelly
Vesey Street
West Shore Road
W. K. Vanderbilt
Peperidge Hall
Great South Bay
Long Island
Letter on Gaelic spelling of clabber to the Times
Thomas D. McElhenie of Brooklyn writes that the editor cannot spell bonny clabber or clabber itself, offering his Gaelic pronunciation as taught by his father fifty years ago. The letter is dated August 19, 1908.
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New York Times
Deacon Weeks
THE
TIMES
Thomas D. McElhenie
Brooklyn
Leprosy Not Contagious Says Manila Doctor Letter
Dr Isadore Dyer of New Orleans calls for a list of physicians to attend a Bergen Norway Leprosy Congress in August 1900. Lieut Charles E Mackinald reports Samar Island natives blame fish and clams for leprosy, claim low contagion, and note possible tuberculosis connection.
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Isadore Dyer
New Orleans
Bergen
Norway
Berlin
Armauer Hanslon
Puorgen
Charles E. Mackinald
United States Army
Fort Mott
Salem
N. J
Dyer
MacInmald
Samar
P. I
Mastleg
Dolores River
Belive
Eger
Jonathan Hutchison
Thaw in Poor Health Refuses Hains Case Comment
Harry K Thaw, in Poughkeepsie, reports he is ill with tonsillitis and under a doctor’s care. He refuses interviews about the Hains case, denies drafting funds from his mother, defends bankruptcy actions, and says counsel and creditors guided his financial steps.
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New York
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Harry K Thaw
Hains
Thaw
Semple
Col. Bartlett
Morschauser
Peabody
Pittsburg
O’mara
Gov. Stone
Pittstburg
Harvard Adds Two Art Objects To Its Collections
Harvard, Cambridge, Aug. 22. Two new monuments join Harvard's summer acquisitions. A prolate replica of the Discobolus of the Vatican, donated by Ernest W. Longfellow, stands before Hemenway Gymnasium. The second piece, a small arch fragment from St. Saviour's Cathedral, Southwark, was set in Appleton Chapel’s left-hand archway, linked to John Harvard’s baptism and Harvard Memorial Chapel renovation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Vatican
Ernest W. Longfellow
Hemenway Gymnasium
Myron
Greece
St. Saviours Cathedral
Southwark
John Harvard
Joseph HH. Choate
St. James's
Pees
St. John the Divine
John la Farge
F. P. Kinnicutt
J. R. Carter
London
Burglar Battle Scare For Boxer Hart In Louisville
Marvin Hart, training for a bout with Jack OBrien, fought a burglar at his Louisville area home in darkness. Hart chased the intruder around the room landing uppercuts and jabs before the burglar escaped through the door. Hart fired a revolver and a nearby trainer, Harry Rogers, alerted Hart as the break in occurred.
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New York Times
Louisville
Marvin Hart
Jack O’brien
Buechel
Hart
Harry Rogers
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Ial Furniture
Martha Bissell
Coumeigt
M. Y. Cah Co
Dattoli
V.—J. Moehn
Fritz
Fannie
S. Goldberg
Griffith
Jane V
Adm'x
N. Ya Sco
Griffin
P. H
F. P. Weaver Coal Co
Gordovsky
C.—M. Hoffman
Goldsmith
Ivy Courts Realty Co
Hayes
F.J
F. J. Sullivan
W. A. O'Neill
Iverson
J.—Same
W. A.—Same
Jacobson
Johnson
O.—Same
J. R
Same
Joseph
C.—Same
Jones
R. H.—Same
Martin
A. A
Raphael Tuck & Sons Co., Ltd
H. M. —Warendorf
Mazzei
C. Vescio
B. K. Bloch
Osborn
R. A
H. R. Lawrence
Rothwell
Unger
H. Hein
Joyce Trucking Co
City of N
Sanitary and Municipal Supply Co
B. Nicoll
Williamsburg House Wrecking and Constructing Co
Army’s Crack Horseman
R. V. Oulahan
Republican
Albany
International Lace Co
Gouverneur
St. Lawrence County
Capital
John H. Uniandheim
East Forty-ninth Street
Louis Schaefer
Jennings Street
Ernest Schaefer
Prospect Avenue
Pauline If Shenberg
Edward Snyder
I. Frances Snyder
Court Street
Niagara Lead Co
Niagara Falls
M.F Capital
Henry G. Morris
Pedro G. Salem
Walnut Street
Philadelphia
Penn
Frederick L. Lovelace
Buffalo
Erie County
Sylvester B. Eagan
Elizabeth B. Eagan
Grace Eagan Ginther
Delaware Avenue
N. Waldo Harrison
West Eightieth Street
Harry L. Francisco
185Th Street
Paul Cooksey
William Street
Mary F. Hart
West Twentieth Street
Stoller & Cook Co
Louis H. Stoller
Brook Avenue
Herman B. Goodkin
Park Row
William J. Cook
Rutland Road
Teale &Rathbun
East 118Th Street
Newark
Herbert H. Taylor, Inc
Myra . S. Parker
O. Taylor
Mount Kisco
Westchester County
M. E. Taylor
Worcester
Blanchard & Co
Carver, Devo,& Hitchcock
Binghamton
M. C. Barnard& Co
W. P. Murray
Old South
Boston
Agency Co
Cadwell
Parker & Dann
White Building
Puffalo
MacDonald
Harry Thaw
Harvard’s
NEW Art Objects
Hotel Gotham
Fifth Ave
55Th St
Buckingham
50Th St
Chas. L. Wetherbes
William R. Wood
Marsters
Thousand Islands
Montreal
Quebec
White Mountains
Saguenay River
Ausable Chaasai
Huisen River
Lakes George
Champlain
Adirondacks
Old Point Comfort
Geo
E. Marsters
West 30Th St
Steinway Pianos
Clarendon
Melville Clark
Victor and Edison
Samuel Gans
Broadway
Sheffield
Pirie In
Maddie Greme
John Jameson
Canadian Club” Whisky
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
United States
Hiram Walker & Sons, Ltd
Walkerville
Canada
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