Plan of currency reform urged by Controller Ridgely
Controller of the Currency William B Ridgely sends his annual report to Congress urging currency elasticity through gold reserve notes and bond coverage changes. He notes banks increased from 5833 in 1905 to 5930 in 1906 with total resources near 8.01 billion dollars and per capita circulation at 32.42 dollars.
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Washington
William B. Ridgely
Congress
United States
New York City
Savings Bank
New York
California
Rhode Island
Philippine Archipelago
Porto Rico
Nacional
Hawaii
Treasury
Diamonds Recovered After Waldorf Heist Arrests
Mrs. Sallie K. Van Wyck of Chicago lost five diamond brooches at the Waldorf. An ad offering a reward led bellboy John Quinlan and plumber Frank Smith to return them. They were arrested and held on $1,500 bail, with Quinlan claiming he found the pieces and hid them.
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Sallie K. van Wyck
Chicago
The
Waldorf
District Attorney's Office
Wall Street
John Quinlan
the Waldorf
Frank Smith
East Seventy-fourth Street
Thornhill
Flood
Barlow
Tombs Court
Quinlan
Smith
NEW STREET RAILWAY UNION Forms Amid Drive by Labor
The Metropolitan Street Railway motormen and conductors began organizing for a district council of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes allied with the AFL. Members may elect officers after sufficient enrollment while elevated and Subway crews join as a separate branch. General Organizer Robinson said no meetings or officers have yet been named.
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Metropolitan Street Railway
Yeaterday
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
American Federation of Labor
Subway
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Robinson
Real Estate Title Examination at Fixed, Reasonable Fee
A firm offers title examination and real estate law services for a fixed, reasonable sum. With a staff of 250 lawyers, they pledge quick, accurate work in all details of any real estate transaction.
Woman climber Miss Annie Peck fails on Peruvian peak
Miss Annie Peck, the noted explorer, returned to New York aboard the Royal Mail Trent after six months in South America. She failed to summit Mount Huascaran in Peru, previously reaching 19,000 feet in 1894 and 17,500 feet on a later attempt, and endured injuries from a fall.
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Annie S. Peck
New York
Royal Mail
Trent
South America
Mount Huascaran
Peru
Miss Peck
Aura Range
Dooley Cartoon Teases Finance King and Stock Exchange
Advertisement for a future Times feature mocks the wealthy finance king and a foreign nobleman as a joke on a woman's desire. The piece hints at a wife to be and a stock exchange scene, set in a Sunday Times insert. Readers are urged to order the Sunday Times from their newsdealer.
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Hinnessy
Stock Exchange
Dooley
TIMES
Sunday Times Today
Adv
Notable Will in Probate for Dr. Divie Bethune McCarter
A holographic will of Dr. Divie Bethune McCarter, who helped open Japan to Western trade, is offered for probate in Surrogate Thomas by Frank M. Patterson. The widow Juana Matilda McCarter is named executrix and inherits all but the decorations and swords. The will directs a McCarter Library at the University of Pennsylvania and lists various honors and artifacts.
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Japan
Thomas
Frank M. Patterson
Divie Bethune McCarter
San Francisco
Perry
China
Juana Matilda McCarter
Madison
N. J
University of Pennsylvania
Ito
McCarter
Joseph R. Herod
William Norton Whitney
Herod
Thaw Case Delayed Toward March or April
District Attorney Jerome stated the Thaw murder trial will not occur until March or April due to repeated postponements. He noted no sole reason for the delay, while a defense-interrogatory review suggests the unwritten law as an alleged motive rather than insanity. Beale and McCaleb were with Thaw the day of the murder and present at Madison Square Garden.
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Jerome
Thawe
Truxtun Beale
Thomas McCaleb
Thaw
Beale
McCaleb
Madison Square Garden
Mayor McClellan Rejects Budget After Aldermen Cuts
Mayor McClellan sent the 1907 budget back to the Aldermen with disapproval praising the Board of Estimate and Apportionment for reducing every allowance to the absolute needs. He argues the Aldermen’s cuts are petty and won’t lower taxes but could hinder department work. The Aldermen may override with a four fifths majority.
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McClellan
Board of Estimate
Board of Aldermen
Nurse Cassie McManus Buried After Heroic Rescue
Cassie McManus the North Brother Island nurse who saved seven people from the General Slocum disaster was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery after dying in Bellevue Hospital. The New York World funded her funeral. Mayor McClellan awarded a heroism certificate and Congress a bronze medal. Her husband James Craig faced medical bills as resources dwindled.
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Cassie McManus
North Brother Island
East River
General Slocum
Bellevue Hospital
Potter's Field
Mount Olivet
New York World
McClellan
Congress
James Craig
Bellequa
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Brooklyn Banking Dept
Montague
Park &Tilford
Twenty-first
Fifth Avenue
Sixth Avenue
Ninth Street
Columbus Ave
Seventy-second St
lil-Luck
Mise Peck
Steinways, Webers, Sohmers, Chickerings
WM. Knabe & CO
Oxford
Wm. Vogel & Son
Houston Street
Mr. Percival Lowell
Mars and Its Canals
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lowell Observatory
Flagstaff
Arizona
Mars
the Macmillan Company
O Neill-Adams
Sixth Ave
N.Y
O’neill Store
Norfolk
Adams Store
Rockwood
Rockwood’s
Patey
Elgin Watch
G. M. Wheeler
Elgin National Watch CO
Elgin, Hib
Dr. McCarter
Vane Gas
M. M.crane
Eies Broadway
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Bath
35Th St
Alvin
CROW
Rubio
ME Kini
Uae
York
Bee Norsiae
H. B. Kirk & CO
New York, N. Y
Slocum
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