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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1909
Page
5
A year end reminder to assess financial risk and plan for income disruption due to accident or illness. The piece advises prudent preparation and highlights a simple reliable method to safeguard earnings. It emphasizes staying hopeful yet ready for adverse events that could affect income.
The Empire State Surety Company offers a Popular Premium Policy described as low cost yet providing steady income if illness or accident prevents work, designed to protect the policyholder and dependents.
Justice Seabury appoints William Grant Brown as referee to hear testimony on alleged milk price fixing by Consolidated Milk Exchange and major firms. Attorney General O Malley seeks temporary restraint and cites a 1909 price rise from 8 to 9 cents with aims to reach 10 cents.
Mayor McClellan will convene with purchasing agents from city departments to set standard coal specifications. The effort aims to trim hundreds of thousands in annual costs as current city coal purchases exceed 2 million dollars yearly. Engineers’ report suggests Brooklyn Water Department savings could top 200 thousand, with Controller Metz and Coal Merchants' Association rep A F Ride attending.
In Essex Market court Magistrate Krotel condemned beating a pupil by Jacob Kopecs a private school teacher at 854 Sixth Street. Two boys Harry Yager and Emanuel Hartman testified the pupil suffered severe bruises and harsh blows. Kopecs admitted shoving. The magistrate warned against further violence, fined Kopecs ten dollars and called corporal punishment a relic of barbarian days.
Police Commissioner Baker rebutted a newspaper claim about police corruption and graft involving Black Hand cases. He said earlier Brooklyn graft existed but is being curbed, noting legit current cases and reduced case volume. He also described Italian criminals fleeing New York after detectives Petrosino’s murder case followups and denied receiving 700 certificates, stating about 200 had passed.
District Attorney elect Charles S. Whitman plans to appoint Clarke W. Crannell a Republican newspaper political writer as his private secretary. Crannell, Albany born and socially prominent, earns a salary of 3300 dollars. Whitman has named Frank Moss as First Assistant District Attorney and Chief of Staff and may reveal ten senior Assistant District Attorneys later.
The Supreme Court denied Charles W. Morse's petition for a writ of certiorari, leaving a fifteen year sentence intact. Morse may seek a new trial based on alleged juror misconduct. a motion was filed to be heard next Friday in the Circuit Court in New York.
Morse was served with preliminary papers in a new U S Circuit Court suit by J Kearney Rice as trustee in bankruptcy for the Consolidated Arizona Smelting Co. The action names Morse and others including George W. Josephjelmar J Binet and Ludwig Logelstein as defendants. He refused comment on the Supreme Court action and was not visited by his counsel in the Tombs.
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