Harlem Firebug Fires Strike Busy Harlem Block
Nine blazes within eight blocks sparked a citywide alert as two youths and a man were arrested amid a sweep of arson probes. Police and fire marshals patrolled basements to lock doors while investigators questioned Scace, Glaser, and Dolan as they worked to prevent further outbreaks.
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100Th Streets
Broadway
Columbus Avenues
West 190Th Street
Prial and
McGuire
Burfeind
West 100Th Street
Arthur Dolan
Donahue
West 106Th Street
John Scace
West 400Th Street
Joseph Glaser
Columbus Avenue
Glaser
Dolan
Durland’s Academy
Burffeind
Urfeind
West Side Court
William F. Hough
West 104Th
Col
William Bennett
108Th Street
Peace and Glaser
Hough
Hope Baptist Church
Upper West Side
Col. Bennett
Scace
103D Street
Amsterdam Avenue
11St Street
Driscoll
Seery
Bingham
Lower West Side
Fifty-fifth Street
Eleventh Avenue
Harlem
West Side
Ae Eee
Marshal
Rigt R. Howgh
Poisoning Suspected in Vzral FamilyDeaths
Chicago authorities report arsenic administered to Mrs Rose Vzral mother of six with recent suspicious deaths. Embalming fluid tested clean of arsenic. Coroner seeks exhumation of five other Vzral family members. A letter links Dr Herman Billock to the alleged poisoning.
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Chicago
Rose Vzral
Herman Billock
Vzrals
Cleveland
Seven Subway Routes Approved by Board
The Board of Estimate approved seven rapid transit routes and granted the Rapid Transit Commission authority to invite bids for construction alone or construction and operation. Routes include Seventh and Eighth Avenues, Lexington, Third, Jerome, Fourth Avenue and Bensonhurst, a tri borough line, and West Farms to White Plains. The board also seeks legal opinion on exclusive telephone franchises and discussed jail and police facility funding.
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Board of Estimate
Metz
Lexington Avenue
Third Avenue
Jerome Avenue
Fourth Avenue
Bensonhurst
Borough of
Brooklyn
138Th Street
Manhattan
West Farms
White Plains
Rapid Transit Commission
Coler
McClellan
Ellison
Atlantic Telephone Company
Long Island Railroad Company
Atlantic Avenue
Road
Board of Education
Raymond Street
Commissioner of Corrections
Coggey
James McCreary & Co Juvenile Clothing Display
The Fifth Floor of the Thirty-fourth Street Store offers a dedicated Juvenile wardrobe section for Children Misses Infants and Boys. Hand tailored shoes overcoats and suits in sizes 8 to 17 years feature Vieuna Cheviot Worsted Serge and Velours with prices from 15.00 to 35.00 and up to 22.50 for select Norfolk suits.
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Thirty-fourth Street
Norfolk
Greater
New York
Hegeman & CO
Times Building
Tax Commissioners Lose In State Taxation Case
The Appellate Division rules property outside New York not taxable here. A. G. Hyde & Sons faced a $940000 assessment in 1904. lower court cut it to $770000, taxing only within state lines. Justice Patterson sustains the ruling while Justice Clarke dissents, warning the property could vanish from taxation if excluded.
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Supreme Court
A. G. Hyde & Sons
New York State
Justice Patterson
Ingraham
Laughlin
Justice Clarke
Thomas Wind Wagon Delayed By Cold Trial
A large crowd gathered on Broadway near West End Avenue to watch Dr. Julian P. Thomas test his wind wagon a three wheel machine with a canvas propeller. A clutch failure and a broken shaft stalled the run and the event was postponed due to freezing weather.
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Julian P.thomas
Thomas
Broadway
Seventysixth Street
Dr. Thomas
Fiesinsen
Efe
Thomas Ann
West End
Ana
Greenland
West End Avenue
Doctor Fatally Shot by Husband in Chicago
Dr. Benjamin Harris a retired physician from Antigo Wisconsin was shot four times and killed in the Stock Exchange Building Chicago by A C Campbell a lumber dealer from Antigo Harris wife had obtained a divorce alleging attentions to Mrs Campbell Campbell who was seeking a separation from his wife visited Chicago to obtain a deposition and shot Harris as he entered an attorney's office
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Chicago
Benjamin Harris
Antigo
Wis
A. C. Campbell
Stock Exchange
Harris
Campbell
Woman Sues Over Brother Death for 50000 Damages
Margaret Rice as administratrix of Owen Rice seeks 50000 from the Metropolitan Street Railway Company for his death after being knocked down by a streetcar at Broadway and Grand Street on October 10, 1908. Justice Giegerich presided with a jury in the Supreme Court.
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Margaret Rice
Owen Rice
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Giegericnh
Sureme Court
Broadway
Grand Street
Woman cashier commits suicide amid forgery charge in Pittsburg
Ethel G. Ferver 25 a cashier for Dr Span shot herself in her mother's apartment to avoid arrest on a forgery charge. Span had accused her of forging a $1,000 check after telephoning a detective. The case highlights alleged misuse of funds for dress.
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Pittsburg
Ethel G. Ferver
Miss Ferver
Dr. Span
Span
National Child Labor Committee Backs Beveridge Law
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees led by Paul M. Warburg the panel adopted resolutions endorsing the Beveridge bill as a national child labor law and eulogized Samuel Spencer former Southern Railway president and trustee of the committee.
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National Child Labor Committee
Paul M. Warburg
East Highty-second Street
Beveridge
Samuel Spencer
The
Southern Railway
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