Swindlers Caught in Directory Scheme Across U S Cities
Chicago newsroom reports the final capture of Harold Byrnes, pupil of a Philadelphia criminal, ending the Stanley Francis gang that defrauded businesses nationwide. Emory Hartzig and Walter Romans, now in Joliet State Prison, led the ring that netted millions through fake directory advertising parcels.
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Harold Byrnes
Stanley Francis
Chicago
New York Times
Philadelphia
Emory Hartzig
Walter Romans
Joliet
Ill
Francis
Pennsylvania
Storey Cotton Company
Secret Service Department
Hartzig
Romans
Byrnes
American Directory Publishing Company
New York
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Omaha
San Francisco
Boston
United States
Schwartz
Directory Company
Edwin L. Reeves
Reeves
Mans
R. R. Donnelly
SAILING FOR EUROPE TODAY WITH NOTABLE PASSENGERS
Transatlantic liners depart today including Wilhelm II from Bremen with guests such as Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Brooks and Baroness Wardener among others. IITKE Naples lists Mrs. S. V. Austen and a long list of travelers. RYNDAM Rotterdam shows Miss Helen E. As and others. Gen. E. A. McAlpine returned home aboard the Arabic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilhelm II
Bremen
John R. Ainsley
R. J
Reginald Brooks
Thadike
J. Putnam Cobb
C. Delmonico
Delmonico
Andrew Cheves Dulles
Baroness von Dusch
Henry Gardner
Col
H. S. FitzGerald
Morris. Guggenheim
W. ©. Lambert
August Joly
Lady Johnstone
R. T. Laffin
H. S. Pollen
C. H. Robertson
Sarah B. Stephens
C. B. Thome
Franklin H. Walker
Walter Watson
Baroness Wardener
Orme Wilson
IITKE
Naples
V. Austen
Miram
R. Bonsell
E. B. Bacon
P. Barry
Penjamin E. Om
Charles M. Dow
Q.woodrich
F. E. Griswold
W. A. Haskell
Charles Ha
Charles Loeb
Edith Pritch
A T. Rand
L. Waldo Smith
F. Stewart Stranahan
E. S. Williams
Ryndam
Rotterdam
Helen E
H. L. Gray
Eiva Humason
Lemaitre
Clara H. Waldo
Dewing Woodward
E. A. McAlpine
Broad
Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Puts New Cast to Test
Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera House featured Amato in the title role and Mme Alda in her debut, with Caruso’s legacy overshadowed by mixed voices. The review notes Amato’s competent acting, Alda’s limited vocal range, and a generally restrained audience reaction.
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Verdi
Metropolitan Opera House
Amato
Rigoletto
Mme. Alda
Mr. Caruso
Mme. Homer
Gilda
Didur
Sparafucile
Monterone
Enzo Bozzano
Spetrino
Gatti Casazza Victor in Met Opera Row
The Metropolitan Opera House saga favors Gatti-Casazza with broad director support amid rumors about letters from Caruso Scotti Sembrich Farrar and Eames. Dippel delays Tiefland shelving denial and potential forfeit looms over unfilled performances while Farrar denies interviews. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame at Manhattan Opera House draws large crowd with Garden and cast delivering familiar performances.
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Metropolitan Opera House
Signor Gatti-Casazza
Messrs
Caruso
Scotti
Mmes. Sembrich
Farrar
Eames
Dippel
Mr. Dippel
Gatti-Casazza
Tiefland
George Maxwell
D’albert
Metropolitan
Opera
Geraldine Farrar
Miss Farrar
le Jongleur de Notre Dame
Manhattan Opera House
Miss Garden
MM. Renaud
Dufranne
Crabbé
de Segurola
Valles
Melba to Sing Desdemona in Otello at Manhattan Opera House
Rehearsals have begun for Verdi Otello at the Manhattan Opera House. Madame Melba arrives Friday on the Lusitania to assume Desdemona duties and joins the company. Zenatello will sing Otello with Sammarco as Iago in this production.
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Verdi
Otello
Manhattan Opera House
Mme. Melba
Desdemona
Lusitania
Zenatello
Sammarco Iago
Society in Vaudeville Plans Bazaar at Sherry's
Plans for a vaudeville performance and bazaar by the Ladies' Auxiliary Society of the Lying In Hospital set for Saturday from 10 to 1 at Sherry's. Managers include Mrs. Arthur Iselin and Mrs. Austin Gray. performers feature Mme Butterfly duet, ballet, Russian dance, and multiple dances with tea, toys, wrapping paper, and a fish pond to accompany the event. The Vienna band will play.
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Ladies’ Auxiliary Society of the
Lying= In Hospital
Sherry’s
Arthur Iselin
Austin Gray
Robert Goelet
Charles Dana Gibson
Mme. Butterfly
Dorothy Jordan
Boston
Arthur Scott Burden
Ellen Rogers
Lucy Brown
Frederick Martin Davies
Robert D. Pruyn
William Barclay Parsons
J. Gordon Douglas
Nora Iselin
William M. Wright
Fifth Avenue
Dagmar Wetmore
New Theatre Cornerstone Invitations Issued
Winthrop Ames and Lee Shubert issued invitations for the cornerstone laying ceremony of the New Theatre on Tuesday December 15 at 3 30 P M The vestry will be heated and enclosed The program includes Mayor Mc Clellan Astus Thomas and John H Finney addresses Richard Watson Gilder ode Geraldine Farrar song and a dedicatory chorus by Perry MacKaye sung by a full chorus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop Ames
Lee Shubert
McClellan
Astus Thomas
John H. Finney
The
City College
Richard Watson Gilder
Geraldine Farrar
Pery MacKaye
Trial of Jenkins Hains Heads to Flushing Court
Jenkins Hains is indicted for first degree murder in the Aug 15 Bayside Yacht Club shooting that killed William E. Annis. His brother Capt Péter C Hains Jr may testify in his defense as state Justice Crane sets the case for trial in Part I tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Jenkins Hains
William E. Annis
Bayside Yacht Club
Péter C. Hains, Jr
Justice Crane
Flushing Supreme Court
John F. McIntyre
Tuberculosis Exhibit Sparks City Graft Critique
Dr. Woods Hutchinson told at the American Museum of Natural History that one fourth of 25 million dollars yearly wasted in graft could wipe out tuberculosis. Rabbi Wise linked urban tenement and sweatshop conditions to the disease and moral bankruptcy, urging reform and public health funding.
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Hutchinson
Woods Hutchinson
American Museum of Natural History
Eugene A. Philbin
Portland
Ore
Stephen S. Wise
Free Synagogue
Oregon
Rabbi Wise
Mr. Philbin
Wise
New York
Jacob Schiff
William T. Manning
Trin
Nehemiah Boynton
William J Pohl Missing While En Route to Saginaw
Cincinnati December 7 William J Pohl former secretary to Vice President Hobart and ex managing editor of the Milwaukee Herald New York Staats Zeitung and other papers vanished on September 28 while traveling to Saginaw Michigan to join the Post Zeitung And nothing further is known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. J. Pohl
Cincinnati
William J. Pohl
Hobart
Milwaukee Herald
New York Staats Zeitung
Pittsburg Beobachter
Saginaw
Mich
Post Zeitung
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Sailing For
Europe
Lemaire
MEST
Army
Navy
Ato
Mr. Amato
United
Melba
NEW Theatre Cornerstone
Mayor McClellan
Jenkins Hains
Sygottan Art Gal
Madison Square
New York City
Arthur Blackborne
Thomas E. Kirby
the American Art Association
East 23d Street
Madison Square South
W.&j.sloane
India
Persia
Turkey
Broadway
19Th Street
Ann
Francis Draz 2 Co
U. S
Hudson St
N.Y
Mr. Carnegie
LABOR
Andrew Carnegie
Doubleday, Page &Co
East 16 St
Kersey
Melton
Vienna
Oxford
Cambridge
Chambers St
Union Square
14Th St
B’way
Bulk Brothers Four Convenient
125Th Street
Cor
3d_ Avenue
Harlem
Cortlandt ST
Greenwich St
Edouard von Gebhard
Jesus
Cana
Christ
Nicodemus
Carlo Dolci
Blue Bird
Maeterlinck
Paris
Paul Wagner
New York Society
the Times
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