Wilhelm guilty of second degree murder in Newark
Mrs. Mary J. Wilhelm was found guilty of murder in the second degree in Newark New Jersey for killing her husband Frank Wilhelm at their home on February 1. The jury recommended mercy and deliberated five hours before reaching the verdict.
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Mary J. Wilhelm
Court of Oyer and Terminer
Newark
N. J
Frank Wilhelm
High Street
Ten Eyck
Chauncey Beasley
Beasley
Wilbur A. Mott
Levy
Norfolk and Southern Railroad Sold in Auction Deal
Norfolk Virginia December 7 1907 Rathbone Gardner of Providence bids 8 500 000 to purchase the Norfolk and Southern Railway Company in a court sold deal with Marsden J Perry and others. The Providence financier is seen as reorganizer while R T Thorpe made the runner up bid and cash was handled in a secure transfer. The Providence sale notes the system was financed there and its 1907 panic ties are cited as historical context.
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Norfolk, Va
Marsden J. Perry
Providence
R. C
Rathbone Gardner
Norfolk & Southern Railway Company
United States
Waddill
R. T. Thorpe
Thorpe
Philadelphia
Gardner
Norfolk
New York
J. Thorpe
Mde
Quere
Walter Sharp
R. I
Norfolk & Southern Railroad
Union Trust Company
Shrapnel and shell unified in new German artillery projectile
Shrapnel and shell are to be merged in a single missile. Spandau a new firing regulation assigns first delivery to howitzer batteries. The War Office has pursued one projectile usable against material and for anti personnel purposes, and German ordnance engineers appear to have succeeded.
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Spandau
Prussia
War Office
Wolf Brothers Dissolving Partnership In Stock Exchange
The Stock Exchange firm Wolf Brothers will dissolve partnership on Jan. Five Wolf brothers led by Louis Wolf will keep a Philadelphia operation while Maurice Bamberger forms a new firm with Harry Bamberger and William Bamberger, all Stock Exchange members.
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Wolf Brothers
Stock Exchange
Louis Wolf
Will
Onerstood
Philiphia
Maurice Bamberger
Harry Rd William Bamberger
The
Renew Aero Club War Surfaces in Court Fight
Cortlandt Field Bishop of the Aero Club of America was served with papers in a suit by the opposition faction. Gutzon L. Borglum and Hill claim the club’s constitution and by laws are illegal and that five directors run the club. They seek full financial records and accountability of who joined under misapprehension. Bishop rejects the charges as a rehash and predicts the case will fail in court.
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Bishop
Susan B Anthony Chair Gift at National Suffrage HQ
A walnut desk chair linked to Susan B Anthony was donated yesterday to the National Woman Suffrage Headquarters at 505 Fifth Avenue. The chair, upholstered in crimson plush and inscribed Susan B Anthony's Chair, was used by Anthony for forty three years from Cooper Institute to her Rochester home until her death in 1906. It was presented by Dr. Shaw and Miss Lucy Anthony to biographer Ida Husted Harper.
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National Woman Suffrage
Fifth Avenue
Susan B. Anthony
Miss Anthony
Women’s National Loyal League
Cooper Institute
Rochester
Shaw
Lucy Anthony
Ida Husted Harper
Alumni Dinner of Old Fourteen School Brings Centurion Reunion
Old Fourteen alumni and alumnae gathered at the Gerard Hotel for their annual dinner. Coroner George F. Shrady served as toast master while Mrs. Hartman Cooper recalled forty years of teaching. Attendees included James R. Petterrow and Tammany leader George F. Scannell with family, plus former principals Lafayette Olney and Caroline Whiting honored as memorials.
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Old Fourteen
East Twenty-seventh Street
Gerard Hotel
George F. Shrady
Hartman Cooper
Davis
Normal College
James R. Pettigrew
No. 49
Thomas A. McKennell
Steven Duggan
City College
Edward Stitt
Lafayette Olney
Caroline Whiting
Missouri Pacific Gains Show Higher Maintenance Costs
The Missouri Pacific Railway’s annual report shows maintenance costs, especially for equipment, rose sharply for the year ending June 30, 1909. Gross earnings reached 46,385,543, up from 44,238,703 in 1908, while total income declined to 14,153,073 from 15,467,714. Surplus after equipment-related charges stood at 1,064,509, about 1.13 percent of stock value, with all traffic types increasing revenue but higher maintenance offsetting gains.
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Missouri Pacific Railway
Norwegian sues Astor for damages over yacht incident
Adolph Lothe sues Col. John Jacob Astor in federal court for $10,000 claiming serious injuries as coxswain of a launch from Astor's Nourmahal. He alleges lack of proper medical attention will require a major operation. The Nourmahal remains at anchor off Jacksonville as the suit is filed and the yacht delayed from sailing.
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Jacksonville
John Jacob Astor
Nourmahal
Adolph Lothe
Federal
Col. Astor
Morgan to Appeal for Murray Hill Restriction
J Pierpont Morgan and fellow Murray Hill residents plan an appeal to the Court of Appeals after Referee Charles F. Brown denied an injunction to block a sixteen story Cameron building. Lawyers Carter Ledyard Milburn said they will file notice of appeal. The ruling suggests Madison Avenue fronts escape the 1847 restriction, sparking wider debate on future development and Vanderbilt hotel plans.
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J. Pierpont Morgan
Murray Hill
Thirty-fourth
Thirty-eighth Streets
Madison
Lexington Avenue
Court of Appeals
Carter, Ledyard & Milburn
Wall Street
Sarah C. Goodhue
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Park Avenue
Thirty-fourth Street
Vanderbilt
Frederick M. Davies
Pine Street
Madison Avenue
Cameron
Sayng
Thirty-fifth Streets
Fifth Avenue
City Weighers in the Sugar Frauds Trial Report
Trial in the United States Circuit Court reveals a conspiracy to defraud the government through sugar imports. Former American Sugar Refining Company workers allegedly altered weighings at Williamsburg piers, melting down cargo to hide discrepancies. Evidence shows a long-running scheme with substantial duty losses and a nickname for the gang roly poly. The case continues.
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United States
American Sugar Refining Company
John H. Thompson
Thompson
Williamsburg
James F. Bendernagel
Oliver Spitzer
Spitzer
President Thomas
Felix Frankfurter
Henry A. Stimson
Richard Whalley
Richard Parr
Whalley
Boyle
Kehoe
Voelker
Hennessey
St Louis & Southwestern Raises Dividend on Preferred Stock
The St Louis and Southwestern Directors boosted the road s preferred stock dividend from 2 percent for half year to 5 percent annual, based on four months net income of 664000. With about 20 million such stock outstanding the non cumulative 5 percent rate is deemed sustainable amid better permanent way and equipment, and an improved business outlook.
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St. Louis & Southwestern
Lecturers for the Anti-Suffragists At Waldorf And Lyric Hall
Margaret Deland is billed to lecture for Mrs. Gilbert Jones's Anti-Suffrage League at the Waldorf next Friday morning with the Rev Dr and Mrs Parkhurst in attendance. Emma Goldman will speak Sunday at 8 o clock at Lyric Hall Sixth Avenue between Forty first and Forty second Streets on anti suffrage, telling women their place is in the home.
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Margaret Deland
Gilbert Jones
Waldorf
Charles H. Parkhurst
Emma Goldman
Lyric Hall
Sixth Avenue
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Norfolk & Southern
Germany
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National Suffrage
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Missouri Pacific
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Morgan
American Sugar Co
Imorrk
Hunter Baltimore Rye
Pranx Mora
C. H. Ulrich
Representatives
William St
New York, N.Y
Oriental Store
Broadway
Orevillon Freres
West 34Th St
Paris
London
O’neill
O’neill Millinery
Oneill-Adams
Lexington
3D Ave
59Th
60Th Street
Bloomingdales
Lex
Alf
Madison Square West
Samuel Budd
Windsor Arcade
Singer
Btway
Hone
MS Cabe
By Sewell Ford
Bartens& Rice Co
Thos. E. Rice
Bartens & Rice CO
Fifth Ave
Eph
A. Kareisen
Hardman
Steck
James & Holmstrom
Mfrs
East 14Th ST
Stuyvesant
John H. Meyer
DR. Meyer
Bohn
Co. C. Bohn Electric Co
Sixth Ave
44Th St
Henry Malkan
New St
LONG
Sang TI Chinese Curio CO
5Th Ave
Bet
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