Federal Council to Meet in 1912 Adopts Peace Platform
The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America adjourns to 1912 and endorses arbitration, against armament, and the Hague ideals. It asks congratulatory action toward Taft for sobriety and urges more chaplains for the fleet. It also promotes Peace Sunday and Hague Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elphia
Penn
Fideral Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Executive Council of Reorganization
Henry Wade Rogers
Yale University
United States
Europe
Federal Council
International Court of Arbitral Justice
Young Peoples
Hague
Neil
Art
Hendrix
Methodist ‘Ipiscopal Church South
Coun- Epi
Cranston
Methodist Piscopal Church
Talbot
Episcopal Church
William H. Roberts
Presbyterian Church
Leibert
Moravian Church
Wayland Hoyt
Baptist Church
W. Hayes Ward
Congregational Church
DIES ON HER CHRISTENING DAY
Two year old Concetto Rifigi died after her christening when she caught fire from candles and matches in front of 521 East Fifteenth Street. Neighbors smothered the flames. she was taken to Bellevue Hospital where a priest administered rites before her death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concetto Rifigi
East Fifteenth Street
Bellevue Hospital
Missing Mrs. Nelson Sought After In New York
A reward of 1000 dollars is offered for information about Mrs Andrew P Nelson of Tacoma Washington who arrived in New York from Furore aboard the Kronprinzessin Cecilie on October 20 and has not been seen since. Circulars from a Ta oma law firm state the reward applies if alive and if dead. Mrs Nelson's husband is described as a prominent Tacoma citizen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelson
Andrew P. Nelson
Tacoma
Wash
New York
Furore
Kronprirzess
Cecilie
Taoma
Navy League to Host Admiral Evans Lecture at Carnegie Hall
Directors of the Navy League arrange a lecture in Carnegie Hall on January 8 by Rear Admiral Robby D. Evans. The talk titled From Hampton Roads to San Francisco in Command of the Atlantic Fleet will be under league auspices. A Reception Committee of One Hundred including the Mayor and city officials will invite a select list to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy League
Carnegie Hall
Robby D. Evans
Hampton Roads
San
damages verdict against the subway in peanut shell quarrel
Alexander Sneddon of Staten Island won a $3,500 verdict against the Interborough Rapid Transit Company for injuries after being pushed from the Columbus Circle platform to the tracks on the night of October 22, 1906, in a dispute over peanut shells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Subway
Alexander Sneddon
Staten Island
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Columbus Circle
Bway
Ex-Gapt Wendel Fined $1,000 After Plea for Clemency
Louis Wendel formerly captain of the First Battery N G N Y was arraigned for sentence after pleading guilty to fraudulently presenting a $1,500 claim to the State. Despite thirty years of service and friends' pleas, Judge Swann imposed a $1,000 fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Wendel
Abraham Levy
Swann
Memory Lost Passenger Identified as W O Mackey
A memory deficient man who reappeared at North Philadelphia after the Pennsylvania Limited stop is W O Mackey of Lattintown Ulster County New York. He had been missing six weeks since a house fire and quarrels with family led to his disappearance. He is hospitalized at the Women's Homeopathic Hospital with faint recollections of a smoke filled blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Limited
North Philadelphia
W. O. Mackey
Marlborough
Ulster County
N.Y
Mackey
Lattintown
Divorce Granted in White Plains Interlocutory Decree
William F. Roberts of Brooklyn won an interlocutory divorce from Agnes McFaul Roberts in White Plains Supreme Court. Testimony linked Mrs Roberts to a co respondent named Count Schmidt and frequent visits to a West Thirty eighth Street residence. Custody of their son William C Roberts Jr awarded to the father. address of Roberts listed as 171 Arlington Avenue Brooklyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
White Plains
N. Y
Supreme Court
Arthur S. Tompkins
William F. Roberts
Brooklyn
Agnes McFaul Roberts
Justice Tompkins
Abraham A. Demarest
Roberts
West Thirty-eighth Street
Manhattan
Bates Machine Company
Jamaica Avenue
George 8. Hice
Corporation
Old Civil War Vet Recovers After Trolley Crash
Philip Klein a 70 year old Civil War and Indian campaigns veteran was struck by a trolley in front of his home at 3224 Fulton Street. He suffered two deep cuts to head and face and declined anesthetic saying he could endure the pain. Dr Tenopyr dressed wounds and predicted a few days of recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip Klein
Fulton Street
Tenopyr
Bradford Street Hospital
Kennedy cleared in poisoned cherries charge at Tombs Court
Daniel R. Kennedy manager of the loan department at St Bartholomew's Club house East Forty second Street was arrested November 23 on a charge of bringing a jar of poisoned cherries to Mrs Neel Schlesinger of 18 West 107th Street. He was discharged yesterday by Magistrate Steinert in the Tombs Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel R. Kennedy
St. Bartholomew's Clubhouse
East Forty-second Street
Neel Schlesinger
West 107Th Street
Steinert
Tombs Court
Fraudulent city collector targeted by Children’s Aid Society
The Children’s Aid Society warns that a woman named Flanagan is fraudulently collecting contributions in Manhattan's upper west side for the Henrietta School’s crippled children. The society states it does not employ collectors and appeals for gifts sent to its office at 105 East Twenty second Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Children’s Aid Society
Flanagan
Upper West Side
Henrietta School
East Twenty-second Treet
Frank Tourist Company
Broadway
West Side Improvement Association
104Th Street
Ihal Park West
Public Service Commission
The
Bar Association
J. Howard Hanson
Guernsey Price
Grenville Clark
Chauncey G. Parker
Frederick C. Tanner
Nathan Abbott
Columbia University
Clyde Brown
William R. Perkins
William J. Tully
Robert F. Manning
Lester S. Holmes
Royal E. T. Riggs
Local Real Estate Listings and Inquiries Across City Streets
A fragmented listings page shows addresses on Franklin Street Madison Avenue and 132nd Street with owner names and small monetary figures. Several entries resemble property values or measurements, plus scattered notes for Laight Street and 115th Street with various initials and illegible annotations.
Coler Attacks Metz as Finance Probers Hear Testimony
Brooklyn legislator Coler condemned the city finance system and questioned Controller Metz as hearings examined the garbage removal contract with a BRT subsidiary and private sale of city bonds. He urged a purchasing bureau and separate bond accounts, and cited land condemnation cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bird
Coler
Brooklyn
Cassidy
Metz
American Railway Traffic Company
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Concern
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Coney Island
Foster Crowell
Crowell
Commissioners of Accounts
Corporation Counsel
Brigge Street
Silas A. Condict
Empire Wrecking Company
Condict
Colman Herwise
Controller’s Department
White House hosts wolf hunt film night with Roosevelt
Moving pictures of wolf hunting entertain nearly 100 guests in the East Room with President Roosevelt praising the sport. John Abernathy, an Oklahoma U S Marshal and friend of the President, acted as stage manager and privately showed the films to Roosevelt before the public viewing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
John Abernathy
United States
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
Mayor Des Planches
Justice Moody
Secretary of the Navy
Newberry
Representative Longworth
Longworth
Young
Ferrero
Mme. Ferrero
Carnegie
Herbert Knox Smith
Elmer Murphy
Lambert
George Shiras
Leiter
Johnson
Glover
Sims
Edward P Morse Bankrupt in Brooklyn Debtors List
Edward P. Morse admitted he cannot pay about 135000 in liabilities of Morse Dry Dock and Repair. He filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in U S Court in Brooklyn with a schedule listing creditors including Daniel J Leary Morse Cummins Dredging Hoffman House and Williamsburg Trust Company. Morse claims only 100 dollars in assets, consisting of clothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old
Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company
Edward P. Morse
Morse Iron Works
Fiftysixth Street
South
Brooklyn
United States
Daniel J. Leary
Morse & Cummins Dredging Company
Hoffman House
Williamsburg Trust Company
Morse
Salvation Army Wedding Ends With Jubilee Dance
Alfred Bateman Young, 79, English army major, and Ellen Martin, longtime Amsterdam worker, wed in a Salvation Army ceremony at Memorial Hall 122 West Fourteenth Street. The couple, embraced by cheers, shared hymns and hallelujahs as Brigadier Kimball and Col. McIntyre presided, ending with a celebratory jig on stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
America
Memorial Hall
West Fourteenth Street
Corps 5
Salvation Army
Alfred Bateman Young
Ellen Martin
Amsterdam
N. Y
Col. McIntyre
Martha Washington Tyne
Capt. McVeich
Scotland
Kimball
Salvation
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Rm OF War
Will
Baby
Admiral Evans
Lere
Kis & Henson CO
Fine
Wendel
Wanderer
W. F. Roberts
A. M. Less
Franklin St
W. A. Tel
J. Brenner
Madison
J. Hogan
Alien St
Gussie Pearlmeter
F. Moore
B. Black
H. Mere Eee
Montgomery Massimni
Laight St
B. Dolictis
Beck
Peaderneaess
A. Pceende
Coler Raps Metz
Chasing Bureau
Dry Dock Company
Man
Salvationists
Fourteenth Street Hall
Wallach
Third Avenue, Cor
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Luliaw
Ilviagia
NEW Amsterdam Twe
Eway
Mimi Aguglia
Tomane
Sgey Scunciaru
Malia
Actors’ Fund
Liberty Me
45Th
Anna
F. Ziegfeld, JR
J. H. Remick & CO
Murray’ S ST
B'Way
Herr Hawke
Conservatory of Moscow
Poland
Murray
Liszt
Verdi
Wagner
Chopin
Bryant
B’way
29Th St. Ev
World
St. Ev
Mt. Wed
Honge
Joe Weber
Mats
Annie Russell
Astor Bway
Wallace
Marie Cahill
Betty
Aississippi
St. Eus
Ana
Acton Davies
Carnegie Hall Symphony Society OF
Mahler
Herr Gustav Mahler
Faust
Iit
Buleaspigel
Zilekets
West 34Th St
Can Belasc
Blanche Bates
Teatre
West
Charles Darnton
Hippodrome
Clyde Fitch
Darnton
Eve World
Allan Dale DE Wolf Hopper
Che
Marguerite Clare
Grace
Icameron Casino
LuluGlaser
Faversham
Henry E. Dixey
Edith Ellis
Globe
Carnege Hall
Elman
Altschuler
Chaminade
MME. Ee & Others
Everett P
St. Os
John
Maud Hudson
Ethel Barrymore
Criterion
Gid
Patriot Knickerbocker
Fritzischeff
Enim
Savoy
Ivan
Circle Theatre
Bway & 60Th St. Eves
Mou'in
Rouge
St. & TH
Eves
Wolkenkratzer
Dorothy Be Wyn
SAUER
Te Bauers
Ee Bernhard Ulrich
Negie Philharmonic Society of
Blaney's
Lincoln SQ
Ger” Price
Pia A
James McCutcheon & Co
Eth Ave
34Th St
Idorf-Astoria
Clactt, Peabody & Co
Arnheim
Vladimir F. Gnesin
West 21St ST
5Th Ave
Suze Gran
Mmes
Emma Bames
Homer
Ana MM
Caruso
Sciotti
Didur
Goetie Daemmerung
Frentsted
Fornia
Ranzenberg
Cesta Vere
Gparkes
Mattfeld Woehning
MM. Schmedes
Hinckley
Machimatis Gorltz
Toscanini
LA Mmes
Sembrich
Sparkes
Loh
Amato
Spetrino
Gay
Farrar
Ci ‘Uso
TOSCA
Emma Eames
M Martin
Scotti
Fremstad Homey
Petschni
Orft Boneston
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Hertz
MON
LA Traviata M
LE Vills
Miss Alda
Cavalleria
Brusticana
Destina
Os Peetore Ance
Petar
Tausian
Isolde
Feinhals
Blass
Muehimann
Reiss
Tees
Ane
Lammermoor
Mote
Bonci
Campanari
Joer Eem Spetrino
Popeles Ane
Barra Oy - Sonductory
Oscanini
Brooklyn Academy
Mme
Destinn, MM
Medes
Fe Hinckley
Borternlyy
Werer R Ptako
Manhattan Opera House
4Th St
N’r
Oscar Hammerstein
Cavalleria Rusticana
Mile
Labia
Mariska-Aldrich
Taccani
Polose Pagliacci
Espinasse
Zenatello
Sammarco
Crabbe
Mus
Campanini
Traviata
Tethazzini
Constantino
SUN
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Boheme
Nellie Melba
Mlle
Trentini
Gillbert
de Segurola
Tales OF Hoffmann
Miles
Zeppilli
Doria
Dalmores
Renaud
Gilibert
Daddi
Gianoll- Galletti
Dufranne
Valles
Vieuille
Campanial
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