Daring Women and Firefighters Save Two from 58th Street Blaze
In New York yesterday two apartment fires near Madison and Park Avenues drew multiple engines. Mrs Mary Parker and her daughter Lillian Cleveland leapt to a mattress held by volunteers as fire raged. Fire crews from 68th Street and beyond battled flames for hours, with 30 engines and a life-saving crowd aiding civilians and rescuers.
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Mary Parker
Evenway
Lillian Cleveland
Bazil Ricketts
Princeton
Hamilton Fish
Cuba
Miss Cleveland
Ricketts
Garret
E. Wilson
Wall Street Journal Index of Contents
Index to departments lists sections such as Commercial World Amusements Arrivals at Hotels and Out-of-Town Buyers Business Troubles Court Calendars Insurance Notes Legal Notes Losses by Fire Marine Intelligence and Foreign Mails New Corporations Real Estate Society United Service Weather Report Yesterday's Fires Investors Read The Wall Street Journal Accuracy and completeness the watchwords of its publishers Dow Jones Co Adv
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Marine Intelligence
United Service
Weather Report
Wall Street Journal
Dow, Jones & Co
Adv
Fire damages new nine story The Antoinettes building
A basement fire at The Antoinettes, a recently opened nine story apartment at 43 East Fifty-eighth Street, caused about 2000 in damage. One woman, Mrs Edward L Lithauer, sustained severe arm and wrist injuries after attempting escape through a damaged window. Firefighters responded quickly with multiple alarms and the blaze was confined to the basement while smoke filled the elevator shaft.
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Elizabeth Flood
Capt. Kear
West Sixty-eighth Street
Brady
Robbins
No. 18
Montgomery Maze
Lexington Avenue
No. 50
Margaret Pinkenelly
West Sixty-fifth Street
Henry Senior & Co
Croker
Harlem
Fifty-eighth Street
Sixty-fifth Street
Antoinettes
East Fifty-eighth Street
Farrell
Edward L. Lithauer
West Forty-seventh Street
Lithauer
Hook and Ladder Company No. 16
J. M. Hall
Desperate Coal Lines Sweep New York Street Yards
Amid a coal shortage in New York City, yards run by Alfred Barber's Sons and others see long lines, with police deployed to maintain order. Women and children crowd for small pails of coal, while Salvation Army and city charities seek help from J. P. Morgan and coal operators to establish depots and fair distribution.
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New York
Alfred Barber
Water Street
Barber
Barber's Yards
Emil Neufeld
Stanton Street
East Side
Neufeld
Mr. Neufeld
Broome Street
Hoe Factory
Neufeld Establishment
Delancey Street
Co-operative Coal Company
Salvation Army
Morgan
Major Jenkins
Dr. Nice
Army
New York Association For
Frank Tuckeren
New York Times
Yesteray
Poughkeepsie to Examine Ida Thomson for Sanity
Farmer William S. Ketcham, benefactor of Ida Thomson the M liss of the Dover Mountains, is to produce the girl in Poughkeepsie tomorrow for examination. District Attorney Lee contends she is irrational. Ketcham disputes the move and seeks continued residence.
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New York Times
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
William S. Ketcham
Ida Thomson
M'liss
Dover Mountains
Lee
Morrow
Miss Thomson
Dover
Ketcham
Albany
Mr. Ketcham
Quick Way to Chicago via Pennsylvania Special
Advertises the 90 hour Pennsylvania Special flyer with mentions of financial reports stenographer and a lady’s maid as part of the travel pitch.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania
Hotel Lafayette patrons hear lease of Hotel Martin property
An important notice to patrons announces a long lease secured for the old Hotel Martin site at University Place and 9th Street Adv. The item includes a cheerful tone and a promotional note about Dewar's Scotch whiskey.
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Hotel Lafayette
Hotel Martin
University Pl
9Th St
Coal Riot in Boston Struggles Over Yard Coal
Hundreds of North End residents besieged Metropolitan Coal Company gates on Causeway Street as a riot erupted over coal access. A wagonload of coal was moved outside to ease the crowd but was swarmed, with patrolmen forcefully defending the bags until the wagon returned inside the yard.
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New York Times
Boston
North End
Metropolitan Coal Company
Causeway Street
Coal Shortage Leaves Seymour Without Fuel
In Seymour Comm December 10 report says no coal is available in the town of 5000. Woodyards cleaned out and kerosene the only fuel as almshouse has under a week of coal. Residents burn fences and furniture. selectmen may close schools and ration school coal to the poor if a large petition is brought forward.
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New York Times
Seymour
Pennsylvania Special Connects New York and Chicago
Advertising blurb touts the Pennsylvania Special as a connecting link offering convenience for office home and club travelers, highlighting streamlined rail service between New York and Chicago.
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New York
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Bill to Found National Educational Trust Aims at South Aid
Washington reports a bill to form a general educational board with a wide endowment intended to fund schools and colleges without age sex or color restrictions. Promoters led by John D Rockefeller seek a vast Washington based foundation to enhance facilities nationwide, especially for colored youth, with broad aims across elementary to higher education.
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Washington
General Educational Board
John D. Rockefeller
South
Rockefeller
Daniel C. Gilman
George Foster Peabody
Morris K. Jesup
United States
Fight for a Senatorship in Washington State
In Tacoma and Seattle a fierce race unfolds over who becomes U S Senator. Backers of Levy Ankeney clash with supporters of Preston and Gov. McBride over a railroad commission and Senate control. Republican Senators meet to organize, signaling Ankeney’s path to the caucus and first ballot.
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Tacoma
Washington
McBride
Warburton
Preston
Seattle
United States
Turner
Spokane
Northern Pacific
Great Northern Railroads
Levy Ankeney
Walla Walla
Ankeney
Foster
State Senate
Smith
Senate
Railroad Commission
American club to enter team for Bennett International Cup
The Automobile Club of America plans to enter three representatives in the Bennett International Cup race next summer. Secretary Butler sent formal notice to the Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland, the current holders, along with a $600 forfeit. If any American representative starts, the amount is returned. otherwise it goes to Britain. One prospective member is Alexander Winton of Cleveland, building a racing machine.
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Automobile Club of America
Butler
Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland
Alexander Winton
Cleveland
Marines Return From Culebra Dispatch to Posts
More than 300 marines brought from Culebra aboard the Panther were distributed to stations in Brooklyn Washington and Annapolis today for service in Central America. About 40 remained in Norfolk due to illness as the Panther heads to League Island for dry docking and Captain Wilson plans another voyage to Culebra for naval maneuvers with Admiral Dewey.
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New York Times
Phtladelphia
League Island
Culebra
Panama
Panther
Central America
Brooklyn
Washington
Annapolis
Norfolk
Wilson
Dewey
Lake Forest University announces $6,000 lecture prize
President Harlan unveils a lecture ship to rival England’s Bampton Lectures. A $6,000 prize will go to the author of the best book linking a practical science or history with the Christian religion. Open to all scholars. manuscripts due by June 1, 1905.
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Chicago
Harlan
Lake Forest University
Bampton
England
Burnett's Vanilla Leader Worldwide
An advertisement proclaims Burnett's Extract of Vanilla as the leader globally with a directive to use no other. It also promotes Black and White Scotch Whisky as suitable for the most fastidious palates, claiming it is all right.
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Burnett
University Lectures Funded by Will Bross Gift
The author name and address must be in a sealed envelope. The prize and lectures are funded by the late Will iam Bross who left a fund to the university trustees. The annual lectures start April 1903 with Dr Patton of Princeton as the first lecturer.
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William Bross
Pross
Patton
Princeton University
Vanderbilt's Condition Improves in Typhoid Bulletin
A bulletin by Dr. Austin Flint states Cornelius Vanderbilt, ill with typhoid at 22 Park Avenue, spent a comfortable day and progressed satisfactorily with no complications. Theodore Jane way and other doctors conferred, promising no further bulletins until today.
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Austin Flint
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Park Avenue
Dr. Flint
Theodore ©.Janeway
Mr. Vanderbilt
Red Vanderbilt
Miss Wilson
Railroad Official Resigns From Pennsylvania Railroad
Special to The New York Times Philadelphia Dec 10 The Pennsylvania Railroad Board accepts J B Hutchinsons resignation as General Manager to take effect Jan 1 1908 The board commends his service and grants a four month leave of absence Hutchinson to become assistant to the Second Vice President January 1 1903. He is 58 and joined the company in 1883.
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New York
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
J. B. Hutchinson
A. J. Cassatt
Hutchinson
Proposals to Kansas Governor Target of Letters
Topeka reports Lieut Gov Hanna has received about 500 proposals from women in the United States and Canada for marriage since his election. Gov Bailey, a bachelor, has more than 1,000 such letters. Both have declined to respond, saying they will seek wives in Kansas when ready.
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New York Times
Topeka
Kan
Hanna
Canada
Bailey
Kansas Executive
Kansas
New York Tries to Borrow in Chicago Bond Market
New York pursues Chicago borrowing with a six month six percent bid on up to 500000. A top Chicago bank declines to lend while a Wall Street firm offers 1,000,000 in first class bonds to a Chicago house, which buys 500000 at 97. The sale shows liquidity pressure and possible reallocation of funds to other securities.
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New York Times
Chicago
New York
Wall Street
Slocum to Join Cunneen Office as Third Assistant Deputy Attorney General
Rochester news confirms attorney G Fort Slocum will accept the post of Third Assistant Deputy Attorney General in Cunneen’s staff. Slocum, longtime Democrat activist and former surrogate candidate, has an extensive local practice. Ex-County Judge Sylvester S. Taylor of Chemung County will serve as First Deputy.
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New York Times
Rochester
N. Y
Cunneen
G. Fort Slocum
Slocum
Monroe County
Adlington
Local Democracy
Sylvester S. Taylor
Chemung County
Missing Treasurer Shocks Roentgen Society Meeting
Chicago December 10 At the annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society the Treasurer Dr FE A Florentine of Saginaw Michigan is absent amid reports of friction with the Executive Committee. He has not replied to letters and telegrams though friends cite illness. Officers election is set for tomorrow.
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New York Times
Chicago
American Roentgen Ray Society
FE. A. Florentine
Saginaw, Mich
Second Gift by Mr Schiff Aids Semitic Dept Opening
The New York Public Library board met at the Astor Building to arrange the formal opening of the Carnegie Free Branch Library No 1 in East Seventy-ninth Street at 3 30 PM Saturday. President Cantor will preside. Jacob H Schiff announced a second 10 000 gift for Semitic Department purchases. Ohn Bigelow presided.
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Carnegie Free Branch
East Seventy-ninth Street
Board of
New York Public Library
Astor Building
Lafayette Place
Cantor
Jacob H. Schiff
Ohn Bigelow
Central Hudson River Run Inspires Scenic Rail Trip Ad
Poet Ady touts travel along the Historic Hudson River line by the New York Central, offering views described as the American Rhine as a selling point for train travelers. The line promises scenic landscapes and historic waterways.
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Hudson River
New York Central
Central
All Deerfoot Farm Sausages Made at the Farm
Deerfoot Farm sausages are produced in Southboro Massachusetts. The key to their success lies in top quality ingredients and meticulous clean preparation.
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Southboro
Mass
Landing of Marines at La Guaira Begun
Dec 10 dispatch reports the combined British German fleet entering the harbor at La Guaira and commencing the landing of marines. Venezuelan fleet seized after ultimatum, several ships sunk, and diplomatic pleas from Caracas ignored as crowds fearfully watch.
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LA Guayra
LA Quayra
Venezuela Crisis Sparks Mass Caracas Protests
A Venezuelan government protest from Paris accuses Great Britain and Germany of seizing Venezuelan warships at La Guayra and triggering reprisals. In Caracas crowds chant, march on the palace, attack the German legation, and demand arrests of German and British residents.
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la Guayra
Messrs. Wieldwick, Prince
Lepage
Harbor Corporation
Paris
Great Britain
Germany
Venezuela
Castro
Willemstad
Curacao
Caracas
Legation
Mme. von Pilgrim-Baltazzi
Koehler
Resi
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