Barnes claims Prince letters amid Berlin court turmoil
Cotton Creek Copper executive N E Barnes says he possesses personal letters from the Crown Prince to Count Hochberg. He describes royal seals and photo copies, citing injunctions by German shareholders and a threatened disclosure to counter statements about his copper company.
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N. E. Barnes
Cottonocc Creek Copper Company
Crown Prince
Prosetia
Mr. Barnes
Court Circle 8
Berlin
Kaiser
Chan- Wier von Rulow
Count Eulenberg
Papa
Count Héchberg
Mount Hochberg
Berthold Riedesel Zu
Hisentach
von Helldorff
von Eydekampf
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Hochberg
Helldorff Id
Heydekampf
Helldorff
Patais Hotel
Ferthold Riedesel
Friederr Zu Eiisenbach
Messrs
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Isei’s
Count Hochberg
Toll
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Een Wu Efisenbach
Dorothee Janisch
Ans Hugo von Schuckmann
Carl Olaf von Lirndequist
Count Hans Fincken
Fritz Bauer
George von Priem
Oscar Fuhr
von Buel -Berenberg
Otto von Rohr
S Wiilberg
Dr. Sannemann
Valesca Castner
Weimer
Germany
Potsdam
Singers Injured in Brooklyn Car Collision at Fulton and Elm
A rear end crash between a BRT Putnam Avenue car and a De Kalb Avenue car near Fulton and Elm Streets Brooklyn injured three singers from the De Kalb line. Those hurt are Jacob Smith 509 Stanhope Jacob H Wood 138 Reid Avenue and Sage Gerald Foley 17 Stockton Street. They were treated by a surgeon and sent home.
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Putnam Avenue
Fulton and
Elm Streets
Brooklyn
Jacob Smith
Stanhope
Reid Avenue
Sage Gerald Foley
Stockton Street
Brooklyn Ferry Operators Halted by City Court Injunction
Corporation Counsel Pendleton secured an injunction from Supreme Court Justice Stapleton in Brooklyn on Saturday preventing the Fortys second Street Ferry serving the foot of Broadway from ceasing operations. Notice had been given that the ferry would stop within a few days.
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Pendleton
Supreme Court
Justin Stapleton
Brooklyn
Fortys Second Street
Broadway
Yesterday's Fires and Listed Addresses
A fragmented listing details numerous fire incidents with street addresses and associated names or owners. Entries include 8th Avenue Jacobs and Brother with $200, Amsterdam Avenue Francis Michel $10, East End Avenue John Reinfranks, and others across Manhattan and nearby streets, indicating a compilation of fire-related losses and contacts.
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Jacobs & Brother
Amsterdam
Francis Michel
Westchester
Lizzie Berchwold
Edward Kensmann
W. 24Th
Albert Geter Tae
Mme. de Stutt
Getell
Broadway
George Lyons
Gleason
East End
John Reinfranks
C. F. Bates
Life Tug Snohomish to Alaska on life saving mission
The United States Revenue Service tug Snohomish, claimed as the first vessel built for life saving work, will sail from Norfolk before Dec. 15 for a 20 000 mile voyage to Neah Bay on the Alaskan coast. It carries a marine cableway and breeches buoy device to rescue crews in storms where ships cannot live. The design responds to the Valencia disaster and uses an automatic reel to maintain safe tension on the rescue cable between wreck and rescuing vessel.
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Snohomish
United States Revenue Service
Norfolk
Neah Bay
Alaskan
Valencia
Straits of
Juan de Fuca
Puget Sound
Aked Urges Milton Trust in Freedom and Faith
Dr. C. F. Aked of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church preached on "John Milton s Service to the Faith and Freedom of the World" praising Milton as a force for liberty of thought and religion. He warned against political corruption and social injustice and urged honesty and courage in pursuing truth.
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C. F. Aked
Fifth Avenue, Baptist Church
John Milton
Dr. Aked
Milton
America
England
New Scout Cruisers Begin Tests On Rockland Run
The Salem and Birmingham start standardization trials on the Rockland Maine course with the Chester finishing a water consumption test. The Navy plans data on fast cruisers, debating small high speed ships versus larger gun boats while endurance tests may wait until spring.
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New York Times
Washington
Salem
Birmingham
Rockland
Chester
Navy Department
Belief of Innocence in Slain Elevator Agent Case
In Carrolton Newfoundland the belief grows that Carl Clapp was not the man killed by William Barnhart at the Roadhouse Hotel. Barnhart, jailed for two murders, claims self defense after finding his wife with Clapp. Coroner’s jury held Barnhart responsible for both deaths, though suspects Clapp’s identity.
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New York Times
Roodhouse
Carl Clapp
Roadhouse
William Barnhart
Barnhart
Carrollton
Clapp
Chicago & Alton Yards
Woman Held in Newark Shoplifting Case Identifies as Mrs Goldsmith
An alleged shoplifter arrested in a Newark department store on Saturday night claimed to be Lena Rosenberg of 205 East Ninety-fifth Street Manhattan, a widow with seven children. A man calling from Dwark Police Headquarters said his wife Ida Goldsmith of 2 Rutgers Street was missing, and identified the prisoner's furs as hers before the woman admitted she was Mrs. Goldsmith.
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Newark
N. J
Lena Rosemberg
East Ninety-fifth Street
Manhattan
Goldsmith
Dwark
Ida Goldsmith
Rutgers Street
Wages Dominate New York Traction Costs in 1907 Report
Public Service Commission figures show operating expenses of $38.1 million in 1907 for New York traction lines, with about $23 million in salaries and wages. Brooklyn Rapid Transit leads in payroll size, while Interborough and Manhattan lines employ thousands, totaling over 34,000 workers and a payroll near $24.2 million.
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Queens
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New York
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Richmond
Ryan and
Belmont
Interborough Metropolitan Company
Costs and staffing in public transit wages and clerks
The report details expenses including $22,370.28 for wages and $894,070 for general officers and clerks salaries. Beach Railway Company shows the smallest workforce with four employees, two motormen and two conductors.
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Fea Beach Railway Company
Gas Kills Three In Newark Hebrew Home Room
A 90 year old man Max Isaacs died and Lazar Cohen 89 and Jonas Fischman 76 were found unconscious after gas was left on in a top floor room of the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Newark. Saul Herman 68 was later found alive and said he woke early for a walk. Fischman recovered consciousness but cannot answer questions. A prior quarrel between Fischman and Cohen is noted.
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Hebrew Home For the
Stirling Street
Newark
Max Isaacs
Lazar Cohen
Jonas Fischman
James McRell
McKellen
City Hospital
Isaacs
Saul Herman
Fischman
Cohen
Herman
Texas Race Track Crusade in Dallas Sermons and petitions arise
Texas preachers launch a statewide crusade against race track gambling distributing a seven thousand word Dallas Pastors Association address. They fault the Texas State Fair and City of Dallas in business with gamblers and plan Sunday sermons and mass petitions to the Legislature in 1909 aiming to curb gambling and Sunday amusements.
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New York Times
Dallas
Tex
Texas
Dallas Pastors’ Association
Texas State Fair
City of
Lone Star
Mississippi
Carmack
Tennessee
McLean
Kidnapping of Esther Carlson by Brother and Cousin
Frank Carlson and cousin Ralph Edstrom kidnapped Esther Carlson, six, from Queen Anne Road Bogota New Jersey to move her to Manhattan. Police intercepted the pair near Edgewater Ferry. Recorder Buckley held the girl for a hearing and released her to the brother with a promise to return for a hearing. Esther was sent to the Children’s Home in Hackensack.
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New York Times
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N. J
Frank Carlson
Queen Anne Road
158Th Street
St. Ann’s Avenue
Manhattan
Esther
West Shore
Brewster
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Dinan
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Hudson River
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Buckley
Bratt
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Grenade Inventor Mapes Proposes Lethal Hand Device
First Lieut. William S. Mapes of the Twenty-fifth Infantry USA invents a nine inch grenade that fires forty bullets in a spray parallel to the ground. The weapon weighs little and can be carried by soldiers. tests are to be conducted at Manila Arsenal. Mapes also created the poncho boat for four men’s gear.
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Manila
William S. Mapes
Twenty-fifth Infantry
United States Army
Mapes
Second
Nebraska Volunteer
79-Year-Old Silas Ball Plans Second Marriage and New Cobbler Life
Silas Ball, 79, of 186 Watchung Avenue West Orange N J, with a three child family, announces he will wed Miss Ella Jenkins of Newark next summer and start a cobbler business near his home. A Civil War veteran wounded three times, Ball says he feels young and unhurried.
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Watchung Avenue
West Orange
N. J
Ella Jenkins
South Tenth Street
Newark
Mr. Ball
Mily
Andildren
The Self Contained Razor Wins First Prize
The only razor with a self contained stropping device receives First Prize at the Franco British Exposition in London.
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Just
London
Judge Scott appeals to Kean over naval protests
Judge Scott of the County Court seeks relief from a flood of letters from naval officers after releasing two prisoners two months ago. Reportedly pardoned on condition of enlistment, the judge faces sharp protest and Senator Kean plans to request a Navy Department bulletin to clarify the facts.
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Kean
Navy Department
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