City Overrun With Homeless Men Prompt Charity Conference
A conference of New York charity groups met to plan a coordinated response to a surge of 30,000 homeless and unemployed men. Officials sought a work test, a loft near the Municipal Lodging House, and a farm colony proposal akin to European models.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Robert W. Hebberd
Charities
Charity, Organization Society
Fourth Avenue
Twenty-second Street
New York City
Woodyard
First Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Robert Gruere
Society For Improving
Reitman
Chicago
Middle West
Munich
Blackwell's Island
Switzerland
Tragic suicide confirmed for Henry S. Terry in Brooklyn
Henry S. Terry, a member of a prominent Brooklyn family, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot in Prospect Park's Vale of Cashmere. Henry Abercrombie discovered the body, a revolver nearby, and authorities identified the deceased as the Remsen Street resident after contacting relatives. The Rev. Eliphalet P. Terry, brother, said illness and worry over health contributed to his act, noting prior attempts in Los Angeles and recent relocation to Rockland County before returning to the family home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Abercrombie
Prospect Park
Brooklyn
Franklin Avenue
Park Slope
Vale of Cashmere
Abercrombie
Henry S. Terry
Remsen Street
Terry
California
Los Angeles
Rockland County
Ruined by the Thaw Trial at Pompton Lake School
Mrs. Mathilda Beatrice De Mille a Pompton Lake N J school mistress filed for bankruptcy in Tren ton N J with 12257 dollars in liabilities and no assets Her school attended by Evelyn Nesbit and later blamed for notoriety closed within three months after the Thaw trial led many fashionable families to withdraw their daughters and end the venture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mathilda Beatrice de Mille
Pompton Lake
N. J
United States District Court
Trenton
de Mille
Evelyn Nesbit
de Mile
Pam Ea
Thaw
Evelyn Thaw
Pamlico
Heroic mother dies after sacrificing self for daughters
Mrs. Mary Natusch of 2324 Second Avenue saved her two young daughters from a gas stove fire by blocking a door as flames engulfed her. She was taken to Harlem Hospital in critical condition and did not survive the night. Her daughters Gladys and Ruth, ages 8 and 6, were unaware of their mother’s fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Natusch
Second Avenue
Harlem
Gladys
Ruth
Bronx Trance Girl Edith Wardrop Dies at Lincoln Hospital
Edith Wardrop a 16 year old ward of D B Kellem Bronx died at 5 AM after a coma at Lincoln Hospital following paralysis from a window sighting incident. Autopsy showed death from brain hemorrhages due to a brain abscess after a prior fall while tobogganing at Mount Kisco. Funeral arrangements by Mr. Kellem.
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Edith Wardrop
Lincoln Hospital
Bronx
D. 8
Kellem
Willis Avenue
Adrienne la Roche
137Th Street
Dewey's Old Port for the Gripfe
Dewey and Bons Co at 168 Palton St New York operate a trade address in a clipped note referencing a port or gripfe term with unclear meaning and the fragment hints at a business listing or notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DEWEY
Gripfe,ldewey & Bons Co
Palton St
New York
Nat i
Fragmentary Verse Snippet Darkens Unknown Page
A jumbled OCR fragment references a youthful figure and musical or poetic terms. The text is garbled, with unclear place, date, or event. No identifiable persons or organizations are established from the readable portion.
Restoring Normal Conditions Boosts European Credit Flows
European offers to advance funds to the London market lifted currency premiums and spurred a stock rally. Lazard Frères sold imported gold in London after buying it for New York, signaling improved monetary outlook as Bank of England reserves edge higher and discount rates ease.
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London
New York
Europe
Lazard Fréres
Lazard Freres
Bank of England
German Bank Rate to Fall on New Year
Berlin reports indicate Reichsbank will cut official discount rate from 8. as to 7 and a further reduction likely in three months. London bullion market notes slack gold demand in US and Germany with $5 million to be available Monday and hopes for improved reserves and milder US depression.
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NEW York Times
Berlin
London
United, States
Germany
Bank of England
New York
Theers Magazine
Farmers Hunt for Whitney Millinery
Westbury Long Island December 27 farmers gathered after a report from Harry Payne Whitney to Sheriff Gild of Mineola that a box containing nine millinery hats was stolen from his car. The loss happened between Westbury and East Williston on Thursday afternoon and is valued at several hundred dollars.
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Whitney
Westbury
L. I
Harry Payne Whitney
Frederick Gildleave
Mineola
Long Island
East Williston
Eye
Szechenyi Family Heads to America for Vanderbilt Wedding
Vienna and Newport reports place Count Laszlo Szechenyi's engagement to Miss Gladys Vanderbilt in doubt though a large party of Szechenyi relatives and friends is en route to the United States for the anticipated wedding. New York hosts a planned ceremony at Fifty seventh Street with Mrs Reginald Vanderbilt coordinating. Mr and Mrs Vanderbilt sail late January. The Breakers prepares for reception and trousseau details are noted while local inquiries reference potential Oakland and Sandy Point Farm visits.
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New York Times
Newport
America
Laszlo Szechenyi
Gladys Vanderbilt
New York
Miss Vanderbilt
Count Szechenyi
Gues
Plan Work For 10 000 Men In Cleveland January
Cleveland manufacturers map a January restart for about 10,000 former workers. Major plants including American Shipbuilding Company aim to add 5,000 within weeks, with steel mill layoffs returning on January 6. Union Rolling and Lake Erie Iron Company plan 600 more jobs, while American Steel and Wire and Sherwin Williams prepare to resume near normal activity and 230 traveling salesmen are to start duties next week.
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Cleveland
American Shipbuilding Company
St i
Union
Union Switch and Signal lands 2 million dollar contract
Pittsburg Dec. 27 The Union Switch and Signal Company a Westinghouse concern will reopen Jan 2 after a planned idle period. A New York Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel switches and signals contract worth 2 000 000 and an additional order from Harriman lines will keep the plant running day and night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Pittsburg
Union Switch and Signal Company
Westinghouse
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Harriman Lines
Lawyer to See Walker in San Diego
Julius H. Pease an attorney who came to San Diego to recover securities hid by W M Walker alleged absconding officer of a New Britain bank left today for Ensenada Mexico. Bank officers seek the securities more than Punishing Walker and may spare extradition if he reveals locations of the assets. About 565000 taken, much in non negotiable securities, and officials hope he will disclose where they are kept.
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San Diego
Cal
Julius H. Pease
W. M. Walker
New Britain
Conn
Ensenada
Mexico
Walker
Jersey City Woman Wounded by Family Rooster
Mrs. George Wohleben of St Pauls Avenue and James Street Jersey City suffers wounds to hands face and arms from a game rooster owned by her husband. While attempting to catch another fowl the game bird attacked and struck with its spurs as her husband intervened and restrained the rooster.
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George Wohleben
St. Paul’s Avenue
James Street
Jersey City
Wohleben
Ed Murrow Found in El Paso Texas After Disappearance
Edward A. Murrow, a wealthy retired shoe dealer formerly of Washington, DC, who vanished from Atlantic City weeks ago, has been located in El Paso Texas. His wife received a telegram from El Paso confirming the finding. He reportedly left for Mexico after disappearing.
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Urrow
el Paso
Texas
Atlantic City
N, d
Edward A. Murrow
Washington, D. C
Paso
Mexico
Fragmented Florida item mentions Ne diverting names
Readable text shows partial references to Florida and a person named Rolna or Rolnaa with unclear context and no coherent event or dates to establish a summary.
Rhodes's Busy Day Ends With Court Appearance
John V. Rhodes former secretary of Delavergne Refrigerating Machines faced court after a city brawl at the Hotel Imperial and a blocked Baltic voyage for lack of passage money. He and advertising man De Arcy OConnor were involved in a melee over a barber chair as witnesses separated them. Rhodes and his wife were later escorted from the Baltic boarding, with Rhodes remaining in custody as detectives investigated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John V. Rhodes
Delavergne Refrigerating Machines Company
Rhodes
Europe
Baltic
Hotel Imperial
Thirtieth Street
New York
Mr. Rhodes
Union League Club
Brooklyn
Bulldog
The
Imperial
de Arcy O’conner
the Graphic
O’connor
Case
Handley
East Thirty-ninth Street
Albany
New Brunswickeral
Mr. O'Connor
Belmont Landslide Road Battle Delayed by Court Order
Charles Warren Lippitt of Providence and Lucie F. Post of New York secured a Superior Court order restraining O H P Belmont from blocking Ledge Road and Lake View Avenue until a January hearing on a preliminary injunction. The Belmont petition had been approved 4 to 1 by the Board of Aldermen last week, but the court’s action pauses their move. Citizens note Belmont’s generosity exceeds his request and future access remains limited until the hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Newport
R. L
Charles Warren Lippitt
Providence
Lucie F. Post
New York
Belcourt
Belmont Place
Sweetland
Superior Court
O. H. P. Belmont
Ledge Road
Lake View Avenue
Board of Aldermen
Belmont
Players Sue Mutual Steam Laundry for Club Linen Loss
The Players sue Mutual Steam Laundry for about $1000 alleging non return or accounting of club table linen and towels. Hazleton & Hazleton press the suit led by George C. Hazleton Jr. The case may reveal Mrs Neil, longtime club caretaker placed by Edwin Booth, had influence over the laundry affair. Mrs Neil has since died, leaving a charitable will that complicates executors’ duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mutual Steam Laundry Company
Wife Dies After Grief At Husband's Grave
Mrs Winifred Coleman widow of Patrick Coleman died Thursday night after collapsing at the Jersey City burial site where her husband was laid to rest. She had attended his funeral at 269 Seventh Street and will be buried in the same grave tomorrow beside him.
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Patrick Coleman
Seventh Street
Jersey City
Winifred Coleman
Root Buys Old Homestead Hemlocks on College Hill
Utica dispatch reports Secretary Root purchased the Hemlocks homestead on College Hill Clinton New York from Anna Day Root widow of Dr Oren Root for ten thousand dollars. The property known as The Hemlocks was acquired from the late roots family.
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Utica
N. Y
Senate approves Brazil conscription bill for mandatory service
Rio de Janeiro December 27 the senate on third reading approved the government bill requiring obligatory military service under conscription.
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Senate
Rio. DE Janeiro
Canfield Visits Gates at Winter Home in Texas
Richard A. Canfield, the former New York gambler, stays this week with John W. Gates at his Winter home in Port Arthur Texas. Canfield says he is in town on business and declines to reveal details. Reports say he may take an interest in Gates oil enterprises.
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New York Times
Port Arthur
Texas
John W. Gates
Richard A. Canfield
New York
Canfield
Mr. Gates
National Guard Ready to Move as Race Tensions Rise
Gov. Has Kell announced reports from Henrietta, two National Guard companies in readiness to move, awaiting a telegraphic request from the mayor. Armed guards are in Henrietta as authorities seek an armed negro group reported four miles from town.
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Guthrie
Okla
Haskell
Henrietta
National Guard
Work of Japanese spies shocks Portland mayor
Mayor Harry K. Lane told the National Guard Association that Japanese agents obtained accurate Portland maps and roadways leading into the city as well as water pipeline specifications. He said he discovered the spying after completion and sent the information to Washington.
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Portland
Ore
Harry K. Lane
National Guard Association
Lane
Washington
Woman shoots collector over furniture installment dispute
Catherine Salvatoriello fired a double barreled shotgun at Louis Marsa a nineteen year old furniture firm collector in Newark New Jersey. Marsa was wounded in the left breast and is dying at Newark City Hospital. Salvatoriello who lives at 720 North Ninth Street Newark said she believed Marsa was a thief.
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Louis Marsa
Newark
N. J
Catherine Salvatoriello
Newark City Hospital
North Ninth Street
Marsa
Warren divorce awarded with $4000 alimony
Mrs Helen C Warren won a divorce from Samuel Warren on intolerable cruelty and receives 4000 dollars alimony. The case coincided with Samuel's suit for divorce. Warren, once a Jersey City politician, reportedly owns substantial Jersey City real estate. Mrs Warren left four years ago and returned to Seymour Connecticut.
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New York Times
New Haven
Conn
Helen C. Warren
Samuel Warren
Jersey City
Warren
Seymour
Professor Conklin Resigns to Lead Princeton Lab
Edwin Grant Conklin, Professor of Zoology at the University of Pennsylvania, resigns to move to Princeton for double pay. Princeton plans a $600,000 laboratory with elaborate equipment, to be one of the nation’s finest, with Conklin in charge.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Edwin Grant Conklin
University of Pennsylvania
Princeton
Pennsylvania
Conklin
Leslie Carter Near Death After Gas Poisoning
Chicago reports Leslie Carter a lawyer capitalist and former husband of actress Leslie Carter Payne had been seriously ill at 108 Cass Street for three weeks due to a broken gas fixture. He was found unconscious as gas escaped, with early reports suggesting paralysis or cerebral hemorrhage. doctors termed it a pure accident.
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New York Times
Chicago
Leslie Carter
Leslie Carter-Payne
Cass Street
South Side
Henry Fairvill
Maloney says daughter Helen with him in Philadelphia
Martin Maloney issues a statement through a friend regarding Helen Maloney. He says his daughter is at the city residence in West Log Square, denies rumors of precarious illness, and adds no further public comments from the family.
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Philadelphia
Martin Maloney
Helen Maloney
England
Samuel Clarkson
Herbert, Osborne
Princeton
Helen
West Log Square
Raneed See Sle Tie eat Fas '
A note mentions the firm Raneed See Sle Tie at 188 Fulton Street New York. The fragment references a family or business entity and a listed address in New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raneed
Ene & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Mary Baker Eddy Plans Charity Fund In Christian Science
Boston article outlines Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy’s plan to establish a charitable fund bearing her name. A $1,000,000 endowment will educate indigent students in Christian Science healing, with governance by a Boston board. Beneficiaries receive maintenance until deemed good healers and certified by directors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
Mary Baker @ Eddy
Christian Science Church, ‘Fm
Archibald McLellan
Christian Science Sentinel
Jesus
Starved Mother Sacrificed For Her Four Children
Mrs. Phyllis Prince aged 30 died of starvation in a Williamsburg tenement at 384 Manhattan Avenue. Her four children Rose 4 Samuel 3 Kate 2 and Angelina 4 months old were found emaciated in a single bed. Captain Evans discovered the scene. the children were placed under the care of the Children's Society after treatment at Eastern District Hospital.
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Phyllis ‘Prince
Rose
Samuel
Kate
Angelina
Manhattan Avenue
Williamsburg
Andrew
Kings County Hospital
Prince
Eastern District
Children’s Society
Heat Steering Diagram for Hotel St. Regis Wind Vane
An innovative heat distributing device at the Hotel St. Regis uses an underground weather vane diagram in the engine room to read wind conditions. Invented by chief engineer J. C. Jurgensen the diagram lights up externally revealing north winds or southerly breezes. The system automatically adjusts heat to areas affected by the wind as it changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Regis
Fifty-fifth Street
Fifth Avenue
J. C. Jurgensen
Mercer quits Carlisle as school head amid resignation request
Major William Mercer of the Second U S Cavalry resigns as superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School. Federal authorities to close his Carlisle post. he cites heavy duties and seeks a few months’ leave before returning to outdoor military life. Mercer served three years at Carlisle and expanded athletics and training beyond Pratt’s era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Carlisle
Penn
William Mercer
United States Cavalry
Carlisle Indian School
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Leupp
Secretary of War
Metter
Mercer
Carliste
R. H. Pratt
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United Hebrew Charities
Russell Sage
Anne T. Jeanes
John D. Rockefeller
H. C. Frick
P. A. B. Widener
Andrew Carnegie
Rus
Rockefeller
University of Chicago
Institute For Medical Res
Altgeiong
Vanderbilt
Vienna
Dionys
Peter
Stephan Szechenyi
Anton Sigray
Lessig Szechenyi
Docter
Florida
Rolna Auponts
Neon Auschista Cokaisbean Kee
Baith
H L
Bomneal- Soya
Root
Old Homestead
Brazil
Oklahoma
Prof. Conklin
MR. Maloney
Mrs. Eddy
Hotel
Maj
Usher
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