City vaudeville shows face injunctions and curbs
City officials move to limit Sunday vaudeville as United Booking Offices chief says no injunctions will be sought. Grand Opera House police probe a foreign accented performer. Murray Hill quartet cut from act amid police warning. Five cent moving pictures resume under lectures to satisfy licenses and Sunday laws. Proprieter at 3899 Eighth Avenue posts $500 bond as lecturer replaced after arrests.
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Williams
United Booking Offices of America
Grand Opera House
Eighth Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Kane
Old West Twentieth Street
Murray Hill
Police Department
Bingham
China
Max Ellenpuch
Commendation for Mayor on Sunday Motion Picture Laws
The Rev Dr John Wesley Hill of Metropolitan Temple praised the mayor for revoking licenses of moving picture shows and for strict enforcement of Sunday laws. He urged adherence to blue laws and cited moral and religious duty, commending lawfulness by Protestants and Catholics alike and praying for Mayor McClellan, police, and officials.
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John Wesley Hill
Metropolitan Temple
Chicago
McClellan
Government to establish mine rescue stations nationwide
Government plans to deploy rescue stations in major coal fields with trained mining engineers to instruct workers in oxygen helmets safety lamps and rescue methods. Stations will test apparatus at Pittsburg style facilities and serve as centers for conserving resources and reducing mining losses.
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New York Times
Washington
Geological Survey
Pittsburg
Urbana
Ill
University of Illinois
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Iowa
Missouri
Kentucky
Raton
New Mexico
Colorado
Utah
Wyoming
Montana
Trinidad
University of Tennessee
Birmingham
Ala
Lexington
George 8. Rice
J. W. Paul
West Virginia
Miners refuse surrender after Kentucky clash
In Stearns Kentucky union miners hide in the hills and vow not to surrender after Christmas Day fighting that left Deputy U S Marshal John Mullins and Mine Organizer Richard Ross dead and the McFerran Hotel burning. US Marshal Sharp, with deputies and militia, sent Capt George Waddell to pursue Berry Simpson and his men, while guards guard Worley and Stearns. several Simpson men have been jailed. The Stearns company, a large timber and coal operator with Michigan ownership, faced an injunction by the U S court to end the strike attempt.
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New York Times
Stearns
United States
John Mullins
Richard Ross
McFerran Hotel
Sharp
Lexington
George Waddell
Somerset Military Company
Waddell
Berry Simpson
Reuben West
Elisha Slavin
Shats
Simpson
Stanley
Oliver Slavin
Harry Zeno
Jesse Simpson
Somerset
Worley
Berry
Daughae
Vg Poe
South
Butler
Michigan
Justice 8. Stearns
Ludington
Mich
Kentucky
Tennessee
Marshal Sharp
Critic Warns Against Offensive Illustrated Songs in Shows
A city man who has attended over a thousand moving picture shows argues that illustrated songs accompanying films corrupt youth. He notes American films avoid crime and vice, but French pictures sometimes show such themes. He recalls a screening with fifty children where an obscene song accompanied by saloon scenes appeared, urging censorship before youth are exposed to it.
Woman Bailed on Shoplifting Charge in New York Court
Mrs Nellie McPhee of 124 West Highly third Street was arraigned in Jefferson Market Court for stealing a pair of shoes from a Sixth Avenue store Saturday night. Her fifteen year old son James posted bail by offering his four dollar weekly wage, drawing sympathy from a man willing to risk his home on the bond. McPhee was held for trial and paroled into the custody of her counsel William Malone until today.
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Nellie McPhee
West Highly Third Street
James
Jefferson Market Court
Sixth Avenue
Treaty on patents with Germany soon to be law
Washington reports a pending patent agreement with Germany will be sent to the Senate for ratification and likely in force before March 4. It removes the manufacturing requirement for foreign patents between the two nations while keeping Britain restrictions intact, signaling possible retaliation or alignment with England’s policy changes amid ongoing negotiations.
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New York Times
Washington
Germany
Berlin
Senate
State Department
Baron Speck von Sternburg
Patents
Edward B. Moore
International Congress of Patents
Stockholm
England
Moore
United States
Fingland
Great Britain
Yale Man Marries in Bridgeport After Rallying Proposal
Samuel Smith of Yale class of 1911 proposed to Miss Winifred McMasters at the Yale Harvard game. After a later meeting in Bridgeport, they married with a license and cleric’s promise to delay public notice. The bride's father resides in Winchester Mass and Smith has left Yale for work.
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New York Times
New Haven
Conn
Winifred McMasters
Boston
Ce Uha Samuel Smith
Yale
William Hall
Howe Street
John McMasters
Winchester
Mass
Smith
Fairfield Avenue
Bridgeport
Kenneth McNeil
Archibald McNeil
Believe Girl Abducted in Thomasville Georgia
In Thomasville Georgia eighteen year old Evelyn Gaddis daughter of John Beverly vanished from her room. A struggle is suspected and all evidence points to abduction by an unidentified person. Search parties comb the woods as the time of disappearance remains unknown and the girl is described as wealthy and popular.
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New York Times
Thomasville
Evelyn Gaddis
John C. Beverly
Gaddis
New Cornell Emblem Competition Opens for Students
Ithaca N Y Dec 27 Undergraduates and alumni are invited to submit designs for a new Cornell emblem to replace the current seal. Designs must avoid portraits, carry only the motto Cornell, and include symbols of letters pure and applied science. Submissions due March 1 include a 3 inch high drawing for stationery and a separate 8 inch high version for glass.
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New York Times
Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell University
Cornell
Ezra Cornell
Cornellniversity
Policeman Stabbed After Street Encounter In City
Three Italian girls aged 14 accompanied by Vincenzo Brigante were accosted by three Italian men near Hast Fourth Street and Houston. A scuffle drew bystanders and two officers arrived. Officer White was stabbed in the back but pursued and captured one suspect, Frank Restivo, while Officer O’Leary detained a second suspect, Dominico Civilita. Restivo received twenty stitches for a head wound. White was hospitalized. Suspects were jailed at Mulberry Street Station.
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Vincenzo Brigante
Elizabeth Street
Fourth Street
Houston
Elizabeth Streets
Brigante
O'Leary
White
O’leary
Frank Restivo
East Houston Street
Srisoner
Dominico Civilit
Mott Street
Mulberry Street
Krugler
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Restivo
Maysville Delegation Seeks Transcript in McEntee Case
A group of church and business leaders from Maysville Pennsylvania asked Magistrate Walsh for a transcript of testimony in the case against 28 year old Thomas McEntee, charged with attempted burglary by Edward Reardon. McEntee faces Special Sessions today as the delegation plans to attend the trial.
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Maysville
Penn
Walsh
Thomas McEntee
Edward Reardon
Jerome
McEntee
Reardon
Waverley Place
Father Hogan
Donovan
Tony Bianco
29 Downing Street
Maysville Delegaton
Woman's insulter punched after complaint near Fifth Avenue churches
A hysterical woman carrying a prayer book accused a man of following and insulting her as crowds left churches along Fifth Avenue. Supt Edmund Prentice punched the man when he confronted the woman. Police arrested Fritz Uhr of 309 Christopher Street for disorderly conduct after a street scuffle that ended with a head wound and hospital transfer. Witnesses criticized officers' handling of the incident.
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Fifth Avenue
Edmund Prentice
Federal Leather Company
Thirty‘seventh Street
Prentice
Haggerty
Tenderloin
Thirty-third Street
Fritz Uhr
Christopher Street
New York Hospital
Uhl
Burglary at Jersey City Station Ends in Jail
Detectives were sent to Hillsdale after a telegram claimed burglars stole $30 from the Erie Railroad station in Jersey City. Night agent Albert Hartwick confessed to stealing $29 and breaking the inner lock, and Justice Schweitzer of Hackensack ordered his imprisonment.
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Erie Railroad
Jersey City
Harvey Flynn
Hillsdale
New Jersey & New York
Albert Hartwick
Flynn
Hartwick
Justice Schweitzer
Hackensack
West Coast Monte Carlo Planned Near Santa Anita
Western Monte Carlo, proposed near Arcadia and Santa Anita race track, would be a five story clubhouse with a stadium annex and a dual service poolroom. Promoters backed by E. J. Baldwin aim to complete the resort by next winter and shield it from local regulation while drawing a cosmopolitan crowd.
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New York Times
Los Angeles
Cal
California
Arcadia
E. J
Lucky) Baldwin
Western Monte Carlo
Monte-Carlo
Santa Anita
Mexico
Grenae
Foraker Eyes Coup in Ohio Senate Race
The Columbus scene shifts as Senator Foraker may seize the lead or erase Taft and Burton from contention. Taft’s weaknesses include limited statewide recognition while Burton gains from anti-boss sentiment. A caucus ahead of state organization could hasten recess and shape committee appointments, with Taft backed by the State organization and Burton riding Northern Ohio support.
Forgetful bride seeks address after night court incident
Mrs. Alice M. Reeves, 24, married nine weeks, from Caribou Maine to George Reeves, wandered Manhattan yesterday in search of him. She entered Night Court, then Marguerite Louise Home after police noted vagrancy. Readily available funds were $25. Brother Bert A. Drake of Stockholm Maine will send her New York address.
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Alice M. Reeves
Caribou
George Reeves
George
Marguerite Louise
East Sixteenth Street
Bert A. Drake
Stockholm
New York
Reeves
West Twentieth Street
Bayonne Boy Shot In Eye By Air Rifle Threats
Fifteen year old William Walsh, son of a City Park caretaker, was shot in the eye by Wallace McKenna, 16, at Bayonne. Walsh, already blind in one eye from a previous air rifle injury, collapsed unconscious after the shot. McKenna was arrested for assault. council may consider an ordinance banning air rifles.
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William Walsh
Bayonne
N. J
Wallace McKenna
West Thirteenth Street
Walsh
Isaac Grenstein
McKenna
McKenny
City Hospital
Bayonne Council
Pearl in oyster may be worth vast sum, man bets
Stephen Hall Wickham, a curb broker in New York, found twelve hard objects in a Lynhaven oyster at a West Thirty sixth Street chop house. He and the manager expect value well above $250, while awaiting jeweler appraisal. The oyster came from a new barrel and more oysters remain.
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Lynhaven
West Thirtysixth
Stephen Hall Wickham
150
Broad Street
Flushing
Wickham
Charles W. Lewis
Henkel
Mr. Wickham
George F. Kunz
Tiffany’s
America
Boy of Fifteen Takes Own Life In Brooklyn Home
Arthur Kirby sixteen year old? No, fifteen year old son of Mrs Margaret Kirby widow of 549 Fifty first Street South Brooklyn died by his own action last night. He inhaled gas through a tube at the home of his employer Joseph Barrocoa butcher of 5956 Third Avenue Bay Ridge. He had visited his mother for Christmas and left to return to work in good spirits. He was studious and had taken the job to afford entrance to a school. No reason for the act.
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Arthur Kirby
Margaret Kirby
Fifty-first Street
Brooklyn
Joseph Barrocoa
Third Avenue
Bay Ridge
Kirby
Barrocoa
Dunne Accepts State Treasurer Post
Senator D B Dunne of Rochester announced he will assume the New York State Treasurership on January 1 after previously hesitating due to a $50,000 bond requirement term. Pryor of Rochester named his first guest. the Genesee Society dined at the Waldorf on Saturday with a special train planned.
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New York Times
Chester
N. Y
D. B. Dunne
Rochester
Oeenry H. Pryor
Rosacea
The
Genesee
the Waldorf- New York
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