Brooklyn Officials Rally Behind Gaynor as Mayor
Montauk Club members praise Gaynor for Brooklyn-minded leadership and NYC reform. Speakers note Gaynor's persistence and pledge nonpartisan service, with key allies Prendergast and Steers backing the borough's interests. Grout adds that initial patronage will fade as officials focus on citywide welfare.
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Woodruff
New York
Brooklyn
Montauk Club
Gaynor
Jooklyn
Board of Estimate
Controller Prendergast
Judge Steers
Mr. Grout
Tim Woodruff
New York City
Dinner honors Fusion ticket winners in Cleveland
The Cleveland Democracy hosts a to-night dinner for Edward J. Gavegan justice-elect, Richard H. Smith judge-elect, and William F. Schneider county clerk-elect, all Fusion candidates. Speakers include Edward H. Morgan John Cowen Colin H. Woodward. Ivory gavels and office badge to be presented.
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Cleveland Democracy
Edward J. Gavegan
Supreme Court
Richard H. Smith
William F. Schneider
Fusion
Café Boulevard
Second Avenue
Tenth Street
Edward H. Morgan
William F. Behneider
Aqueduct
John Cowen
Colin H. Woodward
Twenty-third Assembly
Cram Seeks Access With Gaynor Amid New Admin Plans
Sergeant Cram, adviser to Charles Murphy, visited Mayor-elect William Gaynor at his Brooklyn home yesterday. It was rumored the visit concerned appointments under the incoming administration. Gaynor said no announcements were made as other callers included Dr. Ernest Lederle and Dr. Thomas Darling ton, the current Health Commissioner.
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J. Sergeant Cram
Charles F. Murphy
William J. Gaynor
Eighth Avenue
Brooklyn
Cram
Xan
Y.en
Ernest J. Lederle
Thomas Darlington
Angry Wife's Revenge at Flatbush Avenue Station
A Brooklyn woman attacked her husband and another woman in view of the Flatbush Avenue station of the Long Island Railroad. The husband, a South Brooklyn mineral water manufacturer, and the other woman fled as the wife beat, scratched, and tore apart the rival’s millinery before leaving the scene.
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Bush Avenue
Long Island ‘Railroad
Brooklyn
Four Boston Mayoral Candidates Remain In Race
Four candidates stay in the Boston mayoral race as withdrawal deadline passes. George A. Hibbard John F. Fitzgerald James J. Storrow and Nathaniel Taylor remain in contention under the city charter. Thomas F. Curley files a protest alleging signature issues and forged names affecting his nomination papers.
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Boston
George A. Hibbard
John F. Fitzgerald
James J. Storrow
Nathaniel Taylor
Thomase F. Curley
Election Board
Curley
Piano Bargains in Fine Condition with Easy Payments
A dealer touts used pianos as exceptionally fine and nearly new in the Exchange Department. Buyers ask if a piano is new or second hand, and the house guarantees every instrument with easy payment options.
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New York
Chinatown Tong War Leads to Double Homicide Arrest
Captain Galvin and detectives at Elizabeth Street Station arrest Joe Quon and Yee Ling of 32 Mott Street for the killings of Low Gung and Lu Yo Fang at Pell Street. Witness Ching Quong Dong identifies two On Leong Tong members as the gunmen after being persuaded by Four Brothers chiefs. The investigation traces the home of the old men in Chinatown to the dingy Pell Street complex, describing the scene and the alley where the shooting occurred.
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Galvin
Elizabeth Street
Low Gung
Lu Yo Fang
Pell Street
On Leong Tong
Joe Quon
Yee Ling
Mott Street
Ching Quong Dong
Chinatown
Sam Woh
Four Brothers
Woh
Ching
Capt. Galvin
Fung Chong
Ching Gingo
Capt
Tong
Mee
Seven Children Die in Fire at Sykesville Home
Seven foreign children aged 2 to 12 perished when a mine family home owned by Stephen Bronosky burned after a coal stove overheated and ignited a keg of mine powder. Bronosky, his wife, and a boarder escaped with serious injuries as a blast followed the blaze.
Record hog prices surge to record highs across cities
On December 28 hogs sold at 8.60 in Kansas City, the highest since 1882, with heavy receipts and price gains noted. St. Louis reported two loads at 395 per hundred pounds, a peak since 1890. Pittsburgh quoted hogs at 8.80, the highest on record, citing tight supply.
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Kansas City
ST. Louis
Pittsburg
Million back tax paid by Third Avenue Railroad group
Frederick W. Whitridge as receiver for the Third Avenue Railroad turns over a $1,000,000 check drawn on Central Trust Company as partial payment of back taxes owed to New York City. The sum is divided among six subsidiaries, with $750,000 still disputed and to be resolved in court.
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Moynahan
Department of Finance
Frederick W. Whitridge
Third Avenue Railroad
Third Avenue
Central Trust Company
Union Railway Company
East Broadway, & Battery
Bronx Traction Company
Kingsbridge Traction Company
Forty-second Street
Manhattanville & St. Nicholas Avenue
Metz
Whitridge
Consolidated Gas Company
O’brien
Cortelyou
Consolidated
Strike Hangs On Perham In Northwest Rail Strike
Northwest switchmen's strike action hangs on H B Perham's Washington mission to seek federal intervention. The outcome will shape future AFL allied unions' plans for a broader railroad employes strike. Officials offered no clear update on a general strike or decisive moves.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Des
Northwest
H. B. Perham
Washington
Fernam
American Federation of Labor
F. T. Hawley
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Harshbarger
Perham
St. Paul
Anti-Suffrage Lectures Spark City Debate
Mrs Gilbert Jones announces a two lecture course titled Summary of the Woman Suffrage Movement and related topics, drawing protest from Mrs O H P Belmont who calls the program misleading anti suffrage propaganda. Belmont plans east side meetings starting Wednesday at 307 Herry Street with speakers including Bertha Ryshpan Carolyn Crossett and Prof Barton O Aylesworth and a wage earning women suffrage group is forming.
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Gilbert Jones
Anti-Suffrage League
O. H. P. Belmont
Political Equality Association
Gilbert E. Jones
Belmont
East Side
Herry Street
Thomas Davidson School
Jersey Car Lines Give Men Higher Wages as Christmas Gift
Public Service Corporation of New Jersey raises pay for four groups of trolley men in Hudson Bergen Passaic Essex Union Somerset Middlesex Burlington Camden and Gloucester counties. First year rates rise to 21 to 22 cents per hour with gradual increases for years of service and a 24 cent cap by year ten. Extra trip pay and a weekly minimum wage of 10.50 are introduced, with a new benevolent plan in the works. Dividend declared and new vice presidential posts created for the three companies.
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Public Service Corporation of
New Jersey
Hudson
Bergen
Passaic
Essex
Union
Somerset
Middlesex
Burlington
Camden
Gloucester
Thomas N. McCarter
Greenville
Paterson
Orange
McCarter
The
Public Service Corporation
Public Service Railroad Company
Public Service Gas Company
Public Service Corporation of New Jersey
Randal Morgan
Philadelphia
Col
Anthony R. Kuser
Newark
Supreme Court Justice MacLean approves society in Columbia
Supreme Court Justice MacLean approves the incorporation of the Society of Older Graduates of Columbia yesterday. The nine directors are P. de P. Ricketts, S. Albert Reed, George C. Stone, Alexander B. Simonds, Henry B. Munroe, Ludlow Ogden, Chalmers Wood, William Seton Gordon, and William de L. Benedict. The annual meeting will be held on an. 11.
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Supreme Court
MacLean
Columbia
Columbia University
P. de P. Ricketts
S. Albert Reed
George C. Stone
Alexander B. Simonds
Henry 8. Munroe
Ludlow Ogden
Chalmers Wood
William Seton Gordon
William de L. Benedict
Mexico Tour Offered By Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad promotes a thirty day guided Mexico tour departing February 3 by a Pullman train. Highlights include Mardi Gras in New Orleans and six days in Mexico City with stops at many cities and a Grand Canyon side trip. For details contact Colin Studds or Geo. W. Boyd for rates and information.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Mexico
East
New Orleans
City of
Mobile
San Antonio
Monterey
San Luis Potosi
Tampico
Queretaro
Orizaba
Cuernavaca
Puebla
Cholula
Guanajuato
Aguascalientes
Zacatecas
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Colin Studds
Fifth Ave
New York
Geo. W. Boyd
Philadelphia
Bail Insane in Office At Reading Terminal
Bernard H. Bail, slated to become Second Vice President of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway on Jan. 1, was found mentally unbalanced at the Reading Terminal today and sent to the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. He has led Reading freight operations since 1863 and will be replaced by J. F. Auch as acting Freight Traffic Manager.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Bernard H. Ball
Philadelphia & Reading Railway
Reading Terminal
Pennsylvania Hospital For
Bail
Reading
George F. Baer
Cleventh
Winters
Chicago
Mr. Bail
Verona
N. Y
New York Central
Syracuse
Merchants’ Despatch Transportation Company
Utica & Black River
Plumber Horton Seeks Annulment Over Wife's Colored Heritage
William S. Horton a Harlem plumber and Westchester County home owner sues Edith Mayne Williams Horton for annulment claiming she has Negro blood. Horton alleges deception about ancestry and cites alleged French or Spanish lineage on her side. A court appoints a commissioner to hear relatives about Mrs Horton’s background while Horton and counsel refuse to discuss the marriage.
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William S. Horton
Harlem
Westchester County
Edith Mayne Williams Horton
Justice Dowling
Supreme Court
John J. Phelan
Bridgeport
Conn
Horton
Ella Willisiams
Gladys E. de Val
Berticella Burkes
Danbury
Onn
Jeremiah D. Toomey
Mount Vernon
Neon explains aurora borealis and race health at science meeting
Dr. W L Dudley of Vanderbilt presented neon as the atmospheric cause of the aurora borealis, noting the tiny quantity required and the light from Crookes tubes. Dr. Charles W Stiles addressed race and disease at the same session, arguing on sanitation and social tensions in the South and defending cotton mills as safer for workers.
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Boston
W. L. Dudley
Department of Chemistry
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Tenn
Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemists
American Society For the Advance of Science
Dudley
Earth
Charles W. Stiles
United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Europe
Africa
Dr. Stiles
South
Stiles
Gould files general denial in De Voe breach suit
Frank J. Gould yesterday filed a general denial to the breach of promise charges presented by Bessie Van Dorn known as Bessie De Voe. Lawyers for the actress released more copies of letters they say prove the affair, though the letters are not part of the court papers.
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Frank J. Gould
Bessie van Dorn
Bessie de Voe
Mr. Gould
Tolstoy Diagnosed With Bronchitis and Liver Inflammation
In Yasnaya Polyana on December 28, Tolstoy’s doctors report the Russian novelist is ill with bronchitis and hepatitis like inflammation of the liver. The prior high fever has subsided to a lower temperature.
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Yasnaya Polyana
Russia
Leo Tolstoy
City Briefs: Lee Dinner Set at Waldorf Astoria
The twentieth annual in memory dinner for Gen. Robert E. Lee will be hosted by the Federate Veteran Camp of New York at the Waldorf Astoria on January 19 with many toasts by prominent speakers. Judge Lacombe delayed the foreclosure sale for the Forty second Street Manhattanville and St Nicholas Avenue Sway Company from February 1 to March 1 to allow time for the Public Service Commission to act on the project.
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Robert E. Lee
Federate Veteran Camp
New York
Waldorf-Astoria
Lacombe
United States District Court
Wete
Forty-second Street
Manhattanville & St. Nicholas Avenue
Sway Company
Public Service Commission
Equal Pay in City Schools Faces Cost and Alternatives
A Mayoral committee led by Gustav H. Schwab and John B. Clarl reports against full pay equalization for men and women teachers but offers options. They estimate annual costs from $7.84 million to $11.43 million and urge targeted reforms to improve fairness while noting market wage gaps and potential impacts on staffing.
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Gustav H. Schwab
John B. Clarl
Columbia University
Charles H. Keep
Knickerbocker Trust Company
McClellan
Board of Education
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