Cockleshells Dare Fate to Save Freightier Crew
A battered freighter Drumelzier off Fire Island Bar broke her back amid massive seas. Captain Nicholson and 29 crew endure days of battle as life savers from Sandy Hook and Oak Island Stations undertake three daring pulls to rescue the sailors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fire Island
Nicholson
Drumelzier
Sandy Hook
Oak Island
Drumelzle TP
TOR Boiler
Gressel
Lfe
Sandy Jlock
Patterson
Catherine Moran
Moran
Atlantic
Brooklyn
Rae
Morane Towing Company
Fire Island Inlet
Narrows
Robert Deakin
Government Pier
Index to Departments and Page Listings
A catalog of newspaper sections with page references for Commercial World Amusements Business Troubles Court Calendars Marine Intelligence and Foreign Mails New Corporations Real Estate Society United Service Weather Report Yesterday's Fires noting pages for each category and a brief guide to the paper’s contents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Service
Weather Report
Brooklyn truck driver narrowly escapes with leg or two
John Murtha of 141 Butler Street Brooklyn survived a chaotic afternoon when a Third Avenue trolley rear ended his truck. He was dragged to a power house, then to the hospital after an ambulance surgeon found a groin injury. He fled the hospital, retrieved his truck, and returned home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Murtha
Butler Street
Brooklyn
Martha
South Brooklyn
Third Avenue
Sixth Street
Murtha
Third Street
Seney Hospital
Seventh Street
Lawson to Stop Attacks Report Sparks Market Rumor
London based sources circulated word that magazine ownership may shift and that Lawson-Rogers hostilities could ease. Thomas W Lawson, announcing no halting of his campaign, left town for unspecified European travel with timing unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shevial
New York Times
Rostan
Boston Financial News
Lawson-Rogers
T. W. Lawson
Europe
State Street
Lawson
Sheehan Steps Down Amid New York Democracy Reorganization
John C Sheehan resigns from leadership as William J O Brien succeeds him during the Greater New York Democracy reorganization meeting at Cooper Union. A platform calls for municipal ownership of plants abolishing the Rapid Transit Commission and electing Police Magistrates by the people with Feb 40 primaries planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wlliam R. Hearst
Demnd
John T. Cronin
Greater New York Democracy
Congressman Hearst
Reorganized General Committee
Cooper Union
John C. Sheehan
William J. O'Brien
New York County
Low
Sheehan
Rapid Transit Commission
Two Friends Die Together in Hotel Cyanide Pact
In a Boston lodging house two men known as Happy and Jolly killed themselves with cyanide in a common hotel room after weighing youth and health against poverty and lack of opportunity. They used aliases George Weber and George Brown, aged about thirty-two and thirty-five, and left no identifying details. This mirrors a recent case in Brookline where Orestes Weeks and Benjamin Riley were found unconscious from morphine, Weeks dying later, with motives and methods alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Hotel
SS Bowery
George Weber
George Brown
Orestes A. Weeks
Benjamin J. Riley
Brookline
Mass
Grand Union Hotel
Weeks
Happy
Jolly
Autekent
Times Building Story Marks New York Paper’s New Era
The Times in Times Square begins 1905 in its new home with a 48 page Building Supplement detailing the Times Building. It highlights height 476 feet underground foundations vast steel use and the plant producing 144000 sixteen page papers per hour with room for more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuk
New York Times
Times Square
Times
Liberty
Bedloe's
Efe
Puildine
Long
Alcohol for Tuberculosis Promoted by Government Chemist
Dr. W H Wiley of the Agriculture Department told the American Association for the Advancement of Science that alcohol is a highly valued nutriment for those with consumption. He cited beer wine whisky and brandy as commonly used forms and noted their apparent benefits in certain maladies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
W. H. Wiley
Department of Agriculture
American Association For the Advancements of Science
Frick Building Rents to Rise 10 Percent Next Year
An announcement from Pittsburg reports office rents in the Frick Building will advance 10 percent starting April 1 next year. The Frick Building, owned by H. C. Frick, cost $7,000,000 to erect four years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Pittsburg
Penn
Frick
H. Cc. Frick
Dewey's Wines for New Year Offer
Advertisement for Dewey & Sons Co. promoting wines for New Year at 138 Fulton Street New York. Emphasizes old and pure quality with a concise sales pitch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewey's
Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
N. Y
Rescued From Ice River After Daring Swim
James Tierney and fellow worker Edward Lawless risked their lives when Tierney fell from a Harlem River pier and Lawless swam out to save him. Lawless wrapped Tierney with a rope and both were brought to Fordham Hospital with good chances of recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Tierney
Tenth Avenue
Edward Lawless
Edgecombe Avenue
The
Bronx
Lawless
Tierney
Fordham
Three McMillan Family Dies in Livingston County Fire
Three members of the McMillan family died in a farmhouse fire at Conesus Lake head, Livingston County. Charles, Frank, and Charlotte entered the burning home with pails of water to try to save it, perishing as Lulu and servant Mary Dorman escaped. The farm residence was a prominent local home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles
Frank
Charlotte
Lulu McMillan
Mary Dorman
McMillan
Boston Harbor Tunnel Opens for Public Transit
Massachusetts and Boston officials toured the new tunnel linking Scollay Square with East Boston on the eve of its public opening. Gov Bates, Gov Guild, Gen Bancroft and 200 guests rode five electric cars through the steel and concrete submarine tube, a four year construction feat expected to shave 15 to 20 minutes for city trips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
State of
Massachusetts
Boston Transit Commission
Boston Elevated Railway
Bates
Nent
Guild
William . A. Bancroft
Boston Elevated Company
East
Scollay Square
Convicts Battle to Escape at Folsom Prison
About 150 convicts while being moved from a rock crusher sparked a melee at Folsom State Prison. One inmate was shot dead and Guard Jolly wounded in the cheek. Jolly may have been hit by a fellow guard as no prisoners carried firearms. Arms included dirks as captains and guards faced a mass uprising then guards opened fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Cal
Folsom State Prison
Jolly
Jone
Murphy
College President Danced to Illustrate Teaching
Doctor G Stanley Hall president of Clark University Worcester addressed the Kansas Teachers Association in Topeka claiming dancing trains body and mind in harmony He said he would not have a teacher who could not dance and that dance is a high noble art and an expression of religion enjoyed for its moral and physical benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Topeka
Kan
G. Stanley Hall
Clark University
Worcester
Mass
Kansas Teachers’ Association
Hall
Gannon to Lead Howland Improvement Co Operations
Vice President Frank B. Gannon of the Metropolitan Street Railway in New York will become Vice President of the Howland Improvement Company of Asheville and will oversee the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad after January 5. Gannon, once third VP of Southern Railway, is regarded as a top railroad man and will likely set up New York as his headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Asheville
N. C
Frank 8. Gannon
Metropolitan Street Railway of
New York
Howland Improvement Company
Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad
Gannon
The
Southern Railway
Lis
Emma Page Held as Shop Swindler Daughter of W C Page Arrested in Grand Larceny Case
Emma Page thirty three daughter of William C Page senior partner at Page Dennis & Co scale makers was arrested after allegedly obtaining goods valued at two hundred sixty five dollars from a Sixth Avenue store in the names of others. Detective Larkin said she confessed saying she used alias Miss Hall and Mrs Grace Richardson to obtain items when money was short. She carried eight hundred to nine hundred dollars in cash and jewels. Her father secured her bail and her release to the Imperial Hotel while he and a physician sought to understand the episode described as a temporary unbalance with no criminal intent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Page
William C. Page
Page, Dennis & Co
Broadway
Thirtieth Street
Sixth Avenue
Central Park West
Larkin
Miss Page
Marguerite Hall
Miss Hall
Grace. Richardson
West Seventy-fourth Street
Richardson
Page
Prospect Street
Orange
N. J
Station House
Bermuda
Burnett's Extract of Vanilla Standard Across Shops
An advertisement declares Burnett's Extract of Vanilla the standard flavoring everywhere and promotes its sale through the best grocers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burnett
Best Grocers
Adv
Prolonged Illness Forces Harvard President to Cancel Engagement
Cambridge Mass Dec 29 President Charles W Eliot cancels a late evening engagement due to illness. Jerome D Greene, secretary, says the condition is not alarming though a cold contracted yesterday makes it imprudent for him to go out this night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Mass
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard
Jerome D. Greene
Harvard Football Captain Leads Student Fire Brigade
Harvard captain Dan Hurley organized a volunteer fire brigade at Hollis Hall after a fire broke out in a senior dorm room. He rallied students before the fire department arrived, limiting damage to about five thousand dollars as the Blanchard room burned out and smoke and water damaged others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Cambridge
Mass
Dan" Hurley
Harvard Eleven
Hurley
Hollis Hall
Harvard
E. B. Blanchard
Dynamite Blast Aims Escape On Convict Train
In Birmingham Alabama a train carrying 180 convicts to a prison exploded a stick of dynamite in a coach. Will Filler, a Black convict, attempted to release others. Dawkins was killed, Guard Pickett lost a leg and an arm, George Delaney and other convicts were injured as guards halted the escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Tennessee Coal and Iron Railroad Company
Was &Ing
Will Filler
Ae Dawkins
Henry County
Pickett
George Delaney
Elmer Dever Works on Hanna Biography Drafts Found
In Cleveland Elmer Dever private secretary to the late Senator Marcus Hanna gathers material for his official biography at the family request. The book will feature Hanna s draft labor plank from the Philadelphia Republican platform with erasures and interlineations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Elmer Dever
Marcus A. Hanna
Statesman
Dever
Hanna
Philadelphia
Mr. Hanna
McKinley
John Sherman
Roosevelt
Dover
Bride and groom wed after hospital surgery
Dee Brown and Eleanor Bennett, both eighteen and from Greenwich, married last night at the Kennedy home. Brown rose from a sickbed after an appendectomy to join the ceremony, his physician saying he was strong enough to proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Greenwich
Conn
Dee
William Ae Kennedy
Eleanor Bennett
Arthur Brown
22 Saved From Wreck Off Diamond Shoals
Twenty two men were saved from the wrecked steamer Northeastern loaded with crude petroleum after a daylight rescue by life savers from the Hatteras Kinnakeet and Creeds Hills stations. The crew endured 36 hours as prisoners aboard the vessel, while rescuers fought fierce seas to reach them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Norfolk
Vaz
Northeastern
Diamond Shoals
Cape Hatteras
Hatteras
Kinnakeet
Creeds Hills
Davis to Represent Peru at International Railway Congress
The Peruvian Government selected Henry Gussa way Davis of West Virginia to represent Peru at the International Railway Congress in Washington in May. Davis accepts and has long pushed for an intercontinental American rail link. He served on the first Pan American Conference and on the Mexico meeting that sought government cooperation, and he chairs the permanent Pan American Railway Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Henry Gussaway Davis
West Virginia
International Railway Congress
Davis
Congress
Peru
America
Mexico
Pan-American Railway Commission
Odell backs Depew in New York senatorial fight
Governor-Chairman Odell announced that party harmony favors the reelection of Senator Chauncey M Depew. Ex Gov Black and friends concede after Odell's decision. Depew thanked Odell and cited the party’s best interests in the outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey M. Depew
United States
Senate
Odell
Republican Party
Depew
Frank S
Republican State Committee of
New York
Black
Senator Depew
Senator
Connes
Ion
Ioverner
Chauncey M- Depew
Republican Legislative Caucus
Republcan
Roosevelt
Gor
Rnor
Higgins
Ernor
Albany
Nixon
Higginis
Also Mentioned on This Page
Boy
Sel
Deakin
the Times
Dr. Wiley
Charles McMillan
Boston Harbor
California
F. S. Gannon
Panciatichi Chianti
Cesare Conti
W.C. Page
Eliot III
Fireman
Ohio
H. G. Davis
Platt
Qepew
Rer Depew
Republican Club
Elsberg
Maltby
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!