Stamps Scandal Taints New York Ledger Discovery
Albany February 10 Charles M. Watkins chief clerk in the Transfer Tax Bureau under Controllers Kelsey and Wilson faced disclosure of vast stamp losses. Controller Glynn accused lax custody, unbonded staff, and unguarded stock of $5.6 million in tax stamps printed by Quayle & Son, with miscounts and burns cited as the path of destruction.
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New York Times
Albany
Martin H. Glynn
Glynn
Quayle & Son
Green Street
Quayle
Albany City Safe Deposit Company
Tit
Watkins
New York
Oliver Quayle
Bank of Manhattan Company
State House
Frank D. Leland
Olean
Quality branding for Ferris Hams and Bacon
A short advertising note emphasizes higher price as a sign of quality, urging consumers to insist on the Ferris brand for cured meats and bacon, reinforcing trust in quality, flavor, and consistency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferris
Elevator Fall Injures Eight At Rhinelander Building
An elevator in the new Rhinelander Building on William and Duane Streets fell from the seventh to the basement shortly after 7 pm, injuring eight people. The car carried fifteen when it dropped. brakes failed, a spring cushion mitigated the impact, and two printers were hospitalized.
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Rhinelander
New York American
William and Duane Streets
Frank Ingvalson
Ten Hurt In Car Crash On Forty-Second Street
Ten injured in a collision of Third Avenue and Forty-second Street surface cars at Forty-second Street and Third Avenue. Motormen misread signals, slippery rails and high speed caused the crash. no arrests as police rule it a rail condition accident. Injured include DANIEL MCCARTHY, PATRICK DOHERTY, JOHN E MINOTT, JAMES KINGSTON, MRS. GEORGE J PETERS, JOHN LEORDMOND, and others. A drug store cafe served as a temporary hospital.
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Third Avenue
Forty-second Street
Daniel McCarthy
East Eightieth Street
Patrick Doherty
West Thirtieth Street
John E. Minott
East Thirty-second Street
Lutten
Collapse of School Floor Crashes 200 During Event
In Wooreasoucket Rhode Island on February 10 a floor on the second story of a school building hosting an entertainment collapsed. About 200 people fell to the floor, three suffered severe injuries, and twenty five others were bruised. The severely injured include 14 year old Miss Ida Paradis with brain concussion, Mrs Lorenzo Bachaud with a sprained leg, and Mrs David Morse with knee and ankle sprains. All injured were sent home.
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Paley
Meyer
Pitt Street
Snover
Eugene
Apen Street
Brooklyn
Summers
William
Richmond Hill
Staub
Alfred
Willow Street
Sias
Herbert
Halsey Street
Oelrichs
Theodore
Jefferson Avenue
Jersey City
Hoagland
Thomas
Hanson Place
Bradley
Henry
Ninety-eighth Street
Manhattan
Hudson Street
Curley
The
American
Ingvalson
Oak Street
Wooresoucket
R. I
Migst
Ida Paradis
Lorenzo Bachaud
David Morse
Wife Sues Crosby for Divorce in Colorado Springs
Mrs. Louisa G. Crosby files suit for divorce without alimony against Walter F. Crosby, alleging desertion. Married in New York City on April 20, 1880, they moved to Colorado Springs in 1885 and rose in society. Their daughters Nina and Gladys tied the knot in New York about three years ago. Crosby works in New York in investments at 25 Broad Street. he could not be reached.
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New York Times
Colorado Springs
Louisa G. Crosby
Walter F.crosby
New York City
Nina
Gladys
Crosbys
New York
Crosby
Louis R. Ehrich
Ehrich
Cripple Creek
Louise G. Sutton
Broad Street
John Linley
East Thirtieth Street
Linley
Foreign Shotgun Kills Butcher in Harlem Little Italy
Felipe Randazzo a Chrystie Street butcher was shot through the heart on Saturday night. Police say a foreign made twelve gauge shotgun and an Italian cartridge killed him, possibly by members of the Black Hand. A Belgian shotgun and Italian cartridge were found in the killer group’s possession, linking the crime to a network of Italian criminal activity and recent dynamite attacks. Detective forces coordinated under Capt. Mannion with Italian detectives to pursue suspects. Randazzo, a Palermo native who came to New York three years ago, lived with his wife and child at 325 East 127th Street and had recently moved into the Chrystie Street shop about three months prior.
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Felipe Randazzo
Chrystie Street
Black Hand
Italy
Petrosino
Randazzo
East Lutth Street
New York
Palermo
Sicily
Girgen
Harlem
Salvatore Tuso
Natner
Wldridge Street
Tuso
Mannion
Eldridge Street
Radazzo
Rivington Street
Belgium
Salvatore Sperlasto
Forsyth Street
First Avenue
Second Street
Little Italy
Stanton Street
Elizabeth Street
Seaboard Fast Florida Train Advertised from Pinehurst Camden
Seaboard File Ltd advertises the quickest Florida train. Seaboard office located at 1183 Broadway, with contact P. KR. R. 9881006. AdVs
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Pinehurst
Camden
Florida
Seaboard File. Ltd
Seaboard
Broadway, Or
P. KR. R
Schiff gives 40000 to Hebrew Sheltering House immigrants
At a special directors meeting the Hebrew Sheltering House announced that Jacob H. Schiff plans a 40000 gift to expand its work. A five member committee was appointed to meet him. The gift supports new quarters for inmates and freeing the aged home for immigrant use, with mortgage plans to fund expansion. The center aided about 8000 arrivals last year and aims to care for more during Ellis Island processing.
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Hebrew Sheltering House For
Home For
East Broadway
Jacob H. Schiff
Schiff
Watchorn
Ellis Island
Leon Kamayky
Home For the
Lambert
Tugboat Strike Threat Looms Over Harbor Coal Supply
New York Harbor Boatmen's Union threatens a citywide tugboat strike this week on Lehigh Valley Railroad vessels unless a $10 monthly wage increase is granted to Perth Amboy crews. Lackawanna tugboat workers may join, with potential sympathy action against Erie and others, risking coal shortages at Perth Amboy and Port Reading pockets already felt by supply lines.
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New York Harbor
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Perth Amboy
Lackawanna Road
Erie
Perth
Amboy
Port Reading
Perth Reading
Roosevelt on parents in home duties letter
Syracuse February 10. Mrs. E H Merrell, president of the New York State Mothers Assembly, received a Roosevelt letter outlining the roles of father and mother at home. He stresses the father must back up the mother, be a good husband and breadwinner, and that the highest work for both is in the home with duties extended by outside interests, while condemning shirked duties and ill-treatment.
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Syracuse
E. H. Merrell
New York
Sheannot
Schmitz Denies Any Settlement In Japanese School Fight
Mayor Schmitz and the San Francisco School Board held two conferences and refused to disclose their planned stance on Japanese pupils. They prepare to meet President Roosevelt and Secretary Root at the White House, amid 309 telegrams urging exclusion. A Japanese Exclusion League telegram denounced sensational headlines about surrender while Schmitz denied any deal and asserted no statements to reporters. Roosevelt and Root discussed the issue, with a possible plan to press a treaty excluding Chinese labor if the Oriental school is abolished. no definite proposition had been made by Roosevelt by midnight.
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Washington
Schmitz
San Francisco
White House
Roosevelt
Root
United States
Treitmoe
California
Oriental School
Jealous man kills three in Buffalo tragedy
Grover Lockwood shot and killed Mr. Snyder and Mrs. Snyder at 249 Seneca Street then killed himself after a quarrel with Snyder who had ordered him out. Mrs. Snyder died on the stair and Mr. Snyder in a chair. Lockwood then died by his own hand.
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New York Times
Buffalo
Grover Lockwood
Joseph Snyder
Lockwood
Snyder
Seneca Street
Higgin’s Condition Not Better, Doctor Reports
Clean, N Y February 10 Ex Governor Higgins had a restful day but Dr Hibbard said tonight his condition was not as good as yesterday. During the day Dr Hibbard was in telephone communication with Dr Schott at Lakewood N J
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Clean
N. Y
Higgins
Unexcelled Rail Service Note Florida Cuba South
Florida Cuba South schedule details mention times 2 10 P M 25 A M and 9 25 P M with reference to Penn and Atlantic Coast Line routes plus the Florida Information Bureau located at Broadway and 80th Street.
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Florida
Cuba
South
Penn
Atlantic Coast Line
Florida Information Bureau
Bway
80Th St
Ady
Jiji Opposes San Francisco Labor Immigration Treaty
The Jiji in a Tokyo editorial doubts a new mutual treaty on restricting labor immigration as a fix for the San Francisco school dispute. It notes Japanese migration from Hawaii fuels white labor jealousy but says the issue lies in imperfect law, potentially fixable by cross government agreement, separate from the present dispute, with credit to President Roosevelt for any settlement.
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TOKIO
Vthe Jiji
Teading
San Francisco
Jiji
Hawaii
Japan
He Jiji
Roosevelt
Japanese Laborers Driven From Woodburn Town
In Woodburn Oregon February 10 after Southern Pacific replaced ten white section men with Japanese laborers a crowd of fifty Americans warned the Japanese to leave. The Japanese departed for Portland. Foreman A Schwabauer refused to work with the Japanese and resigned yesterday. Warrants will be sworn out tomorrow for the ringleaders of the crowd responsible for driving them away.
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Woodburn
Bre
Southern Pacific
Portland
A. Schwabauer
Japanese contract coolies land in San Francisco from Hawaii
Two hundred eighteen Japanese contract laborers arrived in San Francisco aboard the Siberia from Honolulu. They were allowed to land as they move within the United States, with one detainee due to trachoma. The arrivals were grouped into gangs and housed in lodging houses. Masuji Miyakawa, linked to a Japanese newspaper, accompanied the Board of Education in Washington and was criticized by the Japanese Consul for overstepping authority.
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New York Times
San Francisco
Honolulu
Siberia
United States
Hawaii
Masuji Miyakawa
Board of Education
Washington
Ugeno
Miyakawa
Try Gold and Black Label Crown Sherries Abroad Bottled
A brief notice highlights availability of Gold and Black Label Crown Sherries in three standard export forms. The item notes bottles shipped abroad and invites interest from readers seeking traditional sherry varieties.
Explosion at Woolwich Arsenal lab wrecks building
A 3:30 AM explosion damaged the Woolwich Arsenal chemical research department in London’s Woolwich. No lives are believed lost, though all town windows were shattered. The Royal Arsenal spans about 600 acres with gun factories, a wagon department, projectile laboratory, and large stores. Woolwich, seven miles southeast of London, is now a London borough.
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London
Woolwich Arsenal
Royal Arsenal
Woolwich
United Kingdom
City of
Kingston mayor dies after quake building collapse
Charles Tait, mayor of Kingston, Jamaica, died at the public hospital after being injured when a meeting collapsed in the quake. He was 65, of Scotch descent, and had been presiding over a Council meeting when the disaster struck.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Charles Tait
Tait
Chauffeur Loses Shoes Amid Auto Theft Claim
A fur coated man claims to be Mr Ryan’s chauffeur Thomas F Ryens, says his shoes were stolen while repairing a car at Eighth Avenue and Forty-eighth Street. He valued the auto shoes at 140 dollars and a detective detail is promised.
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Seret
Brady
West Forty-seventh Street
Mr. Ryan
Thomas F. Ryen
Eighth Avenue
Forty-eighth Street
Long Walk on Water Ends in New Orleans Feat
Special to The New York Times from New Orleans reports Captain Charles W. Oldrieve walked 1,600 miles from Cincinnati to New Orleans in forty days and forty five minutes to win a $5,000 wager. He nearly died when his cedar shoes slipped and he capsized near Canal Street. his wife in a rowboat rescued him. The trip began Jan 1, with daylight travel and overnight landings, aided by backers Capt. Weatherington and Arthur Jones representing Edward Williams of Boston.
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New York Times
New Orleans
Charles W. Oldrieve
Cincinnati
Oldrieve
Canal Street
Louisville
Oldriere
J. W. Weatherington
Dallas
Texas
Arthur, Jones
Edward Williams
Boton
Bank president missing in New Britain
William FF Walker, president of the New Britain Savings Bank, was reported missing by his son Arthur Walker after arriving in New York for treatment of a mental ailment. Walker, 5 feet 7, 155 pounds, with gray-blue eyes and a dark gray mustache, was last seen near the Hotel Cumberland and Grand Central Station. police alerted as search continues.
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William FF. Walker
New Britain
Conn
Welker
Cumberland
Broadway
Fortyfourth Street
Grand Central Station
Mr. Walker
A. J. Sloper
New Britain National Bank
Dr. Fitch
Mr. Walker Derby
Boy's Strange Death In Williamsburg Home
Eight year old Robert Hesse fainted while playing on a kitchen floor at 125 Nell Street Williamsburg. He died after failing to regain consciousness with no marks on the body. Doctors at German Hospital pursue autopsy to determine cause, pondering possible foul play.
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Nell Street
Williamsburg
Robert Hesse
Holzmann
Robert
Jackjaw
Jealousy theory in Thaw trial dominates adjourned day
The defense pressed jealousy as Thaw’s motive for fatally shooting Stanford White, arguing the jurors should see his act as a result of unfounded jealousy rather than insanity. Prosecutors gathered witnesses, including chorus girls, while Thaw kept to his cell in the Tombs.
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W. F. Crosby
Colorado
J. H. Schiff
Roosevelt ON
League
Arsenal
W. F. Walker
New Britain, Conn
Jerome
Mrs. Thaw
Stanford White
Harry K. Thaw
Thaw
Dr. Wyle
Mr. Gleason
Mr. Jerome
White
Rutgers Street
Garvan
Hattie Forsythe
Paula Desmond
Mazile Follette
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Stand
Evarts, Tracy & Sherman
Toombs
Delmas
Philadelphia
Hartridge
Peabody
F. ¢. Perkins
Pittsburg
John A. Wade
Wilbur F. Steele
William J. Lynch
Broadway Central Hotel
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