Dewey Rebuked by Regents Over Lake Placid Club Circulars
State Librarian Melvil Dewey was censured by the Board of Regents for Lake Placid Club circulars that attacked Jewish citizens. The Regents warned that continued involvement in such literature would conflict with his duties as State Librarian and urged immediate action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Albany
Melvil Dewey
Board of Regents
Lake Placid Club
Regents
Lake Placid
Library Committee
Albert Vanderveer
St. Clair McKelway
Pliny T. Sexton
Louis Marshall
State Library
Lake Placid Company
Dewey
Lake ‘Placid Company
Adirondacks
Messrs
Jacob H. Schiff
McKelway
Education’ Department
State of
New York
I. K. Funk
Marshall
Funk
Fuk
Index to Departments and Page References
Directory style list shows sections and page numbers for a newspaper routinely including Commercial World Amusements Arrivals at Hotels and Out-of-Town Buyers Business Troubles Court Calendars Marine Intelligence and Foreign Mails New Corporations Real Estate Society United Service Weather Report Yesterday's Fires with corresponding pages.
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Marine Intelligence
Society
United Service
Weather Report
Butler Sat On the Thief to Stop Household Burglary
In a New York City residence at 11 West Fifty first Street, a thief, identified as Abram Gordowitz, 18, from 186 West End Avenue, attempted burglary while Mrs. Woodward was away. The maid alerted, the butler John Risley restrained the intruder and sat on him as police arrived. Jewelry and a diamond studded watch were taken before the interruption. The Woodwards, Harvard graduate William Woodward Jr. and Elsie O. Cryder, were involved household members.
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William Woodward, Jr
West Fiftyfirst Street
East Fifty-first Street
Abram Gordowitz
West End Avenue
John Risley
Gordowitz
Risley
Meehan
East Fiftyfirst Street
Brooklyn Autonomy Bill Seeks Borough Independence
Albany Feb 15 The Brooklyn Autonomy bill backed by Kings County Republicans and Senator McCarren aims to grant borough level control for Brooklyn and other boroughs. It would allow borough presidents to appoint assistant counsels and elevate Brooklyn and Bronx president salaries to 10000. Tammany Senators condemn it as a hit on Mayor McClellan and Tammany Hall.
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Albany
N. Y
Brooklyn
Kings County
Senate
Gardner
Patrick H. McCarren
Bronx
Queens
Richmond
Greater
New York
Finance
Education
Police
Republican Organization of Kings
McCarren
Tammany
Santo Domingo treaty rushed to the Senate
The Santo Domingo treaty arrived in Washington prompting a Senate inquiry push. Secretary Hay and President discuss the instrument which would authorize U S control of customs in Santo Domingo to fund admin costs and pay foreign claimants.
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Santo Domingo
New York Times
Washington
Senate
Hay
White House
United States
Morales
United States Senate
Santo Domingan Congress
Frye
Cullom
Committee On Foreign Relations
Allison
Ankeny
Allee
Ball
Crane
Kean
Overman
West Indies
Foreign Relations Committee
Castro Still Obstinate in Venezuela Talks
The talks between U S Minister Bowen and President Castro over U S Venezuela disputes are at a standstill. Castro’s evasive tactics and abrupt capital departure leave arbitration uncertain. Rumors of a broader anti Castro movement gain currency as a possible revolution looms in well informed circles. Piso's Cure advertised.
Oakwoods Sunk After Collision With City of Lowell
The crew of the two masted schooner Oakwoods survived after the Providence Line steamer City of Lowell struck and sank her off Whitestone. Osmund Jenson warned, two crew jumped overboard and were injured by ice. The rest climbed into the rigging and were rescued by the steamer, later aided by railroad transport offers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Providence
R. I
Oakwoods
City of Lowell
Long Island Sound
Lowell
New York
Whitestone
Osmund Jenson
New York, New Haven and
Harford
British Goliath Seeks Life Insurance in New York
George Auger from Cardiff stood eight feet one inch and weighed 320 pounds during a visit to the Equitable Life Building. He requested a ten thousand dollar policy and impressed doctors who deemed him a good risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Equitable Life Building
George Auger
Cardiff
South Wales
Auger
Paris
Doctor with pistol causes panic at Gilsey House
Dr John G Knowlton of 39 West Twenty seventh Street caused a hotel scare at Gilsey House by declaring he would shoot a man. Detectives found a pistol on him and he was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. He was bailed later.
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Gilsey House
John G. Knowlton
West Twenty-seventh Street
Dr. Knowlton
Frederick Kavanaugh
Saratoga County
House
Robert Tucker
George Moore
West Thirtieth Street
Crowley
Countess Ejects Nurse In Royal Custody Dispute
Florence reports a dramatic domestic dispute as the Countess Montignoso ejects nurse Mahote from the villa over custody of Princess Anna. The German authorities and a Dresden lawyer challenged the move, while doors and bell wires were cut and police cited lack of court order to intervene. Local spectators voice opposition to any violence against the ex Crown Princess.
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Florence
Montignoso
Frederick Augustus of Saxony
Mahote
Anna
Harlan Nominated by Republican City Convention for Chicago Mayor
John Maynard Harlan unanimously nominated for Chicago mayor by 1 041 delegates with 997 backing. The lawyer son of Supreme Court Justice John M Harlan and brother to Lake Forest University president Richard D Harlan and ex Att Gen James S Harlan. He praised Roosevelt era GOP as champion of unorganized many against the few.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John Maynard Harlan
Harlan
John M. Harlan
Supreme Court of the United States
Richard D. Harlan
Lake Forest University
James 8. Harlan
Porto Rico
Graeme Stewart
Princeton University
Dalveraty
Republican Party
Roosevelt
Quickest Line to Cleveland Train Schedule Fragment
Partial timetable notes a New York departure at 5 32 P M reaching Cleveland at 7 15 with line references to Cincinnati St Pt MM Indianapolis St Louis and Speed York Central. Details are incomplete and scribbled.
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New York
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Speed
York Central
Gawtry Resigns as Gas Company President
Harrison E. Gawtry, president of the Consolidated Gas Company, has resigned with plans for a California health trip. Rumor says George F. Baker may assume control, though no successor has been elected. The news surfaces amid a period of stock decline and a gas trust inquiry.
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Harrison E. Gawtry
Consolidated Gas Company
Gantry
California
Mr. Gantry
Graut
Gas Trust
Consolidated Gas
Irving Place
Wall Street
George F. Baker
First National Bank
Gas
Lincoln Trust Company
Manhattan Real Estate Association
The
Real Estate Trust Company
Manhattan Savings Institution
Union Trust Company
Union League, Union, and
Lawyers’ Clubs
Chamber of Commerce
Anthony N. Brady
Stephen S. Palmer
Samuel Sloan
William Rockefeller
Captain saves woman from icy river near Harlem River
On the John Foley at One Hundred and Forty-Second Street Captain John R. Berry heard a woman's cries. He jumped onto the ice to reach her, but the ice broke twice. He and officers pulled the victim, identified as Mrs. Alice Meenhard, from the river. Berry was unharmed though the ice gave way.
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John Foley
Gleason
Turpenning
Alexander Avenue
Alice Meenhard
North
Boston Island
Berry
French Cruiser Sully Stranded On Rock In Far East
Admiral Bayle reports, via dispatch from the Far East squadron, that the French cruiser Sully lies eighty feet over the rock after a diver’s inspection. Holes dot the forepart and starboard keel, the deck bursts, and salvage is limited. Transfers of armament and stores are underway with Hongkong Salvage Company aiding efforts.
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Paris
Minister of Marine
Bayle
Far East Squadron
Sully
Hongkong Salvage Company
Man Arrested After Dastardly Broadway Drive
Andrew Walker aged 21 of 1106 First Avenue drove a horse on a Broadway sidewalk near Thirty seventh Street yesterday afternoon. He fought five policemen for nearly twenty minutes before being dragged away. He resisted at the station house and was charged with intoxication and disorderly conduct.
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Andrew Walker
First Avenue
Broadway
Thirtyseventh Street
Walker
PRINCETON LIQUOR BILL SEEKS BOROUGH REGULATION
In Trenton on February 15, Senator Hutchinson introduced a bill giving boroughs power to regulate liquor sales within their borders. Princeton leaders push for bars to close at 11 PM, a rule that held when licenses rested with borough authorities before the Court of Errors shifted them to County Courts.
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New York Times
Trenton
N. J
Senate
Hutchinson
Princeton
Court of Errors
County Courts of Common Pleas
Paris Demonstrates Rapid Telegraph Apparatus
Interesting experiments between Paris and London showed a new telegraphic device by Pollak and Virag that can transmit 40 words per hour using six clerks. Messages arrive in written form rather than Morse code.
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Paris
London
Pollak
Virag
Florida's Famous Trains and Fast Coastal Routes
Florida's famous trains are highlighted with schedules for the N. Y. & Florida Special at 2 10 P M and the Florida & West Indian Ltd at 9 25 A M. The note praises fine service via ace and Atlantic Coast Line, referencing 161 Broadway.
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Florida
Fla
West Indian Ltd
Ace
Atlantic Coast Line
Albany and Troy Express Derailed Near Ossining
Train No. 27 on the New York Central Railroad ran off the rails when the rear truck of the baggage and smoker derailed near Ossining New York. The forward truck remained on track and the derailed car was cut out and jacked back onto the rails. Passengers in the smoking compartment were shaken but unharmed.
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New York Times
Ossining
N. Y
Albany and
Grand Central Station
Neenah Student Regains Sight After Sudden Blindness
Miss Sadie Clark a Neenah high school student woke Feb 6 to sudden blindness. She recovered her sight on Feb 15 while en route to Milwaukee for a planned operation, drawing wide attention in Appleton.
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Appleton, Wis
Sadie Clark
Neenah
Wis
Clark
Milwaukee
Jeanne Charcot seeks divorce in Paris courts
Jeanne Charcot née Hugo, Victor Hugo’s granddaughter, sues Dr. Jean Charcot over desertion. The case stirs Paris society where both are prominent. Charcot’s Antarctic expedition and a past duel with Leon Daudet are noted amid fears of a possible pole expedition disaster.
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Paris
Jeanne Charcot
Hugo
Victor Hugo
Jean Charcot
Madame Charcot
Dr. Charcot
Leon Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
Charcot
France
South Pole
Japanese Dancer Kimi Pandai Dies in New York
Kimi Pandai a young Japanese dancer who toured the United States with her sister died yesterday afternoon of heart failure at 29 West Thirty-sixth Street where they lodged. Daughter of a Tokyo theatrical impresario she and her sister arrived in New York a few days ago and had performed Tuesday at the Hotel St. Regis. Cremation will take place at Fresh Pond with ashes sent to Japan.
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Kimi Pandai
St. Louis
West Thirty-sixth Street
Miss Pandai
Tokio
St. Regis
Fresh Pond
Japan
Three-Cent Fare Costly In Cleveland Street Rail
President Horace E. Andrews of the Cleveland Electric Railway Company released a statement to City Council detailing the impact of the two mile three-cent fare trial. The test produced a daily loss of 764 dollars, affecting 18 percent of total fares and operating from 6 AM to 7 PM. After ending the three-cent period the firm shifted to a four-cent no transfer ride for eight days, which logged a daily loss of 1,875 dollars compared to prior earnings for the same service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio
Horace E. Andrews
Cleveland Electric Railway Company
Plant Yacht Saves French Schooner Off Algiers
The American steam yacht Venetia owned by Morton F. Plant of New York rescued the distressed French schooner St. Antoine de Padua at Bougie, though Venetia sustained some damage. Plant, Commodore of the Larchmont Yacht Club, owns the racing schooner Ingomar and bought Venetia from F. W. Sykes of Leith last September. Venetia is steel built, 588 tons net, 196 feet long, constructed at Leith in 1903.
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Algiers
Gulf of Bougie
Morton F. Plant
New York
Mr. Plant
Larchmont Yacht Club
Ingomar
F. W. Sykes
Leith
Scotland
Record price for Omar Khayyam first edition purchases
In Boston on February 15 at Libbie's auction rooms a first edition of Ruhayat of Omar Khayyam sold for 317 dollars the top public price, surpassing Sotheby's 268 dollars. Frederick W. Morris of New York bought it after spirited bidding and also acquired Hawthorne's Fanshawe for 621 dollars a third high price.
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New York Times
Boston
Libbie’s
Frederick W. Morris
New York
Morris
Hawthorne
Fanshawe
Florida Cuba Nassal Summer Le Augusta And Aiken
Train names and routes listed as fast services in a brief rail advertisement highlighting limited service between Florida Cuba Nassal Summer Le Augusta and Aiken with additional fast trains numbered 271 and 1 485 bound for the southeast.
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Florida
Cuba
Nassal
Summerle
Augusta
Aiken
Southern
Palm Limited Ly
Equitable Board to Decide on Mutual Basis and Hyde’s Future
The Equitable Life Assurance Society board meets to decide shifting from stock to mutual organization and whether James H. Hyde retains the vice presidency. petitions from officers seek mutualization and Hyde’s non-re-election, while Hyde allies assert they will control the situation and view the move as a conspiracy led by James W. Alexander and others.
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Equitable Life Assurance Society
James H. Hyde
Hyde
Equitable
James W. Alexander
The
Henry B. Hyde
Gage E. Tarbell
George T. Wilson
William Alexander
T. D. Jordan
Francis W. Jackson
William H. McIntyre
Sidney D. Ripley
Alexander
Elihu Root
Samuel Untermyer
John G. Johnson
Philadelphia
Hyde Estate
Board of Directors
Mr. Hyde
August Belmont
Wilson
Jordan
Jackson
Board of Directore
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Butler
Tammany Up In Arms
Castro
City of
Springfield
Mass
Supreme Court
Sen
Gawtry
G. F. Baker
Grout
Ing Inquiry
Broadway Walk
College Town
Wisconsin
Mme
Cleveland Railway Company
Venetia
Omar
FitzGerald
Equitable’s
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