Endurance Run Across Continent Aims For Chicago
Four days to cover the first thousand miles with a fixed speed limit and night driving. Signal Corps will relay updates from Nome to Seattle ensuring continuous communication.
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Signal Corps
Alaska
New York
Paris
United States
Chicago
Lkely
Utah
Nevada
California
Rockies
Cheyenne
Albany
Hudson
New York State
Lake Region
Syracuse
Sherman
Omaha
Wyoming
BKB
Reno
Los Angeles
Coast Range
Santa Barbara
San Francisco
Los Angles
James Allen
Nome
Seattle
Royal Court awards Wassa order to hotelier Muschenheim
The Royal Court of Sweden via Vice Consul Clarholm in New York yesterday conferred the order of Wassa of the second class on W. C. Muschenheim proprietor of the Hotel Astor. The award dates back to Gustavus Adolphus era 1772.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Court of
Sweden
Clarholm
New York
W. C. Muschenheim
Hotel
Astor
Gustavus Adolphus Y
Mutual Reserve Life Policy Holders Urged to Refuse Assessments
The policy holders committee of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company urges members to withhold payment of approximately 1.46 million dollars in new assessments amid disclosures of a 1.5 million dollar deficiency. The circular alleges concealment by company officers and cites December 16 board actions as improper under an injunction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
J. W. Hyams
Louisiana
House of Representatives
W. D. Robinson
Lamar C. Quintero
William Hepburn Russell
Julius P. Mayer
New York
Insurance Department
State of New York
Mutual Reserve Life
George D. Eldridge
Eeing
1908 Corporation Taxes Assessed in New York City
President Lawson Purdy of the Tax Department released tentative 1908 corporate assessments, noting a sharp drop from 1907 due to a new method. Totals by borough show Manhattan 10,887,500 vs 192,555,325. Bronx 3,932,591,319 vs 36,347,450. Brooklyn 12,615,620 vs 265,840,300. Queens 2,262,500 vs 40,303,150. Richmond 881,550 vs 10,210,600. Final assessments are expected higher but still modestly reduced. Purdy says the change will save work and benefit the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawson Purdy
Tax Department
Purdy
Lin
Manhattan
Bronx
Brooklyn
Queens
Richmond
Nurse girls distracted sidewalk disputes at Manhattan court
Ferdinand H. Cook a real estate operator of 249 West End Avenue testified five nurse girls blocked the sidewalk between Seventieth and Seventy first Streets provoking pedestrians to the street. Judge Herrman reprimanded the women and judged the matter closed with a mild rebuke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferdinand H. Cook
West End Avenue
West Side Court
Herrman
Seventieth
Seventy-first Streets
Charles E. Schuyler
Mr. Cook
Plans for Brooklyn Church by Mary Baker Eddy Followers
Henry Ives Cobb designs a new Christian Science church in Brooklyn to be built on a Dean Street and New York Avenue plot 150 by 140 feet. Excavation to start by February 15, with a white pressed brick structure featuring an auditorium for 1,160 and a Sunday school of about 350. Projected cost around $200,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ives Cobb
Brooklyn
Mary Baker Eday
Christian Science
Dean Street
New York Avenue
Brazil honors fleet with garden party at embassy
Rio de Janeiro hosts a breakfast at Petropolis for American officers led by Rear Admirals Thomas Sperry and Emory. A garden party at the U.S. Embassy draws officials, diplomats, and about 4,000 sailors amid orderly shore leave and an expected $250,000 in local spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio Janeiro
Penna
Petropolis
Thomas
Sperry
Emory
Irving B. Dudley
Dudley
Alencar
Hermes Fonseca
Rio
Fluminense Park
Roosevelt and Penna exchange messages on fleet visit
President Roosevelt and Brazilian President Penna exchange cables praising the American fleet en route to the Pacific and Brazil's hospitality. Roosevelt says ships are messengers of friendship, not war. The fleet may visit Buenos Aires next, with Cone's vessels instructed to go to Montevideo first.
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Washington
United States
Brazil
Evans
Rio
Roosevelt
Cable
Penna
Petropolis
Theodore Roosevelt
Pacific Ocean
Rio de Janeiro
Brasil
Affonso Penna
White House
America
Buenos Ayres
Cone
Montevideo
Platte
History Professor Attacks Historic Methods at Columbia
Prof J H Robinson in a Columbia lecture condemned past historians for relying on minimal facts and speculative reasoning. He argued historical knowledge rests on scattered, testable data and warned that narratives and inscriptions are open to misrepresentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Robinson
Columbia University
Prof. Robinson
Italian banker Caponigri vanishes amid Mulberry Street crisis
Crowds gathered outside Pasquale Caponigri's 20 Mulberry Street banking office as the Italian banker vanished with about 75 000 in liabilities and no assets. Police guarded the site while rumors said he sailed to the Argentine on the Royal Prince under an assumed name, with cables sent to Barbados to locate him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasquale
Caponigri
Mulberry Street
Elizabeth Street
Argentine Republic
East Seventy-fourth Street
Magnani
Bayard Street
Canal Street Bank
Italian Bankers’ Association
Padrones
Italy
Lamport Will Contest Heard in Paris Estate Case
Surrogate Beckett opened a trial over the will of Hiram H. Lamport who died in Paris on January 23. Althea Grant Jewell seeks to overturn the will, valued near $500000. Mary Smedley received 15000 and acts as residuary legatee and executrix amid claims of undue influence and incompetence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckett
Hiram H. Lamport
Paris
Althea Grant Jewell
Mary Clementine Smedley
Lamport
Barber Pazzo fatally wounded in Corona shop attack
Alfonso Pazzo a Corona S I barber was found wounded in his wrecked shop suffering a gunshot wound to the neck and several deep razor cuts. Pasquale Dagopina said two men assaulted both men. Pazzo had received Black Hand threats but did not pay them heed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfonso Pazzo
Corona, S. I
Pasquale Dagopina
Pazzo
Maxwell Defends School Control Amid Critics and Libel Accusations
Superintendent Maxwell rejects claims of a power grab, arguing his chartered duties include nominating and supervising examiners and attendance officers. He asserts the Board of Examiners needs independence to guard tenure and prevent influence from disgruntled applicants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxwell
Board of Education
Board of Examiners
Charter Revision Commission
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F. H. Cook
New Christian Science Church
Tropolis
Robinson
Oxford
Saksee
Deeae Ae
Enene Sa
Saka & Company
Mulberry Street Colony
Mary. Smedley
Barber
Overland
Portland
Union Pacific
North Western
A . M. Johnson
Broadway
U.S
Pacific
H. H. Topakyan
Persia
264Th Avenue
Corner 29Th Street
George H. Welgert
Simpson-Crawford Company
Edna May
Qumteh
Chen
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