Poincare Chosen French President After Turbulent Paris Vote
Paris leaped into delirium as Raymond Poincaré was elected president on the second ballot with 483 of 848 votes. Crowds filled Versailles streets while reports of a possible duel with Clemenceau circulated and a madman was arrested amid the tumult.
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Jules Paris
Third Republic
Sadi Carnot
Jules Ferry
Vérsailles
Poincaré
Clemenceau
City of Kings
Place d’Armes
National Assembly
M. Antonin Dubost
Senate
M. Dubost
Falliéres
Bonapartist
Marquis de Dion
Lot
Tarade
M. Vaillant
Socialist Party
M. Paris
Avenue de Paris
Rabid Terrier Exposure Spreads Fear in New York Suburbs
Mrs. Arthur King Wood of Ardsley Park and her three children and nurse begin an eighteen day Pasteur Institute treatment after their Scotch terrier showed rabies symptoms and bit the nurse. The dog bit several neighbors’ dogs, tore off its muzzle, escaped, and was later found dead. others’ dogs were shot or poisoned in response.
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Wood
New York Times
Ardsley-On-Hudson
N. Y
Arthur King Wood
Ardsley Park
Richard
Dudley
Barbara
Henrietta Davis
Pasteur Institute
New Gas Discovered by Cavendish Director at London Lab
Sir Joseph Thomson announced at the Royal Institution a new gas with molecular weight and formula H8 found in metals like iron zinc copper and lead. He obtained small quantities using cathode ray bombardment and from a 200 year old lead sample from Trinity Chapel.
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Sir Joseph
Trinity Chapel
Cambridge
Joseph
James Dewar
Jewish Newspapers Hit by Writers Strike Yet Published
Amid a strike by Newspaper Writers Union No 4 all city Jewish papers appeared yesterday but readers faced desolation as fiction features were halted. The Forward staff planned union talks led by Max Pine while writer Louis Zeltner warned that only the Jewish side would strike. The Warheit suspended The Gangsters and The Bartered Orphan, leaving Lena in danger as the plot unfolds amid sectarian tensions.
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Writers’ Union No. 4
Warheit
A. M. Rubin
Lena
East Side
Forward
Max Pine
Forward Association
Pine Sis
Louis Zeltner
Wireless Louis
Massacre Claims by Serbs in Macedonia Alarms Europe
A Stav of reports and appeals from Vienna and The Times describe an alleged organized slaughter of Mohammedan civilians in Macedonia by Serb troops. The Vienna Reichspost cites witnesses and calls for an international inquiry, naming massacres around Uskub Kalkandele and Vardar crossings with many dead and starving Albanians.
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Macedonia
Vienna
Reichspost
Europe
Albania
Uskub
Vistala Voda
Vardar
Kumanovo
Kalkandele
Antediluvian Whiskey Ad Promises Pure Quality
An odd vintage ad copy touts Antediluvian whiskey labeled Inflexible and even in quality. Luydes Bros. appears as the distributor or retailer in the small, fragmentary note.
Stephen Phillips on How I Began in The Book Review
Stephen Phillips begins a biographical essay series on famous living writers, part of The Book Review in Tomorrow's Sunday Times. The piece is joined by pieces from H. G. Wells and others and notes additional essays on Show and Laughter and Wyspianski.
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H. G. Wells
G. K. Chesterton
Katharine Tynan
Bart Kennedy
Edward Thomas
Tomorrow’s Times
P. P. Howe
Floryan Sobieniowski
Stanislaw Wyspianski
George Sylvester Viereck
Udo Brachvogel
Stimson and Gaynor Clash Over Chelsea Pier Extension
Secretary of War Stimson and New York Mayor Gaynor reached a partial agreement on extending the Chelsea Piers. Stimson would not permanentize the temporary line or extend Dickinson era limits, while Gaynor pressed for keeping the pier extension during leases as harbor plans unfold. The debate covered Jersey and New York docking needs, future dock policy, and funding timing for new piers.
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New York Times
Washington
Stimson
Gaynor
New York
New York Harbor
Chelsea Piers
Joseph M. Dickinson
Dickinson
City of
Chelsea
Chelsea Pier
Gayng
Sulzer
R.A. C. Smith
New York State
Calvin Tomkins
W. F. Cresson
Ernest d. Heppenheimer
New Jersey Dock Commission
Richard ©. Jenkinson
J. Spencer Smith
New Jersey
Jenkinson
Hoboken
New Jersey Commission
Jersey
Castle Point
Holland Company
S Stimson
Hudson River
Col. Black
Harbor Board
Fifty-second Street
Barclay Street
Cable Point
Desbrosses Street
Forty-fourth Street
City Council of
Secretary of War
Whitridge Raises Pay of Nonstrikers on Third Avenue Lines
President Frederick W. Whitridge of the Third Avenue Railway Company announced wage increases for motormen and conductors ranging from 24 to 28.5 cents per hour, with Yonkers workers delayed until June after a year of strike. The raise reflects a prosperous year and aims to share gains with employees, plus potential $1,000 insurance options through negotiated plans.
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Frederick W. Whitridge
Third Avenue Railway Company
Third Avenue System
Yonkers Railroad Company
Yonkers
Manhattanville & St. Nicholas Avenue Railway Company
East Broadway & Battery Railroad Company
Union Railway Company
New York Cy Interborough Railway Company
Southern Boulevard Railway Company
Westchester Electric Railroad Company
New York, Westchester & Connecticut Traction
Comany
Whitridge
Suydam to Wed Miss Elizabeth Wood in Sayville
Sayville, L I Jan 17 Walter L Suydam Jr is to marry Miss Elizabeth Wood daughter of Joseph Wood an attorney of Sayville as rumored during a family visit in Wilmington Del Mrs Wood and her daughters Elizabeth and Ellen accompanied him to visit relatives. News of the engagement had circulated since last summer with no surprise expected if marriage occurs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Sayville
L. L
Walter L. Suydam, Jr
Elizabeth Wood
Joseph Wood
Suydam
Blue Point
L. 1
Wood
Louise White Suydam
Frederick Noble
Couple Suydam and Wood Missing in Wilmington
In Wilmington Delaware on January 17 neither Mr Suydam nor Miss Wood could be found and no marriage license had yet been issued to them.
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New York Times
Wilmington
Del
Suydam
Miss Wood
Governor Blease Warns of Killing Over Newspaper Criticism
Gov. Cole I. Blease warned the General Assembly that harsh editorials and political vilification could provoke killings. He cited the Tillman trial and urged restrictions on newspapers arguing that without redress politicians may face bloodshed for defending honor. He criticized The State editor W. E. Gonzales and highlighted press hostility to his views.
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New York Times
Columbia
S. C
Cole I. Blease
General Assembly
B. R. Tillman
W. E. Gonzales
Lexington
James H Tillman
N. G. Gonzales
Columbia State
Prince Albert Joins Cumberland For Six Months Cruise
Prince Albert, King George V's second son, boarded the cadet training ship Cumberland in London. The vessel sails tomorrow for a six months voyage that will include the West Indian islands, with New York not on the current itinerary.
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NEW York Times
London
Prince Albert
King George
Cumberland
West Indian Islands
New York
Burglar Cornell Wins Patent for Alarm He Invented
William Cornell, 54, a longtime burglar now at the Tombs, received notice from Washington patent lawyers that the burglar alarm he invented has been approved for patent. Cornell, who invented the device during a 1947 Danneport sentence, says the simple system powers an electric gong when a door or window is disturbed and would deter burglaries even by himself.
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William Cornell
Bridge of Sighs
Washington Patent
Cornell
Dannemora
Deacon Mason Fined Six Hundred Over Deer Meat
Atlantic City Jan 17 The high deer meat price in Atlantic County was paid when James Henry Mason along with his sons Harry and George were fined 600 dollars after authorities found a blood stained cellar with a deer carcass on Mason's property. The Deacon claimed the killing was for chickens.
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New York Times
Atlantic City
N. J
Atlantic County
James Henry Mason
St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church
Harry
George
Mason
Pastor Eats 32 Pancakes in Church Pancake Supper
In New Brunswick New Jersey on January 17 Pastor Harold Paul Sloan of Pitney Methodist Church outpaced Mrs. Charles Hammel president of the Ladies Aid Society by finishing 32 cakes to win a pancake appetite contest. The event raised more than 25 dollars for the church building fund.
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New York Times
New Brunswick
N. J
Harold Paul Sloan
Pitney Methodist Church
Charles Hammel
Ladies’ Aid Society
Rockefeller Outing at Palm Beach in Wheelchairs
Mr and Mrs William Rockefeller and their son William G Rockefeller spent a pleasant day at the Royal Poinciana Palm Beach Florida. They traveled in three wheelchairs pushed by negro attendants along the edge of Lake Worth. Rockefeller showed interest in tropical plants and conversed with his driver in a hoarse voice.
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New York Times
Palm Beach
Fla
William Rockefeller
William G. Rockefeller
Royal Poinciana
Lake Worth
Women to Hire Substitutes for Washington March
Philadelphia suffragists adopt a plan to compel inactive supporters to hire substitutes and pay expenses to march to Washington. Mrs. Travis Cochran funds subs, and Gen Rosalie Jones endorses the idea. Named Philadelphians Mrs B W Ruson Mrs Rehbeces Linton aged 70 and Dr Ernest J Stevens join the effort.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Washington
New York
Travis Cochran
Rosalie Jones
Gen. Jones
B. W. Ruson
Rehbeces Linton
Raid on Women's Poker Den in Frego Court Apt House
Police raid on 206 208 West Ninety second Street found a second floor apartment hosting fifteen women and seven men playing poker. Detectives arrested a woman and a man identified as proprietors, Mrs Belle Gubner and Henry Brilant a jeweler from 520 West 156th Street.
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Dwyer
Frego Court
West Ninety-second Street
Ninety-second Street
Belle Gubner
Henry Brilant
West 156Th Street
Brandt Freed With Conditions After Mercy Hearing
Foulke Engle Brandt, former valet to L. Schiff, recanted earlier slander and was pardoned by Gov. Sulzer. The pardon is conditional, barring public appearances about the case and any statements contradicting others’ character, with violation risking revocation and return to prison. Senator Knute Nelson will arrange Brandt’s move to Minnesota for work and a home.
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Albany
Foulke Engle Brandt
Fortimer
L. Schiff
Rosalsky
Court of General Sessions
Brandt
Foulke Englebrandt
Gov. Sulzer
Schiff
Sulzer
Executive Chamber
United States
Knute Nelson
Minnesota
New York
Nelson
Brooklyn
Towns
Willian Rand, Jr
Loward
Gaus
Dstrict
Jerome
Dank Wis
Schuft
Mercy Brandt
Dix
Rand
Carmody
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Sir Joseph Thom
Son
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Cavendish Laboratories At
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Heroine
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Thall
European
Turkey
the Times
Stephen Phillips
Sunday Times
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