Diet Squad Menu Sparks Costly Rookies Controversy
George W. Perkine and Commissioner Weeds join the diet squad luncheon at Laf Street as officials tour the kitchen. The 25 cent daily meals for rookies draws critique from Commissioner Woods while Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk defends the experiment as showing how proper foods can meet minimal costs.
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Woods
B. G. Lewis
Dehé
H Cave
Mr. Lewis
Blackwell's Island
Eugene Lyman Fisk
Life Extension Institute
Dr. Fisk
Bell
Bureau of Licenses
Laf Street
Rook R. Bell
Williams
A of Water Supply
George W. Perkins
Commissioner Woods
Diet Squad
Diet Kitchen
West Forty-fifth Street
Court orders receivers to liquidate Mason Sea London Taxicab firms
Judge Learned Hand ordered Allan Lexon and A Leo Everett to wind up the Mason Sea man Transportation Company. They must sell all personal property except the Fifty seventh Street Realty capital, in a private sale. Strikes since January 10 left the taxi service inoperable. Replacing drivers would cost between 3000 and 4000 dollars in licenses.
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United States District Court
Allan Lexon
A. Leo Everett
Mason-Seaman Transportation Company
Fifty-seventh Street Realty Company
Mason-Seamantation Company
YMCA appeals for border aid to care for troops
The Army and Navy Department of the YMCA issued an appeal for funds to support troops along the Mexican border, stating it costs about 15000 dollars daily. Guardsmen occupy buildings, with regulars and men from other states awaiting orders. auxiliary hospital work and supplies must continue, and contributors should contact B. H. Fancher at 111 East Twenty eighth Street, this city.
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Army and Navy Department
Young Men's Christian Association
Bethlehem Steel Faces Bond Issue Amid Shell Delays
Bethlehem Steel complains about fourteen inch Navy shells delays after $622,881 spent with no shells delivered as an English firm wins a $3 million Navy order. Bethlehem cites testing method changes and production limits, while Wall Street notes a potential large bond issue to finance plant expansions and rising debt.
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Bethlehem Steel Company
United States Navy
Navy Department
Charles M. Schwab
E. G. Grace
Bethlehem
Grace
Philadelphia
Thiehem Steel
Wall Street
Bethlehem Company
Bethle
Holding company issues large purchase bonds to acquire steel firm
The Hem Corporation issued 2,000 purchase money and improvement bonds last year to finance the acquisition of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, with the holding coin standing at $81,460,000.
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Hem Corporation
Son
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Daniels Says Government Plants May Build Shells
Secretary Daniels argues Bethlehem Steel contracts pressure others to meet 14 inch shell standards. He notes government plants now proposed by Congress should not face serious trouble and stresses that Bethlehem’s focus on operations has hampered shell contracts.
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New York Times
Washington, D. C
Bethlehem Steel Company
Daniels
Navy Department
Congress
Bethlehem Co
Magistrate Attacks Uniform Vehicle Act Proposal
Magistrate Frederick B. House of the Traffic Court denounces a recent Legislature bill titled An Act to Provide for Uniform Regulation of Vehicles Animals and Pedestrians on Any Public Highway of the State. He argues the measure licenses harming city street users and erases necessary local restraints. He urges New Yorkers to work to defeat the bill.
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Frederick B. House
Magistrate House
New York
New York City
Railroads Pay More Taxes In 1916 Than 1915
The Interstate Commerce Commission reports railroads paid 0.232 million more taxes in 1916 than 1915. Tax as a share of gross and net operating revenues rose to historic levels, with 1916 tax rates exceeding those of earlier years except 1914 and 1915. The analysis notes growing tax burden since 1906 and rising proportion of railway expenses from taxation.
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United States
Cent. Com
Interstate Ferce Commission
Railway Age Gazette
Ra Lroade
Murder at Elizabeth Street Undertaker Shop
A telephone tip led Dominico Bonomolo to find Dominick Mostropaolo murdered in his wine shop beneath the undertaker’s rooms at 294 Elizabeth Street. Mostropaolo was slain with his throat cut and police pursue the caller and killer.
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Dominico Bonomolo
Elizabeth Street
Dominick Mostropaolo
Bonomolo
Mostropaolo
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Woodward
George W. Perkine
Commissioner Weeds
Police
Collin H. Woodward
Twentythird Assembly
Dancheen
Bethlehem Steel Co
Fedele
Dresels
Setin
Serge
Taffeta
Ecsbiestens
Suize
Sus
Net
Kolinsky
Hodson
Hedson Saga
Hedson
Biarritz
Bill
Albany
Victor Records
Gimbels
Victrola Salon
Beautiful—Gimbels
Saks & Company
Broadway
34Th Street
Chicago
W.B
Men's Underwear
China
Madison Square South
Imperial Palace
Modern Productions Publican
Yuan Shi Kai
Messrs. Yamanaka & Company
Japan
Dana
H._ CARROLL
Barbizon
Peter Paul Rubens
Edward G. O'Reilly
Hotel Plaza
Frederic B. Thomason
E. A. Gurnee
Justus Morris, Jr
Arthur M. Nowak
Homer Lee
Graham F. Blandy
Irving T. Bush
the Hotel Plaza
Thomas E. Kirby
Otto Bernet
The
American Art Association
East Twenty-third St
Ottitor
Herald Square
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