College Girl Fails Courage on Wellesley Greek Day
Special to The New York Times reports a Wellesley festivity as upperclass candidates for Alpha Kappa Chi Tau Zeta Epsilon and Phi Sigma endure initiation stunts on a college day. A girl climbs a telegraph pole while onlookers cheer and others stage theatrical prankery. A demure student is urged to propose to a policeman as part of leap year jest, but she bolts to her dorm amid jeers.
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New York Times
Wellesley
Mass
Washington Street
College Gate
Alpha Kappa Chi
Tau Zeta Epsilon
Phi Sigma
Fire Drives Seven Families From Brooklyn Tenement
A early morning blaze in a five story brick building at 886 Livingston Street Brooklyn left seven families homeless. Mrs Phoebe Tate and Mrs Bartholomew were rescued by patrolmen after escaping in nightwear as the fire destroyed the house. The Bartholomew family saved a pet canary during the evacuee drama.
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Livingston Street
Brooklyn
Phoebe Tate
Frank Bartholomew
Waldeck
Tate
Stockley
Children’s Hospital Branch Forms to Quiet City Noise
A New York reader thanks the city for hospital quiet zones and announces a junior branch of the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise. The group plans badges for children who pledge not to play near hospitals, with support from officials and educators.
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Children’s Hospital
Darlington
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia
Richard Watson Gilder
J. M. Haldeman
First Baptist Church
Merle St. Croix Wright
Lenox Avenue
Wis
Children’s Hospital Branch
Society For
Isaacs. Rice
New York
Union Traction Sold to Chicago Railways Company
The West Chicago Street Railway and North Chicago Street Railway, operated as Union Traction, were sold at auction to Chicago Railways Company. Separate bids totaled 2,090,000 while a lump sum bid reached 2,000,000. The sale ends a lengthy traction dispute. the Supreme Court decision last week cleared the path for reorganization and a planned 12,000,000 reconstruction investment.
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Chicago, NL
West Chicago Street Railway Company
North Chicago Street Railway Company
Union Traction Company
Chicago Railways Company
Supreme Court of the United States
Growth of Charity Work Marks New York Poor Association Report
The New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor reports 61 572 people aided with food clothing rent or counsel and nurses visiting over 100 000 families. Free bath tickets issued total 305 582 while current receipts show a deficit of more than 24 000. The Committee on Physical Welfare notes rising public interest and finds no increased child physical defect rates since 1857.
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New York Association
America
Reading Hardware Co workers gain fifty hour schedule
Nearly 1,000 employees at the Reading Hardware Company are ordered to fifty hours per week after previously working thirty-nine. The move comes as the hardware trade shows a brighter outlook.
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Reading
Penn
Reading Hardware Company
Lumber dealer robbed on streetcar in Milwaukee
Racine Wisconsin January 25 F J Cameron a prominent lumber dealer of Milwaukee was robbed last night on a street car of cash bonds stock and other papers totaling about 6000 with 240 in cash taken. The crime occurred as Cameron rode home from work and investigators are tracing the suspects and motive.
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Racine, Wis
F. J. Cameron
Milwaukee
Atock Sas
Thaw Witnesses Smuggled Ashore for Testimony in Court
Foreign witnesses including Dr. Albert Abrams and Mrs. Abrams of Paris, W. E. Garrett and John Wahrmann of London, and Dr. Russell Wells of London arrived in New York aboard the Adriatic under guards to testify about Harry Thaw. They will describe Thaw's actions abroad and mental state after a sanitarium stay, with the wife’s account of an attempted death act and details of a Tyrol trip with Evelyn Nesbit.
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Martin W. Littleton
Harry Thaw
New York
District Attorney’s Office
Thaw
Albert Abrams
Albert Abrams and Mrs. Abrams of Paris, W. E. Garrett and John Wahrmann
London
Russell Wells
Janja
Switzerland
Claridge
Ape
Paris
Evelyn Nesbit
Tyrol
Hugh Herndon
Littleton
Adriatic
Herndon
Mr. Littleton
Jerome
Stanford White
Thaw case notes and family tensions emerge in trial reports
The article details a lengthy conference between the defendant and his wife and counsel A Russell Peabody. It notes strained relations within the Thaw family and persistent rumors of an estrangement involving the wife. Jurors enjoyed a two hour sleigh ride in the afternoon before continuing the trial schedule.
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Thaw
A. Russell Peabody
Central Park
St. Nicholas Avenue
Hospital Aid Sought to Prevent Nassau Sleep Debt
Nassau Hospital on Long Island faces a cash shortfall of 46 000 dollars to avert closure within weeks Vice President Percy Bromfield of Hempstead warned that the hospital will end debt and close if funds are not raised The facility had been about 2000 dollars behind each month and earlier circulars urged 8000 dollars by mid January receiving just over 5000 dollars.
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New York Times
Mineola
L. I
Nassau Hospital
Percy Bromfield
Hempstead
Association
Friends of the Hospital
Night riders seize Arcadia Hotel in Dawson Springs Ky
Fifty masked riders invaded the Arcadia Hotel in Dawson Springs late last night, firing shots and scaring guests. They abducted John Heath, a tobacco buyer, to a nearby river and forced him to vow not to sell tobacco again. Heath was returned to the hotel as the riders dispersed.
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Dawson Springs
Arcadia
John Heath
Mr. Heath
Hudson River Navigation Ends for Season at Fishkill Landing
Navigation on the Hudson River closed today as Central Hudson Steamboat Company steamers completed their last trips for the season at Fishkill Landing in New York. The brief notice notes seasonal service suspension with no schedule details.
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New York Times
Fishkill Landing
N. Y
Hudson River
Central Hudson Steamboat Company
Fabric Edges and Insertions and Lace Combinations
Vendor offers Batiste Nainsook and Cambric edges 2 to 12 inches with insertions and flouncings 27 inches wide suitable for Batiste robes with Venise Valenciennes and Filet lace in white tan blue pink lavender navy, values 14c to 35.00.
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Oriental
Nainsook
Batiste
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