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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1908
Page
4
Pruning time brings radical price revisions across Rocers Peet & Company three Broadway stores. Suits of extra value priced from 15 to 40 dollars with locations at Warren Street, 13th Street, and 32nd Street, plus a figure 42 258 1260 appearing in the ad.
The Chinese New Year, marking a long voyage into a new era, prompts mail grumbling over a flood of cards and a quick postage scheme. Red envelopes and unsealed mail foretell widespread greetings while Chinatown decorates with flags and fireworks. A special edition of the Reform Weekly News is planned and a daytime theatre matinee presents the play Sixteen Mandarins Only Three Bad with nineteen acts.
A young Russian woman from Odessa, Anna Ratinoff, born a boy on the Zeeland voyage, was sent to Ellis Island. Immigration officials feared marriage was not legally documented, but Shhlome Ratinoff corroborated her tale. Supt Lamport of the Hebrew Sheltering Home secured parole and arranged a second marriage at City Hall for the couple and their baby.
Readers hear that coffee harms digestion and nerves due to caffeine while Postum, made from wheat, rebuilds with vital phosphates. A dietary switch is claimed to restore health and happiness, with a prompt to read The Road to Elville in packages.
Police raided a well known Brooklyn apartment in the Hill district suspecting a band of crooks. The seven residents, all from affluent families and sharing a communal life, turned out to be writers and artists living modestly. Detectives apologized after a lighthearted misidentification.
Henry J. Pierce of St. Louis seeks a separation from Mrs. Violette E. Pierce of Yonkers. Sheriff Charles M. Lane personally served papers in Yonkers as required by Missouri law. Pierce, a wealthy individual with a St. Louis estate, is linked to Buffalo railway interests. the couple have eight children aged 2 to 23.
A burglar hiding in Mrs. Bessie Sargeant’s bedroom at 22 Fast Thirty-first Street fled with about 1500 dollars in heirloom jewelry after she screamed and fainted. The shot of armed employer pursued the intruder over rear fences but lost him. Police found the thief had first tried Dr. G H Wynkoop’s home at 128 Madison Avenue.
Hopkinsville Kentucky January 26 night riders severely lashed R H Rodgers a member of the Tobacco Growers Association accused of desertion for selling tobacco outside the group. His house was fired upon and all telephone wires were cut in the incident reported by local authorities.
London reports Consuelo Duchess of Manchester and her sister Lady Kalye sailed on the Lusitania to attend the funeral of their mother Mrs Yznaga who died of pneumonia in the South. Miss Emily Yznaga was with her mother at death. The Duchess may stay in America to wind up affairs and likely sell plantation cotton. The mother's death reverts a $10,000 annual allowance to the donor.
Baron Takahira met with the King of Italy in Rome and urged a U S law to bar all emigrants, including Japanese, from entering the United States if the government objects. He said Japan does not seek emigration and has long refused passports, yet emigrants still reach America via Hawaii, Mexico, and Canada.
Tokyo officials announced Lady Showing Ichijo mother of the Empress died January 25 at age 80.
Lisbon reports Premier Franco moves nightly to a different house under guard as police seize revolvers and bombs from conspirators. Troops and police are on alert, while army officers are shifted amid suspected royalist plot links. Paris says Franco asked the King to suspend constitutional guarantees as Portugal faces a grave crisis.
Japanese launch fired on and robbed by Chinese pirates near Kia-Hsing-Fu. Pirates also attacked several Chinese launches en route to Shanghai, killing four Chinese and wounding nine. Troops dispatched and Japanese Consul reports to the Taotai in Shanghai.
William B. Sorsby the American Minister to Bolivia suffers an apoplectic stroke with paralysis and is in a dangerous condition in La Paz. Physicians remain at his bedside as reports say he recently became ill.
Havana reports Gov Magoon will sail from Here tomorrow and expects to reach Washington on Thursday after being summoned to the capital. The dispatch also notes European royal cruises and Buenos Aires budget action in brief telegraphic items.
Wealthy Sewickley Heights residents including Richard R. Quay son of ex Senator M S Quay and W P Snyder along with Ce G H Singer and Ce Scaife received Black Hand demands. Giuseppe Marino was arrested after attempting to collect a $300 sum at Sewickley Post Office. no weapon found. detectives say capture important.
Miss Mildred McNeil pursues her cat Columbus Knight of Honor after the animal’s blue-blood claims surface. A fox terrier pursued the muff bound cat through Manhattan area streets, later found at 108 West 111th Street. At 6 P M Miss Randolph and McNeil presented sides at West 125th Street Police Station. The case ends with a monetary settlement and a theatre connection revealed for Miss Randolph.
In York Pennsylvania today an incendiary attack aimed at J M Hartman’s property followed his refusal to meet a Black Hand demand for $150 in a cigar box. Fire damaged the building $250 and a bomb was later found. a decoy was set but no one appeared as police were alerted.
Albany agents of the German American State Alliance in a convention urged more liberal Sunday laws. A committee was appointed to meet Gov. Hughes to seek cooperation, with officials and scholars from Albany New York Brooklyn Buffalo Schenectady Troy and Rome listed.
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