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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1908
Page
16
Advertised items in THE NEW YORK TIMES that go missing are usually found and returned to owners within twenty four hours. Free registry service offered at Times Building on the Main Floor with telephone connection 1000.
A wave of lost notices lists items ranging from a small golf watch to a collapsible umbrella and diamond jewelry. Entrants provide street locations, descriptions, and rewards, with contact details including addresses on West 74th Street, West 148th Street, and Fifth Avenue. Several entries reference subway, streetcar routes, and major avenues.
Readable rental notice lists attractively furnished rooms and large private houses with daily utilities and phone services. Locations include 29th Street, 46th Street, 48th Street, 68th Street, and 150th Street, with several houses offering private baths, elevator access, and nearby subway. Also includes job ads for clerks, stenographers, and governess agencies.
Classified notices advertise rooms and board in multiple streets near Madison Square East End Avenue and other Manhattan avenues. Listings emphasize heated rooms private baths table board references telephone and family or American households. Douglas Manor Inn at Douglaston Long Island markets a private estate offering winter stays with refined management and required references.
Newport residents join Mrs. Dahlgren and Rear Admiral Chadwick in protests against ending the city bell ringing at 6 pm and on holidays. They warn sentiment holds real value, likening beauty and history to enduring assets and urging preservation of the tradition.
Mrs Mary McGlynn, long an Eloise inmate, hopes to claim a $25,000 legacy by proving she is the mother of Edward McGlynn who died in Louisville Kentucky. The case centers on identification and rightful heir status as of January 27 in Detroit.
Help wanted male positions and sales roles from a 1920s era listing. Includes real estate agent in New York with room 810 Times Building and a cigar salesman needed in Toledo Ohio with monthly pay plus expenses.
A snow flurry interrupts Mary Baker G. Eddy’s first drive from Concord to Brookline New Home. Vaults for manuscripts and valuables added. Estate guardianship possible under Massachusetts law, with heirs seeking safeguards.
An open letter to Mrs Mary Baker Eddy protesting her move from Concord New Hampshire to Brookline Massachusetts was read yesterday by Frederick J Stanley D D General Secretary of the American Sabbath Union. The letter accuses Eddy of planning travel on the Holy Day to deprive railway workers of rest and to secure a special three car train.
Rodriguez Alves ex-president of Brazil will finish in Rome then seek an audience with the Pope before departing for a few days. He has two relations with the Italian government and would return to be received by the Pope. Some suggest this approach could be used by Catholic heads of state visiting Rome to ease Vatican quarrels with the Quirinal.
A citizen saw glare from Lafayette and Bond Streets and reported a blaze at a two tower project at 638 and 686 Broadway. Chief Tur penny and 24 contractors climbed to the thirteenth floor under six gasoline lamps and then descended. They seek to meet the alarmist.
Gen Charles H Earard brother of Gen O O Howard US Army retired died today at his Glencoe home He was born in Leeds Maine in 1838 and is survived by seven children.
In Atlanta on January 27 1910 William J Oliver of Knoxville Tenn the contractor who nearly won the Panama Canal contract faces divorce and alimony suit for 160000 dollars. Mrs Nennie Oliver testifies that Oliver induced her to live at his home before their marriage in Atlanta in 1908 and later left her. she claims he wed another woman in Knoxville and that he injured her with a knife when she threatened to leave. Oliver denies any marriage.
Sahi N. Buk chakji a self described Hindu fakir was arrested in St Louis on a theft inquiry involving $20000 worth of Oriental silks from V F P Bhumgara Company of India. Prince Hans Smile tipped police after learning of the valuables in Jamestown and Atlantic City.
William Hi Price set a revolver triggered by a shed door to stop apple theft. A man identified as John Borcherski was wounded in the leg when the trap fired. Borcherski, a Pole, confessed to stealing apples and was treated before being moved to St Peter's Hospital Brooklyn in serious condition.
A blaze fed by a 40 mph gale began at the Hotel Florence, 163 Adams Street, spreading embers over the Loop. The fire threatened dozens of structures including the Corn Exchange Bank building. Estimated loss is 300000 dollars. all 20 hotel guests reportedly escaped as crews confined the flames to two blocks.
Norwich belts plant and Davenport Arms in Norwich suffer 35000 loss with unknown fire cause. In Virginia Beach area Ocean View Resort pavilions bath houses and related structures burn with 2500 loss and partial insurance. Knoxville four story Nashville Fants Company building on Jackson Avenue destroyed with 31500 loss.
A garbled ledger of addresses and names appears, listing Gladstein & Co. and Gustave Solomon among others with monetary figures such as 31,000 and 5 sums. Items include 12:20-162 Rivington St and 724 St Be City PERM, plus several other addresses on Bowery, Christie, Mulberry, and East Side locations.
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