Subway Trains Split and Guard Killed in Rush Hour Chaos
In a dramatic rush hour breakdown two southbound express trains fractured near Astor Place and Brooklyn Bridge leading to a near standstill from 6:40 to 7:20. Guard Charles Brown of 1546 Park Avenue was killed at 187th Street when struck while crossing tracks. Officials blamed automatic braking misalignment and a malfunctioning trip device for the separations and delays affecting about 25,000 riders.
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137Th Street
Broadway
Astor Place
Seventy-ninth Street
Charles Brown
Park Avenue
Subway
Frank Hedley
West Farms
Brooklyn
Merritt
Hedley
Brooklyn Bridge
Mr. Hedley
Brown
187Th Street
West 125Th Street
Forged marriage cited in Boston divorce suit
Mrs. Josephine Richardson Moffett of Alston sues for divorce claiming her husband Darius L. W. Moffett forged papers showing a prior divorce. She says he appeared in Jersey City July 25 1808 as a persistent suitor and that his first wife and family resided in Dorchester. He fled when investigators neared amid a $5000 mortgage with the Boston Safe Deposit Co. prior to moving to Boston from Lexington Kentucky.
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New York Times
Boston
Mass
Josephine Richardson Moffett
Alston
Dewey's Port Wine and Olive Of
brief fragment lists a New York address 138 Fulton St and naming Peter & Sons Co. as supplier for port wine and olives with a note on strength and nourishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewey’s
Saegpeter & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Wanton Shooting Stirs Mob After Beating Boy
A carpet cleaner, George McVetty, shot three men after beating a twelve year old. An angry mob gathered at Ninth Avenue and Thirty first Street as police fought to protect him. Patrolman Murphy and a plainclothes officer rescued McVetty and kept the crowd back at a drug store while victims were treated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George McVetty
Ninth Avenue
Thirty-first Street
Charles M. Murphy
Thirty-seventh Street
McVetty
Big Guy
John McGinniss
West Thirtyseventh Street
Harry McLane
Hackensack
N. J
McLane
Patrick McElduff
Clyde McKay
Joseph Lynch
West Thirty-third Street
McKay
Lynch
Murphy
New York
Missing Banker Surrenders in Worcester Case
Fred A. Hammond the jail keeper brings in Tom John A. Hall ex Treasurer of Southbridge Savings Bank and Stephen Martin his brother in law after Hall surrenders at the Worcester County Jail He pleads not guilty to grand larceny with bonds set at 50000 Hall claimed a long period in hiding and possible larger shortage at the bank WSJ officers transport Hall to Webster for trial Bank president Calvin D Paige said the apparent shortage is about 150000. not likely to exceed much
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester
Mass
Fred A. Hammond
Worcester County
Tom John A. Hall
Southbridge
Hammond
Hall
Stephen Martin
Murray
Molt
Webster
Clark
Boston
George A. Gaskill
New York City
Martin
New York
Calvin D. Paige
Society plots slander suit filed in Milwaukee
Mrs. Kate A. Townsend sues four women for 20000 dollars accusing them of conspiring to ruin her social standing. Defendants include Frances S. Kempster wife of Dr Walter Kempster Caroline S. Quarles wife of Judge J W Quarles Thomas H Brown and Edward Ferguson. Kempster divorce linked. Quarles a federal judge and ex senator. Brown ex Federation president. all are DAR members. The plaintiff cannot name specific speakers or times.
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New York Times
Milwaukee
Wis
Kate A. Townsend
Hamilton Townsend
Frances S. Kempster
Walter Kempster
Caroline S. Quarles
J. W. Quarles
Thomas H. Brown
Kempster
Guiteau
Quarles
United States
Brown
State Federation of Women’s Clubs
Daughters of the American Revolution
Pre Eminently 177s BP Simonard Railway Update
Information fragment notes Atlantic Coast Line details with trains at 25 and 9 25 FP M Broadway corner.
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Simonard Railway
Atlantic Coast Line
M. B'way
Cor
Taft Plans to Visit New York Cities in March
President Taft intends to visit Albany and Rochester, New York, in March to address audiences aimed at healing Republican rifts. He will speak in Albany and Rochester, where the Chamher of Commerce hosts him and Representative Perkins extended the invitations.
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Washington
Taft
Albany
Rochester
N. Y
Chamber of Commerce
Republican
New York
Perkins
Taft to take active role in New York party unity drive
Albany reports Taft plans to visit Albany and Rochester to help reconcile Republican differences in New York. State leaders debate White House influence vs local leadership, with figures like Woodruff Barnes Wadsworth Ward and Senator Root weighing options. Taft may join Governor Hughes at Albany University Club dinner.
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New York Times
Albany
Taft
New York
Rochester
White House
Roosevelt
Root
Timothy L. Woodruff
William Barnes, Jr
Wadsworth
William L. Ward
New York City
J. Mayhew Wainwright
Wainwright
Westchester County
National Commiteeman Ward
Walinwright
Jove
Washington
State Capitol
Senator Root
Gov. Hughes
University Club of Albany
Executive
James B. McEwan
Mr. Taft
Yale
University Club
Roach Kills Eleven Foot King Cobra at Bronx Zoo
Bronx Zoo keepers found an 11 foot king cobra dead yesterday with two holes bored through its body by a cockroach a little over an inch long. Curator Ditmars said the roach likely entered for warmth and fed on the living snake after starving.
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Bronx Zoo
Ditmars
Four Killed in Wreck Near Titusville Penn
Four men died and three were seriously hurt when a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train on the Chautauqua Branch jumped the track one mile north of Titusville. The dead were signalman William J. Pastorius of Titusville conductor Fred Warren of Ol City brakeman W H Hughes of Buffalo and fireman Mitchell Wall of Buffalo. The crash occurred as three southbound freight trains were coupled and the leading engine left the rails, with the rest of the train plowing into it. All victims were in the cab of the buried engine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Titusville
Penn
Chautauqua
Pennsylvania Railroad
William J. Pastorius
Fred Warren
Ol City
W. H. Hughes
Buffalo
Mitchell Wall
Worea
California Book Offered by Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway
A handsome California book is offered by the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway for three cents postage. The advance notice lists A Blair as General Western Agent at 381 Broadway New York with Ni to address.
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California
Chicago, Milwaukee ST. Paul
A. Blair
General Hastern
Broadway
New York
Ady
Times Ad Prompts Advance Orders for Next Sunday
The note urges readers to place orders with newsdealers now to avoid missing features advertised in the upcoming Sunday Times.
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Times
Interborough plans $460000 annual wage rise and pension
The Interborough Rapid Transit Company board approved a 10 to 25 cent daily wage increase for about 6000 elevated and subway workers, excluding motormen, effective Feb 1. Aimed at a $160,000 yearly rise, the plan includes recreation rooms, meals at cost, and a pension fund modeled after the Pennsylvania Railroad, plus $140,121 in welfare benefits paid last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore P. Shonts
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Caer Sane
Meliyet Hee
Interborough
Pennsylvania Railroad
Saloon Punishment Sentences Officers to Attend Church
Indianapolis mayor adopts a novel punishment for liquor law violators forcing saloon keepers to attend church and obtain minister letters proving attendance. Three saloon owners will be sent to church next Sunday as licenses remain suspended for violations. Ten other arrests since the mayor took office have also faced suspensions.
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New York Times
Indianapolis
Shank
Crummins
Fear Is Felt For Sidis Boy Illness Rumors Rise
Boston January 27 William James Sidis eleven year old Harvard prodigy remains ill at home after a lecture on the fourth dimension. Cambr idge rumors say he may not return to studies while doctors call it a severe grip he has shown signs of recovery but his father Dr Boris Sidis remains cautious about a return date. The Sidis family defends the boy from accusations about mental strain though the illness remains the discussion at Brookline residence.
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New York Times
Boston
William James Bidis
Harvard
Cambrid
Boris Sidis
Brookline
Sidis
Refu
Direct Steamers to Florida From New York
Clyde Line runs direct steamers to Florida on Tuesdays Wednesdays Fridays and Saturdays from the North River side with large outside landings and 390 engines noted in the schedule.
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Florida
Clyde Line
Ater
York
Lendid
Prima Donna Weds In Secret New Jersey Ceremony
Mme Gerville-Reache, leading contralto at the Manhattan Opera House, has married Dr George Gibier Rambaud, director of the Pasteur Institute, in New Jersey with a private justice of the peace ceremony on Nov 11. The couple kept the nuptials secret until now, while preparing for her Elektra role and continuing her performances at Manhattan.
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Mme. Gerville-Reache
Manhattan Opera House
George Gibler Rambaud
Pasteur Institute
Rambaud
West Twentythird Street
New Jersey
Mme. Rambaud
Institute
Columbia University
Paul Gibier
Lulu Fowler Bryan
Houston
Texas
Miss Bryan
Supreme Court
Paris
Emma Calvé
Manhattan
Clytemnestra
Richard Strauss
Elektra
Delilah
Mme. Calvé
Mme. Labordie
Pauline Viardot
Opéra Comique
Hammerstein
Metropolitan
French Aviator Latham Falls 130 Feet in Cairo Flight
Hubert Latham, French aviator, plunged 130 feet during a Heliopolis flight. His monoplane wrecked but he escaped injury.
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Cairo
Egypt
Hubert Latham
Heliopolis
Latham
Injury to Sergt McConville at Subway terminal incident
Sergt John McConville of the Traffic Squad was injured near the Subway terminal at Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues Brooklyn. He was squeezed between two trolley cars when a Flatbush Avenue car swung into Atlantic Avenue as a Bergen Street car passed. Switchman Harry Bunce stopped both cars and freed McConville who had fainted. He was bruised cut and in shock, taken to his home at 619 Vanderbilt Avenue.
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Brooklyn
Fourteenth F Street
Hedley
John McConville
Atlantic and
Flatbush Avenues
Flatbush Avenue
Atlantic Avenue
Bergen Street
McConville
Harry Bunce
Vanderbilt Avenue
Goodwin Declares Governor Candidacy in Hartford
Hartford Courant reports Charles A. Goodwin of Hartford will seek the Republican nomination for governor. A Yale graduate of 1898 and a city lawyer, Goodwin has been executive secretary to Governors Lilley and Weeks and is linked with local business interests.
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Hartford
Conn
Hartford Courant
Charles A. Goodwin
Grasty to become President of The Sun publishers
The Baltimore Sun reports Judge Nilss ratified the sale of part of the Walter R. Abell estate interest in The Sun to Charles H. Grasty. The court action completes Grasty’s rise to president of the A. S. Abell Company and executive head of the paper, while other owners retain large interests.
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Baltimore
the Sun
Marion Found Guilty of Murder in the First Degree
George L. Marion a New York City theatrical agent was found guilty of first degree murder in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania after a ten day trial. The jury deliberated one hour and Marion shot the woman he followed from New York after learning she had wed a man named Brooks. The defense fund for Marion was raised by theatrical people nationwide.
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Wilkesbarre
Penn
George L. Marion
New York City
Marion
New York
Brooks
Blood Transfusion Saves Brooklyn Woman at Swedish Hospital
Emily Johnson of 153 Carroll Street Brooklyn improved yesterday after a blood transfusion from childhood friend Miss Ida Barling. Doctors W L Chapman and W F Campbell performed the operation at Swedish Hospital where Johnson had been for two weeks and is likely to recover.
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Emily Johnson
Carroll Street
Brooklyn
Federal court frees Stegall after contempt clash
Charles E. Stegall Government storekeeper and gauger was released from Dade County Jail today after habeas corpus proceedings in a Federal court. Judge Newman ruled a State court cannot compel a Federal officer to divulge information obtained in official duties, ending the earlier contempt confinement.
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Atlanta
Charles E. Stegall
Gauger
Dade County
Stegall
Grand Jury
Internal Revenue Department
Fite
Newman
King Wurts Wurtemburg Horseshoe Cable to Pittsburg
A cable from Stuttgart demands a full set of horse overshoes for the King of Wurtemburg’s stables. Mrs. George Westinghouse supports the effort by enabling a local manufacturer to produce the overshoes. She earlier funded an inventor for a chain-fastening under the horseshoe frog to improve grip on icy streets.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
King of Wurtemburg
Stuttgart
George Westinghouse
Westinghouse
Summer Home Ransacked on Newport Ocean Drive
Chief Hee Crowley and officers investigated the Summer residence of G. M. Hutton in Newport Rhode Island after a caretaker reported a break in. Entry was gained by smashing a veranda glass panel and extensive rummaging disrupted furnishings but nothing appears to have been stolen. The caretaker dated the break in as Wednesday night.
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New York Times
Newport
R. I
Po- Hee Crowley
G. M. Hutton
Baltimore
Ocean Drive
Refusal of Wage Increase by Ohio and Western Pa Operators
In Pittsburg on January 27 the soft coal operators of Ohio and Western Pennsylvania met and decided not to grant any wage raise for the coming year. Miners will be told at a Toledo meeting next Tuesday. It is unclear if reductions will be proposed to miners in Ohio Indiana and Western Pennsylvania. Operators say United Mine Workers are not ready for a strike now and claim the union's treasury holds about 465000 to cover 312000 members if a general strike occurs.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Ohio
Western Pennsylvania
Toledo
Indiana
United Mine Workers of America
1 Percent to New Orleans and Return Ticket Offer
A Cnsylvania Railroad advertisement lists Mardi Gras travel, selling tickets January 31 through February 6 with prices 85.76 and 35.76 dollars. The notice includes garbled text referencing range changes and baggage terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Cnsylvania Railroad
Rengeesim Congult
Dewey and Sons Co Offers Brut Cuvee and Special IT
The note mentions Dewey and Sons Co located at 183 Fulton Street New York/New Fork offering Brut Cuvee and Special IT products. It reads as an informal advert with address and item names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DEWEY
Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New ‘Fork
Paris Flood Worsens as Seine Rises Submerging Streets
Paris newspapers report the Seine cresting further with walls caving in and sidewalks sinking. Subways flood from Rue Saint Lazare to Rue Jacob while gas mains burst and bridges are cleared of wreckage by Bluejackets. Officials clash over flood gravity as Phases of rise and fall unfold with warnings of renewed danger.
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Paris
Rue St. Lazare
Place de l'Opera
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Sixth Arrondissement
Orleans Company
Rue Jacob
Institute of France
Rue de Tournon
Twelfth Arrondissement
Ile St. Louis
Ile De-La-€Ité
Pont St. Louis
Lambert
Prince Czartoryski
Lauzun
Pont Royal
Marne
Yonne
Seine
M. Lépine
Melun
Nogent
Bray
Grand Morin
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79Th Street
Har
Roach
Sylvania
Mayor Shank
Justice of the Peace
Sergt. McConville
Connecticut
Baltimore Sun
Charles H. Grasty
Paper
Miss Barling
Mrs. Johnson
King
Humane Society
Hutton Cottage
Chamber
Bercy
de l’Alma
Co Reine
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