Police dog test shocks Elmwood residents in Brooklyn stunt
Inspector Harkins Funston and Wakefield staged a secret patrol dog test in Elmwood, Brooklyn. Patrolman Berrman fled across fences as Nogi pursued followed by gunfire drawing Reserve units to the scene. The incident prompted police to expand kennels and plan naming pups after disliked politicians.
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Harkins
Funston
Parkville
Lieut
Wakefield
Belgium
Elmwood
Brooklyn
Charles Berrman
Ocean Parkway
John Cavanaugh
Metropolitan Racing Association
Twenty-second Avenue
Michael Nicholson
Nogi
Mr. Cavanaugh
New Orleans
Berrman
Cavanaugh
Nicholson
Kelly
Wood
Riverside Drive
Depot Lane
Bronx
Police Dogs Cost Ten Dollars Each In Belgium Mission
Police Lieut. George R Wakefield traveled to Belgium to search for police dogs. The total bill reached 364 dollars including five dogs at ten dollars each. Customs inspectors doubted the declared price and valued the dogs at about a thousand dollars each.
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George R. Wakefield
Belgium
Metz
Police Department
Idt
Wakefield
And
Crnee
Dying man kills girl in Ambridge home
Mary Cozzini 18 and Dominic Polcina 25, sweethearts from Italy, argued at the sister's house in Ambridge near Pittsburg. She hid in her room and he shot her after he broke in, while she stabbed him and he fired a fatal shot.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Mary Cozzini
Dominic Polcini
Italy
America
Polcina
Ambridge
Poleina
Pleasant Plains Walkers Reach Station Avenue After Philadelphia Start
Capt. Theodore Haywood of Pleasant Plains with Richmond and Harry Fischer, Herbert Schoeler, Herbert Bostwick, Harry Franklin, and John Williams from Philadelphia arrived at Station Avenue, Pleasant Plains, last night. They left City Hall in Philadelphia at 7:50 p.m. on Monday. Their pace was slow due to poor walking conditions.
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Theodore Haywood
Pleasant Plains
N. J
Richmond
Harry Fischer
Herbert Schoeler
Herbert Bostwick
Harry Franklin
John Williams
Philadelphia
Station Avenue
City Hall
The Road to Wellville Mentioned in Grape-Nuts Ad
An advertisement urges readers with poor digestion to try Grape-Nuts and cream as an easily digested meal. It claims the product strengthens digestive organs and enables a broader diet, inviting readers to test it now and read The Road to Wellville in packages.
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Wellville
Bourget Stages First Play Un Divorce at Vaudeville
Paris reports Paul Bourget presented his three act drama based on Un Divorce at the Vaudeville Theatre. Mme Darras seeks to rejoin the Church after divorce but the church refuses recognition. The husband objects, ending with a clash over religious norms and remarriage. Audience reaction was favorable though a long run is not anticipated.
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NEW York Times
Paris
Paul Bourget
Vaudeville Theatre
Mme. Darras
M. Bourget
AmbushKills Police Captain and Orderly in Tashkend
Revolutionists lure Police Captain Miretsky into an ambush and kill him and his orderly. They attempt to escape but meet guarding Cossacks and are engaged after firing on them.
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Tashkend
Asiatic
Russia
Miretsky
Hayashi Replies on Diet Interpellations
Viscount Hayashi, Japan's Foreign Minister, says the Canadian question is settled and no treaty rights or prestige were conceded. He notes talks with the United States are ongoing and a satisfactory settlement is within sight.
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Tokio
Viscount Hayashi
Japan
America
Famine in Lapland Drives Pet Fooding in Velhemina Parish
In the iron mining district of Northern Lapland famine conditions are reported in Velhelmina parish. A dispatch to Dagens Nyheter from Kiruna states residents are killing dogs and cats for food amid severe shortages.
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Stockholm
Lapland
Dagens Nyheter
Kiruna
Velhelmina
World Prohibition Plan Orients London Conference
An important conference in London discussed creating a world prohibition confederation led by Edward Page Gaston of Chicago. British temperance leaders attended and proposed headquarters in London with influential foreign committees.
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London
Edward Page Gaston
Chicago
Two Powers Warn Turkey Over Persian Invasion
Constantinople January 28 The Porte replies to Russian Ambassador Zinobleff regarding Turkish troops entering Sur Bulak in Persia. The Porte denies any violation of Persian territory. Russian Ambassador Zinobleff and British Ambassador Sir M R OConor advised avoiding a conflict in Persia.
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Constantinople
Porte
M. Zinobleff
Turkey
Sur Bulak
Persia
Reat
Mm. Zinobieff
M. R. O'Conor
Robson Named Attorney General in Place of Walton
London January 28 Sir W S Robson Solicitor General appointed Attorney General succeeding the late Sir John Lawson Walton. Samuel Thomas Evans MP Glamorganshire takes the post of Solicitor General.
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London
W. S. Robson
John Lawson
Walton
Samuel_Thomas Evans
House of Commons
Glamorganshire
Campbell-Bannerman Improves and Presides at Cabinet
The Premier Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman showed improved health and chaired a Cabinet meeting in London. He conducted a banquet for his followers but skipped Lady Beauchamp's reception on the eve of Parliament's reassembly.
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London
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Hamburg American Line boosts Brazil fleet with two new liners
The Hamburg American Line announced plans to expand its Brazilian fleet starting in May by adding Prinz Oskar and Prinz Adalbert. The two new 7,000 ton passenger vessels are built for tropical service, increasing the current six-steamer lineup.
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Hamburg-American Line
Prinz Oskar
Prinz Adalbert
Foreign Affairs Notes From Across the Globe
Reports from Peking Lisbon Bilbao and London describe imperial transfers of duties and honors for Sir Robert Hart and Sir Robert Bredon in China. Basque delegates plan united action for restoring Carlist war privileges. A London thief is charged with Queen Alexandra miniature theft. In Jalian Somaliland civil unrest continues with supply issues and reinforcements. Lugh remains quiet. Portugal arrests former deputy Almeida for anti government propaganda while Costa flees.
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Peking
Robert Hart
Chinese Customs Service
Robert Bredon
Robert
Hart
Foreign Board
Lisbon
Antonio Almeida
Costa
Emperor names unit Kondratenko in memory of general
The Twenty-fifth Siberian Sharpshooters receive the name Kondratenko to honor Major General Kondratenko killed at 203 Meter Hill Port Arthur. General Kondratenko, praised by Lieut. Gen. Stoessel as Port Arthur’s real defender, died in battle and his loss contributed to the fortress surrender.
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ST. Petersburg
Kondratenko
Seventh East Siberian Rifles
Meter Hill
Port Arthur
Stoessel
Doctor Leads Chloroform Thieves In City Burglary Spree
Police detail to catch a gang that chloroformed entire families in East Twenty second Street flats. In ten days twenty five similar robberies reported. Victims include Nora De Marco and Henry Titus families with cash and jewelry stolen. investigators suspect a medical student or nurse involvement though victims recover with headaches only.
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East Twenty-second Street
Central Office
McDermott
Nellie Maher
Miss Maher
Mr. Titt
Mr. Titus
Sleuths raid thieves room arrest five in silk loot caper
Detectives Connors and Short tailed three men carrying bundles from Bowery to a Second Street house and found a room full of silk waists, skirts, furs, and cloaks. They seized $2,000 in goods from Littenberg & Cohen and held five suspects in $2,000 bail each for examination. Names listed include Steine, Lubino, Grucci, Oddo, and Alfredo from various addresses.
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Connors
Short
East Fifth Street
Bowery
Eighth Street
Second Street
Second Avenue
Littenberg
Cohen
East Highth Street
Yorkville Court
William and
Bessie Steine
Stanton Street
Charles Lubino
Chrystie Street
Michael Grucci
Stanton
Reopen Eighty Cent Gas Case Hears Hearing Next Tuesday
The Public Service Commission plans to reopen the eighty cent gas case. Regular counsel George S. Coleman and special counsel Edward R. Whitney moved for a rehearing before United States Judge Hough to be held next Tuesday. The issues include franchise inclusion in capitalization and the rate of return. Judge Hough previously ruled the law unconstitutional based on a six percent profit rate and franchise values. The company may face dismissal unless it agrees to cut its rate to four cents, with consumers paying one cent until final court determination, or four cents deposited for return after decision.
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Public Service Commission
Commission
George ‘S. Coleman
Edward RB. Whitney
United States
Hough
Clarke Questions Ta l esmen in Change of Venue Bid
District Attorney Clarke questioned two to three hundred prospective jurors drawn for the coming month to determine if public prejudice affects a fair trial for John G Jenkins Sr and his three sons indicted for conspiracy against Williamsburg and Jenkins Trust Companies. The findings will be reported to Supreme Court Justice Scudder in Mineola on February 8 for the venue change motion.
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Stephen C. Baldwin
John G. Jenkins, Sr
Williamsburg and
Jenkins ‘Trust
Kings County
Clarke
Supreme Court
Scudder
Mineola
Old Woman Found Dead on Kill von Kull Beach
Milk delivery boys found the body of an elderly woman at the foot of Nicholas Avenue on Staten Island. Nearby items including a silk umbrella a leather pocketbook and a fur boa suggest suicide by her own action. The woman is described as about 66 with blue eyes and brown hair and cannot be identified. An autopsy will be made.
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Nicholas Avenue
Kill von ‘Kull
Staten Island
Deiad
Capt Rogers Resigns From Twelfth N G N Y
Capt H H Rogers Jr of the Standard Oil family and Lieut Thomas B Crockett of Company D resigned yesterday from the Twelfth Regiment N G N Y amid opposition to Col George R Dyer. Twelve officers have resigned in days, one must account for 300 dollars of state property, and a November 19 review by Gen Moore Smith is planned after Col Dyer returns from Europe around Feb 10.
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H. H. Rogers, Jr
TH. H. Rogers
Standard Oil Company
Thomas B. Crockett
Tolu Nave
George R. Dyer
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Col. Dyer
Dyer
Europe
Georges Moore Smith
Army bad man Tyranny in irons on Governors Island
Hugh Adolphus Tyranny once a private in the First Provisional Regiment of the US Marine Corps has been confined in Castle Williams on Governors Island and is to be transferred to Fort Leavenworth for a twenty year term. He arrived from Havana under Marine guard after a history of assaults on Willcox and Burke, earning multiple sentences.
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Hugh Adolphus Tyranny
Castle Williams
Governors Island
Fort Leavenworth
Havana
United States
Cuba
Lieut. Foreman
Lefort
Julien P. Willcox
Nuevitas
Willcox
Burke
la Gloria
Navy social pull under Senate naval affairs scrutiny
The Senate Committee on Naval Affairs plans to probe why many officers stay ashore in comfortable billets rather than serving at sea. Senator Hale leads the inquiry with Senator Tillman providing a table showing shore duty rates across ranks and a note that the Reuterdahl charges will also be examined.
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New York Times
Washington
Senate Committee On Naval Affairs
Hale
Tillman
Edison lineman survives 75 foot fall from pole
Emmett Clark a 200 pound lineman for the Edison Company, at Brook Avenue and 164th Street, fell seventy five feet while repairing a wire, fractured a wrist, and escaped serious injury after landing in trees. He was treated at Lebanon Hospital and sent home.
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Emmett Clark
East 145Th Street
Edison Company
Clark
Brook Avenue
164Th Street
Lebanon Hospital
Fifth Avenue Stage Company to Remove Signs
Richard W. Meade, president of the Fifth Avenue Stage Coach Company, said the firm will voluntarily pull signs from its stages and keep them off while appealing to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruling allowed removal by the city and granted temporary permission to display signs during the appeal.
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Fifth Av
Richard W. Meade
Fifth Avenue Stage Coach Company
Supreme Court
Hotel Club of Gotham Forms For Night Staff
Employees from numerous New York hotels formed the Hotel Club of Gotham with a first meeting Monday night led by Charles G Murden and W J Foster. The group includes night clerks, bookkeepers, and cashiers, and temporary officers were selected.
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New York
Hotel Club of
Gotham
Charles G.murden
W. J. Foster
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Coe
23Rd St
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W. 23Rd St
Piel Bros
41St St
American Bank Note Company
Trinity Place
California Fig Syrup. CO
Uneeda
Victor Talking Machines and Records
Cluett
NEW York Central Lines
Tere
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Tobolsk
Yelisavetpol
Hayashi
Gaston
Great Britain
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Hamburg Line
Notes of Foreign Affairs
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Spain
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Queen Alexandra
Phillips
Rome
Foreign Office
Lugh
Ligh
Jalian Somaliland
Africa
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Rogers
Lieut. Crockett
Twelfth Regiment
ARMY
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NAVY
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Eac
Valenciennes
Real Valenciennes LA Sertions
Ces
Ehrich Bros
6Th Ave
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Broadway
Fifth Avenue
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34Th Street, 35Th Street and
St. Aurnur
James McCreery & Co
Thirty-fourth Street
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