Mayo's plans to guide widow Mayo in philanthropy
In Paintsville Kentucky on June 2 1924 it was announced Mrs John A C Mayo widow of the late Kentucky capitalist would be elected a big business partner and oversee her husband plans. She will act as executrix of his estate without bond directing church building and philanthropic efforts and guiding colleges and dowed projects in which she is familiar.
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Paintsville
John A. C. Mayo
New York
New One
Times Square Subway Link Contract Sparks Safety Battle
Interborough faces a clash with the Board of Estimate over awarding Section 6A of the Seventh Avenue subway link. Theodore P. Shonts argues the project carries unusual risks and urges assigning construction to Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company to align with operation and reduce public disruption.
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Board of Estimate
Times Square
Seventh Avenue
Interborough
Public Service Commission
Theodore P. Shonts
Oscar Daniels Company
Holbrook, Cabot & Rollina Corporation
Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company
Holbrook, Cabot & Rollins Corporation
Forty-second Street
Forty-third Street
Times
Holbrook
Holbrook Corporation
Public Service Commission Rejects Grand Union Bids
The Public Service Commission refused all bids to wreck the old Grand Union Hotel for less than 8000 dollars and ordered a new round of offers next Monday. Bidders faced substantial machinery and equipment still inside including a modern ice making setup, laundry with steam mangles, a power plant with three 150 HP engines and 75 kWh generators, plus copper kettles and boilers. A forgotten 150 foot artesian well with sulfuric water remains, suggesting bidders inspect the site again to improve offers.
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Public Service Commission
Grand Union Hotel
Belmont Hotel
Two Women Die in West Side Apartment Falls
West Sixty-eighth Street police investigated two deaths in nearby buildings. Mary Muntz, 55, a Georgian Court maid, fell to the bottom of an elevator shaft after an apparent fall from the fourth floor. Katharine Knowles, 45, a maid, was found at the bottom of an airshaft at West Forty Fourth Street. police believe she leapt from the roof. Coroner Riordan questioned elevator worker Clarence Perkins before release pending further inquiry.
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West Sixty-eighth Street
West Side
Mary Muntz
M. B. Edinger
Georgian Court
Central Park West
Clarence Perkins
West Sixty-second Street
Miss Muntz
Misa Muntz
Riordan
Perkins
Mitchel Speaks on Charter Reform in Cincinnati
City officials weigh Mayor Mitchel's claim of adding initiative referendum and recall to the City Charter. Controller Prendergast doubts the quote, while Alderman Curran opposes the proposal. The Charter Revision Committee plans a fall meeting and a charter amendment submission to the Legislature next year.
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Mitchel
Cincinnati
Prendergast
Henry H. Curran
Board of Aldermen
City Hall Park vendors stands moved amid concessions plan
Park Commissioner Cabot Ward ordered bootblack and newsstands removed from City Hall Park to Park Row under Brooklyn Bridge. A concession committee will study parks, fix locations, and prepare lump-sum bids with wages and hours, while plans for new park stands and stricter enforcement follow vandalism and theft of trees concerns.
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Cabot Wred
City Hall Park
Louis W. Fehr
Park Board
Joseph Virgilio
Park Row
Brooklyn Bridge
Ward
Park Department
Stover
Gaynor
Johanna Tomastllo
Chambers Street
Foreman Dolan
de Witt
City officials push police patrols to curb park vandalism
Commissioner Ward criticizes park management and urges action by Police Commissioner Woods to assign extra officers to parks. City Magistrates will be asked to punish offenders to the full extent of the law to prevent thefts and deterioration of park assets.
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Missioner Ward
Ward
Woods
Burglar Threatens Butcher Then Fails Escape
Charles Baumplatt returned home at 313 East Fifty seventh Street to find a chain lock and a revolver pointed through a door crack. A crowd and Patrolman Kaiser pursued vest to the Second Avenue Elevated platform where the suspect Edward Jones 19 was arrested. Jewelry including three watches two brooches two lockets and earrings were found and identified as Baumplatts. Jones was held without bail for examination in Yorkville Court.
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Charles Baumplatt
East Fifty-seventh Street
Baumplatt
Kaiser
East Fifty-first Street
Second Avenue
Fifty-seventh Street
Yorkville Court
Technicality Aids Robber First Offender Sentenced
Joseph Cook twenty four year old convicted of holding up William Carroll a messenger on Mulberry Street February fifteenth received an indeterminate term of ten to twenty years. Judge Muiqueen regretted not imposing the maximum since Cook was a first offender. Carroll lost two hundred eighty dollars and four thousand dollars in checks. Cook refused to name the accomplice. money not recovered and checks payment halted.
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Joseph Cook
William Carroll
Mulberry Street
Muiqueen
Cook
Carroll
Acknowledgment of Donation to City Poor Association
The New York Times acknowledges receipt of $2 from A. L. I. for the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor.
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The
New York Times
Association For Improving the Condition of the Poor
Marriage of Rev W Frothingham Revealed After 14 Years
The Rev. Washington Frothingham, noted Mohawk Valley philanthropist and writer, wed Miss Jella Leavitt of Tihhea Hill fourteen years ago. The ceremony, performed by Judge J Keck in Johnstown, followed the death of Frothingham’s first wife. Announcement was delayed at the request of a sister who died recently.
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W. Frothingham
Fonda
Washington Frothingham
Mohawk Valley
Jella Leavitt
Tiihea Hill
Johnstown
J. Keck
Frothingham
Frethingham iv
Extradition Proceedings Move to Supreme Court in Thaw Case
The Harry Thaw extradition process reached the Supreme Court as of June 2 in Washington. A request for release pending review is anticipated to be filed soon with Chief Justice Helmes for action by the Justices.
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Washington
Harry Thaw
Federal District Court
New Hampshire
Supreme Court
Helmes
K. Thaw
Measurements and figures scattered in a cryptic text
A fragmentary OCR style line lists varied measurements and numbers such as 2-3, 3-0, 40, 5-4, and 68 with units implied. It also includes references like EEG, percentages, and decimals, but lacks coherent context or narrative structure.
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