Poverty Stricken Family Dies in Tragic Gas Pact
Mrs Gabrielle N Werner and her son Ansel aged 26 in a Bradhurst Avenue tenement carried out a gas death pact after declining charity aid and starving their baby Yvonne. Neighbors recalled their former prosperity and a note warned of suicide. Coroner Holtzhauser took charge after Harlem Hospital failed to revive them.
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Bradhurst Avenue
Gabrielle N. Werner
Ansel
Yvonne
Werner
Doyle
Mrs. Denning
Cornand
Holtzhauser
Pratt
Harlem
White Plains
City loss on ferry deal shows shortages in contract terms
Commissioner Fosdick reports to Mayor Gaynor that nine months of the Roosevelt Street Ferry bargain with Brooklyn & Manhattan Ferry Co. overcharges the city by at least 16 334. He cites excessive costs for salaries prior to contract start and other items, and notes parallels to forthcoming subway agreements with Interborough and B R T.
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Gaynor
Fosdick
Brooklyn & Manhattan Ferry Company
Roosevelt Street
Interborough
Ferry Company
Bars Convict From Executorship In Sherwood Will
Surrogate Cohalan announced he would not issue letters testamentary to Noah Loder named as executor of a $20 000 estate in the will of Thomas G. Sherwood. Loder, now serving two years at Sing Sing for defrauding an aged clergyman, faced opposition from Mrs. Sherwood for executrix. The Surrogate took the matter under advisement.
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Cohalan
Noah Loder
Thomas G. Sherwood
Loder
Sing Sing
Charles H. Stoddard
Whirlwind drive funds Flushing Hospital in twelve days
A post dinner campaign in Flushing and nearby towns aims to raise 100000 for a new hospital. More than 450 attendees pledged over 30000 in initial effort. Marion Verdery chaired the event with speeches by Herman Metz Job Hedges W W Cocks George Mellick and others. Forty districts form 800 volunteers to canvass with noon lunches and evening dinners. Fifteen illuminated clocks track progress showing $10000 increments toward the goal.
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Flushing Hospital
Flushing
Whitestone
College Point
Bayside
Douglaston
Little Neck
Corona
Elmhurst
Amity Street
Marion J Verdery
Southern Society
Herman A. Metz
New York City
Job E. Hedges
Martin W. Littleton
George P. Mellick
Plainfield
N.J
William Menkel
Mount Vernon
Bert J. Humphreys
Harrison&. Moore
Mr. Verdery
Tragedy at Public School: EightYearOld Falls to Death
Eight year old Rosie Mintz of 551 Graham Avenue Williamsburg died after falling about twenty feet from a window at a Leonard Street and Driggs Avenue public school. A broken window light and removed screen contributed to the accident as children gathered nearby and the girl looked out before the fatal plunge.
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Rosie Mintz
Graham Avenue
Williamsburg
Leonard Street
Driggs Avenue
Rosie
Strahl
Willersie Hospital
Growth in corn use lifts prices in meat and grains
A Produce Exchange member traces rising prices to more corn diverted to liquor and breakfast foods. He notes 60 percent of last year’s 700 million bushels went to brew and distilling, and cites plant output, regional shifts in barley, population growth, and higher costs for hay and horse feed as drivers.
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Produte Exchange
Produce Exchange
James W
Andrew Spence
Standard Oil Company
Thomas C. Gaunt
Standard Oik
Edwater
Ohio
Illinois
New York
Swift & Co
New Jersey
Y M C A Dormitory Opens On West Side
A new F H Cossitt Memorial Dormitory on Fifty-sixth Street rear of the West Side Y M C A opens with eleven stories and 308 beds. Mrs A D Juilliard funded most of the $500,000 for building and land in memory of the late Mr Cossitt who died in a honeymoon railroad collision near Liverpool and London.
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West Side
Young Men’s Christian Association
Fifty-seventh Street
Eighth and
Ninth Avenues
F. H. Cossitt
Fifty-sixth Street
A. D. Juilliard
Cossitt
Liverpool
London
Dormitory Room Service Saves Large Maintenance Costs
The building uses a bell-connected floor system instead of room telephones, summoning occupants to a central booth and saving about $15,000 yearly in upkeep. Ground floor lobby entrance links to parlors and reading rooms. The dormitory is fireproof with hotel planning, vacuum cleaning, and water filtering systems.
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M. Co. A
Insect Themed Books and Bird Studies Listed
A catalog fragment lists various books on insects birds and poultry. Notable items include How to Know the Bat Insect Life Moths Poultry Keeping and How to Study Birds with authors such as Leland O. Howard Gene Stratton Porter and W J Holland.
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Leland O. Howard
Herbert K. Job
W. J. Holland
Weir, Johnson & Brown
M. C. Dickerson
Gene Stratton Porter
North
Comstock
America
F. H
Chapman
Macy’s Saving on New Fiction Displayed
Macy’s lists the newest fiction with a side by side price comparison showing the store price against the fixed price common elsewhere, highlighting savings in departments with equal or better facilities for obtaining merchandise.
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Macy
Macy’s
Interest Rates and Loan Charges Updated
The notice states interest at one per cent or £1 per month or fraction, plus a half per cent (44%) on loans repaid within two weeks from the date of making. The text outlines the charging structure for short term loans.
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