New York Times Public Notice Fragment
An archival note from the 1906 New York Times appears, listing publishing details for Times Square headquarters and mailing information, indicating daily year round publication and postal handling.
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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1906
Page
6
An archival note from the 1906 New York Times appears, listing publishing details for Times Square headquarters and mailing information, indicating daily year round publication and postal handling.
A fragment lists Times Square and various New York addresses including Wall Street Broad Street and 129 West 125th Street, alongside postal rates for daily and Sunday editions, and annual subscriptions for foreign postage. It references Philadelphia locations and related publication pricing.
In Pennsylvania a state convention backs strict meat inspection but Wadsworth and allies press amendments to curb oversight. The piece accuses Wapsworth of masking lax safeguards as reform, arguing the Beveridge bill protects public food safety while the counterproposals threaten real reform and risk filth, poison, and disease.
Ohio militia restores order amid soft coal strike and open shop, signaling a union setback. Illinois reports renewed work under a 1903 scale through April 1 1908 after an agreement between miners and operators. About 60 000 miners affected. unions vow to discipline unruly workers and back shotfirers' wages pending law repeal.
The House finally approved a reform bill on naturalization after months of debate. It imposes literacy tests for applicants, centralizes records under a new bureau within Commerce and Labor, allows federal challenge to questionable grants, and levies about 11 dollars per case to cover inspection and review costs.
An April strike triggered dispute over the shotfirers wage clause. The Illinois disagreement helped derail the Inter-State Conference. Miners agreed no adjustment in one district without consent of all, signaling a broader battle over who bears the cost of labor protection and how it affects public interest.
Representative Ellerbe questions the Government cotton crop reports, criticizing the Cotton Association for inaccuracies and leaks. The piece notes President JonDAN’s cautious outlook, expects enough cotton to meet mills but not flood markets, and discusses naturalization reforms and meat import trends amid trust-imposed price effects.
London dispatches report a surge in twisting by Mutual Equitable and New York Life, with policy holders pressured to switch. The London Standard defends insured British customers, calling twisting cutthroat and warns it harms long term policy holders of the twisting company.
The article notes steady packers’ securities and claims only 10 percent output affected by disclosures, with half above suspicion. It discusses a growing boycott, international competition, and US dominance in fresh food imports, detailing England as a major importer and defender of home-producer protection alongside Germany’s sanitary embargo.
The board authorized a bond issue to cover the Aldermen salary increase after a quorum issue and initial objection. Several members were absent earning salaries elsewhere, but all were brought in and the decision passed with good feeling. The episode was noted as humorous and controversial.
The bank circular suggests Panama bonds may be postponed as Treasury funds cover current expenses from income. With business conditions high, bankers anticipate continued prosperity, contrasting with Secretary Swaim's view. Public sentiment may favor bankers over the candidate.
An editorial notes that several New York packing houses claim endorsement in a sanitation report, arguing honest profit is fine but selling filth as food is unacceptable. It contrasts Chicago’s denial with New York’s openness and urges readers to choose reliable, wholesome meat sources.
The piece debates meaning of the word most in a reader’s letter and discusses Prof Matthews’s silence, warning that misread phrases mislead. It contrasts the San Francisco Bulletin’s post earthquake optimism with visible bread lines and external aid appeals, noting luxury demand amid disaster.
Letters from New York City readers discuss Judge Gaynor's wage decision in Brooklyn carpentry, the Brooklyn union council’s conduct, and a call to uphold arbitration. A second letter condemns the meat trade’s brutal animal transport, urging humane treatment and noting broader humane progress.
The piece criticizes railroad and telephone rate rules as irksome and unfair to New York citizens. It asserts reductions target strangers using public phones, not locals, and notes public frustration with these regulations as of June 56, 1906.
J Van Vechten Olcott writes from Washington June 5 1906 disputing a recent criticism of the Speaker’s stance on the Pure Food bill. He outlines the bill’s progression March to May including privileged orders and motions, insisting the Speaker favored reform but committee disagreements blocked unanimous consent.
Rufus W. Frost longtime Broadway Central Hotel manager will be ordained to the permanent deaconate at Old Trinity Church next Sunday. Bishop Greer will officiate with Archdeacon Nelson delivering the sermon as other clergymen assist. Frost, a Grace Church lay leader, helped organize the pay elpers Association to aid church extension in Bronx missions.
New York University held its seventy fourth commencement at Morris Heights with about fifteen hundred guests. Chancellor MacCracken spoke on the shift toward teaching as a profession, noting rising respect and salaries for teachers and the decline in law medicine and ministry enrollments. Distinguished recipients included Dr Lyman Abbott, Alexander Crombie Humphreys, and Justice Martin Jerome Keogh. Chinese student Joe Tong Lee won the George Augustus Sandham Prize for oratory and Japanese Yoshitaro Kondo earned a Bachelor of Commercial Science.
The Scandinavian American liner United States sails for Denmark and Norway with 230 Norwegians bound for Christiania to attend King Haakon VII's coronation. Vice Consul F G Gade leads the group, carrying a hymn by Odin Renning of Milwaukee as a gift to the new king.
A reader questions why Metropolitan Railway posters require transfers when paying fares and why conductors still refuse transfers under the old rule. The letter asks if the company can be compelled to honor Supreme Court decisions, noting June 6, 1906. W. C.
The Chicago Record-Herald urges radical change and a thorough cleanup in beef industry practices, warning of severe losses without rapid reform and strong public protection. The Chicago Evening Post concurs, saying the Neill Reynolds report proves drastic safeguards for meat products are needed immediately.
The Bridgeport Standard notes the President's prompt courageous action in light of findings and a moderate message. The Boston Herald comments the Neill-Reynolds report is nearly expurgable but could still prove useful when published in full.
The Utica Presa notes the report will ruin business until reforms are made, urging action. The Baltimore American recalls a strong lid on the beef report, implying a failure to address weighty issues.
Poetic line about singing of lands and voices ending in silence. Stephen Chalmers signs the excerpt, noting echoes returning to the singers once voices are rekindled.
The Rev. Algernon B Crapsey, via counsel James Beck Perkins, appeals a May 9 Ecclesiastical Court ruling finding him guilty of heresy. He argues the court was illegally organized and deprived him of defense time and evidence, and claims it erred in deciding doctrine and duty.
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