Mayor Gaynor Deliberates On City Bills In Routine Session
Mayor Gaynor held hearings on twenty nine measures passed by the Legislature. He vetoed a Brooklyn County Court House site bill and approved excluding automobiles from Ocean Boulevard while preserving a horse speedway. He vetoed a bill diverting fines from the County Medical Society and signaled partial approval of a dancing hall licensing measure. He opposed a pay raise for Board of Elections members and weighed a pension increase for retired teachers amid opposition from many women educators.
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Gaynor
Brooklyn Supreme Court
County Court House
Kings
Gover
Supreme Court
County of Kings
Borough Hall
Brooklyn
Court House
New York County
Court House Board
New Court House
City Hall Square
Ocean Boulevard
Twenty-second Avenue
Kings Highway
Brooklyin
Ocean Parkway
County Medical Society
Charles H. Israelis
Health and Fire Department
Israels
Dancing Bee Association
Board of Elections
Dooling
William C. Hoffman
Board of Estimate
Mitchel
Board of Aldermen
Policeman Accused of Beating Brooklyn Man
William McGuire of 505 St Marks Avenue Brooklyn appears before Capt Clarence Murphy at Grand Avenue Police Station with facial cuts and bruises charging Policeman John Flynn with beating him after ordering him and a companion to move from Classon Avenue and Dean Street. Case to be sent to Trial Deputy Walsh.
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William McGuire
St. Mark's Avenue
Brooklyn
Clarence Murphy
Grand Avenue
John Flynn
McGuire
Flynn
Classon Avenue
Dean Street
Walsh
Elevator Workers Strike at Otis Yonkers Plant
About 1500 Otis Elevator Company operatives in Yonkers walked out after management denied a request for a 25 cent daily wage rise and a reduction of weekly hours from 54. The plant total employs around 2000 machinists helpers electrical workers molders carpenters tool and pattern makers and laborers.
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Otis Elevator Company
Yonkers
Knights Templars eye prizes at Reed Barton event in Chicago
Reed & Barton on Fifth Avenue and Thirty-second Street hosts Triennial Conclave drills with three first prizes. The third prize, a sterling silver centre piece, goes to the most proficient commandery outside Illinois. The New York Knights Templars seek this globe-spanning honor.
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New York
Knights Templars
Reed & Barton's
Fifth Avenue
Thirty-second Street
Chicago
Illinois
Ilinois
New Customs Appraiser Takes Office
Sam Bronson Cooper of Texas, newly appointed to the Board of United States General Appraisers by President Taft, arrived in New York yesterday and took the oath. He began duties at once on Board No. 2, succeeding Mason De Vries. Cooper is a lifelong Democrat who represented Texas in the House for fourteen years.
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New Customs Appraiser
Sam Bronson Cooper
Texas
United States General Appaisers
Taft
New York
Nee
Cooper
Ser“Ce
Mason de Vries
Court of Customs Appeals
Ufe-long Democrat
Coness
Postal Savings Bank Bill Reported by House Panel
The House Committee on Post Offices met and voted to report the Postal Savings Bank bill tomorrow. A four hour debate limit and a substitute bill are expected to be considered by the Rules Committee. Republicans claim enough votes to ensure passage as Democrats file two minority reports opposing postal savings bank legislation.
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New York Times
Washington
House Committee On Post Offices
Savine
Rules Committee
House
Post Office Committee
Dwight
Moon
Tennessee
Finley
South Carolina
Committee
Nere
Three Taft Nominations Go to Senate
Nominations sent to the Senate include Col. William H. Bixby to chief of engineers with brigadier general rank, Brig. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards renominated chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, and A. Pratt Andrew of Massachusetts named assistant secretary of the treasury to replace Charles D. Norton.
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Col. Bixby
Gen. Edwards
A. Pratt Andrew
Senate
Washington
William H. Bixby
Corps of Engineers
Engineers
Clarence R. Edwards
Bureau of Insular Affairs
War Department
Massachusetts
Railways Seek Extensions to Safety Compliance
Washington June 6 Railroads affected by new safety appliance laws plan to request extensions to comply with the regulations next month. At a meeting of Motive Power Superintendents representatives of major systems discussed delays and an informal conference with the Interstate Commerce Commission. About 90 percent of cars are already equipped and railroads anticipate full compliance in a few months.
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Washington
Railrroads
Congress
United States
Inter- State Commerce Commission
Soldiers Break for Shore Liberty Off San Francisco
Captain Francis W Griffin leads Battery C Second Field Artillery bound for Manila on the Logan. About forty men slipped ashore at dusk with arms and belts, some evading dock guards and others swimming to shore. Thirteen men and two crates were later placed in the transport brig.
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San Francisco
Francis W. Griffin
Second Field Artillery
Manila
Logan
Burbank Unveils Two New Flowers in California
Santa Rosa plant wizard Luther Burbank announces two world firsts the Oenothera Burbankii poppy and a white evening primrose. He plans mass reproduction at a Lompoc ranch, claiming years of work behind the new blooms brighter shades and a five inch white primrose.
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San Francisco
Luther Burbank
Santa Rosa
Lompoc
Santa Barbara County
North
Africa
Aged inmate Zimmerman Freed After Ten Years
Peter Zimmerman alias John Snyder, 87, released from Western Penitentiary after serving a decade for horse stealing. He said as he left he was too old to work and would soon be back. He previously served in Jeffersonville Indiana Joliet Illinois Cherry Hill Philadelphia and Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Lfe
Peter Zimmerman
John Snyder
Western Penitentiary
Zimmerman
Jeffersonville
Ind
Joliet
Ill
Cherry Hill
Philadelphia
Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary
Pony Moore Dying in Chicago After Stroke
Pony Moore once a famed Chicago gambler known as the negro king is dying in a hospital after a paralytic stroke left him unconscious since Saturday morning. He arrived in Chicago about twenty five years ago from Dallas Texas and later faded from his former prominence in the red light district.
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Chicago
Negro culprit Batson shot dead in Krebs Oklahoma
Grubbs Batson, a Black man wanted for assaulting two white girls with a pistol, was shot and killed today by an unknown man who fired a shotgun through a back door as Batson awaited removal to jail. The attack on the girls did not result in serious injuries.
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Krebs
Okla
Grubbs Batson
Batson
Vf Oy
Grant Taken Into Court Over Jamaica Highway Rights
In Queens County Court the Long Island Railroad faces a nuisance charge for closing Hamilton Street Hollis. Ancient Jamaica grant and Jamaica minute book used to prove the street was a king highway before the Revolution. Witnesses recall public use in 1851 and 1867. railroad expansion now includes sixteen tracks.
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George
Lrl
Old
Jamaica
Long Island Railroad
Humphrey
Queens County Court
Long Island City
Railrroad
Hamilton Street
Hollis
Old Town
George III
Minute Book of Town Board
John McLoughlin
Queens
Queens County
Abram J. Debevoise
James C. Wheeler
George Shibley
Push Cart Peddler Jerry Cippolario Under Short Weight Probe
Wealthy push cart peddler Jerry Cippolario was arrested after a raid by Clement J. Driscoll and inspectors at 111th Street and First Avenue. Authorities say his scales showed several ounces short and he is held in Harlem Court on $200 bail. The case file also notes Sheffield Farms Slawson Decker Company faces possible warrants in a separate butter short weight matter in Brooklyn.
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Jerry
Cippolario
Bureau of Weights and Measures
111Th Street
First Avenue
Clement J. Driscoll
Bureau
Harlem
Freeman to be feted at testimonial dinner at Waldorf
William C. Freeman advertising manager of The New York Evening Mail will be honored at a testimonial dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on June 21. Friends from Chicago Boston Cleveland Philadelphia and New York will attend to commend his quarter century in the field.
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William C. Freeman
New York Evening Mail
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Chicago
Boston
Cleveland
Philadelphia
New York
French Church Sells Lexington Ave Property for New Parish
The French Church of St. Jean Baptiste received permission to sell 1,081 Lexington Avenue to raise funds for a 300000 dollar church at Lexington Avenue and Eighty sixth Street.
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St. Jean Baptiste
Lexington Avenue
Eightysixth Street
Corporation Tax Report Highlights Regional Tax Trends
Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith reports that corporations account for large shares of state revenues in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and surrounding states. Trends show separate state and local taxation, centralized administration, and reduced double taxation, with notable exemptions for manufacturing in several states.
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Washington
Middle Atlantic States
District of Columbia
Herbert Knox Smith
Bureau of Corporations
New England
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Smith
Conservation Bill Takes Up In Senate Over Statehood
Washington June 6 Senate today took up the Conservation bill as unfinished business, delaying Arizona and New Mexico Statehood. Democratic and Republican factions clashed over precedence, with Conservation narrowly approved 24 to 20.
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Senate
New York Times
Washington
Arizona
New Mexico
Beveridge
Indiana
Territories
Smoot
Gallinger
Borah and
Hepburn
Idaho
Clark
Wyoming
Gay
House
Congress
Coal lands for farms gains Senate approval
The Senate passed a House bill authorizing disposal of surface coal lands for agricultural use. It awaits the President's signature to become law. The measure allows settlement and cultivation of large public land areas previously withdrawn for coal, while the government retains coal control.
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Washington
House
Senate
Wickersham Speech Question Spurs House Resolution
A House resolution sought to confirm if Attorney General Wickersham prepared a speech printed in the Congressional Record on June 3 as authored by Representative McKinlay of California. The move follows a clash between Rainey and McKinlay over Wickersham’s alleged role as author for the Sugar Trust speech.
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Washington
Wickersham
Congressional Record
Representative McKinlay
California
House
Representative Rainey
Illinois
Rainey
Sugar Trust
Illinois Central Sues Former Officers Over 2 Million Repair Graft
The Illinois Central Railroad sued four former officers for conspiracy to defraud about 2 million dollars in car repair overcharges from 1906 to 1910. It names Orlando S. Keith Joseph E. Baker William Renshaw and John M. Taylor and also sues West Pullman and American Car and Equipment companies for accounting. The suit alleges cars were sent to related firms for repairs at inflated costs after the railroad closed its own shops.
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Chicago
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Orlando S. Keith
Joseph E. Baker
William Renshaw
John M. Taylor
Railroad
Blue Island Equipment Company
Osterman Manufacturing Company
International Car Company
Memphis Car Company
West Pullman Car Company
American Car and Equipment Company
Amrican Car and Equipment Company
Walker
Illinois Central
West Pullman
Henry (. Ostermann
Ostermann Manufacturing Company
West Pullman Company
Osterimann Company
Illinois Central Railroad
Road
Keith
Baker
Renshaw
Taylor
Wife accuses policeman after attempted shooting
Policeman George R Little of the Eldridge Street Station was held on $500 bail to await grand jury action by Magistrate O'Reilly in Manhattan Avenue Police Court Williamsburg on an alleged attempt to shoot his wife Margaret. The couple, married two years, lived with Little's mother at 6 Clinton Place Cypress Hills. Little previously earned a gold medal for rescuing a mother and two children from a Williamsburg fire three years ago.
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George R Little
Eldridge Street
O'Reilly
Manhattan Avenue
Williamsburg
Margaret
Little
Clinton Place
Cypress Hills
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Otis’ Company
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Burbank
George II
Grant
Corporation
WIII
W. C. Freeman
Corporation Tax Report
H. K. Smith
Middle Atlantic
McKinlay
Reed& Bartonco
Jewelers & Silversmiths
Maiden Lane
Pullman Car Company
Beadleston & Woerz
Brill
Clothiers
Broadway
Chambers St
Cortlandt ST
Greenwich
Union Square
14Th St
B’way
125Th Street
3D Ave
Hartford Fire Insurance Company
Im Express
New York City
Howard Hampton
Sherman Esselstyn
William ST
Montague St
King’s
Moses King
Postum Cereal Company, Limited
Battle Creek
Michigan
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