Roosevelt separation case details alleged choking episode abroad
Mrs Edith Hammersley Biscos Boone West testified in New York Supreme Court that her marriage to John Ellis Roosevelt included a Naples hotel choking incident and other alleged cruelties in London and Sayville. She described visible neck marks and said Robert B Roosevelt rebuked her husband for insults in front of ladies. The case, lasting years, resumed with corroborating affidavits from the Merediths.
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Edith Hammersley Biscos Boone- West
Justice Clark
Supreme Court
John Ellis Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Washington
Robert B Roosevelt
Howard Meredith
Mrs. Roosevelt
Merediths
Mr. Meredith
Mr. Roose
Mrs. Meredith
Sayville
L. I
Sayville House
Robert
Wife Testimony Sheds Light on Lyman Fraud Case
In federal court Judge Wolverton weighs allowing wife Leonora Lyman to testify for John Grant Lyman in his defense against alleged mall fraud. After briefs and a recess, prosecutors drop objections. Captain Guy Gaunt corroborates shadowing Mrs Lyman. defense argues stock deliveries followed payment. Proceeding ends with Lyman’s closing defense as jury set to hear verdict.
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John Grant Lyman
Wolverton
Federal District Court
Lyman
Stanton
Waite
United States
Roger B. Wood
England
Ja Lyman
Florida
Putnam
Dierman Apy
Guy Gaunt
Demurrer
Luncheon Honors Crimmins and Brady for Creditors Work
A Delmonico's luncheon honored John D. Crimmins and Daniel M. Brady for leading the Contract Creditors' Committee of the New York City Railway Company after receivership. The group of 310 contractors heard resolutions praising their service from September 1907 to May 191?. Attendees included executives from Electric Cable Company Degnon Contracting Company and Scranton Bolt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Crimmins
Daniel M. Brady
New York City Railway Company
Delmonico’s
Crimimins
Brady
Edwin W. Moore
Electric Cable Company
George A. Mellroy
Arrish, Phillips &Co
Crimmins
Samuel A. Megeath
L. J. Drake Jr
Ialena Signal
Michael J. Degnon
Degnon Contracting Company
John Jone
John Pierce
Henry C. Knox
Otis H. Gudereasurer
American Brake Shoe and Foundry Company
Edward M. Zehnder
Charles H. Zehnder
Scranton Bolt and Nut Company
John Kirby, Jr
Dayton Manufacturing Company
John D. Newton
Burnet Company
W. Boardman Eed
Bishop Gutta Percha Company
Thomasrimmins
Crimming Contracting
Benjamin Barker
Ramapo Foundry and Wheel Works
J. Henry Haggerty
Haggerty Refining
Shaw Writes Girl Pacifist Brightens Midwood Student
Cecilia Zilberman a 13 year old pupil at Midwood public school in Flatbush sent a postal card to G Bernard Shaw carrying her pacifist views. Shaw replied with a photo and a note acknowledging her point on factory children but advocating a fleet and a factory act. Cecilia’s mother Mrs Bella Neumann Zilbermann is active in the Women’s Peace Party which staged an Fulton Street exhibit critiquing weaponry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecilia Zilberman
Avenue O. Flatbush
Midwood
G. Bernard Shaw
Miss Zilberman
National Child Labor Committee
Bernard Shaw
Bella Neumann
Zilbermann
Cecilia
Women’s Peace Party
Fulton Street
Uncle Sam
Third Hotel for Bowman in Grand Central District
The Manhattan Hotel, recently purchased by August Heckscher, is leased to John McE Bowman for ten years from October 1. Bernard Beinecke’s company, managing the Plaza, holds the lease at $239000 yearly. Bowman’s NY Central Railroad lease for a new hotel on Lexington Avenue and 42nd Street sets him to run three major Grand Central district hotels.
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Manhattan Hotel
August Heckscher
John McE. Bowman
Biltmore Hotel
Bernard Beinecke
Plaza Hotel
Pease & Elliman
Bowman
John Mck. Bowman
New York Central Railroad
Lexington Avenue
Forty-second
Forty-third Streets
Depew Place
Howman
Grand Central District
Floating Hospital Helen C Juilliard Debuts at Dock
The Helen C Juilliard floating hospital, built for $125000 by St Johns Guild, will be shown at a Municipal Dock reception. It features four wards, an operating room, sterilizing plants, eight nurses, a physician, and space for mothers and babies.
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St. John's Guild
Helen C. Juilliard
Twentyfourth Street
East River
Guild
Vatican Consistory Bans Dancing at Church Entertainment
The Vatican Consistory ban on dancing at Roman Catholic Church events will be announced to laity at Sunday masses. A pastoral letter from Cardinal Farley was sent via Chancellor J J Dunn to all city pastors. In Buffalo the Cardinal is absent and Dunn along with Mgrs Lavella and John F Edwards declined to discuss causes.
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Vatican
Cardinal Farley
Mer
J. J. Dunn
Channcellor
Buffalo
Mgr
Dunn
Mgrs. Lavella
John F. Edwards
Chiari Loses Support in Panama Crisis
The panama political scene shifts as Chiari supporters rally in street demonstrations while The Star and Herald withdraws its backing for Chiari's presidential bid. US authorities reportedly fail to intervene, deepening the crisis.
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Chiari
Panama
New York Times
Chiarli
Star and Herald
United States
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J.B. Roosevelt
Robert B
J. D. Crimmins and
D. M. Brady
Shaw
Flatbush Miss
Regues
Biltmore
Hotel Manhattan
St. John’s Guild
Gift of Woman
Duff G. Maynard
New York City
George F. Williams
the Times
Maynard
Hudson
Williams
Corlears Slip
Henry Weiler
Joseph M. Fluker
Charlotte Erlicker
Peter Johnson
Kate Ward
Julliard
Putnam Dry-Cleaner
Monroe Drug Co
Quincy
Ill
Encyclopaedia Britannica
The
Britannica
India
Cambridge University
Gaene
Europe
Germany
Harnack
Ostwald
Meyer
Driesch
Verworn
Nernst
Holland
Lorentz
van der Waals
Van’t Hoff
France
Ike Babelon
Bémont
Gael
Gimbel Brothers
Broadway and CO
Strbet
Scribner’s
Fifth Ave
Malkan’s
Sears, Roebuck and CO
Chicago
Encyclopaedie Britannica
Morocco
Levant
Sisa PF
Post Office
Cambridge
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