Revolvers Drawn in Policy Shop Raids
Anti-Policy Society raids four East Side policy joints on warrants from Justice Jerome. Detectives led by Superintendent Reardon arrest a dozen men including proprietors Hugh Gallon John Reich and Louis Hiller as revolvers are drawn to control crowds. Descriptions note disguises, back rooms, and bouts of violence during the operations.
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New
Anti-Policy Society
F. Norton Goddard
Twenty-ninth Street
Harlem
John Doe
East Twenty-ninth Street
East Forty-eighth Street
First Avenue
East One Hundred and Twentieth Street
Edward J. Reardon
Justice Jerome
Reardon
John B. Brennan
Thomas Kennedy
East Thirty-fifth Street
Sergt. Daly
Brennan
Doc
East Forty-fourth Street
Hugh Gallon
Justice
Kennedy
Eardon
Addition to a Hospital Planned for Providence Hospital
Washington reports an $800000 addition to Providence Hospital coincides with the graduation of nurses from the class of 190 at the hospital during ceremonies in Washington on June 12.
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Washington
Providence ‘Hospital
Groundbreaking for Nurses' Home addition at $300,000
Ground was broken for the new Nurses' Home addition to the institution, with a total cost of $300,000. A notable gathering of government and district officials observed the ceremonies as Inspector General Breckenridge, Surgeon General Sternberg, and Commissioner Ross delivered addresses.
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Breckenridge
Army
Sternberg
Ross
Vassar Grants 142 Diplomas In Largest Class In History
Poughkeepsie June 12 President Taylor of Vassar College awarded diplomas to 142 graduates marking the largest class yet. Exercises in the chapel featured essays by students and a speech on college growth noting rejection of 150 freshmen due to space. Rockefeller gifts totaling 110000 for Eliza Davison Hall dormitory and 10000 for a third scholarship were announced along with naming the Edward Lathrop Hall for long-time trustees.
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Poughkeepsie
Taylor
Vassar College
Robbie Belle Patterson
Mary Barbour Whitman
Louise Sommer Holmquist
Margaret Pinckney Jackson
Helen Eldred Storke
Ada Jeannette Lord
Bi@g
Clara Stillman Reed
John D. Rockefeller
Eliza Davison
Patriotism and Jingoism at Brooklyn Polytechnic Exercise
St Clair McKelway warned against jingoism during Brooklyn Polytechnic College commencement at the Academy of Music. He urged world citizenship and warned against turning patriotism into aggression as graduates and candidates for B S and electrical and civil engineering degrees were named, with Isaac Spurr Voorees giving the valedictory.
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Brooklyn Polytechnic College
Academy of Music
St. Clair McKelway
United States
England
Germany
Russia
Italy
Austria
France
Percy Winans
Bristol
Ernest Seabury Clowes
George Edward Hosch
Warren Purdy Hoyt
Henry G. Leberthon
Carl H. Lips
Herbert A. Rindskopf
Emil H. Staudinger
Isaac §. Voorhees
Frederick H. Dassori
Hobart Mason
Harold E. Hawxhurst
Isaac Spurr Voorees
Unserved warrant stirs city police offices and justice
Justice Jerome and District Attorney officers pressed Fifth Street police over a 3 PM warrant for a wardman at the Fifth Street Station amid claims of misserving. Lena Schmidt linked to a raid at 27 Stuyvesant Street, with Bissert and Bonnell named as wardmen. authorities debated custody, immunity talk, and the warrant’s status.
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Jerome
Fifth Street
Diamond
George Bissert
East Tenth Street
Maurice Bonneil
West One Hundred and Ninth Street
Bonnoil
Gans
Bissert
Stuyvesant Street
Lena Schmidt
Yorkville Court
Jerome, Holbrook
McKeon
Justice Jerome
Fifteenth
Schurman and Gans
Austen G. Fox
Sergt. McNaught
Union Club
Growingee
Harvard Club
University Club
Schurman
Robert Grier Monroe
Capt. Sheehan
Bronx
Sheehan
Mr. Schurman
Mr. Gans
Col. Monroe
Mulberry Street
District Attorney's Office
Committee of Fifteen
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Bonnell
Thompson
Stuavesant Street
Minnie Kurtz
Yorkville
Syracuse University Commencement Graduates 162 Seniors
Syracuse New York June 12 1924 162 seniors from four colleges receive diplomas. Bowdoin College president William De Witt Hyde delivers the address The Cardinal Virtues Wisdom Justice Temperance Courage Honorary degrees are announced LL D Gov B B Odell Jr Lit D Leon H Vincent D D Nacey Magee N P Eckerman Hamilton Keeney Buck and others receive honorary earned titles.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Syracuse University
William de Witt Hyde
Bowdoin College
B. B. Odell,Jr
Leon
H. Vincent
New York
D. D
Nacey, Magee
Binghamton
Aia? P. Eckerman
Charles E. Hamilton
Rochester
Frederick Thomas Keeney
Auburn
Milton Dana Buck
San Francisco
Cal
Lake Forest University Buys Evidences of Christianity
Chicago June 12 The Lake Forest University under a 1879 bequest from William Bross will publish Dr Mark Hopkins Evidences of Christianity as the first Bridgewater Treatise volume. Trustees allocate 12000 dollars as premiums for works reconciling science and Christian religion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Forest University
Chicago
William Bross
Mark Hopkins
Williams College
Bridgewater
Lake Forest University Names New President
The trustees announce the appointment of Rev. Dr. Richard D. Harlan of Third Presbyterian Church Rochester New York as Lake Forest University president. Negotiations had been ongoing. Dr Harlan is a son of Supreme Court Justice and brother of the Porto Rico attorney general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lake Forest University
Richard D. Harlan
Third Presbyterian Church of
Rochester
N. Y
Lake Forest Institution
Harlan
Justice Harlan
United States Supreme Court
Porto Rico
Judgments Against Mrs Hammerstein Sent to Sheriff
Deputy Sheriff Murray yesterday obtained two executions against Malvina Hammerstein of 1851 Seventh Avenue wife of Oscar Hammerstein theatrical manager totaling 15355 in favor of the Twelfth Ward Bank. The judgments stem from notes dated June 25 1897 for 5000 and August 25 1895 for 7580 payable six months from date to the order of Oscar Hammerstein. She claimed in answer the notes were for his accommodation.
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Hammerstein
Murray
Malvina Hammerstein
Seventh Avenue
Oscar Hammerstein
Twelfth Ward Bank
Max Lasar Freed After Six Months In Jail
Max Lasar the diamond smuggler was released in Buffalo on an order by Commissioner Robinson after serving six months for smuggling diamonds from Canada. Diamonds seized by customs brought $31,000, but he owed a fine he could not pay, triggering the federal rule limiting detention for nonpayment to thirty days.
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Max Lasar
Buffalo
Robinson
Lasar
United
Canada
Farmer Cornelius Gleason Killed Crossing at Pinabing
Cornelius Gleason a 65 year old farmer of Flushing was struck and killed by a Long Island Railroad train at the Lawrence Street crossing in Pinabing just after the 4 30 P M City bound run. His father died at the same spot years ago in a similar accident. The deceased was highly regarded and wealthy.
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Cornelius Gleason
Flushing
Long Island
Lawrence Street
Long Isnd City
Trein
Gleason
Delaware Surety Hearings Conclude In Bonds Case
Commissioner George H. Corey ended testimony in a Montana case over the Delaware Surety Company. The firm offered a 350000 bond in a dispute among Boston and Montana Mining, Chile Gold Mining, Montana Ore Purchasing, and Johnstown Mining. Testimony questioned the companys assets and implicated officers Otto C Heinze and Arthur P Heinze as beyond subpoenas reach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George H. Corey
Supreme Court of Montana
Delaware Surety Company
Montana
Boston and Montana Mining Company
Chile Gold Mining Company
Montana Ore Purchasing Company
Johnstown Mining Company
Edward Lauterach
Herbert R. Limburger
Amalgamated Copper Company
Otto C. Heinze
Arthur P. Heinze
F. A. Heinze
R. L. Marin
Harry Velthusen
Stewart
Mr. Heinze
Franklin Bien
Virginia Convention Opens Amid Heated Debates in Richmond
Virginia's Constitutional Convention began in Richmond on a hot day with a key debate over an oath of office and potential disfranchisement of Negroes. Senator Daniel and other leaders argued, while John Goode was elected president and urged a restrictive view of suffrage as a privilege.
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Richmond
Virginia
Daniel
A. P. Tham
Norfolk
Berryman Green
Danvile
Thom
Carter Glass
Lynchburg
John Goode
Confederate Congress
Cleveland
Goode
Supreme Court
Mississippi
Vines Mr. Goode
University of Virginia
Wytheville
Elevated Station Robbery Reported At Nostrand Ave Station
Brooklyn police seek two colored men after an late night attack on Herman Zimmerman a ticket agent at Nostrand Avenue elevated station. He says the robbers stole 11.30 from the day’s takings and left after striking him. Zimmerman’s injuries may be fatal and a bloodstained fish plate and cap were found nearby. Authorities note the suspects are colored porters recently dismissed from the company. No arrests yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Herman Zimmerman
Nostrand Avenue
Fulton Street
Zimmerman
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Eastern District Hospital
Archbishop Ireland Denies Yale Degree Tender
In St. Paul on June 12 the Archbishop denied receiving a Yale College degree offer. He blamed an Eastern reporter for generating the untrue story and stated that no such tender ever came from Yale College.
Otto Gemunder Dead Violinmaker’s Kin Remembered
Otto Gemunder, 30, youngest son of violin maker George Gemunder, died at the Brooklyn Home for Consumptives in Brooklyn. Surviving brothers, George and Herrmann, both violin makers, will host the funeral at Astoria.
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Otto Gemunder
George Gemunder
Brooklyn
Kingston Avenue
Douglass Street
Astoria
Otto
George Gemander
Vuillaume
Ole Bull
Paris
United States
Gaspar de Salo
Theosis
George
West
One Hundred and Nineteenth Street
Herrmann
Record Beer Import Sets Hoboken Duty Free Record
Hoboken welcomed the North German Lloyd steamer Grosseree carrying 3 050 half barrels of German beer. The massive import breaks a city record and goes to dealers across the country amid warm weather.
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Hoboken
Lloyd
Grosseree
Fifteen Define Policy A New In Committee Meeting
A quorum failed at a Committee of Fifteen session missing chief opponents Justice Jerome and Jacob Schiff. With Schiff absent, the body signaled it would continue its original program but may abandon gambling raids and focus on removing the social evil from tenements.
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Jerome—Charles Stewart Smith
Jacob H. Schiff
Schiff
Committee of Fifteen
Justice Jerome
William H. Baldwin, Jr
Andrew J. Smith
George Foster Peabody
Baldwin
Gamblin
Police
John McCullagh
Providential
New York
Mulberry Street
Nassau Street
Rail officials deny Pennsylvania Steel buyout by railroad
Wall Street disputes over whether the Pennsylvania Railroad bought control of the Pennsylvania Steel Company. First VP Green confirms railroad interests acquired Pennsylvania Steel, linked to Dick Brothers and Evans R. Dick. The move is blamed for a 15 point rise in Colorado Fuel and Iron stock as railroads seek steel rails.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Steel
Green
Wall Street
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Dick Brothers
Evans R. Dick
Colorado
Pennslvania Steel
Western Roads
Colorado Company
Railroad official denies control over Pennsylvania Steel Company
John P. Green first vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad says the railroad has not acquired control of the Pennsylvania Steel Company. He notes large holdings by railroad interests in the steel firm but denies full ownership.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Pennsylvania Steelompany
John P. Green
Pennslvania Steel Company
Berwind-White Coal Company
Man Found Dead in Hamilton Hotel Identified
Mrs Sinnette of 1579 Madison Avenue identifies the man found dead in a room at the Hamilton Hotel 4 Third Place Brooklyn as her husband John Sinnette. She says he suffered neuralgia and used morphine to ease pain and believes he died from the drugs not by his own hand. Sinnette was a bookkeeper who lacked steady work and left home Saturday telling his wife he would return at noon.
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Reardon
Bete
James P. Ryder
Amsterdam Avenue
East Fifty-first Street
McCauley
McLaughlin
East Forty-eighth Street
Brennan
John Reich
West Forty-eighth Street
First Avenue
Fifty-eighth
Fiftyninth Streets
Louis Hiller
Hiller
Hall
Hamilton Hotel
Third Place
Brooklyn
Sinnette
Madison Avenue
John P. Sinnette
Linnette
Smallpox Outbreak Reported in Michigan Corridor
Special to The New York Times. In Michigan between Bangor and Hartford a smallpox scourge has struck, with about 150 cases reported. Initially believed to be Cuban itch, investigations confirmed smallpox and the spread is linked to Northern Michigan lumber pods.
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ST. Joseph
Mich
Michigan
Bangor
Hartford
Funeral for Maltbie Babcock at Brick Presbyterian Church
A large congregation filled Brick Presbyterian Church for the tribute to Maltbie Davenport Babcock D D 1858 1901. Rev Henry Van Dyke led the service with support from multiple ministers as mourners, including Mrs Babcock and Howard Babcock. The body was later moved to Syracuse for burial services by Rev George F Curtis.
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Martble B. Babcock
George I. Webster
Church of the Covenant
J. Cleveland Cady
Alfred EB. Marling
Theron G. Strong
W. H. H. Moore
Hector M. Hitchings
John E. Parsons
William Warner Hoppin
Adam Campbell
William D. Barbour
New York
George Alexander
Anthony H. Evans
T. W. F. Birch
W. W. Atterbury
D. Asa Blackburn
George T. Purves
John Balcomb Shaw
Charles J. Young
Thomas Marshall
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
John C. Bliss
James H. Hoadley
Samuel M. Jackson
Duncan J. McMillan
Joseph Sanderson
J. Ford Sutton
Charles L. Thompson
Robert E. Speer
Board of Foreign Missions
Howard Babcock
Harry Babcock
J. Frank Tollman
Babcock
James Beveridge Lee
First Presbyterian Church
Milwaukee
Hamilton College
John B. Walken
Bets W. Ballantine
Johns Hopkins
R. §. Pardington
A. C. McCrea, Jr
New York Methodist Preachers’ Association
Baltimore
John T. Stone
Brown Memorial Sears
James A. Gary
W. P. Ammidon
H. M
Charles Cuthbert Hall
Smith
Christ
Syracuse
George F. Curtis
Bloomfield
N. J
Wisconsin Town in a Panic on Tornado Anniversary
New Richmond Wisconsin marks the second anniversary of the tornado that devastated the business district and caused fatalities, triggering a citywide rush to cellars as threatening clouds loom above the town.
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Wisconsin
New Richmond
Wis
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Miss Gould
The
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Detective McNaught
Inspector Thompson
Capt. Diamond
Masers
Europe
Eorge Fisher
Surety Corppany
Willam H. A. Fisher
John D. Little
Bien
Amalgamated Cooper. Company
Commission
Montana Supreme Court
Surety Company
Lauterbach
Limburger
DR. Odell
Lake Forest
Virginia Convention
Archbishop Ireland
Yale University
GhAe
Fraser & Co
5Th Avenue
VICHY
Broadway
DR. Babcock
Brick Presbyterian Church
Meriden Company
International Silver Co
Silversmiths
Fifth Avenue
Madison Square
J. W
Geo. H. Hahn
East
Mauser Meg. Co
15Th St
Bet
5Th Ave
N.Y
St. J
Columbus
Williams
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Degnan
Ople
Oshkosh
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