Rail collision suit seeks 250000 in Pell case
A Long Island Railroad collision case opens in Long Island City over a fatal Aug 3 1913 crash that killed Philip Pell and injured others. Mrs Pell seeks damages while multiple related suits follow for widow Mrs Laimbeer and Gambino. testimony focuses on crossing protections and train signaling.
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S Osgoodie
Long Island Railroad
Long Island
Long Feach Road
Wreck Lead Station
Supreme Court
Aspinall
Long Island City
William Laimbeer
Clara Bloodgood
Birs Nathalie Schenck Laimbeer
Pells
Pell
Rs. Laimbeer
William K. Vandertilt, Jr
Long Beach
Mr. Vanderbilt
Ja. Pell
J. Pell
Mrs. Laimbeey
Gambino
Mr. Pell
Crossing Collision Acknowledged By Lawyer
The lawyer said the accident happened because a car touched the train and third rail causing a short circuit that put Hebta out until the train’s storage batteries restored power. Mr Littleton admitted no watchman was on duty at the crossing when the collision occurred.
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Littleton
Comstock Attacks Court Over Minzesheimer Case
Anthony Comstock enraged in Harlem Court after Minzesheimer a 42 year old dentist was discharged by Magistrate Corrigan. Comstock claimed lack of power and threatened to appeal to the Bar Association while Corrigan ordered him out of the courtroom.
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Anthony Comstock
Bar Association
Corrigan
Harlem
Herman Minzesheimer
East 111Th Street
Comstock
Brooklyn
Mr. Comstock
Minzesheimer
Court of Special Sessions
Plunkitt Rejects 99 Year Lease for Tammany Hall Site
Former Senator George W. Plunkitt recalls a proposed Tammany Hall site on the west side of Eighth Avenue near Columbus Circle. He sought a 300 year lease with renewal options but settled to continue search, planning an office building to generate income if a longer lease proved possible.
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Tammany Hall
George W. Plunkitt
Tammany
Hooper Held For Sentence After Assault Guilty Finding
Maurice T. Hooper, 22, son of a wealthy Maine manufacturer, was found guilty before Magistrate Krotel of attacking Miss Clementine Collins in Hooper's father's 512 West End Avenue home. He claimed no explanation beyond stating Collins was not at a prior Broadway scene. Collins said Hooper took her from a Summer Garden with Marie Weston, where after drinks he then led her to the home and she escaped by fighting. Police aided by two officers on the roof ended the incident. Hooper remains in custody without bail pending Wednesday sentencing, with a probation officer to examine his reputation.
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Maurice T. Hooper
Maine
Krotel
West Side
Clementine Collins
West End Avenue
Hooper
Broadway
Ninety-sixth Street
New Telephone Book Out Sets Vast City Directory Spread
The largest distribution of telephone information in the country began with New York Citys new Summer directories. The city book lists 45 000 names on US4 pages with a circulation of 1 600 copies. Suburban and regional volumes add 193 000 names on 17 pages and 57 000 Westchester copies and 47 000 Long Island books. Overall metropolitan distribution reaches about 1 700 000 copies.
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New York City
Loo
New Jersey
Westchester
Long Island
Mrs Belmont Operated On For Appendicitis
Mrs. August Belmont underwent an appendectomy yesterday at General Memorial Hospital on 106th Street and Central Park West. The operation was reported successful. she is recovering and expected to convalesce soon. She was the stage star Eleanor Robson before marrying August Belmont on February 26.
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August Belmont
General Memorial Hospital
106Th Street
Central Park West
Mr. Belmonts
Minnie Scott
Lester A. Scott
Pelham Manor
Central Park
110Th Street
Richard Schnepf
Chatterton Avenue
Bronx
Schnepf
Ter, Frasecola
Knickerbocker Ohospital
Sechnept
Defy Cloakmakers Threat To Strike Keeps Open Shop Policy
The Cloakmakers Protect Association met to resolve labor tensions after the peace protocol ended with the unions, rejecting arbitration and reaffirming open shop rights. They authorize the executive to act, risking a potential strike of 100000 workers if tensions persist. Benjamin Schlesinger said unions must vote before final action.
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Association
New York City
Co-Operative Commonwealth
Madison Square Garden
General Board
Hotel
McAlpin
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Garment
Employers’ Association
New York
Benjamin Schlesinger
Internationaladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Wives Liberty Enlarged in Divorce Trial
Justice Blanchard rules visits to a man’s apartment no longer prove misconduct in the Saunders versus Saunders suit. Testimony shows Dr Harry C Saunders gave gifts to Mrs Martha Wilshutz who visited his apartment. judge notes professional relation may explain visits and grants Mrs Saunders a decree.
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Justice Blanchard
Mattie W. Saunders
Harry C. Saunders
Morris Markheim
Martha Johns Wilshutz
West Thirteenth Street
Wiishutz
Man Demands Money for Lions at Hotel Martinique
A stranger demanded funds to feed lions kept by a Havana lion tamer staying at the Hotel Martinique. Clerk W. P. Cooley alerted a policeman after the man pressed a desk button and claimed the lions were hungry, prompting payment for their breakfast.
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Wr. P. Cooley
Martinique
Cooley
West Thirtieth Street
Havana
West Thirty-ninth Street
Deaths in Week Reported by City Health Dept
For the week ended June 12 the City Health Department logged 1 479 deaths, down from 1 865 the prior year once population is considered. Increases linked to intestinal diseases pneumonia heart and nervous system diseases. Infant and elderly mortality rose notably. first twenty four weeks of 1915 show a lower rate than the same period in 1914.
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City Health Department
Albany to Pay Oneida County Teachers Salaries
Controller Travis announced that funds to pay teachers in Oneida County for work since last March will be sent from Albany tomorrow. He noted other counties will receive school money as well. A $6,000,000 loan arranged weeks ago to cover state running costs until October delayed certification until May 24.
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Albany
N. Y
Oneida
Travis
State Education Department
Two Cars Crumple as Auto Dodges Trolley Collision
A rush hour crash on Lexington Avenue near Fifty sixth Street involved two surface cars and an automobile carrying James Butler and Stanley Hodes. The auto was crushed between the two trolleys but passengers escaped with minor injuries. Butler’s employer, George A. Leclaire, valued the doomed car at $6,000 and uninsured.
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Lexington Avenue
Fifty-sixth Street
Auto
Curs Polic
George Greenberg
Ast B
Flower Hospital
Balzburé
James Butler
Decatur Avenue
Stanley Hodes
East 108Th Street
Butler
George A. Leclaire
East Sixty-fifth Street
Leelaire
Six Injured in Ocean Avenue Collision at Sheepshead Bay
Six people were injured yesterday afternoon when a crowded trolley car on Ocean Avenue hit a motor truck near Avenue PB in Sheepshead Bay. The car was en route from Brooklyn to Coney Island.
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Sheepshead Bay
Ocean Avenue
Avenue PB
Brooklyn
Coney
Truck Collision Injures Several in Brooklyn Traffic
A truck crash on an Island surfaced with multiple injured, including Churchill John of St Cranberry Street Brooklyn and Campbell Peter of 43 Park Place Brooklyn. Passengers Wish er John Li Laughlin Mollie F Simpson George and Judien of Manhattan were also hurt with severe bruises. Churchill and Campbell were taken to Coney Island hospital by Dr Heid. The truck was owned by Alfred Krumaker of 166th Street Manhattan.
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Churchill
Campbell
Coney Island Hospital
Heid
Alfred Krumaker
Sos
Auto Dealer Run Down near Bayside
William J. Maxwell, a Bayside Avenue auto dealer in Flushing, IL, was struck by an unidentified car on Broadway near Alley Creek while traveling with family. Maxwell suffered a fractured skull and possible internal injuries. he was taken to hospital after another car assisted and fueled the stalled vehicle. His wife, daughter, and 14-year-old son were present.
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William J. Maxwell
Bis Bayside Avenue
Flushins
IL. 1
Broadway
Bayside
Alley Creek
Mr. Maxwell
Great Neck
Flushing
Uhey
Three Hurt In Auto Crash In Williamsburg Area
Miss Margaret Murray of 402 Grove Street Williamsburg and her parents were injured when their car collided with a vehicle on Wyckoff and Grove. Murray suffered facial contusions and a right forearm dislocation. Her father had a broken nose and internal injuries. Her mother dislocated the right arm and sustained internal injuries. They were treated at German Hospital and sent home.
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Margaret Murray
Grove Street
Williamsburg
Wyckeff Avenue
al Grove Street
Wyrckhall Avenue Hine
John Bran
Murray
Freehold Woman Struck by Car Near Englishtown
Mrs Rebecca Lipschetz of Freehold is in St Francis Hospital after a hit and run-traffic accident on the Freehold Englishtown road. The driver fled the scene. another motorist found her and brought her to hospital.
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Trenton
Rebecca Lipsehetz
Freehold
St Francis’s Hospital
Englishtown
Lipschetz
Maneeaces Water Aids Digestion In Diet Fix
An old magazine note promotes Maneeaces water as a daily aid. Drinking a glass or two with each meal supposedly reduces indigestion fermentation acidity and gas and allows eating richer meals. Marketed as a tasteless stomach remedy, it is sold by druggists and grocers.
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van Wyck
Mr. Peil
Long Island Railroad Company
Auto Mobile
M. J. Joseph F. Keany
Waimbeer
Roosevelt Pell
Talesmen
Tose
van Vrock
Hells
Pie
Lagman
Talle Vrath
COURT
Vice Crusader
Plunkitt
New Hall
Mrs.belmont
Brokaw Brothers
Astorpisce
Fourth Avenue
America
Glacier National Park
Great Northern Railway
Glacier Park
Rocky
Cascade Mountains
Pacific Northwest
Great Northern
San Francisco
LPL
Lounsbrery
Broadway, New York, N. Y
H. A. Noble
St. Paul, Minn
Lounsbery, Q. A. P. D
New York, N. Y
Stranger
Oneida County
Lexington Av
56Th St
Flushing Man
Wendell Kneller
Michael Jarmon
White Horse
Keller
Harmon
St. Francis’s Hospital
Lawyers Mortgage CO
Richard M. Hurd
Liberty
Manhattan
Montague Street
Slotringtons
California
Mrs. Thrift
United Coupon
United
Grocer
Butcher Dry Goods Store
Confectioner
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