Metz proposes partial Manhattan phone franchise test
City Controller Metz suggests granting Atlantic Telephone a franchise only for Manhattan south of Canal Street to prove the system before wider use. He advocates a temporary, guaranteed extension if satisfactory, with the option for renewal or expiration if not. The plan faces opposition from the old company and local barriers.
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Metz
Atlantic Telephone Company
Canal Street
Manhattan
New
Canal Stret
Ths
Wall Street
Board of Estimate
Métz
The
Atlantic
Widt
Civnemen
Wterborough
Thien
Atlantic Company
Fairbanks Denies Southern Press Story On Wheeler Remark
Vice President Fairbanks traveling to Senator Morgan’s funeral denied a Southern press claim. The report alleged he said at Chattanooga that Joseph Wheeler told McKinley in Fairbanks presence the applicant followed the Confederate. Fairbanks said Wheeler spoke of conscience and fighting against the United States as a duty.
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Birmingham
Ala
Morgan
Fairbanks
Chattanooga
Joseph Wheeler
McKinley
Fairbanke
Wheeler
United States
Knox Memorial Unveiling At Woodlawn Cemetery
The Knox Memorial Bible Class plans an unveiling of monuments for their late leader Cheese H. Knox. The ceremony at Woodlawn Cemetery will be led by Reverend Edward G. Me, Reverend Willam Wang, and Reverend Taber Fines. The Bible class will sing Knox’s favorite hymns.
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Knox Memorialg Bible
Theirgleader
Cheese H. Knox
Mapletpal -Civil_ Service» Commission
Board of Education
Tam Hall
Woodlawn
Zoe
Edward G. W. Me
Willam Wang
Knox*Memorial Church
Taber Fines
Chéries H. Knox
Murphy charges libel against Evening Mail over cartoons
Chariss F. Murphy Tammany Hall leader files damage suit against The Evening Mail for alleged libel from cartoons showing him in stripes. Similar images ran in The Evening Journal owned by W R Hearst, Murphy’s political partner. No suit yet against Feet-It. Mail plans to defend the cartoons as not libelous.
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Chariss F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
Evening Mail
Ydel
Evening Journal
W. R. Hearst
Murphy
Bo Far Ag
Khown
Murhy
Mail
Lowell Art Association Buys Whistler Birthplace
Lowell Mass June 18 announcement that the Worthen Street house where James McNeill Whistler was born has been purchased by the Lowell Art Association. The property will be restored as an art museum and memorial to the renowned painter.
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Lowell
Mass
Worthen Street
James McNeill Whistler
Lowell Art Association
Bronze tablet memorial sheds light on Rhode Island seal motto
A fragmented Newport report notes a bronze tablet bearing the Rhode Island state seal motto Hope and a silver service for veterans. It mentions an enlisted man linked to Gage and a sergeant named by Colentin, reflecting local remembrance of historic ties.
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Newport
Rhode Island
Ers
Goleentin O Tans
Tent campaign opens third season with diverse evangelists
About fifty workers will preach in tents shops and factories in a non sectarian effort led by denominations including Methodist Baptist Episcopal Dutch Reformed Presbyterian United Presbyterian Moravian Lutheran and the Y M C A The program features twenty meetings daily with speakers such as Rev E W Work Rev George Gable M Nardi Rev H D Sheldon and Rev J R Morris amid open air gatherings at Abingdon Square Fort George and Five Points with no collections taken and attendees choosing their own church affiliation
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United Presbyterian
146Th Street
Seventh Avenue
E. W. Work
Colorado Springs
164Th Street
Boston Road
George Gable
Greenfiel
Ohio
W. E. Tederwolf
H. D. Sheldon
Auburn
N. Yu
Abingdon Square
Bradford Williams
Fort George
Routes
William Wilkinson
Paiemecene
Wall Street
Custom House
J. R. Morris
Secret wedding forgives at Huntington for Bustanoby and Ruth Boyd
Jacques Bustanoby of Café Des Beaux Arts and his 17 year old bride Ruth Boyd married Monday at the Little Church Around the Corner. They left for a honeymoon in Huntington after a private ceremony. Mrs Frank Ray of Riverside Drive, mother of the bride, forgave and blessed the union.
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Bustanoby
Huntington
L. I
Jacques Bustanoby
Café Des Beaux Arts
Fortieth Street
Sixth Avenue
Ruth Boyd
Frank Ray
Riverside Drive
Misses Elys
Ple
Miss Boyd
Ethel
Grade Crossings to Be Abolished in Brooklyn
The Long Island Railroad crossings at Flatbush Avenue and New Utrecht Avenue in Brooklyn will be eliminated in a few days. The Bay Ridge project, a joint effort by the city and LIRR, aims to remove eighty grade crossings in Brooklyn under Brooklyn Grade Crossing Commission oversight. The policy mirrors the Pennsylvania Railroad system of elevating or burying tracks where feasible. Plans for other crossings at Shinnecock Hills North Hixway Claypit Road and St Andrew's Road are nearing completion with additional removals planned in Old West Road Westbury and New York Avenue Huntington.
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Long Island Railroad
Flatbush Avenue
New Utrecht Avenue
Brooklyn
Bay Ridge
Long Island Railroad 4
Shinnecock Hills
North Hixway
Claypit Road
St. Andrew's Road
Old West Road
Westbury
New York Avenue
Huntington
Renounces Starry Flag in San Francisco
Mrs. Wong Suh Yue, sister of Mrs. Howard Gould, renounces U.S. citizenship and aligns with Chinese nationality. She joins the Quong Ae Yick tailoring firm and adopts Chinese identity, saying the dragon now represents her over the Stars and Stripes.
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San Francisco
Wong Suh Yue
Howard Gould
China
Yue
113 Want to be Soldiers at West Point
The class of 1911 at United States Military Academy was sworn in at 5 pm with 112 admitted under higher physical standards, seven more expected later to total 120. The Cadet Corps began its Summer camp with cadets marching to encamp on the Hudson bluffs nearby.
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West Point
United States Military Academy
War Department
Cadet Corps
Hudson
Replevin Writ Levied Against Cohen & Gabriel Makers
The Sheriff issued a writ of replevin against Cohen and Gabriel clothiers at 58 West Fifteenth Street for 1559 dollars in favor of the American Woolen Company and seized most items listed in the writ. The firm, formed about two years ago, reports capital of 13600 dollars and blames a slow Spring for poor sales. Mr Gabriel is said to be traveling and has sold goods valued at 15 dollars for the Fall trade.
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Cohen & Gabriel
West Fifteenth Street
American Woolen Company
Gabriel
School of Philanthropy Opening Address
Prof. Samuel McCune Lindsay, new director of the New York School of Philanthropy, will deliver the Summer session address in the Assembly Hall of the United Charities Building at 1% East Twenty-second Street tomorrow evening.
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School of Philanthropy
Assembly Hall
United Charities
East Twenty-second Street
Samuel McCune Lindsay
New York School of Philan
Andress
Body found in squalid Park Avenue flat
Frederick Reeve, a consumptive man, was discovered dead in a rear room of 1 440 Park Avenue near 106th Street. Neighbors reported a middle aged, prosperous looking man visited the couple twice monthly. The wife, Georgiana Reeve, was taken to Bellevue psychopathic ward after kissing the body and fleeing before police arrived.
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Frederick Reeve
Bellevue
George Harwood
Park Avenue
106Th Street
Harwood
Nihill
East 104Th Street
Mrs. Reeve
Bellevua
Twenty-sixth ‘Street
Reeve
Georgiana
Mysterious Caller Probed at Madison Avenue Flat
The caller, claiming to be Mrs. Reeve's friend, sought someone in the flat at 107th Street Madison Avenue where the couple once lived. A tenant asked if he was Reeve’s friend. he denied being so and offered she had considerable property. No one knew his errand.
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Reeve
German Shippers Hold Off as New Trade Pact Bites
The July 1 start of a German American commercial convention reduces German imports by about half in May and June, as exporters await duty and administrative concessions. French goods also drop amid a push for a wider US treaty. Brok at the New York Custom House report declines in German lines including wine and spirits and artworks. The US exports to Germany in the year ending June 30, 1906, totaled $234,742,102 versus German imports of $135,142, (Q) leaving a trade surplus of $99,509,108.
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Germany
United States
France
Washington
Aly
Reublic
Brok
New York Custom House
Middies' Squadron to Visit New York This Summer
The first Midshipmen Practice Squadron from Annapolis will cruise six weeks this summer. It includes Olympia as flagship and armored monitors Arkansas Florida and Nevada. Leaving July 19 from Annapolis the squadron will reach New York around July 25 then proceed to the Hudson naval academy at New London New England waters from July 28 to August 20 before returning to Hampton Roads. Commanders Thomas Howard Brad T. Fiske Washington I. Chambers and Alfred Reynolds lead the vessels.
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New York
Olympia
Arkansas
Florida
Nevada
Hampton Roads
Naval Aacho
Hudson
New London
Conn
New England
Waters
Nnce
Midshi Men
Thomas Howard
The
Ones
Brad T. Fiske
Washington I. Chambers
Alfred Reynolds
Nevad
Georgia Day at Jamestown Exposition Highlights Roosevelt Visit
President Roosevelt enjoyed Sagamore Hill on Georgia Day as Gov Terrell of Georgia credits him for the day’s success. Georgia editor John Temple Graves was first visitor, and plans to fill the New Haven Circuit Court vacancy with a Connecticut or other qualified candidate are under consideration. Roosevelt will skip the June 26 intercollegiate rowing regatta.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt
Georgia
John Temple Graves
Terrell
Georgis
Jamestown
Jamestown Exposition
Graves
Neck of the Woods
Townsend
New Haven
New York
Vermont
Connecticut
Walter C. Noyes
John H. Perry
John K. Beach
Poughkeepsie
Woman Runs Blazing for a Block After Lamp Fire
Mrs. Mariah Rickento of 325 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn started to light a lamp indoors last night. She toppled it and oil splashed on her. her clothes caught fire and she ran out screaming. A passerby stopped her after a block and extinguished the flames. She was taken to Long Island College Hospital unconscious.
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Mariah Rickento
Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn
Long Island College Hospital
Milliken Workers Idle After Plant Shutdown
Receivers of Milliken Brothers, Staten Island steel maker, shut down the newer plant section. General Manager Hamilton joins Minnesota Steel Company near Duluth to build a ten million house plant, while Supt. W J Stoop moves to Sharon Pennsylvania. About 1,500 workers face displacement as skilled steel labor tightens nationwide.
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Milliken Brothers
Staten Island
Structural Steel
Hamilton
Supt
W. J. Stoop
West
Mr. Hamilton
Minnesota Steel Company
United States Steel Corporation
Duluth
Sharon
Penn
Stee
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