Bath towel dispute unsettles Fifty-seventh Street Y M C A
Young men at the Fifty-seventh Street Y M C A protest reduced towel supplies and laundry costs. They report three towels per week per man and only one small towel per roomer daily, with no laundering option. Dr Meyers refuses comment as residents seek a daily bath towel and fair discussion.
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Young Men’s Christian Association
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Herrid
Y. M CC. A
H. G. Meyers
West Seventyeighth Street
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Grave reveals murder of Augusta Roberts in Sleepy Hollow
Special to The New York Times. Exhumation of Augusta Roberts of Columbia Conn at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery under Judge Morschauser order revealed two large head bruises and an internal brain hemorrhage. Autopsy suggests strike with stone or club. authorities noted prior quarrel rumors. Mrs Roberts, 50, had lived in North Tarrytown and left prominent Westchester relatives.
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New York Times
White Plains
N. Y
Augusta Roberts
Columbia
Bean
Egan
Weeks
Cuvillier Attacks Citizens' Union Leader Over Record
Assemblyman Loulis F Cuvillier replies to Citizens Union secretary Robert S Binkerd accusing the group of being a lobbyist body and argues immunity from critique while highlighting his failing legislative record with seventy five bills in 1908 none enacted and clashes over race track gambling and union representation in the State Capitol.
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Loulis F. Cuvillier
Percy Nagle
Robert S. Binkerd
Citizens’ Union
Union
Committee On
Cuvillier
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Freight Fraud Arrest Highlights Interstate Case
Chicago paper notes broker John B. Sardy was arrested for violating the interstate commerce law. Authorities say he solicited interstate freight at reduced rates by falsifying weight bills and billing orders, following an Illinois Central Railway inquiry. District Attorney Sims calls it a first for Chicago police.
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Chicago
John B. Sardy
Sardy
Illinois Central Railway
Sims
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Suffrage Leaders Rally at Interurban Meeting
The Interurban Woman Suffrage Association held its final summer session at the Martha Washington Hotel East Twenty ninth Street from 10 30 a m to 2 p m Carrie Chapman Catt presided and outlined campaign plans urging a broad petition drive, outdoor meetings, and work against anti suffrage politicians. Members present included Mrs Crossett Mrs Harry Hastings Mrs Hackstaff Miss Mary Garrett Hay Miss Ida Craft and Miss Ida Husted Harper with Mrs O H P Belmont joining during the meeting.
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Interurban
Woman Suffrage Association
Martha Washington Hotel
East Twenty-ninth Street
Carrie Chapman Catt
International Suffrage Alliance
Otel Astor
Congress
London
Larchmont Women Vote on Local Election
In Larchmont New York on June 15 women used motor transport to vote for the Republican slate led by Edward C. Griffen for President W B Sutherland for Trustee Joseph Bird for Treasurer and William J Kellner for Tax Collector The bond proposal to spend 50000 on paving the Boston Post Road was defeated 62 to 25 Eleven women were among the total voters and nineteen women cast ballots with thirteen against the bond and six in favor Lester C Faurot headed the Democratic ticket defeated by 25 votes
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Larchmont
N. Y
Edward C. Griffen
W. B. Sutherland
Joseph Bird
Manthattan Savings Institution
William J. Kellener
Boston Post Road
Lester C. Faurot
Clare Davidson
Lindsley
Mail Recovered From Wrecked Finance Steamer
Divers under the War Department recovered six sealed bags of first class mail from the Finance wreck after months of underwater work. The mail, drenched but bags intact, is drying in the General Post Office engine room. The 1908 sinking near Sandy Hook killed three passengers and an assistant engineer.
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War Department
Finance
Panama Railroad Company
General Post Office
White Star
Georgia
Sandy Hook
Bride and nurse unite in unexpected wartime romance
Christina Johnson 61 and Samuel Wix Seeley 78, a Civil War veteran and former district teacher, married in Spuyten Duyvil after decades of nurse and housekeeper care. Seeley, confined to a sofa during the ceremony, spoke of his pension life and Christina’s faithful devotion before leaving for the McCormick farm.
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D. Barns Griffiths
Spuyten Duyvil
Johanna Christina Johnson
Samuel Wix Seeley
Sweden
Walter H. McCormick
Branchport
David Stewart
Spuyten Duyvil Creek
McCormick
Seeley
Sam
Mr. Seeley
Christina
Poultney
Steuben County
One Hundred and Eighty-eighth
New York Infantry
Virginia
Grant
Appomattox Court House
Lee
New York
Twentythird Street
Christina Johnson
West Forty-fourth Street
Murderer in Woman's Attire Nabbed After Broad Street Chase
Police detain Walter Owens after he posed as a woman in Philadelphia in a disguise linked to a New Jersey trolley car conductor murder. Owens confessed at the detective bureau after Philadelphia authorities identified him as the suspect, aided by Ida Jones who fled with him.
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O’brien
Broadway
Fulton Street
Walter Owens
Naudin Street
Philadelphia
Police
Owens
Woodbury
N. J
Ida Jones
Mullien Hills
Mullion Hills
Publicity in Charities Discussed at Conference
At Buffalo the Conference of Charities and Correction opened with a morning session on recreative methods and an evening program on press and publicity. Speakers H Wirt Steele and Albert Shaw led the discussions, with a symposium featuring Charles W Birtwell and Francis H MacLean among others. Steele argued that education alone cannot cure social ills and urged social workers to campaign for publicity.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Conference of Charities and Correction
H. Wirt Steele
Baltimore
Albert Shaw
New York
Charles W. Birtwell
Boston
Francis H. MacLean
John A. Kingsbury
Orlando F. Lewis
Frederick D. Greene
New
Rev Carmello Luci switches from pulpit to banking in Cleveland
The Rev Carmello Luci, once associate pastor at Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, moved into banking after years of study with John D Rockefeller's support. For months a large banking company planned a scheme to aid foreigners in depositing savings and understanding American banking. Luci agreed to act for foreigners and began his duties today.
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Cleveland
Carmello Luci
John D. Rockefeller
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church
Luci
Heritage Tax Set At 183844 On Morris Estate
In Chicago on June 15 a County Court order fixes an inheritance tax of 183844 dollars on the Nelson Morris estate, the largest in Illinois history. The appraiser lists the total estate value at 16703427 dollars.
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Chicago
Illinois
Nelson Morris
Rinaker
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