Brooch Returned After Polo Field Loss in Baltimore Social Scene
Mrs. Spalding Jenkins of Baltimore lost a $1,500 diamond horseshoe brooch at Meadow Brook polo match last Tuesday. Rich mond Talbot found it near the west stand and notified polo officials. The Plaza Hotel house detective placed a Times ad offering a $300 reward. Mrs. Jenkins reclaimed the brooch and the finder declined compensation. She was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. David Stevenson at the Plaza.
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Spalding Jenkins
Baltimore
Meadow Brook
Richmond Talbot
Ft. House
McLaughlin
The
Plaza
Tas Times
Jenkins
David Stevenson
Mr. Talbot
Maxim Silencer Sparked Ellison Mayoral Speculation
A Manhattan dollar luncheon at the Hotel St Denis drew clergymen and business figures who heard William B. Ellison and others speak on municipal finances. Speakers avoided committing to a campaign while Ellison urged retrenchment and warned of high budgets and costly projects like Ashokan Dam, suggesting local water needs are met already.
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Corporation
William B. Elison
Hotel St. Denis
John Whalen
Luther Wilson
Methodist Episcopal Church
St. Per
Bishop Wilson
M. H.harris
Temple Israel
Wiliam B. Ellison
David J. Hurrell
Robert Bagnell
Edward Lauterpach
Henry Hill
Daniel G. Wylie
A. F. Campbell
William A. Prendergast
John Elek Ludvig
J. F. Calderwod
Wilson
Harris
Ellison
Barkis
Willin
Mr. Ellison
Edward Lauterbach
Whalen
Everbody
Albany
Bagnell
Nostrand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Ashokan
Catskills
United States
Bus loses conductor on Riverside Drive joy ride
Passengers on a Fifth Avenue omnibus ride toward 187th Street with no bell or conductor. The driver, missing crew, loops back toward Grant's Tomb then north, triggering frantic calls and a passenger pulling the bell rope to stop the vehicle.
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Fifth Avenue
187Th Street
Grant
Riverside Drive
Stock Exchange
Seans
Sean
Executor Rathbun cited over mental capacity of heiress
Surrogate Colahan ordered Dr. H Fuller Rathbun sole executor of Mrs Anette Wagner Haynes estate to appear in court to justify why his allegations questioning Mrs Anette Wagner Sherman’s capacity should not be struck from the petition. Mrs Sherman, life beneficiary of the trust, objects to the suit and questions the executor’s fitness and control of the estate.
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Cohalan
H. Fuller Rathbun
West Fifty-eighth Street
Anette Wagner Haynes
Dr. Rathbun
Harry Taylor Sherman
Rathbun
Elwood J. Harlem
Ms. Sherman
Alstead H
To Wed Army Captain Aboard Columbia in Bright Fort Thomas Romance
The Anchor Line steam ship Columbia arrived from Glasgow with Bride to be Janet Gardner meeting Capt. P. L. Smith U S A at Fort Thomas Kentucky on the pier. The couple plans a wedding tonight at a friend’s home on West Seventy second Street. Gardner will leave the stage to begin housekeeping in Kentucky after a year of courtship that began in Louisville.
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Glasgow
P. L. Smith
Fort Thomas
Janet Gardner
Graham Moffat
Company of
Scotch Players
Miss Gardner
Capt. Smith
Kentucky
Suffrage Supporters Raise 3000 Dollars in Syracuse Rally
Mrs Stanton Blatch reports 3000 dollars raised at the suffrage rally in Syracuse Arena after the parade. The Woman's Political Union opens permanent city headquarters to sustain the campaign led by Miss Caroline Lexow with aides Miss Mildred Taylor and Miss Elizabeth Freeman. State heads report broad organization, active work in fourteen counties, and strong early momentum for a 1915 suffrage victory.
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Stanton Blatch
Woman's Political Union
Syracuse
Woman's Union
Caroline Lexow
Mildred Taylor
Elizabeth Freeman
Harriet May Mills
Autoists Fined in Long Island City Court
Magistrate Harry Miller heard 37 cases for speeding under the new automobile ordinance. Twenty nine defendants paid fines totaling 700 pounds, eight cases were adjourned for payment, most arraigned as chauffeurs but some car owners. Violations occurred Saturday afternoon to Sunday night. the fines marked the largest total in that court. Seventeen car rowdies faced sentences, eleven jailed 30 days each, six others ten days.
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Harry Miller
Long Island
Auction Set for Smuggled Diamonds From Amsterdam Case
Public auction to sell 247 carats of smuggled diamonds worth about 16845.40 at 11 in Room 56 Federal Building by Marshal Henkel. Diamonds smuggled by Nathan Green of Green Brothers 281 Pearl Street from Amsterdam, hidden in a registered package with a woman’s photograph inscribed In Memoriam. Package damage led to discovery and Green’s arrest. he faced Judge Mayer on March 14 and received one day detention plus a 35000 fine.
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Federal Building
Marshal Henkel
Nathan Green
Green Brothers
Pearl Street
Amsterdam
Newell Brackett
Green
Mayer
Wood block Broadway paving coats streets in sticky creosote
Hotel managers and shopkeepers on Broadway between Fifty-ninth and Seventy-ninth Streets complain of a sticky creosote coating from treated wood blocks. Officials say sand sprinkling by the Street Cleaning Department may cure the problem. the issue stems from warm weather causing swelling and surface oil bleeding.
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Broadway
Fifty-ninth
Seventy-ninth Streets
Sixty-sixth Street
Sixty-seventh Street
TIMES
Seventy-second Street
McAneny
Edwards
Highways Department
Parktow
Ordinance Violations in Prospect Park Lead to Mass Arrests
Police arrested 111 offenders in Prospect Park on Sunday for park rule violations. Magistrate Reynolds increased the maximum fine to 25 and discussed amendments to park ordinances to forbid carrying newspapers or reading matter in the park on Sundays. Four patrol wagons operated, many more arrests possible, grounds left battered with extensive cleanup needed.
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Prospect Park
Rooklyn
Flatbush
Reynolds
Park Department
Hughes
Thomas F. Reilly
Kennedy
Estate of Lorillard Spencer Valued at $881 478 in 1912
Appraisal filed for Lorillard Spencer of New York and Newport shows assets at his death on March 14, 1912 totaling $881,478. Newport home Chastellux valued at $150,000 with $75,000 mortgage, New York bank holdings exempt from tax, fealty and personal effects in Newport taxed, and the will provisions allocate bequests to widow Mrs Joline G Spencer and son Lorillard Spencer Jr. Gifts include legacies to a grandson, Elsie Surette of Paris, and $100 yearly to each servant.
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Lorillard Spencer
New York
Newport
Spencer
East Eighty-sixth Street
Chastellux
Rhode Island
Illustrated American Publishing Company
Rhode Island Vaisal
Joline G. Spencer
Elsie Surette
Paris
France
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Macy
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Martinique Hotel Times
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125Th St
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Clicquot Club Co
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Brockton
Mass
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