New Evening Post Home Rising in Vesey Street
A nine to thirteen story home for The Evening Post is under construction on Vesey Street near St. Paul’s graveyard. Architects Robert D. Kohn designed a simple white and green façade with limestone piers and cast iron bays reflecting modern newspaper buildings in major cities.
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Evening Post
Vesey Street
St. Paul's
Robert D. Kohn
St. Louis
Atlantic Coast
Fifth Avenue
The Evening Post Building Layout and Safety Features
The article describes the distribution of fifteen stories and basements in The Evening Post building. It details reserved private areas for the paper, rental floors, and the Home Trust occupancy on the main floor, with a push button press system, electric operation, and safety lock-buttons. It notes specialized spaces for editors, news departments, a library, and a large hand-set composition hall on the twelfth floor, plus extensive employee amenities.
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Evening Post
Vesey Street
The
Home Trust, Company of Brooklyn
the Nation
Flore
TWO PARADES IN CAMP
A New York Times special from Peekskill reports a Sunday night parade at State Camp with large crowds, rain briefly interrupting the event. Col Duffy led the Sixty-ninth in battalion formation, followed by a brigade parade and guard mounts. A 500-strong Mass and a 2:30 p.m. song service preceded a 20 to 8 victory for the Sixty-ninth in a regimental baseball game.
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New York Times
Peekskill
Young Men’s Christian Association
Old Glory
Col. Duffy
H. G. Lyon
United States Army
Roe
Sixty-ninth
J. C. Curran
Church of the Assumption
Marine Parade for Haakon Reaches Northern Coast
Trondhjem, June 17. The coastal city hosts a royal coronation crowd as Haakon, Queen Maud, and Crown Prince Olaf travel toward Trondhjem to confirm Norway's independence. A fisher fleet demonstration at Aalesund featured ninety steamers and many boats, with the Heimdal leading a two-column parade.
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Christiania
Trondhjem
Haakon
Queen Maud
Olaf
King
Molde
Fisher
Aalesund
Heimdal
Railway Damage Clamps Down on Peiping Traffic
Drought grips northern Pechi Li while floods in the south flood the region. The Han Kow Peking Railway is severed for thirty miles with other stretches out of service. Traffic suspended since Friday. repairs expected to take weeks.
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Peking
Pe-chi-Li
Han-Kow
Japanese Assault on Bishop at Seul Cathedral
In Victoria British Columbia on June 17 news arrived of a disturbance at Seul Cathedral during a service when Japanese soldiers entered, smoked and laughed. Bishop Mer Matel challenged them to behave, one soldier struck him a heavy blow, gendarmes arrested the men, and the Bishop resumed the service.
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Victoria
B. C
Mer
Matel
Séul
Rebel Zulus Last Chance for Surrender in Natal War
Durban reports two sons of Chief Sig ananda surrender to Natalian forces. Most followers of Chief Bam baata were killed in recent fighting. Col Mackenzie issues deadline until next Tuesday, warning rebels will be shot if captured.
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Durban
Sigananda
Natalian
Bambaata
Col. Mackenzie
Owestry Grange Arrives with Premier Seddon’s Body
The steamer Owestry Grange arrived at Wellington at 31 o'clock with Premier Seddon’s body. Thousands lined the wharf to witness the landing. The casket lies in state at Parliament Building and the funeral is set for next Thursday.
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Wellington
N. Z
Owestry Grange
Seddon
Parliament Building
Train Wreck in China Kills and Injures 100
A passenger train derailed at Progranitschnaia station on the Chinese Eastern Railway. Today 100 people were killed or injured in Vladivostok reporting.
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China
Vladivostok
Progranitschnaia
Poole Jokes With Jailer After Port Washington Murder
Grover Cleveland Poole, the boy convicted of murdering James O'Hara, father of his sweetheart, at Port Washington, slept well last night and played solitaire all day while his mother and sister brought him food. he joked with Jailer Ankers in Mineola.
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Mineola
L. I
Grover Cleveland Poole
James O'Hara
Port Washington
Ankers
Swedish Singers Bring King Oscars Greeting to Carnegie Hall
A large audience welcomed the National Choir of the Swedish Y M C A at Carnegie Hall with a personal greeting from King Oscar. Fifty-three amateur singers, including John Husberg, performed a program revised by a local committee, with two Norwegian songs praised for their rendition. The group sails to next venues across the United States, ending with a second Carnegie Hall concert on July 14.
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Carnegie Hall
Swedish Young Men’s Christian Association
Oscar
Young Men's Christian Association
Sweden
Atlantic
Kansas City
John Husberg
Royal Opera
Stockholm
New York
Grand Hotel
America
Gunnar Wennerberg
Lindblad
Emil F. Johnson
Hugo Lindquist
National Young Men's Christian Association
Ella Johnson
Grieg
Worcester
Boston
Philadelphia
Providence
R. I
Lee
Chicago
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Duluth
Sioux City
Omaha
Cleveland
Jamestown
N. Y
Niagara Falls
Frederick Oo. Renard
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Du Pont Alleee Alliance reshapes Delaware politics
Special to The New York Times from Wilmington Delaware June 17 announces a planned du Pont Allee alliance after Col Henry A du Pont wins a Senate seat. The plan assigns Wilmington and New Castle County to du Ponts, Kent County to Allee and Sussex County to Caleb R Layton, aiming to topple Addicks and influence the 1907 General Assembly. The move faces Union Republicans opposition and Gov Lea's ward of Bradley sparks further tensions.
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New York Times
Wilmington
Del
du Ponts
Allee
Col. Henry
A. du Pont
Delaware
New Castle County
Kent County
Caleb R. Layton
State Department
Washington
Sussex County
General Assembly
du Pont
Layton
New Castle
Lea
Francis S. Bradley
Senate
Bradley
Union Republican Committee of
The Big Store Offers Easy Money Back Policy
This ad touts a store in New York promising hassle free refunds and exchanges. It emphasizes eight desks per floor two on first and second floors and a cash slip handed instantly for returned goods. It stresses customer rights and simple safeguards to protect the next purchaser.
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New York
Jews Demand Bell Directory Remove Bigoted Resort Ad
In Trenton on June 17 three hundred Jewish patrons of Bell Telephone urged removal of an advertisement for a Delaware Water Gap resort that claimed to be free from Hebrews and Tuberculosis Patients. They threaten to boycott Bell and switch to a rival if the ad is not blacked out across issues. Bernard Cohen praised Jews as leading merchants and criticized linking them with the tuberculosis claim as insulting and poor commercial sense.
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New York Times
Trenton
N. J
Bell Telephone Company
Delaware Water Gap
Bell Telephone
Telephone Company
Bell
Bernard Cohen
United States
Sey Place
Green Hill Hospital to rise on Worcester estate
The old mansion on the north Worcester estate once owned by the late Andrew H. Green of New York will be transformed into the Green Hill Hospital for infants.
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New York Times
Worcester
Mass
Andrew H. Green
New York
Green Hill Hospital
Train Ride Frights 70-Year-Old Woman Sparks Stop
Mrs. Charles Skinner of Jackson, age 70, took her first railroad ride from Benton to visit relatives in Danville. Frightened by the moving landscape and train sounds, she screamed and urged to alight. The conductor stopped the train and she walked home after recovering.
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New York Times
Wilkesbarre
Penn
Charles Skinner
Jackson
Benton
Danville
Building Fraud New Brand In Trenton
In Trenton New Jersey William H Brown is held for Grand Jury on $300 bond for fraud in hiding bundles of laths between ceilings and floors and charging for them. Contractor Donagan discovered the scheme after workers claimed lath counts were off and uncovered laths hidden in ceiling spaces. Brown faces the fraud charge while Donagan uncovers thousands of laths salvaged from several houses.
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New York Times
Trenton
N. J
Rees
William H. Brown
Grand Jury
Donagan
Donavan
Bargain prices on Petticoats and skirts reveal values
An advertisement lists prices for Petticoats, hemstitched and ruffled skirts, offered at 18¢ 25¢ 39¢ and regularly 75¢. Other items are marked down with values up to 2.95, highlighting substantial reductions in a sale.
Window shade sale in assorted sizes and colors
Side Hemmed Holland Window Shades offered in white cream and dark green. Sizes range from 30 inches by 7 feet to 38 inches by 7 feet. All shades are ready to mount on your own rollers. Price 49 cents each.
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Holland
Large Reduction in Austrian China and Dinnerware
Fine Austrian china pieces richly decorated now greatly reduced. Plates in all sizes from 6c to 19c, cups and saucers after-dinners and teas from 15c to 25c, plates of French and Austrian china from 45c to 75c, syrup jugs decorated and tinted 15c to 28c, luncheon sets richly decorated 38c to 65c now 19c.
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Knox
DU Pont-Allee Alliance
J. B. Greenhutt
Sel, M Hile
A. H. Green
Lather
Leon
James S. Coward
Greenwich St
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Siegel Cooper
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Acme
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