City to uplift tenement livers and educate dwellers
City officials announce a campaign by the Tenement House Department and Charity Organization Society to improve living conditions in five boroughs. Women inspectors will visit homes, distribute a pamphlet, and advise on better lighting, cleanliness, fire safety, and cooperation with landlords to promote healthier, more sanitary housing.
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Mitchel
Ufe
Tenement House Department
Tenement House Committee
Charity Organization Society
George McAneny
Board of Aldermen
Mr. McAneny
John J. Murphy
Hia
Social Service
Itle
Woomen
Lower
Lawrence Veiller
United States
New York
Four Kountze Farm Workers Fight Ends in Shootings
A brawl at the Kountze country place in Somers, New York, left two men jailed locally and another dying in a New York hospital. Foreman Zimmerman is a fugitive as deputies pursue Gottlieb Ammon and Henry Walbrouck, with Aluuimmerman said to have fled by swimming. The four men had a drinking boat in Yorktown and clashed with farm staff after quarreling and beating Zimmerman. The incident occurred as A. F. Kountze and family left for Europe with B. A. Lavarge remaining in charge.
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New York Times
White Plains
N. Y
A. F. Kountze
Kountze Brothers
Broadway
New York
Kountze
Somers
Miugene Zimmerman
William J. Doyle
Lent
Finch
Wade
Bedford
Heinrich “Baer
Gottieb Ammon
Henry Walbrouck
Immerman
New York City
Yorktown
Zimmerman
Aluimmerman
Max
Sehwinder
Walbrouck
Mrs. Kountze
Europe
Aaa
B. A. Lavarge
Countee
Amimeniian
AMA Convention Opens in Atlantic City With Sessions
The American Medical Association begins its Atlantic City meeting with a special Apollo Theatre session. Retiring President will speak, new President to be introduced. About 4000 delegates attend as 16 sections plan medical discussions. Attorney General John W. Westcott of Camden to offer welcome. A Wednesday reception will honor the new President.
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Atlantic City
N. J
American Medical Association
Apollo Theatre
John W. Westcott
Camden
New Jersey
Doustry
Garibaldi Memorial at Rosebank Reclaims Site For July Fourth
After a foreclosure and arson attempts, the Garibaldi Memorial at Rosebank Staten Island is back in rightful hands. The Italian societies preserved the dwelling of Giuseppe Garibaldi, warding off threats as they prepare to celebrate his birthday on July 4 with community support and renewed safeguards.
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Garibaldi
Rosebank
Ss. T
Staten Island
New York
Sheriff O'Grady
Society For the Preservation
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Manhattan
Waif to live in luxury with Moore adoption
Annie Wright a five year old found abandoned as an infant has been adopted by Mr and Mrs Harrison B Moore who will raise her in their East Sixty second Street home. The court permitted the adoption after a long search for her birth parents and prior placements with S V A Murray in East Orange New Jersey. Mr Moore, a director at Theodore A Crane Sons and Lake George Real Estate, will provide the home.
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Annie Wright
Cohalan
Harrison B. Moore
Annie
East Sixty-second Street
East Forty-fifth Street
Versons
New York
the Moores
Mr. Moore
Theodore A. Crane
SO Broad Street
Lake George
Called Superior Tarrier New Jersey City Sleuth Faces Charges
Detective Lieut. Thomas Moray of the Jersey City Police Department will appear before the Board of City Commissioners to answer charges of conduct unbecoming a policeman and a gentleman. Commissioner Henry Byrne vowed to weed out loafers, citing Moray who on a trolley platform insulted Ferris and others as tarriers. Frank Smith of Trenton Street testified to Director Hague alleging Moray made the remarks.
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Thomas Moray
Jersey City Police Department
Board of City, Commissioners
Henry Byrne
Police Department
James J. Ferris
Ferris
Frank Smith
Trenton Street
Public Safety
Hague
Moran
Byrne
Despondent mother seeks life after gas tragedy
Mrs Jennie lebehn of 141 West Sixty second Street attempted suicide by inhaling gas at home while her three year old son lay injured in Bellevue Hospital from an accident days earlier. The husband found her and an ambulance rushed her to Bellevue where doctors fear she will not recover.
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Bellevue Hospital
Jennie Lebehn
West
Bellevue
Tragedy on the Bronx River as deckhand's wife drowns
Rose Reinhardt, 65, wife of a deckhand on the brick barge Allen Dumont, fell into the Bronx River yesterday morning while attempting to board the vessel at 11th Street. She was seen nearby about an hour before her body was recovered in shallow water by the barge. No witnesses.
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Rose Reinhardt
Allen Dumont
Bronx
Policeman says shooting was accidental as suspect wounded
Sergt John F E Hodgins of the Macdougal Street station says he tripped on car rails and his revolver discharged while pursuing Benjamin Pizzetti on Bleecker and Thompson, wounding the typist in the left thigh. Pizzetti, 19, from Morton Street, was moved to Bellevue and then St Vincent's Hospital.
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John FE. Hodgins
Macdougal Street
Benjamin Pisaetti
Bleecker and Thompson Streets
Pizzetti
Piz
Zetti
Morton Street
Bellevue Hospital
Hodgins
West Broadway
Thompson Street
Bleecker
West Houston
Hidgins
Paiest Pigseti
Sergt. Hodgins
Bleecker Street
St. Vincent's Hospital
Zimmerman
Bellevue
Sergi
Hodzins
Raffalo Tegliaferro
Pig Pad
Hie
Jie
Appointment of G R Jewett as Third Deputy Superintendent
Guernsey R Jewett deputy superintendent in charge of failed institutions within the Liquidation Bureau has been named Third Deputy Superintendent of Banks. The promotion by Eugene Lamb Richards of the State Banking Department takes effect July 1 with a salary of 5000 dollars yearly.
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G. R. Jewett
Guernsey
R. Jewett
Eugene Lamb Richards
State Banking Department
Open Spanish Home Presents Immigrant Shelter in City
The Spanish Protective Association opened the first immigrant home at 183 South Street for up to 100 Spanish speaking residents. J. P. Santamarina noted cleanliness and comfort as goals and a dormitory on the top floor. Dr Esmeterio de la Garza criticized U S policy toward Mexico, while stating he represents the Nationalist Party.
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Thin City
South Street
Spanishee Protective Association
J. P. Santamarina
Spanish Inter-American Protective Association
New York
Esmeterio de la Garm
Mexico
Huuerta
Wilson
Huerta
Mexico City
Dr. de la Garza
Tiverta
Carranza
Sefior Collazzo
Porto Fico
Baltimore
Tlome
The Savoy Hotel Sets Standard Across the World
The Savoy in London shaped modern hotel life by introducing baths elevators and central heating. Since 1913 US visitors formed a large share of guests, and in recent years five million dollars were invested in improvements. The hotel seeks full occupancy through guest praise and recommendations.
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Savoy
London
England
United States
The
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