Ex Alderman Peters Faces Perjury Trial in Brooklyn
The perjury case centers on Peters former Municipal Ownership League Alderman from the Forty ninth District Brooklyn. Clifford pleads guilty to bribery charges and may testify against Peters as the case moves in the Supreme Court Criminal Branch. Witness O Neill remained unwilling as prosecutors push for admissions about votes for Judge Cowing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timary Clay Peters
Municipal Ownership League
Fortyninth
Brooklyn
Whitman
Goff
Supreme Court
Peters
William Clifford
World
Earl Harding
Clifford
Cowing
Fother Ten
Mather
Abraham Levy
Justice Goff
Francis J. O'Neill
Péters
Smyth
Mr. Smyth
O'Neil
O'Neill
Lph
Ruger
Thomas J. Mulligan
Joseph M.murphy
Jin
Penny
Flood
Murphy
New York Lace School Aims to Save Old World Industry
Miss Carolina Amari of Rome returns to New York to expand the lace and embroidery program at the Richmond Hill Settlement House 28 Macdougal Street. The program teaches Burano lace and reticella stitches with weekly wages 6 to 8 dollars and piecework on difficult patterns, preserving Italian initials and traditional craftsmanship for immigrant women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Carolina Amari
Rome
Italy
Scuola di Industria. Italiana
New York
New York School
Richmond_ Hill
Macdougal Street
Queen Margherita
Amari
Milan
Regina
Margherita
Bank attack denies minority opposition to resumption plan
Edward M. Grout, reorganizer of the Mechanics and Traders Bank, says no stockholder or minority member objects to the voting trust or plan of resumption. He notes outside attack, cites 60% depositors and a majority of voting trust stock, and questions a $100,000 commission on a $1,000,000 loan. A tentative list of new directors will be submitted to Superintendent Clark Williams this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mechanics and Traders’ Bank
Edward M. Grout
Grout
Equitable Trust Company
Williamsburg Trust Company
Metropolitan Trust Company
Oriental Bank
Clark Williams
Railroads plan manure removal from Hackensack Meadows
Management of the Pennsylvania Erie and Lackawanna Railroads arranged with the Pollution Committee of the New York Merchants Association to remove mountains of manure from Hackensack Meadows. Edward Hatch Jr. reports a promise from President Underwood for the Erie line, while the Pennsylvania line notifies Kearny authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania,Erie, and Lackawanna
New York Merchants’ Association
Hackensack Meadows
Edward Hatch, Jr
Underwood
Erie
Pennsylvania
Kearny
Fourth Avenue Subway Put Off For Months
A Brooklyn Fourth Avenue subway project approved by the Public Service Commission is delayed by a taxpayer suit led by Controller Metz. Justice Blanchard reserved his decision on a temporary injunction that blocks city funding, with a special meeting unlikely before fall. Legal arguments centered on the city debt limit and whether a referee should be appointed to assess finances and obligations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn
Public Service Commission
Metz
Supreme Court
Justice Blanchard
Board of Estimate
Blanchard
Fourth Avenue Subway
J. H. Caldwell
Bird S. Coler
E. E. Smith
Coler
Jefferson M. Levy
Pendleton
Caldwell
Rego
Care of Babies in Summer Guide Distributed in East Side
A conference representing the Board of Health the Board of Education and fifty hospitals dispensaries and agencies issued illustrated first aid to sick babies cards. Thousands are being distributed in tenements to lower infant mortality. Cards show healthy bathing fresh air and steps if illness occurs with Health Department contacts and locations of milk depots diet kitchens and recreation piers in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
Board of Education
East Side
Health Department
Manhattan
Brooklyn
FUGITIVE BANKRUPTS SURRENDER TO U S MARSHAL
Sol Littenberg and his son, cloak makers formerly of 19 West Eighteenth Street, who vanished during a bankruptcy petition and January conspiracy indictment, surrendered to U S Marshal Henkel. They turned over 25000 dollars to the trustee for creditors. 6000 more came from a New Haven firm settling 50000 dollars in accounts. Sol pleaded guilty and got 30 days on Blackwell's Island. Max pleaded not guilty and was paroled. They reportedly lived in Paris before exile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sol Littenberg
New Haven
Hough
United States Court
Blackwell’s Island
Max Littenberg
Littenberg
Blackwell's Island
Paris
Contempt Question in Supreme Court Over Union Strife
The Supreme Court will hear Friday morning arguments before Justice Guy on whether Typographical Union No. 6 should be punished for contempt for defying a March injunction against picketing and boycotting Butterick Publishing. Union leaders argue actions are lawful, while Butterick counsel notes increased strike activity and widespread union propaganda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Guy
Blanchard
Butterick Publishing Company
James Tole
No. 4
Buttericks
Noble, Jackson & Hubbard
William Street
Butterick Company
Butterick’s
Respite for the dogs delays mass killing order
Col Alfred Wagstaff of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals urged Health Commissioner Darlington to suspend the plan to kill all unmuzzled streets dogs. The delay allows the SPCA to offer help, arguing extermination is unnecessary and that many dogs can be saved safely with a slower approach. Wagstaff will present to the Board of Health and pledges to boost dog-catching if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Health Department
Alfred Wagstaff
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Col. Waestaff
Darlington
Board of Health
Bensel
Col. Wagstaff
Cpl
Wagstaff
Department
New York's oldest butcher recalls old market days
Jacob Randolph Reed of 81 Morton Street Manhattan age 98 ran a Clinton Market meat stall for over sixty years before its razing six years ago. He calls himself the citys oldest living marketman and remains mentally sharp though bedridden. Reed, educated and gentle, has thirteen children from two marriages and notes meat quality declined since era of centralized slaughter and train shipments with freezing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Randolph Reed
Morton Street
Manhattan
Clinton Market
Reed
New York City
Tie
Barrow
Washington Street
Mary Bazley
Henrietta Bazley
Swindler Harry Raphaelson Nabbed on Art Forgery Scam
Extradition papers reach the city for Harry Raphaelson after detectives Gegan and Wilbur arrested him at 16 East 106th Street. Held on $1,000 bail by Magistrate House in the Tombs Court, he faces forgery charges stemming from a three year scam posing as agents for Empire Art Company or Cooper Square Art Company. Raphaelson preyed on Catholic priests, taking advance payments for crayon enlargements he never delivered, with Father H A Loague of York, Pennsylvania, among victims.
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Harry Raphaelson
Gegan
Wilbur
East 106Th Street
Tombs Court
Raphaelson
York
Penn
Empire Art Company
Cooper Square Art Company
Cooper Square
H. A. Loague
Harrisburg
Father Loague
East 16Th Street
New Haven Railroad Enjoined From Holding Trolley Stocks
In Boston on June 23 Judge Rugg issued a final decree barring the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad Company and its officers from owning stock in named trolley firms. The company has until July 1 to dispose of holdings, after the court denied a bid to reveal partial divestments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
New Haven
Dana Malone
Rugg
Supreme Court
New Haven Company
Jin
Worcester & Webster
Webster & Dudley Street
Church Standard of Philadelphia Joins The Churchman of New York
Announcement reports the Philadelphia Church Standard founded in 1830 has merged with The Churchman of New York, uniting two long established religious weeklies in a single publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church Standard of
Philadelphia
America
Churchman of
New York
Three Die As Engine Explodes On Pennsylvania Line
Special to The New York Times reports near Stelton New Jersey three members of the railroad wrecking crew were killed when locomotive 363 blew up while distributing ballast. Victims identified as engineer William Holman fireman Donnelly and flagman Roberts. Bodies found along track and near a road cut, with mangled remains and Holman’s overalls caught in telegraph wires.
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New York Times
New Brunswick
Pennsylvania Railroad
Stelton
Mere ‘William
New Holman
Souk
Huntington Street
Donnelly
Robert
Albany Street
Metuchen
Beer
Roberts
Hidlman
Holman
Stelton Lane
Isaac P. Dunn
Stelton Crossing
E W Davis's Body Arrives After Camp Shooting Fatality
Steuart Davis and Mrs Edward W Davis arrived in New York with the body of Edward W Davis a wealthy retiree from the firm Davis and Lawrence. He was accidentally shot at his camp on the Grand Cascapedia River near Quebec Canada and died instantly. The Harvard student son described how the muzzle was being examined when a trigger released and the gun exploded. The funeral was planned as a private service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steuart Davis
Edward W. Davis
New York
Davis & Lawrence
Davis
Grand Cascapedia River
Quebec
Canada
Holland House
Harvard
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Astor Place
Fourth Ave
N.Y
Browning, King &Co
Brownin
Joseph P. McHugh & CO
Bar Harbor
L &C
Jems
Qoncer
Library Bureau Card and Filing Systems
Broadway
Victor Tanking Machines
Alt Dealers
Uneeda
Brill
Bulk Brothers
Chambers
Union Square
14Th
B'Way
Cortlandt
Greenwich
125Th Street
Cor
Avenue
Harlem
Jersey Meadows
Subway
Ruppert
Batterick Co
New Haven Road
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Church Publications
Bolief
Pensylvania
E. W. Davis
Frederic P. Ladd
Gordon Grant
Mitchell Kennerley
Ehrlich
A. W. Sre
Broklyn
Ear
Edw - Johnson
Oran Marcum Kenyon
M.D
M. Linderoth
Efblich &Sene
Sixth
Nassau St
Ann St
Sixth Ave
Astor House Biel
15Th St
United States
Glasgow
Mackie & Co, Distillers, Ltd
Lagavulin
Islay
London
Wm. Vogel & Son
Houston St
Nexam
Franconm Notch
Maplewood Hotel
Ma Sta
Bett
Crawford House
Crawford Notch
Mount Pleasant House
Bretton Woods
N.H
Fabyan House
Fabyan
Jefferson, N. H
Agth
Grand Central Station
Ecuador
Panama
31St St
Warren St
Flatbush Ave
Fulton St
Bedford Ave
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