Congress Aims at Radical Reform of Business Practices
As the Fifty-ninth Congress nears adjournment observers note an unprecedented reform mood. Be ve ridge and Roosevelt push strict measures on meat and railroads while the House moves faster, the Senate more thoroughly, reshaping national business conduct with a stern regard for law and corruption.
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New York Times
Washington
Senate
House
Committee On Rules
House Zione
Elkins
Department of Commerce
Garfield
Beveridge
White House
Senator Lodge
Lodge
Congress
Nelson
la Follette
Aldrich
Roosevelt
South
Tennessee
Senator Carmack
Taylor
Bailey
Waldorf-Astoria
Capitol
New Jersey reads plan to create a new county
Morristown reports a movement to form a new county by taking Pequannock and Butler from Morris County, Hohokus and Franklin from Bergen, Pompton and Wayne from Passaic. Pompton Lakes would be the county seat. Prominent men from each township back the bill for the next Legislature.
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New York Times
Morristown
N. J
Pequannoc
Butler Borough
Morris County
Hohokus
Franklin Township
Bergen County
Pompton
Wayne
Passaic
Pompton Lakes
Butler
Oakland Borough
Franklin
Erie Railroad Expands Route With 54 Acres in Kearny Meadows
The Erie Railroad Company bought seventeen parcels totaling over fifty four acres in the Kearny meadows to widen the roadbed and improve express service between Jersey City and Newark. The $90,147 purchase supports plans after Bergen Hill open cut completion to parallel Pennsylvania improvements.
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Kearny, N. J
Erie Railroad Company
Kearny Meadows
Greenwood Lake
Jersey City
Newark
Bergen Hill
Pennsylvania
Engagement Announced as Lenox Social Notes
The engagement of H Starr Giddings son of Prof and Mrs Franklin H Giddings of New York to Miss Lenore Victor of New York is announced. Arrivals in Lenox include Mrs Edward C Wallace Miss Mary De P Carey Mrs H W Reicks Gilbert Combs Maud W Combs and Marion Ridgeway. The community hosts Mrs Edward L Godkin guest of Mrs Hartman Kuhn and Bishop S S Johnson of South Dakota preaching at Trinity Church. Kingsley L Martin of New York and Mrs J W Barnum of Hempstead are at the Maplewood in Pittsfield.
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New York Times
Lenox
Mass
H. Starr Giddings
Franklin H. Giddings
New York
Lenore Victor
Edward C. Wallace
Mary de P. Carey
H. W. Reicks
Gilbert Combs
Freehold
N. J
Maud W. Combs
South Orange
Marion Ridgeway
Edward L. Godkin
Hartman Kuhn
George W. Folsom
S. Johnson
South Dakota
Trinity Church
Kingsley L. Martin
J. W. Barnum
Hempstead
Drowning in Sound near Lloyd's Neck Light
Charles Mason of Passaic New Jersey drowned while swimming from a yacht owned by H G Wales Rochelle Park New Jersey. He slipped from the forward deck into the water after a cruise and could not be rescued.
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Oyster Bay
L. L
Charles Mason
Passaic
N. J
Lloyd’s Neck
H. G. Wales
Rochelle Park
Ocean Grove Summer Service Opens With Five Thousand Faithful
Ocean Grove, June 24. Five thousand Methodists attend the Summer in the Auditorium opening. Bishop James N. Fitzgerald of St. Louis presides with twenty ministers on the platform. Park Sisters cornetists assist the choir led by Tali Bsen Morgan of New York.
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New York Times
Ocean Grove
James N. Fitzgerald
St. Louis
Park Sisters
Tali Bsen Morgan
New York
Luther B. Wilson
Chattanooga
Camp Meeting Association
Strand
Aaron E. Ballard
Fitzgerald
Launch stolen at Camden cut in two on Delaware River
In Camden New Jersey a stolen launch was cut in two by a tugboat in the Delaware River off Camden. John McCormick drowned as his companion William Brown was saved. The launch had been stolen last Friday and Temepeared before the accident was learned.
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Camden
N. J
Delaware River
John McCormick
William Brown
McCormick
Chimney Collapse Kills Boy, Injures Aunt in Roof Accident
Four year old Arthur L. Cook of Cincinnati and his aunt Miss Essie Ferguson of Chicago were on a hammock on the roof of 488 Eighth Avenue when a chimney fell, killing the boy and injuring the aunt who is 40 and hospitalized at Roosevelt Hospital.
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Arthur L. Cook
Lenton Avenue
Cincinnati
Essie Ferguson
Ninety-third Avenue
Chicago
Eighth Avenue
Miss Ferguson
Roosevelt Hospital
Boy Dies of Lockjaw After Self-Inflicted Wound
Francis Raymond Murphy an 11 year old from 165 Jackson Street Paterson New Jersey died in St Joseph Hospital from tetanus after shooting his hand last Saturday The injury was treated then tetanus developed and an operation failed resulting in convulsions and death this afternoon
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Paterson
N. J
Francis Raymond Murphy
St. Joseph's Hospital
Lockjaw
Young Murphy
Jackson Street
Woman calling herself Eva Sheldon makes failed Harlem River suicide attempt
A young woman using multiple names attempted to die by suicide by leaping from a Bronx dock into the Harlem River. Rescued by watchman Thomas Foster, she was taken to Lincoln Hospital and later gave varying names, finally settling on Eva Sheldon. She claimed separation from her husband and resided at 13 East 125th Street. A note to Louis Green, her claimed love interest, was found in her room.
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Clara Morgan
Clara Sheldon
Eva Sheldon
Harlem
Kist Street
Bronx
Thomas Foster
Lincoln Hospital
East 125Th
Louis Green
Green
Bayonne Hopes for Paid Fire Department Amid Labour Strike
Bayonne delays fire house alterations as carpenters strike spreads to other trades. Contractors refuse bids for work needed to install a paid fire department by Labor Day. Mayor Garven set the date, but bids are unavailable, leaving volunteers to stay in service if the department is not ready.
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Bayonne
Pierre Garven
Lemonis A Plenty In Patchogue
Lemons are plentiful in Patchogue as cargo from the wrecked Vincenzo Bonanno washes ashore. Boxes were recovered by baymen after the steamer ran aground near Point o Woods with Captain Neozo and eleven crew aboard.
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Patchogue
L. I
Point O’ Woods
Baymen
Neozo
Tragic drowning of Louis Bontini in Hudson River
Louis Bontini, sixteen, of 7 Minetta Street, drowned yesterday afternoon while swimming in the Hudson River near 173d Street. He was a good swimmer but cramped far from shore. Frank Martin, a companion, pulled him ashore but could not revive him.
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Louis Bontini
Minetta Street
Hudson River
Frank Martin
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