Two Philadelphia youths and girl tied up in New York escape bid
Two Philadelphia youths and Alma Yost, 16, travel to Coney Island with guns and badges claiming private detective status. A misunderstanding on a Jersey City turnpike leads to Worcester being shot and Mullins jailed after a pistol misfire. Police move Alma to a witness cell at Door of Hope as Detective Louis recovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manning
Coney Island
Lee
Louis
Jersey City
Philadelphia
Alma
Hope
New York
Lee Mullins
Mullins
Alma Yost
Worcester
Greene Street
Poard
Corless Street
Sherlock Holmes
Brandywine Street
Brady
Chestnut Street
Ouis
Mul
Twenty-third Street
Bowery
New Jersey
Newark
Hackensack Bridge
Oakland Avenue
Inersey City
French Renault Wins Six-Lap Grand Prix Race at Sarthe
Lisz in a 120 horsepower Renault wins the first half of the Grand Prix on the Sarthe circuit covering 618 kilometers in 5 hours 45 minutes 30 seconds. Clement places second in a 125 horsepower Bayard Clement with a 6 hour 10 minute 40 second time as 34 cars start at 1.5 minute intervals amid accidents and an derailed excursion train. racing resumes tomorrow at 6 AM with leaders Lisz and Baros among top finishers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Lisz
Renault
Sarthe
Albert Clement
List
France
Clement
Bayard-Clement
Nazzare
Italy
Fiat
Shepard
Hotchkiss
Heath
Panhard
Barillier
Brasier
Richet
Weillschott
Tesla
Lancia
Hemery
Darraca
Rigally
Gabron
Mariaux
Germany
Mercedes
Baros
Duray
de Dietrich
Thery
Jend&try
Rougier
Fabry
Itala
le Bron
Baron de Caters
Doctor and wife endorse Grape-Nuts for all ages
A nurse recommends Grape-Nuts as delicate and nourishing for patients and children, with preparation ideas and use with milk or cream. She notes her husband the physician also prescribes it. The ad cites a 10 day trial to aid stomach trouble or nervous prostration and mentions The Road to Wellville booklet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Charges Friction Over Aldermen Meeting
A Board of Aldermen debate centered on discharging the Privileges and Elections Committee from Hubert Slattery’s contest against McCall. Doull alleged a corrupt bargain while Peters and Sullivan sought compromise. Finance approved a 4.5 million school appropriation and 64 108 for street lamps. A resolution barred releasing inflammable gas into sewers with penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Aldermen
Doull
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Hubert Slattery
John T. McCall
McCall
Peters
Sullivan
Finance Committee
Department of Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity
Richter
Public Spirited Britons at Civic Ownership Conversation
London June 26 Municipal Ownership Commission of the National Civic Federation attended a conversazione at the Natural History Museum. M. E. Ingalls, chairman, praised British municipal government for its capable, civic minded leaders and contrasted American private management with public work showing equal efficiency in gas works. He warned against simple transplantation of systems to America and noted England's drift toward Socialism while the U S remains individualistic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Municipal Ownership Commission
National Civic Federation of the
United States
Natural History Museum
M. E. Ingalls
Ingalls
America
England
Oyster Island Sold After Spirited Jersey City Sale
Oyster Island a sixteen acre sand bar in New York Bay between Robbins's Reef and the New Jersey shore sold for 80000 to Lloyd B. Sanderson of Manhattan at Frederick G. Wolbert's Jersey City salesrooms. About 100 bankers and railroad reps attended. Weigley interests and several railroads contested New Jersey jurisdiction, but the sale proceeded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Bay
Robbins
Judges critique Jerome in Court of Special Sessions
Justices Olmsted and Deuel condemned the District Attorney's trial preparation in a case against Max Finkelstein a public notary accused of false certification in Jerome nomination papers last fall Whiteside stressed the DA's responsibility to reveal perjury evidence to the court as quoted by Justice Deuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ustices Olmsted
Deuel
Court of Special Sessions
Max Finkelstein
Allen Street
Jerome
Whiteside
Three Reports on Woodbury Inquiry Split Board Actions
Three Aldermanic reports on the Street Cleaning Department investigate Commissioner Woodbury and urge reforms. Ivins signs the chief report favoring removal and overhaul, Dowling-Mulligan back Woodbury with reforms, and Downs endorses systemic changes but opposes removing the commissioner. The board plans to decide next Monday, with 36 Republicans, 25 Democrats, 11 Municipal Ownership League members, and one unclassified member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Cowden Meyers
Ivins
Sullivan
McClellan
Woodbury
Republica
Municipal Ownership League
John McGaw Woodbury
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Manhattan
Bronx
Broolyn
American Railway Traffic Company
John Campbell Wallace
Delancey Street
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Waring
Col. Waring
William Bradley
Bradley
Dowling-Mulligan
Supt
Wallace
Alderman Downs
John C. Wallace
Maritime Vessel Movements Across Ports Across June Dates
A list of ships with port and date markers includes Kronprinz Wilhelm Bremen June 19 Navahoe Georgtown June 23 Venetia Savanilla June 12 La Gascogne Havre June 16 Matenzas Havena June 21 St. Andrew Dover June 14 Concho Galveston June 20 Ottawa Tampico June 17 Monroe Norfolk June 25 Capera Girgenti May 25 Friederich der Grosse Bremen June 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kronprinz Wilhelm
Bremen
Navahoe
Georgtown
Venetia
Savanilla
la Gascogne
Havre
Matenzas
Havena
St. Andrew
Dover
Concho
Galveston
Ottawa
Tampico
Monroe
Norfolk
Capera
Girgenti
Friederich der Grosse
Foreign Intelligence Ship Movements Brief
SS Kaiser Wilhelm II at Plymouth and SS Prinzesse Irene at Gibraltar reported June 26. SS 88 Basil at Liverpool and SS Georgian at London also listed as sailing that day. SS Exeter City departed Bristol on June 23. For Latest Shipping News see Page 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Plymouth
Prinzesse Irene
Gibraltar
Basil
Liverpool
Georgian
London
Exeter City
Bristol
Army officers appointed for inspections and recruiting duty
Washington June 26 Majors C M O Connor W S Wood and Capt H B Crosby all of the Fourteenth Cavalry plus Veteranarian H W Peters meet in Seattle to inspect horses for race delivery First Lieutenant Roger O Mason Artillery Corps goes to Osage City Kan to gather evidence for a general court martial at Fort Leavenworth Lieutenant Colonel F Von Schrader Deputy Quartermaster General will travel as needed to Kansas City for inspection of army animal purchases Captains W F Grote Eighteenth Infantry and Charles I Stodder Ninth Cavalry join Fort Leavenworth examining board replacing prior officers Major B H Cheever Sixth Cavalry assigned to general recruiting service will go to Fargo N D to recruit, relieving Major Charles B Vogdes retired and returning home Major
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
C. M. O’connor
Fourteenth Cavalry
Fort Leavenworth
F. von Schrader
Kansas City
W. F. Grote
Eighteenth Infantry
Charles i. Stodter
Ninth Cavalry
R. V. Walsh
Walter H. Gordon
B. H. Cheever
Sixth Cavalry
Fargo
N. D
Charles B. Vogdes
States Army
Cheever
Helena
Mon
R. C. Williams
Thirteenth Cavalry
Marinette
Wis
J. C. White
United States Army
O O. B. Meyer
Salt Lake City
Utah
W. H. Wassell
Twenty-second Infantry
Spokane
Wash
Frank E. Bamford
San Antonio
Texas
L. L. Durfee
Seventeenth Infantry
Roanoke
D. C. Cabell
First Cavalry
el Paso
Z. W. Torey
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Inspector General’s Department
F. H. French
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hunter
Baltimore
Rade” Mark
Frank Mora
C. H. Ulrich
Representatives
William St
New York, N. Y
Browning,King & Company
Summer Serges
Beau Brummell
Broadway
St. Cooper Square
St. St
Fritom St
de Kalb
Morgarn
John Morgan
West 39Th Street
Bryant
Ar Spm
U. S
Tobey
Lyras
Jex
The
Tobey Furniture Company
West 32d Street
St. Lawrence River
Alderman Doull
Oyster Island
L. B. Sanderson
Deuel and Olmsted
Sixthlave
J.B. Greenhut
PRES
Eis
Tne
Adeleitchie
Siegel Cooper Store
Shipping and Mails
Sandy Hook
Island Aelde
Governors
Hell Gate
Ees
Sail Today
Teutonic
Noordam
Rotterdam
Princess Anne
Deutschland
Hamburg
la Provence
F. Tietjen
Copen
Panama
Colon
Esperanza
Havana
Cenada
Ces
el Siglo
Dagsry
Campeche
Colorado
Mobile
Apache
Charleston
Rheinsseee
A. de
Neckar
Prometheus
Baltic
Were
Altai
Eeeeeeresereee Gonaives
Eeeseeesserre Mobile
Foreign Intelligence
the United Service
New York Times
Army
Yellowstone Park
Chicago & North-Western
Chicago
Hotel Accommod
Western—Union
Yellowstone
Mont
Park
St. Paul- Minneapolis
Gardiner
Park Hotels
S.A
Hutchison Mgr
Northwoifh Tourist Bureau
Clark St
Anna
D. W. Aldridge
Brighton Beach Race Track
Alfr A. Sommerville
Nly
Majorain
Vision
Col
S. R. Wahitall
United Statired
Cavalry
Acad
H. L
Trelist
Ining Board
Presidio
Rogers
Twentieth Infantry
Monterey
Vng
the Navy
W. T. Burwell
Marietta
Puerto Plata
Lebanon
Bradford
Tacoma
Sag Harbor
Uncas
Boston
Cape Cod Bay
Barry
Shanghai
Hankow
Baimbridge
Nankin
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