Infantile paralysis outbreak grows with new Brooklyn cases
Wealth Commissioner Emerson mobilizes medical forces as 49 new infantile paralysis cases reported yesterday, raising total to 255 since the epidemic began. Cases concentrate in crowded Brooklyn areas with Manhattan reporting 20. there have been 12 deaths. A special pavilion at Kingston Avenue hospital serves quarantined patients and experts from the Rockefeller Institute join the response.
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Emerson
Health Department
Brooklyn
Queens
Manhattan
Fhar
Simon Blatters
Bureau of Preventable Diseases
Department of Health
Board Health
Kingston Avenue Hospital
Rooklyn
H. L. Amoss
Rockefeller Institute
Eel
Polus Memorial Clinic
Upper East
Helen Elizabeth Downing
Oyneral Walter Downing
Webster Avenue
Board of Health
Ae Eet
New Jersey Public Service President Funds Mausoleum
Thomas N. McCarter of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey awards a 15000 mausoleum contract for the old Hance Cemetery on Rumson Road near his estate. The 14 by 18 foot Greek style structure features granite walls bronze doors and twelve slate crypts.
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New York Times
Red Bank
N. J
Thomas N. McCarter
Public Service Corporation of New Jersey
Hance Cemetery
Rumson Road
Monmouth County
Hance
John Hance
Joyce Hance
Julia Drummond
Hance Homestead
Lord & Taylor Continues School Graduation Ceremony
The Lord & Taylor store held the second continuation school commencement for twenty boys and seven girls. Graduates posted strong marks with several above ninety percent. Mrs. Bellé Brandon led the program with store officials and Board of Education oversight lauding the progress and practical aims of continuing education in the workplace.
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Lord &Taylor
A. C C. McManter
Lord & Taylor
A. E B. Colby
Bellé Brandon
A. H Wilcox
Board of Education
Brandon
Stern Brothers Graduates 32 Saleswomen in Training
Thirty two saleswomen from Stern Brothers store at Sixth Avenue and Forty second Street received certificates for completing salesmanship courses run by the Department of Education and the Department Store Education Association. This marks the fourth Stern Brothers class since February 2015, part of a broader effort to standardize training and expand store education nationwide. Miss Beulah Kennard announced the plan’s completion and its transfer to the Board of Education for wider adoption, with Anne Morgan serving as treasurer and Virginia Potter listed as president for 1916.
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Stern Brothers
Sixth Avenue
Forty-second Street
Department of Education
Department Store Education Association
Mixa Anne Morgan
Beulah Kennard
New York
Board of Education
Iairginia Potter
Opertenet Store Education Association For
Henry Ollesheimer
Robert G. Mead
Anne Morgan
Public meeting backs daylight saving proposal
A public coneey in the Woolworth Building assembly hall heard Borough President Marcus M. Marks and the Special Committee urging Congress to adopt daylight saving. The group called for national adoption plus an educational campaign to explain benefits and timing.
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Merchants’ Association
Woolworth
Edward D. Page
Waldo Marshall
Leopold Plaut
Marcus M. Marks
Marks
Fire traps audience as East Fourteenth Street blaze runs through theatre
A six story building at 116 and 118 East Fourteenth Street burned last evening after a fire spread to the Fox City Theatre at 114 East Fourteenth Street. The 900 seat audience escaped via rear exits and fire escapes with no injuries. Ten firemen were overcome by smoke. three were severely hurt and treated across the street at Levison Brothers. Damage to tenants and buildings is estimated at $60,000, with several firms displaced.
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East Fourteenth Street
Fox City Theatre
Thirteenth Street
Fourteenth Street
Frank Reilly
East Fifth Street
Robert Richardson
Mercer Street
Reilly
Fourth Avenue
Langford
Fourteneth Street
McKiligott
Assiurance
Levison Brothers
James Burke
George Heckel
John Johnsson
Engine Company 14
Margaret Clark
Worcester
Mass
E. B. Ramsdell
Medical Division
Fire Department
Burke
Oliver, Dowling
Fennelly
Inspector Cray
August Luchow
Papal Ban Forces Jersey City Society Picnic Abandonment
The Holy Name Society of St. Aloysius Church planned a West Side Avenue outing at Greenville Schuetzen Park but canceled after the Papal ban on dancing was announced in Hudson County churches. The decision was made by the committee fearing financial failure due to the ban.
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Holy Name Society
St. Aloysiue Church
West Side Avenue
Jersey City
Greenville Schuetzen Park
Henal
Hudson County
Rookies Drive Reds Across the Border
Special to The New York Times reports the Red Army unit opposed to the Third Plattsburg Training Regiment was driven across the Canadian border this morning after losing its position. The rookies created a successful offensive and will test defensive tactics during the retreat toward Plattsburg tomorrow.
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New York Times
Champlain
N. Y
Red Army
Plattsburg
Chazy Lake
Chazy
West Chazy
Military Training Camps Association
Theodore Rousneau
Mitchel
Brooklyn butchers arraigned on bribery charges in health board case
Ten wholesale butchers from Johnson Avenue Brooklyn were arraigned before Judge Roy in Kings County Court yesterday on Grand Jury indictments for offering bribes to Fred W Schoneweg a Board of Health inspector. Each allegedly gave 875 to sway passes for diseased beef. Defendants Plaut brothers Straus Scheck Feinberg Bulnick Palmer Braunschweig faced two days to enter pleas or move.
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Johnson Avenue
Brooklyn
Fred W Schoneweg
Board of Health
Roy
Kings County Court
Robert
Arthur
Samuel
Simon Plaut
Lee Straus
Aaron Scheck
David Feinberg
Herris Bulnick
Parry Palmer
Herman S. Braunschweig
Albodon Dentifrice Promises Clean Teeth and Pleasant Taste
This old promotional piece touts Albodon toothpaste as a modern dentifrice with superior cleansing and polishing ingredients. It claims antiseptic benefits, a cream form, no artificial color, and a distinctive taste. Available for 25 cents per tube with free samples via mail request to The Albodon Co., Dept. A, New York.
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Albodon Co
Dept. A
West 18Th Street
N.Y
Mills Gibb Receivers Seek funds as plan waits court decision
After a hearing before Judge Julius M Mayer in the Woolworth Building the court held off on submitting reorganization plans for Mills Gibb until Aug 9. Committees anticipate modest recovery with hopes of lug cents on the dollar. Receivers’ counsel won permission to borrow 500000 to buy Spring 1917 merchandise.
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Julius M. Mayer
Federal District Court
Woolworth
Mills & Gibb
Mayer
House
Charles DD. Rushmore
Henry Root Stern
Martindale and Poor
Mayer Grante
Seaside Adventure Novel Captures Ocean Spirit and Hero
The outdoor world unfolds in a splendid new novel about a strong hero and a girl he loves. They sail along the eastern coast as tempests test them and rivals plot, while sunlit waves and old sailors’ quips color the sea tale.
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Rockefeller
Institute
Old Hance Cemetery
Lord & Taylor's
Stern Bros
Congress
Fox City Playhouse
Kavanaugh
Balbriggan
Kavanaugh Knitting Co., Inc
Waterford, N. Y
the Outlook
Alice Brown
W. ¥. Times
America
Brown
N. Y. Tribune
N. Y. Globe
N. Y. World
Wn. Y. Times
Aina
Liggett-Riker- Hegeman
la Humana Invincibles
Riker's
Manha
Court
Holman
Harper
Hero
Aire
Els
the Locomobile Company
West Sixty-first Street
Broadway
Liggett-Ricker- Hageman Drug Store
liggett-Riker-flegaman
Rexall Stores
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