Siegel Depositors Hear of New Offer
Depositors heard that Henry Siegel and Frank Vogel may offer 40 cents cash on the dollar with notes to secure the remainder as a relief for those owed by the defunct Siegel stores. The plan followed disclosures that funds for employee sick benefit programs and deposits vanished amid the firm’s collapse.
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Henry Siegel
Frank E. Vogel
Public School
Forty-second Street
Third Avenue
Louis Hoffman
Hamuel Hoffman
Hoffman
Samuel Levy
Stanchfield & Levy
Siegel and
Vogel
Samuel Hoffman
Jessie Martin
A. N.prezel
Mr. Hoffman
Stanchfield & Tovy
Realization Corporation
Gotham
Louis S. Levy
Offe Realization Corporation
Cantile Enterprises
Frank KE. Yoel
Fourteenth Street
Robert G. McMeekin
Siegel Stores Corporation
Train
Simpson Crawford
Henry Siegel & Co
Quinn
McMeekin
Siegelbank
L. Matteson
West Eleventh Street
Europe
Siegel Enterprises
Siurope
Matteson
Nifteenth Street
Sal
Simpson-Crawford
Fourteenth
Siegel
Everal
Simpson-Crawford Company
Girls’ Protective League
Madison Avene
Miss Maud Miner
League
Charlotte Barnes
William Boulton
James A. Burden
Dorothy Perkins
Frances Rogers
Charles D. Norton
Robert Guggenheim
Paul Baerwald
Herbert Scoville
Richard Childs
Henry Glazier
States District Court
Henry Siezel
Frank Vogel
Henry 2 “O
Olcott, Gruber Bo& McManus
Committee In
Mawson’s Wireless Operator Committe d to Lunatic Asylum
After six days wandering near Stawell Victoria Rodney Jeffreys Mawson's wireless operator was captured and sent to Ararat Lunatic Asylum. He claimed solitude of the ice drove him to death seeking roots and grubs. He had 22 sovereigns on arrival. Professor Masson noted prior derangement but recovery after Mawson expedition.
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Melbourne
Stawell
Victoria
Rodney Jeffreys
Mawson
Ararat Lunatic Asylum
Jeffreys
Antarctic
Methodist Assails Taft on Prohibition Record
A Topeka official of the Temperance Society assailed ex President Taft at the New Jersey Conference in Asbury Park. He claimed Taft vetoed the Webb Kenyon bill, triggering a wave of anti liquor sentiment, and praised current policy while predicting early constitutional amendment for prohibition.
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Spectus
New York Times
Asbury Park
N. J
Taft
New Jersey
Topeka
Kan
Clarence T. Wilson
Temperance Society
The
Methodist Church
Wilson
Washington
Congress
Atent
White House
United States
William Jennings Bryan
Willam
Bryan
William
Kansas
Chicago Hotel Mystery Seeks Missing Englishman Edlington
Police search two countries for Alfred Edlington last seen at the Alexandria Hotel in Chicago on January 5. Trunks held London and New York clues, anonymous calls sought access to belongings. trunks contained jewelry over $1,000 and $200 cash as authorities investigated.
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New York Times
Chicago
Alexandria
Lington of New
Alfred Ed York
London
New York
John F. Lull
Edlington
Luis
Fires near Staten Island shipyards wreck two vessels
A pair of fires at Staten Island Shipbuilding Company yards caused total losses of 52 000 dollars as six men aboard the steam dredge Pittsburgh and four aboard the tug Charles Staples escaped with assistance from a dock watchman and fire crews. The fires prompted a police inquiry.
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Staten Island
Pittsburgh
Atlantic Coast Dredging Company
Staten Island Shipbuilding Company
Marinerg’ Harbor
Cyeorme A. Boody
Mariners’ Harbor
St. George
Charles Staples
Staples Towing Company of
Boston
Port Richmond
New Haven Faces Government Push to Shake Off Waterfront Hold
Washington reports a government demand that the New Haven surrender control of wharfage properties and waterfront rights across several ports in New England. Buckland and allies resist, arguing the assets are essential, with trustees to manage stock interests and a possible installment of a broader merger dissolution.
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New York Times
Washington
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
New Haven
Post England
Bridgeport
Providence
Fall River
New Bedford
Boston
Department of Justice
Howard Elliott
Morefield Storey
Walker DD
Hines
Buckland
L. M. Biorra
McReynolds
Gregory and
Adkins
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Boston & Maine
Knowlton
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Springfield
Doherty
Htuckland
Fhe Aitople
New England
Interstate Commerce Commission
Syuatem
Extrott
Hill urges prosecution of three New Haven Road agents
Arthur D. Hill urged criminal prosecution of three State House agents of the New Haven Road during the last legislature. He named F. W. Chase Bristol County Commissioner H. Bert Knowles and Thomas F. Curley as targets in the Public Service Commission inquiry into the road’s publicity expenses.
From pauper grave to notable recluse in Denver
Carl Boettcher a former Chicago milliner associated with Marshall Field was buried in Riverside Cemetery. He died in a tumble-down house on Larimer Street after losing his fortune in the panic of 1893 and living as a hermit for seventeen years. A son Theodore Boettcher, a Marshall Field official, left a letter found among his effects.
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New York Times
Denver
Chicago
Marshall Field
Riverside Cemetery
Potter's Field
Carl Boettcher
Theodore Boettcher
W. R. Boettcher
Last Word in French Fashions in New York Times Sunday
Tomorrow's Sunday Times previews a Spring Fashion Number with Paris photographs of new French dress designs. The issue will feature guidance for the well dressed woman and articles from Dooley on Mexico Churchill on democracy and Roosevelt’s South American trip Pellissier on Shakespeare.
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New York Times
Paris
Dooley
Mexico
Winston_ Churchill
Roosevelt
Pellissier
Shakespeare
Noted writer held up as senile on arrival in New York
Mrs Flora Annie Steel author of On the Face of the Waters and a dozen other books arrived in New York aboard the Mauretania. Immigration inspectors detained her, later releasing her after boarding a medical certificate labeling her as suffering from senile debility. She defended her vigor and spoke about suffrage, militancy, and the Rokeby Venus incident while recounting the experience.
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Flora Annie Steel
New York
Mauretania
Thia
United States
Jamaica
London
Mrs. Steel
England
Angulf
National Gallery
Pollard Freed in Poison Pen Case in New Jersey
A New Jersey jury found Mrs. Nelson L. Pollard not guilty of sending unsigned poison pen letters to neighbor Mrs. Charles F. Jones. The trial featured lengthy summations, emotion from Pollard’s lawyer, and testimony challenging the alleged typewriter use. The verdict was delivered after five hours of deliberation with no courtroom celebration.
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Elizabeth
N. J
Nelson L. Pollard
Charles F. Jones
Judge Connolly
Mrs. Pollard
Samuel Schleimer
Thomas Jones
Mrs. Jones
Pollard
Daughters of the American Revolution
Connolly
Lost ton of coal found on Lexington Avenue sidewalk
An unclaimed ton of coal lay on the sidewalk before 1348 Lexington Avenue last night. Patrolman Grinsman spotted it as local children removed it in baskets caps and pockets. Despite canvassing, no owner or length of time on the curb could be determined. Detectives confirmed the loss and a officer was placed to guard it for the Police Lost and Found Bureau awaiting delivery to the Property Clerk at headquarters.
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Lexington Avenue
East Eighty Eighth Street
John Grinsman
Grinsman
Ryan and
Myers
Police Department
Cures Women of Smoking in Chicago Clinic
A new clinic for women smokers opens in Chicago under the Anti Cigarette league. Lucy Joe Gaston says fifteen women have been treated with a nitrate of silver throat spray and show strong aversion to cigarettes. The group aims to help women in Chicago rid themselves of the habit, with some cases previously linked to chorus girls and night-time smoking.
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Chicago
Anti-Cigarette League
Lucy Joe Gaston
League
House of Corection
President Wilson announces Eleanor Wilson engagement
The engagement of Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson, daughter of President Wilson, to Hon. William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, is formally announced from the White House. The report notes family and public interest, potential age gaps, and dancing as a shared interest between the couple.
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Eleanor Wilson
McAdoo
New York Times
Washington
William Gibbs McAdoo
Whitte House
Wilson
Misa Eleanor Wilson
Children
Nona McAdoo
C. T. Martin
California
White House
Miss Wilson
Mr. McAdoo
McAdooo
Misa Wilson
Jan Fison
President Wilson
Jessie Woodrow Wilson
Francis Bowes Sayre
Rockefeller Gift Rumor Ties Cleveland Foundation Rise
Cleveland bankers relay a report that John D. Rockefeller plans to leave at least 50 million dollars to a Cleveland Foundation begun by F. H. Goff of the Cleveland Trust. Goff was away and could not comment. Rockefeller’s secretary in Florida denied the claim.
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Cleveland
John D. Rockefeller
Cleveland Foundation
F. H. Goff
Cleveland Trust Company
Goff
Rockefeller
Shabreeze
Fla
H. D. Sims
Sims
Farrell Faces Housing Shortage Halts New Mills Plan
Farrell Penn March a housing shortage forces the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company to postpone ten new hot mills and other improvements. Officials say 1,000 new dwellings are needed as all Farrell houses are occupied and workers risk living in nearby towns. Farrell was built as a model town by United States Steel to house its workers.
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New York
Farrell
Penn
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
Bss
United States Steel Corporation
Nam Ter
King Albert Helps Woman Cover Embarrassing Wardrobe Mishap
In Brussels on March 13 the King noticed a woman's dress was torn at the Court hall. The Court Marshal offered his arm and led her from the ballroom to her carriage after acknowledging the wardrobe damage and arranging her return home for repairs.
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Marconi
New York Times
Brussels
Albert
Faint on Stage Interrupts Wagner Final at Met Opera
Mme Margarete Ober who sang Waltraute and Filosshilde in Gotterdammerung at the Metropolitan Opera fainted on stage after the Rhine maidens finished their singing. Officials attributed the faint to dizziness from the stage mechanism simulating waves. She was revived quickly and the audience remained unaware.
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Wagner
Metropolitan Opera House
Mme
Margarete Ober
Waltraute
Filosshilde
Phillips bill to appoint policewomen blocked in Albany
The Assembly Cities Committee rejected the Phillips bill that would require New York City to appoint twenty or more policewomen and prescribe their uniform. Support from suffragists and women’s clubs existed, but critics argued the mandatory measure infringed on home rule and overstepped city authority.
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Albany
Phillips
New York City
Assembly Cities Committee
Ihs
Ohio Democrats Indicted For Civil Service Violations
Indictments charging civil service law violations were returned in the Common Pleas Court against Emory W. Lattamer State Superintendent of Banks W L Finley Chairman of the Democratic State Committee Abernathy Secretary of the State Tax Commission and M A Geller Chief Clerk to the Superintendent. They allegedly caused state employees to contribute to a fund for a Democratic Press Bureau run under Finley with Abernethy as literary head. All are out on bail.
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Columbus
Ohio
Emory W. Lattamer
W.L. Finley
Democratic State Committee
He Abernathy
State Tax Commission
M A. Geller
Democratic Press Bureau
Finley
Abernethy
Frisbie Reindicted In Schenectady Fraud Case
In Schenectady M. R. Frisbie a former attorney was reindicted on a conspiracy forgery and grand larceny case. He allegedly obtained 2500 from clients or fraudulent bonds and forged the County Clerk's name to discharge mortgages. Fifty indictments were handed up as part of a district attorney inquiry into alleged barfrauds.
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New York Times
Schenectady
Miles
Iishie
This County
George Wwnan
Frisbie Is
George C. Moon
Riessing
Spinal Cure by Engraftment Reported Successful
Philadelphia March 13 surgeons claim a patient with a spinal fault was cured after an operation that grafted bone fragments from her arms and legs into the spine. The Wilmington Delaware patient improved after five weeks and was ready for removal, with reports of a complete cure.
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Philadelphia
Wilmington
Del
King's Intervention Forces Revision of Home Rule Plans
A New York Times dispatch describes King George’s intervention shaping Ulster and Home Rule discourse. Asquith concedes concessions to Ulster via a plebiscite, while Redmond and Devlin shift positions to avoid coercion. The Liberal-Nationalist accord hinges on safeguards and detailed clarifications to be issued by Asquith next week.
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George
Ulster
T King
Asquith
Buckingham Palace
John Redmond
Joseph Devlin
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