Lost and Found Notices From The New York Times
A dense compilation of lost items and rewards from March 1908 and recent clippings. Items include a diamond pin on Flatbush Avenue near Erasmus High School, a gold penknife with initials, a sable coat, a pocketbook with coins, blue-green aqua marina stones, a gold lorgnette with an etched chain, and multiple keys. Rewards offered. returns directed to specific addresses and times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flatbusi
Erasmus High Schhool
Kirchner
Winthrop St
Brooklyn
Madison
Wall Street
Furnished Rooms and Inns Across New York Area Listings
A regional roundup of rooms and boarding options from Manhattan to New Jersey. Listings describe comfortable furnished rooms with meals or board optional, private baths, references, and proximity to stations or notable avenues. Also advertised is the Douglas Manor Inn in Douglaston offering a luxurious private estate stay with stringent references.
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Douglaston
Long Island
New York
C.y Limits
Furnished Rooms Listings Across Manhattan
Fi nished rooms in private houses and apartments with baths telephones and breakfast optional. Locations include 86th, 126 West, 55 West, 10th St, 219 West and Broadway area. References required. some with elevator access and near subway. Monthly and weekly rates vary. Temple Rental Company offers furnished rooms and housing lists in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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S4th
Houss
Brisakfast
Flemen
Vanderhoff
Broadway
L. Ft
Bath
91St St
Keller
Maanhattan
Brooklyn
Temple Rental Company
Beekman St
Alcoholism cured by the Oppenheimer treatment offer
An advertisement claims alcoholism can be cured by the Oppenheimer method administered by your own physician at the Oppenheimer Institute in New York. It promises moderate cost and invites readers to cut out the notice and request free literature and full information.
Photographer from Decatur Arrested on Bigamy Charge
Michael Brifer a photographer from Decatur Alabama arrived in the city for a family celebration and was arrested by Central Office detectives on a bigamy charge brought by his wife Evelyn Brifer. She says they wed in 1884 at City Hall and he left her in 1905 to elope with Mary Taylor, later marrying her in Mount Morris Livingston County.
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Michael Brifer
Decatur
West 115Th Street
Harry
Central Office
Evelyn Brifer
East 114Th Street
Brifer
City Hall
Alderman Flynn
Mary Taylor
Taylor
Mount Morris
Livingston County
O. M. Taylor
Miss Taylor
Help Wanted Ads Across The City
Help wanted notices list male applicants for sales and other roles. American Slicing Machine Co seeks a high grade specialty salesman at 96 Fifth Avenue. Lyon advertises for a cordage salesman at 318 Broadway and a Western city representative for a financial corporation at 308 away. Webster's Choir Exchange seeks a tenor for a $500 church post at 106 Fifth Avenue.
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Flatiron
Wansted
Liberal
Lackawanna
34Th St
Ogden
Tribune-Building
Jamaica
Frank Ferguson
Fulton St
Lyon
Broadway
Co-operative Sales Co
Nassau St
American Slicing Machine Co
Financial Corporation
Webster's Choir Exchange
Wanted men and workers for varied jobs in New York area
Classified notices list tasks from army recruitment for ages 18 to 35 to serve in Cuba and the Philippines to circulation and advertising roles. Employers seek live men for North American A B Railway guide, automobile trades, Manhattan realty, insurance, cigar and tobacco factory supervision, and plant superintendent duties in Broadway areas and Times Square listings.
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United States
Cuba
Philippines
34Th St
Park Row
Cortlandt St
New York
Fulton St
Havemeyer St
Brooklyn
Montgomery St
Jersey City
Hudson Place
Hoboken
N. J
Temple Court Building
Nassau Sts
Automobile Exchange
Broadway
Manhattan
US Flatiron
Times Square
Lyon
S. IL
Situations Wanted Females and Miscellaneous Helps
Classified listings for jobs and domestic service include accountants bookkeepers governesses houseworkers nurses stenographers typists and chauffeurs. Names and addresses appear with contact lines in New York City area exchanges and box numbers for applicants seeking part time full time or abroad assignments.
Wife Puts Gas Near Head in Fatal Love Jealousy Note
Mrs. Fra R Doppel 30 at 141 Rockaway Ave East York died by self inflicted gas as she mourned alleged rival and urged husband to marry a "nice girl without a past." Husband found her in apartment after notes left with a photograph of him nearby. Doppel had been married twice and suffered heart and nervous conditions.
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Fra R. Doppel
Rockaway Avenue
York
Doppel
Bradford Street Hospital
Doppels
Mrs. Doppel
Tom
Busy Sunday for Police on Manhattan Island
Police arrested several individuals after a guitar performance drawn a crowd on Cherry and Catharine Streets. Antonio Cacalle claimed he meant the music for a house resident but was discharged after magistrate remarks. Leonardo Barbero, a barber, was fined one dollar for impertinence. his wife paid the fine.
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Manhattan Island
Antonio Cacalle
Hamilton Street
Cherry and Catharine Streets
Herrman
Gilhully
James H. Sanders
East Fourth Street
West Forty-eighth Street
Brosnan
Eldridge Street
Leonardo Barbero
Fifth Street
East Third Street
Barbero
Cremation halts the Devall inquiry in New Jersey
Coroner Schlemm halted the exhumation after finding Mrs Devall cremated the day after her death from a bullet wound in Woodcliff on the Hudson. Wealthy Devall, held on suspicion of homicide, is supported by counsel James D McClelland and George P Wagner as North Bergen police interview servant Mary Flynn while awaiting arraignment in Jefferson Market Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schlemm
North Bergen
N. J
Benjamin Devall
Woodcliff-on-Hudson
Devall
Jefferson Market Court
Mr. Devall
Mary
Flynn
J. Harry McCroskey
Mary Flynn
James D. McClelland
Wagner
Ninth Avenue
Devalls
No Change in Excise Arrests Amid Parkhurst Charges
The city logged 117 excise arrests, similar to the prior Sunday, with 62 in Manhattan and the Bronx, 42 in Brooklyn, 8 in Queens, and 4 in Richmond. Notable arrests included Patrick Galligan and Charles Hall linked to the Liquor Dealers' Association. a waiter Vincent Christine at Smith & McNeil's Hotel. Dr. Parkhurst made no reference to the accusations in his Madison Square sermon.
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Parkhurst
Bingham
Manhattan
Bronx
Brooklyn
Queens
Richmond
Patrick Galligan
Eugene S. Degnan
Willis Avenue
Liquor Dealers’ Association
Charles Hall
Henry Barker
Wills Avenue
Alexander Avenue
Smith & McNeil’s
Greenwich Street
Vincent Christine
Ninth Avenue
Church Street
Madison Square Presbyterian Church
Priest Administers Last Rites After Parker Building Fire Tragedy
Laborer Andrew McDillis, 331 East 92nd Street, died after falling into an elevator shaft while cleaning debris on the Parker Building’s seventh floor. Foreman John Richards was arrested on criminal negligence charges as authorities said McDillis sustained a fractured skull and firefighters fought to save him at Bellevue Hospital.
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Parker
Andrew McDillis
East Ninety-second Street
Simmons
Bellevue Hospital
McDillis
John Richards
Bellevue
O'Leary
East Twentysecond Street
Baby hippopotamus charms crowds at Central Park Zoo
Striking a spring mood crowds flock to the zoo as the hippo Murfy's new calf, born March 6, appears in view. Visitors glimpse the juvenile as the tank is drained and the mother feeds on hay and vegetables while rain and thunder arrive early.
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Bronx
Zoo
Primate House
Lion House
Central Park Zoo
Monkey House
Miss Murphy
Caliph
Snyder
Brooklyn News Notes: Accidents and Arrests Highlight Day
Frederick Langlois fell from the Adams Street elevated station and survived with a fractured arm and scalp wound. John Doran, rescued after falling from Degraw Street dock, died shortly after removal from the water. The excise crusade reported 45 liquor-law arrests in Brooklyn. William Dengler sustained a broken ankle and foot artery rupture after a street crash at Dean Street and Classon Avenue. In a shipboard altercation near Sackett Street, James Hogan was stabbed three times in the right arm.
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Frederick Langlois
Ninth Street
Adams Street
Myrtle Avenue
Brooklyn Hospital
John Doran
Sackett Street
Degraw Street
Michael Hansbury
Hamilton Avenue
Guerino
Long Island College Hospital
Doran
Dean Street
Classon Avenue
William Dengler
6Ee Street
N. Y
Vetters
James Hogan
Jacob Johannsen
Marixile
Lege Johanssen
40000 Catholics to Parade for Diocesan Jubilee
A meeting of 600 laymen and clergy representing 132 parishes of the Catholic Diocese of New York approved the parade plan for the diocese centennial celebration. About 40,000 marchers will pass through Washington Square and up Fifth Avenue to Fifty seventh Street over four hours on May 2, with American flags as emblems and a week of events starting April 26. Notables present included Arch bishop Farley and Morgan J. O'Brien along with several prelates and civic leaders.
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Washington Square
Fifth Avenue
Fiftyseventh Street
Re Lavelle
Mgr. Hayes
Mgr. Mooney
WV. Bourke Cochran
Judge Mulqueen
Eugene A. Philbin
Edward J. McGuire
Herman Ridder
John J. Delany
John A. Agar
Charles V. Fornes
John Fox
Bandits Beat Pursuing Posse Near Ochelata
In Oklahoma Territory three bank robbers led by Henry Starr and associates eluded a six to twelve man posse after a Tyro bank robbery. The robbers captured the posse, seized firearms, destroyed several rifles, kept revolvers, and rode toward Big Heart Oklahoma with a larger search to corner them. A 100 man posse is en route. Starr is said to tap telephones for news.
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New York Times
Coffeyville
Kan
Tyro
Qchelata
Candy Creek
Ochelata
Henry Starr
Kid Wilson
Wickliffe
Big Heart
Oklahoma
City Street Ry and many names listed for trifling fines
A list of individuals and addresses with small monetary penalties or trifling citations, including Samuel Adler, Elia Johnston, Michael Johnston, Otto Astor Co, A Catrello, Fleischman & Co, Patrick Higgins, Levine Brothers, Frank Michaels, M J Brady, James Montague, Rubin & Linton, and others, with amounts such as $10, $50, $1,000 and times and locations across New York streets.
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A. M
Scammel St
Samuel Adler
Elia Johnston
99Th St
120Th St
Amsterdam
City Street
Séth
Michael Johnston
Binidaneess Steehone
Broadway
Otto Astor Co
L. Zerillo
West End
A. Catrello
13Th St
F. Oddo
Fleischman & Co
45Th St
N. Y
City Street By
Reserv Cersterence
39Th St
Patrick Higgins
Lewis St
I. Levey
Ket Ceed
Norfolk St
Levine Brothers
West
Houston St
A. Piccion
West 19Th St
Frank Michaels
W. 41St St
M. J. Brady
Beach St
James Montague
Eldridge St
Rubin & Linton
St. N. Y. Ossonendaices
Mott. St. Neicon Flanagan
Negroes Shoot Wrong Man in Kentucky Ambush
In Providence and Dixon Kentucky on March 15 a deputy marshal was fatally shot while arresting Jacob McDowell a Black man. Two commercial travelers P B Carter and J B Barry were wounded in an ambush by other Black men as they traveled between Dixon and Providence. Authorities pursued four named Black suspects as mobs sought McDowell after the incident. The mob moved to Henderson after learning McDowell had been moved there.
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Dixon, Ky
Smith Childers
Jacob McDowell
Providence
P. B. Carter
Chattanooga
J. B. Barry
Dixon
McDowell
Marshal Childers
Henderson
Will McDowell
Tom Fuqua
Tom Miller
American torpedo boat flotilla hosts reception in Panama
Lieut. Hutch S. Cone and crew are guests of honor as destroyers anchor near Panama. The flotilla plans daily visits from 4 to 6 pm and recently attended a Tivoli Club dance. A Stewart destroyer nine played a local team and all hands then attended a bullfight.
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Panama
Hutch S. Cone
United States
Tivoli Club
Canal Zone
Stewart
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Broad St
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Symphony Society OF New York
Orchestra OF
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Egmont
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Weath St
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Karl Muck
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Royal Opera
Berlin
Dr. Muck
Ofce & Fyson
Mendelssohn Hall
Yed. Eng
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Pelleas and
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W. 4Th St
Rox
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Flushing Avenue
Williamsburg
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Suydam Street
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