Fire ruins New Aveline Hotel with heavy losses
A devastating blaze at the New Aveline Hotel in 19th century times caused extensive damage. Firemen rescued occupants including Miss Agnes Nadeau with injuries. Jewelry, art, and stock losses ran into thousands with $14,000 in trunks and $2,500 diamonds destroyed. Hugo Fisher lost 230 paintings worth about $10,000. All losses insured.
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Agnes Nadeau
Burford Kilison
Kalamazoo
Mich
Killson
Bo Cornice
People's Store
David Davis
New York City
Applebaum & Davis
Aveline
Jones & Stevens
Proriotors
G. H. Brown
C. B. Woodworth & Co
Postal Telegraph Company
Strauss Brothers
George Streicher
Lee Ivins
Strauss Bank
Hugo Fisher
New York
Harrison Fisher
Camden Councilman Joseph Devinney Dies in Fort Wayne Fire
Joseph W. Devinney, former Camden City Council member, died in the New Aveline Hotel fire at Fort Wayne Indiana. He lived in Camden New Jersey aged 47 and was reprising a nine months trip. He leaves a widow and one daughter.
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Philadelphia
Penn
Joseph W. Devinney
Fort Wayne
Ind
Camden
N. J
Fire Routs 32 Families in New Ark Hill District
A blaze starting in a Charlton Street stable rapidly spread through a six story tenement at 120 Montgomery Street, destroying three buildings and leaving 32 families homeless. Max Varanski reported the fire. police forced entry as fifty people were evacuated and a patrolman leaped to a fire net after falling sixty feet. Two horses died and two more structures were heavily damaged.
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Hill
Newark
N J
Charlton Street
Max Varansky
Montgomery Street
Tr ‘Acherer
Hotel for Women Forced to Quit Over Rent Dispute
The Ratcliffe Hotel for Women at Ninety second Street and Central Park West faces sudden closure as owner Isaac V. Brokaw ejects Miss Emilie Vaughn and 180 guests by noon tomorrow. Rent disputes and needed repairs cited. plans to convert two houses into apartments.
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Ratcliffe
Ninety-second Street
Central Park West
Isaac V. Brokaw
Emilie Vaughn
Martha Washington
Brokaw
M. H. Gibson
Gibson
Virginia
Carl Fischer-Hansen
Mr. Brokaw
Ratcliffe Hotel
Miss Vaughs
Sir. Brokaw
Six Die in Blaze on Humboldt Street Fire
Fire at 17 Humboldt Street left six Potar family members dead as rescuers pulled them to safety and an adjacent resident Anna Abrams died after leaping from a window. Salvage corpsmen saved the remaining family. investigators probe incendiary rumors as fires in nearby basements are noted.
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Tie
Sadie Potar
Benny
Keupp
Cordes
Mrs. Potar
Kerupp
Petar
Salvage Corps
Humboldt Street
Abrams
Anna Abrams
St. Catharine's Hospital
Sally
No. 17
No.17
Bushwick Avenue
Gluck
Mr. Potar
Firemen Overcome by Mysterious Gas in Basement Blaze
Fifteen firefighters at 389 West Thirty-ninth Street battled a basement fire that started in a wood bin. Gas-like dizziness struck crews, with Captains Sweeney and Cass among those overcome. Chief Devanney found no illuminating gas and estimated damage at ten dollars after two hours to control.
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West Thirty-ninth Street
Battalon
Devanney
Edward Sweeney
Truck 21
George Cass
Engines Company 26
Dominick Rubin
Cy Sweeney
Sweeney
Decapitation at Singer Building Elevator Scene
Nicholas B Howland was struck by a descending elevator while painting doors on the 35th floor and decapitated. Elevator operator Jayde Fedrick of 90 Crystal Street Jersey City stopped the car too late. Pedrick and Charles Shaw were arrested and remanded after appearing before Magistrate Walsh. Coroner Acritelli scheduled an inquest.
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Singer
Nicholas B. Howland
Jayde Fedrick
Crystal Street
Jersey City
Howland
Pedrick
Charles Shaw
Rmumter
Walsh
Tombs Court
Acritelli
Subway Car Derails Hitting Pillar Near Borough Hall
A Brooklyn Subway car jumped rails at Flatbush Avenue extension and struck a tunnel pillar, causing lights to go out and forcing service delays between Battery and Brooklyn. No injuries were reported as passengers calmly exited and crews detached the derailed car. Traffic through the East River tube was interrupted for about thirty minutes, with many riders congested at Borough Hall and Bowling Green stations during the clearup.
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Flatbush* Avenue
Brooklyn
Trafc
Borough Hall
Long Island
East River Tube
Nevins Street
Flatbush
Atlantic Avenues
Atlantic Avenue
The
Battery
Manhattan
Bowling Green
Brooklyn Bridge
Hedley
Interborough Company
Batting Ram Man Crashes Saloon Window in Hoboken
Hans Bach a 30 year old resident of S61 First Avenue went to Hoboken for beer and pretzels. He tried John Foley’s saloon on Twenty first Street and Third Avenue, was refused entrance, then headbutted the plate glass window and got stuck. Police freed him and took him to the station where Lieut Schrieber sent him to Belleville for treatment. He claimed to be a piano mover and suffered scalp lacerations and intoxication.
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Humboldt
Throop Avenue
Humboldt Street
Cook Street
Jacob Worth
Lee Avene
Hans Bach
S61
First Avenue
Iloboken
Trudson River Tunnel
Manhattan
John Foley
Twenty-first Street
Third Avenue
Butans
Schmidt
Hans
Muller
Schrieber
Belleville
Lowthian
April New York stock company incorporations and capitalization
April saw 6 3 6 stock companies incorporated in New York State with aggregate capitalization of 29 167 000, versus 4811 companies at 830 777 000 in March. National totals for new incorporations with 100 000 or more raised 169 502 000 in April, down from 313 794 000 in March.
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New York State
Coronet Phosphate Company
New York City
Star Seal Company
New York
Terry, Fenech & Proctor Tunneling Machine Company
Journal of Commerce
Great American Railway
Pierre
Death toll from industrial accidents in the United Kingdom 1907
The 1907 industrial fatalities totaled 4600? no. The record notes 460 deaths, up 41 from 1896 and 277 above the five year average 1403 1907. Excluding quarrying, all occupation groups rose with shipping and mining most affected at 1363 and 1273 deaths respectively and 487 killed in railway work.
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United Kingdom
German aluminium prices rise through 1907 market data
Statistics show aluminium price in Germany was 1.00 marks per kilo in 1855. As production expanded the price declined year by year, and by 1907 the average price in the German market stood at 3 25 4 marks per kilo.
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Germany
Consult Us Before Signing Contracts
A buyer guidance note urges home purchasers to seek counsel before signing real estate contracts. It emphasizes obtaining a fair deal and mentions the firm has examined over a quarter of a million titles.
LifElectric theory billed as cure for drink habit
Andrew McConnell lectured at Calvary Baptist Church on Life Electricity a system claiming the body is a voltaic cell and electricity can curb drinking and prolong life. He announced plans for a sanitarium and a New York teaching school while church leaders cautioned against wholesale adoption.
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Andrew McConnell
Calvary Baptist Church
McConnell
Life Electric Institution
Washington, D. C
Boston
Brooislyn
Iit
Giuliani
Mctonnell
Metontell
New York
Alabama
Alhahest
Atlanta
Robert Stuart MacArthur
McConnells
National Banknote Circulation Totals and Changes
The monthly statement reports total National banknotes in circulation on April 30 at 645,698 with a yearly rise of 97,751,857 and a monthly rise of 1, OBS, 342. Bond-based circulation stands at 15, 495,975, up 21,604 for the year and down 3,408,061 for the month. Bonded currency secured by lawful means totals 72, 22025, up 49 for the year and 4,647 for the month. Bonds on deposit amount to 628,509,451 and public deposits are supported by 22,545,240.
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United States
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Bellevue
Jurge Guarantee and Trust Co
B'way
N. YT
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Bklyn
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Jamaica
California Fig Syrup CO. Offty
Standard Adjustment CO
Flatiron Building
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Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer Institute
West 34Th St
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Aermanel
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France
Euler & Robeson
U.S
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Janos
E. G. Harrington & CO. Makers
Fstab
Hardman Piano
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I M, Stewart
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Columbus
Ida Kremer
Mitchell Kennerley
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Broadway
Paris
Salon
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M. Jean Baffier
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Baseball For Firemen’s Fund
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