Countess Boni Divorce Hearing Opens in Paris Court
In Paris, Countess Boni de Castellane seeks absolute divorce and custody of three children from Count Boni de Castellane. Maitre Cruppi delivering a four and a half hour argument outlined alleged husband brutality, extravagance, and numerous affairs with society women, while the countess endures public scrutiny.
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Poe
Jess Boni de Castellane
Count Boni de Caslane
R Ditte
Seine
Maitre Crupp
Maitro Cruppi
Count Boni
Maitre Cruppi
Alance
Tughter
Jay Gould
Paris
Mme. A
Mme. B
Mme. C
Mme. D
Crupp
Boudoir
Matire Cruppi
Neuilly
Mattre Crappi
Maire Cruppi
Civil Tribunal
George J. Gould
Index of New York Evening Paper Sections and Page References
A partial table of contents lists sections and their page numbers including Amusements Arrivals of Out-of-Town Buyers Business Troubles Court Calendars Financial News Marine Intelligence and Foreign Mails New Corporations Real Estate Society United Service Weather Report Yesterday's Fires Advertisements Deaths Furnished Rooms and Boarders Help and Situations Wanted Hotels and Restaurants Instruction Lost and Found Marriages Autumn Resorts travelers Guide.
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Marine Intelligence
United Service
Weather Report
Travelers’ Guide
Bridge Jam In The Dark Delays Thousands On Brooklyn Bridge
Thousands of Brooklyn residents bound for Manhattan were delayed as power failed on the Brooklyn Bridge and surface cars. Darkness, crowding, and scrambles to board created turmoil but no injuries. Police used ropes to control the crowd while traffic resumed by 6:36 and a speaker mocking Hearst drew the crowd’s attention.
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Fitzgerald
Hearst
New York
Power of the Beef Trust Defeat Sparks Testimony in Yardage Case
Burns Cauldwell vice president of the Delaware Lackawanna & Western testified in a U S Circuit Court case brought by the Newark Stock Yards for fifty thousand dollars. He described why the railway stopped paying yardage in 1903 and recounted a 1908 conference with James Bathgate and a threat from Swift & Co. that shipments would halt if yardage continued. Cauldwell said the Elkins Anti Rebate Act influenced the decision and that continuing payments would breach the law. Chandler Riker failed to shake the testimony.
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New York Times
Trenton
N. J
James Bathgate
Stock Yards Company
Bathgate
Lackawanna
Newark Stock Yards
Swift & Co
Cauldwell
Elkins
Chandler Riker
Newark
Balloonist's perilous Augusta ascent ends with ground landing
Dr Julian P Thomas lifted from a torn monster balloon at Augusta after a 6000 foot descent. He describes patching a 6x4 foot opening, cutting a guide rope, riding gusts and currents, and being dragged a quarter mile before regaining control and safely reaching land despite severe bruises.
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New York Times
Augusta
Julian P. Thomas
Fair Grounds
Old Augusta
New York
Ceromas
Joe
Illinois Shipper Audit Aims to Sue Railroads for Millions
The Illinois Audit Company says it will file civil and criminal suits totaling up to 80 million dollars for rail overcharges. The group made the claim after hearings in a case filed by Zambrook Brothers of Springfield against the Chicago and Alton Railroad.
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New York Times
Chicago
Illinois Audit Company
Illinois
Rudolph M. Patterson
Chicago & Alton Railroad
Zambrook Brothers
Springfield
Ill
Patterson
Girl Walks From Buffalo to Yonkers in Strain
Sixteen year old Miss Lillian Devoe walked from Buffalo to Yonkers and collapsed at Riverdale Avenue and Ludlow Street. Dr. Johnston of St. Joseph's Hospital revived her. She fled to find her son believed to be in New York with plans to travel to Chicago after locating him.
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Lillian Devoe
Yonkers
Buffalo
Riverdale Avenue
Ludlow Street
Johnston
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Miss Devee
Chicago
New York
Meredith on suffrage and John Bull’s pace
The Times reprints George Meredith’s letter praising women’s suffrage and urging calmer tactics after Suffragettes’ entry attempts on Parliament. He argues progress requires practical work and support from leaders across parties while warning against alienating the public with disruptive protests.
Unions Begin War at Gary Over Closed Shop
The Gary Indiana clash over a closed shop escalated as structural iron workers struck at South Chicago Joliet and Buffington plants of United States Steel. Union leaders say firm work is hampered while a Gary boycott targets stores selling to non union workers.
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New York Times
Chicago
Gary
Ind
United States Steel Corporation
Joliet
Buffington
James, Maddox
Esticca
Associated Building Trades
South Chicago
Amundsen Party Arrives Amid Prize Withdrawal
Five Norwegians traveling with Capt. Amundsen land in Chicago en route to Norway and learn the British Government has withdrawn the $100,000 prize for navigating the Northwest Passage. Amundsen plans to visit the Geographic Society of Chicago and the Norwegian National League. He will be honored by the Royal Geographical Society of London and the Norwegian Geographical Society with the Grand Cross of St Olaf from King Haakon.
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New York Times
Chicago
Amundsen
Arctic
Northwest Passage
Norway
Minneapolis
Geographic Society of Chicago
Norwegian National League
Royal Geographical Society of London
Norwegian Geographical Society
St. Olaf
Haakon
Shots at Darr Residence in Greenwich
Lawrence Kortjohn a milkman for Borden Condensed Milk Company was shot at by Lawrence Darr son of George W Darr a wealthy New York businessman in Field Point Park Greenwich Oct 31 In a 5 am delivery at the back door a window opened and a revolver fired twice Kortjohn fled to his carriage The Darr family says the shots were to awaken the coachman who they believed was an automobile thief
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New York Times
Greenwich
Conn
Lawrence Kortjohn
Borden Condensed Milk Company
Lawrence Darr
George W. Darr
New York
Kortjohn
Carr
Field Point Park
Bee, Spa
George W. Carr
Steel Trust in Politics prompts workmen voting push
In Pittsburgh dated Oct 81 U S Steel workers are said to have been urged to back Edwin S Stuart Republican candidate for governor. Managers allegedly hint the company would favor such votes while warning that an Emery/Democratic win could cause plant shut downs and long idleness. Some workers deny following the request. An adjacent ad notes Boston steamship fares and weekly schedules on the Fall River Line ships Priscilla and Puritan Ive with evening orchestra.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
U. S. Steel Corporation
Edwins. Stuart
Emery
Boston
Fall River Line
Puritan Ive
N. R
Warren St
Hearst Ends Upstate Tour with Twelve Speeches
Hearst and John Ford tour the Lake Ontario shore, delivering six talks to Buffalo crowds after earlier Rochester and Brockport stops. The day centers on Hearst's anti Hughes stance, with labor supporters boosting turnout in halls from St. Bridget's to Garden Theatre.
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New York Times
Buffalo
Lake Ontario
W. R. Hearst
John Ford
Hearst
Hughes
Rochester
Mr. Hearst
Flying Wedge
Wedger
St. Bridget’s Hall
McCarren
James Farley
Mr. Hughes
Thomas M. Osborne
Auburn
Brockport
Monroe County
Mr. Ford
Medina
Orleans County
Irving L'Hommedieu
Higgins
Middleport
Ford
Orth Tonawanda
Plunderbund
Batavia
New York
Rothschild Robbery Reported at Chantilly Chateau
Paris dispatch reports a large quantity of highly valuable art objects stolen from the Chantilly chateau owned by Baroness James Rothschild. No suspects named. details of the haul and dates are unclear in the transmission.
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Baroness James
Chantilly
Paris
James Rothschild
Journalists vow to rally opinion over San Francisco school policy
A Tokyo meeting of journalists condemned the San Francisco Board of Education action to segregate Japanese children. They adopted a resolution denouncing the policy as a treaty violation and an insult to Japan and pledged to unite to urge authorities to resolve the dispute without advocating violence.
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Tokio
San Francisco
Milk price rise approved by Consolidated Milk Exchange
At a noon meeting in the Commercial Exchange Building the Consolidated Milk Exchange voted a quarter cent hike for wholesale milk to 1.72 per forty quart can from 1.62. The increase starts today and will not affect retail trade. A member cited a short milk market and need to support producers to stimulate demand.
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Consolidated Milk Exchange
Commercial Exchange
Smoot Denies Senate Seat Sale During Salt Lake Rally
At a Salt Lake City Republican rally Congressman Littlefield was interrupted by callers demanding Senator Reed Smoot. Smoot rejected ex-Senator Kearns claim that Kgarns bought the Senatorship from President Snow, stating he never sold the seat and charging the charge as false.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake Theatre
Charles E. Littlefield
Reed Smoot
Smoot
Thomas Kearns
Sutherland
Kgarns
Snow
Two Men Killed as Van Hit by Trolley Car
A furniture van from Richter Brothers of Union Hill was struck by a Hudson Heights trolley on Sixth Street Union Hill killing the two men seated on the wagon. Driver Joseph Bohro died instantly from a broken neck. helper William Schreck of West Hoboken died after injuries. Motorman John Lynch and conductor Matthew Caufield of West Hoboken were arrested.
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Richter Brothers
Union Hill
Hudson Heights
Sixth Street
Joseph Bohro
William Schreck
West Hoboken
John Lynch
Matthew Caufield
Piano Plays Through Fire at Otterson Home
W Curtis Otterson broker and his family were in the parlor at 331 Wes Eighty Fourth Street when a roof fire started. He phoned Fire Headquarters, gathered his kin, and played the piano as smoke filled the upper floors. Firemen arrived within minutes and extinguished the blaze causing about 2000 dollars in damages.
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Wes Eighty-fourth Street
W. Curtis Otterson
Otterson
Federal Express Wreck Near Sharon Heights Station
The Federal Express train from Boston to Washington collided with a freight train on the Sharon Heights cross-over on the Providence Division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. The locomotive struck the freight engine, both rolling off the rails. Engineer John Keeler of New Haven was severely injured, others escaped unharmed.
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Sharon
Mecs
Federal Express
Boston
Washington
Sharon Heights
Providence
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
John Keeler
New Haven
Colleges to Resist Taxes in New England Meeting
New England colleges and universities have agreed to resist any move to tax educational institutions. The decision came at the New England college presidents meeting in New Haven, with President Eliot of Harvard urging broad exemption as public institutions. The Savannah Line advertises low excursion rates to Southern resorts in a separate ad.
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New York Times
New Haven
New England
Colleges
Eliot of
Savannah
International Consolidated Corporation Forms in Augusta Maine
The International Consolidated Corporation filed its certificate of incorporation in Augusta with a capital of 500000 and authority to grow to 5000000000000, with a scope to trade in nearly any item from a tin can to a battleship and to set up branches worldwide. Albert M. Heath Charles L. Andrews and Lewis A. Burleigh of Augusta acted for others and could not provide details.
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New York Times
Augusta
International Consolidated Corporation
Albert M. Heath
Charles L. Andrews
Lewis A. Burleigh
Yale West Point Football Special Train Ad
Special train from Desbrosses Street to West Point departs 12 20 P M from West 42nd Street 12 45 P M. Round trip fare 1 25 dollars. See West Shore Ticket Agents for details.
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Yale-West Point
West Point
Desbrosses St
West 42d St
West Shore
Omega Oli Aimed at Rheumatics Promotes a Ten Cent Bottle
An ad claims Omega Oli relieves rheumatism with a ten cent bottle offer. The text is incomplete but suggests a medical remedy promotion and a low price point.
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Sfay
Thousa
Hughes Says Heirs to Raise Rents Hearings Draw Big Crowds
Charles E Hughes campaigns against tax dodging by corporations repeating charges that the gas and street railway trusts shift costs to real estate owners. He cites sworn statements from the Hearst press and filings by The Evening Journal Publishing Company and related firms asserting tax avoidance and rent increases.
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New York Times
Charles E. Hughes
Wiliam Ree
Hearst
Evening Journal
Hughes
Rochester
Street Railway Trust
Gas Trust
He 1
New York City
New York
City of New York
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