Missing Nourmahal: Astor Yacht Search Continues Across Caribbean
Two weeks after Col John Jacob Astor and his son Vincent vanished with the Nourmahal after leaving Kingston Jamaica bound for Porto Rico a vast search unfolds. Vessels including the revenue cutter Algonquin and the British cruiser Scylla scour the Caribbean as wireless reports hope to confirm the yacht’s fate and location.
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Col. John Jacob Astor
Vincent
Kingston
Jamaica
Porto Rico
West Indies
Col. Astor
Caribbean
New York
Colon
Nourmahal
United Wireless Company
High Seas
Algonquin
Caribbean Sea
Grand Turk
Turk’s Island
Caicos Island
Scylla
William A. Dobbyn
Nuevitas
Cuba
Student Held for Killing After Neighborhood Fight
A coroner's jury sent Vincent Stabile, 24, student at City College living on West Fifty-third Street, to the Grand Jury on a murder charge in the Sept. 25 shooting of John McGrath on Stabile’s stoop. Stabile testified McGrath led a gang attack and fired first. the shooting occurred during a scuffle as he armed himself.
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Acritelli
Vincent Stabile
City College
West Fifty-third Street
John McGrath
West Fiftythird Street
Stabile
McGrath
O'Connell
West Forty-seventh Street
Alex Sherman
West Fifty-first Street
Frank Ryan
Ninth Avenue
May Crommelin
Charles J. Meddelson
Agnes Shine
Catherine Brennan
Stabi 2
Florence Martin
Agnes Scott
Two French Aviators Break Height Bar In Wind at Chalons
Latham and Paulhan push aircraft heights in gale winds at Chalons as Latham tops 410 meters about 1,350 feet in official measure. Paulhan reaches 369 meters before Latham ascends and speeds away. Haydn Sands plans to import Latham craft to New York. Wright’s 1,600 foot unofficial Berlin peak is noted as higher.
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New York Times
Paris
Chalons
Latham
Paulhan
Lazare Weiller
Farman
Gen
Journe
Pautham
Hayden Sands
Sands
New York
Orville Wright
Berlin
London dealers eye Yerkes art shipment to auction houses
New York art dealers report London buyers aim to move the Yerkes collection to England for disposal through Christie’s Manson. Sir Guy Francis Laking, Armourer to the King, is said to press for a London sale while New York dealers argue higher local value. Judge Ward appoints Charles C. Burlingham as Yerkes estate receiver, replacing Harrington Putnam. Burlingham’s bond stands at $50,000.
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London
Yerkes
Sir Guy Francis Laking
King of
England
Sir Guy
Christies & Manson
New York
Ward
United States Circuit Court
Charles C. Burlingham
Yerkes Estate
Harrington Putnam
Supreme Court
Burlingham
Putnam
Wing, Putnam & Burlingham
William Street
Loss of 3000 Ballots Prompts Brooklyn Canvass Inquiry
Brooklyn Board of Canvassers reports missing records of thousands of votes on constitutional amendments. In seven Assembly districts at least 3000 votes unrecorded and up to 10000 believed lost. Investigation ordered after a conference of Assistant Corporation Counsel James By Bell, District Attorney Clarke, and Alderman John Diemer. In the Twenty-fifth District no vote is recorded and tally sheets may have been lost or stolen. Alderman Diemer says a court order may be needed to open ballot boxes for an exact count.
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Board of County
Brooklyn
Assembly
James By Bell
Clarke
John Diemer
Diemer
Woman Dies at Bronx School Meeting
At Public School 23 in the Bronx last night Mrs. Minnie Daubert, 844 Home Street, suddenly collapsed during a piano solo by Miss Anna Ruane. Teachers moved her to chairs after rolling doors detached a section. Dr. Frank Cohen declared she died instantly of heart disease.
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165Th Street
Union Avenue
Bronx
Anna Ruane
Minnie Daubert
Home Street
Wilhelmina Palmertier
Jennie MacElroy
Death in church stops tableaux performance
Mrs. Sarah Dickson aged 60 widow of a Bronx publisher died suddenly of heart disease in Morrisania Presbyterian Church last night just before junior Epworth League tableaux. The entertainment was postponed.
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Sarah Dickson
Bronx
Morrisania Presbyterian Church
Epworth League
Order Your Copy of Tomorrow's Times Early Today
Notice urges readers to place advance orders with newsdealers to guarantee a copy of tomorrow's Times whose notable features are advertised in other notices. The appeal emphasizes early action to secure the edition.
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Tomorrow’s Times
City Justices Salary Hike Reported As 4000 Added
The item notes a $4,000 increase to the pay of city justices. The article also mentions Dan Cushing resigning from Columbia over a personal matter and references President Butler claiming ignorance of the reason.
Upstate Airship Salary Fight Surges Through City Board
New York City Board of Estimate approves two resolutions to raise Supreme Court Justices’ city stipends by 333.35 dollars monthly, lifting total to 21,500 dollars after accounting for state add ons, as constitutional amendment efforts promise state level pay hikes. Justice Scott defends the plan noting no net city cost and alignment with state provisions.
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Manhattan
Bronx
New York
Scott
Appellate Division
Board of Estimate
Supreme Court
City of
Cunard Ships to Sail Direct to Fishguard in Winter
Cunard announces that after January 1 and for the rest of winter the main New York departures on Wednesdays will skip Queenstown and sail directly to Fishguard. The change shortens London transit by about six hours versus the Liverpool route.
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New York Times
London
Cunard Company
New York
Fishguard
Queenstown
Cunard
Liverpool
Babies To Give Away In Brooklyn Family Plight
Mrs. Annie Feinberg seeks a respectable family to adopt her six year old daughter Fannie and her three month old Izzie as she cannot care for them. The KAhn family on 86 Clinton Street offers temporary shelter while eight people share two rooms. Feinberg and her tailor husband, once from Russia, left Throop Avenue, Brooklyn after his disappearance three months ago. Four year old Ida is ill and will not be given up.
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Harry Alonzo Cushing
Columbia University Law School
Law School
Prof. Cushing
Columbia
Cedar Street
University
Milano Apartments
West Fifty-eighth Street
Springfield
Mass
Butler
Prof. Kirchwey
Law Department
Faculty of Law
Kirchwey
Cushing
Nicholas Murray Butler
Carnegie Foundation
Ushing
Lynn
Amherst
Elizabeth Newton
Bar Association
American Historical Association
The
Academy of Political Science
Lawyers
Republican
City Clubs
Annie Feinberg
Fannie
Izzie
Buy Land at Morris Park Bronx Now
Development Co owners advertise land purchase in Morris Park Bronx with rapid transit construction underway promising gains.
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Morris Park
Bronx
C Development Co
Times SA —Adv
Hope Diamond Found Safe in Paris Jeweler Rosenau’s Custody
The Hope diamond, feared lost in the Seyne wreck near Singapore, has been located in Paris with jeweler Rosenau of 9 Rue Chauchat. Rosenau disclosed he bought it after Selim Habib offered it for sale last June and later withdrew it.
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New York Times
Paris
Hope
Singapore
Rosenau
Rue Chauchat
Selim Habib
Axe murderers kill eight in Boguslawitz farmhouse
In Plaschen Germany on November 19 unknown assailants hacked eight people to death with an axe at a farmhouse in Boguslawitz near the Russian frontier. Victims included farmer Wasielsewski his wife five children and his father in law. The killers are believed to have crossed the frontier.
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Plaschen
Germany
Boguslawitsch
Wasielsewski
Gold Basis For Cuba National Currency Introduced
A Senate bill in Havana proposes a national currency on a gold basis similar to the United States. Gold coins would be $5 $10 and $20 with silver nickel and copper subsidiary coins. A currency commission to be named by the government would determine coin issuance.
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Havana
Senate
United States
Wedded at 90 Bride 72 in New Hampshire Nuptials
Ahyl Cheney aged 90 and Eliza J. Martin aged 72 wed at the bride’s home near Bowes Corner in South Hooksett New Hampshire. The bride owns a fifteen acre farm she plans to sell and will relocate to Concord Vermont where her husband has lived for decades.
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New York Times
South Hooksett
N. H
Ahyl Cheney
Eliza J. Martin
Bowes Corner
Concord
Chinese Naval Commission Arrives in England for Study
Prince Tsai Chun leads the Chinese Naval Commission to London to study naval construction aims. The delegation receives full honors at Dover and will be received by King Edward at Windsor, signaling a progressive move for China’s navy.
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London
Chinese Naval Commission
Tsai Chun
England
China
Dover
Foreign Office
Admiralty
Edward
Windsor
Chile Silent On Alsop Settlement Amid Hague Arbitration Talk
The State Department has received no confirmation of a Santiago report that Chile proposed to submit the Alsop claim to the Hague for arbitration. Chile earlier approved Hague referal but then reversed the move under the President and Cabinet. Americans in Chile express surprise at how the case has been handled after thirty-five years of delay.
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New York Times
Washington
State Department
Santiago
Chile
Alsop
Hague
Foreign Office
Dawson
Count Bondenbender Secretarial Spy in Wichita
Count Heinrich Bondenbender a Bavarian nobleman has been secretly working as private secretary to A H Webb Division Superintendent of the Missouri Pacific Railroad in Wichita since last spring. Known to associates as Henry Bondenbender the 25 year old speaks five languages and came to study social economy and American business procedures. Webb was unaware of the secretary's true identity until recently.
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Wichita
Kan
Heinrich Bondenbender
A. H. Webb
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Henry Bondenbender
Webb
Change in Time for Northern and Western Express
Train No. 59 will depart Grandcon at A M for the Northern and Western Express route. Details are incomplete in the notice.
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Northern and Western Express
Grandcon A. M
Judge Snitkin in courtroom clash over inquest death
Justice-elect Leonard A. Snitkin argued with Bronx Coroner Schwannecke in a long inquest into the death of two year old Giuseppe Pasquale who was run over by a grocery wagon. The coroner threatened contempt while Snitkin refused to apologize until he did so to the jury. The boy’s death was ruled accidental.
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Leonard A. Snitkin
Schwannecke
Bronx
Snitkin
H. Nelson
Amsterdam Avenue
Giuseppe Pasquale
East 154Th Street
Peter Avegraziaplene
Curran
Tremont
Morris Park land sale venture boosts transit plans
Rapid Transit developers outline plans at Morris Park in the Bronx citing future value of land owned by Development Co. The Ti Building site and nearby parcels are highlighted as key assets in the broader transit expansion effort.
Wibiralske Dies After Football Injury At Essex Game
Albert P. Wibiralske, West Orange High School star, died in Orange Memorial Hospital after a low tackle during the Watsessing Oval game against Trinity Chapel. He was 17 or 18, survived by two elder brothers, and his death followed a 5:30 p.m. injury as he was rushed to hospital for surgery.
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Cadet Byrne
West Point
Harvard
Albert P. W. Wibitalske
Theodore Wibiralske
Riggs Place
West Orange
Orange Memorial Hosspital
Wibitalske
West Orange High School
Watsessing Oval
Essex County Park
Trinity Chapel
New York
Wibialske
Trinity
Frank W. Lockwood
East Orange
Orange Memorial Hospital
Wibiralske
Charles Wibiralske
Big Boy
Chance for School Football Sparks Board Debate
City educators discuss whether to ratify a Superintendent ban on football in public schools. Gen George W Wingate defends the game, praising teamwork and discipline while urging safety studies and possible rule changes.
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Board of Education
Board of Educations
Schoos
New York
Foster
High School of Commerce
Harlem
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