Borough Bank of Brooklyn Records Destroyed and Fraud Probed
District Attorney reveals destruction of notes and ledger pages at Borough Bank of Brooklyn as governors, directors, and clerks face indictments for forgery and grand larceny. Investigation finds large sums moved to International Trust, forged paper shredded, and missing entries traced. Brooklyn Bank also under scrutiny for unauthorized transfers and suspect loans to church groups.
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Borough Bank of Brooklyn
William Gow
Borough Bank
Kings County
Brooklyn Bank
E. 8
Hasbroucke
Jacksons
Albany
Justice Betts
International Trust Company
Robert W. Jones, Jr
Oriental Bank
Jones
Elder
Gow
Brigand Tortures Marquis in Italian Kidnapping
Naples dispatches report Marquis Giuseppe Cito brother of Count Giannotti master of ceremonies to King Victor Emmanuel was kidnapped by two brigands and tortured to force ransom letters. One thief seized him after luring him to a grotto. The case draws interest from the British Embassy. the Marquis is an antiquarian trusted by several sovereigns.
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NEW York Times
London
Naples
Giuseppe Cito
Count Giannotti
Victor Emmanuel
Marquis Cito
Signor Canessa
Countess Gianott
Rome
Edward
Mutual Life Says No New Policies In Wisconsin After Year End
The Mutual Life Insurance Company will stop writing new policies in Wisconsin after December 31 until state insurance laws are revised. Existing policies remain in force, totaling 28 112 891 dollars per the latest insurance commissioner report. It follows a July pledge to Wisconsin Governor Davidson by Mutual Life of New York and other big firms that they could not continue business under the current bills. It is uncertain whether Equitable Life or New York Life will also exit Wisconsin, though some industry chatter says one may stay to oppose the bills.
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New York Times
Milwaukee
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Wisconsin
Commissioner of Insurance
Mutual Life of New York
New York
James ©. Davidson
New York Life Insurance Company
Equitable Life Assurance Society
State Senate
Equitable
New York Life
The
Brownsville
Gladys Ashe Gouraud Weds Louis Hooper Amid Complex Kinship
Gladys Ashe Gouraud, divorced wife of Powers Gouraud and granddaughter of Charles B. Crocker, married Louis Hooper, former Shubert assistant stage manager. Hooper named co respondent in Gouraud's divorce suit. Hooper's wife, Mrs. Jackson Gouraud, is tied to multiple in law relations within the Gouraud family. the Gourauds are linked to Col. Gouraud of London. The present Mrs. Hooper is the daughter of R Porter Ashe, once her first husband before her later marriages to Henry Gillig and Jack son Gouraud.
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Shays-Ashe Gouraud
Powers Gouraud
Charles B. Crocker
Louis Hooper
The
Shuberts
Hooper
Gouraud
Jackson Gouraud
Madison Avenue
Gourauds
Col. Gouraud
London
R. Porter Ashe
San Francisco
Henry Gillig
Ashe
Lovejoy offers 2 million dollar Squirrel Hill estate for university use
Pittsburg, Nov 29. Francis T. F. Lovejoy, once a Carnegie partner and later a mining investor, proposes his $2,000,000 Squirrel Hill estate as the site for Western University of Pennsylvania buildings. He names $575,900 as the asking price and notes his holdings and past projects on the site. Plans to convert the Bellefield mansion into university administration are submitted to the trustees.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Penn
Francis T. F. Lovejoy
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Company
Western University of Pennsylvania
Squirrel Hill
Lovejoy
Carnegie Steel Company
United States Steel Corporation
Bellefield
Idaho
Nevada
University Board
Deerfoot Farm Sausages Made at Farm in Southbo Mass
All Deerfoot Farm Sausages are produced on the farm in Southbo Mass. The business credits success to selected materials and the neatness and cleanliness of the preparation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deerfoot Farm
Southbo Mass
Grady
Foraker Declines Senate Bid to Seek Presidency
Senator Joseph Foraker announces he will pursue the Ohio delegation to the Republican National Convention and accepts the party's support for his presidential bid, declining a reelection Senate run to avoid holding two offices. He argues the Senate must not become a mere agent to carry out others' decrees and defends his record on joint statehood, Brownsville, and the rate bill.
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New York Times
Washington
Joseph Ben
Foraker
Taft
Ohio
Conrad J. Mattern
Dayton
Ohio Republican League
League
United States Senate
Senator Foraker
Conrad Mattern
Ohio Republican League of Clubs
Neil House
Columbus
Roosevelt
Republican Party
United States
Archbold Defends Fortune At Syracuse University Dinner
John D. Archbold addressed more than a hundred alumni at the New York Alumni Association dinner in the Hotel Savoy defending his fortune from tainted money charges. He said his wealth came from fifty years of conscientious toil and honest intent and would not have funded Syracuse University otherwise. Chancellor Day highlighted Archbold gifts including the first men's dormitory and the stadium.
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John D. Archbold
Syracuse University
New York Alumni Association
Hotel Savoy
Mr. Archbold
Syracuse
Court grants custody in tense New Jersey habeas case
In Newark the New Jersey Court of Chancery awarded custody of Henry R. Drowne’s ten year old son to the father after a lengthy hearing. The boy cried and resisted, briefly fled the courtroom, and clung to his mother as the two were separated. Drowne posted a $10,000 bond for the boy’s care.
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New Jersey Court of Chancery
Newark
Henry R. Drowne
Stevens
Louisa Feersythe Crowne
Prudential Building
Drowne
Four Robbers Hold Up Car Near Riverside New Jersey
Near Riverside New Jersey, four men armed with corn knives halted a car carrying three people shortly after midnight. They slashed tires, robbed a man of 25 dollars and a woman of a gold watch, then fled when approached by another vehicle. Suspects believed to be Philadelphians.
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Burlington
N. J
Here
Riverside
Auto Hits Mother and Baby in Brooklyn Accident
Mrs. Sarah Gunsbach of 459 Fifty-second Street Brooklyn rushed to cross Fourth Avenue with her three year old daughter Caroline in a carriage to avoid a moving van. An automobile driven by Charles R. Smith of 747 St. John's Place struck them, tossing Mrs. Gunsbach about twenty feet. Both were taken to Norwegian Hospital where the child suffered minor injuries and the mother was later discharged after treatment.
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Sarah Gunsbach
Fifty-second Street
Brooklyn
Fourth Avenue
Caroline
Charles R. Smith
St. John’s Place
Forty-sixth Street
Vanderbilt's land pledge cuts poaching. funds to schools
In Asheville New York area George W Vanderbilt offered townships a cash reward via county and school bodies for a year no lawlessness on his land. The pledge reduced timber poaching and arson. Mountaineers were rarely convicted. now violators sign a pledge instead of facing trespass arrests.
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New York Times
Asheville
N. Y
George W. Vanferdi
County Board of Education
Vanderbilt
Mr. Vanderbilt
After All Deher Bcotch That Goade The Highball
Fragmentary OCR hints at a bar or drink item named Deher Bcotch and a highball served or referenced afterward. No clear event or attribution to a person, place, or date is readable.
State seeks state receivership over Metropolitan railways
Justice Seabury rules state court can revoke corporate charter and appoint receivers in parallel with federal actions over New York City Railway and Metropolitan Street Railway. Attorney General Jackson seeks dissolution, accounting, and suspension of directors. conflicting jurisdiction to be tested by higher court. Receivers named include Paul Fuller J Hampden Dougherty Melvin Palliser with counsel Herbert Lim burg. bond set at 100000 each.
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Supreme Court
Seabury
Paul Fuller
J. Hampden Dougherty
Melvin G. Palliser
New York City Railway Company
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Jackson
United States Supreme Court
Joseph D. Ford
Herbert R. Limburg
Ford
Sddition
Justice Seabury
United States Circuit Court
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Degnon Contracting Company
Justice Bradley
Palace at Monaco Burns
A Monte Carlo dispatch reports a large portion of the old palace of the Prince of Monaco destroyed by fire. Firemen from the city and the Casino brigade fought the blaze from noon to 5 pm, with damage heavy but confined to the palace. The cause is unknown. The Renaissance era palace is famed for frescoes and its summer visitor access.
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NEW York Times
London
Monte Carlo
Prince of Monaco
Principality
Casino
Rockefeller as labor aid in Cleveland temple plan
John D. Rockefeller may be asked to finance the Labor Temple in Cleveland. A motion before the United Trades and Labor Council seeks permission to present the plan to him next Wednesday. Unions must raise $50,000 for the building, with Rockefeller expected to match part of the needed funds.
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Cleveland Temple
New York Times
Cleveland
Ohio
John D. Rockefeller
Labor Temple
United Trades and Labor Council
Rockefeller
Schoolboys Walk Ninety Miles to Victory
Five boys from the High School of Commerce in New York walked ninety miles in twenty five hours to beat their record. Members of The Strollers Club, they carried money but chose roughing it as they slept in Bristol station house. They plan to attend the Army and Navy game the next day before returning to New York by train.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
High School of Commerce of New York
Harry Tarrantous
Walter Goepel
Harry Rieper
Harry Stern
William Groff
Strollers Club
Bristol
Army
Schwab Plans Gift of Richmond Beach Island Property
Charles M. Schwab, president of Bethlehem Steel, intends to donate Richmond Beach in Staten Island to a charitable institution within days. Rumors point to the Sisters of St. Francis, though Schwab would not confirm the recipient. The 61 acre upland and 56 acre waterfront site was once a proposed free resort for Manhattan's poor children with baths and piers built, but has remained idle since a Steel Trust upheaval.
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Charles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Company
Richmond Beach
Staten Island
Raritan Bay
Sisterhood of St. Francis
Mr. Schwab
Manhattan
Steel Trust
Schwab
Hospital Directors Robbed in New York Case
Mount Sinai Hospital officials found an overcoat missing after a director left the building, with a $300 envelope gone. A gold watch and chain were also reported stolen. Detectives traced Isidor Kurtz, a hospital hallboy, who vanished after being asked to operate the elevator.
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Mount Sinai Hospital
Samuel Goldwater
Isidor Kurtz
East Ninety-second Street
Kurtz
Young chemist John J. Mack killed in Glen Gardner hunt
John J. Mack 23, head chemist at Taylor Iron Works High Bridge, formerly of Plainfield, was struck in the temple by a piece of iron from a passing locomotive near Glen Gardner while walking along a railroad track. He was nephew of late Elizabeth mayor William A. M. Mack and son of the late John Mack who died in a train accident. He lived with his mother and sister. his brother William Mack runs the Vacuum Cleaner Company unit in New York.
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Plainfield
N. J
John J. Mack
William A. M. Mack
Elizabeth
Glen Gardner
John Mack
Young Mack
Taylor Iron Works
High Bridge
William Mack
The
Vacuum Cleaner Company of New York
Nobel Prize to Michelson for Physics
Washington reports Amer ican Minister Graves at Stockholm advised Prof. A A Michelson of Chicago will receive the Nobel prize for physicists. He is credited with a new method of determining the velocity of light.
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Washington
State Department
Graves
Stockholm
A. A. Michelson
Chicago
Michelson
Financial Dispatches From Global Markets
The financial section will describe current conditions in Chicago Kansas City Omaha the Pacific Coast London Paris and Berlin and present opinions of the financial community on the outlook across these centers.
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New York Evening Post
Chicago
Kansas City
Omaha
Pacific Coast
London
Paris
Berlin
Northwest police aid for New York to Paris auto race
Ottawa reports Col. White of the Northwest Mounted Police pledges active cooperation to assist auto contestants in the New York to Paris race. They would man gas stations and supply routes, easing safety and provisioning along the Peace River trail and Dawson approaches.
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New York Times
Ottawa
Ontario
Northwest Mounted Police
New York
Paris
Paris Mafin
Tan New York Times
Col. White
TH Times
Northwest Police
Alaska
Peace River
Edmonton
Dawson
Perry
Peace River Trail
Thompson
Yukon
Yukon River
Alaska Geologist Assesses New York to Paris Auto Quest
Alfred H. Brooks of the U S Geological Survey analyzes feasibility of a 15 000 mile automobile race from Times Square to Paris. He doubts summer transit through Bering Strait and cites tundra conditions and unknown Alaska terrain as major challenges.
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New York Times
Washington
Wilds
Alaska
Bering Strait
Alfred H. Brooks
United States Geological Survey
Brooks
New York
Paris
Times Square
Geological Survey
Northwest Territory
United States
Henry C. Bizer
Timms
Siberia
Russia
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Lovejoy House
Steel
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Ohio League
Archbold
Biltmore
Metropolitan
U. S. Supreme Court
Monaco
Gambling Resort
Richmond
Mount Sinai
Chicago University
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