Herring Aeroplane Ready for the Tests at New Grounds
A. M. Herring says his lightweight aeroplane will undergo preliminary trials in Washington next week with possible testing at Hempstead Plains. He plans low altitude runs to test details and will discuss changes with Major George O. Squier and Signal Corps officials. The craft features a record light motor and a 2000 plus weight reduction compared to the Wright machine, with potential naval use on water.
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A. M. Herring
Washington
Fort Myer
Herring
War Department
George O. Squier
Signal Corps
Mr. Herring
Orville Wright
Octave Chanute
Wright
Mexican Diet and Grape-Nuts End Nervous Ills
A reader from our neighboring republic recounts relief from heart pain and nervous distress after adopting Grape-Nuts and cream. He reports improved digestion, renewed energy for work, and a cheerful home life, praising Postum and the slogan There's a Reason. The letter is presented as genuine advertising copy from Postum Co. Battle Creek, Michigan.
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Mexico
Republic
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Army officers complete first leg of 51 mile walking test
At 6 45 A M yesterday the army walking tests for Colonels and Majors began with the first leg of 17 miles done by 12 00 noon. All 23 officers passed medical examination marking them OK to continue the Roosevelt designated test. The walk followed Ocean Boulevard to Coney Island and back to Nevins Street station reaching moon. Col Harris led the Fort Hancock team with Col Deems second in command. A Ford Du Pont report noted four passed from three others in the East. The second day will cover the ocean pass and start at 6 45 A M.
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St Aves
Governors Island
Roosevelt
Army
Ocean Boulevard
Brooklyn
Coney Island
Coney Iland
Nevins Street
Moon
Sandy Hook
Col. Harris
Col. Deems
Fort Ancock
Col. Williams
Fort du Pont
Del
Wells
Prt
OASS
Suffragists Attack at Harlem Demonstration Leads to Riot
Miss Mary Coleman the woman lawyer faces charges against a policeman at the 125th Street Station for failing to quiet a disturbance at Seventh Avenue and 125th Street. With Miss Helen Murphy and Dr. Julia Seton Sears, Coleman spoke before about 1 000 Harlem after dinner promenaders. Dismissed jeers, a hair-pulling brawl, and a noon-hour scuffle forced the trio to retreat to a drug store back exit before safety.
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Mary Coleman
125Th Street
Seventh
Miss Coleman
Helen Murphy
Julia ‘Seton Sears
Miss Murphy
Dr. Sears
Iss Coleman
iPman
New Aldrich Banknote Exhibits at Farran Zerbe Sale
Baez of the American Numismatic Association in the city displays several varieties of the new National banknotes issued under the Aldrich act. The notes feature blue seals and serials with Treasury details, and reverse designs replace the state coat of arms with a portrait of Washington and a Capitol view.
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Treasury Department
Waihitteoa 7
Waahitiptote
Half Dollar Sells for 670 at Collectors Club Sale
The 1888 U S silver half dollar with O mintmark set a record at 670 dollars during James B Wilson's coin collection sale at the Collectors Club on East Twenty sixth Street New York. The piece, from New Orleans branch mint first year, is among only four known. A 1794 silver dollar, first year, fetched 150 dollars. one was later found in London for 20 dollars. Gold proof sets also brought strong bids.
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United States
James B.wilson
East Twenty-sixth Street
New Orleans
London
Fraternity Lays Cornerstone for New Phi Gamma Delta House
The New York Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta laid the cornerstone for its new society house at 32 and 34 West Forty-fourth Street yesterday afternoon. O. H. Cheney, Assistant State Superintendent of Banking and fraternity member, presided with other prominent Phi Gamma Delta men. The four story brownstone buildings are being remodeled with a new facade. A copper box in the cornerstone contains the charter, by laws, member names, city newspaper copies, and United States coins.
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New York
Phi Gamma Delta
West Forty-fourth Street
O. H. Cheney
Society House
United States
Priest Charged With Blackmail At Centre Moriches
Two Polish men were jailed in Riverhead on blackmail charges against Rev. Father Louis J. Sloane, rector of St. John’s Church. They allegedly demanded 10,000 and collected 1,500, targeting Sloane and later his substitute while Sloane was in Rome. Local neighbors describe him as upright.
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Father Sloane
Rome
Fragmented Street Addresses and Names Sketch Page List
OCR reads a jumble of city addresses and personal names with times and initials. Several streets and landmarks appear alongside individuals such as Ludlow Street and Macdougal Avenue, then various partial numbers and a few company or person references, forming a slice of a busy urban listing with no clear event or action.
Fire kills eleven Italians in Mulberry Street building
A four story Italian block at 71 Mulberry Street burned killing eleven people from families including Forcello Schettino and Magliacci. Investigators weigh incendiary origin as coroner Shrady and Fire Marshal Seery inspect possible under stair storage and a running assailant seen fleeing. Funeral plans for all victims are being arranged.
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Mulberry Street
Count di Massiglia
Gener
George F. Shrady
Seery
Mulberry Bend
F Park
Harry Schaefer
Shrady
Forcello
Elizabeth Street
Frank Prunesti
Frank Maglicco
Joseph Maglicco
Niith Ameilla Catono
Rosa Schettino
Christina Schettino
Hudson Street
Pietro Magliacci
St. Gregory’s Hospital
Francisco Schettino
St. Gregory's Hospital
Burtah
Three Burned to Death in Yonkers Cottage Fire
Mrs. Robert Cummings aged 55 and her two grandsons Robert Holland 9 and Warry Holland 3 died in a fire that destroyed a two story frame cottage on the Cochran estate in Yonkers. Mrs. Holland, awakened by smoke, tried to reach the children and her mother but flames trapped them. firemen could not enter as the house burned. The ruins were later searched and the bodies found near the center. Cause of the blaze is undetermined.
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Robert Cummings
Robert
Warry Holland
Cochran
Yonkers
Tuberculosis Exhibit Considered for City Move
Dr Alfred Meyer chair of the State Tuberculosis Committee plans to move the tuberculosis exhibition, part of the International Tuberculosis Congress now ending in Washington, to this city. He seeks support and will present the proposal to the executive officers of the Charity Organization Society this week.
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Alfred Meyer
Washington
Carriage Show Opens with Broad Auto Exhibits
The fifteenth annual carriage trade exhibition opened at Grand Central Palace with over forty carriage and wagon makers and twenty four motor car manufacturers. The event runs as a trade affair accompanying the nineteenth annual convention of the National Carriage Dealers Protective Association. Notable exhibitors include Ford Motor Company, Goodyear, Diamond Rubber, Timken, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Union Rubber Works, and many regional manufacturers across Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Illinois.
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Grand Central Palace
National Carriage Dealers’ Protective Association
Anderson Carriage Manufacturing Company
Anderson,Ind
the Autocar Company
Ardmore
Penn
the Bartholomew Company
Peoria
Brush Runabout Company
Detroit
Indianapolis
Ind
R. M. Owen & Co
Lansing
Mich
WW. A. Paterson_ Company
Flint
Pennsylvania Auto Motor Company
Bryn Mawr
Reliable Dayton Motorcar Company
Chicago, Ill
Schacht Manufacturing Company
Cincinnati
Ohio
Sprague Umbrella Company
Norwalk
Swinehart Clincher Tire and Rubber Company
Akron
Consolidated Rubber Tire Company
New York
N. Y
Diamond Rubber Company
Sheriffs Oversee Belmont Park Fall Race Meeting
The Belmont Park Fall race meeting opened with Queens Sheriff Harvey and Nassau Sheriff Foster enforcing the anti betting law. Harvey patrols a track corner while Foster covers the grandstand and clubhouse. Police Inspector Flood leads detectives on special duty as Westchester Racing Association disclaims responsibility for crowd management. No arrests were made. betting exchanges and recording were prohibited.
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Belmont Park
Queens
Nassau
Sheriff Harvey
Sheriff Foster
Flood
City Ee
Long Island
Westchester Racing Association
Freeholder George F. Wilson Killed Crossing Trolley Track
George F. Wilson a 55 year old freeholder of 262 Kearny Avenue Kearny New Jersey was fatally struck by a trolley car on the eastbound track near Marcy Avenue Jersey City and the Hackensack River at 12 30 A M yesterday Motorman Henry R Wickel and conductor William A Dean were arrested on manslaughter charges but paroled Police suspect robbery or assault as Wilson left home with $35 and a gold watch which were not found in his pockets after the incident.
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George F. Wilson
Kearny Avenue
Kearny
N. J
Marcy Avenue
Jersey City
Hackensack River
Henry R. Wickel
Wilson
Wickel
William A. Dean
Ralph Young
G. A. R. Seeks State Pensions Legislation
New York State Grand Army of the Republic members plan to push a state pension law. A committee led by State Department Commander W. H. Daniels met in Albany and formed a sub committee of William A. Boyd Henry Knapp and Lewis E Griffith to draft a bill for post consideration.
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Albany
N. Y
New York State
Grand Army of the Republic
State Department
W. H. Daniels
William A. Boyd
Henry Knapp
New York
Lewis E. Griffith
Troy
LID LIFTS AT ATLANTIC CITY
In Atlantic City the Good Citizenship League pressed raids, prompting half a dozen warrants for saloon violations. Agents targeted wards citywide to show violations were widespread and not isolated. J Mason, gathering evidence, was assaulted at James Sullivan’s saloon.
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New York Times
Atlantic City
N. J
J. Mason
James Sullivan
Poggi Pleads Guilty Fearing Gang Retribution
Louis Poggi, a 19 year old Brookyn clerk, pleads guilty to one count of manslaughter for the May pistol battle that killed Kid Twist and Cyclone Lewis at Coney Island. Prosecutors and his lawyer say he faced murder threats from the Bowery gang leaders and will be sent to Elmira for at least a year to avoid retaliation.
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Kid” Twist
Kid
Poggi
Bennett
East Side
Twist
Jerome
New York
Reardon
Richard Fitzpatrick
Thomas’ Fitzpatrick
The
Mr.Bennett
Coney Island
Lewis
Runners discharged after street display of scant athletic gear
Six members of the Trinity Athletic Club of Brooklyn were arrested while running along the Ocean Parkway in running apparel shocking two local women. Magistrate Steers discharged them, noting some women are sensitive to such outfits and directing them to run where women won’t see them. Harvey Cohn, an Olympic runner, cited torn up athletic fields on the highway as reason for street running.
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Trinity Athletic Club
Brooklyn
Steers
Flatbush Court
Harvey Cohn
Cohn
Matrate Steers
G'S Highway
Stucken with Apoplexy as He Regis tered
Joseph Mitchel of 447 West 162nd Street father of Commissioner of Accounts John Irroy Mitchel, who is probing the Bureau scandal, suffered a stroke while trying to register at a cigar store on Amsterdam Avenue. He swayed and was supported by bystanders before a balance was sent from Shineton Heights Hospital. Dr. Lewis attended and reported his condition favorable later.
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Seph Mitchel
West 162d Street
John Irroy Mitchel
Case
Amsterdam Avenue
Shineton Heights Hospital
Lewis
City budget hearings reveal demand for staff and raises
Jerome pressures for more deputies and six new staff as Board of Estimate reviews education and city needs. Officials seek higher appropriations for the Public Library and Sheriff Foley while Controller Metz criticizes extravagance at a City budget exhibit. Seligman of Columbia calls for citizen watchfulness.
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Board of Estimate
Board of Education
Winthrop
Maxwell
Finley
Jerome
Commissioners of Accounts
City Record
Public Library
Foley
Controller Metz
City Investing
Broadway
Metz
Prof. Seligman
Columbia
Dynamite Rumor Hits Public School 6 Neighborhood
West Ferms parents fearfully discuss a rumor that dynamite and wiring were found in the foundation wall of Public School 6 at Tremont and Bryant last Friday night. Tremont police alerted the Bureau of Combustibles and the Board of Education, with a patrol on duty since. Janitor Frank M. Commer is named. Tremont Lt Powers suggested the charge might have dated from the wall’s ten year construction by the contractor. About 1,500 pupils attend, and Principal Plotwden Steven Jr. resides at 2126 Washington Argénue.
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West Ferms
Public School 6
Tremont and
Bryant Avenues
Tremont
Breau
Board of Education
Frank M. Commer
Powers
Tremont Avenue
Plotwden Steven, Jr
Washington Argénue
Old Firemen Parade Heads Toward Hartford Bridge Celebration
About 300 veterans, nicknamed Vamps, visited the Mayor as they hauled the old machine. A band played as 3,000 spectators watched outside the police precinct. Foreman Peter Hicket pinned a badge on the Mayor after his speech. The firemen headed to Hartford to take part in the opening of a new Connecticut River bridge.
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Peter Hicket
Hartford
Conn
Connecticut River
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