Auto Struck Wagon Then Speeding Autoist Escapes
A surrey drawn by a horse carrying Ashton of Atlantic Highlands and his sister Edith Sickles and Miss Minnie Winters was struck by a high speed auto near Cooper's Bridge in Red Bank New Jersey. The three occupants were thrown into bushes but survived with bruises and scratches. Sickles likely internal injuries. The auto sped off after the crash.
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New York Times
Red Bank
N. J
Ashton
Atlantic Highlands
Mas
Cooper's Bridge
Edith Sickles
Minnie
Winters
Mr. Sickles
Surrey
Sickles
Campaigners to Storm City With Republican Meetings
The Republican County Committee plans a week of big rallies in the city led by President Parsons. Taft and Gov. Hughes head a Wednesday Madison Square Garden event with Lodge Knight Atwood Porter presiding. Fireworks music and torchlight parade will precede speeches by Root and other party leaders.
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Parsons
Republican County Committee
Taft
Gov. Hughes
Madison Square Garden
Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
Horace Porter
France
United States
Henry Cabot Lodge
George A. Knight
California
H. A. Atwood
Chicago
Bronx
Lower East Side
Secretary of State
Jha
Root
College
Carnegie Hall
Durland
Riding Academy
Ker
Orge B. Cortelyou
Easury
Charles J. Laparte
Dolliver
Iowa
William Alden Smith
Michiel
Gov. Fort
New Jersey
Horace S Ite
J. Francis Burke
Pennsylvania
Ministers Press for Hughes Re election Victory
Brooklyn ministers urged Governor Hughes to seek re election in sermons at the Baptist Temple and Tompkins Avenue Church. Dr Cortland Myers blasted gamblers racing men and the Personal Liberty League in a sermon titled The Enemies of the State. Dr Nacy McGee Waters spoke on The New Day in Politics about empowering people to regulate corporate power and labor.
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Brooklyn
Hughes
Cortland Myers
The
Baptist Temple
Nacy McGee Waters
Tompkins ‘Avenue Congregational Church
Myers
Personal Liberty League
Fight Trust alleged as boxing clubs defy city orders
Saturday night saw Dry Dock Clinton and Terminal Athletic clubs continue matches despite Commissioner Bingham’s order to halt prizefights. Rumors say a Fight Trust, linked to Tammany, controls NYC clubs including National Athletic known as the plush-lined Livery Stable Boxing Association. Spectators, police, and crowds, with hundreds attending bouts, signal broad reach across boroughs.
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Bingham
Dry Dock Athletic Club
East Tenth Street
Clinton Athletic Club
Monroe Street
Terminal Athletic Club
Brooklyn
New York City
Princess Athletic Club
Broadway
Twenty-ninth Street
Supt. Murphy
National Athletic Club
East Twenty-fourth Street
Livery Stable Boxing Association
The
Trust
Sullivans
Tammany
Kid McCoy
Jim Stewart
Fairmont Athletic Club
East 137Th Street
Leach Cross
New York
Packey McFarland
Chicago
Nation 11 Athletic Club
Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien
Sam Langford
Boston
Uniform Freight Rates Debate At Railway Commissioners Meeting
Washington report on the National Association of Railway Commissioners annual gathering with 30 members from about 20 states. Highlights include a moderate push for uniform freight rate classification and rules on demurrage, car service, and car utilization, plus discussions on labor mediation, safe transport of explosives, and improving car distribution amid evolving transportation capacity.
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Washington
National Association of Railway Commissioners
O. P. Gothlin
Ohio
Franklin K. Lane
J. Lane
Lane
Knapp
C. B. Dudley
Bureau For the Safe Transportation of
Hale
Committee On
Drought ends in parts of state as rains aid forests
In Philadelphia on October 25 the drought breaks in some areas with showers continuing for about a day. The rain does not raise streams significantly but helps curb the central state forest fires that had raged across the region.
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Philadelphia
The Thirteenth Annual Financial Review of The New York Times
The Thirteenth Edition will be published January 10 1909 with expert finance and commerce contributions and extensive statistical tables on stocks bonds money cotton coffee grain iron steel and cecal Special letters from across the United States. The review claims superiority and wide circulation among bankers brokers financiers and investors. It notes 1908 advertising exceeded 15000 lines and warns that The New York Times bans objectionable announcements to preserve ad value with space reservations set at 40 cents per agate line.
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Annual Financial Review of the
New York Times
United States
Financial Review
The
E Review
Books Packed for New Library Opening in 18 Months
Nearly 70,000 volumes are packed at the Astor Library for transfer to the new public library at Fifth Avenue and Forty second Street. The Astor and Lenox buildings will be sold or repurposed once the new library opens, with inspections and shifting of medical and legal works to Lenox for easier access.
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John Shaw
Billings
Astor Library
Fifth Avenue
Messrs. Carrére & Hastings
Oet
New York
Lenox
Buthcing
Seventieth
Seventy-first Streets
Lafayette Street
Astor
Cotton Exports Surge From Savannah To New England
Over the last three weeks three Savannah Line steamers City of Macon City of Memphis and City of Columbus have carried more than 100000 bales of cotton to Boston New England orders exceed prior demand as Massachusetts mills regain activity after lay offs while the coasting ships resume freight and passenger service from Savannah.
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New England
Savannah
Boston
Massachusetts
City of Macon
City of
Memphis
City of Columbus
Savannah Line
Signa l Association Annual Meeting at Wil lard Hotel
The Railway Signal Association holds its annual meeting at the Willard Hotel in Washington D C this week. Sessions cover electric interlocking signaling practice automatic block signals and related topics with officers A H Rudd and C C Rosenberg listed and F P Patenall as chairman of arrangements.
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Railway Signal Association
Willard Hotel
Washington
D. C
A. H. Rudd
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia
C. C. Rosenberg
Bethlehem
Penn
F. P. Patenall
Oygine & Ohio Railroad
Baltimroe
25 Hurt in Street Fight Riots After Arrest
In St Louis on October 25 a riot in the Greek colony at Second and Plum Streets left twenty five civilians and two policemen injured. Officers fired into the crowd as protesters demanded the release of the prisoner William Sarkis. Reinforcements arrived and dispersed the rioters with a dozen Greeks arrested.
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ST. Louis
William Sarkis
Second
Plum Streets
Econ
Carnegie Gift Promises Clubhouse and Field for Carnegie Tech
Andrew Carnegie will donate a fine clubhouse and a large athletic field to Carnegie Tech in Pittsburg. He agreed to allow the Pittsburg Ball Club to purchase the grounds, which the Tech now uses as a playground, once crowding concerns were resolved.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Tech
Tech
Carnegie
Pittsburg Ball Club
Deed Recorded in Jersey City Conveying Meadow Land
A deed recorded in Jersey City transfers 3,377 acres of meadow land from Charles M. Vreeland to John H. Kelly. The sale satisfies Kelly’s mortgage claims against the Hackensack Meadows Company to the New Jersey Terminal Dock Improvement Company totaling $129,383 and $142,529 due for reclaiming the meadows.
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Register
Jersey City
Charles M. Vreeland
John H. Kelly
Hackensack Meadows Company
Kelly
New Jersey Terminal Dock Improvement Company
M Ows
Mr. Kelly
Fires Report Yesterday’s Losses At Numerous Addresses
Daily log records a series of trifling fires causing small losses across New York addresses including 816 East 126th Street J Krog 2006 Amsterdam Avenue J Martin 203 East 42nd Street Charles Howard 810 East 101st Street J Miller and others. Several incidents list unknown owners with minor property damage totaling around ten dollars at various locations.
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A.M
East 126Th St
John Krog
Amsterdam Av
J. Martin
East 42d St
Charles Howard
Monorail Plan for City Island Faces PSC Decision
The Public Service Commission will decide soon if Interborough Rapid Transit can switch City Island line power to electricity, paving the way for a planned monorail. Proponents say the Tunis American monorail car could reach eighty miles per hour safely, with reduced oscillation, and construction could start within weeks if approved. John H. Stalin of Mono Road Construction lauds electrified monorail potential and expects New York to embrace speed and economy.
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Public Service Commission
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
City Island
Tunis
Howard H. Tunis
Baltimore
John H. Stalin
The
Rapid Transit Commission
Monoroad Construction Company
New York
Burrows
New Haven Overhead Line Gets Wire Adjustment
The New York New Haven Hartford railroad changes contact wire hangings on electrified sections. The double catenary system proved too rigid, so an additional wire is strung just below the old contact wire. The sliding trolley now touches the new wire, cushioning impacts and improving transmission.
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New York, New Haven & Hartford
Wiore Wakefield Junction
Stamford
Hitchcock Leaves Chicago for New York Rally
Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock of the Republican National Committee heads to New York after talks with GOP leaders. He expressed confidence in Taft's election and optimism about prospects in doubtful states.
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Chicago
Get
Frank H. Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
New York
Rushcock
Taft
Matty the Diamond Player Turns Insurance Man
The piece notes Matty, formerly of the baseball diamond, now writing insurance and described as deadly in his new business. It recounts an incident at the Post Office Money Order Department where a magazine editor left his fountain pen and later found a finder’s card.
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Matty
Post Office
Matty’s Offer to Editor Sparks Insurance Hint
In a brief exchange, Christy Mathewson mused about visiting the editor at 140 Nassau to offer “a little something in the insurance way” after the editor’s farewell. The remark followed the editor’s return of a pen and thanks as Mathewson, an ex-hero of the diamond, departed.
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Matty
the Diamond
Nassau
Torpedo gun proves effective in Narragansett Bay tests
The Whitehead torpedo now bought by the U S Navy is tested in Narragansett Bay at forty knots. Inventor Lieut Commander Cleland Davis describes a torpedo gun device combining gun and projectile with a two stage action for immediate obstruction breaching and delayed explosive torpedo detonation.
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New York Times
Newport
R. I
United States Navy
Narragansett Bay
Cleland Davis
Ordnance Bureau
Navy Department
Washington
Newark Campaign Ends in Mud Slinging and Backer Power
In Newark the campaign shifts from attacks to restrained rhetoric after the death of Judge Howell. Candidates face backers demanding focus on real issues as private lives surface. Incidents include a backer criticizing a rival who was later revealed as his brother in law and a ward noting betraying ads behind a local project.
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Newark
Reho
Howell
Harrigan
Charles M. Mason
Haussling
Thomas Henry
Mason
William Fellow¢s Morgan
Moran
Anmateur Sporting Association
E Si
Six men in New Jersey boats rescue crew near Rum Point
A grounded launch Eva and six men were rescued by the Germantown life saving crew after signaling distress near Rum Point in a bar off Atlantic City. The report also notes blue laws enforcement in Millville and multiple local incidents including a shooting in Newton and a trolley collision in Hackensack.
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Tlantic City
Rum Point
Germent
Millville Esterday
Martin Hughey
Newton
Hardy
Hughey
Faily
Rollie Kademba
Old Tappan Borough
Hackensack
Ebbighausen
John Brady
Beach Range Memorial Street
Orange
Theospital
Radley
Otto CG. Wiemm
Montclair
Enry V. Crawford
Montlair
Club Hall
Rawford
Riggs
Willia
P. Richards
Max Maschier
Flushing
L. I
Jersey City
Montgomery Street
Outlook in Chile Sees Growth Amid Trade Expansion
Consul Alfred A Winslow from Valparaiso notes renewed business life in Chile as commerce grows, railways expand, and harbor facilities improve. 1907 imports reach about £18 million, with US supplying most farming and light machinery while Britain ships heavy equipment. American goods win favor as imports surge, signaling a strong commercial future despite financial clouds.
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Alfred A Winslow
Valparaiso
Chile
Willdersto
United States
Great Britain
Unitates
England
United
Hile
City Briefs Highlight Raids and City Talks
William Eulliam arrives aboard the Cherokee from Santo Domingo after raids by Inspector Max Steintruck and Captain Tom Murphy yield no evidence. Speakers Henry Morgerthau Charles I Lamb and Benjamin Marsh address the Budget Exhibit at noon on City Planning. Mrs Madaline Utel, 335 East 148th Street, struck by a taxi near Third Avenue and 144th Street with possible skull fracture. taken to Lincoln Hospital. Nyx McCain delivers illustrated Rome lecture at Carnegie Hall to a large crowd.
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William Eulliam
Santo Domingo
Lyde
Cherokee
Santo Do
Max = Steintruck
Thomas .Murphy
Tenderidin
Eir
Butts
Jefferso Market
Henry Morgerthau
Charles I. Lamb
Benjamin CC. Marsh
Board of
United States General Appraisers
United States
Madaline
Utel
East
148Th Street
Third Avenue
144Th Street
Lincoln
Hoshe
Pilal
Metalf
Kab Company
New York
Nyx McCain
Carnegie Hall
Rome
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Fauffeur
Bermons
Annual Financial Review
the New York Times
Fifth Avenue Building
Astor and Lenox Library
Struc
Tures
Signal Association Meeting
Hackensack Meadows
As. M
Eest 101St St
J. Miller
96Th St
Eses Cereste
Gansevoort St
M. Keih
East 103d
Wrated Brats
Pearl St
A. Edwards
Bathgate
J. Binheffer
L. McGovern
Lexington
A. L. Les
E. 57Th
Martin Littleton
Service Board
New Haven
Christy Mathewson
Davis
Cerin
Sible
Arnheim
G & 9Th St
Outlook
Lulu
St. Westof
Ats
Elec
St. Eve, Wie
Louise Gunning
Pipicks
Marcelle
Mary Widow's
Tribune
Ruth Wa
Jessie Daly
Fields’ Herald SC
Eck. Mats
William Faversham
Mats
Oppenheimer S
W. 57Th Street
West Sith St
America
Dept. of Agriculture
Tare Stirler
Varved
Vladimir F
New Amsterdam
Matso
Satie Abast
Shen
Eral Ino Klaw & Erlanger
Little Nemo
Victor Herbert
Rook
Harry R.smith
de Kover
GAIET
St & Bway
Eas Sale
Libert' Seack
Mat
Weil
Ee Lillian
Russell
Jon Sale
Frederic Thompson
Wireless
Empire Inc
John Drew
Jack
Straw
Criterion Suss
Pear& Mson
Gillette
A' Sernstein
SAVOY
the Servant
Electio Lyceum S
Billie Burkex
Tches
Toe
Knickerbocker
Girls of
Josepht Coyne
Alexandra Carlisle
May Irwin
Mrs.Peckham
Weber
Walla
Circle
MR. Louis
Bijou
Jay Mat
Ts. Wed & Sat
Coramefiving Ik
Marie Cahill
Issih
Academy
Mr. Thom
OF Music
Irvin Denman Thomeson
Flatiron
Chinatown
Bowery
Sering
NEW York Yacht
North River
Gramercy
Belasco George Arliss Stutvesant
Eatre
West
St. By
Zee
Devid Belasco
Blanche Bates
Fighting Hopr
Erman Theatre
oLied Wrep
Blaney Lincoln
Amelia Bingham
Fatima Mirts
Cliff Gordon
Lauder
Harry Lauder
Grace Hazard
If Others
Alhambra Freakan
Thea Ian
Perth
Carrie
Dd Mar
Winsor McCay
Colonial
Daly 4 Co
Ber
Carin
Otto Harey
Tighe On
Edwin Stevens
Savage
Ivancing
Ammerstein
Mabel Hite
Mike Dontelin
Charla Case
Geo. B. Reno Co
Countess Rossi
Daisy
Eden World
MUSEF
Maneek Shah Hindoo
Olympic
Murray Hill Theatre
Jersey
St. Mat
Harry Bryant
Gane Mabel In
Polly x2
Taliaferro Circus
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