Patterson book a literary topsy a socialist author speaks
Joseph Medill Patterson explains he wrote A Little Brother of the Rich without a clear aim or moral. He discusses New York as backdrop, his socialist leanings, and observations on trusts and public ownership. He plans to dramatize the work under Liebler & Co and notes his Yale and Chicago roots.
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Joseph Medill Patterson
Mr. Patterson
New York
Yale
Patterson
Robert W. Patterson
The
Chicago Tribune
Joseph Medill
Seville
Chicago
Liebler& Co
Express Office
Manila
Trusts
New Jersey
Nevr
London
Liverpool
Paris
Havre
Debs
New Deaf Mutes School Opens in New York City
The New York City Board of Education will open the first dedicated school for deaf mutes on September 14 at 225 East Twenty third Street. Principal Miss Margaret A Reagan will lead 25 teachers and 25 classes to educate children from all five boroughs. Accommodations are for 250 pupils though an estimated 1,660 need instruction. Registration days are September 9 to 11.
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New York
East Twenty-third Street
Stuyvesant High School
Margaret A. Reagan
Boston
Philadelphia
Northampton
Mass
Middle West
Five Boroughs
Board of Education
Bankruptcy filed against Bertha Unger cigar maker
A petition in bankruptcy is filed against Bertha Unger a cigar manufacturer and tobacco dealer at 1109 Second Avenue by Goldfogle Cohn Lind for creditors Heyman Hollaender 391 Joseph Heller 260 and Max J Bloom 275. It alleges insolvency and preferential payments of 1000 and names Harry Osterman as receiver. The petition claims ownership by Bertha Unger masking a husband Benjamin Unger run business with stock disappearing and liabilities 4768 assets 455. The store has operated under B Unger name for ten years.
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Bertha Unger
Second Avenue
Goldfogle, Cohn & Lind
Heyman & Hollaender
Joseph Heller
Max J. Bloom
Adams
Harry Osterman
Morris Hollaender
Highwayman a Jester
Forest Stephens of Wilkes-Barre recounts a Yellowstone Park coach robbery two weeks earlier. He describes the masked highwayman with a Martin rifle who looted eight coaches, collected valuables, and warned travelers under threat. Stephens details his own close call and a lighthearted remark about candy from a child passenger.
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New York Times
Wilkesbarre
Penn
Forest Stephens
Yellowstone Park
Old Faithful Inn
P. H. Gaskin
Orlando
Fla
University of Virginia
Explosion Sinks City Island Launch Dixie After Naphtha Blast
Mrs. August Rich, a coal dock operator at City Island, quickly freed the launch painter and, jumping to a tender boat, rescued four men from a blazing 30 foot launch named Dixie before it sank in Pelham Bay. The vessel valued at 700 dollars.
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August Rich
Centre Street
City Island
Pelham Bay
Dixie
Theodore Kausen
Jennings Street
Bronx
Honest police win praise from Mrs Guttman over jewel recovery
Mrs. Joseph Guttman of 823 West End Avenue praised New York police honesty after a necklace and emerald pendant were recovered. Patrolman Jeremiah Sullivan found the jewelry at Columbus Avenue and 101st Street and returned it to the West 100th Street Station. She offered a twenty dollar tribute, but the lieutenant explained police rules prevent gifts.
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Joseph Guttman
West End Avenue
New York
Sullivan
Mrs. Guttman
Murder witness Eddy vanishes amid homicide case inquiry
James Eddy of Milwaukee reports his son Rarpn Ww Eddy disappeared between July 5 and July 10 while due to testify in the Ernest Nygren assault and death case. Eddy, linked to the Gas House Gang indictment of William Manley and Daniel Sullivan, had not appeared for the July 10 trial date.
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James Eddy
Milwaukee
Rarpn Ww
Eddy
West Sixtieth Street
Ernest Nygren
Third Avenue
Bellevue Hospital
William Manley
Daniel Sullivan
Missng
Three Liners Meet Heavy Gales at Sea
Transatlantic liners Umbria Lucania and New York report rough early September Atlantic weather. Seas broke over bows with one ship seeing two broken ports. Seventeen Tennessee women aboard New York were sea wetted. one priest from Sioux City died at sea and was buried. Passengers include Vera Michelena and Rag. Lucania lists several passengers. New York logs many notable names and a Paris dog on board.
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Umbria
Lucania
Liverpool
New York
Southampton
Etruria
Mersey
Tennessee
J. R. Dailey
Sioux City
Arthur Desborough
British Explosives Commission
Ralph E. Prime
Gov. Hughes
Hughes
Keir Hardie Arrives in Town for Two City Speeches
James Keir Hardie British Labour MP from Merthyr Tydvil arrives from Albany and will speak in New York at St. Mark's Place this afternoon and in Brooklyn tonight. He travels via Canada and plans to study U S campaign methods for a labor publication in Great Britain. He is credited as a bold parliamentary reformer and critic of Boer War policy.
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James Keir Hardie
Merthyr- Tydvil
House of Commons
Albany
St. Mark's Place
Brooklyn
Robert Hunter
Noroton
Conn
Hardie
Canada
Merthyr Tydwil
Warns Against School Overwork and German Forcing System
A writer in American Medicine condemns overwork in schools and attacks German methods. He cites Eulenberg’s studies linking child suicide to overwork, laments increased German influence, and urges reform of school boards and public duties of physicians to prevent harm to children.
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Germany
Eulenberg
Mason 107 Celebrates Birthday in New Hampshire
Mason James Bellows McGregor aged 107 in Mount Sunapee New Hampshire celebrates his birthday with many congratulatory messages. Mount Vernon Lodge of Masons, of which he is a member, called in a body to honor him. He reads ordinary print and remains hale and hearty.
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Mount Sunapee
N.H
James Bellows McGregor
Mount Vernon
Women Beat Man in Street Over Alleged Kidnapping Attempt
Joseph King of 222 West 146th Street was set upon by a crowd of women in front of 2,686 Eighth Avenue after being accused of attempting to mistreat eight year old Elmer Brood, daughter of Mrs. Annie Blood. Reserves from West 125th Street Station rescued him as a large crowd tore at his clothing. King was held for trial in Harlem Court in default of $1,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph King
West 146Th Street
Eighth Avenue
Elmer Brood
Annie Blood
West 125Th Street
King
Maury Kennedy
McGough
Harlem
Mellen Line Permit Hearing Set On Overhead Trolley Plan
A City Record notice announces a September 11 public hearing before the Board of Estimate on the New York, Westchester & Eastern Railway Company plan to string an overhead trolley for train operation and to extend construction deadlines to August 2, 1911 north of 174th Street and August 2, 1913 for the remainder to the Harlem River. The system is described as similar to the New Haven’s main lines south of Stamford, per President Mellen’s testimony before the Public Service Commission.
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Board of Estimate
New York, Westchester & Easter Railway Company
174Th Street
Starlem River
Mellen
New Haven
Public Service Commission
Stamford
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James Watson
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Charles S. Boyer
Isabel Chantry
H. B. Harper
Edward Jionel ‘Hasler
J. C. Hutcheson
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Edward H. Tutus
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Belgium
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Orrin Peck
George A. Tripp
Jane F. Holly
M. S. Kakels
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