Autoworld Gifts Tarnish Brown Partners Bankrupt Firm
In A. O. Brown & Co. bankruptcy proceedings it emerges that while the firm borrowed large sums from Minnie I. Young, widow of partner A. O. Brown, the executives gave away automobiles to Edna Wallace Hopper and George R. Hunt Jr. October 1906.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stock Exchange
A. O. Brown & Co
Minnie I. Young
A. O. Brown
Edward F. Buchanan
Brown
Edna Wallace Hopper
Buchanan
George R. Hunt, Jr
Hunt
Littlefield
Miss Hopper
Seeking McIntyre assets in creditors examination
Peter E. Martin of Albany, a preferred creditor of the defunct T. A. McIntyre & Co., appeared for examination before Referee Peter B. Olney at 68 William Street. He lacked counsel and asked if his attorney should attend. creditors Dr. Charles G. Wagner, E. C. Bradley, and John E. Liood testified, each owed only a few thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter E. Martin
Albany
T. A. McIntyre & Co
Peter B. Olney
William Street
Martin
Irving L. Ernst
Clarence Newman
Newman
Colonel Stewart Returns to Washington to Face Board
Col William F Stewart arrives in Washington to appear before the retirement board after an Arizona test reported him unfit for a ninety mile ride. His fate depends on the board's findings. possible outcomes include restoration to duty with pay, retirement with three quarters pay, or retirement with one year’s pay if the disability is not service related.
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New York Times
Washington
William F. Stewart
Fort Grant
Arizona
Tombstone
Col. Stewart
Charles Stewart
San Francisco
Army
Department
Stewart
Arizona Desert
Magistrate Butts Defies Board Over Summons Powers
Stormy board meeting reports Magistrate Butts refusing to issue summonses in police courts and declaring he will not recognize any summons from other judges. President Barlow, Magistrate Cornell, and others challenge him as the bench debates legality, curtesy, and the duty to bring cases before the court. The dispute ends with Butts remaining obstinate after hours of discussion.
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Butts
Board of Magistrates
Barlow
Cornell
Crane
Sing Sing
Corrigan
District Attorney’s Office
Bulis
Kernochan
Bisphams Reach Custody Settlement After Court Carriage
In Philadelphia on September 28, David Bispham and wife Caroline Bispham settled custody of their children without a hearing. Judge Auden ruled that Mrs. Bispham would have the children during half of the Christmas and Easter holidays and four weeks of summer, building on a prior 1905 decree limiting summer custody. The family attended court together as lawyers requested a postponement while the parties settled.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
David Bispham
Caroline R. Bispham
Audenried
Despondent servant takes ninety nine strychnine pills
Sarah Schmidt aged 25, a servant in the Colonial Studio Building at 39 West Sixty-seventh Street, killed herself by swallowing 99 strychnine tablets after learning of her stepfather’s death. Coroner reports she had recently lost her own baby and had moved through employment with Mrs. B W Babcock and Miss Harriet Philips.
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Sarah Schmidt
Harriet Philips
West Sixty-seventh Street
George F. Schrady
New York
Pennsylvania
Blackwell's Island
Metropolitan Hospital
Schmidt
B. W. Babcock
Onoto Watama
Classified streetwise bets and small stakes list
A fragmented listing shows times and locations on Nassau Street and multiple Manhattan addresses with names like Holler Lisnoff Aldenberg Brown Weininson Deutsch Stulzkin and others. Stakes range from $1.50 to $1,000 with observers at 55 8:10 to 5:10 PM and street addresses on Houston, Broome, Ludlow and Division Streets.
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A. M
Nassau St
N. Y. Sun
4Th St
Francis S. Holler
Broome St
Harry. Lisnoff
E. Houston St
Norfolk St
Morris Weinhaus
Policeman Intervenes After Bigamist Falls From Window
Patrolman Greber of West 126th Street Station went to a fourth floor flat at 169 after Mrs. Bertha Von Der Schulenberg begged arrest for her husband George, a druggist. A quarrel with a boarder ended with Von Der Schulenberg leaping through an air shaft window. He was found in the back room. Dr. Herrity said the injuries included a broken thigh internal injuries and a skull fracture. he may die.
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Greber
West 126Th Street
128Th Street
Bertha von Der-Schulenberg
George
von der Schulenberg
Herrity
Harlem
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Portrait Sells For Sixteen Dollars
The Evelyn Nesbit Thaw portrait by Harrington Mann, linked to Stanford White, was auctioned by Sheriff Foley’s order at the County Court House. Joseph P. Day faced a crowd of about 200 as the painting failed to fetch high bids, eventually selling to Mrs. Elise Hartung for sixteen dollars after a judgment of two hundred fifty three dollars.
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Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Harrington Mann
Paris
Stanford White
White
Angel Child
Joseph P. Day
County Court House
Foley
Day
Elise Hartung
Thaw
Prize Offered for Gliding Contest at Morris Park
Octave Chanute has offered a prize to the American Aeronautic Society for a gliding competition to be held within two months at Morris Park race track. The event may open during an aeronautic carnival on the grounds, with a catapult ready for experiments. Chanute favors the flattest glide as the measure of efficiency, based on the relation of vertical fall to horizontal glide.
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Octave Chanute
American Aeronautic Society
Morris Park
Transfer of Kings County Police To Aqueduct Track
Kings County police and detectives moved with the transfer of racing from Gravesend to the Aqueduct track in Queens. District Attorney Darrin and Sheriff Harvey observed the opening day but no arrests were made as weather kept patronage low and officers focused on crowd control and breaking up large groups.
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Kings County
Aqueduct Track
Queens County
Gravesend
Jockey Club
Queens
Darrin
Harvey
Bischoff
Gaynor
Man of 70 Shoots Himself in West Forty-ninth Street Home
Adolph Artz, 70, died after a self-inflicted gunshot wound following long illness and his wife's death. A Stryker's Farm survivor, he had owned a Fiftieth Street saloon for twenty years before retiring twenty years ago and buying his current home. his death occurred at Roosevelt Hospital.
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Adolph Artz
West Forty-ninth Street
Roosevelt Hospital
Stryker
Artz
Fiftieth Street
Ninth and
Tenth Avenues
Regent Hotel Receiver Attack Clarified By Owner
Thomas Healy, head of the Sherman Square Hotel realty group, says his hotel was not in receiver hands and that the Regent Hotel on Amsterdam Avenue is the property under receivership. Healy explains Sherman Square was the operating entity before reopening and seeks correction for readers.
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Sherman Square Hotel Company
Regent
Seventieth Street
Amsterdam Avenue
Thomas Healy
Sherman Square
Seventy-first Street
Broadway
Times
Sherman Square Hotel
Roosevelt Aids Lee Memorial Fund
Vicksburg Mississippi September 28 President Roosevelt sent a fifty dollar check to the fund for the ten thousand dollar Stephen D Lee memorial. Secretary of War Wright and General G M Dodge also contributed fifty dollars each into the memorial drive.
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Roosevelt Aids Lee
Vicksburg
Miss
Roosevelt
Stephen D. Lee
War Wright
Gen. G. M. Dodge
Business Women Organization Forms in New York
Saxby V. Penfold leads a meeting at the Hotel Martha Washington to launch the International Federation of Business Women. The group plans a $20,000 clubhouse and aims to operate as an employment bureau with capital stock and a magazine The Business Woman. Inspections are provided by two male appointees, William H. Leeds and Arthur Ware.
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International Federation of Business Women
Martha Washington
Fast Twenty-ninth Street
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan R. Anthony
Carrie Chapman Catt
Saxby V. Penfold
William Urey Park
Penfold
Park
Mr. Penfold
Federation
TIMES
Business Woman's Exchange
Fifth Avenue
Mr. Penfeld
Wall Street
Saxby V. Penfeld
Albany
Fenfeld
Saxby V. Pen‘fold
Margaret Smith
William Key Park
L. V. Wheeler
L. S. Bardwell
Lulu N.esmond
Elizabeth Palmer
Mary B. Cleveland
Anne A. F. Craig
E. D. Mills
Jane Clarke Owen
Marcella A. Tennyson
Jean Norton
James H. Dixon
George W. Conklin
Frank Blake
William H. Leeds
Arthur Ware
Widow Mary Sample Entangled in Brooklyn Blackmail Case
The 64 year old widow was attacked at her 577 Franklin Avenue apartment in Brooklyn on Sunday. Police suspect links to a pending Gates Avenue Court conspiracy case in which she is the complainant. She reportedly paid 1000 dollars after threats to spread rumors. Her injuries from the acid attack remain painful but not as serious as initial reports.
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Mary Sample
Franklin Avenue
Brooklyn
Grand Avenue
Zimmerman
Gates Avenue Court
Sample
No Change in Fleet Plans Despite Manila Cholera
Washington Sept 28 The Navy Department says there will be no change to the battleship fleet itinerary despite cholera in Manila. Gov Gen Smith reports the epidemic under control and likely elimination before the fleet reaches Cavite. The governor orders postponement of public receptions until November and Admiral Sperry will deny shore liberty during the Cavite visit.
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New York Times
Washington
Manila
Navy Department
Metcalf
Gen. Smith
Cavite
Yokohama
Amoy
Admiral Sperry
Zamboanga Station Reports Wireless Calls From Connecticut
Manila dispatch says Zamboanga station received wireless calls from the flagship Connecticut last night but could not establish two way communication. Early fleet contact expected. Manila had no direct link to the Atlantic battleship fleet up to 8 this morning and does not know its exact location.
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Manila
Zamboanga
Connecticut
Two Wives to Be Deported For Polygamy Case
San Francisco Sept 28 Robert Hu Tung Bosmen a Hongkong millionaire with two wives and three children who arrived on the Korea was ordered deported by a special board of inquiry. He may appeal to Secretary Straus in Washington stating he sees no harm in polygamy. His father is Dutch and his mother Chinese, and he is described as a prominent Hongkong citizen.
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San Francisco
Robert Hu Tung Bosmen
Hongkong
Orient
Korea
Bosman
Straus
Washington
Tiis
Jis
Student dies from cane rush injury at WPI
Worcester Mass Sept 28 2mil KF Gran of West Wareham a student who suffered a back fracture in the annual sophomore freshman cane rush at Worcester Polytechnic Institute on Tuesday died at the city hospital today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester. Mass
Gran
West Wareham
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Whitney Companies
George S. Whitney
Pittsburg
L. G. Young
American Tobacco Company
Hanover National Bank
Whitman
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Hays
Buchaniaa
Edward Lauterbach
George W. Schurman
Mr. Lauterbach
Brown Firm
Mrs
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Annette Ehrens
Post
Postum Cereal Company, Limited
Battle Creek, Mich
McIntyre Assets
Rattlers
Monses
Bisphams
R Jacob
Evelyn Thaw
Mann
Prize For Aeronauts
Aqueduct
Queens Race Course
Man OF 70
Regent Hotel
70Th Street
Irtom
Carl Ae Altz
Ave - M-S
Hotel Martha
Washington Meeting
David Belasco
W. J. Hurlbut
Ashton
Stevens, Evening Journal
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To-mor'wees the Traveling Salesman
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Liberty
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Mr. Wer
Victor Herprert
Glen Macdonough
Academy OF Music
Irving Py
Klaw & Erlanger
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Flatiron
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North River
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Hermann Klik
Mme
Rosa Olitzka
George Hamlin
Julian Pascal
Olive Mead
Irving Place
Wallaee
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Aze
10Th St
Rabensteinerin
Peneun
SAVID
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Everett Plano
Yorkville
NEW Star
Ith St. & Lexington
Savoy Grand Opera Co
Lucia di Lammermoor
la Giisonea
Il Trovatore
Weber
WM. Hodge
Arnold Daly
MR. Daly
Mississippi
Harrison Rhodes
Thomas A. Wise
Fairbanks
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Alhambra
Ithe Country Club
Leo Sfurtichstein A& Co
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James K. Hackett
Zenda
Jammerstein
Boi
Naked Truth
E Te Soc
Nelson Picts
Pian Tn
Gan
Blaney 'S
W. Court Eh &Co
Jilian Rose
Incole
Daisy Wo Lloyd
Eugene L . Iy Rourke
Lupin
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Salome
Worl
Eden Musee
World In Wax
Gypsy Mastey Cinematograph
Hill Theatre
Mat
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Reeves
Snow
Worcester
Wallach
Eeeedake Lik
Troma
Eighth Av
St Av
Cor
W. 126Th St
At_Al Wallach
At Wallach Stores
Empire Sive
John Drew
Hudson
Pete Eit
Robert Edeson
Offenders
Lyceum
Billie Burke
Acres
Criterion
Herald
Hattie. Williams
Garrick
Lynas
Eve
Joseph Coyne
Alexandra Carlisle
May Irwin
Ades Jact Pleér
Savoy
Ars
Ballet OF
Birdland
Lyric Ee Peen Re
Lulu Glaser
Louise Gunning Daly
Maxine Seatre
Ine
Uagrge
Fze Elliott FE
Groiders Ets
Nange O
Geo. Cameron
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