Wife's Strange Death Shocks Peekskill Family
After the funeral of Florence Pinkerton Ryan in Peekskill, husband Frederick E. Ryan was detained by plainclothes police. Coroner and doctors found no disease, but lungs and heart showed signs of suffocation. A neighbor reported quarrelling sounds and a threat to kill, with signs the wife feared leaving town if she survived. autopsy noted no evident cause of death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick E. Ryan
Main Street
Peekskill
Ryan
Florence Pinkerton
Mount Vernon
Ossining
Lyon
Selleck
William Teets
Ryans
Teets
House Fire at Newark Double House Damages Minor
A late night arson attempt at a furnished room double house at Nos. % and Halsey street in Newark was discovered after flames reached four beds on the vacant second floor. Harry Dunbar, awake on the third floor, was arrested on suspicion as Mrs. Emma Dodge ran the house. Damage remained slight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halsey Street
Newark
Harry Dunbar
Dunbar
Emma Dodge
Farmers Union to Hold Cotton
President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton Association says the Farmers Union and the association have completed arrangements to handle the remnant of the 1807 cotton crop. Farmers Union cotton companies in Tennessee Arkansas Mississippi and Alabama have arranged with bankers to finance every base man in Farmers Union warehouses. Similar financing is being obtained for cotton held by Southern Cotton Association members through central headquarters state divisions and other points. Jordan stresses the need to cut cotton acreage to prevent a crisis next winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Harvie Jordan
Southern Cotton Association
Farmers’ Union
Tennessee
Arkansas
Mississippi
Alabama
Jordan
Work Stoppage Threat Over Pay Terms at Bradley Firm
Engineers, rock drillers, ironworkers and pipe calkers on the loop between Williamsburgh and Brooklyn bridges under Mott street threaten to strike this week over a contract with Bradley Construction Company. Union official Francis Creamer said weekly pay was promised but fortnightly pay is given, with overtime rate disputes. A union committee will meet Bradley representatives tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamsburg
Brooklyn
Mott Street
Bradley Construction Company
House Bharers and Movers
Francis Creamer
Geregate
Union Carpentry Strike Threat Over Yankee Grounds
A Brotherhood of Carpenters delegate to the Central Federated Union reported non union carpenters at the American League baseball grounds and urged union fans to boycott the venue until union labor is used. He said he ordered a strike after failing to identify the responsible party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brotherhood of Carpenters
Central Federated Union
Banke Crew Rescued From Ice Jam On Lake Erie
April 12 Dunkirk residents report the fishing tug Banke was trapped in an ice jam on Lake Erie. The crew, ashore today, described a wrecked wheel and a hole in the hull. Tugs Desmond and Viola remain stuck. relief parties delivered coal and raises hope of release if winds shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunkirk
Banke
Lake Erie
Hat Me
Ife
Desmond
Viola
Madman for Captain Survives Jammed Yacht Tragedy Story
Christopher A. Speer of Belle Harbor Yacht Club arrives home from Florida with details of a Florida Keys voyage. His son-in-law Captain Halfdan F. Lund died after a squall struck their sloop Granger off the Florida coast on March 23. Speer fought the sea all night, drifting until reaching New River Inlet and stumbling ashore in a wrecked condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerville
N. J
Christopher A. Speer
Belle Harbor
Vaw Granger
Lund
Atlantic
Florida Keys
Miami
Mr. Speer
Captain Lund
New River Innet
East Side Poor Fed distributes Passover rations to 2500 families
The East Side Business Men's Protective Association led a Passover food relief distributing a week's supplies to 2500 families at 416 Grand Street. Rations included matzoths, potatoes, sugar, tea, wine, apples, and eggs, with 1100 families aided on Saturday. Distribution was overseen by Isidore Richter and committee members including Big Tim Sullivan and Sheriff Tom Keley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Side
Grand Street
Richter
Samuel Wittenberg
Abraham Hochman
Nathan Greenberg
Moses Abrahams
Tim” Sullivan
Tom” Keley
John F. Ahearn
Charity Organization Society
A. P. Shalet
Tangled Over Bomb Preable At Union Square Protests
The Central Federated Union and Carpenters' Union No 208 debated a preamble and resolutions denouncing police actions at an unemployed demonstration in Union Square dated March 28. The documents claim police brutality and urge court action against perpetrators, but the federation repudiated any connection and referred the matter to its executive committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Square
Carpenters’ Union No. 208
Central Federated Union
Apartment House Owner Held After Bail for Janitor
Robert Lyons owner of an apartment house at 256 Riverside Drive was arrested at West 68th Street station while posting bail for William Huneke the janitor held on a disorderly conduct charge tied to a tenant John M Williams dispute over a water pipe. Lyons bailed out by his wife then aided Huneke. Williams alleges intrusion and disorderly behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Lyons
Riverside Drive
West 68Th Street
William Huneke
John M. Williams
Lyons
West Side
Brady
Williams
Postmaster Shot and Robbed in Sasafrass Cecil County
In Fikton Maryland on April 12 three masked burglars broke into the Sasafras post office and shot Postmaster Morris then beat him unconscious. They then forced his wife at gunpoint to surrender cash before escaping. stamps were stolen and the incident described as a brutal burglary and assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fikton
Morris
Sassafras
Cecilownts
Parlor Socialist Talk Promotes Democracy Over British Rule
In the Church of the Ascension parish house discussion on socialism the merits of British rule in India versus democracy in New Zealand dominated the exchange. Speakers cited India’s poverty, population growth, and taxation, while praising New Zealand’s universal suffrage and anti monopoly ideals, ending with a call for a spiritual evolution toward democracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
New Zealand
Church of the Ascension
7Th Street
Alexander
I. Irvine
Charles Johnston
India Civil Service
Mr. Johnston
Charles Edward Russell
Mr. Russell
Easter Hat Parade Fetes Surf Avenue Throngs at Coney Island
Fifty thousand people crowded Surf avenue and open attractions at Coney Island yesterday. Inspectors cite no trouble as Easter finery and the Merry Widow craze draw crowds. Steeplechase Park aims to open May 9 and Coney Island season follows. Jenkins Trust Company set to open Wednesday boosting local business in the coming weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surf Avenue
Coney Island
Inspector Harkins
Brooklyn
Steeplechase Park
Jenkins Trust Company
Eleven Injured in Trolley Crash Near Crownsville
Baltimore April 12 Eleven persons were injured in a head-on collision between two cars of the Washington Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway about a mile east of Crownsville eight miles from Annapolis. None seriously hurt though fronts were damaged. Motorman jumped in one car while the other stayed at post and is among the injured. Neither car left the track. Low speed prevented a worse disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railway
Crownsville
Annapolis
Detectives Stop Sunday Baseball in Staten Island
Six hundred baseball fans at Alaska Park in West Brighton watched a police action when inspectors halted the first game between the Alaska Baseball Club and the Dover Athletic Club of New Jersey after five innings. Four arrests followed, with William Langen and John Daley of Alaska and Cornelius Sullivan and Frank Sullivan of Dover placed in custody at West Brighton police headquarters after the game was stopped at the end of the fifth inning with Dover leading 1 to 0.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska Park
West Brighton
Staten Island
Alaska Baseball Club
Dover Athletic Club
New Jersey
Hogan
Alaska
William Langen
John Daley
Cornelius Sullivan
Frank Sullivan
Dovers
Runaway horse derails into store. man badly injured
Rafael Gorthnace, 34 East 8th street, faced a runaway horse and cab on 107th street near Second Avenue. He seized the reins, steered into a plate glass window at 485 East 197th Street, was thrown and suffered a fractured skull. Taken to Harlem Hospital in serious condition. driver Cornelius Woods arrested. The horse and cab belonged to Matthew Smith, 45 East Omh Street. boys throwing stones caused the incident.
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Rafael Gorthnace
8Th Street
107Th Street
Second Avenue
Mth Street
Sorthace
197Th Street
Harlem
Matthew Smith
East Omh Street
Cornelius Woods
Invention Makes X Ray Harmless At Cornell
Professor Albert C. Gersey of Cornell Medical College unveils the Cornell tube a lead glass device that prevents X ray burns by delivering rays only through a window pressed directly against the lesion with no air space. Demonstrations before physicians and medical societies followed by patient testimonies report no painful burns in fifty uses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornell
Albert C. Gersey
Cornell Medical College
Geyser
Cornell College
Drowned man from Watervliet after boat overturns
In Troy New York on April 12, David Labelle aged forty two of Watervliet drowned after stepping from a steam yacht into a rowboat which overturneds Labelle could not swim and perished while removing from winter quarters
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Troy, N
David Labelle
Watervilet
Labelle
Theatre Based Church Revival Sparks Federation Meeting
The New York Federation of Churches heard Rev Dr William Carter of Madison Avenue Reform Church describe his Sunday theatre meetings in Left. Attendees included Rev Dr Hoadley of Thirteenth Street Presbyterian and other city ministers. Carter urged an extended central movement, noting funding and theatre support, and Laidlaw planned federation report.
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Belasco Theatre
New York Federation of Churches
William Carter
Madison Avenue Reformed Church
James H. Hoadley
Thirteenth Street
Eighteenth Street
Walter Laidlaw
Federation
Carter
Laidlaw
Free Synagogue Holds First Annual Meeting and Anniversary
The Free Synagogue on List Street held its first annual meeting and anniversary celebration with addresses by Henry Morgenthau Adolph Lewisohn and Rabbi Stephen Wise. Rabbi Sydney E Goldstein and Eugene H Lehman spoke on the synagogue's work, finances, and social service, noting $12 000 spent last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Free Synagogue
List Street
Henry Morgenthau
Adolph Lewisohn
Stephen 8. Wise
Sydney E. Goldstein
Eugene H. Lehman
East Side
Wise
Dr. Wise
Palestine
Was Jesus a Socialist, says Calvary minister
Rev Dr Robert MacArthur told his current events class that Christ had no ideas on property ownership and viewed poverty as blessing, arguing Jesus was not a socialist in the modern sense. He traced socialism from ancient origins, discussed Marx, and endorsed Christian socialism as Christ’s true version. He criticized radical actions and bombs, distinguishing better-class socialists from anarchists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bible School of Calvary Baptist Church
Jesus
Robert 5. MacArthur
Greece
Karl Marx
Union Square
Robert Hunter
Hunter
Christ
Temple Cornerstone Laid by Harlem Hebrews
Fully two thousand Hebrews attended the laying of the cornerstone of the new temple of the Congregation Ansche Chesed on 114th street and Seventh Avenue and St Nicholas avenues. Isidor Straus officiated as prayer and the ceremony ended with a singing of America. The temple will cost a quarter of a million dollars, rise three stories, and occupy a 130 by lot brick building in a Colonial Renaissance style. Mayer Goodfriend welcomed the speaker N Taylor Phillips and noted Harlem's Hebrew population now about 150000.
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The
Congregation of Ansche
114Th Street
Seventh and
St. Nicholas Avenues
Seventh Avenue East Drive
Americe
Hebrew Orphan Asylum
Isidor Straus
Gustav N. Hausmann
Mayer Goodfriend
N. Taylor Phillips
Harlem
City figure denies race plotting crime link
Mr. Phillips rejected the claim that his race had made a larger share of the city’s criminals while approving the temple’s conservative stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillips
Temple
Priest After Riis Warns Catholics Against Settlement Houses
Father James B. Curry, rector of St. James's Church on James Street, urged parishioners to keep children away from Settlement houses, warning they may create paupers and grafters. He noted parish kids had visited such houses and questioned the authority and aims of the Settlement workers as he contrasted their charity claims with Catholic concerns. He criticized the muckraking portrayal of the area and challenged the workers to provide tangible proof of their social reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James B. Curry
St. James's
James Street
Jacob A. Riis
Henry Street
Father Curry
East Side
Charities
Richmond St. Island
Hariotte A. Waterbury
Martha Waton
Wan ¢ Ge Batch
Accessions At Central Presbyterian Brooklyn Church
At the communion service at Central Presbyterian Church Brooklyn Rev Dr J F Carson pastor 92 new members admitted yesterday morning Forty three by oath and forty nine by letter from other churches Bringing active membership to 2158 This does not include any branch or mission church members
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Central Presbyterian Church
Jefferson and Marcy Avenue
Brooklyn
J. F. Carson
Dowdney Clerk of Surrogate's Court Petitioners' Attorney Named
Jabish Holmes of 32 Liberty Street New York City appears as attorney for petitioners in the Surrogate's Court matter narrated by Clerk Daniel J Dowdney.
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Daniel J. Dowdney
Surrogate’s Court
Dougherty
Olcott & Tenney
William St. Borough of
Manhattan
City of New York
Surrogate's Court
Jabish Holmes
Liberty Street
New York City
New York
Eliza
Dunicop
Samuel H. Druniop
Frank Druniop
John Franklin Dunlop
Anna Duniop
Harry R. Duniop
Edward D. Dunlop
George H. Dunlop
Dane S Purlop
William W. Dunlop
Charles M. Dunlop
Edward E. Dunlop
Gertrude Hawes
Agnes Dunlop
Helen D. Hutchinson
Marie Louise PD
Clark W. Dun
County of
County of New York
Hon Sr. S
Charles Sumner Miller
Nassau Street
Borough of
DANIEL_ J. DOW
Delany & ST. John
Administratit
Rector St
Qupreme Court
Quinty
New
Ss Iten Bank of
Planttt
Ham Silverson
Beckie Cowen
the Peoy
Alter Gottlieb Charles Reines
Bennett & Gompper Company
Menstein
Michael J. Saltzer
Julius Lieters J. Dowd
State Bank
Asmbel P. Fitch
Mott & Grant
Ness’ Street
Borough of Manhattan
Beckin Coden
Orsgeimg Sam— Mous
James Fitegerald
Te Supreme Court
State of New York
Ashbel P. Fitch
Mott & Grant Plainti
York Supreme Court
Plaintif
New York County
Charlies
Henry Phelper Mappolh
New York Supreme Court
Dess
Jobe G. Butler
John A Delany
Stella M. Delany
John E Duffy
City of
William J. Swain
Title Insurance Comey of
Title Guarantee & Trust
Street Exchange Building Association
Andrew Sheridan
Peter Reynakis
Cefant
John FP. East
Pia
Broad Street
Soroue
Williaim J. Swaim
Willie Swain
Warley Platzek
Supreme Court
State of
Langary
County Court House
Borough of Mangatts
City
Agoor Piatentil Joh
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Farmers Union
TUG
Executive Committee
Chicago
20Th Century Limited
N. B
Columbus Avenue
West
123Th Street
125Th Street
Grand Central Station
Fulton St
Pulman
L. F. Vosburgh
G.E.P.A
Broadway
N.Y
Madison
Russell
Irvine
Socialist Party
Coney
Dr. MacArthur
Cohen
James S. Coward
Greenwich St
Jacob Ris
MFG
Fifth Ave
Maiden Lane
Sterlin
B. Akman & CO
34Th Street
35Th Street
St. Avenue
New Park
L. S
God
Mary Leavitt
Nina Uay
George Maquay
Catherine D. L. Parsons
James Ewing Cooley Leavitt
Robert Walter Leavitt
James EB. C. Leavitt
Leavitt Cooley Parsons
Mary C. Parsons
George Ayers Parsons
Louisa Magnay Villiers Legh
Katharine Alice Villiers
Constance Barbara Villiers
George John Theodore Hyde Villiers
Peter Legh
James E. Cooley
County of New Yor
Hall of Records
William W. Appleton
Daniel Appleton
Agnes C. Thomas
George W. Collord
Anna E. Smith
Cecelia F. Lincoln
Fanny A. Smith
Alice Smith
Martha Therese Smith
Linda K. Winsor
Mary Babcock
Edward P. Kennard
Frederick H. Kennard
Margaret Buckley
Hubert Buckley
Wilfred Buckley
Alwyne Buckley
Martha T. Fiske Collord
Central Trust Company of
Newport
R. I
William P. Dixon
Martha T. Fiske Collard
Rhode Island
Abner
Cc. Thomas
Burrogate
Said
Tribune
6Th Ave
Téth
Tith
Sear Gilet
Tremene
Sd Ave
New Yor
Lizbeth D. Butman
Arthur D. Butman
Per Butman
Harold R. Butman
Alice Butman
Nest
Francie Skiddy Marden
Marian I Marden
Ian Buchael L. Browne
Marden
Elaner Gay Marden
Holla
James D. Sutman
Xin of Wise
Cou
Alice P
C. Thomas
Newtor
Jo Hanson
Mary A. Halloran
F . O'Byrne
Laura B. Ferguson
Elizateth Gareth
John F. Byrne
Thomas E Byrne
Dora Byrne
William J Mne
Marland
Marion Lyrne
Eliabeth Byrne
Madeline N. Byrne
the Speirs
Thomas J. Byrne
Oe Hee
James O'Rourk
Poe
Aid
Wi. Thomas
Aidnty
Cass County
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