Garish Easter crowds fill churches across New York
Easter Day in 1908 drew crowds to Fifth Avenue churches and cathedrals with John D. Rockefeller among attendees at the Fifth Avenue Baptist. Dr Aked on Resurrection preached with historic proofs, while other clergy urged faith. Archbishop Farley and five thousand worshippers at St Patrick’s Cathedral marked the day. Gifts and ceremonial events followed at Bohemian, St Pauls, Calvary Baptist, and Carnegie Hall amid a broad Easter observance.
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Qhure
Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue Baptist
St. Thomas's Episcopal
Old Trinity
Madison Square Presbyterian
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
John D. Rockefeller
Harold McCormick
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
DR. Aked
Resurrection
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Farley
Father Shesly
Devid von Heyden
Bohemian Cathet
John Prout
St. John Neponmvene
Monsignor Edwards
St. Paul's Catholic Church
Joseph McMahon
Calvary Baptist Church
MacArthur
State Senate
Felix Adler
Society For Ethics Culture
Carnegie Hall
Brace Memorial
John WU
the Chilidres
Aid Society
William Surch As
Hughes Declares Racetrack Gambling Not a Party Issue
Governor Hughes denounces racetrack gambling as a nonpartisan fight between law enforcers and those who oppose enforcement. He cites New York prosecutions, urges prison for offenders, and speaks to Brooklyn church leaders at a packed anti gambling mass meeting. He rebukes political manipulators and defends the people’s will and the constitution against gambling interests.
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Hughes
New York County
Court of Appeals
Bigetory
Denecia Hons
Brilliances and Offlinery Exiles On Grand Street Block
A fragmented report describes a two day event on Grand Street with notes about diamonds and a large public display near Central Park. It mentions Mayor Hanover of Avenue C and a crowd estimating over a million in value, with continued coverage promised on the fourth page.
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Grand Street
Giamonds
Central Park
Lottmer
Gines Trust
Ovo Hanover
Burglars Enter Bloomingdale Home on West 69th Street
Emanuel Bloomingdale, a director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, was away when two burglars forced entry at No. 42 West 69th Street last night. They looted valuable jewelry including rings chains pins and bracelets valued over $1,000. Their daughter Marian and servants witnessed the scene.
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Emanuel Bloomingdale
West 69Th Street
Guns wake Montevideo in Maneuvres flare
A Rio dispatch reports an Argentine squadron near Buceo Montevideo fired two hundred shots from heavy guns and shone searchlights over the shores. Tensions rise with friction over Plate River waters as Argentina asserts jurisdiction and demands salutes from ships.
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Rio de Janeiro
Buceo
Montevideo
Uruguay
Argentine Republic
Plate River
Argentine
New York Public Service to Guarantee Seats on Key Lines
The Public Service Commission orders the receivers of the New York City Railway to run enough cars on the 23d street crosstown Lexington Avenue and Grand street lines to seat at least 10 percent more than the expected riders. Daily reports will determine car counts with a minimum of six cars per hour and a 25 car per fifteen minute cap if 10 percent excess cannot be met.
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Public Service Commission
New York City Railway Company
22D Street
Fourth Avenue
Maltbie
New York
West 2Nd Street
Grand Central Station
23D Street
Lexington Avenue
Grand Street
Dart
Sixth Avenue
Public Service Commissions
Italy to sail fleet for Asia Minor in post office dispute
Rome reports an Italian fleet of nineteen warships under Admiral F Grenet will sail to Asia Minor to demonstrate in Turkish waters over post office privileges. The plan includes the Regina Elena and 7000 men with about five hundred guns. The aim is to pressure Turkey to grant Italian post offices without seeking territorial gains.
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Rome
F. Grenet
Asia Minor
Regina Elena
Duke of the Abruzzi
Turkey
Tripoli
Italy
Balkan
Albania
Macedonia
Paris Reclaims Noble Citizen in Secret Return
Prince Hélie de Sagan arrived at Cherbourg and left the St. Paul at Evreux en route to Paris. He declined press interviews and denied claims of a marriage to Mme. Anna Gould. Passengers say he spoke of leaving Paris soon and showed affection for a young English girl. French papers mock the affair as an international farce.
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Paris
Prince Hélie de Sagan
Cherbourg
St. Paul
Evreux
Autombile
Men
Ri de Paris
Mme
Anna Gould
Waly
de Sagan-Gould
United States
Texas Flood May Cost Millions
Upper Colorado River tributaries rise beyond thirty year highs with four inches of rainfall and ongoing rain. Flood crest expected in two to three days threatening Brazos and Colorado valleys and sugar plantations. Waco reports Brazos River at thirty five feet, four hundred city blocks flooded, one hundred families displaced.
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The
Tribune
Austin
Tex
Colorado River
Concho
Llano
Pecan
San Saba
Colorado
Gulf
Coleman
Ballinger
Brazos
Waco, Tex
Brazos River
Wireless electric truck demonstrated at Omaha shops
Dr Frederick H Millener of Union Pacific Omaha tested a wireless driven electric truck in the shops. The truck is started and stopped from a wireless central station, and the demonstration occurred after millers success in applying wireless transmission to an electric motor.
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Omaha
Frederick H. Millener
Union Pacific
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad Faces Rate Census
The Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad part of the Vanderbilt system works to meet the Interstate Commerce Commission order demanding publication of rates from every station to every point in the United States. The 100 mile line has five clerks at work and could take five years to finish with full cooperation from other railroads.
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Tribune
Pitsburg
Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad
Vanderbilt
Interstate Comeatry
Merece Commission
United States
Pittsburg & Lake Erie
Surprise Italian Naval Move Dominates Telegrams
In St Petersburg on April 19 Italian naval demonstration against Turkey was announced, surprising Russian officials and diplomats who had no prior notice of any dispute. Observers view the action as highly significant amid the German Emperor's Mediterranean visit, suggesting Italy may influence broader alliances.
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St. Petersburg
Turkey
Italy
William
Germany
Mediterranean
Princeton Students In Fatal Car Crash In Trenton
In Trenton on April 19 a car carrying three Princeton students and three young women skidded on a slippery asphalt street. Charles Balliguin died from a fractured skull. Corwin Nichols, the driver, and others were arrested but released on bail pending a hearing.
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the Tribune
Trenton
N. J
Princeton
Charles Balliguin
Corwin Nichols
Pierson W. Yard
Balliguini
Nichols
Clinton C. Nichols
First National Bank of
Wilmington
Ohio
Winfred Adams
Corinth
Miss
Walter C. Horton
Roanoke
Annie Daniel
Mabel Fisher
Kate Dowling
Henry B. Fine
University
Trolley Car Rams Automobile In Queens Collision
Emil Dillard drove a touring car owned by lawyer C E Rushmore when it collided with a Flushing trolley at Borden and West avenues Queens yesterday afternoon. Mrs Rushmore traveled with him and said the crash could have been worse if the car had not been nearly motionless.
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Emil Dillard
C. E. Rushmore
No. 40
Wall Street
39Th Street
Flushing
Borden and
West Avenues
Queens
Rushmore
Fleeing car pursued by 500 men and women
Ray mond Hartt, a chauffeur of 16 West Sith Street, led a crowd of about five hundred through IsSth Street and Washington Avenue in the Bronx after knocking down two boys. Hartt was captured. four other men escaped as George McGowan, 11, was seriously injured and rushed to the Bronx Sanatorium. Eight year old Charles Simms was also struck as the car, running without lights, sped away before a policeman stopped the driver.
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Raymond Hartt
West Sith Street
IsSth Street
Washington Avenue
Bronx
George McGowan
Brook Avenue
McGo
Magistrate Finn Gambled at Racetrack Says No Crime
Magistrate Finn of the Tombs court admits gambling at a racetrack the day before. Fifty Chinamen arrested in Mott and Pell streets raids face dominos or fantan charges. he discharges twenty-six for lack of evidence and lets twenty-four go, saying playing games for money is not a crime.
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Dan" Finn
Tombs Court
Mott and Pell
Curry
Finn
Maher
W. Argard
Lifesavers Rescue Passengers From Stricken Vessel
A vessel carrying twenty passengers, mostly women, ran ashore near Hereford Inlet. The Atlantic City crew rescued all aboard with some landed at the station and others taken to Stone Harbor. The lifeboat men also towed the wreck offshore at high tide. Elsewhere, John Post, Greene County’s wealthy retired farmer, died at ninety eight.
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the Tribune
Atlantic City
Laupeh Harry M
Wildwood
Hereford Inlet
Stone Harbor
Hemeh
Catskill
John Post
Greene County
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