Giraffe Lucy Recovers After Nine Foot Throat Treatment
In a Glen Island zoo tale, Miss Lucy the giraffe endures a severe influenza type throat ailment. Keepers, led by Head Keeper Frank Healey, administer a nine foot long spray device delivering peroxide of hydrogen through a custom tube while she endures hours of treatment and a special warm diet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Lucy
Mfe
Glen Island
Frank Healey
Lucy
Mr. Healey
Zip
Woodruff Seeks Senate Seat After Term as Lieutenant Governor
Lieutenant Governor Woodruff and Mrs. Woodruff returned from a vacation aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, accompanied by Major H. K. Bird. Woodruff said he did not seek a third term but suggested he might run for the Senate once Mr. Platt is out, noting conditions then required the current term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodruff
Flag Raisingat De Witt Clinton Park Farm Hosts Garden Event
Neighbors visited two housewarmings at De Witt Clinton Park farm to view 114 fenced vegetable plots planted ten days prior. Margaret Huegerald and William Marx raised the flag for the National Plant Club Farm Branch, with Park Commissioner Willcox receiving cheers and remarks about parks as places for exercise, recreation, and knowledge. The article also notes fall fashion trends, including new Panama-style hats, alpine fur hats, and upgraded men's gloves and driving gauntlets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Witt Clinton Park Farm
Margaret Huegerald
William Marx
National Plant Club
Henry Parsons
Willcox
Pretty Things to Wear Among White Gowns and Embroidered Details
A new white ceiling dress is displayed featuring bands of white cashmere and Persian embroidery. The basque follows a Louis XVI style with openwork embroidery on the sleeves. Wool batiste in a pale blue shade complements the ensemble.
Park convention attendance in New York highlights leaders
At a 5 o'clock gathering in Boston bound for a park convention, notable attendees included Mrs Ann, Ralph Stautman president of the Health Protective Association, Mrs Harry Hastings head of the New York City Mothers' Club, School Commissioner J W Mack, Dr Munn, Mrs Alma 3, BH Johnston, and R Fulton Cutting among others interested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Ann
Ralph Stautman
The
Health Protective Association
Harry Hastings
New York City
Mothers’ Club
J. W. Mack
Munn
Alma 3
BH Johnston
R. Fulton Cutting
What to Buy for Men in Fashionable Goods
A 1920s style catalog hints at menswear trends with white lisle half-hose available by special order, Bizon leather belts in black and browns, striped underwear fabrics, and matching half hose. It notes new weaves like matelasse and Ascot style ties in rich silks, plus snakewood canes with gold caps and fine cotton bath wrappers in canary and blue.
Monte Carlo shirt blouse ushers new mid summer fashion
A detailed fashion description outlines a satisfactory development in a smart shirtwaist suit with black lace and knots. The Monte Carlo shirt blouse features front tuck, duchess closing, odd collar, chemisette outline, and bishop sleeve cuffs with a velvet belt. Ribbon trims and soft ribbons adorn evening frocks like a white mousseline de soie ensemble with violets at the waist and elbows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monte Carlo
Colonial Dames to unveil Newark tablet at First Presbyterian
The Colonial Dames of Newark will place a bronze tablet on the historic First Presbyterian Church to honor the first French settlers of Newark. The unveiling is scheduled for the latter part of October. The tablet will be of colossal design and cost placeholder wording noted as 0.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonial Dames of
Newark
First Presbyterian
Ginger Cookies Recipe Instructions
A historic recipe describes making soft ginger cookies or cake by creaming butter and lard, adding sugar, molasses, and hot water dissolved baking soda, then mixing in five cups of flour, rolling thin, and baking in a hot oven. It emphasizes creaming and folding well for a good texture.
Passing on Kindness and Sunshine Society Notices
A reader reflection on sharing kindness and forgiving forgetfulness followed by Tribune Sunshine Society notices. Address communications to The Tribune Sunshine Society, Tribune Build ing New York City, noting the society has no ties to other uses of the word sunshine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Ss. S
Tribune Sunshine Society
Tribune Buildirg
New York City
Sunshine
Free Park for Children Opens at Excelsior Spring Park
Mrs George P Lawton president of the Sara toga branch of the Woman's Greater Sara toga Association leads opening of a children's playground at Excelsior Spring Park located on Fast avenue north of Lake avenue. The shaded field features swings seesaws and twenty new benches for mothers. Children from the Home attended as guests and Professor Shaffer and his Ballston band provided music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George P. Lawton
Saratoga
T S. S
Excelsior Spring Park
Woman's Greater
Professor Shaffer
Ballston
A. 5. Downs
John D. Humphrey
J. Blair Scribner
Mise Augusta Wiegins
Local Donations Support Needy Woman and Elderly Rides
A charitable note shows "A Friend" giving $1 to aid a poor colored woman with rent. Elizabeth A. Horner contributed $1 to provide comfort during warm weather, and Mrs. A. D. of Brooklyn sent $1 for trolley rides for old ladies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth A. Horner
Christmas gifts for Little Mothers bags
The bags to hold Christmas greetings for the Little Mothers should be twelve by fifteen inches with two drawing strings. Best materials are denim cretonne or strong gingham. The president notes several T. S. S. members are volunteering during their summer recreations to Christmas sunshine work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodora
Birthday celebration for Adolph Koch at Home for Incurables
On August 13, Adolph Koch at the Home for In curables Chicago Illinois will celebrate his birthday. Sunshine letters will be greatly appreciated by him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph Koch
Chicago
Ill
Mrs Bernstein Leads Pennsylvania T S W Work Distributions
Mrs Bernstein, state president of Pennsylvania, reports 126 gifts distributed by four members in a month. Packages include reading matter letters stamps seeds plants flowers laces buttons college pins doilies silk pieces. The effort shows widespread care for those in trouble and affliction through the T S B work.
Charity Gift Box Buoys Needy With Clothes And Flowers
A box of laundered children's clothing and sturdy shoes from Mrs. Harris of Princeton, New Jersey, funds urgent charitable needs. L. E. D. provided quilt pieces and ribbons, Miss Brockett supplied shirtwaists, and Mrs. Henry Goodell of Pasadena sent clippings. Mrs. John W. Post of Westbury Station sends sun flowers and gladioli boxes for hospitals and invalids. Flowers from Mrs. F. E. Brockett and others reach Bellevue Hospital, blind women, and newspaper sellers. The Sunbeam concludes with a poem by John B. Tabb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Goodell
Pasadena
Cal
John W. Post
Westbury Station
Long Island
Bellevue Hospital
F. E. Brockett
East Orange
N. J
Boston delegate at Stockholm lodge convention meets King
Miss Jessie Forsyth of Boston served as a United States delegate to the International Lodge of Good Templars convention in Stockholm Sweden. She delivered the welcome address and presented a paper on Scientific Temperance Instruction in the Public Schools of America. Forsyth joined a seven‑member deputation to meet King Oscar at the king’s request and described his cordial greeting in a private letter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie Forsyth
Boston
International Lodge of Good Templars
Stockholm
Sweden
United States
America
Oscar
Woman's Exhibition Promotes 45-Foot Feminine Progress Sculpture
Abastenia St. Leger Eberle crafts a colossal statue model titled Feminine Progress for display at Madison Square Garden. The sculpture will stand forty five feet tall as the centerpiece of the Woman's Exhibition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abastenia St. Ledger Eberle
Madison Square Garden
A New York Tribune blouse waist pattern No 416
The New-York Tribune offers pattern No 416 for a woman's blouse waist with a blue chambray view and white needlework shield. It includes fabric requirements for sizes bust 32 to 40, costs 10 cents plus optional 2 cent stamp for faster mail, and requests bust measure and pattern number when ordering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New-York Tribune
Dr Babbitt's Church in Straits Faces Foreclosure
Nassau Trust Company seeks foreclosure on a $50,000 mortgage of the Church of the Epiphany Brooklyn. Rev Dr Dean Richmond Babbitt since 1890 has strained to meet obligations, but funds run out. Church property valued at $100,000 supports 409 members as efforts to save the church continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Protestant Episcopal Church of the Epiphany
Tompkins-are
McDonough St
Brooklyn
Nassau Trust Company
Dean Richmond Babbitt
St. Chrysostom’s Church
Church of the Epiphany
Babbitt
Potter Returns to Office Over Mexican Company Scandal
James Brown Potter resumes duties at 59 Wall Street after months in Mexico guiding Tlahaulilo Company salvage. He secured Mexican restitution from embezzlers who diverted about 2 million in stock and 37,500 in bonds, following State Department and ambassador intervention. Potter notes pleasant summer climate in Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Brown Potter
Wall St
Mexico
Tlahaulilo Company
London
Potter
State Department
Washington
Clayton
Echo of the July corn deal suspends Wait & Thorburn
Chicago August 5 Wait and Thorburn known for court pleas to avoid July corn payments at 64 cents were suspended from the Board of Trade for indebtedness to Harris Gates Co. on the July corn deal. They shorted 1,100,000 bushels and settled at 8 cents, still owing 36000. Their oats debt remains tied up by injunctions and not counted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Wait & Thorburn
Board of Trade
Harris, Gates & Co
Peculiar Alimony Case In Brooklyn Divorce Suit
In Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Dickey challenges a motion for weekly alimony and counsel fees in the divorce suit of Carrie C. Pitman from Walter C. Pitman of the American Steel and Copper Plate Co. The case centers on alleged interference by Pitman’s father-in-law Charles F. Covell, president of the New York Steel and Copper Company, with Pitman’s business and customers. The Pitmans have been married eight years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Harvey Field
Brooklyn Supreme Court
Carrie C. Pitman
Walter C. Pitman
American Steel and Copper Plate Company
Pather
Dickey
Pitman
Charles F. Covell
New York Steel and Copper Company
Field
Covell
Arrival documented by Tribune photographer
A brief caption notes the subject arrived yesterday and credits The Tribune's special photographer for the photograph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Woodruff Talks Fourth Term and State Politicking
Former Brooklyn politician Henry Woodruff hints at a fourth term and discusses renomination dynamics around Governor Odell and Senator Platt. He dismisses opposition rumors in Kings County, plans to meet Senator Platt, and recounts a chaotic incident outside a pier where a frightened horse caused a delay before Woodruff escaped into a private omnibus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Kings County
Odell
New York
United States Senate
Platt
Woodruff
Schlieren
Brooklyn
Sharkey
Cady
Hanbury
Frank Higgins
Mr. Woodruff
Siegel Secures Schlesinger Mayer Firm In Chicago
The Chicago firm Schlesinger & Mayer on State Street is sold to a new corporation led by Henry Siegel of Siegel Cooper. The merged company will keep the existing name with 3.5 million dollars in stock and 3 million in bonds. A twelve story building will replace the Madison and State street block. Officers named include Henry as president, David Mayer as vice president, Fran E Vogel as treasurer, and B F Schlesinger as secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Schlesinger & Mayer
State St
Henry Siegel
Siegel-Cooper Company
Madison and
State Sts
Henry
David Mayer
Fran E. Vogel
B. F. Schlesinger
Astronomer Husey Reports 100 New Double Star Pairs
Berkeley August 5 astronomer W J Husey announces a UC bulletin listing one hundred newly catalogued double star pairs. The Mills spectroscope reveals six stars with variable line of sight velocities, a finding issued by W W Campbell director of Lick Observatory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkeley, Cal
W. J. Husey
University of California
W. W. Campbell
Lick Observatory
Valentines Funeral Held at Brooklyn Home
The funeral of Richard L. Valentine of the Crawford and Valentine contracting firm was held last evening at his home 124 Hancock Street Brooklyn He was born in Creedmoor Long Island in 1843 and died in Brooklyn on Sunday He leaves a widow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard L. Valentine
Crawford & Valentine
Hancock St
Brooklyn
Mr. Valentine
Creedmoor
Long Island
Divorce Suit Reveals West Trip and Alimony Claim
Pitman denies stock in the company and claims a nine dollar weekly salary with three thousand three hundred yearly income, while Justice Dickey dismisses the request for a large counsel fee. The case centers on alleged misconduct in the West with a woman named Woolaston and a threatened retaliation quoted by the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pitman
West
Woolaston
Brooklyn
Mr. Field
Field
Tong
Frank Brown
Addison Brown
Mr. Brown
Iselin Gift Complete Enlarged Scarsville Home
The St. Eleanorus Home for convalescent patients in Scarsville, enlarged by Adrian Iselin, was finished yesterday. He has spent over 150 on the property in memory of his wife. His daughter Miss Georgiana Iselin laid plans for a separate Sisters of the Visitation retreat in Manhattan. The $25,000 facility, for visiting Sisters serving tenement districts, offers recuperation amid lawns and flowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Eleanorus
New York Hospitals
Adrian Iselin
Scarsville
Iselin
Georgiana Iselin
Sisters of the Visitation
Manhattan
Wireless at Forts Adopted by Department of the East
The signal corps will install two wireless telegra phy plants at Fort Wadsworth and Fort Hancock to replace cable. Dr. Lee De Forest touts a system without coherers, using a chemically treated paste to break and restore circuits. Receivers use a standard telephone and Morse key, with a record of 55 words in 52 seconds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of the East
Signal Corps
Fort Wadsworth
Fort Hancock
Signal Office
Washington
Lee de Forest
Marconi
Staten Island
Special Aldermen Meeting on 1902 Tax Rolls
Mayor Low called a special Board of Aldermen meeting for next Tuesday at noon to receive and act on the Finance Committee report concerning the 1902 tax and assessment rolls for real and personal estate. Rolls were delivered July 1. The session will cover levying and collection of taxes and assessments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mayor Low
Board of Aldermen
Committee On Finance
Low
Resistant Corporation
Clark
Postal Clerks Elect Officers at Annual Convention
The eighth annual convention of the Second Division National Association of Railway Postal Clerks was held yesterday in the Federal Building. Officers elected include President Fred S. Dietz Harrisburg Penn vice-president George W Harrison Washington secretary treasurer C C Reiff Philadelphia delegate at large H B Ostendorf Middletown N Y delegates W W Bishop Solon Ohio W E Hawley Miltiora and B Keller Albany alternates Captain C Seng Pome S YS eee
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Association of Railway Postal Clerks
Federal Building
Fred S. Dietz
Harrisburg
Penn
George W. Harrison
Washington
C. C. Reiff
Philadelphia
H. B. Ostendorf
Middletown
N. Y
W. W. Bishop
Solon
Ohio
W. E. Hawley
Miltiora
B. Keller
Also Mentioned on This Page
Senate
MR. Platt
DE Witt
Ton Park
Dewitt Clinton Park
Janette Hill Knox
Christian Advocate
Free Park
Letter Party
Report OF Pennsylvania
John B. Tabb
DR. Babbitt
Straits
W. C. Pitman
Timothy L. Woodruff
Epsom Races
England
R. L. Valentine
WR. Iselin
Eleanorus
Signal Corps OF
First Department
Postal Clerks
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!