Gossip of the Borough Fire Horse Bob to be Auctioned
Bob a fire horse long with Engine Company 156 at Fort Greene Brooklyn will be sold next Thursday at 1 p m with eleven other worn out steeds and old fire equipment to fund the firefighters pension. The sale at St Edwards and Bolivar streets is part of a broader Brooklyn theatre and playground development report.
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Bob
Engine Company 156
Fort Greene Place
DeKalb Avenue
Brooklyn
Company 156
Charley McPartland
McPartland
Fire Department
St. Edwards and
Bolivar Streets
Guarding Government Paper Money in the Printing Facility
The Chicago Record Herald reports on how government paper money is produced and safeguarded from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to the Treasuries cash room. Guards, presses, and automatic counting ensure each bill is tracked from seal imprint to drying vault. Only two theft attempts occurred historically, both resulting in dismissal without charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Treasurry
James A. Sample
Chicago Record-Herald
Agénulty
Sample
I. A. Bill
Brooklyn Socials In Brief: Weddings and Summer Travel Notes
The Brooklyn social column reports Miss Marie Louise Abbott wedding plans with Albert Cushman Aborn at The Pines Greenport Long Island. It notes New England tour guests G Maurice Hecksher Walter Stillman Helen Judson and others on various hotel stays, visits to Equinox Manchester and Lake George, and Saratoga arrivals.
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Marie Louise Abbott
George B. Abbott
Judge Abbott
Joralemon Street
Albert Cushman Aborn
East Orange
the Pines
Abbott
Greenfort
Long Island
New England
G. Maurice Hecksher
Née Vanderpoel
Helen Y. Judson
Walter N. Stillman
Aspinwall
Lenox
Manchester
Burgeoning Social Abroad: Brooklyn Figures in Paris and Alpine Walks
Several Brooklyn residents split travels between Paris and other European locales. Sidney and Leonard Kennedy along with their parents plan three months abroad visiting the Dalmatian coast and Eastern Balkans, then Switzerland and Venice with a September return to New York. Other families and individuals surveyed include Hastrouck and Hasbrouck sisters in the Tyrol, McCords in Paris, and a raft of social notables at the Bay Shore Horse Show with prize-winning performances by Emily Bedford and Mrs. Joseph Edward Davis among many Brooklyn exhibitors and attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Robinson Kennedy
Leonard Kennedy
Elijah R. Kennedy
Sidney R. Kennedy
Paris
Balkans
Long Island
Bay Shore
Emily Bedford
Edward T. Bedford
Clinton Avenue
Brooklyn
Joseph Edward Davis
Mollie Maxwell
Vesta Tilley
Charles Hubbs
Clarence Robbins
the Ladens
Jay F. Carlisle
Allan Pinkerton
Lewis Mills Gibb
John Dunbar Adams
Roland Whitney Betts
Maude N. Jones
Henry Hayes Wood
Edward C. Blum
Harry
Edward T. Bedfords
Charles F. Cartledge
William Tyson Hayward
Joseph H. Lester
Maxwell Lester
Sinclair Touséy
Simeon F. Rothschild
Willard L Candee
George Herbert Potter
Clarence L. Fabre
Harry Guyon Barber
Julian D. Fairchild
Edwin Carrington Ward
Society News From Brooklyn to New England Travel Spots
Brooklyn society notes list families and individuals vacationing at Rangeley Lakes Equinox House Manchester Vermont Thousand Islands and more. Many reputations travel with spouses to hotels and clubs while others return from Europe aboard the Amerika and Kronprinzessin Cecilie. General Meserole’s wife remains in Far Rockaway due to illness.
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Jeremiah V. Meserole
Europe
General Meserole
Far Rockaway
Plans for Brooklyn Orphan Asylum Hospital Facility
The Brooklyn Orphan Asylum board outlines a fireproof two story hospital made of Harvard brick and Indiana limestone with terra cotta trim. It includes five wards with private baths, separate nurses quarters, a modern operating room, and four children’s rooms. An iron second floor balcony serves as sun parlor and fire escape. The project aims to house about fifty more children, reduce infection risk with a detached ward, and fundraise 15000 dollars via bricks sold by borough children during a diamond festival at the Academy of Music hosting a November charity event.
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Brooklyn Orphan Asylum
Harvard
Board of Health
Heights
Brooklyn
Atlantic and
Kingston Avenues
Herkimer Street
Board of Education
Asylum
Christiana Clemmer
Academy of Music
Herbert Lee Pratt
Broadway
James BR. Hollinshead
Joseph B. White
Jeremiah Meserole
Joshua Sands
William Sands
Phoebe Butler
A. van Sinderen
Charles Richards
A. Suydam
Dew
Pierrepont
Cutter
Hadden
Lewis
Radcliff
Davison
Austin
Boyd
Porter
Betts
Howland
Corning
Flagler
Lefferts
Raymond
Hoyt
Government Bond Aid for National Road System
H. H. Gross of the Farmers' Good Roads League argues for federal aid to build highways, proposing a $400 million 2 percent bond program funded over 30 to 50 years. He cites constitutional power, post roads, and economic savings from better rural delivery, outlining state led construction with local cost sharing and federal engineering standards. Chicago July 30 1908.
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the Tribune
Congress
Monroe
Cooley
Post Office Department
United States
House of Representatives
Jefferson
Madison
Clay
Webster
Calhoun
Cumberland
Bankhead
Alabama
Germany
Chicago Daily News
England
Italy
Spain
France
New York
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Ohio
Michigan
H. H. Gross
Farmers’ Good Roads League
Chicago
Benzoates as Food Preservers Letter to the Editor
In a letter from New York dated Aug 3, 1998 H H Langdon argues that Dr Wiley's benzoate findings are not final and urges awaiting the Roosevelt referee board report. He contends benzoates used appropriately are not shown deleterious and cites English consumption and ptomaine poisoning data to defend antiseptic preservation.
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the Tribune
Wiley
Roosevelt
United States
New York
H. H. Langdon
Musical Bed Aims to Cure Insomnia in French Invention
Foreign notes describe a French invention a musical bed that supposedly cures insomnia by triggering a music box when a patient presses a spring. It promises lullabies and melodies to soothe stormy hot nights and remove the need for narcotics. The column also notes boisterous Chinese household sounds and their tolerated inattention to noise.
Strange Global Tidbits and Tales From Far Afield
A miscellany notes cheap fruit in Morocco and rich soil with multi harvests, Captain Einar Mikkelsen’s Arctic voyage proving deep water north of Alaska, Nuneaton church curfew bells, a new rubber tree in Indo China, a hair-covered Russian youth, giant rafflesia flower, a vast 10 000 ounce silver tray for an Oriental potentate, and Chinaman’s fear of decapitation and belief in life after death.
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Einar Mikkelsen
Copenhagen
Alaska
Mikkelsen
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Montauk
Percy G. Williams
Reality Associates
Stone Avenues
Empire
Henry W. Brewster
Manhattan
Liberty Theatre
East New York
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Flushing
Wyckoff Avenues
G. H. Reese
M. Nootle
Yale
Dartmouth
Andrews and
Hitchcock
Brooklyn Social Cilat
Albert J. Cheeseborough
Walter Sperrs
John Bardlett
George T. White
Allyn House
Hartford
Conn
Clarence Kenyon, Jr
Sagamore
Lake George
Mrs. Kenyon
Lake Champlain
Grand Union
Saratoga
Richard Harper Laimbeer
Richard H. Laimbeer,Jr
H. B. Ogden
Geoge du Pont Pratts
Glen Cove
Rangeley Lakes
Maine
William Ray
Cornelius Porter Kitchel
Ray
Elsie Fuller
Williams. Ray
Stive
Amerika
I. EB. Hastrouck
Edna Hasbrouck
Hazel Scudder
Jessie Ogg
Austrian
Tyrol
George H. McCord
Howard Gibb
Herbert Atwood
Everett Stephens
William R. Adams
Ella Louise Adams
Rome
Henry R. Begnelins
Raquette Lake
N. Y
Mrs
Thomas W. Lauderdale
Mount Kinee House
Moosehead Lake
THE
Orphan Asylum Society
Atlantic Avenue
Bronx
William F.fuller
Homer Arthur Lattin
Quogue
Rangeley Lake
Nélson G. Carman
Equinox House
Thousand Islands
William N. Dykman
Charles M. Eneglis
Frontenac
George A. Mendes
Homestead Hall
Greenwich
Frank R. Sniffen
Mount Washington
White Mountains
Frederick Edey
Bellport
Madeline Chauncey
Ruel Ross Appletons
Bass Rocks
Gloucester
Mass
Digby
Nova Scotia
H. Edward Dreier
Camp Craig
Big Moose
Herkimer County
Charles H. Smithers
Goswold, Croton, Conn
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Florence Griggs
Richfield Springs
Alexandria Bay
Clinton Elliott
Elton
Waterbury
James Stokes
Canada
Waterbury, Conn
Angela Michaud
Henri Michaud
Richard Wolf
Michaud
Brooklyn Heights Seminary
Brooklyn Institute
No. 140
East 48Th Street
Edgar F. Luckenbach
Lewis Luckenbach
Hamilton H. Salmon
Charles A. O Donohue
Baden-Bader
John F. Talmage
Robert S. Talmage
Kronpring Wilhelm
Alfred Roelxer, Jr
John A. McCorkle
Cornelius Zabriskie
Orlena Zabriskie
Bivia Zabriskie
Rotterdam
C. Augustus Haviland
L. Hastings Arnold
Irene Rossiter
Francis S. Smithers, Jr
John van Nostrand
Adriatic
Bishop
William A. Leonard
Cleveland
London
Mauretania
Herbert F. Gunnison
Florence Gunni
Elizabeth May
Nieuw Amsterdam
Kronpringessin Cecilie
Edwin H. Blashfield
Herman Hagedorn, Jr
Frederick de Mackay
Charles D. Pearce
Pearce
Wm. W. Astor
Jos. H. Cheats
Whitelaw Reid
John Whitley
Fulton St
Morocco
Tts
Sahara
Nuneaton
Warwickshire
Indo-China
Vienna Medical Society
Lionel
Plater
Java
Thim
Bose
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