Canadian Pacific Workmen Strike Bridges Tensions
Aug 10 Awinnipes reports Canadian Pacific workmen building a second fence around shops. Barry, the general manager, seeks skilled abov e mechanics urgently. Rumor says store workers may strike in solidarity with rail union. William Whyte, pressuring settlement, denies importing strike breakers and defends alien labor law. Violence erupts with windows broken in St Boniface yards during last night.
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Canadian Pacific
Barry
Headquarjs Montreal
Nce
Canadian Pacific Railway
Wiliam Whyte
Vancouver
Winniwee
Whyte
Canadian Pacific Railroad
United States
Canada
St. Boniface
Government not to interfere in CPR strike
Ottawa reports no government interference is contemplated in the Canadian Pacific Railway strike under the Lemieux act. A board of conciliation will first hear grievances before any sympathetic strike by other unions. West Toronto notes CPR trainmen and conductors unions prepared instructions to local locals and advises calm action as strike benefits from the international union are expected within ten days.
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Ottawa
Labor Department
Canadian Pacific Railway
Toronto
Canadian Pacific
International Wnnion
Organization forms to aid workers at Carnegie Hall
Clerks and accountants held a meeting at Carnegie Hall to organize a temporary club to place members out of work. Eighty joined, with a goal of 200 at the next September meeting. A. E Vaughn of No 16 Court Street Brooklyn led the effort, offering a free agency with small initiation and placement fees and aiming to curb high fees charged by employment agencies.
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Carnegie Hall
A. E Vaughn
No. 16
Court Street
Brooklyn
Waa
Suspect Arrest in 8,000 Fraud Plot on North 4th Street
Charles Hoeffer of No 448 North 4th Street Philadelphia was arrested at Second Avenue and 13th Street by Central Office detectives Duggan and Kinsler for involvement in an apparent fraud scheme. Rosengarten reported meeting a man who claimed $8,000 would yield quick riches via a crank-operated money machine. Hoeffer was caught when an appointment was kept. Bail set at $8,000, secured by John Wohlauer of Stenton Street, to appear in Essex Market court.
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Charles Hoeffer
North 4Th Street
Philadelphia
Second Avenue
13Th Street
Central Office
Duggan and Kinsler
Rosengarten
Ector McCafferty
Rosengar MA
Hoefer
Harris
Essex Market
John Wohl@auer
Stenton Street
Avenue B
Rockaway Beach Boy Struck By Automobile
Twelve year old Robert Gna of 42 West Street was hit while crossing near Ammerman and Meredith Avenues. He suffered a skull fracture and a fractured collarbone and was rushed to J. Hospital Far Rockaway. The chauffeur Edwards was arrested and held at Rockaway Beach station pending outcome of the injuries. The car is owned by Frank W. Bruns of Atlantic Avenue.
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Rober
Machine
Frank W. Bruns
Atlantic Avenue
Rockaway Beach
Opposes Storing Cars on Lexington Avenue Tracks
Assemblyman Less 4 Cuvillier protests use of Lexington Avenue streetcar tracks for storing MF at night. He cites an incident Saturday when cars blocked Hook and Ladder Company 14 delaying response to a fire alarm. He may seek a mandamus to stop the commission from monopolizing the space.
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Cuvillier
Public Service
Lexington Avenue
Lmth
Hook and Ladder Company 14
Supreme Court
Fom
Asked for refer and got a kick at Yonkers precinct desk
A witness recalls an incident yesterday at Yonkers Precinct where a man demanded a drink and was kicked by Captain Hunter after an onlookers’ misperception. A pail slammed and a bystander saw beer offered by the visitor.
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Precinct
Yonkers
Lhunter
Baer
Revenue Falls Off at New York Post Office
A fiscal year report by auditor Thomas A. Jardines shows New York General Post Office revenue down 6.4 percent to 11,814,137.71, with gross receipts at 15,548,119.41 and expenses rising to 752,981.70. Acting Postmaster Thomas F. Murphy cites space expansion at Hudson Terminal and business growth as factors. domestic money orders rose despite hard times, while paid orders declined slightly.
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New York Post Office
Thomas A. Jardines
General Post Office
Thomas F. Murphy
Hudson Terminal
Union Bank of Brooklyn rises from Mechanics and Traders Bank
Justice Pound approved the discharge of temporary receivers for the Mechanics and Traders Bank and allowed the bank to take the name Union Bank of Brooklyn. Each receiver Haggerty and Ford will get 20000, with ex-counsel Morgan J O Brien to receive 15000. Ex-Centrellier Grout will reopen the bank next Monday with state officials approving the plan.
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Justice Pound
Supreme Court
Mechanics and Traders’ Bank
Union Bank of Brooklyn
Williams
State Banking Department
J. Henry Haggerty
Joseph D. Ford
Morgan J. O’brien
Centrellier Grout
Jackson
Grout
State Superintendent of Banks
Union League Loses Grass Plot For Wider Fifth Avenue
The Union League Club on Fifth Avenue begins tearing down its grass plot and low stone wall to widen the avenue to a full hundred feet. City authorities ordered removal of overlapping sidewalk portions last February, with work expected to start on a fifty six foot driveway and twenty two foot sidewalks. Only Café Martin remains in court over the issue as most owners comply.
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Union League Club
Fifth Avenue
Manhattan
Corporation Counsel
23D Street
47Th Street
Café Martin
Union League
Trains Delayed After Work Train Strikes Track Near Poughkeepsie
A work train left the tracks just north of Poughkeepsie at 5:30 pm delaying Hudson River division trains into Grand Central for about 30 minutes. Tracks were cleared after 6 pm and the schedule resumed. Police managed crowds at Grand Central. no injuries were reported.
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Poughkeepsie
Hudson River
New York Central Railroad
Grand Central Station
Toronto Man Delivers Message to New York City Mayor
The freckled Toronto youth T. J. McAughey, assistant secretary of the West End Branch of the YMCA, ran to City Hall in a test journey from Toronto to New York. He traveled 772 miles in eleven days and twenty-two hours, detouring one day, and visited Acting Mayor McGowan before returning home.
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City Hall Park
City Hall
T. J. McAugher
West End
Young Men's Christian Association
Toronto
Canada
McClellan
McAughey
New York
McGowan
Central Young Men's Christian Association
Country Life Conference to Open Playgrounds Plan
President Roosevelt has formed a committee to improve farm life and the Playground Association of America will hold a country life conference with its second play congress in the city from September 10 to 12. Dr. Luther Gulick will invite all U S country school superintendents to attend, with Professor L H Bailey also taking part. Dr. Myron Scudder’s work on country life inspired the conference, urging country playgrounds athletic fields and leagues to curb rural youth migration.
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Roosevelt
Playground Association of America
Luther Halsey Gulick
United States
Ll. H. Bailey
Myron T. Scudder
New Paltz Normal School
Scudder
Systemic pressures halt magazine expose of water stocks
Colonel William N. Amory, at the Independence League ratification, claimed The System suppressed a water stock article coauthored with Charles Edward Russell after Amory provided data and proofs. He cited Upton Sinclair and Hearst-era interference, noting the piece was killed despite his prior approval and a large sale price. The gathering ratified the Hisgen and Graves nomination.
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William N. Amory
Independence League of the
16Th Assembly District
Colonel Amory
Hisgen
Graves
Third Avenue Railway
Upton Sinclair
Hearst
Hisgen and
Income Cut Ends Life Everett Judson Dies in West 82d Street Room
Everett Judson sixty-two? Forty-two years old? No matter. Aboard the boarding house at 137 West 82d Street he ended his life by inhaling gas from a wall jet. He had lived there three years after a first wife died and a January remarriage. His weekly income of 49 dollars, from a late mother’s legacy, was cut, a family dispute and financial strain cited by his wife. She learned of his troubles in Orange, New Jersey, then returned to the house and, with renter Metcalf’s passkey, found Judson dead on his bed after smelling gas in the hallway.
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Everett Judson
West 82d Street
Judson
Orange
N. J
Charles Metcalf
Metcalf
Daniel le Roy Dresser
Sioux Falls
New York
South Dakota
LeRoy Dresser
Europe
Dresser
le Roy Dresser
Emma Burnham
Douglas W. Burnham
Colonel Dresser
Edith
George W. Vanderbilt
Natalie
John Nicholas Brown
United States
Divorce Awarded to Mrs Dresser in Sioux Falls
Mrs Daniel Le Roy Dresser received an absolute divorce from Daniel Le Roy Dresser in Sioux Falls on desertion grounds. The case involved no alimony, settled out of court. Representatives included Senator Kit Tredge for the wife and C W Gould plus E R Winans for the husband.
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Sioux Falls, SD
Daniel le Roy Dresser
Sioux Falls
New York
Smith
Gas Meter Tests Report by Public Service Commission
Travis H Whitney reports July testing of gas meters. Of 24576 meters tested, 2487 new, 21752 repaired, 3 percent complaint. Among complaints 44 were correct, 179 fast and 114 slow. Of fast complaints 122 exceeded 2 percent fast. of slow complaints 39 exceeded 2 percent slow. 176 were within two percent of accuracy.
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Travis H Whitney
Public Service Commission
Anarchist Federation blocked by police in Queens parks
Police halted the Anarchist Federation meeting in Long Island City as crowds gathered at Fuhrer's Park and later moved to Bernstein and Merz parks. Emma Goldman did not speak, Fred Bergman was present, and Mrs. Dare addressed before police dispersed the crowd with reserves called in.
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Long Island City
Anarchist Federation
Fuhrer's Park
Jackson Avenue
Fred Bergman
Emma Goldman
Mrs. Dare
Merz’s Park
Flushing Road
Missionary Day Held At General Conference for Christian Workers
East Northfield Mass August 10 Missionary Day featured returned missionaries as speakers at morning and evening sessions and a two minute rally for delegates. Dr H G Underwood Corea praised rapid Christian growth and urged more work to prevent stagnation. Dr C C Creegan New York spoke on missions in Japan and war talk with America. Rev James Taylor South Africa Dr Charles Hurlburt Africa and Dr Joseph Clark Congo also spoke.
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the Tribune
East Northfield
Mass
Christian Workers
H. G. Underwood
Corea
Underwood
C. C. Creegan
New York
American Board For Foreign Missions
Japan
America
James Taylor
South Africa
Charles Hurlburt
Africa
Joseph Clark
Congo
Elopers in Baltimore reported by telegraph to The Tribune
Baltimore officials investigated seventeen year old Alibert Tillinghast and sixteen year old Bessie Edwards who eloped from Eastport Long Island last week. A postal card led to their location at a boarding house run by Mrs Frances Wink. The couple denied marriage and departed for a Bay area camp before returning.
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the Tribune
Baltimore
Alibert Tillinghast
Bessie Edwards
Eastport
Long Island
Frances Wink
Blind man regains sight after ten years of prayer in Jamaica
Ephraim Baylis aged eighty nine from No 2 Shelton avenue Jamaica Long Island regained sight on his birthday after ten years of total blindness from cataracts. He had prayed daily holding the Bible and told his daughter Ella that a birthday present had arrived. He can read coarse print and calendars and hopes to read the Bible soon.
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Ephraim Baylis
Baylis
Shelton Avenue
Jamaica
Long Island
Ella Baylis
Mr. Baylis
Ella
Choate Seeks Child Custody in Des Moines Habeas Case
Frederick C. M. Choate, son of Judge William Gardner Choate, arrives in Des Moines with wife and five year old Mary as Mrs. Choate sues for divorce. A habeas corpus writ is issued to gain custody, Choate is arrested as a disturber, released on bond. After failed reconciliation talks, the child remains in police custody as hearings proceed.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Mary
New York City
F. E. Lambert
Kings Building Inspector Fined For Mistake
John E. Conlon of Brooklyn Buildings Department was fined thirty days' pay by Superintendent Moore after an eight inch lap occurred on the southeast foundation wall of the Montauk Theatre during its relocation to the Flatbush avenue extension. Inspectors later confirmed the wall was made safe and the building deemed perfectly safe.
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John E. Conlon
Buildings Department of
Brooklyn
Moore
Montauk Theatre
Fulton Street
Flatbush Avenue
Conlon
Gray Named Secretary of New Jersey Republican Committee
Former Governor Franklin Murphy appointed Edward W. Gray, former private secretary to Governor Stokes, as secretary of the state committee. Headquarters will be set up in the Essex County Republican Committee rooms and campaign work will start immediately. Gray previously ran the publicity bureau of the state committee last year.
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Franklin Murphy
Republican State Committee
Edward W. Gray
Stokes
State Committee
Essex County
Republican Committee
Gray
Slayer of Woman and Child Dead in Brooklyn Tragedy
Ernest Seitz a young engineer and fireman killed Mrs Bertha Hood and her 2 1/2 year old daughter Alice at 382 Bergen Street Brooklyn then shot himself dying at Brooklyn Hospital He had killed the pair and then ended his own life Henry Hood the husband visited the home to arrange burial and spoke of a separation describing it as too much gister in lee
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Ernest Seitz
Bertha Hood
Bergen Street
Brooklyn
Mrs. Hood
Gister-Inlee
Youthful Burglars Put on Trail in Children’s Court
A string of youth crimes was heard in the Children’s Court as Luigo Abmnante and accomplices faced charges. Constantino testified about thefts of his mother’s watch and a $10 bill, noting they pawned the items for $17. Abraham Garfunkle, a bold highwayman, sparked the session with Exhibit A, a stolen package. Sammy Sitzer identified it and testified his father sent him for tobacco. The events centered on a Bowery pawn and a hip life after the thefts, with sentences to the House of Refuge for the youths.
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Luigo Abmnante
Constantino
Constantinos
Luigo
House of Refuge
Bureau
Judge Mayo
Bowery
Abraham Garfunkle
Samuel Sitzer
Sonny
Sitzer
Henry Street
Sammy
Abraham
Samuel
Maro
Arlington Women Push School Board Bid In Kearny Ward
In Kearny New Jersey Arlington’s 3d ward women back Mrs. William C. Eakins for the school board. A joint campaign committee led by Civics Club chairwoman Clara Laddey coordinates efforts across Woman’s Literary Club Civics Club and church aid societies. Eakins would be the first local woman elected since earlier Newark Stowe activity. Mrs Eakins, a Chicago trained educator and wife of a New York broker, has three children and aims to keep elections separate from party politics.
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Kearny
N. J
William C. Eakins
Arlington
New York
Woman's Literary Club
Civics Club
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Methodist
Baptist
Presbyterian
Eakins
Clara Laddey
Newlawn Avenue
Albert J. Stowe
Newark
Stowe
Miss Stoddard
Ariington
Belgrave Drive
Church Committee
W. H. Latham
Pleasant Place
New Jersey
East Orange
Montclair
Colonel Parker
Cook County Normal School
Chicago
Beals
Chicago’s river change cuts death rate and boosts public health
A historical note on Chicago’s canal opening transforming the river flow, cleansing water, and lowering city death rates. It cites typhoid drops, diarrheal mortality, infant deaths, and contrasts with early 19th century conditions, while touching on woman’s suffrage debates and Italia Garibaldi’s role in Rome.
The Semi Princess Dress For All Season Fabrics
The semi princess dress proves graceful and popular in foulard with lace and velvet piping. It suits pengee and many silk and washable fabrics of the season. Wearable over any guimpe and closing at back or left front. The front panel creates lasting princess lines, blouse drapes to join the go red skirt with a girdle. Mousselinen cotton voiles and similar fabrics are ideal for immediate wear while silk and chiffon wool remain stylish options.
Dressmaking Pattern No 662 for Bust 32 38 Inches
Instructions list fabric yardage for medium sizes and width options based on material type. Pattern No 662 covers bust measurements 32 34 36 38 inches and can be mailed for 10 cents. add 2 cents for sealed envelope mailing. Pattern Department New York Tribune.
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New-York Tribune
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