Croker Strikes Back in War of Words with Rabbi Wise
Croker, former Tammany chief, reemerges in politics and blasts Rabbi Wise as a political officeholder with a long record. He accuses Wise of false statements and links him to Tweed era history while praising Root. Wise defends Croker’s influence and denounces the manner of the Croker dinner as a national insult.
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Pice Croker
Tammany
Rmn
Croker
Tweed
Dr. Wise
Root
Martha Washington
Purify the Negro Proposal Draws Interest in South
Sir Harry Johnston of London, visiting Tuskegee, argues mixed race individuals should receive a leave ticket and intermarry with whites to purify blood. He favors white supervision of Haiti and expects American intervention to shape its governance. He backs staying in America over emigration to Liberia and plans further travels to Virginia Georgia Mississippi Alabama and Cuba.
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the Tribune
Mobile
Harry Johnston
London
South
Tuskegee
Booker T. Washington
Harry
America
Africa
Liberia
Sir Harry
Virginia
Georgia
Mississippi
Alabama
Cuba
Powder Trade Case Proceedings Resume in Du Pont Suit
Hearings in the government suit against E I du Pont de Nemours Powder Company and related firms resume before Special Master William G Mahaffy. Government aims to obtain books and records via subpoenas for T Colman du Pont Pierre du Pont and Jonathan Haskall, while defense objects to immunity for the named officers. Witness H G Nicholl testifies about steering Rockdale Powder Company trades by gifts and price pressure with approval from H Hamlin.
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Wilmington
Del
E. I. du Pont
James Scarlett
Powder Company
T. Colman du Pont
Pierre 8. du Pont
Jonathan Haskall
Scarlett
H. G. Nicholl
New York
Rockdale Powder Company
Maryland
Nicholl
T. F. Hamlin
Music as remedy for domestic discord urged by Damrosch
Walter Damrosch of New York urged St Louis readers that family harmony suffers from lack of fine culture. He criticized coarse music and warned that popular tunes like The Merry Widow do little to improve home life and suggested more cultivated art is needed.
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Br Telegraph
the Tribune
St. Louis
Walter Damrosch
New York
Mayor McClellan Sound Conservatism at Loyal Legion Dinner
Mayor McClellan, son of “Little Mac,” urged continued conservatism to heal the nation, arguing against broad legislative cures for social and economic ills. He praised Civil War veterans and recalled Alabama Claims arbitration notes by Col Ralph Prime.
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Ralph E. Prime
Prime
Great Britain
Page on P. S. C. Powers and Bond Issue Critique
Senator Alfred R. Page argues for telegraph and telephone regulation by the Public Service Commission. A $50,000,900 bond issue by American Telegraph and Telephone Co. syndicate with Morgan & Co Kuhn Loeb Kidder Peabody and Barings may reveal underpriced financing and public cost without PSC oversight. Governor Hughes cites a need for a post mortem examination of such bond issues to protect public interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Teleraph 2Nd Telephone Company
Telephone List
J. P. Morgan & So. Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Baring Broc. & Co
Public Service Corporrtion
Public Service Commission
Hughes
Union City Officers Held in Contempt by Tennessee Judge
Judge Thomas Matthews of the Circuit Court action in Nashville blocks Union City efforts to extradite eight Night Rider suspects for the murder of Captain Quentin Hankin. He rules sheriff and jailers in contempt and calls yesterday's bail arrests illegal. Union County grand jury returns sixty two true bills with secrecy on names until indictments are filed.
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Nashville
Tenn
Thomas ©. Matthews
Union City
Union County
Quentin Hankin
Dixon Seeks Divorce for Warren Dixon and Eleanor Bentley
Warren Dixon Jersey City corporation counsel filed for absolute divorce in Trenton Chancery Court on statutory grounds. He seeks child custody for Jonathan sixteen, Margaret fifteen, Eleanor twelve, and Warren eight. couple married in 1891 and separated December 3 1997 with acts alleged at Summit and Elizabeth. An order signed by Chancellor Pitney allowed testimony of Lilly Johnson before Theodore Aurode in Jersey City. witness was about to leave the state. Co respondent named as Thomas A Alton with unknown address.
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Chancery Court
Trenton
Warren Dixon
Corporation Counsel
Jersey City
Dixon
Eleanor Bentley
Jonathan Dixon
Margaret
Fleanor
Warren
Supreme Court
Summit
Elizabeth
Reservoir Plan To Flood Villages In Warren County
Surveyors for the State Engineer’s force began work in northern Warren County to map a large storage reservoir for the new barge canal. The project would flood Chestertown Horicon and South Horicon, requiring removal of hundreds of houses to supply the canal during dry seasons.
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Glens Falls
S. C
Warren County
Chestertown
Horicon
South Horicon
City Wastes Quarter in New York City Supplies
Frederick A. Cleveland testified before a legislative committee that New York City could save 25 percent of its 15 million dollar annual supply spending by adopting standard corporate purchasing. He cited unbalanced contracts, vague specifications, and delayed payments as barriers to competition, noting poor records in Water and Education departments and unused surplus stock in schools. He urged tighter classifications and clearer bids to restore bidding fairness and efficiency.
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New York
Frederick A. Cleveland
Bureau of Municipal Research
Cleveland
Water Department
Merritt
Betsy Head Legacy Funds New Playground in Islip
A $187746 84 bequest from Mrs Betsy Head of Islip Suffolk County will fund a Betsy Head Playground adjoining Corlears Hook Park in Manhattan City officials say the site and action will be set to honor the donor. The will drawn December 10 1906 directed funds to health and recreation near the city. Mayor McClellan and Corporation Counsel Pendleton stated the city will move to carry out the terms at an early date.
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Betsy Head
Islip
Suffolk County
Corlears Hook Park
Pendleton
Chamberlain
McClellan
Peace Advocates Dine Honoring McCreary Leader At Delmonico
General James Grant Wilson hosted a Peace Arbitration League dinner at Delmonico's in New York in honor of Senator James B. McCreary of Kentucky. The discussion outlined a practical program for arbitration and a stronger navy and army to back international peace efforts with support from President Roosevelt and Admiral Dewey. Guests included Isaac N. Seligman, James Talcott, Selden Twitcher, and others from Columbia and Philadelphia.
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James Grant Wilson
Peace Arbitration League
James B. McCreary
Kentucky
League
Delmonico’s
Fifth Avenue
44Th Street
McCreary
Europe
Roosevelt
Admiral Dewey
Isaac N. Seligman
James Talcott
Selden Twitcher
Philadelphia
John Bates Lark
Columbia
Hart Lyman
Charles Sprague Smith
Alfred Bullowa
Ralph M. Easter
W. D. Walker
Hamilton Holt
Century-old Utica resident Catherine Van Allen dies at 102
Mrs. Catherine Van Allen, Oneida County's oldest resident, died at her Utica home after a three day illness. Born to a Mohawk father and a mother of mixed heritage who had been enslaved, she lived to 102 with extended family noting long-lived uncles and aspirations for a long life.
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Utica
N. Y
Catherine van Allen
Oneida County
van Allen
Two Residents Die in City Fires
Two people perished in separate Brooklyn fires yesterday. Mrs William Becker of Pine Street died from burns and smoke after firefighters rescued her from a burning room. John Wallon, a laborer of West 4th Street, suffered fatal burns and was brought to Vincent's Hospital where he was expected to die.
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Wiliam Becker
Pine Street
Brooklyn
Vincent’s Hospital
Adolescent insanity to be defense in Hazel murder case
In Toledo on December 2, 17 year old Harvey Hazel will use adolescent insanity as his defense in a murder indictment for killing his mother. President Hall of Clark University may be called as an expert witness. Hazel showed emotion during questioning, and the case has about thirty state witnesses and fifty for the defense.
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Toledo
Harvey Hazel
President Hall
Clark University
Worcester
Mast
Hazel
Haze
Leonard
Ohio State Reformatory
Mansfield
Fourth Suit Over Sire Will Sparks Family Estate Battle
Clarence D. Sire, son of Benjamin Sire, filed suit to break the will leaving most to Albert T. Sire. He claims undue influence when the 79 year old father drew the will in Albert's office. This is the fourth action linked to probate, with others in New Jersey and Suffolk County seeking partition.
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Clarence D. Sire
Benjamin Sire
Albert T. Sire
Albert
Clarence D. Sie
New Jersey
Suffolk County
Continental train service shortened to meet competition
St. Paul December 2 The Great Northern and the Chicago Burlington and Quincy will run a through passenger train from Chicago to the Pacific Coast next spring. The schedule will be reduced by seven hours to match the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul line after its extension to the Pacific Coast and to rival the Union Pacific. The Oriental Limited currently staggers from St. Paul to Seattle in sixty hours and will trim to fifty five hours.
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St. Paul
Great Northern
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Reade
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Union Pacific
Oriental Limited
Seattle
New 500 Foot Vessel Planned For Great Lakes
Detroit December 2 Great Lakes Engineering Works has contracted to build a 500 foot bulk freight steamer for the Island Navigation Company of Hamilton. The vessel will join the Canadian fleet and be delivered next spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Great Lakes Engineering Works
Island Navigation Company
Hamilton
Uni
Fire Devastates Shapiro Store in Dickxer City Tragedy
Fire in Scranton suburb Dickxer City destroyed Anthony Shapiro clothing and jewelry shop. Five family members perished, including Shapiro's son and daughter and Mrs. Shapiro. Mrs. Shapiro and two other children escaped by leaping from a second story window.
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Scranton
Penn
Anthony Shapiro
Dickxer City
History of the conquest of the air unfolds
Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm outlines ten years of aerial progress through archival film, while Major George O. Squier discusses current military aeronautics and U S treaty limits on balloon warfare. He argues air power will shape naval and land strategies and may lessen future war.
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Frank P. Lahm
United States Army Signal Corps
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
West 39Th Street
Wright Brothers
Fort, Myer
Virginia
F. R. Hutton
George O. Squier
United States
Hague
Public hearing on 42d Street surface track depression plan
City committee evaluates depressions under Fifth Avenue to widen 42d street from forty to sixty eight feet. Hotel owner cites $30,000 subway changes and potential business loss. Critics warn of Crosstown and Sixth Avenue traffic shifts and car access impacts. Another hearing set for next Wednesday.
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Fifth Avenue
Board of Estimate
Corporation Counsel
Tward
Bureau of Highways
Borough of
Manhattan
Messrs
Hawk and Wetherbee
Metz
42D Street
Robinson
Frederick W. Whitridge
42D Street Railroad
Sixth Avenue
Pendleton
Lewis
Manhattan Hotel
House Line
Withington
Finance Department
Mrs Coates Seeks Trunk From Husband
A woman calling herself Mrs Jimmy Coates formerly Mrs Jack Wilmerding went to the West 125th street station and asked police to send a patrolman to Noe Bradhurst avenue to compel her husband to surrender a trunk he reportedly possesses. She said she lives at the Colonial Hotel List street and Columbus avenue. Lieutenant Miller refused to send an officer and advised her to obtain a court summons.
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Miller
Jimmy” Coates
Jack” Wilmerding
West 125Th Street
Noe
Bradhurst Avenue
Colonial Hotel
List Street
Columbus Avenue
Brooklyn Detectives Target Tainter Robbery Mystery
Inspector McCafferty visits South Brooklyn headquarters to spur action after a failed Tainter robbery inquiry. He warns fifty detectives to identify local crooks and stay vigilant, promising a week in Brooklyn to boost detective efficiency.
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Brooklyn
Inspector McCafferty
State Street
Arnold Print Property Sold in Bennington Auction
The North Pownal Manufacturing Company property was auctioned in Bennington Vermont for 150000, the minimum set by the court. W. W. Jones, president of the New England National Bank of Boston, bought the property as sole bidder for creditors' committee.
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Bennington
Arnold Print Works
North Adams
Mass
County Court House
North
Labor famine threatens Akron as demand soars
Aaron Ohio Dec 2 amid revived business activity a labor famine seems imminent. At a Chamber of Commerce meeting rubber manufacturers said two thousand more workers would be needed soon and they did not know where to find them. Auto tire workers are said to be working day and night to meet demand.
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Aaron
Ohio
Chamber of Commerce
Wool tariff hearing volleys over Ohio sheep decline
Ex Representative Clark cites witnesses including Grosvenor and Dane as Congress debates keeping the present wool duty. Grosvenor links tariff to Ohio land values and sheep counts while Dane warns the duty is the industry’s viability. Census-like exchanges arouse Cochran and Stuart before adjournment with wool schedule to resume tomorrow.
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United States
Charres H. Grosvenor
Ohio
Grosvenor
Clark
New York
E. E. Dane
Avon
N. Y
Theodore Justice
Philadelphia
Brown S. Stuart
Tertile Workers
Bourke Cochran
Cochran
Stuart
Andrew Carnegie
Governor urges health officers to raise public health effort
Albany December reports Governor Hughes welcoming the annual convention delegates of the state sanitary officers. He warns health administration duties will grow more exacting and ties state prosperity to health. Sessions cover vital statistics, pure water and milk, with papers by Wilcox, Porter, Ogden, Wachter and Cooke on streams, wells, dairy sanitation, and water quality.
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Albany
Hughes
Sanitary Officers of
Eugene H. Porter
State Health Department
Ne Gs
W. F. Wilcox
State Department of Health
F. D. Beagle
Division of Vital Statistics
C T. Graham-Rogers
New York
State Department of Labor
Theodora Horton
H. F. Ogden
Cornell University
L. M. Wachter
Herbert Cooka
St. Lawrence University
Wilcox
New York State
Maryland
Colorado
Maine
Connecticut
New Jersey
Vermont
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Ogden
Water Board
Herbert Cooke
Keasbay Strike Ends at Perth Amboy with Returns to Work
Keasbay Vice-President says the Perth Amboy pottery strike is over. About 300 strike breakers and 100 guards left the scene as old workers began returning to the National Fireproofing plants at $1 a day. Some workers quit again amid fear of renewed attacks, but dawn whistles drew many back and work resumed without disorder.
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Perth
Amber
N. J
Keasber
National Fireproofing Company
New York
Standard
Ex Sergeant Bird Acquitted in License Bribery Case
Former Sergeant Peter J Bird tied to the license bureau was acquitted after a several day General Sessions trial. The indictment linked him to a bribe from Mrs Dorothy Mason of a moving picture business at Math Street and Ogden Avenue, who sought continued performances without a license. He denied the charge and was dismissed by Commissioner Bingham last week.
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Peter J. Bird
License Bureau Police
Bureau of
Commissioners of Accounts
Bird
Dorothy Mason
Math Street
Ogden Avenue
Bingham
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Thr
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Ibia University
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le Beth-Israel
Portland
Ore
Gotthell
Snather
Wise
Board of Trustees
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Republican Party
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Reet
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Mr. Croker
Fifth
Sixth Avenues
Democratic Club
Peslel
Brock
Sxth Avenues
Biock
Trafic
Crokers Broadmde
Heean
Mr .Toker
Richard Croker
Eceni
Tammany Hall
Transatlantic
Far West
Sir Harry Johnston
Loyal Legion
State of
Military Order of the Loyal Legion
Little Mac
Union
Anson G. McConk
Washington
Baretoge
Monmouth
Yorktown
Valley Forge
Orth
France
Hill
Spain
Congress
P. S. C. Powers
Alfred R. Page
Wills City
Peace Advocates
Senator McCreary
Pacific Oceans
Aeronautics and War
Cer
Jack’’ Wilmerding
Arnold Print
Akron
Mr. Cockrar
Gov. Hughes
Keasbey
Sergeant Bird
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