Arguing Franchise Tax Under Fire In Albany Case
The Appellate Division heard continued arguments on the Franchise Tax act with professors contending the law violates the federal constitution by impairing contracts and due process. State counsel defended the act, asserting the franchise is taxable property and the tax is enforceable, with home rule not violated by state level assessment.
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Supreme Court
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Eet
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Auburn Prison Criticised by State Prison Commission
Albany reports President Lispenard Stewart criticised Auburn Prison with condemned-cell conditions described as horrible and badly lit, ventilation poor, and untidy. Elmira Reformatory overcrowding noted, House of Refuge for Women urged Civil Service exemption, Elmira overcrowding to be addressed, and overall county prisons praised as excellent.
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Lispenard Stewart
State Prison Commission
Auburn Prison
Elmira
House of Refuge
Hudson
Auburn
Stewart
Elmira Reformatory
Hudson House of Refuge For
Erie County
Monroe County
Onondaga
Plans for inauguration in Albany promise military display
Secretary of State Mc Donough begins preparations for Governor Odell Jr. second inauguration with anticipated military pageantry. Rumors place National Guard units from the 10th Battalion and Troop B volunteering, plus reformed Governor's Guard and Walden Band providing music.
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McDonough
Benjamin B. Odell, Jr
Odell
Hill
Brooklyn
10Th Battalion
National Guard
Lloyd
Troy
Joseph M. Dickey
Newburg
Governor's Guard
Walden Band
Orange County
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Unconditional Club Receives Portrait Gift From Depews
The Unconditional Club of Albany, a leading GOP circle, receives a fine portrait of Mrs Chauncey M Depew as a gift. Senator and Mrs Depew are named honorary members after a hotel veranda ceremony amid cheers from club members. Depew thanks the group in a witty address.
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Albany
Chauncey M. Depew
Depew
Consul General Rublee Succeeds Wildman in Hong Kong
San Francisco December 2 consul general Rublee arrived en route to Havana to relieve Bragg. He will proceed to Milwaukee to await orders from Washington on his next posting.
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Rublee
Rounseville Wildman
Hong Kong
Havana
Bragg
Milwaukee
Washington
Molten steel tragedy at Union Steel Sharon works
In Sharon Pennsylvania two men die and two others are fatally burned after a 40 ton molten steel ladle tilts over workers at the Union Steel Company open hearth. James Lloyd is badly burned but expected to recover. Evan Roberts and John Durbin die. Other injured include Howard Lear and Thomas Reilley. Officials offer no immediate blame.
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James Lloyd
Thomas Reilley
Boss
Evan Roberts
Durbin
Steel Company
Thousands of cattle sick in foot and mouth outbreak
Dr. Salmon, chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, reports from New England that the foot and mouth epidemic has reached about three thousand cattle in known affected herds. New cases appear daily, with Vermont experiencing extensive outbreaks. Slaughter and disinfection are planned to control the spread.
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Salmon
Bureau of Animal Industry
New- England
Secretary of Agriculture
Vermont
May Ship Cattle From Portland to Britain
A dispatch from England reported that cattle may be shipped from Portland Maine to Great Britain during the foot and mouth disease fight in New England. The British Government will allow landing if cattle avoid affected districts and Maine is not US-quarantined. Shipments would move via Canada to Itawamkeg then to Portland over the Maine Central.
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Great Britain
Portland
New England
England
C. P. Jameson
Dominion Line
Maine
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Canada
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Itawamkeg
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Half a Million for Former Employees at Port Company
Baltimore, Dec. 3. Bernard N. Baker, former president of the Atlantic Transport Company now part of the International Mercantile Marine Company, will distribute nearly half a million dollars in stock to about 300 former employees in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis and Minneapolis. Those staying after January 1 get $1 of stock per year of service. those losing their jobs get $2 of stock. A few top officials receive $2,000 in stock plus a cash sum. The stock value will be set by a fair valuation. Baker is a director of the new International Company.
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Bernard N. Baker
Atlantic Transport Company
International Mercantile Marine Company
International Company
Atlantic Company
Baker
New International Company
Woman Charged With Jewelry Theft in Jersey City
Mrs. Lena McAlvine twenty nine years old is charged with stealing nine diamond rings two gold bracelets a gold watch and a chain and other jewelry worth eight hundred dollars from Mrs. Anna Collins of Varick Street Newark. Detective Lee took her to Jersey City for a hearing after arrest by Newark detectives Carroll and Long. A Gregory street hearing in Jersey City police court is scheduled.
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Newark
Jersey City
Daniel Lee
Anna Collins
McAlvine
Collins
Gregory-st
Two New Theatres Possible In New York Area
The theater scene moves as Lee Shubert nears completion of buying the five story flathouse at 223 West Forty-third Street adjoining his recently acquired Thistle house at 219 and 221 West Forty-third Street. Broker George Ranger handled the deal and a new plot runs 6 by 100.5 feet. Separately, Klaw & Erlanger Amusement Company shows a 30 year lease for 231 to 238 West Forty-first Street and 234 West Forty-second Street at eight thousand dollars yearly, with plans previously reported for a theatre named the Liberty on that site.
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West Forty-thirds
Thistle
West Forty-third St
Shubert
George Ranger
Register
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West Forty-second-st
the Tribune
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The
Liberty
Northern Siberia expedition yields 15000 museum specimens
The two year journey by Waldemar J. Jochelson and Waldemar Bogoras will bring fifteen thousand carvings and domestic implements to the Natural History Museum. Professor Steine says the collection is interesting and scientifically important and will be installed promptly.
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Waldemar Bogoras
Siberia
Museum of Natural History
Steine
Philadelphia Mayor and five Commissioners visit New York tuberculosis wards
Mayor Ashbridge of Philadelphia and five Commissioners of Charities and Correction arrived with Charities Commissioner Folks and Correction Commissioner Hynes to inspect Blackwell's Island and surrounding wards. They boarded a department tug from Jersey City to East Twenty sixth street, toured Blackwell's Island and Ward's Island, lunching on site before studying the consumption wards. The mayor aims to establish a similar tuberculosis branch in Philadelphia and to observe New York City's handling of cases. The workhouse was also on the itinerary.
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Programme of sports today in New Orleans Newark and Murray Hill
Racing events hosted in New Orleans and Ingleside. Trotting meeting of the National Trotting Association board of review at the Murray Hill Hotel. Basketball features Columbia versus Mount Morris in Newark.
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Ingleside
Board of Review
National Trotting Association
Murray Hill Hotel
Columbia
Mount Morris
Newark
Sweet Alice Leads as New Orleans Races Play Out
New Orleans on December 3 reports Sweet Alice as the winning favorite in the day’s races amid fine weather. First race results list Tom Maybin and Tancred among top finishers, with many runners noted. Subsequent races feature Peter Duryea, Nabocklish, Pride of Galore, Jessie Jarboe, Scorpio, and Pierce securing wins, with detailed times and entries for Thursday’s program.
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Helgerson
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Entry changes for Madison Square Garden race announced
Two foreign riders Constant Mercier and Constant Marionette are excluded from the field. J Frank Galvin of Hartford and E F Root the New England amateur champion will compete. Root, finishing second to Marcus L Hurley by one point, enters his first pro race and will end his amateur career in the Madison Square Garden amateur race this Saturday night.
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Constant Marionette
J. Frank Galvin
Hartford
America
New England
E. F. Root
Root
Marcus L. Hurley
Root Wil
Madison Square Garden
Regimental Indoor Meet Highlights Nesbitt Cup Contests
The 7th Regiment hosts one of winter’s biggest indoor meets at its armory Saturday evening with seventeen Nesbitt Cup events and four Lydecker trophy military contests. Eight hundred entries, regimental band, and multiple notable riders and runners are listed among participants and handicaps for sprints, hurdles, mile and two mile races, and field events.
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A. H. Kent
Wash” Delgado
G. C. Bradsworth
W. A. Hughes
Delgado
Victor Andrews
C. F. Fechtman
W. F. Thoman
Austin Allen
K. Thomas
Paul Doel
C. P. Loeser
W. S. French
R. K. McLea
Carl Sanford
L. L. Martin
Jo S. Sanford
C. H. Covell
H. J. Moore
A. D. Cree
Richard Sheldon
S. K. Thomas
Company E
Sam Thomas
Suburban and Brooklyn Handicaps to Double in Value
Coney Island and Brooklyn Jockey clubs raise total purses for the Suburban and Brooklyn handicaps to 20000 each next season. Historical purses show former values as high as 17500 and 1704 in earlier years, with reductions during hard times. Entries for the Suburban Handicap close January 5, 1993.
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Brooklyn
Judge Morrow
Diablo
Dr. Rice
Navy football man out of danger after concussion
Midshipman Hugh K. Aiken of Annapolis was injured in the November 20 game against Bucknell. Doctors say he has recovered to be out of danger with no permanent physical or mental injury expected. Aiken suffered a brain concussion and underwent skull surgery by Dr. W. W. Keen.
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New York
New Rochelle
Charles L. Dana
Joseph Collins
Annapolis
Hugh K. Aiken
Bucknell College
Young Aiken
W. W. Keen
Philadelphia
Linden Park racetrack sold at auction in Jersey City
The Linden Park racetrack near Elizabeth was auctioned in Jersey City yesterday. Nine bids occurred before M. M. R. Van Keuren, former Monmouth Park buyer, won the property for 1.47 dollars, about 75 cents per acre, with hopes it may still host racing though likely to be cut into building lots.
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M. M. R. van Keuren
Monmouth Park Racetrack
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Yale Princeton dual track meet announced for May 9
New Haven reports Captain J B Thomas of Yale Track Athletic Association announcing a Yale Princeton dual track meet set for May 9. Harvard Yale meet to be held May 3 in Cambridge and the intercollegiate meet at Mott Haven on May 30. Yale and its supporters welcome the Princeton contest.
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Corrigan Aids Plan For Kansas City Mile Track
Ed Corrigan the Chicago horseman and local capitalists announce formation of a $250,000 company to build a mile track in Kansas City. An option on southeast grounds is secured. Corrigan says one race meeting next fall, then two per season with top national horses expected.
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Ed" Corrigan
Chicago Horseman
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Governor Odell Sees Mayor Low In Private Conference
Governor Odell met with Mayor Low in a city conference with details undisclosed. The meeting followed Odell's Republican Club speech criticizing leaders and urging support for Low, while a faction led by Mason Elsberg Lauterbach seeks Morris's ouster though he enjoys Odell and Platt's backing.
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Action Over 24 Year Old Will Heads to Vice-Chancellor
Heirs of Theodore P. Howell seek construction of the 1875 will to determine whether Henry C. Howell's heirs, living in Morristown and Newark, inherit their late father’s distributive shares. Samuel C. Howell petitions with Louise Kirkpatrick as complainant. only two of six children survive. Estate valued at about 250000 in real estate, stocks, bonds and securities. Also listed, Offer of 106000 for Opera Box.
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Howell
Henry C. Howell
Morristown
Samuel C. Howell
Louise H. Kirkpatrick
United States District Court
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Peter H. Ballantine
Elizabeth
Elizabeth W. Howell
Kirkpatrick
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Smith Columbia's Captain Chosen For Next Year
Columbia's football team yesterday elected Richard S. Smith captain for next year. Smith, 24, 5 feet 11 inches, 186 pounds, from Klamath Falls Oregon, has played the last two seasons. Gordon G. Greene was unanimously elected manager and J. G. Prall assistant manager after a contested vote 172 to 146.
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Science
J. G. Prall
College
W. A. Tilt
R. H. Bradley
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Tilt
Hyde Park to Meet Brooklyn Poly Prep in Chicago Showdown
Hyde Park football team travels to Chicago to face Brooklyn Polytechnic Preparatory School in a West versus East interscholastic clash. Brooklyn is coached by Captain Kernan of Harvard, while Hyde Park benefits from coaching input by Alonzo A. Stagg formerly of Yale. Hyde Park will pay substantial expenses for the Brooklyn squad.
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Polytechnic Preparatory School
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Kernan
Harvard
Westerners
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Yale
Weekes Best Punter In Muddy Columbia Contest
Columbia's punting contest on South Field yielded Harold Weekes as champion with an average of 40.45 yards over five punts. Freshman end R. M. Schoonmaker posted 38.35 yards and W. C. Duell 37.45 yards. Several varsity men underperformed as the loving cup trophy, awarded by the football association, was contested for annually.
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Harold Weekes
R. M. Schoonmaker
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The
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Enid Oklahoma City Without a Cemetery
Enid Oklahoma reports no local burying ground in eight years since its founding. Population nears nine thousand and an undertaker operates with a furniture store, yet no natural deaths have occurred for months. Residents often send bodies to their home states for burial.
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Enid
Okla
United States
Princeton elects football manager and assistant in student vote
Princeton undergraduates in the senior class elected James Sanderson Lawson Jr. of Williamsport Pennsylvania as football team manager. Frank Arthur Hamilton of Pittsburgh was chosen assistant manager over Harold Inott of South Orange New Jersey.
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N. J
James Sanderson Lawson
Williamsport
Penn
Lawson
Frank Arthur Hamilton
Pittsburg
Harold Inott
South Orange
New Trial Granted for Caleb Powers in Goebel Murder Case
In Frankfort, Kentucky, the Appellate Court granted Caleb Powers a new trial after finding prejudice from Judge Cantrill's refusal to vacate the bench on defense affidavits. The opinion, written by Judge O'Rear, notes the three Democratic judges dissented amid the Goebel murder conspiracy verdict.
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O'Rear
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Opera stockholder cites box shares fetch high bids
A Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company stockholder told a Tribune reporter that $100,000 had been offered for box ownership, with original shares valued around $30,000 and previous sales near $65,000. A half box rents for $6,000 yearly, pricing shares high amid the opera house's $1.5 million construction cost, illustrating rising value. A separate Madrid report notes a man named Perez Pulgar arrested with a poniard declaring intent to murder the King but deemed insane.
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Tribune
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Madrid
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Orense
Spain
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Old Glory Horse Sale Closes At Madison Square Garden
The annual Old Glory horse sale at Madison Square Garden ends with strong results. Ninety four head sold over nine days for 365065 dollars, averaging 391 dollars per head. Yesterday 82 horses brought 17350 dollars, averaging 212 dollars. Notable entries include Bella Bells, Charley Ford, Manaloa, Daisy Fullerton, and Orange Chief with owners and agents purchasing most star lots.
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Rear Admiral Rodgers to Come East to Brooklyn Yard
San Francisco dispatch states Rear Admiral Frederick Rodgers will lower his pennant aboard the cruiser New York and depart for the East to assume command at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Wisconsin is due from Panama shortly. Admiral Casey may shift his flag to the New York, while Admiral Glass will command the cruiser after several months. A Brooklyn Navy Yard visit adds further talk of Rear Admiral Barker possibly heading to a European station.
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Cornell Men Discuss Henley Plan
Cornell graduates met at the Cornell Club in West Forty-third Street to discuss sending a Cornell eight to Henley. The Cornell Athletic Council has asked graduates nationwide for guidance, and at the December 13 Ithaca meeting F. C. Affeld Jr. of Cornell 97 will represent the New York alumni. No details were released after the meeting.
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Oberlin College Receives Conditional Gift
President King announced a sizable conditional gift to Oberlin College in Oberlin Ohio on December 3. The donor's name was withheld, and the college expressed optimism about securing the funds despite the attached conditions.
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King
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Murphy to be honored at Tammany reception tonight
Charles F. Murphy new leader of Tammany Hall will be entertained at a Democratic Club reception tonight. The club holds these brief gatherings for each leader with no formal speeches, plenty to eat and drink, and a cordial turnout.
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Entries Closed for Six Day Race at Madison Square Garden
Entries for the international six day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden were closed after rapid signups would exceed fifty teams if all accepted. The organizers will limit entrants to riders with prior six day race experience and proven records to ensure a championship contest.
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For Sale Brewster rubber tired brougham
Property listing announces a Brewster rubber tired brougham for sale at 14 East 41st Street, priced at 300 dollars, with owner Peter Dolan named in the notice.
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