New Woman's Hospital Opens in New York City
A grand seven story new Woman's Hospital building on Lexington Avenue opens its doors. Noted figures Bishop Potter and Dr. D B St John Roosa praise its mission for women while warning against shifting its purpose. The project carries a debt of 200000 dollars secured by a mortgage, prompting appeals for state aid.
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Marion Sims
Aittle
Madison Avenue
Sims
Cathedral of
St. John
Woman's Hospital of
New York
Bishop Potter
John E. Parsons
Board of Governors
Madison Avenue House
Lexington Avenue and
Mth Street
New York Central
New York City
Tartieburg
Pennsylvania
London
Co‘rsity
Barnard
St. Luke's, Hospital
Ome
the the Divine
Woman's Hospital
York City
Roose
Potter
Lecho Dr Roosa
Horace Porter
Christmas Sale At Girls Club By Manhattan Workings
Christmas sale at the Ladies' men of Managers of the Manhattan Workings op Club No 440 East Sith Set. on Friday and Saturday afternoons. Features include attractive and useful articles such as Christmas stockings doilies napkins and coasters. Proceeds support club activities.
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Manhattan
East Sith
Cless
Amon
Meier Ane Lake
Christmas Trees In New York A Seasoned Market Eyes Scarcity
New York spends about 300000 annually on Christmas trees and similar on decorations, says George A. Blank. A Maine Adirondacks supply has dwindled, prompting imports from Canada and early arrivals with peak deliveries from December 10 onward. Prices range from 50 cents to 25 dollars, with balsams preferred and holly, pine, and mistletoe imported from multiple states and abroad.
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New York
George A. Blank
Blank
Park Place
Mr. Blank
Maine
Adirondacks
West Street
Jersey
Doctors Call Physical Exams to Fix Part Time Classrooms
Dr J J Cronin argues for mandatory health checks before school entry to sort students by physical condition. He says backwardness stems from defects and that the lower grades are overcrowded while upper ones have space. He cites Ward's Island data and discusses savings in education and state care costs.
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J. J. Cronin
Hotel Astor
Board of Health
Schoor
Lermeerae
Chik
Ward's Island
Public School 110 Exam Reveals 10 Percent with Handicaps
Dr. Cronin reports 159 backward children examined at Public School 110 with 10 percent having physical handicaps. He recalls a riot over adenoid removals and notes some children missed the operations for ice cream party reasons. Mrs. Blake discusses another push for widows to receive fairer shares of their husbands’ property.
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Cronin
Lillie Devereux Blake
Sunshine drive aids crippled children and soldiers
The T S S charity plans increased Christmas gifts for the poor and crippled children at Seton Hospital day nurseries and destitute blind. The United States Soldiers Aid Association requests books and magazines for army posts with Major John B. Ketchum coordinating gifts prepaid to New York.
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Eves
Seton Hospital
Ketchum
Park Row
New York City
Riverside Women Organize Juvenile Street Cleaning Leagues
The Riverside branch of the Woman's Municipal League authorized a juvenile street cleaning league modeled after Waring era efforts. Commissioner Craven backs the plan and R S Simons will supply guidance. Mothers' meetings in churches and settlements will engage families in garbage separation and street upkeep. Broadway cleanup progresses with weeds cut and rubbish removed. Boulevard divided into four block sections, with one woman per section supervising. Citizens with street trees receive care instructions and cooperation cards.
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Riverside
Woman's Municipal League
Edward Curtis
West 69Th Street
Committee On
Marion Peters
George E. Waring
Craven
R. S. Simons
Waring
Broadway
Wat Ng
Musical programme for ladies day at clubhouse
An interesting musical programme has been prepared for the first ladies day of the season to be given today at the clubhouse No 538 avenue from 2 till 5 oclock.
Charity Organization Society Appeals for $1 Help
The Charity Organization Society asks for $1 to keep a seventeen year old working girl with early consumption in the Adirondacks through spring. Her health fight supports a widowed mother and siblings. Funds sent to No. 17 East 22d Street will be publicly acknowledged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charity Organization
Losiety
Adirondacks
Charity Organization Society
East 22d Street
Republican Primaries Quiet in Hudson County
Primaries to elect Hudson County Republican Committee members were held last night with no contests as factions abstained from fighting when enrolment books were controlled by the organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson County Republican Committee
Ustless
Burnham on Stand in Mutual Reserve Trial
George Edwin Joseph testified for Wells in suits against the Mutual Reserve, denying talks with Lauterbach. Burnham Jr. described settlements and payments, including $13,500 total and $7,500 to Joseph, with escrow actions and approvals by company officers. Court adjourned with Burnham’s examination to continue next day.
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George Edwin Joseph
James Douglas Wells
Mutual Reserve
George Burnham, Jr
Edward Lauterbach
Lauterbach
Wells
Frederick A. Burnham
Philander B. Armstrong
Manhattan Fire Insurance Company
Mutual Reserve Company
Burnham
Isaac Lindo
William Porter
Nott
New York
Joseph
George Eldredge
Levy
Hendrix
Armstrong
James
Patterson
Nichols & Bacon
Jevy & Bendix
German Insurance Bureau Criticizes Mutual Life Ballots
The international policyholders committee published a letter from Germany’s Imperial Insurance Bureau to Mutual Life in Berlin. It blasts Hamburg office proxy ballots as improper under New York statutes and warns against delaying ballots, urging ceasing distribution of the circular. It also references a Cape Town manager circular pushing administration proxies and delaying ballots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Policyholders’ Committee
Imperial Insurance Bureau
Mutual Life
Berlin
Hamburg
Klehner
Emil Clausen
Mutual Life In
New York
United Committees
A. MacCorkendale
Cape Town
Winthrop to Leave Equitable
Henry Rogers Winthrop, Equitable's treasurer and director, will resign at the board meeting two weeks hence, effective December 31. He departs to avoid Armstrong law issues and forms Harris Winthrop Co with John F. Harris T. E. Cunningham as brokers in New York and Chicago. Julien A. Ripley will be a special partner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Rogers Winthrop
Equitable
Mr. Winthrop
Winthrop
Armstrong
Leger
John F. Harris
T. E. Cunningham
J. F. Harris & Co
Chicago
Pine Street
la Salle Street
Harris, Winthrop & Co
Julien A. Ripley
New York
Woman from Detroit Bound for Psych Ward in Met Life Delusion
Magistrate Mayo in Jefferson Market court committed a woman identified as Mrs Augusta Bluhm to Bellevue Hospital's psych ward. The German speaker wandered near Tenth Avenue claiming Metropolitan Life Insurance officials had her son in Germany and refused to release him. Patrolman Hoffman traced her movements from Detroit to a Madison Avenue office, noting she had $37 in her purse.
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Mayo
Jefferson Market Court
Bellevue Hospital
Augusta Bluhm
Bobbinger Street
Detroit
Gd Street
Tenth Avenue
Hoffman
West 20Th Street
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Germany
No. 1
Madison Avenue
Ambulance Hit by Trolley in Newark Collision
A Newark City Hospital ambulance was struck by a trolley on Springfield avenue near Livingston street. Dr. W L Cornwell and driver Harry Moran were thrown clear while two children, Katherine Leaders aged ten months? and Mabel Leaders aged eighteen months, traveling to the contagion cottage, were badly shaken. Moran saved his horse. Cornwell bruised his arm while aiding the children. The trolley stove in the ambulance side near the stretcher holding the infant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark City Hospital
Springfield Avenue
Livingston Street
Newark
W. L. Cornwell
Harry Moran
Katherine
Mabel Leaders
Moran
Olney Urges New Boards in Mutual Life Elections
Richard Olney of Massachusetts, chairman of the international committee, told policyholders to vote for new directors in the Mutual New York Life elections. He framed the choice as opposing past maladministration and replacing re elected traitors with unimpeached trustees, reminding listeners of his former role as Secretary of State under President Cleveland.
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Richard Olney
Massachusetts
International Committee
Mutual New York Life
Olney
Cleveland
Death of J. W. Love After City Car Collision
John W. Love a retired cigar maker and real estate operator died at his home after being struck by a trolley car on Thanksgiving afternoon in Columbus Avenue. He refused to press charges against the motorman. An autopsy was planned after Coroner Harburger received the report and William Stewart the motorman was held for inquest.
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John W. Love
West 72d Street
Columbus Avenue
Theodore C. Janeway
Love
Atlanta Birmingham Fire Insurance Company Placed Under Receiver
In Montgomery, Judge A D Sayre appointed A C Sexton temporary receiver for the Atlanta Birmingham Fire Insurance Company on petition by Massey Wilson Alabama Attorney General. The firm’s troubles stem from a $65 000 loss in the San Francisco fire.
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Montgomery
Ala
Atlanta-Birmingham Fire Insurance Company
Atlanta
A. D. Sayre
Massey Wilson
Alabama
A. C. Sexton
San Francisco
Tiffany Admits Higher Duty On Pearl Necklace
Tiffany & Co loses in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals over customs mistreatment of unset pearls later found to form a matched necklace. The government sought 60 percent duty after reliquidation, and the lower court ruling for Tiffany was reversed.
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Tiffany & Co
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
United States
Fire causes damage from gas stove blast at plumbing shop
A blaze yesterday did about $10 damage when a gas stove exploded in the plumbing shop of Fred Turkowsky at 27 Sec ond avenue. Police report a small fire incident with no major injuries.
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Fred Turkowsky
Second Avenue
Providence Fire Destroys Plant at American & British Co
A blaze at the American and British Manufacturing Company plant in Providence caused about 150000 in damage. Four new engines in testing were destroyed along with testing machinery. The one story wooden building 100 by 150 feet burned to the ground. Fire officials say sparks from a passing locomotive started the fire. Explosions of compressed air endangered fire crews. A big tube from an engine flew across railroad tracks. Loss covered by insurance.
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Providence
American & British Manufacturing Company
Corliss Steam Engine Company
George Hoadley
Michigan Central Increases Pay for Thousands
Detroit officials reveal that the Michigan Central railroad company will raise wages for several thousand employees. The announcement, made today, signals a significant pay boost across multiple departments and roles.
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Michigan Central
Detroit
Railroad wage raise set for most men to four cents an hour
A proposed increase in wages from one cent to four cents per hour will apply to most railroad workers starting November 11. Canada Southern workers await a separate scale as officials plan talks with union leaders in the coming days.
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Canada Southern
Canada Southern Division
Cat
Military battalion leadership changes amid old regimental wrangles
Major Elmore F. Austin, engineer, is slated to command the Eighth Battalion when December orders reduce the state battalion by three companies. Some troopers revive Spanish American War era accusations, but Austin says he earned the post on merit and will defend himself if charged. General George Moore Smith endorses Austin’s appointment, noting prior recommendations and merit.
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Elmore F. Austin
George Moore Smith
Fighting Regiment
Sth
Austin
Cuba
Hth
Roe
Jin
Kent
Gunn
Acid thrown at horses in 1905 teamsters strike trial
Chicago reports detail the Shea conspiracy trial with witness Schultz describing acid eggs filled with acid used to injure horses. He testified Shea urged the devices and urged caution to avoid capture as horse injuries caused chaos near Montgomery Ward stores.
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Albert Young
Young
Joseph Schultz
Schultz
Truck Drivers’ Union
Shea
Montgomery, Ward & Co
Miller
Montgomery
Ward
Finks
Scully
South Water Street
TecGunte
Wabash Avenue
Jerry
Montgomery, Ward & Cart
Sullivan and Considine in Northwest vaudeville venture
Big Tim Sullivan and John W. Considine discussed a vaudeville circuit in the Northwest at the Hotel Angelus. They are involved in Seattle with a $300 theater under construction and rumored to pursue a theatrical merger.
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the Tribune
Los Angeles
Big Tim” Sullivan
John W. Considine
Ana
Hotel Angelus
Feild
Sullivan
Mr. Considine
Northwest
Seattle
New Jersey Staten Island Bridge Plans Favored at Hearing
At a Nassau Street hearing, McDougall Hawkes led the Interstate Hudson River Bridge Commission in endorsing proposed cross river bridges. H W Runyon attended for New Jersey. Two routes near Bergen Point Port Richmond and Mariner's Harbor Elizabethport were backed, with estimated total cost about a million dollars, Public Service Corporation of New Jersey likely to share.
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New Jersey
Staten Island
Nassau Street
McDougall Hawkes
Hudson River Bridge
H. W. Runyon
New Jersey Commission
Bergen Point
Port Richmond
Mariner's Harbor
Elizabethport
Public Service Corporation of New Jersey
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Girls’ Club
Holly
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York Florists
England
Ireland
Edward Rowland Sill
United States Soldiers’ Aid Association
Porto Rico
Philippines
Association
John B. Ketchum
Julia Bennett
Dansville
N. Y
H. M
East Orange
N. J
Fountain
Matawan
Edith Eckinson
Sunshine Library
Lotos Club
Burnham ON Stand
Imperial
J. W. Love
Insurance Company
Tiffany
City News
Republican Organization
Theth Assembly District
Douglas
Frederick Spiegelberg
Healy
16Th Street
St. Regis Hotel
Greason
Hans Kronald
Franklin W. Riker
John Finnegan
J. Roger
Manhattan Opera House
City Club
Columbia
Astor Gallery
Waldorf-Astoria
H. D. Wilmarth
Charles Edison
Orlando J. Smith
George J. Gould
James Healy
Willard Brown
John E. Roosevelt
Henry W. Taft
William C. Bamber
Thomas Alexander
Seth Low
Alfred E. Schermerhorn
Ludlow Ogden
Charles E. Bateson
W. Bayard Cutting
James Herman Aldrich
Cornelius P. Shea
California
Commission
Hardman, Peck & CO
Fifth Ave
19Th St
Fultes St
Brooklyn
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