Dix to Keep Verbeck as Adjutant General
Governor elect Dix announced at his Hotel Manhattan headquarters that he will reappoint General William Verbeck of Manlius as Adjutant General. He indicated readiness to name other military staff and to seek resignations only if a Democratic administration desires it, while stressing efficiency and fiscal oversight of the state’s military budget.
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Dix
Manhattan
William Verbeck
Manlius
Charles E. Tremen
William Church Osborn
Verbeck
Nelson H Henry
John F. O’ryan
First Light Battery
Tammany
National Guard
A.ycar
Verbeek
Daniel Appleton
Charles F. Tice
Guard
Stavy Establishment
Hughes
Senate
Weet
Sims
Hotchkiss
Charles F. Murphy
John H. McCovey
Kings County
United
Alton PB. Parker
William F. Sheehan
United States Senate
Iecree Foster Peabody
Edward M. Shepard
Shepard
Shepard Hu
Nude Baby in Snow Found at East 98th Street
Mrs. Sarah Einbenden janitress at 71 East 98th Street found a nude male infant in a rear yard pile of snow last evening. Accompanied by tenant Sophia Cohen she moved the child to Mount Sinai Hospital. Police suspect the baby was thrown from a window or pitched over a rear fence. no footprints were found.
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Sarah Einbenden
East 98Th Street
Sophia Cohen
Mount Sinai Hospital
Big Gift to Dartmouth Strengthens Teaching at College
Hanover, N H Dec 12 Edward Tuck of Paris alumni donor announces a gift of half a million dollars to Dartmouth College to enlarge and empower the teaching staff. The endowment, in standard 7 percent securities with par 400000, aims to raise scholarship impulse and teacher quality, boosting faculty numbers and efficiency. The market value is about 500000 and annual income about 28000.
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Hanover
N. H
Dartmouth College
Edward Tuck
Paris
Dartmouth
Ernest Fox Nicholls
Webster Hall
Nicholls
Tuck
Bishop Paddock Denounces Women Vices in Oregon Visit
Bishop R L Paddock stunned a Philadelphia audience at the Church of the Holy Trinity by admonishing women against gambling for money and smoking cigarettes and warning against using the word damn. Congregation members questioned why the Protestant bishop chose their church for the sermon.
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the Tribune
Philadelphia
Wilds
Oregon
R. L. Paddock
Church of the Holy Trinity
Paddock
Memory loss man seeks lockup in Paterson police
A puzzled 38 year old automobile mechanic walked into Police Headquarters in Paterson New Jersey before 3 am claiming amnesia. He recalled only his first name Thomas and thought his home was somewhere in New Jersey. A letter signed Rose and a Brooklyn overcoat with a name and date were found. He was photographed and sent to the almshouse for ID.
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Paterson
N. J
Thomas
New Jersey
Rose
Fulton Street
Brooklyn
Charles Bauman
Bauman
Aged Recluse Hyde Slain in Chicago Home
Nathan B Hyde seventy five year old former Wisconsin United States Commissioner and Chicago exile is found dead in his home. His head shows blunt force trauma from a crowbar as police investigate a robbed and unsacked scene. Hyde, once active in law and politics, had lived alone in Chicago since 1903. Neighbors described him as wealthy with a nephew, David L Hyde, a lawyer and Al Hyde graduate.
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Bany
Nathan B Hyde
United States
Wisconsin
New York
Hyde
Chicago
David L. Hyde
al- Hyde Was
Sheboygan
Wis
Odd voice figures in suit over Hugh Smith estate
In Fulton Mississippi on December 12 the case of W J Smith of Lynchburg Virginia seeking Hugh Smith estate valued at ten thousand dollars features Hugh Smith's peculiar voice as a key element. W J Smith claims nephew status and presents his case in circuit court amid alternating whispered and shrieked testimony. Dewey's Pure Grape Juice advertisement appears in the same column.
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Fulton
Miss
Hugh Smith
Callaway County
W. J. Smith
Lynchburg
Hugh Simith
Senate Confirms White Appointment In blitz pace
President Taft sent nominations for Chief Justice White and Associate Justices to the Senate. It confirmed White as Chief Justice promptly and approved Willis Van Devanter and Joseph R Lamar for the Supreme Court along with Commerce Court judges Knapp Archbald Hunt Carland and Mack, plus two Interstate Commerce Commission members, Mey and McChord.
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van Devanter and Lamar
Knapp, Archbald, Hunt, Carland and
Mack
Commerce Court
United States
Edward Douglass White
Louisiana
Supreme Court of the United States
Willis van Devanter
Wyoming
Joseph Rucker Lamar
Georgia
Court of Commerce
Martin A. Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
Robert W. Archbald
United States District Court of the
Pennsylvania
William Hunt
Court of Customs Appeals
John Emmett Carland
South Dakota
Julian Mack
Illnois
B. H. Mey
W and
C. C. McChord
Kentucky
Meree Sconsin
Taft
Senate
Justice White
Heyburn
Fred W. Lehmann
St. Louis
Nea
Supreme Court
The
Department of Justice
Judiciary Committee
White House
Arthur ©. Denison
Michigan
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
B. H. Meyer
Wisconsin
Interstate Commerce
White
Hale
Maine
Mr. Hale
Mr. White
Tammany Hall on Fire at East 14th Street
Firefighters led by Chief Croker and Fire Commissioner Waldo battled a blaze at Tammany Hall, sparing the lower floors but flooding the building and delaying Tony Pastor’s Olympic Theatre production. Damage estimated at 15,000 to 25,000 dollars, with repairs in about three weeks.
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Tammany Hall
Croker
Waldo
East 14Th Street
Randolph
East 5Th Street
Biz
Ross
Academy of Music
Central Hotel
Olympic
Tony Pastor
Kelly the Mighty
Kelly
Carroll
Murphy
West 14Th Street
14Th Street
Third Avenue
Hall
Alleged Counterfeiters Held in New York Raid
United States Commissioner Marie in Brooklyn set $10,000 bail for Frank Weber of 604 Academy Street Astoria and Benjamin Lauttere of 482 East 11th Street Manhattan after a raid on Weber's home. They face a counterfeiting charge for gold pieces and are to attend a hearing next Monday at the federal court.
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United States
Marie
Brooklyn
Frank Weber
Academy Street
Astoria
Long Island
Benjamin Lauttere
East 11Th Street
Manhattan
Weber
Adams Street
Mrs Adriance Pays Duty on Pearl Necklace Smuggling Case
Mrs Ada F Adriance, wife of a Poughkeepsie mill owner, settled with customs after pledging guilty to smuggling a pearl necklace aboard the Baltic on August 28. The necklace was found in her hat. she paid a total duty of 17 06335 and the necklace was returned.
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Baltic
Adriance
United States
Europe
Newburg Editor Launches The Weekly Loongtic at Matteawan
John Detiere, an elderly Newburg newspaper man confined at Matteawan State Hospital, compiles a self published “newspaper” on foolscap with pen and ink. He claims the sheet will cover the institution’s needs and kicks and includes numerous pen and ink drawings. Detiere says every profession has a voice, and his aims to voice needs and benefits, excluding the bugs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Newburg
John Detiere
Matteawan State Hospital
Detere
Albany
Detiere
Aldrich May Be Returned If Deadlock Favors Aldrich
A Rhode Island Republican insider says in a stalled Legislature Aldrich could win reelection if Lippitt Colt faction deadlocks persist. The same source notes rising Assembly deadlock signals and anticipates Aldrich’s nomination after a few ballots. Brown’s Bronchial Troches advertised in the piece.
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Tribune
Providence
Republican State Central Committee
Henry F. Lippitt
United States Senate
le Baron B. Colt
Nelson W. Aldrich
Aldrich
Held Baby for a Debt in Atlantic City
A widow, Mrs. Charles Selbert, fell into debt to Mrs. William Sullivan for board of herself and her two year old son. After seeking work in Philadelphia, she sent part of the debt but was denied custody of the child. A police officer intervened, took the baby to headquarters, and returned him to the mother while she promised to send funds to settle the debt.
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Atlantic City
Charles Selbert
William Sullivan
Philadelphia
Two Cousins Named John Pollack Trap Policeman’s Net
In Waterbury two men both named John Pollack live at 28 Pond Street. One is a father. the other roams and once called himself John Smith to evade capture. A mistaken arrest exposed the pair as different men sharing nearly identical names and addresses.
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Waterbury
John QO. Pollack
Pond Street
John
John Second
John First
John Smith
Liquor Inquiry At Annapolis Naval Academy
Annapolis December 12 A board of officers has been appointed to investigate reports of liquor sales to midshipmen in local drinking places. Attention centers on a midshipman seen leaving a resort intoxicated. Board members are Commander L M Nutton and Lieutenants Fr H Pottet and G W Steele from the discipline department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annapolis
Bowyer
Naval Academy Today
L. M. Nutton
Fr. H. Pottet
G. W. Steele
Department of Discipline
McAdoo Pushes Subway Competition Over Monopoly Fight
William G. McAdoo told a Municipal Art Society audience that Hudson & Manhattan will press to operate a modified triborough route. He argued competition protects the public and criticized Interborough plans as insufficient for city needs.
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William G. McAdoo
Municipal Art Society
Interborough
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company
New York
Mr. McAdoo
Triborough
National Arts Club
McAdoo
Bert Hansen
Eld
Manhattan
Maltbie
36Th Street
Fourth Avenue
Seventh Avenue
Bronx
the Battery
City
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Treman
Osborn
Second Rage
Late Uncle
DEWEY
H. T. Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Mrs. Adriance
Ada F. Adriance
Poughkeepsie
Loonytic
Matteawan
R. I
Brown
Madoo
Hudson Tubes
Public Services Commissioners
Board of Estimate
Gzinig
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