Fresh Air Fund record and health officials praise
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund sent 9539 children to the country for two weeks of health and happiness at a cost of 36931 dollars. Dr Thomas Darlington, Commissioner of Health, lauds the charity and urges city aid while noting the program supports the Department of Health and mirrors community good.
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Tribune
Thomas Darlington
Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Department of Health
Basin of Health
Children From Tribune Fresh Air Fund Home Stroll in Middle Town
A group of children from the Tribune Fresh Air Fund Home in Middle Town take a leisurely stroll outdoors. The outing highlights community efforts to provide wholesome recreation for city youngsters.
Fresh Air Children Fund Sees Record Year Of Help
The year brought the highest receipts yet for transporting children to the country for rest and fresh air. Donations from Mrs. D. Willis, others, and a broad network of churches and volunteers funded transportation and care for hundreds of children across Ashford Hill, Shokan, Interlaken, Tenafly, and more, under leadership of Burton C. Austin and the Shepherd Knapp Home staff.
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D. Willis
Burton C. Austin
Ashford Hill
George R. Montgomery
Shokan
William Gee
Main Avenue Presbyterian Church
East Orange
N. J
Nellie Pagnam
Meriden
Wallingford
Litchfield
Conn
Mortimer Shuford
Shepherd Knapp
Richard F. Kieffer
Chapel Hill
William M. Dunn
Georgie Gordon
Interlaken
Emma A. Tantum
Tenafly
Mary E. Butler
Claverack
C. H. Rowan
Middletown
Fairfield
John E. Parsons
Mass
Mr. Parsons
Joseph H. Choate
St. James's
John
Lyle
Fresh Air Fund Drives Charity and Country Visits
The Tribune Fund highlights Fresh Air work aiding poor children through country vacations. It notes lasting physical and mental benefits, stories of host families across towns, and the rising support from small gifts and memorial donations. The article discusses housing, religious considerations, and the value of shared life over mere money.
Tribune Fresh Air Fund audited expenditures 1908
Wages for advance agents and medical examiners, supplies, postage, and caretaker costs are itemized for Ashford Hill, Shokan, Chapel Hill and Litchfield Homes. The audit shows receipts of 36,978.55 and expenses of 36,981.40 with a 47.44 balance, none for salaries, funds used for transport and care of 10,013 children and 474 escorts during two weeks each.
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Ashford Hill
N. Y
Shokan
N. J
N. S. Chapel Hill
Litchfield
Genn
Bell Hall and Manor
Utica
Middletown
Claverack
Manchester
New York
Tribune
Tribune Fresh Air Homes
John Bancroft Devins
Ashford Hill Chapel Hill
Francis Lynde
Cleveland H. Dodge Auditing Committee
Aged Indian Murders White Woman
The article details charity campaigns aiding tenement children with clergy and volunteers organizing country visits. It lists towns aiding the fund, the hotel host, and the treasurer handling donations. Acknowledgments are given to medical and welfare volunteers who assisted in transporting and preparing the children.
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J. M. Barrett
Tribune Association
M. T. D. Barton
R. Faris
Gets Life Imprisonment at Seventy Years- His Favorite Wolfhound Shot
Vinita Oklahoma December 2 J T Scott seventy years old well known Oklahoma Indian was found guilty last night of the murder of Miss Myrtle Murray twenty eight years old and sentenced to life imprisonment. The murder occurred last July Scott warned Miss Murray to keep off his property and shot her from his doorway as she walked toward his house to talk with him. Scott claimed Miss Murray had killed a favorite wolfhound that had been his hunting companion. Lawyers entered a plea of insanity.
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Vinita
Okla
J. T. Scott
Myrtle Murray
Scott
Miss Murray
Central Federated Union Opposes Local Option Plan
The executive committee of the Central Federated Union urged all entry labor bodies to unite against local option. Delegates said liquor industry jobs would be idle under local option. Daniel Harris of the Cigarmakers' Union cited Fall River Massachusetts where local option led to eight hundred cigarmakers losing work.
Hall Flying Turtle Promises 100 Day Air Flight
John D. Hall of Nassau Street promotes the Hall Flying Turtle as a combined helicopter and aeroplane airship. He claims it can stay aloft 100 days, needs no gas, and could carry two men over 200 miles. He envisions Navy interest and distinguishes his craft from dirigibles and planes.
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John D. Hall
Nassau Street
Hall
Tribune
Hall Air Transportation Line
Wright Brothers
Navy Department
Zeppelin
Mr. Hall
Aero Club President Arrives With Wilbur Wright News
Cortlandt Field Bishop president of the Aero Club of America returned from abroad with Mrs. Bishop aboard the French liner La Provence. Frank S. Lahm, father of Lt Lahm, accompanied them. Wright’s visit fuels aviation enthusiasm in France and the United States as Orville Wright plans France trip to teach aviation and build airplanes for 5000 dollars each. Lahm recounts a 100 foot ascent with Wright over a cheering crowd and notes aviation's moral impact.
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Wright
Orville Wright
France
Frank S. Lahm
Fort Myer
Wilbur Wright
Mr. Lahm
Automobiles Burned In Beacon Street Fire
Fire destroyed a one story Beacon street building housing H. Gavel's garage and O'Brien Brothers stores. Total loss about 45000 dollars with ten automobiles burned. Gavel badly burned while filling a tank. Brookline firefighters were blown from ladders by an explosion but suffered no injuries.
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Boston
Beacon Street
O’brien
Fire destroys St. Albans Messenger plant in Vermont
The St. Albans Messenger newspaper and job printing plant in St. Albans Vermont burned completely early today causing a total loss of 0 000. Jeweller B B Perkins who occupied a store in the building suffered about 15 000 in damage.
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St. Albans
B. B. Perkins
Revolver Tests at Schutzen Park End In Failure
Major John P. Hains tested the duplicate revolver used by Captain Hains in the Bayside tragedy. Eight shots fired, a sapling pierced, but the weapon jammed on the fifth shot. Witness Eugene Young and an army expert took notes as spectators dodged ejected shells. District Attorney Darrin denied claims that Mam Claudia Hains would testify. she is not expected to testify for the prosecution. Other notes include Disclosures on Bro. of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers leadership change and ties to the American Automatic Stoker Company with Dawn Ross serving as president.
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Peter C. Hains, Jr
William E. Annis
Bayside Yacht Club
John P. Hains
Captain Hains
T. Jenkins Hains
Schutzen Park
Long Island City
Hains
Eugene N. L. Young
Army
Mam
Claudia Hains
Boston
Darrin
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