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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1908
Page
11
A dreary afternoon prompts a mourner to reflect on the living rather than the dead. The husband offers a sententious remark, suggesting he’d like direction for music to accompany his own funeral, expressing a wish to steer the tone of his eventual service.
The Rev. William Pardow urged the Daughters of the Faith at the Catholic Club that divorce endangers society and that only Catholic marriage can cement bonds. He argued women should be educated and equal partners, citing Biblical roles and the need to elevate women's intellect to support men.
A critical look at lemon cure claims debunks popular health fads. Experts warn lemon juice can irritate the stomach and mislead those seeking weight loss, while homeopathic use may help mild issues like malaria. The piece cautions against overreliance on citrus cures and highlights potential digestive harm.
Mrs Taft wife of the President elect is a favorite in England with many English interests. She has friends in Oxford and follows women’s colleges closely. She studied in Oxford and knows its colleges and buildings well. A fine musician she plans to feature music in White House entertainments. She also shows interest in household matters and attended lectures on domestic hygiene cookery and dress making while in England.
Miss Ethel M. Arnold will be guest of honor at a January 15 luncheon at the Hotel Astor hosted by the Interurban Suffrage Council. Dr. Anna Shaw will also attend. Tickets available at suffrage headquarters and at the Martha Washington side.
In a large American hotel lobby a somber procession passes by on a cloudy December day. A middle aged couple laments English funeral practices, contrasting violet-gray hearse cheerfulness with the grim modern custom, calling it a survival of Puritan or pagan days.
A plea for donated men's cast-off clothes to Bowery Mission No 3 Bowery to clothe and help unemployed men find work. Mission superintendent Rev John G Hallimond cites bread line aid, farm labor placements, and a 2000 men sent last year with only 12 failing. Details of financing fares and a mission census show most bread line participants held trades or were union members cut off by dues.
The Tribune Pattern describes the latest blouse design with pretty sleeves suitable for a separate waist or full gown. The illustration shows fine lawn fabric with Valenciennes banding and hand embroidery arranged in square motifs for a delicate, lingerie style.
The pattern No 6 188 offers design variants with cashmere like trims and silk or satin bands suitable for cold weather and year round wear. Materials for medium size include 4% yards of 44 inch width, 3 yards of 32 inch, or 2% yards of 44 inch with 1 yard banding and 15 yards edging. Mail to New York Tribune Pattern Department for 10 cents, include bust size.
Governor Hughes received a request from R W Hebberd and Edward and Robert Bruere to include in the annual message a plan for state farm colonies. A five member board would appoint sites and supervise colonists, with three colonies planned near New York City Albany and Buffalo to reform and instruct vagrants and petty criminals.
A $100,000 group proposes four six story brick and stone apartment houses at 144th Street two blocks east of Broadway for Young Realty Co led by Charles H. Wallis. Designs by Thain & Thain. Total cost about $400,000 and frontage 87 feet by 86 feet. Plans also filed for loft and store building Nos 9 and 9 1/2 Grand Street and a five story manufactory at 66 7 Washington Street with sprinkler system. Busling Co. as architect.
Charles Thorley, a florist, was reported to lease the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 46th Street. The four story and basement dwelling sits on a 25 by 199 foot lot owned by Mrs. Joseph W. Harper. The long term lease will see extensive remodeling and use of the ground floor for the florist business.
Hall J How Co sold four lots on the east side of Riverside Drive 27 feet north of 116th street and extending to Claremont avenue to the State Realty and Mortgage Company for James M Horton.
Sandford and Green bought the three story and basement stone front dwelling No 18 West 8th street on lot 16 8410 seat from the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company. William P Mangam acted as broker in the transaction.
Halifax reports that to protect coast trade, Canada extends a ban on steamers of 1.5 tons gross or over until 1911. The move aims to give Canadian shippers time to build or acquire suitable vessels to replace foreign ships barred from the Quebec to Nova Scotia route. Most affected vessels carry coal and steel and are owned abroad in Italy Germany the Netherlands and other nations.
Nassau Ferry Company says it owns the Grand Street terminal and halted the Grand Street ferry. Controller Metz aims to resume service between Grand and Houston Streets by week’s end, pending a Brooklyn terminal resolution. He notes city has sufficient boats and expects a swift adjustment of the title dispute.
In a Suffolk County Supreme Court ruling, Justice Jaycox finds tax warrants in Suffolk County illegally sealed with the supervisors seal, not the punty clerk’s seal. He notes improper seals may render many years of tax collections invalid and lands sold for unpaid taxes without warrant. Percy L. Housel, attorney for Julia A. Linton, highlights the discovery.
At London meeting of Underground Electric Railways Company stockholders two Americans were elected to the board. W. T. Parsons of New York and Colonel Millard Hunsbeker were chosen as directors while Sir Fdasar Speyer presided.
Marens &o. Fifth Avenue jewellers display a private collection of black opals from the Lightning Ridge Mine. Most stones appear as translucent black, naming the gem, with some pieces heavily iridescent in green blue crimson or yellow, losing their black appearance.
Fresno December 21. S Tillis a wealthy banker and stockman of Lemoore Calif was sentenced in federal court to six months in jail and fined $1000. Tillis was convicted of illegally enclosing government lands in Cantua district where he holds large holdings.
Boston December 21 witnesses in the Car denio F King larceny trial testified about paying cash for stock orders. Only one witness secured full settlement by hiring lawyer Lee Friedman as King assigned before leaving town. Others got a few dollars or small future overpayments. some settled recently. Prosecutors showed King's heavily mortgaged real estate and possessions including cars and office furniture.
A property sale listing appears with identifiers including Nicholas Avenue and nearby streets, featuring a price of 685,500 for the listed real estate. Names such as Alexander Walker Joana John J White are associated with the item in the readable OCR fragment.
Real estate activity dominates yesterday's Manhattan Bronx market with major sales on the West Side and central Fifth Avenue leases. Jacob Leitner brokered for Johnson Kahn and American Real Estate, including Hendrik Hudson Annex at Broadway and Cathedral Parkway for 1.4 million and multiple large parcel sales on Westchester Intervale avenues and adjacent streets. The firms are advancing a vast Bronx project of six story elevator apartments on East 163rd Street to house two thousand families, tying to the Johnson Morgenthau American Real estate partnership.
Buildings Superintendent Murph has issued a permit to tear down the old two story stable at No. 47 Fast 51 street near the planned seven story two family dwelling for W. O. Vanderbilt. Plans by Warren and Wetmar were filed months ago and the original project was halted. The proposal is now said to be modified into a larger building utilizing the 47 Fast 51 site, with an estimated cost of $150,000.
Maurice Daly leases second floor of Old Guard Armory at 49th Street and Broadway for billiard parlors at 10 dollars yearly. Multiple lofts, stores, and mortgages involved. includes lease for 1 Southern Boulevard café, several office and retail space transactions, and a 5 thousand dollar mortgage package. Names include Hugo Jaecker, M. Schwartz, Isaac Levy, Adolph Kross, and Daily & Carlson.
J F Frankenthal bought yesterday at a voluntary sale at Vesey street two four story apartment houses with stores at Nos 1804 and 1806 Park Avenue and a three story dwelling on 124th Street for 9000 dollars. The day’s offerings included numerous parcels and mortgage details with taxes and partition actions listed, adjourned bids, and further properties slated for sale.
Slawson and Hobbs report selling the west side Broadway block between W 149th and 150th streets. They resold one half of the 189 by 150 foot vacant plot to a builder who plans a high class apartment house on the site.
The McVickar-Galliard Realty Company sold to a client of Abraham Ufland two five story triple filathouses at Nos. 26 and 24 West 7th Street on 25 by 100 foot lots. The deal on West 114th Street highlights a substantial property transfer.
William Douglas Kilpatrick and the Deares pany sell two four story tenements on a 50 by 92 foot plot at 20th Street for James S Herrman No S and MS West with Nos 517 and 19 a vacant 60 foot plot adjoining. Buyer a warehousing company plans a 100 foot frontage building. Moorehead Realty sells five story apartment house at 532 East 149th Street, part of a row of five recently completed. Max S Grifenhagen sells 89 Lenox Avenue at the northwest corner a four story stone front building on a lot 40 by 100 feet. Georgiana Pingel sells Nos. and 4 East.
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