Subway Crib Resumes Service After Parker Building Fire
Late night talks among Interborough Rapid Transit engineers Public Service Commission and Edward Murphy led to a 5 am restart of subway service. An emergency crib of four layers of yellow pine timbers was laid in Fourth Avenue to prevent collapse from the Parker Building fire while inspectors assess safety and pending tenant access.
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Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Public Service Commission
Edward S. Murphy
Interborough Company
George W. Pegram
Fourth Avenue
28Th
Murphy
Hedley
18Th Street
Fallon
O'Connor
William Barclay Parsons
George Pegram
Henry B. Seaman
Frank Hedley
Charles A. Gardiner
Parsons
Mr. Seaman
Seaman
Mr. Parsons
Interborouch Engineers
John H. O'Brien
Union Square
20Th Street
Grand Central
14Th Street
Bridge
Madison Avenue
23D Street
West Side
Post Office
Astor Place
Bureau of Buildings
Cornell Man Apparently Insane at Ithaca
Cornell civil engineering student Tully J. Liddell of Fayette Mississippi sparked mystery after a morning altercation with five men and withdrawal from campus. He was jailed then moved to Mobbs Tavern and has not eaten since Friday when a letter to his father was found on him. His landlady says he was high strung but temperate.
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Tribune
Ithaca
N. Y
Tully J. Liddell
Cornell
Fayette
Miss
Smallpox Epidemic Reported in Wappingers Falls
In Wappingers Falls, seven miles south of Poughkeepsie, a smallpox outbreak was announced last night. The city health board opened a free vaccination bureau in Poughkeepsie City Hall as news showed at least twenty five cases, though the disease is mild.
Mysterious attack on horseman Hoffman dies in hospital
Michael J. Hoffman, a race horse owner and New Orleans bookmaker, lies dying at City Hospital after a night time assault. He was shot with a shotgun barrel while asleep, suffering a fractured skull and seven scalp wounds. The quiet house remained locked from the inside with no valuables taken.
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Tribune
St. Louis
Michael J. Hoffman
City Hospital
Hoffman
New Orleans
Fulton Fire Destroys Half Village In Incendiary Blaze
Three Rivers Michigan January 12 About half the business district of Fulton was burned in a blaze suspected to be incendiary. Loss estimated at 50000 with several shops including L TW Weed general store Merrills Harness Shop James Burns Buggies and Implements C W Wicks Feed Mill Marrson Colp Hardware and William Framer barber shop damaged.
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Three Rivers
Mich
Fulton
L. TW. Weed
Merrills Harness Shew
James Burns
C. W Wicks
Marrson & Colp
William Framer
Gunboat Bravo Disabled in Gulf Storm Tow to Vera Cruz
A special dispatch from Mexico City reports the Mexican gunboat Bravo was towed into Vera Cruz after a Gulf storm. Water flooded the hold and all machinery was put out of commission.
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San Antonio
Tex
Mexico City
Bravo
Vera Cruz
Gulf
Labor Boycott Hits Boston Newspaper Action
The Central Federated Union in Boston boycotts William Randolph Hearst’s Boston American over the newsboy strike. The dispute centers on coverage and distribution related to the strike, prompting organized protest by union members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Boston
Central Federated Union
Wi. R. Hearst
Boston American
Oklahoma Banker Accused in Land Deed Case
J A Henry president of First National Bank Altus Oklahoma is under a 2500 bond until the grand jury meets in June. He was arrested on a charge of falsifying a deed to 23 acres of land owned by C E B Traweek, but he held the notes of both Traweek and his wife.
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The
Tribune
Altus
Okla
J. A. Henry
First National Bank
C. EB. Traweek
Traweek
Medford Board grants Tufts hydraulic lab at Wrights Pond
The Medford Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners has allowed Tufts College engineering students to use Wrights Pond as a hydraulic laboratory and outpost. The pond, 196,000.0% gallons capacity, lies three miles from the college and was once Medford’s reservoir.
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Medford
Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners of
Tufts College
Wright
Railroad Agent Wounded In Accidental Shooting
Savannah Ga January 12 W E Estes general freight agent of the Central of Georgia Railway was accidentally shot by his wife as she handed him a pistol at his bedside. She heard a noise and believed a burglar was present. The weapon discharged inflicting potentially fatal injuries.
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Savannah. Ga
FE. Estes
Central of Georgia Railway
Estes
Lincoln centennial funds urged by governor
Louisville January 12 Governor Willson plans a special message urging a bill for an adequate appropriation and a state commission to oversee the Lincoln centennial. The February 12 1908 birth anniversary is the target with Lincoln Farm Association plans underway at Lincoln birthplace in Larue County. President Roosevelt has agreed to deliver an address.
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Louisville
Willson
Lincoln
Lincoln Farm Association
Larue
Roosevelt
Human chain saves skater from Morris Canal
In Belleville New Jersey on January 12 Charles McCormick aged eighteen a violinist at Centenary Methodist Church Newark was rescued from drowning by a human chain after going in over his head. John Kieran extended a hockey stick and McCormick grabbed it as rescuers arrived. Skaters formed a chain to pull themselves and the others to shore due to soft ice.
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Belleville
N. J
Charles McCormick
Centenary Methodist Church
Newark
Morris Canal
Bohe
McCormick
John Kieran
Fearful Brooklyn man slashes throat in alleged burglar fright
Thomas Henderson, eighty nine, a retired merchant of 473 Willoughby Avenue Brooklyn, tried to kill himself with a large pocketknife after fearing burglars. He was taken to Cumberland Street Hospital with a prognosis doubtful. A relative kept watch as neighbors reported alarm and police fatigue.
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Thomas Henierson
Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn
Cumberland Street Hospital
Hughes
Vernon Avenue
Henderson
O'Conners
Motion Picture Trip to Berlin at Carnegie Hall
Burton Holmes presented a Berlin travelogue at Carnegie Hall drawing a large audience. The ordered imaginary journey began in Hoboken then Hamburg and proceeded through Berlin with scenes of the Spreewald Windish folk and the liner Auguste Victoria. It included Emperor William watching fleet maneuvers and the crown princess marriage entry.
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Burton Holmes
Carnegie Hall
Berlin
Holmes
Mr. Holmes
Hoboken
Hamburg
Spreewald
Auguste Victoria
William
Aked to keep preaching despite health concerns
At Fifth Avenue Baptist Church Rev. Charles F. Aked said he plans to preach twice next Sunday and does not intend to take a vacation. Doctors' consultations last Friday indicated he likely will not need an operation. In his sermon he criticized the purge against alcohol as a luxury that harms society and endangers youth.
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Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
Charles F. Aked
Aked
Sunday Tipplers Disturb Court In Lee Avenue Scene
In Williamsburg yesterday morning a court session was interrupted by clinking glasses and a noisy crowd. Magistrate O'Reilly ordered a police presence as detectives arrested the saloon owner Albert Hartman’s son for violating the excise law. The arraignment led to remand for a hearing.
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Lee Avenue Court
Williamsburg
O'Reilly
Lee Avenue
Albert Hartman
Reilly
Endurance auto race ends in fatal crash in Houston
In a Houston endurance race today sixteen cars competed when John Trenton The Houston Post sporting editor was killed in a collision with a streetcar. Brown Botts suffered internal injuries and Ray Weiss a lumber company sales agent was badly injured.
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Houston
Tex
John Trenton
Houston Post
Brown Botts
Ray Weiss
Bridge Burns at Monterey Mexico
A dispatch from Monterey reports the San Luis bridge linking the north and south parts of the city burned yesterday. Nearby frame business districts were destroyed. The estimated loss ranges from 300000 to 106000 dollars.
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San Antonio
Tex
Monterey
Mex
San Luis
Bail Granted in Conspiracy to dynamite home case
Antonio Lanasa and Alfred Constantine Goffe, heads of A Lanasa & Co and Lanasa & Goffe Steamship and Fruit Importing Co, were released on $19,000 bail on charges they led a conspiracy to dynamite Joseph Di Giorgio home, president of Atlantic Fruit Co. The Di Giorgio home rear was blown up December 19 after his refusal to pay $10,000. Four men have been arrested so far in the case.
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the Tribune
Baltimore
Antonio Lanasa
Alfred Constantine Goffe
A. Lanasa & Co
Lanasa & Goffe Steamship and Fruit Importing Company
Joseph di Giorgio
Atlantic Fruit Company
di Giorgio
Crx
Two Women Killed and Wounded by Trolley Car
Randolph Mass January 12 A trolley car on the South Braintree Line fatally injured one woman and seriously harmed another as they stood in a dark trackside area signaling for a stop. The dead woman was identified as Mrs Leahy of 14 Everett Street Dorchester. the injured woman was Mrs Annie Fitzgerald of the same address. The crash occurred about two miles from Randolph Centre in Braintree.
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Braintree
Randolph Centre
Plan to reduce American Writing Paper stock capital
Telegraph dispatch from Holyoke Massachusetts reports plans to cut the American Writing Paper Company capital from 25 million to 22 million dollars. Stockholders receive notice for the annual meeting to be held February in East Orange New Jersey. Directors propose retiring one million shares of common stock and scrapping of stock bought in open market at panic prices. Preferred stock remains at 12.5 million. The move is understood to require stockholder approval.
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the Tribune
Holyoke
Mass
American Writing Paper Company
East Orange
N. J
Saree Oe
Prisoner Detained Over Unidentified Man’s Death
Police accuse Harry Michaels of knowing something about a man found dead with a fractured skull at 1st Street and Third Avenue. The unidentified victim died at Bellevue Hospital. Michaels, 286 First Avenue, was arrested and confined at the 22d Street Station after claiming ignorance of the death.
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Third Avenue
Bellevue Hospital
Harry Michaels
First Avenue
Michaels
Fear for Big Buildings on Lake Front
Telegraph report from Cleveland on January 12 notes Supervising engineers and local experts warn the county buildings commission led by General Jared A. Smith refuses to drain the lakefront site for the group plan. Quicksand under the soil may cause the $23 million complex to slip into the lake. the $8 million courthouse already has its foundation laid. Engineers threaten court action unless drainage is implemented and a public meeting is held to protest delays.
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Tribune
Cleveland
County Buildings Commission
Jared A. Smith
Lake Front
J. Milton Dyer
W. J. Carter
Motor box explosion on Bay Ridge BRT train sparks panic
A motor box blew out on a Bay Ridge Brooklyn Rapid Transit train just after leaving Atlantic Avenue station causing about 500 dollars damage and alarm among passengers, mainly women. Guards kept passengers inside as firemen used extinguishers. traffic resumed after about thirty minutes.
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Bay Ridge
Brooklyn
Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn Tunnel Draws Crowds on Opening Sunday
Thousands of Brooklynites and New Yorkers rode the first Sunday for the subway tubes. Borough Hall in Brooklyn and stations on the Manhattan side were crowded all day with people touring the river crossing. Patrons learned trains from Borough Hall stopped at 14th Street and many visited the Parker Building ruins.
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Brooklyn
Borough Hall
New York
Escaping gas kills man and wife in boarding house
William P Granville aged 30 and his wife Annie 30 were found dead from gas poisoning in a room at 221 East 18th Street. Police and coroners office say accidental. Mrs Walkerman tenant reported gas odor. door forced open. stove cock turned on accidentally. Bodies removed to morgue.
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William P. Granville
Annie
East 18Th Street
Granville
Barbara Walkerman
Zehnder
Bellevue Hospital
Grant speaks at Calvary Church on Army Y M C A work
General Grant was the principal speaker at a Calvary Baptist Church meeting in New York area to promote Y M C A work in army posts. Miss Helen Gould attended and greeted him. Speakers outlined post duties and the audience included veterans and soldiers from Fort Wadsworth Fort Schuyler.
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A. F. Mosely
Cuba
Grant
Ruland
Eight Men Drowned in Eunico River Disaster
The Express from Tampico reports eight drowned when a barge of E. M. Fowley carrying twenty workers capsized in the Eunico River. A passing steam tug caused a large swell, tipping the boat. Foreman Lucas and seven others perished. remaining crew survived.
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San Antonio
Tex
Tampico
Mex
Eunico
E. M. Fowley
Lucas
Actor Wool And Wins On Stage In Bayonne Marriage
Miss Ethel Johnson an actress of Newark Avenue Jersey City and George Malley actor of East 14th Street Manhattan visited Justice James J Boylan Bayonne late Saturday night and wed after Malley proposed during a love sketch on stage. ceremony follows their appearance at a local theatre.
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Ethel John
Newark Avenue
Jersey City
George ©. Malley
East Li4th Street
Manhattan
Bayonne
Office of Justice of the Peace
James J. Boylan
Avenue C
Malley
Johnson
Brunswick merchants demand cash in New Brunswick
Retail merchants in New Brunswick New Jersey inform customers that all bills must be paid in full. Wholesale dealers cut grace period to seven days, requiring full settlement upon payment. Peter M. Van Anglen has been reelected president of the association.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Peter
van Anglen
Judge Bartlett Improves After Heart Condition
At Presbyterian Hospital Judge Edward T. Bartlett of the Court of Appeals showed marked improvement after a recent heart ailment. Dr Thatcher said the attack was not severe and he should be able to leave the hospital in three or four days with rest and care.
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Presbyterian Hospital
Edward T. Bartlett
Court of Appeals
Thatcher
Bartlett
Weather in a Medley Blows Down Small Buildings
A wind storm caused property damage across the area with several small buildings blown down. No injuries were reported. The Rucyrus Steel Casting Company plant suffered smashed windows and two small storehouses blown over.
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Rucyrus Steel Casting Company
Snow closes Michigan churches in heavy blizzard
A Michigan blizzard disrupted transportation and church services across the state. Detroit reports interruptions to trolley, train, and telegraph service as Bay City records eighteen inches of snow. In the Thumb district long railroad drifts threaten days of halted trains and obstructed roads forced churches to cancel evening services.
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Detroit
Michigan
Bay City
Thumb
Chicago Snowstorm Cuts City After Hours Isolation
Chicago and surrounding areas were cut off from wire communication as a heavy snow storm with a northeast gale blanketed the city. Snow melted on contact, overburdened lines failed, electric car service to suburbs stalled, and fire alarm telegraph service was crippled causing delays in responding to fires, though none were severe.
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Chicago
Central Station
Milwaukee Blizzard Paralyzes City with Snowbound Wires Down
A fierce blizzard hit Milwaukee from early today, crippling telegraph and telephone lines and stopping streetcar traffic. Railroads report minor train delays while the weather service notes sixteen inches of snow through seven this evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Weather Bureau
Blizzard Wrecks Church and School in Texas
A Texas blizzard over two days caused heavy damage including a wrecked church at Cresson and the Haw Thicket School near Howland destroyed. A new church at Elgin was blown down, with fears of heavy livestock losses.
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Tribune
Fort Worth
Tex
Cresson
Howland
Lamar County
Elgin
January Lightning Strikes Baltimore Area in Severe Storm
A January electrical storm swept over Baltimore and surrounding areas after a rapid temperature rise. Skating persisted, a tropical southwest storm followed, and a Walbrook residence was struck by lightning with no injuries. Damage occurred in Carroll and Baltimore counties and on the Eastern Shore, including Westminster where the United Telegraph and Telephone exchange was hit.
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The
Tribune
Baltimore
Chesapeake
Walbrook
Carroll
Westminster
Carroll County
United Telegraph and Telephone Company
Two Men Struck By Freight Train In Jersey City
John McNamara and Leo Egan, pedestrians, were struck by a moving freight engine in the DL&W yard near 11th street Jersey City yesterday. Egan escaped with a slight scalp wound while McNamara suffered fractures of both legs and internal injuries that may prove fatal. Both were taken to St. Marys Hospital Hoboken.
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John McNamara
12Th Street
Leo Egan
Jersey Avenue
Jersey City
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
11Th Street
Orange man wanted since April held in police lockup
Edward Haugh, sought since April 15, 196, for breaking out of the Orange lockup by prying bricks from a cell room window, is in Police Headquarters after being arrested by Newark police yesterday afternoon.
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Orange
Edward Haugh
Newark
Kilties Hear Dr Wylies North Countries Address
Representatives of several Scotch societies gathered at Scotch Presbyterian Church to hear Rev Dr David G Wylie speak on The People of the North Countries at Central Park West and th street. About thirty attendees wore Highland dress and the church was filled.
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David G. Wylie
North Countries
Scotch Presbyterian Church
Th Street
Central Park West
Wilson's Trial Postponed In Newark Court
George Wilson the man alleged to have killed Frederick Romer at Orange a month ago was slated for trial in Newark but delays in the Ready trial may push his case to Wednesday or Thursday.
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George Wilson
Frederick Romer
Orange
Court of Oyer and Terminer
Newark
Wilson
Ex Governor Ladd In Hospital
Ex Governor Herbert W. Todd, long resident of Boston, is a patient at Butler Hospital in Providence. He is under a nervous diseases specialist and is reported to be improving.
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Tribune
Providence
Herbert W. Todd
Boston
Butler Hospital
Patrolman’s Body Reported Seen in River
Joseph Reiss, a pier watchman, saw a police officer’s body floating near Roosevelt street at 9 3 last night. Police launched a patrol boat and sent Lieutenant McKinney, but could not locate the body. They believe it is Patrolman Robert J. Fitzgerald of the bridge squad, knocked from the Brooklyn Bridge on Friday while attempting an arrest.
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Joseph Reiss
Roosevelt Street
Reiss
McKinney
Oak Street
Robert J. Fitzgerald
Bridge Squad
Brooklyn Bridge
Texas Oil Co to Build New Plant in New Jersey
The Texas Oil Company a Standard Oil subsidiary has bought land along the Kill von Kull and will erect a refinery to process Texas crude. The site includes the old Vreeland Daly and Tremley homesteads and will employ about two thousand workers.
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Texas Oil CO
N. J
Texas Oil Company
Standard Oil Company
Kill von Kull
Texas
Vreeland, Daly and Tremley
Bayonne Conductor Honesty Earns Reward after Found Money and Papers
George Ryner a Bayonne streetcar conductor found in his car Saturday a package containing $3.40 two bankbooks and valuable papers. He turned it into the company office. An excited woman soon claimed the property and rewarded him with a bill for his honesty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Ryner
Bayonne
Italian barber shot and killed on city street
Frank Sica, an Italian barber of 2151 Second Avenue, was shot at 1th Street and First Avenue by an unknown assailant who fled. He died at a drugstore after two shots struck him, as two men carried him away. Detectives arrested Charles Pandalfi after a search. a horseshoe diamond pin and a gold watch were recovered, with two diamond rings valued around $490 still missing.
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Frank Sica
Second Avenue
1Th Street
First Avenue
Sica
Francizco Sica
Becker Brothers
07Th Street
Father Collins
St. Lucifus
164Th Street
Higgins
Naughton
Charles Pandalfi
Somnambulist Wanders Montclair Street at Night
Arthur Gallern a young Montclair resident who works at night woke, dressed, and left his home, returning after three hours. He visited a barber shop and rode a trolley without paying fare or speaking, greeting others with no reaction. Neighbors recall prior sleepwalking episodes but never before leaving home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montclair
Arthur Gallern
Todoy
Gallern
Colombian Marine Products and Coast Trade Prospects
Consul Isaac A Manning of Cartagena reports on Colombian coastal resources and markets. Deep sea fishing potential exists with abundant green turtles and valued market fishes. A cold storage facility could enable US exports. local hawkbill shell products show export potential if developed. Lobsters and mother of pearl exist in quantity but lack of export focus limits trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac A. Manning
Cartagena
United States
Bay of
Gardner arrested for shooting Norwich Academy students
Delmar Gardner was arrested in Jewett City on January 12 charged with shooting John Rollins and Arthur L heureux, Norwich Academy students, on October 19. Rollins fled to Florida and L heureux is at a Massachusetts school. Police say jealousy motivated the attack at the railroad station when asked the time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jewett City
Delmar Gardner
John Rollins
Arthur L'Heureux
Norwich Academy
Florida
L’ Heureux
Massachusetts
L Heureux
Rollins
Gardner
Foreign Notes Of Interest And Curious Bits
A watch for the blind in Paris uses movable relief on the dial and a strong minute hand. An Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scot in Glasgow cannot name a gasometer, prompting a joke about dinna ken. Reports warn of Indian girls sold for cash in Alert Bay, with harsh details of trafficking. A Chinese Empress Dowager anniversary feast in November features grand displays and a formal menu. Sea water as medicine appears in South American resorts, and a Suffolk market corner employs mirrors to aid drivers at a dangerous junction.
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Paris
Columbia
Cosd
Alert Bay
Rosa
Rivers Inlet
China
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Subway
Parker
Fire Department
Water Department
Hugh Benner
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Board of Aldermen
Board of Estimate
James Street
Gangevoort Market
Allix-Chalmers Company
Edison Company
Edison
Fourth Averas
Parker Building
Paul Starrett
Fuller Company
Pierre L. LeBrun
Metropolitan Life Tower
Poughkeepsie
City In Fear
Oklahoma
Germany
DR. Aked
Dectors
Bridge Burns
Brooklyn Tunnel
Gen. Grant
Calvary Church
Army Y. M. C. A
Helen Gould
Wool
Brunswick
Judge Bartlett
Snow
Haryland
DR. Wylie
Ladd
Somnambulist
Colombian Marine Products
Glasgow
Sandy
South America
Rilo Janeiro
Woodbridge
Suffolk
England
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