Suffragette Demonstration In City Hall Park Escalates
The League of Self-Supporting Women led a Votes for Women protest by riding a car through City Hall Park and Park Row. Harriet Stanton Blatch and Helen Hoy spoke as crowds gathered and photographers swarmed, while police kept order and traffic slowed. The activists toured lower Manhattan and Battery Park before heading to New Rochelle for an evening meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Progressive Woman Suffrage Union
Ister
League of Self-Supporting Women
City Hall Park
Harriet Stanton Bilatch
Mrs. Blatch
Missi
Missis
Gamin
Mrs Blatch
Gamins
Park Row
Newspaper Row
Battery Park
Handicapped workers and employment advocates discuss roles
Dr. Janeway spoke at the School of Philanthropy about the committee on employment of the handicapped. He noted 968 placements in about eighteen months, mainly in jewelry and piano trades, with some work in boarding houses, and warned about tuberculosis patients' return-to-work challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Janeway
School of Philanthropy
Dr. Janeway
Miss Belg
Miss Adler
Safe Foundation
Jewellers
Soe
Stumb Teddy Beers
Miss Bergeer
Baber
AltBouga
Market News Reports Nectarines Lead New Fruit Arrivals
The Washington Market notes first consignments of nectarines this week with last week’s Belgian hothouse lot selling at 60 cents each. Prices span green almonds 40 cents a pound, figs 30 cents a dozen, various berries from 15 cents to 25 cents per basket, and many fruits and vegetables showing price shifts as the season progresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Market
Rocky Ford
Chicago
California
Colmans
Muscatels
Climax
Burbank
Georgia
Florida
Jamaica
van Dyk & Lindsay
Windsor
Jersey
New Orleans
Side door trial ordered for Interborough subway cars
The Public Service Commission ordered Interborough Transit to equip sixteen subway cars with side doors for trial during morning and evening rush hours. Reconstructed cars will have four doors per car and signage for entrance at ends and exit in the middle. If successful, all cars may be rebuilt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ser
Vice Commission
Orne
Interborough Transit Company
Eustis
Interborough
Hediey
Bion J. Arnold
Arnold
Fustis
The
Hedley
Interborough Company
Public Service Commission
Hapgood and Kilby Discharged in False Pretences Case
Herbert J. Hapgood president of Hapgoods Incorporated and secretary Ralph L. Kilby were discharged for lack of evidence after arrest on charges of obtaining money under false pretences. Magistrate Breen granted release, with prior bail set at 5000 and 2500 respectively. Hapgood announced civil suit against Witte and Bittel, while defending the company as conservative and dividend paying for preferred stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert J. Hapgood
Hapgoods, Incorporated
Ralph L. Kilby
Central Office
McConville and
Nelson
Breen
Tombs Court
Hapgood
Kilby
W. J. Witte
Charles G. Bittel, Jr
W. A. Page
Witte and
Bitte
Hour Chimes in Metropolitan Tower Bells Feature
Four large bells to be placed on the forty sixth story of the Metropolitan Life Building in Madison Square New York. Makers say the bells will be nearly twice as high as any in the world and the largest weighs 740 pounds with the smallest 150. They will strike the quarters of each hour in a chime and may be heard at night over a wide distance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Madison Square
Arthur C Train Resigns as Assistant District Attorney
Arthur C. Train resigns from the office where he has served as one of District Attorney Jerome's assistants. William F. McGuire, formerly a $5 assistant, is promoted to the vacancy and Train plans to enter private practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur C. Train
Jerome
William F. McGuire
Train
Long Island R R Traffic Figures Reveal Holiday Passenger Count
The Long Island Railroad carried 345,454 passengers over July 3 4 and 4, a 47,576 rise from 2007. Main line and Montauk division bore the heaviest load with 47,785 on July 3 and 44,401 on Sunday July 5. July 4 saw 126,239 passengers. Friday 100,958. Sunday 118,185. Manhattan Beach line traffic dropped from 18,327 on July 4 1907 to 4,510 this year due to reduced racetrack business.
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Long Island
Montauk Division
Manhattan Beach Line
Mrs Sage aids Pascal Institute with $2700 grant
Through Mrs Russell Sage gift of 2700 dollars the Pascal Institute of Domestic Arts and Science will continue free vacation classes for school girls and children and classes for young working girls until August 14. The funds pay rent at 576 Lexington Avenue and class expenses. Courses in sewing cooking millinery and dressmaking run from 9:30 to 12 and 1 to 4 daily. The institute seeks working girls wishing productive vacation time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Sage
Pascal Institute of Domestic Arts and Science
Mrs Pratt in Court Over $35,000 Wassermann Suit
Mrs Clara B Pratt seeks to enforce a $35,000 claim against Edward Wassermann and his brother Jesse Wassermann of Wassermann Brothers. Justice Erlanger reserved decision on vacating the order as to Edward. Pratt alleges losses of $25,000 from spring 1900 to 190? after brokers guaranteed protection, while brokers deny further liability.
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Clara B. Pratt
Edward
Jesse Wassermann
Wassermann Brothers
Justice Erlanger
Supreme Court
Edward Wassermann
Erlanger
Europe
Forimer
Hopkins Brothers
Pastor Alleges Fraud In Campbell Investment Case
The Rev. Oscar M. Voorhees of High Bridge New Jersey files a lengthy bill accusing Campbell Investment Company partners David C John A and Charlies P Campbell of selling him a bad property for 10.50 and claiming Theodore P Shonts was grantor in the deed. Voorhees says Campbells have long been church members and publicizers in religious papers sending circulars to ministers and church members across several states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Oscar M. Voorhees
High Bridge
N. J
United Presbyterian Church
David C
John A
Charlies P. Campbell
Campbell Investment Company
Theodore P. Shonts
Voorhees
Campbells
Sewer Advocates Win Point In Passaic Valley Sewer Battle
Advocates for prompt construction of the Passaic Valley trunk sewer gained a strategic victory at a Newark City Hall meeting. Municipal representatives from Paterson Orange Nutley declined to vote on July 27 1908, while a resolution urged contracting with other towns and the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission to begin building the joint sewer without further delay.
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Passaic Valley
New Jersey
Hackensack
Passaic
Newark
Paterson and
Orange
New York Bay
Newark Bay
Paterson, Orange
Nutley
Ruling Bars Evidence of Losses in Cornell Cooperage Case
Albany July 10 Justice Fitts in a state suit to cancel the Cornell University Brooklyn Cooperage Company contract and obtain lands in the upper Saranac for scientific forestry barred the company from proving estimated losses of 300000 to 400000. He said the court cannot render a money judgment against the state but may consider losses in reaching a final ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Supreme Court
Fitts
Cornell University
Brooklyn Cooperage Company
Upper
Saranac
Cornell
Cooperage
Petoskey Fibre Paper Company Pleads Guilty in Sherman Case
The Petoskey Fibre Paper Company and twenty-three wrapping paper firms faced a federal grand jury for Sherman anti trust pool violations. Judge Hough fined each company two hundred dollars. S. S. Streock, the company counsel, paid the Petoskey fine.
Religious Notices at Brick Church on Fif th Street
Rev William R Richards and ministers Rev Robert Davis and Rev F W Gunsaulus of Chicago will preach at St. church services announced for the season at Brick Church on Fifth ce sie Thirty seventh Street with clerical participation listed.
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Fifth Ce Sie
Thirty Seventh Street
William R. Richards
Robert Davis
F. W. Gunsaulus
D. B
Chicago
Church OF the Ascension
Fifth Ave
10Th St
Percy Stickney Grant
Hector
Seventh Vacation Bible Schools Open in New York City
The seventh season of Vacation Bible Schools begins under a single administrative force run by the New York City Baptist Mission Society and the Federation of Churches and Christian Organizations. Led by Superintendent Rev. Charles H. Sears, with about fifty student volunteers from colleges such as Princeton and Columbia, the program reports strong turnout and lively projects for children across six schools.
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New York City
Princeton
Cornell
Columbia
Barnard
Wellesley
Smith
New York University
City College
Wooster
Colgate
St. Mark's Episcopal
Second Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Young Men's Christian Association
Edward Judson
G. A. Wenner
H. D. Dickson
E. Stagg Whitin
George H. Johnson
South Church Moves From Madison Avenue Site
The South Church plans to relocate to a newly purchased lot at the southwest corner of Park Avenue and 8th Street. The Madison Avenue property is offered for sale with a $100,000 mortgage raised for the uptown project. The site, about four parcels, will replace old flats and houses as construction begins. The church, one of the city’s oldest, began on Garden Street with ministers and deacons and has occupied its current building since 1890 under Rev. Thomas Reed Bridges.
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Madison Avenue
38Th Street
Park Avenue
8Th Street
South Church
Garden Street
Exchange Place
City of
New York
Zion Episcopal Church
Thomas Reed Bridges
No Fear of Black Hand Reaches Fairmount Church
Congregation of the Congregational Church in Fairmount Indiana votes unanimously to call Rev. Dr. John A. Gray of Orient Long Island after he spoke on Black Hand threats to his Orient church. Gray will receive double his Orient salary and may accept lectures, departing Orient August 1.
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Congregational Church
Fairmount
Ind
John A. Gray
Orient
Long Island
Gray
Orient Church
Reuben A. Torrey
Convention On
City and Foreign Missions
John A. Davis
Massie
Broughton, Jenkins, Gray and Chapman
Chicago churches unite Baptist and Disciple into Memorial Church
Leaders of two outlying Chicago congregations merge after months of discussion. The Baptist and Disciple members vote with few dissenters to worship together in the former Memorial Baptist Church, now called Memorial Church of Christ. Plans aim to remove the parenthetical designation over time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Baptists
Disciples of Christ
Chicago
Memorial Baptist Church
Memorial Church of Christ
Baptist and Disciple
Home Missions Council Plans Winter Conferences East and Midwest
The Home Missions Council, an interdenominational body including Baptist, Congregational, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Protestant, Presbyterian North and South, Reformed and United Presbyterian boards, aims to hold a series of winter conferences in major eastern and central western cities to unify and coordinate home mission work across evangelical denominations.
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Home Missions Council
East
Central West
Conference of Foreign Mission Boards
Baptist
Congregational
Episcopal
Lutheran
Methodist Episcopal
Methodist Protestant
Presbyterian North
Presbyterian South
Reformed
United Presbyterian
Unitarian publicity plan funds broad newspaper ads
The American Unitarian Association plans a new publicity program. It hires a secretary of publicity and buys advertising space in 32 daily and 21 weekly papers plus college student papers. The department also prints and circulates tracts, with 11000 distributed last year through church members in a postoffice mission.
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The
American Unitarian Association
Dairfes
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Warpath
Texas
P. S.C
Tnterborough
H. J. Hapgood
Metropolitan Tower
Long Island R. R
MRS. Sage Aids Pascal Institute
Taos
J. Stewart CO
Bway
Bryant
Wassermann Bros
Broadway Tabernacle
Broadway
William A. Kirkwood
Calvary Baptist
West Sith St
P. Macgregor
Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church
12Th St
Charles II Goodell D
W. H. Vaughn
Central Presbyterian Church
West 7Th St
7Th Ave
Wilton Merle Smith
D. D
Lythe
Hugh Black
Christian Science Services
Church OF Christ, Scientist
W. 45Th St
Church OF the Holy Communion
7Th Avenue
20Th Street
Holy Communion
Hildren
Madison’ Ave. Baptist Church
Edward Louk
Minteter
Service Bible School
Home Masions Council
New City
Dred
83D Street
Black Hand
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Sthave
R. A. Torrey
Moody Bible Institute
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
Madison Ave
Henry Sloane Coffin
Julius A. Bewer
Union Theological Seminary
North Presbyterian Church
Ithst
Bet Broadway
Amsterdam
John R. MacKay
Old First Presbyterian Church
Sth Ave
Howard Duffield
James A. M'Cague
Ossining
Ossining, Nesuty
SO Ang
Religious Society OF Friends
East 11Th St
Rutherford Place
Manhattan
Sehermerhorn ,St
Boerum Place
Brooklyn
R. A. Tor
Evangelist John Davis
Church News
D. C. Hughes
Metropolitan Temple
O . Wheaton
Rock River Conference
Wheatan
Chirago
RA. J. Cooke
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wheaton
America
Young People's Missionary Movement
Silver Bar
Lake George
William Wilkinson
London
Wall Street
Evangelistic Committee of
Wilkinson
England
Parliament of Religions
Unity Church
Montclair
S& C. Kanaga Ratnam M. A
Central College
Colombo
Cerion
Mm Rutnam
General Synod of the
Moravian Church In
St. Bartholomew's Church
44Th St
Joseph G. MH. Barry
St. Paul’s
St Episcopsl Choreby
P. Ekm
S. D
Geo AD la
George C- Wilding
Middle Collegiate Church
John G. Fagg
A. J. Must
Marble Collegiate Church
David Jas. Burrell
John S. Allen
ST. Nicholas Sthave
Donald Sage MacKay
D. di
West Exd Collegiate
West End Ave
Tith St
Henry Evbertson Cobb
Thomas Meriden
Ilam
Ooinion Services
Unitariar Sce
Ev. Leon & Arst
VEY
University Place Presbyterian Curren
George Alexander
Ila.m
Hoffman Lobenstine
West End Presbyterian Churel
John B. Laird
Praaacord
Philadelphia
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