Noise curbs eyed as city fights horn and shout nuisance
City health officials report widespread noise from horns, shouting hucksters, and street traffic near hospitals despite Commissioner Bingham’s Order 47. Some districts show partial compliance while car horns and factory whistles persist, with enforcement shifting to traffic squads and public institutions praising the crackdown.
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Bingham
Lemuel Rubin
Forsyth Street
Rivington Street
Cornell
Fort George
Fort George Avenue
Making Blind Self-Supporting Through Community Classes
The People's University Extension Society reports its tenth year of aiding the blind toward self support. Free classes for the blind show growth in basketry, cardwork, bead work, and chair caning with 210 pupils in women and girls programs and doors for men. Crippled children also benefited with 23 classes and 276 lessons, whilememe training included 11,712 class sections, 14,475 enrolments, and 4,405 total attendance. Over 6,500 lectures reached mothers and public school pupils, 17% of teachers contributed, funds totaled 0,688, and year end balance stood at 4,363.73.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
People's University Extension Society
Memue
Bridge Fire Halts Traffic Under Elevated Tracks
A blaze under the Brooklyn Bridge South roadway near Manhattan station entrance disrupted Coney Island traffic for about thirty minutes. Four workers caused sparks from Georgia pine plank remnants amid trolley works, prompting buckets of water, six engines, and an ambulance response. no injuries reported. Authorities suspect a cigarette end on flammable debris sparked the fire.
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Brooklyn
Manhattan
Coney Island
Quinn
Harry Smith
St. Gregory’s Hospital
Park Row
Cat bite incident on Manhattan Avenue injures two people
Mrs Matilda Miller of 58 Manhattan avenue and Walter Pick of Manhattan avenue were bitten on the legs and hands by a cat. Pick was taken to J Hood Wright Hospital after receiving medical treatment.
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Manhattan
Matilda Miller
Menhettan Avenue
Walter Pick
Manhattan Avenue
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Night Cruise Cries Lights Violation Brought To Light
Deputy Surveyor Coneys aboard the tug Timmins conducted harbor safety enforcement using a searchlight from dusk. About twenty gasoline launches were found without proper lights or bells and whistles near Sandy Hook and Kill von Kull. One vessel, the Lothian owned by J. Demarrais of Brooklyn, was ordered ashore for missing required equipment, with a reprimand and potential confiscation if she went offshore within 30 minutes.
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John J. Timmins
Matthew M. Coneys
Timmins
Upper Bay
Staten Island
Kill von Kull
Coneys
Lothian
J. Demarrais
Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn
Sandy Hook Bar
The
Harrison Osborn
George J. Smythe
Auditor's Department
Charles Lyman
Treasury Department
Washington
Peary Enters Belle Isle Straits on Roosevelt
Commander Peary reports the Roosevelt Arctic steamer crossed the Gulf of St. Lawrence and entered the Straits of Belle Isle at 6 o'clock last night. He notes arrival at Point Amour Light earlier that evening, good weather, and a smooth crossing with all well.
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Roosevelt
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Straits of Belle Isle
Associated Press
Commander Peary
Point Amour
Ca Ray
N. F
Point Amour Light
Gulf
Straits
Peary
Boarder's Gun Livey Near Riot At West 126th Street Boarding House
Mrs. Thomas Bird, operator of a boarding house at 213 West 126th Street, faced a back rent demand from Frederick Peters. After she confronted him with a revolver, Peters fired on doors as patrolmen arrived. he fled, was pursued through 127th Street, and was captured after a lengthy exchange. No injuries reported as police and residents witnessed the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Bird
West 126Th Street
Frederick Peters
West 125Th Street
Peters
125Th Street
Alezatara
127Th Street
Blohm
Harden
Hayden
Mexican Hard Times and Currency Reform Questions
Mexico City reports customs receipts plunging over one third as hard times bite, blamed on the government's curtailment of free gold coinage. Officials note partial monetary reforms, with calls for free gold coinage and a new silver dollar. Rumors about Creel and a push to restore silver coinage are denied.
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Mexico City
Republic
Monetary Commission
Commission
Japan
United States
Mexico
Vera Cruz
Enrique Creel
Army and Navy News on trials and new fleet colliers
Washington reports on acceptance trials for Captain Baldwin s dirigible and the Wright brothers aeroplane at Fort Myer Virginia with possible presidential viewings. Navy moves to build a pair of fleet colliers at Mare Island for 3 6 million and to push independent fuel transport while another collier may be built at Bremerton or Puget Sound. Army medical reserve corps forms with 160 active officers and examinations for civilian physicians. Navy pay corps fills seven junior grades and a nationwide exam for doctors is set for August 3 with about 60 vacancies and 150 candidates expected.
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Washington
Army Signal Corps
Fort Myer
Virginia
Thomas Baldwin
Wright Brothers
Army Board of Ordnance and Fortification
Langley
Smithsonian Institution
Army Signal Officers
Navy Department
Mare Island Navy Yard
Navy Yard
Pacific Coast
Mare Island
Prometheus
Vestal
New York
Puget Sound
Bremerton
Utah
Army Medical Reserve
Army Medical Reserve Corps
Regular Medical Corps
Army Medical School
Reserve Corps
Army Medical Department
NAVY
Navy Pay Corps
California
the Tribune
Seattle
Canada
Customs Inspectora
United States
Bellevue Official Celebrates 37 Years Service
Michael J. Rickard assistant superintendent at Bellevue Hospital marked his thirty seventh year with the institution. He first entered as a patient July 19 1871 after losing his right leg in a railroad accident and later served in multiple posts before becoming assistant superintendent in 1892. Rickard saved three children in a 1879 fire and twice risked his life including saving a patient from the East River and directing a typhoid camp during an 159 typhoid outbreak.
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Michael J. Rickard
Bellevue Hospital
Mr. Rickard
Big Hospital
Ives
Tomcat Attacks Mount Kisco Farmer in Poultry Yard
Mount Kisco New York farmer Frank Sands is critically injured after a huge twenty two pound tomcat savaged his left hand and arm. He had tracked poultry thefts for a week and finally confronted the cat as it killed a prize hen. The animal bit and tore before a farm hand killed it with an axe. Sands fainted from shock and blood loss but survived.
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Frank Sands
Mount Kisco
N. Y
Mr. Sands
Mexico for the Mexicans policy stirs Mexico press
The Mexican anti foreign fight grows, with La Patria declaring the time ripe for a Mexico for the Mexicans policy. The article targets Yankees and attacks American influence while urging readers to compare with Argentina Chile and Brazil.
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la Patria
Yankees
Mexico City
Mexico
Argentine
Chile
Brazil
Speeding Chauffeur Accused of Yankee Owner Case
William Simmons a Madison avenue chauffeur was arrested for speeding between 36th and 38th streets. He claimed the car belonged to Frank Farrell owner of the New York American League team. A woman in the party Mrs Frances Potter paid $109 in diamond to secure his appearance at Jeffer son Market Police Court. Seven other alleged violators including one woman Mrs George M Buttle Arlington N J were arraigned in Irvington N J for speed law violations. Three arrests for speeding were made today with fines: William Downey Bay Shore $15 John Hutchings Long Island City $10 Christopher Straub Long Island City $10.
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William Simmons
West Ith Street
Madison Avenue
William Mosher
Tenderloin
Simmons
Frank Farrell
New York
Frances Potter
East 27Th Street
Jefferson Market
Irvington
N. J
George M. Buttle
Arlington
Chester Rodgers
John Taylor
Millburn
Charles E. Liscombe
Plainfield
I. E. Rusling
Belleville
Maurice Asher
Newark
Henry Haycock
Jersey City
Peter Stilwell
Bayonne
Freeport
Long Island
William Downey
Bay Shore
John Hutchings
Christopher Straub
Long Island City
Taxicab overturns on Broadway. driver censured
A New York Taxicab Company vehicle driven by John Sheppard with four passengers veered from 72d Street onto Broadway yesterday morning, struck the curb and overturned. Sheppard was arrested for reckless driving but discharged by Magistrate Breen in the West Side Court with a reprimand.
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Broadway
New York Taxicab Company
John Sheppard
Sheppard
Breen
West Side
Auto prisoner chases runaway horse in Harlem ride
Franklin E. Nesbit of 62 Cathedral Park Way faced $100 bail in Harlem Police Court for speeding on Fifth Avenue. He could not post bail but could obtain a bondsman at a nearby garage. Bicycle patrolman Ajax Whitman halted the chase after Nesbit followed a frightened milk-wagon horse into 116th Street.
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Franklin E. Nesbit
Cathedral Parkway
Magistrate House
Harlem
Fifth Avenue
Ajax” Whitman
Nesbit
Herman Wormser
115Th Street
Wormser
116Th Street
Whitman
Seventh Avenue
F2rst
Baseball Player Killed By Auto In New York Street Tragedy
Seventeen year old Samuel Halfon of 72 East Sth Street walked backward into a New York Taxicab Company auto at Fifth Avenue and Ninth Street in front of Mount Sinai Hospital and was fatally struck. He died before surgeons could help. Chauffeur Henry Hirech of 161 Hast Bd Street was held in $1,000 bail by Coroner Harburger.
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Samuel Halfon
East
Bali
Harburger
Cyclist dies after brake failure on hill in Paterson
Henry Vandenbergh, 35, of No 4 East 12th Street Paterson, riding downhill when the brake rod snapped. He could not stop and crashed into a trolley car on Belmont avenue. He was crushed to death, his body wedged under the car as a crowd of women spectators fainted and became hysterical.
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the Tribune
Paterson
N. J
Henry Vandenbergh
East 12Th Street
Vandenbergh
Belmont Avenue
Belmont Park
Mason Ends His Life In Brooklyn Home
Charles Burnham harness maker of 9 Bergen Street Brooklyn hanged himself to the transom of his bedroom yesterday. His family were away. Burnham was a Mason.
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Charles Burnham
Bergen Street
Brooklyn
Mr. Burnham
Young man fights crowd and police in Brooklyn street drama
A 28 year old man behaved in a deranged manner at Bedford Avenue and South 4th Street in Williamsburg. He repeatedly tried to jump in front of moving cars until Patrolman Raynel subdued him. The struggle spilled into the street and the officer used his club. He was later restrained and taken to the observation ward of Kings County Hospital after treatment at Eastern District Hospital.
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Bedford Avenue
South 4Th
Williamsburg
Raynel
Eastern District Hospital
Kings County Hospital
Cars Crash in Mount Vernon Near Crossover Switch
Two trolley cars from New Rochelle on routes to New Rochelle and West Farms, The Bronx, collided head on in Mount Vernon yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Both trains slowed to pass the crossover switch and while no one was killed several were hurt with bruises and injuries. Dominic Coline of New Rochelle suffered a severed nose and disfigurement after being thrown against a window, while John Mara of 216 West 126th Street sustained a cut on his left arm and other bruises.
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New Rochelle
West Farms
Bronx
Mount Vernon
Dominic Coline
John Mara
West 126Th Street
Ice Cream Invades Far East Along North German Lloyd Ships
American ice cream is popular in China Japan Australia and even Samoan Islands. Passengers prefer domestic creams over foreign versions and every North German Lloyd express ships both for its own passengers and Far Eastern services. Nearly one hundred thousand bricks were eaten on the line’s steamships last year.
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Far East
China
Japan
Australia
Samoan
Lloyd Line
New York
Bremerhaven
Lloyd
Explosion on the Arrow Injures Two Firemen
Captain D C Packard of Edward F Whitney's yacht Arrow refutes reports that the engines failed after a boiler tube burst. Two firemen were burned. one is back at work, the other hospitalized severely but not fatally. The ship suffered minor paint damage near the boiler room.
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D. C. Packard
Edward F. Whitney
Arrow
Immigrants Redirected by U S Immigration Bureau
Washington July 1 figures show the division of information in the bureau of immigration and naturalization distributing admitted aliens to farm and labor opportunities across 26 nationalities. About nine hundred thousand cards were sent nationwide with about four million planned. from February to June nearly one thousand aliens found work, mainly farm labor, in states including New York 181 and Pennsylvania 55 with many other postings across Alabama to Wisconsin.
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Washington
Division of Information
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization
Congress
Information Branch
Immigration Service
New York City
Alabama
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Shipping Men Out of Klondike
Telegraph report from Dawson July 19 says Klondike labor demand has collapsed as employment bureaus flood the camps. Police order deters new arrivals over the White Pass unless they show money or a verifiable job prospect. Four hundred men have already been shipped out and beggary first appears in the gold camp.
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the Tribune
Dawson
V. T
Klondike
White Pass
No Light On Williams Tragedy
Dover Delaware July 19 The search for the murderer of William Williams an aged farmer and suitor for Elizabeth Wall thirteen years old continues with no success A theory suggests Williams was attacked in Delaware and dragged into Maryland while alive and hanged to a tree near Maydel Maryland Detective F R Dick of Baltimore assists the investigation but no tangible clues have surfaced Police pursue theories of murder tied to marriage or robbery and the Delaware Attorney General may be asked to help.
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Dover
Del
William Williams
Elizabeth Wall
Maydel
Williams
Delaware
Maryland
F. R. Dick
Baltimore
Executions Set For Charles H. Rogers and Angelo Laudiero
Charles H. Rogers and Angelo Laudiero face execution today in Sing Sing prison death chair. Laudiero killed Michael de Ambro of 178 Hester Street on December 14 1906. Rogers killed Willis Olney, Fred Olney, and nine year old Alice Ingerick in Orange County on October 6 19%.
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Charles H. Rogers
Angelo Laudiero
Sing Sing
Laudiero
Michael de Ambro
Hester Street
Rogers
Willis
Fred Olney
Alice Ingerick
Orange County
Wright to Review Troops in Chattanooga
General Luke F Wright Secretary of War and General Franklin Bell chief of staff will arrive in Chattanooga and review troops at Camp Taft Tuesday afternoon. About sixty percent of the forces including state guards and regulars are encamped for maneuvers divided into two armies Blue and Brown commanded by Brigadier General Clifford L Anderson and Colonel D Cornman. Civic bodies in the city have planned entertainments during their stay.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Luke F. Wright
Franklin Bell
Camp Taft
Bell
Clifford L. Anderson
Georgia
D. Cornman
Seventh Infantry
Wright
Progress in Canada and trade shifts in 1907 report
An outline of Canadian progress from the consular reports shows 1907 total trade at 3646 150 000 with imports 872 355 000 and exports 273 25 000. U S exports to Canada rose by 26 455 000 despite UK tariff preferences, while UK imports into Canada grew by 19 348 000. Capital investment, immigration, mineral and wheat production, rail and electrical development, and living cost changes are noted.
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Washington
Dominion
Bureau of Manufactures
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
Canada
North America
Cuba
West Indies
South America
Asia
United Kingdom
Niagara
London
Ontario
Royal Commission
Disagreement Over Opium Trade Sparks Vancouver Protest
The Canadian plan to abolish opium and bar its use and import draws a large protest in Vancouver. White and Chinese leaders alike condemn the drug, but fear losses to local opium interests if the policy is enacted within a year. In Seattle officials note reduced opium demand and describe intensified border controls and smuggling concerns across Puget Sound.
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Tribune
Vancouver
B. C
British Columbian
Death in a Jamaica man’s court absence ends in death
William Mayer forty five of No 1 Dewey avenue Jamaica failed to appear in Far Rockaway magistrate court on a support charge. He was found dying at home after his wife left for court and neighbors say he let himself in. Dr Rohr Jamaica Hospital said death likely arsenic poisoning. Mayer had been away from home since Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Mayer
Dewey Avenue
Jamaica
Far Rockaway
Queens
Coure
Rohr
Jamaica Hospital
Meyer
Soda Cracker Wager Nearly Fatal for Man in Montclair
In George Ellworth's grocery near Jacksonville Barton Longman bet George Wallen he could eat coco aue packages of soda crackers in half an hour without liquids. Wallen choked on a dry bite, spectators panicked, Ellworth fetched Dr Bull who saved his life by inducing disgorgement of the cracker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montclair
George Ellworth
Jacksonville
Barton Longman
George Wallen
Wallen
Mr. Ellworth
W. J. Bull
President Roosevelt to attend national veterans encampment
President Roosevelt will be guest of honor at the United Spanish War Veterans national encampment early in September. Admiral Dewey Rear Admiral Schley Major General Wood and Richmond P Hobson will also be guests. He will address the veterans at a monster camp fire.
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Boston
Roosevelt
Dewey
Schley
Wood
Richmond P. Hobson
Police Raid In Chinatown Nets Fifteen Chinese Gamblers
Police from Elizabeth Street Station raided a basement gambling house on Dovers Street last night, arresting Mon Pan and fifteen Chinese individuals. Officers seized two dice sets, dominos, and a small basket of bate tons used in Chinese games of chance as most detainees denied gambling at the station.
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Elizabeth Street
Dovers Street
Mon Pan
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Halt Auto OF
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