Debs Draws Rapt Crowd At National Socialist Conference
The National Conference of Christian Socialists at Carnegie Hall featured Eugene V. Debs as the main draw, with Ed win Markham presiding. Speakers including Bishop Spalding and ministers urged cooperation, secularize religion, and turn business toward a cooperative commonwealth, echoing Debs critique of Democrats and Republicans and calling for a socialist future.
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National Conference of Christian Socialists
Carnegie Hall
Eugene V. Debs
United States
Edwin Markham
John D. Long
Franklin S. Spalding
Utah
Salt Lake City
Spalding
Nevada
Paterson Mayor Angers Socialists In New Jersey
The State Socialist Convention at Paterson selected eleven men to run for Presidential electors and endorsed E V Debs. The platform calls for an eight hour workday equal suffrage and socialist principles while denouncing Mayor McBrice of Paterson for breaking up socialist headquarters and banning meetings. The state committee was told to appeal to the courts.
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Elizabeth
N. J
E. V. Debs
Paterson
McBrice
Prizes Awarded at Temple Emanu El Pupils’ Closing
The religious school of Temple Emanu El on Fifth Avenue and 434 Street held closing exercises. Rev. Drs. Silverman and Magner spoke. Prizes went to top exam performers Miss Ray Levi Louis Ellinger. May Queen flowers were recited by kindergarten. May and Seligman prizewinners named.
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Temple Emanu-El
Temple
Fifth Avenue
Silverman
Magner
Ray Levi
Louis Ellinger
Sara Bernheim
Alan Berhof
Madelin Deschere
Lewis May
Clara Greenhut
Lesem Bach
James Seligman
Myron Blumenthal
Arlein Rosenheim
Greenhut
Rockefeller at Class at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
John D Rockefeller attended a Bible class at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, engaging in a debate on wealth with Rev. Dr Aked. He urged young men to attend church, noted class enrollment, and critiqued newspaper misquotations while recounting a golf reporter's questions.
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John D. Rockefeller
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
Aked
Rockefeller
Richardson
John D., Jr
Dr. Aked
Mr. Rockefeller
Tribune
Tarrytown
NYU Graduates Hear Sermon on Personal Conscience and the We
Five hundred students and friends attend NYU baccalaureate at University Heights. Rev. Dr. Robert Mackenzie of Rutgers Riverside Presbyterian Church warns that corporations replace personal I with corporate we. He urges students to resist collective abstraction and reclaim individual responsibility, saying self-love is essential and self-neglect is a greater sin.
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New York University
University Heights
Robert Mackenzie
Rutgers Riverside Presbyterian Church
Memorial service for 7th Regiment veterans at St Thomas
Services in memory of the dead of the 7th Regiment were held yesterday afternoon in St Thomas's Church by veterans. More than six hundred old soldiers attended, joined by several hundred current members. The Rev Claudius M Roome preached the sermon as chaplain of the veterans. Afterward the bugler sounded taps while the men kept silent.
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St. Thomas's Church
Claudius M. Roome
Domestic and Persian Rugs and Linoleum Sale Items
A catalog style listing details 300 rolls of matting and 122 carpets including Mushabad Persian and Indian types priced 85c to 1.00 per sq ft plus 200 domestic rugs in sizes 9x12 with prices 17.50 to 23.00 and 40 yards of various widths. Crex matting 75 rolls 1 and 2 yards wide at 35c per sq yd. Best linoleum and printed lino at 1.00 to 1.15 per sq yd and 45c per sq yd, usual 60c to 75c.
Odds Fragments From Unclear Source
A string of betting like figures appears without context indicating odds or stakes. No names dates places or events are identifiable to anchor a proper news item.
Pleads For Catholicism In American Education
The sermon by Rev. Joseph H. McMahon condemns modernist ideas in New York public schools and argues Catholicism loses influence as Catholics fail to build a strong English Catholic press. He cites evolution, secular literature, and insufficient Catholic education as dangers while urging a Catholic press and textbooks to strengthen priestly vocations.
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America
Joseph H. McMahon
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes
Washington Heights
Father McMahon
New York
Father So-and-So
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
Milwaukee
Holy Father
Rome
Optimistic Club of New Jersey forms in Newark
North Jersey holds Optimist Sunday as 100 pulpits preach hopeful doctrine. The Optimistic Club of New Jersey, non political and non sectarian, is incorporated with Judge Charles F. Herr as president and officers including W T MacIntyre and James F Reily. A 50 member standing committee meets at the Board of Trade rooms to plan a large forthcoming gathering.
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North Jersey
Optimistic Club of
New Jersey
John J. O'Connor
Newark
Mr. Lines
E. A. Wasson
St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church
William A. Morgan
Pilcher
Robert Scott Inglis
Father Field
Church of the Sacred Heart
Charles F. Herr
W. T. MacIntyre
James F. Reily
Board of Trade
Confederate Veterans Reunion Set for Birmingham
In Birmingham Alabama June 9 10 and 11 the United Confederate Veterans will hold its annual reunion. The city will host free hospitality at Hotel John B Gordon at the state fairgrounds with bands and veterans on hand. General George P Harrison Alabama division commander will lead the parade at 11 am Thursday. Governor and Mrs Comer to host a reception Tuesday night and fireworks planned at the fairgrounds.
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Irmingham
Ala
United Confederate Veterans
Birmingham
U. Birmingham
State Fairgrounds
John B. Gordon
Sons of Veterans
George P. Harrison
Alabama
B. B. Comer
Fair Grounds
Mrs Mary Albaugh Actress Dies After Sudden Death in New Jersey
Long Branch, N J May 33 Special Mrs Mary Mitchell Albaugh wife of John W Albaugh actor and manager died suddenly here today from apoplexy Her long serving servant Betty Mahoney who had worked for 36 years died earlier this morning and is thought to have contributed to the shock She was born in Long Branch seventy four years ago and was sister to actress Maggie Mitchell She leaves three children and three sisters Her husband retired as actor in 189% and as Lyceum Theatre lessee he had been active in theatre for forty years.
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Long Branch
N. J
Mary Mitchell Albaugh
John W. Albaugh
Betty"’ Mahoney
Albaugh
Lucretia Borgia
Queen Elizabeth
Lady Macbeth
Lyceum Stock Company
Cardinal Logue Lays Two Cornerstones In The Bronx
Irish Primate Cardinal Logue spent a strenuous afternoon walking with a Catholic processional march through The Bronx. He blessed and laid cornerstones at St Athanasius Church on Tiffany Street and Southern Boulevard and at the St Raymonds parochial school, leading services without addresses. Two thousand boys and five hundred girls greeted him at the Catholic Protectory and about eight thousand watched at St Raymonds. He then visited St Josephs Institute for Deaf Mutes in Throgs Neck with Monsignor Mooney and John D Crimmins.
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Cardinal Logue
Church of St. Athanasius
Tiffany Street
Southern Boulevard
Bronx
St. Raymond's Church
St. Joseph's Institute For
Throg's Neck
Monsignor Mooney
John D. Crimmins
Acquitted of Killing Miss Sapp in Ida Kansas
Samuel Whitlow was found not guilty of the murder of May Rapp after a 36 hour deliberation. Initial balloting showed 9 to 4 for acquittal with the Black juror swayed last to favor acquittal.
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Miss Sapp
Ida
Kan
Samuel Whitlow
May Rapp
Woman ends life and child in gas tragedy at Hope Street
In Providence on May 31 Mrs Alma Ruoff wife of Frederick Ruoff a candy and tobacco merchant claimed the lives of herself and their fifteen month old daughter by inhaling gas at their home No 8018 Hope street. The husband found the bodies on his return home at 7 pm with a rubber tube in the woman's mouth connected to an open gas cock. No cause is given.
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Providence
Alma Ruoff
Frederick Ruoff
Hope Street
Ruoff
Shoots Sweetheart and Herself in Farm Quarrel
Watertown New York May 31 Miss Ortha Emppen of Oxbow shot herself and her sweetheart Barnee Laidlow at a Jefferson County farm. Laidlow was wounded but not fatally. Miss Emppen, twenty five, is likely to die from a self inflicted injury after a quarrel between them.
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Watertown
N. Y
Ortha Emppen
Oxbow
Barnee Laidlow
Laidlow
Huppen
Jefferson County
Latchow
Utah and Northern extend bonds to 1935
The Utah and Northern Railway, a subsidiary of the Oregon Short Line, extends its 4,995,000 first mortgage 7 percent bonds at 4 percent until 1935. Bondholders must deposit by June 12, minus the July 1 coupon, to receive a $3 per bond cash payment. The extension preserves the lien and Oregon Short Line assumes principal and interest.
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Utah & Northern Railway Company
Oregon
Oregon Short Line Railroad Company
Joan A. Ely, Real Estate Operator, Dies at 72
Joan A. Ely, retired real estate operator of New York, died at his home on East 1st Street. He leaves two sons and a daughter. his wife died nine years ago. Funeral tomorrow at 1 o'clock, Woodlawn Cemetery burial. He formerly led Horace S. Ely & Co at Liberty Street and lived in the city since youth after Chicago coffee trade.
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Joan A. Ely
East 1Éth Street
Horace S. Ely
Chicago
New York
Woodlawn Cemetery
Rear Admiral Jackson McElmell Dies at 74 in Philadelphia
Rear Admiral Jackson McElmell of the United States Navy, retired, died at his home in Philadelphia today at age seventy four from heart disease. He began as a third assistant engineer in 1855 and helped in the Atlantic cable expedition, later served in the West Gulf squadron, and under Admiral Farragut on the Hartford. He was fleet engineer on the North Atlantic squadron after the Civil War and retired in 1896.
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Philadelphia
Jackson McElmell
United States Navy
McElmell
Navy
West Gulf
Farragut
Hartford
North Atlantic
Father Dies at Daughter's Grave in New Jersey Cemetery
Hubert L. Pierson, sixty, a Maplewood lumber merchant, died suddenly at Fairmount Cemetery Newark yesterday afternoon beside his daughter's grave. He and his wife had gone to decorate the grave when he complained of heart pains and collapsed. His daughter, a Vassar graduate, died seven years ago and he had visited her grave each Memorial Day.
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Hubert L. Pierson
Ridgewood Road
Maplewood
N. J
Fairmount Cemetery
Ewark
Vassar
Baby Melva Shafer’s Five Great Grandparents Noted
Washington May 21 Special Melva Shafer five months old daughter of Mr and Mrs James S Shafer of this place enjoys the distinction of having five great grandparents Mr and Mrs John McNear of Oxford grandparents of the baby"s father on the maternal side are eighty one and seventy one years old Mr and Mrs Peter Shafer grandparents on the father"s paternal side are sixty seven and sixty five years old respectively The fifth great grandparent is Mrs Elizabeth Sparrows of Hackettstown grandmother of the baby"s mother
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Washington
Melva Shafer
James S. Shafer
John McNear
Oxford
Peter Shafer
Elizabeth Sparrows
Hackettstown
Ships Gather at San Francisco Harbor After Pacific Cruise
The first division of the Atlantic fleet under Rear Admiral Sperry including the Connecticut Kansas Vermont and Louisiana returned from Tacoma and anchored in Man o War Row beside the Maine. The hospital ship Relief accompanied them. The Minnesota followed from Bremerton later.
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San Francisco
Atlantic Fleet
Sperry
Connecticut
Kansas
Vermont
Louisiana
Tacoma
Man O' War Row
Maine
Relief
Minnesota
Bremerton
Stand Shifts At Border Wall Ignite License Clash
Two Greek vendors operating a portable stand along a Battery wall shifted location to evade a liquor license crackdown. Police arrested the workers when found selling without proper Dock Department permits. The stand allegedly belongs to a syndicate and pays someone $100 a month for the privilege.
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Peter Klocus
Klocus
Department of Parks
Smith
Battery Parkey
Hiss
Vemier
Commissioner's Office
Free Landing
Dee Department
Te Department
Ots
Jose Mary
Janitor battle at Williamsburg tenement ends with hospital visit
In Williamsburg at No. 34 Box street janitor Jona and Ludwig Kachow clashed during a tenant christening. Kachow was taken to hospital with a fractured skull while the janitor and guests fled as police intervened. A second item reports storm damage along the coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island with two schooners ashore. A charity appeal seeks support for a mother and her three children, her husband’s illness leaving rent unpaid.
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Jona
Box Street
Williamsburg
Ludwig Kachow
St Catherial
Anteno
Greenpoint Avenue
New Ewea
Boston
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Society
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London
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Christian Socialist Fellowship
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Socialist Party
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Kingdom of Order
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Paradise
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E. E Carr
Moses
Gene” Debs
Dr. Carr
Charles H. Vail
Emanu-El
Racers, Peer & Company
Broadway
Warren St
23Rd Street
James McCreery & Co
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Lyric Daly
Sam Bernard
Lew Fields
Fields
Herald Sq
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Academy OF Music
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Doe & Cat Circus
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Comat Opera International Dining Exposition
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Confederate Veterans’ Reunion
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