Defends Southern J S Bassett at Negro Conference
The daylong program at Cooper Union featured Northern and Southern speakers arguing over racial equality and rights. Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford presided as speakers including John Spencer Bassett and W E B Du Bois urged action to expand civil rights and challenge exclusion.
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Cooper Union
John Spencer Bassett
Smith College
Lincoln
Mason and Dixon
Wendell Phillips Stafford
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Justice Stafford
J J Hill on Wheat at Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition
J J Hill chairman Great Northern board visits Expo buildings in Seattle and argues wheat market conditions. He says Patten did not corner wheat but seized opportunity, notes rising per capita consumption, a 90 million population, and a 20.6 million bushel export surplus. He cites Eastern Washington grain shipments and hog/ cattle trends, with a party including J J Carroll and W H Dunwoody.
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Seattre
J. J. Hill
Great Northern Board of Directors
James A. Patten
United States
Washington
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Mr. Hill
Seattle
St. Paul
Great Northern Railroad
J. J. Carroll
Burlington Railroad
W. B. Deane
Great Northern Road
Fr. «. Cook
Minnesota Trust Company
W. H. Dunwoody
St Anthony
Consider Summer Resort Guide in The Tribune Next Sunday
If you are undecided about where to spend your vacation this summer, consult The Tribune's Summer Resort number next Sunday for ideas, features, and listings.
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the Tribune
Marshes Afire and Bridge Burned in Sheepshead Bay
A massive salt meadow fire raged for hours in Sheepshead Bay destroying a 300 foot bridge at Avenue U linking Sheepshead Bay and Flatbush. The blaze visible from Manhattan and Coney Island caused dense smoke and a $15,000 damage estimate despite extensive fire response.
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Sheepshead Bay
Manhattan
Coney Island
Brooklyn
Garretson Creek
Avenue U. Sheepshead Bay
Flatbush
Shot and wounded on a busy city corner
Robert McVety of 438 West 28th Street, a Tanner Smith gang member, was shot in the right hand at 19th Street and Tenth Avenue. A short time later William Quinn of 321 West 1st Street was shot in the breast and left thigh after three assailants jumped from a Tenth Avenue car. Quinn, once with Tanner Smith, now leads a rival gang. McVetty went to Tanner Smith leaders claiming a friend of Quinn wounded him.
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Robert MecVety
West 28Th Street
Tanner Smith
19Th Street
Tenth Avenue
Tony
William Quinn
West
Sireet
Quinn
New York
Polier
McVetty
Five Italians stabbed in New Rochelle saloon fight
Five Italians were wounded in a saloon in 24 street during a quarrel over a game of rollo. Frank Curring suffered a severe abdominal stab from a stiletto. others were cut on the head, face, and body. Two men, Joseph Frabioio and Rocco Tins, were arrested as a large railroad laborers party had gathered for work on local tracks.
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Rollo
New Rochelle
24 Street
Frank Curring
John Orte
Joseph Condtrino
Joseph
James Laffatte
Joseph Frabioio
Rocco Tins
New York, Westchester
Boston
Made Tammany's Fur Fly at West 68th Street Station
Tammany the station house mascot cat clashed with a rival Angora at the West 68th Street Police Station. The fight left Tammany with contusions and possible internal injuries. Dr Darnell of Flower Hospital attended to the cat after the incident.
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Tammany
Polis
West 68Th Street
Captain Reedy
Hamilton Avenue
Brooklyn
Darnell
Flower Hospital
Reedy
German Dress Reform Fashions Move Into Mainstream
The German dress reform movement, begun fifteen years earlier, sees long skirts, hats, corsetless wear, and porous fabrics influence current style. unions, ateliers, and designers promote individual garments, with women across professions adopting reform ideas in Berlin and beyond.
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Germany
Uier
Verein
Union For
Gainsborough
Radical Party
Mrs Dessaur Divorced. Daughter Placed in Institution
Justice Tompkins grants Mrs. Fernando Dessaur Jr a divorce from her husband, son of Fernandes F. Dessaur of New York. The three year old daughter is ordered into an institution and educated at the father's expense until age sixteen, with the Orange County farm awarded to Mrs. Dessaur in lieu of alimony.
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Telch
the Tribune
Middletown
Justice Tompkins
White Piains
Fernando Dessaur, Jrr
Fernandes F. Dessaur
New York
Dessaur
Delia May Klock
Troy
St. Thomas's Church
Jersey City
Orange County
Parade horse injures three after Brooklyn Memorial Day
After the Memorial Day parade in Brooklyn a horse ridden by Frank Lyons of Prospect Place bolted at Park Place and Underhill Avenue. Sautoire, also of the signal corps, pursued. The chase lasted about a mile to Bedford Avenue where the horse knocked down Antonio.
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Brooklyn
Frank Lyons
Prospect Place
Signal Corps
Park Place
Underhill Avenue
Sautoire
Corps
Bedford @senne
Antonio
Dolls Old and Rare Exhibit Delights Brussels Connoisseurs
Countess de Blonay’s collection of dolls, famed as Europe’s most complete, was displayed in Brussels for the Calvary Guild. The exhibit features Nineveh relics gifted by Marie Antoinette, Greek gods and mortals with removable garments, Roman ivory wax and clay dolls, a Fast doll from British India, a degenerate Buddha image, a Korean woman on a tiger, Fingo figures from South Africa, Greenland bone dolls, Alaskan types, a rare Pusello French doll from Charles VI’s era, and Peruvian grave puppets among Flemish varieties with priceless jewelry.
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Brussels
Countess de Blonay
Europe
Calvary Guild
Nineveh
Marie Antoinette
Greece
Assam
British India
Countess de Blamay
Prince Henry of Orleans
Buddha
South Africa
Greenland
France
Charles VI
Padua
Pusello
Charles
Popnea
Nero
Peru
Bartholomew
Incident on Meserole Street Involves Bruised Boy and Struck Pedestrian
Ronaldo of 186 Meserole Street was knocked down by a horse that shook Mr Lyons to the pavement. The man was taken to Swedish Hospital after medical treatment. Patrolmen Coulter and Babbington attempted to stop the animal near Park Place and at the armory, with Coulter unable to halt it.
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Jenkin Lford Jones
Ronaldo
Meserole Street
Swedish Hospital
Aecruss
Mr. Lyons
Park Place
John Coulter
Gintes Avenue
Henry Babbington
Inquest Open Over Tully Limb Loss After Trolley Accident
Coroner Brewer in Kings County to determine if Myron Tully died natural death after his right leg and left foot were amputated following a May 21 trolley crash in Church avenue. The Board of Health demands police and District Attorney involvement and prohibition on burial until inquiry rule. Tully, a 102 Vendeveer street resident and trolley conductor, had death certificate rejected by Health Dept officials.
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Brewer
Kings County
Myron Tully
Norwegian Hospital
Board of Health
Tully
Vendeveer Street
John Mitchell Leaves Illinois for New York Home
Former United Mine Workers president and Civic Federation secretary John Mitchell, with his family, left Spring Valley for New York where he will establish his permanent residence. He began as a coal digger here, married in Spring Valley seventeen years ago, and recently bought a $25 residence in New York.
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the Tribune
Spring Valley
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Civic Federation
New York
Mitchell
Scranton
Congress
Peerls
Kramer Breaks World Record at Velodrome Meet
Frank L. Kramer national cycle champion set a new world record for one sixth of a mile at Newark Velodrome with a 16 second ride. He beat his own prior mark by one fifth of a second. Clarke and Fenn tied for second in 16.15 seconds. Krebs and Anderson followed in 16.2 seconds.
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Frank L. Kramer
Newark
Kramer
Kramer Wen
Clarke
Fenn
Floyd Krebs
Norman Anderson
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Daisy
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