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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1919
Page
4
Brownsville tenants discuss a claim by Landlords' Protective Association leaders that owners aim to spite tenants by selling 100 apartment houses to African American buyers. Officials cited varied property values from 40 000 to 60 000 dollars and predicted rents would rise with any shift to Negro occupants.
Seven men were hurt when a car in Ironslyn swerved after a steering failure at Kerry and North Thirteenth streets. Driver Matthew Kearns and passengers William Gilmartin John H Smith and Frank Dean were injured along with three bystanders George Guber Michael Pipas and Edward Hoefer as the car struck an electric post and toppled.
George Sylvester Viereck spoke at the Walt Whitman Fellowship International gathering in the Hotel Brevoort, condemning U.S. treatment of commonwealths as war news sparked by protests from George Dana Mumford and Samuel O’Shea. The disruption included heated exchanges, a hall-filling row, and several attendees leaving in disagreement.
Justice Tierney yesterday refused Morris Volek's motion to cut the $1000 monthly alimony to Elise H. Volek. Volek, earning $150 monthly at Emergency First Corp, argued he cannot pay more. Volek said he supports a Yale Club home and frequents the Ritz Carlton, while Mrs. Volek contends no agreement reduced alimony and notes debt from apparel for his women friends.
Joseph Meredith Towne son of Mrs Frederick Towne and Henry R Towne of New York married Sarah Raven a Kiev born tailor's daughter in Toledo Ohio on March 13. The couple, both in their teens, live in Detroit where Towne works for an auto firm earning about 30 dollars weekly. The union occurred without family knowledge but is now said to be reconciled.
Paris May 91 Foch, For elu Miniates Pichon and Louis Lou heir, Minister of Reconstruction, held a lengthy conference today at the Porign Once.
Writers and societies gathered at Walt Whitman’s birthplace in West Hills Long Island under Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences to mark the poets centennial. Attendees included Percy MacKays Namlin Garland Gerald Stanley Lee and Dr Mabel Irwin with letters from Arnold Bennett John Masefield and Edgar Lee Masters read. Dr Richard Burton hailed Whitman as a leading American writer alongside Poe Hawthorne Emerson and Mark Twain.
In Springfield Illinois on May 31 Dr Anna I Shaw of New York arrived for a state convention and fell ill with pneumonia. She was moved to St John’s Hospital as attending physician Dr M P Armstrong said her condition is serious and unlikely to improve soon, noting a weak heart and repeated past pneumonia infections.
The Schermerhorn will filed at the Surrogates' office details a $750,000 bequest to Mrs. David Lydig Geis as altered by a codicil. He also leaves $40,000 to his sister at 11 University Place and a trust fund for Columbia University and the New York Institute for the Blind after her death.
May 1 Washington report shows War Department estimates for overseas forces total 200000 in September with 400000 in other months. Brigadier General Lord outlines the Army appropriations bill totaling 252 million dollars, an increase from the prior Congress.
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