Century Realty sale declares absolute no-reserve lots
Joseph P. Day Auctioneer announces Century Realty Company will sell all lots without reserve. Purchasers may pay 75 percent of purchase money with bond and mortgage for one to three years at 5 percent. Title policies provided free by The Title Insurance Company of New York. Maps and details available at 31 Nassau St. NYC.
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Title Insurance Company of
New York
Iiist Street
Century Realty Company
Nassau St
Aqueduct Avenue Lots Promised as Bronx's Future Prosperity
The sale pitches Aqueduct avenue plots as the Bronx equivalent of Fifth avenue and urges homeseekers investors builders and speculators to buy. It emphasizes rapid transit via a trolley line from 181st Street, notes past holdings by the Lees and Montgomery families, and claims present and future profits for buyers who hold.
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Exchange
Vesey Street
New York City
Bronx
Aqueduct Avenue
Washington Bridge
181St Street
City Hall
Macombs Road
Lower
81St Street
Manhattan Island
Prop. Ees
Fifth Avenue
Jerome Avenue
Broadway
Ogden
Lees
Montgomery
Featherbed Lane
Strikers Cede Point In Longshore Wage Fight
Longshoremen from nineteen branches met at Hudson Hall and voted to raise their demand from 4 and 6 cents to 35 50 and 15 cents per hour for various shifts and meal hours. President Connors announced treasury open and urged public support while warning of continued action if ignored. Copies of the resolution will be sent to 35 companies by 7 am tomorrow.
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Longshoremen’s Union
Hudson Hall
Leroy
Hudson Streets
Connors
David Eastwood
Union
Savannah
Pacipenice
Frisco Strike Breaker Shot Ends Fatal Chain of Fire
In San Francisco on June 2 a strike breaker, Forgey of United Railways, was fatally shot by Humane Society officer W. J. Blomberg after Forgey fired on strike sympathizers pursuing two men. Blomberg returned fire, Forgey died in hospital. Iron worker Stack was wounded in the leg during the exchange.
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San Francisco
W. A. Forgey
United Railways
van Ness Avenue
Turk Street
W. J. Blomberg
The
Humane Society
Forgey
Blomberg
Thomas Stack
Striking Porters Seek C F U Backing
A Hotel Porters' Protective Union delegate urged the Central Federated Union for support in a strike at twenty hotels demanding $% monthly pay and full tips. A committee will visit Reed of the Hotel Association of New York to press demands. Earlier, strikers attacked Frank Thaw near Hotel Belmont. porter Timothy Dusty was jailed on assault charges.
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Hotel Porters’ Protective Union
Central Federated Union
Reed
Hotel Association of New York
Frank Thaw
Park Avenue
Belmont
Rand Central Station
Timothy Dusty
East List Street
Telegraphers Seek Eight Hour Day and Wage Standards
A committee from the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America at the Astor House says it has prepared a memorial to Western Union directors seeking an eight hour day for day workers and a fixed wage standard. Both sides pledge no strike, but unions may levy assessments while maintaining a large existing fund. district superintendents’ visits to President Clowry are seen by leaders as potential strike contingency.
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Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America
Astor House
Western Union Telegraph Company
Robert C. Clowry
Western Union Company
Rush for Wheat Land Opens Amid Cold Rain
A long line of applicants waited at the Dominion Land Office in Yorkton on June 2 as doors opened for homestead entries cancelled by the government. Snow turned to rain, many suffered exposure, and fights occurred despite mounted police. Similar scenes were reported in Prince Albert and Regina with $10 entry fees for chosen homesteads in Western Canada.
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Tribune
Yorkton
Saskatchewan
Dominion Land Office
Ferguson
Kamsack
Prince Albert
Regina
Western Canada
Postal Facilities Under Meyer Aim to Modernize USPS
Washington June 2 George von L Meyer Postmaster General leads a drive to streamline the Post Office Department adopt business methods and cut red tape. He plans new money order handling notes second class regulations and parcel post revisions while weighing all mail classes for better accounting and funding.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
George von L. Meyer
United States
George B. Cortelyou
Payne
Post Office Department
Meyer
The
Tribune
Post Office
Department
Congress
Lam Ceretain
Ee Ae
Bae
GR SenetaStat
Lawshe
Postal Commission
Postoffice Department
Commission
Treasury Department
Postal Service
Labor Organization
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
Old Colony Trust Company
New England
New York City
New York
Sea
Grace Horowitz Queen of Women Revolutionists Dies
Grace Horowitz known as the Queen of the Women Revolutionists died Friday and funeral services were held at her East Broadway home. Burial took place at Washington Cemetery. Born in Minsk around 40 years ago she studied natural sciences and was linked to anarchism and socialism writings. She escaped Siberia after two years’ exile and arrived in the United States in 1889.
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Grace Horowitz
East Broadway
Washington Cemetery
Miss Horowitz
Minsk
Russia
St. Petersburg University
Rich coffee importer Westfeldt dies in Asheville
Patrick M. Westfeldt of Westfeldt Brothers New Orleans dropped dead in Asheville North Carolina aged fifty six while boarding a train. He leaves a wife and three sons. He owned copper mines valued at one million dollars and was a Columbia University graduate. He was alone when death occurred.
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the Tribune
New Orleans
Patrick M. Westfeldt
Westfeldt Brothers
Asheville
N. C
Westfeldt
Rugby Grange
North Carolina
Columbia University
Alleged Counterfeiter Captured in Philadelphia
Philadelphia June 2 Samuel Tate aged seventy eight was arrested by Secret Service agents charged with counterfeiting. With Tate was Charles Busta manta a Cuban reportedly his confederate. Tate an alleged veteran maker of spurious silver is indicted in federal court and had been arrested in March. Authorities say he flooded the lower city with counterfeit silver dollars from 1882 coin issues. Search of his house uncovered lead antimony crucibles and other materials and officers say Tate produced about $2000 in bogus coins.
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Philadelphia
Samuel Tate
Secret Service
Tate
Charles Bustamanta
Ate
Laborer Struck by Broker’s Car on Fifth Avenue
John Fair a laborer of 1009 Third Avenue was struck by an automobile driven by William Shilling chauffeur for Hugh A Murray broker of 615 Fifth Avenue while crossing Fifth Avenue at 15th Street. He was brought to Presbyterian Hospital in critical condition. Murray was in the car. no arrests were made.
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John Fair
Third Avenue
William Shilling
Hugh A. Murray
Fifth Avenue
15Th Streets
Presbyterian Hospital
Murray
Timber Adds Value to Land Near Portland and Eugene
The Eugene Register reports on 933 acres near Eugene with 49 cords of wood. Downhill haul to Eugene, stumpage likely worth two to four times 25 cents a cord. Timber can offset land costs and grow more valuable with time.
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Portland Oregonian
Portland
Oregon City
Salem
Eugene
Oregon
Furfers Summer Trade Busts Imitation Furs
A Philadelphia Record note explains furriers see uptick in summer storage as owners guard against moths. It warns many high priced furs are imitations such as dyed marmot for minks and wildcat or Chinese wolfskin for lynx sets. Weasels and cony replace ermine and sable in bargain pillows, with mouflon or white tiber used as fake white fox sets.
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Philadelphia
Defective Wiring Seeks Blame for Big Fires
A slender figure among the mist confronts a switch and explains it is the cause behind major fires. The creature calls itself defective wiring, offering a brief, bleak self designation as the blame for catastrophes.
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Cleveland Patz Pesler
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Vrorrr” Century Realty Company
Nelson Avenue
West
175Th Street
United States Realty and Improvement Company
Fellows
Western Union
Northwest
Postmaster General
Siberia
Pee Ree
O'Brien
Cook Ave
Gay St
Lmhurst
Western Exposure
William St
Brooklyn
Flatbush
William Herod
East
Sid St
Tildem Ave
Grant Ave
Bath
Country Property
Adirondack
Seer
Newburgh
N. Y
S. M. Force
Pierce Road
Neweburgh
Somerville
Robert Thompson
Martingette
Fourth Lake
Eagle Bay
Adirondacks
GEO. Rendell
Utica
Dongan
A. Fischer
Hopkins St
Berkshire Hills
Sheffield
Sheffield R. R
W. D. French
Catskills
J. E. Graham
Southright, Delaware Co
Tsorristown
N. J
Morristown
Zon Yew Rochelle
Bonnie Brae
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