Real estate auction promises absolute sale with no reserve
Joseph P. Day, auctioneer, for Century Realty Company, advertises an absolute sale of lots with 75 percent of purchase money payable via bonds or mortgages over one to three years at 5 percent. Title policies provided free by The Title Insurance Company of New York. Maps and booklets available. location and transit details listed. Century Realty claims no direct or indirect interest in the lots beyond purchase money mortgages. Transfers via Broadway Express Subway to List Street Station and trolley access.
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ANU
Title Insurance Company of
New York
List Street
Geto
Century Realty Company
Nassau St
Ogden
181St Street
Washington Bridge
Aqueduct Avenue Lots Promised as Bronx Future Fifth Avenue
A promotional sale markets prime Aqueduct Avenue plots in the Bronx to home seekers investors builders and speculators. It touts rapid transit access via the Washington Bridge trolley line and contrasts with past Ogden sales while stressing a past present and future value anchored by Century Realty and United States Realty links. The sales pitch urges cautious buyers by highlighting historic ownership and potential fortunes for those who buy and hold.
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Aqueduct Avenue
Bronx
Lower
81St Street
Washington Bridge
Manhattan Island
Fifth Avenue
Jerome Avenue
Broadway
Century Realty Company
United States Realty and Improvement Company
Striking Longshoremen Grip Demand Shift in Hudson Hall
The longshoremen from nineteen branches met in Hudson Hall to revise wage demands against transatlantic liners. They now seek 35 cents hourly for day work 50 cents for night work and for holiday and Sunday work and meal-hour labor, with copies to company reps. Leaders pledged a lawful, public-pressure campaign and fund aid, while stressing no riots.
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Longshoremen's Union
Hudson Hall
Leroy
Hudson Streets
Connors
David Eastwood
Treasury of the Union
Canmore
Savannah
Bingham
Frisco Strike Breaker Shot In Street Clash
San Francisco reports W A Forgey a strike breaker for United Railways was fatally wounded by W J Blomberg a Humane Society officer after Forgey fired on striking workers near Van Ness and Turk street. A bystander Thomas Stack was also wounded in the leg as the pursuit and gunfire ended.
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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 Aid In Hotel Battle
A Hotel Porters' Protective Union delegate led a floor discussion at a Central Federated Union meeting seeking moral support for porters striking in twenty hotels for two dollars a month and tips. A committee will visit Mr Reed of the Hotel Association of New York to urge their demands if he agrees to meet. Last evening, striking porters attacked Frank Thaw at Park Avenue. Dusty, a porter, was jailed after an assault charge at East List stract station.
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Hotel Porters’ Protective Union
Central Federated Union
Reed
Hotel Association of New York
Frank Thaw
No. 12
Park Avenue
Belmont
Grand Central Station
Dusty
East List Stract
6 & Cherge
Arseult
Telegraphers Protest Grievances At Western Union
A committee from the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America staying at the Astor House announced a prepared memorial to Western Union directors seeking an eight hour day for day-shift telegraphers and a fixed wage standard. Both sides say no strike will occur, though leaders fear possible action and plan a strike fund supplement. Union leaders point to district superintendent visits to President Robert Clowry as signaling contingency plans.
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Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America
Astor House
Western Union Telegraph Company
Robert ©. Clowry
Western Union Company
Rush for Wheat Land in Western Canada
Yorkton dispatch reports a long queue at the Dominion Land Office as homestead entries reopen. Despite snow and rain, crowds pressed forward under mounted police guard to claim plots in Western Canada’s rich wheat belt, some as low as $10 entry, with similar scenes at Prince Albert and Regina.
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Tribune
Yorkton
Saskatchewan
Dominion Land Office
Ferguson
Kamsack
Prince Albert
Regina
Canada
Meyer Aims to Reform U S Postal Service Practices
Washington June 2 Postmaster General Meyer plans to simplify postal operations and adopt business methods within legal limits. He seeks to end red tape and rivalries between money orders and registers, push postal notes, revise second class rules, and expand weighing of all mail classes to improve accounting and fund flows. He notes rising rural delivery costs and the need for proper accounting to assess performance.
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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
Ceretain
En Aera
Bntween
Lawshe
Postal Commission
Postoffice Department
Commission
Treasury Department
Postal Service
Labor Organization
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
Old Colony Trust Company
New England
Death of Grace Horowitz Queen of Women Revolutionists
Grace Horowitz known as the Queen of the Women Revolutionists died Friday and was buried at Washington Cemetery after a funeral held yesterday at her East Side home No 204 Fast Broadway. Born in Minsk about forty years ago she studied natural sciences and attempted medical studies at St Petersburg University before escaping Siberia. She wrote books on anarchism and socialism and came to the United States in 1889.
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Grace Horowitz
Fast Broadway
Washington Cemetery
Miss Horowitz
Minsk
Russia
St. Petersburg University
Rich Coffee Importer Westfeldt Dies in Asheville
Patrick M. Westfeldt of New Orleans senior partner in Westfeldt Brothers, a leading coffee importer, collapsed and died in Asheville North Carolina at fifty six on June 2 while boarding a train. He leaves a wife and three sons. He owned North Carolina copper mines valued at a million dollars. A Columbia University graduate, he arrived in Asheville yesterday for the summer home Rugby Grange. No family members were with him.
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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
Samuel Tate aged seventy eight was arrested by Secret Service agents in Philadelphia on counterfeiting charges. His co arrestee Charles Bustamanta a Cuban is named as his confederate. Tate a veteran maker of spurious silver is already under federal indictment from March. Authorities say a flood of counterfeit silver dollars and other 1582 issue coins circulated in the lower city. Searches of Tate’s house uncovered crucibles lead and antimony plus a quantity of lead coins and other materials used to mint fakes. Officers estimate Tate produced about two thousand bogus pieces.
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Philadelphia
Samuel Tate
Secret Service
Tate
Charles Bustamanta
Laborer Struck by Broker's Car in Fifth Avenue Crash
John Fair a laborer of 1009 Third Avenue was struck while crossing Fifth Avenue at 15th Street by an automobile driven by William Shilling, chauffeur for broker Hugh A. Murray of 615 Fifth Avenue. Fair was admitted to Presbyterian Hospital in critical condition. Murray was in the car and 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 value adds to land near Portland and Eugene
A Portland Oregonian piece notes timber adds value to land once thought a nuisance. It cites a Eugene Register sale of 98 acres near Eugene with 400 cords of wood. At 2 1/2 cents per cord stumpage, wood pays for the land, and stumpage may be worth two to four times that.
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Portland Oregonian
Portland
Oregon City
Salem
Eugene
Oregon
Register
FURRIERS SUMMER BUSINESS SHIFTS TO IMITATIONS
A Philadelphia Record report notes furriers see rising storage and sale activity as warm weather arrives. It warns shoppers of widespread furs and muffs counterfeitings, detailing common imitations like dyed marmot and other faux skins, urging expert scrutiny to avoid deception.
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Philadelphia
Defective Wiring Declares Blame for Fires
A misty, slender figure confronts a misplated switch and explains with a sigh that it is defective wiring, the culprit blamed for big fires, in a line attributed to Cleveland Plats Desler.
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Cleveland Plats Desler
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Evenmes Century Realty Company
Exchange
Vesey Street
Nework City
City Hall
Nelson Avenue
Lth
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Montgomery
Featherbed Lane
Fellows
Western Union
Northwest
Postmaster General
Siberia
O'Brien, Cock Ave
Gay St. Elmhurst
West End Ave
Verge
Sourée
William St
Brooklyn Property
Ackerson
Fiske Terrace
Flatbush
William Herod
Sid St
Tildey Ave
Grant Ave
Brooklsn
Bath
Country Property
Adirondack
Ruland & Whiting CO
Beekman ST
Rey Rban
Newburgh
N. Y
S. M. Force
Pierce Road
Poe
Somerville
N. Z
Robert Thompson
Martinerl'le
Jor -Sale
Fourth Lake
Eagle Bay
Adirondacks
Dongan
Fischer
Hopkins St
Booklyn Beast
Berkshire Hills
Sheffield
R. R
Catskills
J. E. Graham
South Right
Delaware Co. N
Morristown
N. J
Yew
Rochelle
Ronnie Brae
Anor
Eee Housand Islands
St. Lawrence River
EFATT
Clayton
New York City
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