Mount Vernon to Press Fight Against Hearst Newspapers
Mount Vernon plans to press its legal battle against Hearst papers despite Justice Giegerich upholding New York County injunctive relief. Corporation Counsel Esser vows appeal to the Appellate Division while asserting local will and police power may override state limits, preserving the ban and signaling possible broader challenges to press freedom.
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Mr. Esser
Justice Giegerich
Giegerich
New York County
Westchester County
J. Addision Young
First Department
New York
Buffalo
Mount Vernon
New Yorker Stiuts-Zeitung
New Yorker Herald
Hearst
Queserich Monte
Couratrol
Supreme Court
J. Henry Esser
Moun ON
Esser
Justice Greeerich
Keser
Ville
Brestest Neapers
Gregorich
New York State
City
Mount
Vernon
Vernon Enjoined From Blocking Hearst and German Papers
Justice Leonard A. Giegerich of the Supreme Court sustained the Star Company petition to prevent Mr Vernon from barring Hearst and German newspapers. The action involved the publishers of The New York American and The Evening Journal. The ruling upholds access to the papers and limits prior restraint by the individual.
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Vernon
Hearst
Leonard A. Giegerich
Supreme Court
Star Company
New York American
the Evening Journal
Caldwell Unanimously Bars Hearst Newspapers in Town
A Caldwell meeting held on the Common unanimously voted to use all lawful means to keep William Randolph Hearst's New York American and Evening Journal out of Caldwell. A committee was named to inform residents, Boy Scouts led the procession, and Captain L C Patton cited Defense League of New Jersey support to suppress the papers.
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Cal Wreseseey
Nedy
Caldwell Progress
William Randolph Mearst
New York
Prinipal
L. C. Patton
Company A
New Jersey Militia Reserve
Defence League of New Jersey
Hearst
Tie
Hoarst
Amoren
Joseph Markely
Patton
A. Matthews
Coldwell
Ridgewood Home Guard Backs Boycott of Hearst Papers
Two hundred members of the Ridgewood Home Guard voted unanimously to stop buying William Randolph Hearst newspapers and to urge others not to read them. Residents had already banished Hearst titles from stands, while New York vendors tried to sell The American and The Journal along the streets.
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Home Guard
William Randolph Hearst
New York
Verona Councilmen Tackle Newspaper Suppression Question
Verona borough council members discussed suppressing The New York American and The Evening Journal. After debate they decided not to take collective action, but each member would privately request newsdealers not to sell either paper.
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Verona
New York Amercan
Evening Journal
A. E. de Camp
Hetlon
the Journal
New York Railway Company Raises Male Employment Age
The New York Railway Company announced yesterday that labor shortages forced an increase in the age limit for male employees from forty-five to fifty-five. The announcement added that if raising the age limit still fails to supply men, women could be hired as ticket sellers and conductors.
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Heer Eee Eater Enor Company
New York Railway Company
Abor
Tnterborough
Shoes and Ships And Sealing Wax in Wartime Verse
A humorous wartime column blends verses and anecdotes about submarines off the coast, a British crown prince, and German literary claims. It notes a crow's nest cry about a submarine and a petty officer's rebuke, then shifts to German peaceable seas and a Frankfurt Zeitung claim that Albert Koch found a hiatus every 160 lines after 64,000 lines of Goethe.
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Germany
Empire
Frankfurter Zeitung
Albert Koch
Geran Littérateur
Goethe
Nutley Buys Hearst Papers and Burns Them in Bonfire
Nutley New Jersey enthusiasts buy Hearst New York Americans as local dealers quit Hearst papers. The bonfire drew men women and children with militia members noting the display. Hearst agents offered two cent papers while local dealers were driven from stands at the station.
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Tribune
Nutley
N. J
Hearst
New York
Newa
Nutley Battalion
New Jersey
Claude W. Boynton
United Act
James Veeland
T. H. Ritchie
Franklin Avenue
Battalion
Union News Company
Erie
U S Control Of Wires Now Seems Near
A wartime dispute centers on government operation of telegraph, telephone, and related lines. Statements from union and company officials discuss strike potential, government takeover, and the balance of public need versus private control amid war.
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U. S
Wilson
Telegraph Trust
United States
National Way Labor Board
Commercial Telegraphers' Union ‘of America
Western Union
War Trade Board
Lunn
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
Postal Telegraph Keymen Earn Over Fifty A Week
Howard Keycins, vice-president of Postal Telegraph Cable Co, denies low wage claims and asserts telegraph operators earn over $50 weekly for six days work. He defends 24 hour service and notes workers may log longer hours for overtime pay. He condemns union pressure and recalls 1907 strike, accusing union leaders of coercion. He cites government ownership as a potential alternative.
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Howard Keycins
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Lsbor
Telegraph Organization
Wilson Calls for Halt In Dry Legislation
President Wilson opposed further prohibition measures until the food administration deems it necessary to conserve food. In a letter to Senator Sheppard of Texas he outlined the stance and noted a House amendment to limit $6,000,000 from being spent unless grain use for liquor production is prevented.
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Wilson
Food Administration
Senator Sheppard
Texas
House
Sheppard
Hoover
Autos Hit Boy and Woman in Brooklyn Fatalities Reported
A boy Samuel Goldberg eight of 367 South Eighth Street Williamsburg was killed after being struck by a car driven by Jacob Adler of St Marks Place Manhattan. An elderly woman Mrs August a Lansig sixty three of 619 Evergreen Avenue Greenpoint was seriously injured on the Bushwick Avenue Palmetto Street sidewalk by a different car driven by John Wittholm of 643 Central Avenue Greenpoint who was arrested on a charge of rocks driving.
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Brooklyn
Samuel Goldberg
South-Eighth Street
Williamsburg
Augusta, Lansig
Evergreen Avenue
Greenpoint
Goldberg
Jacob Adler
St St. Mark's Place
Manhattan
Adler
Lansi
Roosevelt Starts West Today Before Leaving Tonight
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt opens a Western tour beginning with a stop in New York City for a Republican Club gathering. He will address audiences in Omaha, St Louis, Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Hartford as part of a National Security League speaking circuit.
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Republican Club
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
National Security League
New York City
Roosevelt
Omaha
St. Louis
Indianapolis
University of Indiana
Bloomington
Hartford
Trinity College
Merchant Unable To Sleep Kills Wife And Then Himself
Werner Henry Deghuee a Brooklyn lumber merchant shot and killed his wife and then himself before dawn in their Cambridge Place home. The 53 year old, who had insomnia and was under a physician care, feared ruin from wartime losses. Their daughter Lillian found the scene after awakening at 7 30 and noticed a light. The wife Katherine lay dead with a bullet wound. a pillow hid her face as powder marks showed the shot had been muffled. Their 19 year old son telephoned for a physician. police logged it as murder and suicide. The family had moved from Forest Hills to Brooklyn a year earlier, maintaining a summer home near Greenwood Lake. The husband recently suffered pneumonia and had long feared the war’s impact on his fortunes. His son-in law Ralph Bevan Smith is in a German prison camp.
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Werner Henry Deghuee
Cambridge Place
Brooklyn
Lillian D. Smith
Ralph Bevan Smith
Royal Flying Corps
Forest Is
Greenwood Lake
Werner Deghuce
Deghuce
France
Mr. Deghuce
Katherine
Chauffeur Freed After Inquiry Into Death of Teacher
Glen Cove report says no evidence of foul play or motive in the death of Dorothy Hemming, Brooklyn teacher. John Dunlap, Manhattan chauffeur, was discharged as a witness after witnesses testified Dunlap appeared drunk near the pond where the body was found. Medical examiner Dr. J B Connolly ruled drowning with no injuries and no clothing disturbance.
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Glen Cove
William Cocks, Jr
John Dunlap
Manhattan
Dorothy M. Hemming
Brooklyn
Mill Pond
Dunlap
St. Vincent's
J. B. Connolly
Nassau County
Donohue
Jamen Breen
James Halloran
Evelyn | Oswald
Bessie McCullough
Evergreen Avenue
Wrooklyn
Duntap
Stop All City Cars After 10 P.M Proposal Draws Mixed Reaction
Boston director Cobb of New York Railways proposes halting all surface transport from 10 p.m. to dawn as a patriotic move to aid finances. Interborough supports study while Public Service Commission warns it cannot reduce service without PSC approval and posted schedules.
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New York Cie
Sobi
Candler Cobb
Boston
New York Railways
Donon
Statesman
Ma Cobb
York
Patel
Proms
Cosion
Trial of J. J. O'Leary Is Set for June 12
John J. O'Leary brother of Jeremiah O11 is arraigned in Federal District Court on an indictment charging conspiracy to obstruct justice. He pleads not guilty and a June 12 trial date is set. bail arguments involve Colonel Thomas B. Felder and the $100000 bail. The case connects to the fugitive editor Jeremiah O11 and the espionage act allegations.
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John J. O'Leary
Jeremiah
Hitchcock
Tedy
Hand
Augustus Hand
O'Leary
Tom
Aftol
Barnes
Felder
Rose Pastor Stokes
Kansas City
Bull
War Savings Stamp Drive Campat on Torr Led Cross War NL
Fragmented OCR text describes a War Savings Stamp drive, a camp for a Tol STEATLISS DAY event, and mentions memorials and meetings. It references a Grand Central Exhibition, state and national leaders, and a Surgeon General, with scattered names and dates.
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Steatliss
Amettean
Nautactuters
Ny. George
W.caleman
Neahee Rhone
Tyson
Fing Cy
New York
Kure
Waltam
Warurlee
Medlea
Sweartaes United
Cole
National
Plano Travetlan
Alubhouse
SRS
War Bewesaty
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Corporation Counsel
Legerich
New York America
itests-Zeitune
Caldwell
Hearst Papers Savent
Ridgewood Home Guard
Hearst Papers
By Briggs
Paris
Somme
Marne
Oise
Aisne
Uncle Abimelech
Bogardus
Preakness
Mebby
Pacific Coast
Onenkamp
Chicago
Gompera
Postal
Konenkamp
Washington
Washington District Council
Mr. Lunn
Aaember
Military Affairs Committee
Lincoln
Postal Telegraph Company of
San Frans
War Labor Board
Taft
Walsh
Dent
T. R
Merchant
Wife
Werner H. Deghuee
N. Y. Railways
Interborough
Plax
Public Service Commission
J. J. O’leary
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