Meat prices rise as beef and mutton soar nationwide
Meat prices climb sharply as wholesale supply tightens. Chicago packers shift postmortem inspection losses to commission men after government checks grow stricter, driving up retail costs for porterhouse, sirloin, rib roast, and lamb chops while coarse grades hold steady.
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West
Chicago
F. Sulzberger
Schwarzechild & Sulzberger
Tribune
Chicago Commission
Congress
Sulzberger
Hats Fall in Price as Cold Weather Hits Straw Trade
Straw hat dealers report a quiet start to summer with prices slashed on latest styles. Some shops note 10 percent lower sales and losses exceeding a thousand dollars if the cold spell persists. One dealer blames weather as misfortune but defends not criticizing the weather as an act of God.
Somers System Criticized by New York Real Estate Men
Real estate brokers question William A. Somers method for valuing property for taxation. Somers, hired by Lawson Purdy as tax department adviser, aims to apply his street-relative valuation system here. He claims the method offers universal uniformity and easy verification of assessments.
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New York
William A. Somers
Somers
Lawson Purdy
Tax Department
Mr. Somers
Will filed for Walter A. Schiffer estate probate
The 186? will filed with the Surrogate names executors wife Jennie W. Schiffer and Charles J. Waxelbaum Jacob Worthem oe as executors. It sets the estate value over 10900 dollars with real and personal property. Mrs Schiffer receives the West 76th Street town house and one fifth of the residue plus a 56000 valuation placed on that portion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter A. Schiffer
West End
N. J
Jennie W. Schiffer
Charles J. Waxelbaum
Jacob Worthetm
Women’s clubs at Jamestown meet for biennial session
The General Federation of Women’s Clubs opened its biennial convention at the Jamestown exposition in Norfolk with prominent club women attending. President general Mrs. Sarah B. Platt Decker of Denver spoke on federation work and growing club activity nationwide. The session included welcome remarks from Miss Virgi Gatewood of Norfolk and a day filled with papers and discussion. The National Society of the Colonial Dames of North America also met with 28 delegates, featuring opening remarks by Mrs. Overton Lea and a keynote by Gabor of Tennessee.
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Norfolk
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Sarah
Platt Decker
Denver
General Federation
Virgi Gatewood
Woman's Club
Ward
Moston
Federation
National Society of the Colonial Dames of North America
Overton Lea
Nashville
Tenn
Randolph
Virginia
Tucker
Sexposition Company
William Ruffin Cox
Society
Andrews
Hartford
Conn
Gabor
Tennessee
Women Teachers Duped In Albany Dinner Scam
Fifty indignant women teachers discuss a bold thief soliciting funds from public school staff to aid a dinner for Senators and Assemblymen in Albany. He claimed authorization from Interborough Women Teachers Association, showing a book of names and prompting several five dollar contributions. The scheme collapsed at a Harlem primary school. Superintendent Maxwell said no complaints yet, while Grace Strachan vowed to investigate and warn all teachers as the Association dismisses any link to fundraising.
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Albany
Harlem
Interborough Women Teachers’ Association
William H. Maxwell
Grace Strachan
Bingham
Board of Education
Dispute at St Pauls School Ends With Resignation
Garden City Long Island June 5 The dispute between Dr Gammage head master and Bishop Burgess of the Long Island diocese over athletics and studies leads to resignation. Despite tension between the parties opening commencement exercises, the school is unlikely to close and Burgess is viewed as less opposed to athletics than initially thought.
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the Tribune
Garden City
Long Island
St. Paul's School
Gammage
Frederick Burgess
St. Paul's
Burgess
Bishop Burgess
Yale to Sell a College from Ingham University
New Haven June 5 Yale plans to dispose of Ingham University Leroy N Y once a women’s college closed twenty years ago due to finances Alumni Association seeks funds to buy and endow it as a home for aged teachers Yale faces competing bids from Buffalo area firms while alumni claim prior rights to the property
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the Tribune
New Haven
Yale
Ingham University
Leroy
N. Y
Ingham
William Lampson
Ingham University Alumni Association
Buffalo
Veterans win close revolver match aboard Granite State
On the U S ship Granite State at West 98th Street, a team of five veterans from the 2d Division 1st Naval Battalion captured the $100 challenge cap in a tight annual revolver match against active division members. Final: Veterans 183 Actives 182.
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1St Naval Battalion
United States
Granite State
West 98Th Street
AE. Colgate
Richmond Weed
E. Crawford
Colt
Cheap Opera to Move West Next Week
Gaetano d'Amato, director of the Royal Italian Grand Opera Company, plans a West Side run at the Grand Opera House starting Monday after a successful showing at the Academy of Music. He cites strong American attendance and hopes to form a permanent company if West Side reception matches, with performances of Carmen Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci.
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Academy of Music
Gaetano d’Amato
Royal Italian Grand Opera Company
West Side
Grand Opera House
Senator Frelinghuysen Ill After Appendicitis Operation
State Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen of Jameson Frelinghuysen insurance brokers is in critical condition in a Chicago hospital following an appendicitis operation. He left for a business trip to Chicago from Somerville, had been in good health at departure, and fell ill after arrival. He is noted as father of the Frelinghuysen automobile law and other measures.
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iBy
the Tribune
Somerville
N. J
Joseph
Frelinghuysen
Jameson & Frelinghuysen
William Street
New York
Chicago
Nurses to be Graduated at Kings County Hospital
The eighth annual graduation exercises of the Kings County Hospital Training School for Nurses will be held tonight in the chapel as twenty nurses graduate. Two class members came from China and others hail from the West Indies to Canada. Addressing the class will be Hibbard Commissioner of Charities Baker first deputy commissioner and McEnerny deputy commissioner Kings and Queens.
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Kings County Hospital Training School
China
West Indies
Canada
Hibbard
Charities
Baker
Manhattan
McEnerny
Kings and Queens
New York University Holds 75th Commencement
Chancellor MacCracken addresses graduates in University Heights Auditorium as 430 degrees are conferred including 54 women with 12 lawyers and one master of law. Florence Edith Bruning wins top law prize. gold Morse medal held up by customs.
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MacCracken
New York University
University Heights
Florence Edith Bruning
Normal College
Alice Dillingham
Englewood
Samuel F. B. Morse
7Th Regiment
Hall of Fame
Edward Abbott
Cambridge Theological School
Franklin Hoskins
Syrian Protestant College
Beirut
Syria
Lifers Missing From Sing Sing After Barber Shop Visit
Bidwell Fluss, a life prisoner labeled No 55909, vanished after leaving the barber shop during a shift break at Sing Sing. Guards sweep outer walls and every likely hiding place while authorities doubt he left the walls, noting he was last seen returning from the barber. Fluss, aged 25, 5 ft 6 in, 150 lb, a plumber from 164 East 7th street, has a neck scar and head scar and was reported missing after not returning to the shoe shop on time.
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Flass
Cowing
New York City
East 7Th Street
Mathilda Fluss
Fluss
Mrs Gould Denies Taking Gould Property at Castle Gould
An intimate Gould friend insists Mrs. Howard Gould did not steal cattle or furniture from Castle Gould. She allegedly paid with savings, spent 320000, and moved to the St Regis after servitors refused orders. Reports say property was packed, loaded in pine boxes, and some cattle moved to Lynchburg VA. Authorities debated motion to strike out scandalous claims while investigators questioned lieutenants tied to the case.
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Howard Gould
Castle Gould
Port Washington
Gould
New York
Clarence J. Shearn
Goulds
The
St. Regis
Thera Ra
Justice McCall
McNaught
Stripp
Lyons
Hanson
McLaughlin
Detective Bureau
Bob McNaught
Bingham
Phey
Fatal butting in ends in horse’s death and arrests
Pat Owens, boss truckman at Eleventh avenue and 53d street, faced tragedy as his prized bay horse Harry was killed after attempting to move the injured Dick home. A boy and Owens were locked up by the Tenderloin precinct, then released after bail. Harry’s death prompted cries of cruelty from Owens and a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The case took further twists with a boy Willie Horne and James Lenahan’s involvement, and the final outcome saw Harry shot by police outside the station house.
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Pat” Owens
Eleventh Avenue
53D Street
Harry
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Owens
Sixth Avenue
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
CalJhoun
Willie Horne
Willie
Ssth Street
Broadway
James Lenahan
Tist Street
Wille
Youth Drowns After Fall From Yacht On Hudson
Henry F. Smith twenty one of 486 West 165th street fell from the Patmos moored near Audubon Yacht Club on the Hudson yesterday afternoon and drowned. Captain James Iverson, a club member, saw the body about five hours later a hundred yards from the pier. Smith had boarded the Patmos to move it away from Commodore Rose’s Alma and slipped into the water despite good swimming. He had hoped to become a mechanical engineer and helped with yacht engines. he owned a twenty five foot launch named the Manitou. His father is a salesman.
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Henry F. Smith
West 165Th Street
Hudson River
Audubon Yacht Club
165Th Street
James Iverson
Iverson
Young Smith
Smith
Boltie
Commodore Rose
Alma
Tunnel safe, say Interborough engineers
William Barclay Parsons and George H. Pegram told President Shonts that the Battery tunnel, once complete, would be safe and stable for train passage. They addressed reports of weakness from piles near Brooklyn shore and asserted the work has been directed by Rapid Transit engineers and will be safe beyond question.
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William Barclay Parsons
George H. Pegram
Interborough Construction Company
Shonts
Interborough Metropolitan Company
Battery Tunnel
Brooklyn Shore
Parsons
Booth Ferry
Brooklyn
Ri Ver
The
Battery
Rapid Transit Commission
Tuberculosis Vaccination Trial at Phipps Institute
Expert agents at the Henry Phipps Institute in Philadelphia begin testing the Maragliano vaccination method for tuberculosis on about twenty patients. Dr. Lawrence Flick, head of the institute, expects notable developments by year end. The inoculation uses the Italian discoverer Edoardo Maragliano’s serum.
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the Tribune
Philadelphia
Henry Phipps Institute
Edoardo Maragliano
Genoa
Italy
Lawrence F. Flick
Phipps Institute
Maragliano
Ring Deed Fight: Mount Vernon Woman Accused in Supreme Court
In White Plains Supreme Court witnesses described Mrs. Naomi Duncombe Ring as “kittenish” who loved P. J. Ring and sought his jealousy before her marriage. A Mount Vernon hotel owner testified Mrs. Ring visited often seeking her husband and Ring admitted lingering affection and a fond memory of meals.
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P. J. Ring
Naomi Duncombe Ring
Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon Opera House
Supreme Court
White Plains
Grievances Sent to President by Telegrapher Union
S J Small, president of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America, said after consulting with officers that a copy of the complaints against Western Union Telegraph Company was sent to President Roosevelt. He noted it was sent in his capacity as a prominent citizen, not as president of the United States, and argued telegraph service is quasi public.
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Samuel F. Brb Morse
Morse
New York University
United States
New York
Metropolis of America
University College
School OF Applied Sciences
S. J. Small
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America
Western Union Telegraph Company
Roosevelt
Small
Inter-Metropolitan legal staff reorganized under Shonts
President Shonts announced a reorganization of the Interborough Metropolitan system legal staff to improve efficiency and duties. Paul D. Cravath becomes general counsel for New York City Railway and affiliates while George W. Wickersham is general counsel for Interborough Rapid Transit and subsidiaries. Others named include James L. Quackenbush A. A. Gardner Charles A. Gardiner Henry A. Robinson Van Vechten Veeder and Ambrose F. McCabe with specific solicitor roles across the system.
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Shonts
Interborough Metropolitan System
Paul D. Cravath
New York City Railway Company
George W. Wickersham
Queens
Nassau County
Ambrose F. McCabe
Westchester County
New York Daily Newspapers Meet In Binghamton
The spring meeting of the New York Associated Daily Newspapers opened at the Arlington Hotel Binghamton June 5 with President Jay E. Klock of The Kingston Freeman Vice President Fred P. Hall of The Jamestown Journal and Gardiner Kline of The Amsterdam Recorder among about thirty five delegates. They toured the Binghamton Press plant valued at $150000 after the business session and reception at the Bing hampton Press Club.
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Binghamton
N. Y
New York Associated Daily Newspapers
Arlington Hotel
Jay E. Klock
Kingston Freeman
Fred P. Hall
Jamestown Journal
Gardiner Kline
Amsterdam Recorder
Binghamton Press Club
Binghamton Press
Oil Man Gets Three Months In Jail
Leavenworth Kan June 5 Judge W C Hook of the United States Circuit Court sentenced H H Tucker Jr secretary of the Uncle Sam Oil Company to three months in jail for contempt of court for an affidavit alleging a conspiracy between Judges Pollock McPherson and Phillips and the Standard Oil Company to drive the Uncle Sam Company out of business Tucker began serving his sentence tonight.
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Leavenworth
Kan
W. Co. Hook
United States Circuit Court
H. H. Tucker, Jr
Uncle Sam of Company
Pollock, McPherson
Phillips
Standard Oil Company
Uncle Sam Company
Tucker
McCullough Estate Sold at Sloatsburg NY
Telegraph report states the McCullough estate at Sloatsburg five miles from the city has been sold. John J. Hullman of New York bought the storehouse tract and two small buildings for 200 dollars, while Elijah Pringle of Tuxedo Park purchased the mill buildings and about thirty acres with water rights for 11,000 dollars for speculative purposes.
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Tribune J Suffern
N. Y
McCullough
Sloatsburg
John J. Hullman
New York
Barge Pactolus Lost Off Hog Island in Storm
The barge Pactolus vanished in a June 2 storm off Hog Island on the New Jersey coast. Captain James Deputy was badly hurt when a wave knocked him from the pilot house while securing sails. The crew abandoned ship and were rescued by a tug. fifteen minutes later the vessel sank.
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Providence
Pactolus
Hog Island
New Jersey
James Deputy
Dr Guy's Trial Postponed Again in Queens Supreme Court
The murder trial of Dr Samuel Guy, charged with killing his wife, was postponed for a third time until June 17 in the Queens Supreme Court. The delay followed Mrs Lucy M. Randolph's lawsuit against W E D Stokes set for June 10, with intent to avoid interruption to the proceedings.
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Samuel
Guy
Supreme Court of Queens
Lucy M. Randolph
W. E. D. Stokes
Public Notices on New York Board of Estimate Proceedings
Public notice details a May 24 1907 board meeting approving Cahill Telharmonic petition to lay distribute and operate electric wires for music throughout New York City. Includes notarization, staged hearings June 7 1907, and multiple statutory notices on related city bills and public hearings with dates and officers.
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New York
Board OF Estimate
Faas G
Cahill
City of New York
Central Station
Broad Borough
Manhattan
City of
Greater New York
New York City
Warrenton
Virginia
John C. Rowe
New York Cahill Telharmonic Company
City Hall
Borough of
City Record
Joseph Haag
Greater
George
McLellan
Cooper Union For the Advancement OF Science and Art
Third Avenue
East Sixth Street
East Seventh Street
Hall Place
George B McLellan
Bronx River
Ty Hall
George B. M'Clellan
Art City Court
Utica
George B. McLellan
Assembly
Municipal Court
College OF the City OF
Park Avenue
Sixty-eighth Street
York
Board OF Education
State Department OF Education
Joseph A. Gillet
Proposals for Mint copper ingots and dredging bids
Sealed proposals from the Superintendent of the Mint of the United States in Philadelphia for supplying 350 000 pounds of high grade electrolytic ingots with a low bridge and other weights, to be opened noon Wednesday June 1907, with deliveries per specifications. Also sealed dredging bids for Bedford and Fairhaven Harbors Massachusetts to be opened July 6 1907, information from Lt. Col. J H Willard Army Engineers.
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Mint of the
United States
Philadelphia
H. Landis
U. & Engineer's Office
Newport
Bedford
Fairhaven
Mass
J. H. Willard
Engis
Successful fireproof test of material at Burns plant
A successful fire test was conducted on fireproofing material at the Burns plant on Claremont avenue. Professor Ira H. Woolson oversaw the procedure, confirming the material’s effectiveness in concrete.
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Peenaes
Ira H. Woolson
Pes Aa A
Eee
Bunes U
Claremont Avenue
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W. A. Schiffer
Jamestown
Colonial Dames
Leroy, N. Y
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E c de Kay
A. E. Colgate
Cc D. Hanscomb
R. Weed
W. BR. Walt
W de Wolf Dimock
Senator Frelinghuysen
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Church
Abram Hewitt
A. Ogden Butler Euclelan
Gorton Rosa Fonda
Yonkers
Charles Augustus Tonsor, Jr
Herman Ridder
John Watson Hampshire
Stindham
Charles Minturn Baxter, Jr
Mamaroneck
William Reed Blackie
Hastings
Frederick Seward Gibson
James Gordon Bennett
Charles Augustus Tons
Duryea
Edwin McQueen
East Norwich
Hoe Sanitary Engineering
Charles Wilbur Banks
Mount Kisco
N.Y
Edward James O'Brien
LAW School
A. B
Abraham Kaplan
Christian Ss. Lorentzen
Charles Vincent Smith
John J. Finn
University and
Bellevue Hospital Medical College
Valentine Mott
Maurice Joseph Lippman
William T. Lusk
Louis Herman Zuckerman
George Alexander
Henry M. Brown
B. S
Christ Congregational Church
Stanley White
Board of Foreign Missions
Presbyterian Church In the United
Joseph D. Bryant
Charles Warren Hunt
American Society of Civil Engineers
George Fillmore Swain
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston
John Woodward
Bidwell Fluss
Sing Sing
Truckman
Hudson
Parsons and
Pegram
Mr. Pegram
Inter-Met
M'Cullough Estate
Senate
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