Gospel Baseball Opens Door For Mission Camp
Presbyterian Building reports detail a training camp for 75 recruits bound for foreign mission fields in Kamerun West Africa. Missionaries recount German bombardment and the destruction of printing plants, mills, and a printing press melted for bullets as war hardship affects church operations.
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Presbyterian
Fifth Pense
Qadec
Kamerun
West Africa
Gernat
Bow Prench
Shete
Ithe
Durig
Missionaries Headed Abroad and Local Devotion Held
The article notes talk of missionaries leaving for Southern Mexico and Northern Siam this summer. Lin Mee Kean reports on the pace of travel along the Menara River and a new Royal Siamese railroad. Rev George W Dunlop reflects on athletics in the Philippines and Plattsburg missionary training camp for seventy seven. Henry W Hodge leads devotional at opening session with sessions through June 14 and passport delays for Yucatan assignments.
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Siam
Lin
Mee Kean
Menara
Philippine Island
George W. Dunlop
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Tows
Baen
Dumanguete
Storeyman
George T. Scott
Plattsburg
Henry W. Hodge
Public Service Commission
Yucatan
Mexico
State Department
300 Strike Pickets Riot in Fifth Avenue
Police arrested 27 strikers after a clash outside Hickson shop on Fifty-second Street and Fifth Avenue. About 200 cloakmakers rioted, mistaking Hickson for a plant. crowd fought briefly before officers dispersed them and took suspects to Yorkville Court. Breen received a suspended sentence after agreeing to stay away from Hickson's. Despite rain and a Jewish holiday, pickets were on duty. unions report 45,000 strikers received benefits in the last three days.
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Mintaking Hickson & Co
Fifty-second Street
Fifth Avenue
Thor
East Fifty-first Street
Hickaon
Colbert
Hickson
At & O'Clock
Lesnar
Yorkville Court
Magista Breen
Breen
Min
Widow Held as Thief Wall St Got Riches
Mrs Agennine iong widow of Dr William E Hong dentist who died ten years ago leaving over 500000 was indicted for grand larceny in the second degree. She was released on 1000 bail by Judge Crain. Complainant Julia Butler said she gave a 500 diamond ring to Mrs Hong in January 1915 to pawn, then vanished. Tiffany's clerk denied any sale. Kilroe found no record of such a transaction. One daughter recently married banker Charles Ky Morrison of Rector Street.
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Agennine Iong
William E. Hong
East Forty-third Street
Teo
Crain
Julia Butler
Plattsburg
Hoar
Blind violinist ajar with a ten year old’s holy fiddle
Abram Haltovitch, a blind refugee from Petrograd, arrives in New York with his brother David seeking safety. He plays a borrowed tiny violin for Morris Ginsberg in a Bronx tenement, hoping to save David from deportation and show his skill hindered by his blindness.
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Morris Ginzberg
Morris
East 19Th Street
Geniur
Petrograd
Abram Mnitoviteh
Golden Gate
Russia
United States
David
Abram
David E
Ne Crar
Commissioner White
Morris Ginsberg
Abram Haltovitch
Dvorak
Roosevelt Denies Cruelty in Wife Separation Suit
John Ellis Roosevelt, cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, testified in the Supreme Court denying cruel treatment claims by Edith Hamersley Briscoe. He admitted quarrels, described a hotel dispute in London, and said he changed his will while asserting he provided for his wife. Robert B. Roosevelt corroborated disputed epithets used by the brother.
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John Ellis Roosevelt
Colonel Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Edith Hamersley Briscoe
Roosevelt
Hotel Savoy
London
Jong
Mr. Roosevelt
Robert K. Roosevelt
Otter
Washington
Saintis
Swann Seeks Bond for Burns in Seymour Case
District Attorney Swann requests holding William J. Burns as a suspect in Seymour and Seymour matter. A misdemeanor charge arises from allegedly copying private papers under Penal Law Section 463. Chief Magistrate McAdoo will hear the matter after the John Doe inquiry into the seized offices. Sultzer, linked to Seymour & Seymour, provided memoranda tied to munition contracts via Paris agents. June 19 sentencing set for Sultzer in grand larceny second degree over a check kiting scheme.
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Swann
McAdoo
William J. Turns
Barre
John Doe
Seymour & Seymour
Burne Mareh
Morton B. Sultzer
Mogan & Co
Paris
Sultzer
Suither
Justice Benton
Supreme Court
Appeal Filed in Waite Case Delays Execution
Walter R Devel filed a notice of appeal for Dr Arthur Warren Waite who was convicted of poisoning his father in law John E Peek and sentenced to the electric chair. Waite supports the appeal with consent and awaits Court of Appeals action, likely delaying execution beyond the trial court’s timetable.
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Walter R Devel
Arthur Warren Waite
John E. Peek
Justice Shearn
Dr. Waite
Mr. Devel
Deuel
Waite
Sing Sing
Frank
Swann
Wffe
le Capranees
Court of Appeals
Deuslix
Margaret, Horton
Marie Moro
Frohman
Mare Doro
Park Watchman Drowns After Fall From Pier
James McDonald park watchman fell from the recreation pier at East Twenty-fourth Street yesterday and drowned as Patrolman Lynch heard cries for help. Lynch dived the river and recovered the body, bringing him to shore.
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Park
James McDonald
East Twenty-fourth Street
Lynch
East Twenty-second Street
Reckless Driver Fined Twenty Five Dollars in Jamaica
A baking company driver was fined 25 dollars after driving through a lowered gate at Richmond Hill. Magistrate Miller warned that future convictions would bring jail sentences.
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Long Ialand Railroad
Miller
Jamaica
Richmond Hill
Mrs Raymond Belmont Waives Alimony In Private Divorce
Mrs Ethel Lorraine Belmont obtained a divorce from Raymond Belmont son of August Belmont and waived alimony in a private settlement quoted as about 25000. The agreement approved by Justice Shearn left the exact sum undisclosed. The report includes unrelated remarks attributed to Edmund L Mooney A S Garretson and Elisha Lee about labor relations and future conferences.
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Ethel Lorraine Belmont
Raymond Belmont
August Belmont
Meny
Justice Shearn
Edmund L. Mooney
Belmont
Financiai
Trainmen Press Question in Lee Conference Fallout
A weeklong conference between railroad officials and workers at the Engineering Societies Building sparked a sharp exchange as trainmen pressed a refused question. The dispute briefly heated the talks but cooled to ordinary cordiality before adjournment, led by W. S. Stone, grand chief of the union.
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Garretson
Mr. Tae
Mr. Lae
Sr. Garretson
Lee
Stone
W. S. Stone
Cornell Medical Degrees Awarded to Four Women
Four women and twenty six men received medicine degrees at Cornell University yesterday. Dr. Jacob G. Schurman conferred the degrees and awarded memorial prizes for general efficiency. Receivers included Monroe Abraham Meyer Sir Arthur Spaulding McQuillan Ansa Kleegman and Charles Townsend Olcott. Graduates head to St Luke's Bellevue Hudson and other New York hospitals and to Cornell College Hospital in San Francisco.
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Cornell
Jacob G. Schurman
University
John Motealfe Post
Monroe Abraham Meyer
Arthur Spaulding McQuillan
Ansa Kleegman
Charles Townsend Olcott
Robert Stephen Cleaver
St Luket
New York
Bellevue
Hudson
New York City
Lane Atree
Cornell Coll Hospital
San Franc
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American Auxiliary Committee
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Abe
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Appleton
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Perruden
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