Press and Publicity at Charities Conference Session
At the Conference of Charities and Correction, June 15, H Wirt Steele and Dr Albert Shaw led a debate on What Constitutes Right Publicity. They urged newspapers as essential in uniting public support and guiding reform while warning against overadvertising uncertain remedies. Dr Friedman spoke on the harm of sending advanced consumptives away from home.
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Conference of Charities and Correction
H. Wirt Steele
Baltimore
Albert Shaw
New York
Yellowead
Charles W. Birtwell
Francis H. MacLean
John A. Kingsperr
Chance F. Lewis
Frederick D. Greene
New Tork
Snow
Central Labor Federation
Chamber of Commerce
W. & Friedman
State Board of Charities
Denver
Robbery motive eyed in Berlin killing case
Police say Samuel Bersin was asphyxiated and dismembered in a robbery murder near the Bridge or lower Second Avenue. Investigators, aided by thirty detectives and pawnshop searches, abandoned revenge or political feud theories and found no trail to the missing clothing or jewelry.
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Samuel Bersin
Russia
Perth
Second Avenue
Berlin
Tenemert House
Death by own action in Central Park
A young man signing as Ben Soalt was found dead on a Central Park bench near East 64th Street with a bullet wound. A revolver lay beside him. Letters, including one to his father and to Mrs Hannah Schwartz, were found. The father Jacob Soalt could not explain the death. Dr Soper said the man died instantly.
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Ben Soalt
J. Soalt
Chester Street
Brooklyn
Werdamk
Central Park
Coast Artillery
Fort Monroe
Virginia
Hannah Schwartz
St. John’s Place
Soalt
Boalt
Jacob Soalt
Ball Player Rescues Drowning Boy Near Brooklyn Dock
Walter Dillon, sixteen, of Brooklyn, heard a child cry for help while playing in a parent lot. He dived into the water at the foot of 2th street and, with fellow players, helped retrieve ten year old John Hayes. First aid was given while awaiting Dr. Gissel and an ambulance to Senev Hospital. The boy was taken to his home at 728 Sixth Avenue.
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Walter Dillon
7Th Street
Brooklyn
John Hayes
Dillon
Gissel
Senev Hospital
Sixth Avenue
Speeding driver and child survive crash at Norton's Bridge
Louis Schlosser and his six year old daughter Maria were driving a large touring car along Atlantic avenue in Far Rockaway when a head on approach forced a slip. Patrolman Copeland on horseback panicked the horse causing a fall. Schlosser steered into a steel bridge support to save them. The girl shattered the windshield but recovered at home. The car was wrecked.
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Louis Schlosser
West List Street
Maria
Atlantic Avenue
Far Rockaway
Norton's Bridge
Copeland
Schlosser
Zionist Meeting Ends After Twelfth Federation Convention
The twelfth annual Federation of American Zionists convention closed in New York with H Friedenwalder reelected president and J L Magnes as vice president. Honorary vice-presidents named include S Schecter Heller Szold Pessels Margolis Malter Leventhal Schaffer Masliansky and Jacob de Haas. A referendum principle was approved, a constitution redraft committee named, and delegates banqueted at Vienna Hall. The gathering praised Young Turks and Turkish Jews for progress toward self government. The Zionist aim for a Jewish state in Palestine was affirmed as not opposing Ottoman integrity.
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Federation of American Zionists
Committee On Propaganda
H. Friedenwalder
J. L Magnes
Temple Emanu-El
New York
Jacob de Haas
Boston
Palestine
Ottoman Empire
Vienna Hall
Lexington Avenue
58Th Street
First girl benefits new law in Tenderloin station
Lizzie Gompertz a seventeen year old of West 18th street was jailed at West 56th Street station for incorrigibility. The police matron asked to separate her from other prisoners and Lieutenant Dempsey used a new law allowing light offense detainees to be moved to the House of Detention in a separate room The measure prompted by the Women's Prison Association made Lizzie the first beneficiary of the reform.
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Tenderloin
Lizzie Gompertz
West 18Th Street
West Sth Street
Jeremiah Gompertz
Lizzie
Dempsey
Leutenant
Rose Daly
Lieutenant Dempsey
Women's Prison Association
SUE LAUTERBACH FOR WIFE'S DEBT
James R. Silliman files suit in City Court as assignee of creditors against Edward Lauterbach alleging he makes no allowance or contribution toward Mrs Lauterbach. She has a separate estate but income is insufficient. she wants to preserve her son's legacy as a memorial and may seek divorce or desertion remedies.
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Edward Lauterbach
James R. Silliman
Lauterbach
Alfred Lauterbach
Fifth Avenue
Elihu Root Jr Wins First Court Case for Railroad Firm
Elihu Root Jr son of Senator Root won his first case at the City Court yesterday acting for the Second Avenue Railroad Company. In a damage suit by Tillie J. Silverstein for injuries from alighting a car, the jury ruled for the defendant.
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Elihu Root, Jr
Senator Root
Second Avenue Railroad Company
Miks Tillie J. Silverstein
Home made beauty remedies from a 19th century column
The reader shares DIY skin and hair care tips including a jelly cream from glycerin and water, a bunion caution with foot baths, a salt soak, and a canthrax shampoo mix. Other advice covers blood tonics, quinine tonics for scalp health, eye tonic with Crystal, and Luxor alcohol mixtures for eczema and complexion.
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Luxor
Ninth General Council of Alliance of Reformed Churches Sets Modern Era Tone
The ninth general council at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church urged moving with modern thought while preserving core faith. Rev. Dr. J Oswell Dykes and Rev. Dr. James D. Moffatt warned against rigid dogma, urged unity, tolerance, and use of scripture for ethical aims amid calls for doctrinal evolution and renewed missionary effort.
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General Council
Alliance of Reformed Churches
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
J. Oswell Dykes
Cambridge
England
Alliance
James D. Moffatt
Washington and Jefferson College
Gompers Pushes Immigration Reform at AFL Special Session
The AFL executive council opened in the Victoria Hotel to address union disputes and urgent matters before Gompers sails for Europe. Plans included amalgamation talks between railway and car workers and a push to convene an international federation of labor. Gompers aims to press for stricter immigration limits amid lingering business downturn and labor demand concerns.
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Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
Gompers Aaile
Europe
Victoria Hotel
Perham
Order of
Railway Telegraphers
International Association of Car Workers
Brotherhood of Car Men
International Trades Tinion Congress
Paris
Gompers
International Federation of Labor
Gibraltar Indigestible Mentally in Tenderloin Report
Patrolman Garvey reported a case involving 16 year old Ifred Borel at Gibraltar a place he mistook for a country The crowd learned Gibraltar is a British possession The donkey owned by Borel balked at Broadway and 35th Street as a car driven by James M Quinn struck the animal with no damages noted
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Garvey
Tenderloin
Ifred Borel
Gibraltar
McKenna
England
Borel
East Mth Street
35Th Street
James M. Quinn
West 57Th Street
Curtiss May Fly Today At Morris Park
Curtis H Curtiss arrives at Morris Park as wind and motor cooperate for potential early morning trials. No flight yesterday due to darkness, with 5 a m suggested as a start. The aeroplane impresses as a natural flyer while W H Martin’s Canton glider tied to a car completes two laps at low altitude with ex jockey George Thompson beside him.
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Glenn H. Curtiss
Morris Park
Curtiss
Woodmanston Inn
W. H. Martin
Canton
Ohio
Wright brothers prepare aircraft for Fort Myer flights
Dayton report states the aeroplane for Fort Myer flights was shipped in eight boxes. Charles Taylor left Dayton for Washington to transport and set up the machine. The Wright brothers will travel to Fort Myer on Monday to wire and adjust tension. Flights expected within the June date if no mishap occurs.
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Dayton
Ohio
Fort Myer
Charles Taylor
Washington
Wright Brothers
Bank cashier sentenced for misappropriating bank funds
Herbert W. Allen, cashier at Woodsville National Bank in Woodsville New Hampshire, was convicted of misappropriating 19000 dollars of bank funds. He was sentenced in United States District Court in Concord to five years in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta.
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Concord
N. H
Herbert W. Allen
Woodsville
United States District Court
Federal
Atlanta
Allen
Tariff misplaced zeal risks public calamity, says editor
To the Editor the writer argues against rush to pass a new tariff, warning that hasty, downward revisions threaten prosperity. He cites historical episodes from 1872 to the Dingley era, defends genuine protection, and urges patience, sober judgment, and support for Senator Aldrich's bill while noting reduced duties.
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the Tribune
Washington
United States
Senate
House
New York
Treasury
Congress
Republican Party
Aldrich
Electro-Pneumatic Block Signals Safer Rail Travel
The Pennsylvania Railroad uses an Electro-Pneumatic automatic block signal system that relies on compressed air and electricity to indicate block occupancy. Signals switch to danger if current is interrupted or a train enters a block, providing two-block visibility and reducing human error. The system, with home and distant signals, is touted as the safest standard in railroading.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Trade pressures and tariff shifts spark consolidation fears
Henry Hall in New York on June 14 1999 argues that intense competition lowers prices and profits pushing small establishments to merge. He credits the 1894 Wilson tariff with fostering trusts and predicts future duties will favor large corporations, wiping out small operators and fueling more consolidations.
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Henry Hall
New York
Real trout flavor revived by Catskills pond feeding method
Letter to the editor argues wild brook trout retain flavor when fed beef liver is avoided. A Catskills breeder uses fresh beef shoulder fed by water-powered grinder to produce trout with the gamy taste of wild stock, selling to Waldorf and surpassing liver-fed rivals.
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the Tribune
Bailey
New York
Izaak Welton
Catskills
Adirondacks
Walton
The
Waldorf
Yama-no-uchi
Napenoch
Jewish Students and Heritage Spark Reader Letter
A Hackettstown reader praises The Tribune for Jewish coverage and argues for education and advancement among Harlem Jews. He contends Hebrew families invest in university opportunities, questions assimilation through separate schools, and cites Psalm 122 to urge support for Jerusalem’s peace and prosperity. June 10, 1969.
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the Tribune
Association of Harlem Grocers
New York
Jerusalem
Hackettstown
N. J
Guardsmen Prepare for Mock War at Fort Hamilton
The 13th Regiment, after mastering warfare theory, camps at Fort Hamilton and will begin mimic fighting tonight. Yesterday morning saw sub-caliber drills with limited regular assistance. Guardsmen at Fort Wadsworth in Manhattan and Brooklyn trained in sub-caliber practice and artillery drills, then fire, searchlight, and battery maneuvers last night as a big searchlight illuminated inward bound excursion steamers below Coney Island.
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13Th Regiment
Fort Hamilton
Anhattan
Brooklyn
Fort Wadsworth
Coney Island
Police Altered Records In Essex Market Court
In Essex Market court yesterday Harry Rosenberg Harry Goldman and Michael Bolter were arraigned and fined two dollars each on jostling charges. Detectives showed police records of each man claiming to reveal prior convictions. Rosenberg denied a prior eighteen month penitentiary term for attempt and larceny but admitted a fictitious indictment. Magistrate O Connell urged correction of erroneous records and the police promised to do so.
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Essex Market Court
Harry Rosenberg
Harry Goldman
Michael Bolter
Rosenberg
O'Connor
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Beth
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Payne
Serena E. Payne
E. J. Hill
Ways and Means Committee
Bulletin
Standard Railroad of America
G. O. Shields
League of American Sportsmen
New York Harbor
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Crosby CO
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