Gardiner Case Closed As Deming Probes D A Conduct
Horace E. Deming and Samuel Untermyer spar before Commissioner Wilcox in a long summing up on Asa Bird Gardiner's New York District Attorney tenure. Deming blasts indictments dismissals and failures to enforce laws while detailing staff size salaries and alleged abuses of power.
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Asa Bird Gardiner
Horace E. Deming
Davies
Samuel Untermyer
Gardiner
Wilcox
Criminal Courts
Mr. Deming
Untermyer
Deming
Dening
Gardier
Court of General Sessions
Major Gardiner
Trial Opens in Brooklyn Rapid Transit Case
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company trial before Justice Fursman began with defendants Goslin Packer Bogart and Davis in court. Witnesses included William McClure of the Stock Exchange and Scully of The New York Herald. Testimony covered Truthseeker ads and office arrangements at Security Investment Company, with adjournment to this morning.
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Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Justice Fursman
Supreme Court
Alfred R. Goslin
Eugene L. Packer
Henry T. Bogart
Charles T. Davis
R. A. Ammon
Black
F. B. Bard
John Proctor Clarke
William McClure
New York Stock Exchange
McClure
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
The
Stock Exchange
Michael V. Scully
New-York Herald
Herald
Pullman Palace Car Company
Eugene C. Mauburn
New York Times
Scully
Henry J. Alexander
Clarke
Alexander
Goslin
Packer
Bogart
No. 30
Broadway
Security Investment Company
Produce Exchange Bank
Sadie Gray
Michael McNamara
Mr. Goslin
Cima
Price McCormick Collateral Portfolio Revealed in Court Schedules
William J. Curtis, assignee for Price McCormick & Co, filed schedules listing collateral stock for loans. Major holdings include 12,400 American Steel and Wire, 22,876 Philadelphia Company shares, 11,457 American Tobacco, 10,310 Southern Pacific, and other large stakes. Philadelphia Company owns Pittsburg gas and electric lines. common stock around 17, with $14.6 million outstanding common and $3.99 million preferred and $14.85 million funded debt.
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William J. Curtis
Price, McCormick & Co
American Steel and Wire Common
Philadelphia Company
American Tobacco
Southern Pacific
Kansas City
Pittsburg
Gulf
Atchison
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Union Pacific
United States Leather Common
Receiver sought for Republic Savings and Loan in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Dickey the State Banking Department urged a receiver for Republic Savings and Loan Association, citing a deficiency of 219000 with 92000 excess expenses, while Kilgen and Hitchings argued the stockholders released deposits to cover the deficit. The judge reserved his decision.
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Republic Savings and Loan Association
Justice Dickey
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
State Banking Department
Edward P. Coyne
George J. Kilgen
Association
Hector M. Hitchings
Mr. Coyne
Kilgen
Hitchings
Banking Kilburn
Dickey
Sullivan Breaks Loose Again in Broadway Assault Case
John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, faced assault charges by George H. Snyder of the Coleman House after an incident at No 1177 Broadway. Bail set at $500. examination ordered for 9 o clock the next morning. Sullivan, intoxicated and crying, resisted in court but was restrained and arraigned alone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Sullivan
Deuel
Jefferson Market Court
George H. Snyder
Coleman House
No. 1
Broadway
Sullivan
Snyder
Herrlich
Maudlin
Twenty-eighth St
Ticket forger Blase jailed for two years six months
William H. Blase, a ticket agent from Fort Wayne, Indiana, convicted last week of forging a railroad ticket, was sentenced by Judge Cowing in General Sessions yesterday to two years and six months in prison. He operated a ticket scalper’s office at No. 6 Astor House. Patrick J. Fletcher of St. Louis bought a ticket from Blase for travel to Leadville, Colorado, but the forged ticket was found at Frank's ticket agency after Fletcher reached Buffalo.
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William H. Blase
Cowing
Blase
Fort Wayne
Ind
Astor House
Patrick J. Fletcher
St. Louis
Leadville
Col
Fletcher
Buffalo
Change in Produce Exchange Rules Amends Commission Policy
The Produce Exchange Board proposes amending Rule 36 Section 1 to allow small trades in cash grain where futures are involved to close out futures without commission on the day of the trade and the next business day. This change reshapes transaction costs for short cash trades linked to futures activity.
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Board of Managers of the
Produce Exchange
Deputy Sheriff Seizes Clothing Dealer Over Debt
Deputy Sheriff Murray filed an attachment against Sophie Feldman a cloak dealer at 78 Avenue B for zero dollars in favor of her husband David Feldman over a June 1897 money loan. The sheriff levied on the property and Feldman plans to vacate the attachment. The move allegedly stems from Feldman’s dislike of her bookkeeper whom he insisted be fired but was not.
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Murray
Sophie Feldman
Avenue B
David Feldman
Feldman
Banks Declare Semi-Annual Dividends
The Continental National Bank and Bowery Bank each announce semi-annual dividends with July 2 payment dates. The Institution for the Savings of Merchants' Clerks declares a dividend for six months ending June 30 at 3 percent annually, and Dock Savings Institution also proclaims a six month, 3 percent annual rate dividend.
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Continental National Bank
Bowery Bank
Pay Dock Savings Institution
Trolley Car Fatal for Boy Sparks Family Tragedy
Mrs. Yetta Lazarus, 28, of No. Humboldt St., is in a padded cell at St. Catherine's Hospital after becoming violently insane upon learning her son Harry, age five, was struck and killed by a Myrtle Ave trolley car. Motorman Owen Fitzsimmons faces arrest as the crowd recalls the fatal crash and the mother’s collapse.
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Yetta Lazarus
Humboldtst
St. Catherine’s Hospital
Harry
Lazarus
Russia
Isaac Lazarus
Myrtle-ave
Myrtle and
Hamburg Aves
Owen Fitzsimmons
Fitzsimmons
Murphy
Homeopathic Hospital
Saengerfest Opens At 13th Regiment Armory
Brooklyn Saengerbund committee met with President Guggenheimer to finalize opening plans for the Saengerfest at the 13th Regiment Armory next Saturday. Guggenheimer delivers the opening address with a welcome speech. Governor Roosevelt declined due to a Western trip. Armory busy with preparations, 75000 yards of bunting used for decorations and a large singers’ platform nearing completion.
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Brooklyn Sangerbund
Guggenheimer
13Th Regiment
Roosevelt
Woman on crutches testifies in court assault case
Delia Hoffman fifty five of 178 Ten Eyck street appeared in Even st police court to press assault charges against neighbor Adam Rogers. Hoffman says Rogers beaten her after she captive a Rogers boy in her cellar for an hour. Rogers posted 500 bail for a week’s hearing.
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Delia Hoffman
Ten Eyckst
Adam Rogers
Rogers
No Electric Fountain This Year Amid Water Shortage
Water Department officials blame Consolidation for Brooklyn’s worsening water crisis. Storage yesterday stood at 298,250,008 gallons versus 724,600,000 a year ago. It will take three months to build new filtering plants at Springfield and aisley ponds. Deputy Commissioner Moffett warned no water would be available for the electric fountain at the Park this year.
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Water Department
Brooklyn
Mount Prospect
Springfield
Aisley Ponds
Moffett
Brower
Park
Italian shoots near school children in street quarrel
Dominic Cargo an Italian twenty eight of 19 Richardson street quarreled with a man yesterday morning at North Eleventh street and Union avenue. He drew a revolver and fired with carelessness. bullets missed the man and went among a group of school children passing to school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominic Cargo
Richardson
Mother compelled daughter to wed in Coney Island case
Magistrate Kramer adjourned the hearing until Friday on a case charging a mother with forcing her fifteen year old daughter Lillian Waring to marry Roscoe Kerwin a Barkeeper of 322 Fifth Street The girl living with grandmother Mrs. Sarah Van Hart at Bay Forty ninth street and Harway avenue says the act was against her will The father George Waring proprietor of the Lakeview Hotel Paterson New Jersey is cited in the report
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Kramer
Coney Island
Lillian Waring
George Waring
Lakeview Hotel
Paterson
N. J
Sarah van Hart
Bay Forty-ninth-st
Harway-ave
Roscoe Kerwin
Fifth-st
Well Known Jamaica Man In Jail On Pocket Picking Charge
George Gracy twenty eight son of Squire John Gracy a wealthy Jamaica farmer is jailed in Queens County Jail Long Island City charged with picking pockets He attended the Lawrence firemen tournament Tuesday He says he was admiring a souvenir on a fireman coat and asked for it when refused police later arrested him on the charge Those acquainted with Gracy are indignant over his arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Gracy
John Gracy
Jamaica
Queens County
Long Island City
Young Gracy
Lawrence
Long Island
Gracy
Potato Crop Blight Threatens Riverhead Harvest
Riverhead Long Island reports a potato blight sweeping the area. Leaves curl and plants die, with current prospects showing not more than half a crop for the season.
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Riverhead
Long Island
Army worm seen in Southampton wheat fields
In Southampton Long Island on June 27 army worms have appeared in local wheat fields. Farmers fear wet weather could ruin the crops if conditions worsen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southampton
Long Island
Arrest in Hamilton and New Utrecht weighing machine theft
Patrolman Shea of the Forty third Precinct arrested a man who claimed to be Ernst Buchanan after finding a weighing machine under his arm. The machine, likely stolen from the Post Office sub-station at Hamilton and New Utrecht Ares, was recovered. A hole in the Pas allowed access to unlatch the lock and Buchanan was held.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shea
Forty-third Precinct
Ernst Buchanan
Hamilton
New Utrecht
Buchanan
Verdict for Equitable Life in Brady Policy Case
A jury before Justice Marean found for the Equitable Life Assurance Society in the policy dispute brought by Charles A. Decker as administrator of Frank M. Brady. Brady, who lived in Brooklyn, died Oct 30 with a bullet wound. the policy faced a clause denying payment if death was self inflicted within a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Marean
Charles A. Decker
Frank M. Brady
Equitable Life Assurance Society
United States
Brady
Lord’s Court Building
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Park proposed for Fourteenth to Seventeenth wards
At Borough Hall a plan for a forty acre park in the Fourteenth Fifteenth and Seventeenth wards was approved by the local Board of Public Improvements and will be sent to the state board. The site lies between Berry Nassau Driggs Manhattan Bayard and Newtown avenues and streets with two car lines nearby. Local leaders include Senator P H McCarren ex Controller George W Palmer Father Carron and clergy. The area currently has cheap frame housing and limited transportation to Prospect Park and Forest Park.
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Board of Public Improvements
Borough Hall
P. H. McCarren
George W. Palmer
Father Carron
St. Vincent de Paul's
William G. Ivie
Grace Episcopal Church
Thomas Murcotte
Patrick Campbell
Dispute Over Wealthy Man's Sanity Referred to Jury
Newton B. Stachelberg, 23, said to be wealthy, appeared before Justice Dickey in the Supreme Court Special Term on a writ of habeas corpus. He has been confined at Sanford Hall sanatorium in Flushing. the relator sought a sanity inquiry, while others urged liberty. The hearing ended with Justice Dickey directing the sheriff's jury to determine his mental state.
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Deming
Grand Jury
Police Department
Newton B. Stachelberg
Dickey
Supreme Court
Joseph D. Hart
Stachelberg
Sanford Hall
Flushing
Abraham Levy
Young Stachelberg
Sheriff's Jury
Trolley Victim Dies After Amputation
William Correll, nine, was run over by a Smith street trolley car Monday evening while attempting to steal a ride. His left foot was crushed and doctors at Long Island Hospital performed an amputation, but he died from the shock following the operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Correll
Smith St
Long Island Hospital
Navy Yard Wage Cut Approval Reported
The Board of Wages at the Navy Yard recommended wage reductions for several mechanic and machinist grades, including toolmakers from four dollars to three seventy five daily. Secretary Long is said to have approved the plan, set to take effect in July, with workers likely to appeal through the yard commandant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Yard
Long
Richard M. Watt
H. Morrell
J. C. Gibson
Jackson
Secretary of the Navy
Pratt Institute Adds Art Metal Course for Fall
Pratt Institute announced a new art metal course to begin in September. Drawing and design instruction will be by special instructors while Joseph Aranyi, noted for chasing die sinking engraving and enamelling, will teach the metal techniques.
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Pratt Institute
Joseph Aranyi
Summer schools and playgrounds open in Brooklyn
Summer schools in Brooklyn start July 9 for six weeks at Public Schools Nos. 7 14 18 30 34 43 55 79 84 offering iron work carpentry sewing millinery cooking from 9 am to noon. Kindergarten programs plus playgrounds run 1 to 5 30 pm daily for circle games and recreations at Schools Nos. 15 23 24 28 33 43 46 54 86 88 sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Gunner McCann Testifies in Maine Trial
In a Court of Special Sessions trial, Harry McCann, a gunner aboard the Maine, testified for the defense after being blown from the ship during the explosion. His account supported the defendant, leading to his discharge. The claimant, conductor William A. Clauster, accused Charles Stuenkel of striking him during a dispute over change.
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Court of Special Sessions
Harry McCann
Maine
William A. Clauster
Hendrix Jr
Charles Stuenkel
McCann
Jury awards Barker boy 200 in suit over 1899 runover
In Manhattan Supreme Court a jury awarded Wesley E. Barker six years after a team owned by James Naughton’s Sons ran him down on February 20. The verdict, through his mother Mary A. Barker, seeks 320,000 damages. In a separate Brooklyn case, Mary Gamper aged twenty won a verdict for the defendant in a collision suit against Brooklyn Heights line. Also: School Board president signed 10,506 01 to pay quarterly annuities to 66 retirees. Will contest over Andrew Horn estate adjourned with testimony about alleged earlier will.
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Supreme Court
Wesley E. Barker
Mary A. Barker
John H. Gamper
Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn Heights
Charles E. Robertson
Borough School Board
Andrew Horn
Abbott
Curfew Ordinance Repealed by Vineland Council
Vineland voters heard that the curfew ordinance was repealed on its third reading after a tied vote decided by Mayor Mason. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union planned to protest next month, condemning the councilmen as ungallant for repealing a measure that had only led to three arrests and was never enforced after initial controversy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vineland
Mason
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Bloomfield High School Grants 27th Commencement
Bloomfield held its twenty seventh commencement at the First Presbyterian Church. Board of Education members Superintendent Chancellor and Rev. George L. Curtis served on the platform with Curtis delivering the evening address.
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Bloomfield
Bloomfield High School
First Presbyterian Church
Board of Education
George L. Curtis
Bergen declines Congress bid in New Jersey district
Frank Bergen of Elizabeth says in an interview he is afraid the press has made him more ambitious to solicit favors from the public later. Republicans in the Eighth District prefer he not seek the seat against Charles N Fowler to avoid friction.
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Frank Bergen
Elizabeth
Congress
Charles N. Fowler
Viiith
New- Jersey
Bergen
Vineland Family in China Under War Strain
Vineland residents report distress over the safety of Dr. and Mrs. James H. Ingram linked to the Cow Church mission at Tung-Chou near Peking. Dr. Ingram, a 40 year old physician, has served in oriental missions. Mrs. Ingram is a professional nurse and Miss Mertle Prough of Harrisburg, Penn, previously accompanied them on American visits.
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Vineland
James H. Ingram
Tung-Cho
Peking
Ingram
Orient
Mertle Prough
Harrisburg
Penn
United States
Missionaries Dr James H Ingram and Wife Reported Missing Near Peking
Former Vineland New Jersey residents Dr James H Ingram and his wife, longtime missionaries near Peking, are feared dead or in grave danger as authorities work to confirm their safety amid troubling circumstances.
Roosevelt And Party Poised In New Jersey Rhetoric
A Passaic County paper notes Theodore Roosevelt remains a blunt reformer in national battles and that New Jersey Democrats linger in minority while some old leaders like Henry C. Kelsey issue cautious critiques. Kelsey predicts no viable Democratic platform as trusts and imperialism divide opinions.
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Henry C. Kelsey
New Jersey
New-Jersey
Robert Davis
Richard Croker
New York
Joel Parker
Joseph D. Bedle
Theodore F. Randolph
George B. McClellan
McPherson
Abbott
Kelsey
Democratic Party
Explosion Kills Two Men Handling Condemned Powder
In Freehold on June 27 two Maxim residents Clark Chamberlin aged 56 and Walter Reynolds 25 died when open boxes of fertilizer powder exploded while being unloaded from a wagon. Investigators say careless handling caused the blast. a coroner’s inquest returned a verdict of accidental death. Both men worked at Dupont in Maxim and left a widow and son for Chamberlin, while Reynolds was unmarried.
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Freehold
Maxim
Farmingdale
Phoenix
Dupont
Clark Chamberlin
Walter Reynolds
Chamberlin
Reynolds
Vanderveer
Tylee Reynolds
Southard
Interpreting Firemen Pension Act in Jersey City Case
William L Edwards of Newark files suit for judicial interpretation of the Firemen Pension Act on behalf of Jersey City Exempt Firemen’s Association against Jersey City. The act promises a widow’s pension equal to one half salary for fatal injuries on duty. Mrs. Scott seeks the pension for fireman Scott of Jersey City Truck No. 2, who died alighting a trolley to answer a fire alarm. officials say he was off duty when the accident occurred. The case argues that duty should be construed beyond mere on duty status.
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William Leslie Edwards
Newark
Jersey City
Scott
Missing son feared killed by Boxers after lecturing trip
Three years after a countrywide lecturing tour on China, no word has reached his family in Vineland. His father Robert Ingram and sister fear he, his wife, and their two children may have been killed by Boxers.
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China
Robert Ingram
Vineland
Chidren
Democrat Turns Republican at Ratification Meeting
Bloomfield June 27 Special The First Ward ratification meeting featured speakers including Thomas McGowan Captain Samuel Q Hayter Postmaster C W Powers Henry Sheldon and Douglass Moore. Clarence Van Winkle a Democrat announced his support for McKinley and Roosevelt and for an honest dollar and expansion. Resolutions endorsing McKinley Roosevelt were passed unanimously.
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Bloomfield
Thomas McGowan
Board of Freeholders
Samuel Q. Hayter
J. Howard Hardcastle
C. W. Powers
Henry Sheldon
Douglass Moore
Clarence van Winkle
McKinley
Roosevelt
Hayter
Suit for Valentine Policies Seeks Recovery of Life Insurance
Vice Chancellor Reed heard Edward S Campbell receiver of Middlesex County Bank in Newark yesterday in a suit to recover six life insurance policies totaling 35000 on George M Valentine the bank cashier now in State Prison. The bank contends premiums were paid from embezzled funds and seeks to restrain insurers from delivering policies or surrender values to Valentine or beneficiaries. The policies were conveyed to Mrs Valentine by her husband to support the bank's claim. The filing aims to connect Valentine with policy payments through embezzled bank money.
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Reed
Newark
Edward S. Campbell
Middlesex County Bank
George M. Valentine
Valentine
East Bettaie
Prisoner leaps from running train near Morganville
James Riddle of Newark feigned illness to slip into a toilet room on a Central Railroad of New Jersey car near Morganville. He jumped from the train at full speed into a gravel bank, was pursued by station master, and was bleeding from many wounds. he remains at large as Constable Hammell dispatched a general alarm along the line.
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Asbury Park
James Riddle
Newark
Central Railroad
New Jersey
Morganville
Hammell
Freehold
Bradley Beach
Riddle
Hudson County GOP forms for State convention at Jersey City
The Hudson County League of Republican Clubs organized the State convention plan by electing Frank Angel as chairman and Theodore Enis as secretary at Columbia Hall Jersey City on September 13. President Meyer says the league will issue the call within a week with a voter address and aims to secure Governor Theodore Roosevelt. A committee on music badges and fireworks was named with Edward Fry Samuel Monroe and Charles Mason and an intelligence office will run at the Jersey City ferry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson County League of Republican Clubs
Republican Club
Columbia Hall
Jersey City
Frank Angel
Theodore Enis
Meyer
State League
Theodore Roosevelt
Edward Fry
Samuel Monroe
Charles Mason
Jersey City Ferry
Farmer Peter P. Kenney Dies From Blood Poisoning
Plainfield June 27 Special Peter P Kenney a well to do farmer from Somerset County near Somerville died last night at his home from blood poisoning after scratching a boil with a rusty nail His arm was swollen to three inches his age seventy five
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainfield
Peter P. Kenney
Somerset County
Somerville
Captain Van Dyke Saves Another Life
Walter Knobloch twelve year old son of Charles Knobloch was rescued from drowning by Captain Charles H. Van Dyke in six feet of water at Long Branch. Van Dyke has saved four lives in the last five years.
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Long Branch
Walter
Charles Knobloch
Charles H. van Dyke
Captain van Dyke
Weddings in New Jersey feature multiple ceremonies
In Bloomfield two couples wed at the Church of the Sacred Heart. Anna Theresa Moor man married Edward J. Hughes with Kathryn and T Henry Hughes as attendants. East Orange sees Bessie Albert wed Frederick Bement at the First Baptist Church with Anna Royce Carr as maid of honor and Frederick T Albert as best man. Plainfield hosts a fashionable ceremony at Second Reformed Church in Somerville for Blanche Wiedenberg Abbott and Albert Van Syckel Bergen with Grace Garretson as maid of honor and Charles Radcliffe as best man.
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East Orange
First Baptist Church of
Beesie Albert
Henry Albert
No. 20
South Mapie Ave
Frederick Bement
Luffield
Conn
Donald D. Munro
Anna Royce Carr
Passaic
Frederick T. Albert
H. Clifford Albert
Scott Adams
Springfield
Masts Olin Sikes
New Haven
Franklin D. Elmer
New York City
Plainfield
Somerville
Blanche Wiedenberg Abbott
Albert van Syckel Bergen
Newark
Charles Dodd
Peddi Memorial Church
Grace Garretson
Charles Radcliffe
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Wall Street Review
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M'Cormick & CO
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PRATT
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Teddy
Republic
San Juan
Bryan Camp
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