Baik Bank Moves On Claflin Store
Unforeseen weaknesses in the Claflin Company spurred Baik Bank and mercantile creditors to seek a careful receivership approach. A conference cooled threats of bankruptcy while arranging payment terms and asset protection. About 10 million of notes pledged, with estimated receivership costs exceeding 1 million, and ongoing audits to finalize the restructuring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claflin
Jars’ Protective Committee
Thi
War Painter
Rumner
Nother House
Mercantile Creditors
Ford
Mercantile
Claflin Company
Nortram Hi, Borden
McD
Borden & Son
Claflin Finances Face Extended Credit Talks Amid Receivership
Report details the Claflin installments and securities tied to the H B Claflin Company. Receivers seek a 60 day extension to report, creditors to be gathered, and discussions on possible dividends while large firms extend credit and offers of aid despite the court actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claflin
John Clafin
H. B. Claflin
United Dry Goods Companies
Associated Merchants’ Company
Gould & Wilkie
St In
One International House
Hig
All Night Vigil in Drifting Boat on Long Island Bay
Patchogue residents Mr and Mrs Charles Jackson and their two daughters endured a perilous Sunday night adrift on Great South Bay as rain and wind threatened to capsize their motor boat. Rescued near Point of Woods they credited life saving stations after a long, exhausting ordeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patchogue
Long Island
Great South Bay
Ghirles Jackson
Jacksone
Anna
Donald Hudson
Aldred
Wily Bar Lndthwaite
Point At Woods
Point O' Woods
Four Die In City Motor Accidents Across NYC Area
Four lives ended in New York City and nearby boroughs as a series of motor crashes claimed the lives of three children and a young man. A stage director from the Witch Company of America, James Young, was arrested after fleeing with a car from the scene of a boy’s death. Eight-year-old Morris Appe datum was struck outside his Brooklyn home at 824 Alabama Avenue. Jeannette Davidson, two, died when a coal truck crushed her while a mother tried to shield her. A ten-year-old Bowery boy, John R. Kanaky, died from injuries after being run down in Jersey City, and a Sloatsburg man, Ray Burris, died saving a girl as a motorcycle rider crashed into a child. A Hastings couple, Dr. Lorenzo B. Philips and his wife, were trapped beneath a car but survived after bystanders assisted. Two young men in Brooklyn died after a collision on Ocean Parkway. A mail wagon driver, Fact was driving, died in hospital after an auto truck crash.
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James Young
The
Witch Company of America
Morris
Alabama An
Brooklyn
Young
Hackensack River
Webster
Ray Burris
Sloatsburg
N. Y
Burris
Ada Blaney
Lorenzo B. Philips
Sheridan Boulevard
Inwood
Broadway
Hastings
Phillips
Citien
Ocean Parkway
St Denekin
Charles Hart
Bainbridge St
Swish
Sistat
Seventh Ave
Bellevue Hospital
Dais
Tribune
I Witham
Poison Pen Trial of Mays Langing A N J Teacher Defames Staff
Howard Day former principal of Indiana ay school Atlantic City is on trial for defaming four teachers in two letters to the Board of Attending members. His wife Mel Dora Day is charged jointly. State contends Day acted under her orders to attack teachers while handwriting experts testify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mays Langing
N. J
Dune
Howard Day
Indiana
Board of Attenning
T. H. Jackson
Philadelphia
New York
Duryea declared incompetent and placed under care
Chester B. Duryea was ruled incapable of managing his person and was placed under the care of a sheriff jury by Judge Dike. The Jenkinson Trust Company to manage his property and Thornton Gerish to oversee his person. Duryea now resides at the Mateawan asylum following a shooting of his father Hiram. The article notes the young heir's situation amid the unresolved succession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester B. Dur Ho
Dike
Kings County Court
Jenklin Trust Company
Thornton Gerish
Duryea
Mateawan Asylum
Aent
Bia Fathiral Hiram
Youn
New Fireboat on Trial William J Gaynor Demonstration
The fireboat William J Gaynor and a flotilla of city craft completed a trial run from the Hudson to Hadson harbor amid cheers. The vessel, 121 feet long with 20 foot beam and 11 feet draft, reached about sixteen miles per hour with the tide aiding. Built by John W Sulliene for Mayor Mitchel's party, designed by J W Millard, it features a water tower two turndemes and a rooftop nozzle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Gaynor
Mitchel
Abrams
Hewitt
George Clellan
Thomas Willett
New York
Hadson
J. W. Millard
John W. Sulliene Company
Convict Ends His Fight for Liberty in Pardon Hearing
Alfred Schwitofsky’s bid for freedom after a 1911 burglary and assault conviction neared resolution. State officials will review briefs from counsel Mark Eisner and Assistant DAs Deleanty and McCormick as a governor’s pardon decision looms. Witnesses, including John J. Parker and Anna Hart, testified amid conflicting accounts of the arrest and claims of a frame up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Schwitofsky
McCann
John B. Riley
Willian Townsend
State Board of Harole
Lchwitofsky
Whitman
Schwitofsky
Lehwitofeky
Frank Harold
John Rivers
Oscar Bruen
Dale
Anna Hart
Mr. Risner
Mr. Eisner
T Che
Isaac A. Silverman
Schwitoff
Kin Jer
Duggan
O'Farrell
Mrs Biss
Trace Big Check in Steamship Deal
A $1 550 000 check traced to the Farmers Loan and Trust Company figures in a suit by Jennie R Morse and others seeking restoration of assets of the Metropolitan Steamship Company of New Jersey The case links the Billard Company to government rail investigation ties and alleges the New Haven company funded a transfer that reduced the steamship firm A receiver petition is before New Jersey Chancery Court and testimony identified two large checks deposited in National City Bank with details disputed by witnesses The hearing adjourned to July 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Steamship Company
New Jersey
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
Jennie R. Morse
Steamsh Company
New York County Lawyers’ Association
Billard Company
New Haven
Tni
Steamship Company
New Haven Company
Billard
Metropolitan
New Jersey Chancery Court
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Compansy
Conover English
Compiainansa
Albert E. Pukenhel
Trust Company
Edward T. Canefield
National City Bank
William Reed
Farmers’ Lawn and Trust Company
John R. Mckinnon
Lization Company
Frederick J. Faulks
Comny
Charles W. Moree
McKinnon
Douglas Nicholson
Letter Carrier Drops Dead in City Station
Leopold Stearn aged sixty seven years, a letter carrier for forty two years in this city, collapsed and died from heart disease at Station A Prince and Keenests just after reporting for duty yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eopold Stearn
Judge Refers Testimony in Inquests to District Attorney
Two juries at inquests held yesterday before Coroner Flynn referred several questions to the District Attorney Marti concerning Christian Science healers. In the Bronx, Lulu Brown of New Rochelle attended Mrs Heim. The practitioners in the Robertson case were Ilienbeth McQueen and Victoria C Howe of New Rochelle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ins
Flynn
George W
Horton
Baby the hospital dog ends 21 years of service
After twenty one years of service Baby, a Boston terrier at a hospital, died as colleagues and animals mourned. The aging dog had been relieved from street duty three years earlier and lived out her days in the hospital, where staff and a neighboring terrier mourned her loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belierse Hesterday
Andn
Alice
Boston Terriers
Paleig
Baby
Ports to Guard Against Bubonic Plague
The Telegraph reports no new bubonic plague cases in New Orleans in 24 hours and ongoing preventive measures. Surgeon General Rupert Blue will lead the eradication campaign from Washington, with rat control and fumigation equipment and a team of Public Health Service experts. Quarantine orders expand to Atlantic ports and vessels from New Orleans, with strict rat guards, fumigation, and limited access for certain passengers as health authorities intensify the response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
New Orleans
Rupert Blue
Public Health Service
Wington
Oscar Dowling
State Board of Health
Lea i Jenene
Wingeon General Blue
Surgeoneel
Atlantic Coast
Missippi
Iowa
Volunteers of America
New York
United States Public Health Service
Suit delays funerals in Hackensack area
Attorney William Macks told Vice-Chancellor Lewis in Jersey City yesterday that the Undertaking business of Franklin Briggs of Hackensack has fallen sadly due to notoriety as a correspondent in a divorce suit. The judge postponed trial on three suits by Mrs Florence Van Buskirk and Charles J Van Buskirk of Hackensack, noting that summer heat may have reduced funerals and setting the matter for October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Briggs
Hackensack
William Macks
Lewis
Jersey City
Florence van Buskirk
Charles J. van Buskirk
Women Shooflies Shatter Nerve Of Police Force
A new civilian shoofly system alarmed New York police as mayor and the commissioner considered outsiders monitoring precincts. Reports to the Commissioner of Accounts led to warnings for officers seen off duty or in saloons, with investigations routed to Chief Inspector Schmittberger and the mayor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissioner of Accounts
Schmittberger
Ouho
Man’s
Jealous Rival Suspected in Ballou Death Inquest Postponed
Coroner led inquiry into the death of Ballou at Mrs. Angle's home in Rippowain studio building. Officials say evidence supports a jealousy motive. inquest postponed to next Friday when Mrs. Angle testifies again. Bail set at 5000 for Mrs. Angle as material witness.
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M. Angle
Ballou
Angle
John J. Phelas
Stamford
John J. Phe Inn
Bruce 3. Weaver
Brennan
Charlie
Actress Freed of Debts in Bankruptcy Discharge
May de Sousa a musical comedy actress was discharged from bankruptcy by Judge Hand. Liabilities totaled 11698 with most incurred in London and Glasgow. Assets amounted to 400. She last appeared in New York in the fall and was divorced from her husband E A Haines of Rochester who she wed two years earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May de Sousa Names
Judge Hand
London
Glasgow
de Sousa
New York
E. A. Haines
Rochester
2 Killed 2 Hurt at Long Island Crossings
Two men were killed and two injured at unprotected grade crossings on the Long Island Railroad. Joseph De Brazzio of Jamaica died when his wagon was struck near Steward Manor station, with two others taken to a hospital. A second fatality, Joseph Breen of St. James, occurred at St. James when a train struck his wagon. Trees and buildings blocked his view.
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Long Island
Joseph de Brazzio
Jamaica
Iyde Park Road
Steward Manor
Joneph Baruccio
Joseph Mackson
Arthur Wood
Joseph Breen
St. James
Breen
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Clafin
Formanere
James Snder
Joseph M
Agre
Alexander Committee
H. B. Claftin
W. J. Gaynor
McLellan
Wrich
Formation Bureau
New York City
Csifonts
Convict
Parole Board
Trace
Farmers’ Trust
Farmer
Miss Morse
Road
Commissioner Woods
Woods
Weaver
Stamford Hospital
Walter R. Ballow
May de Sousa
L. I. Crossings
Red Man
Rocres Peer Comey
Warren St
Aeolian Company
Aeolian Hall
Religi
Rene Taming Hert
Fifth Ave
New Amsterdam
Ming
Hudson
V. Cohan's Globe
Ton Kellermann
Winter Garden
Kitty Macht
Jane
DANSE
Matteas
Serga
Heavenly Twins
Rozsika
Yansci
Dolly
Strand
Republic
Mle Cavalieri
Svssos
Ae Rene Longagre
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