Better Times Association forms to protest New
A New York City based group named the Better Times Association, with Henry G. King as president and James J. Wilson as secretary, advertises a pro forma platform denouncing presidential power and urging reforms. The group operates from 417 Lafayette Street with a moonlighting campaign of quadruple postcards and a celluloid badge, aiming to flood Republican circles and influence the convention.
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New York City
Albany
Prosperity Breeding Organization
Better Times Association
Henry G. King
James J. Wilson
Edgar Joseph
William L. Wemple
Manhattan
Caude B. Wever
Brooklyn
Wemple
Harry S. New
Republican National Committee
King
T Republican National Committee
THE
Better Times Association OF America
Prince Hélie Tak es New Name In Comedy Enigma
The stage piece The Princely Prince of de Sagen shows no real change beyond the principal character’s name. Prince Hélie de Sagen arrived in New York from Canada and registered as W. H. Thomson at the Prince George Hotel. He had been in Philadelphia as M. Dufresne. Miss Helen Gould denied a family conference over him as a suitor for her sister. A servant once left a box of cigarettes addressed to Mrs. Tyler Morse in Wyoming, marked For S.
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Prince of
de Sagen
New York
Canada
Prince Hélie
Prince George Hotel
W. H. Thomson
Prince
Philadelphia
M. Dufresne
Helen Gould
Gould
Mme
Anna Gould
Paris
Prince Hélie de Sagen
Tyler Morse
Wyoming
Two theatres change hands in new york transfers
The William T. Keogh Amusement Company transferred title yesterday to the New Star Theatre at the northeast corner of 197th street and Lexington avenue to Charles A. Winter. The West End Theatre on 125th street near St. Nicholas avenue was titled to the West End Theatre Company from Lillian Weber and another. the mortage on the property is 3145.00.
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Wiliam T. Keogh Amusement Company
New Star Theatre
197Th Street
Lexington Avenue
Charles A. Winter
West End Theatre Company
West End Theatre
125Th Street
St. Nicholas Avenue
Lillian Weber
Walsh Saves Berkeley High Team In Bronx Court
Berkeley High School baseball players faced arrest in a West Side court but Magistrate Walsh discharged the team. With no practice field, they held spring workouts outside Charles M. Schwab’s West Tid Street home while fans filled the courtroom and the team resumed training on a nearby street diamond.
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Berkeley High School
Walsh
West Side Court
Charles M. Schwab
West Tid Street
Harlem
Thomas Townsend
Hotel Clerk Caught In Jewelry Theft Case
Max Willie, formerly a Toom clerk at the Hotel Martinique, was reportedly arrested in Los Angeles over the disappearance of jewelry valued at 33.60 owned by Mrs. E. Ellery Anderson. Police expect extradition papers soon charging larceny. Willie allegedly took a safe package after resigning October 16 and claiming it belonged to him. The jewelry was not missed until January.
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Max Willie
Toom
Martinique
Los Angeles
E. Ellery Anderson
Willie
Paul Pinkerton
Cameron's Punishment Promised by Board of Education
The Cameron case ends with a suspension for forty days for Caleb W. Cameron, inspector of masonry, who approved secondhand pianos as new. Dr. Frank R. Rix also faces suspension. thus the board rejected dismissal as too drastic, while John A. Wilbur vows further action, claiming widespread old pianos passed as new. He plans to urge a grand jury probe and a charter revision commission inquiry.
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Board of Education
Caleb W. Cameron
John A. Wilbur
Cameron
Frank R. Rix
Rix
Louis Haupt
George W. Schaedle
Wilbur
Jerome
New Charter Revision Commission
Hughes
Administrator May Sue Itself In Dunlop Probate Fight
Surrogate Thames named Title Guarantee and Trust Company temporary administrator for the late Dr. Clark W. Dunlop estate estimated at 600000. Suspected duress and mental incompetence cited by several nephews and nieces who seek to contest the will. The bulk of the estate went to Mrs Dunlop with charitable bequests. nephews and nieces each received 2000. John W. Bartlett and the Title Guarantee and Trust Co. named executors. Mrs Eliza Dunlop opposed the appointment, and the company may need to sue itself over alleged illegal payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark W. Dunlop
Thames
Title Guarantee and Trust Company
Dunlop
John W. Bartlett
Eliza Dunlop
Marcus Hanson Declared Incompetent By Jury In Brooklyn
Former Deputy United States Shipping Commissioner Marcus Hanson was ruled incompetent by a Brooklyn jury before Justice Maddox to manage his estate valued at $500. Application for appointment of a committee will be made later. The action was brought by his two children by his first wife, Marie F. and Norman J. Hanson, who reside at 263 Schermerhorn street. Two other children live with Hanson and his wife at 7 Rugoy Road. The petitioners state Hanson has been incompetent for two years and allege friction with his stepmother, his late wife’s son.
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Marcus Hanson
United States Shipping
Rugoy Road
Hanlon
McClure Libel Suit Against S. S. McClure Denied
In United States Circuit Court Judge Hough refused to dismiss the libel suit brought by Emmanuel L Phillips president of Union Refrigerator Transit Company seeking 100000 damages over McClure's Magazine articles by Ray Stannard Baker. Testimony covered graft lobbyist terms and railroad rebates as defense argued for context and accuracy in reporting.
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Emmanuel L Phillips
Union Refrigerator Transit Company
S. ©. McClure Company
Hough
United States
Ray Stannard Baker
Burr
Phillips
Wisconsin
John Phillips
S. S. McClure
Baker
McClure
Gilbert E. Roe
St. Paul
Pabst Brewing Company
Milwaukee
August Uihlein
Northern Refrigerator Company
Aldermen Approve $600,000 for Irving High School
New Washington Irving High School building planned for Irving Place between 16th and 17th streets after unanimous board action. The crowd of 22 hundred students currently crowd four ramshackle buildings, with one long abandoned for unsanitary conditions as cited by President McGowan. Additional measures approved include up to $4,000 for a deputy police auto and $20,000 to finish the Police Headquarters, while a furnishing request for the Water Register failed.
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Washington Irving
McGowan
William H. McAndrew
Washington Irving High School
Board of Estimate
Irving Place
16Th
17Th Streets
Mulligan
Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity
Board of Water Supply
Department of Finance
Baker
Brooklyn
Queens
Water Commissioner
Michael Padden
Water Register
Probe Cuban's Death Sparks Coroner Investigation
Circumstances surrounding the sudden death of Magin Gonzalez, a Cuban cigarmaker at 216 West 134th Street, prompted Dr. John M. Williams to seek a coroner inquiry. Williams found healthy heart and lungs a day earlier, while two medicine bottles and a lemonade sediment in the room raise questions of possible poisoning.
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Magin Gonzalez
West 134Th Street
John M. Williams
West 306Th Street
Shrady
Gonzalez
Williams
Smuggling Bust Aboard Morro Castle Find
Special customs inspectors uncovered more than a thousand cigars and many cigarettes hidden behind false panels in the forecastle of the Ward Line steamer Morro Castle from Nassau. Sailors denied knowledge. no arrests. The ship also carried twenty black waiters setting out for summer coastal resorts.
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Havana
Morre Castle
Ward Line
Nassau
Morro Castle
Passengers Remove Body After Coney Island Train Tragedy
Passengers on a Bath Beach division train removed the body of Frederic Lincke from under the rear car wheels after he was crushed while trying to reach the 84th Street station. A doctor said Lincke died instantly. The Hatch Beach police station received the body and a Jersey City man identified it as his father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coney Island
Bath Beach
Frederic Lincke
84Th Street
Eighteenth Avenue
Lincke
End to night riding in Kentucky white burley district
A formal agreement between the American Tobacco Company and the Society of Equity ends night riding in Kentucky white burley. The pact reportedly buys the 1906 and 1907 crops at 16 and 38 cents a pound, with no planting for 1908, affecting about 80 million pounds stored in warehouses. Louisville and Winchester sources note surprise at the settlement terms.
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Cincinnati
Kentucky
Society of Equity
American Tobacco Company
New York
White Barley
Louisville
Ohio
West Virginia
Tennessee
Petition to Roosevelt Seeks Federal Action on Night Riders
Lexington Kentucky March 24 The failure of state authorities to find night riders sparks a direct appeal to President Roosevelt for federal involvement in Kentucky. Led by prominent Lexington and Central Kentucky leaders the petition acknowledges the President cannot act without a governor request but aims to unite the two executives on the matter.
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Lexington
United States
Kentucky
Birth of Martin baby alters Young fortune shares
Chicago reports the birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Samuel K Martin as Otto Young heirs gain a new grandchild with rights to the $25 million estate. The will split principal among grandchildren, so the Martins new heir shifts shares across the four Young daughters families and changes the fortunes of Marie Julia Young Kauffman Cecile Young Heyworth Catherine Otillie Young Hobart.
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Chicago
Otto Young
Samuel K. Martin
Martins
Mr. Young
Martin Baby
Marie Julia Young Kauffman
Marquette
Mich
Cecile Young Heyworth
Catherine Otillie Young Hobart
Martin
Auchincloss Arrested After Fifth Avenue Speeding Chase
Edgard S Auchincloss of East 69th Street was arrested after a chase along Fifth Avenue and cross streets. Police timed his automobile at twenty miles an hour, escorting the chauffeur and a man and woman who were with him. He posted a $100 bond and was released.
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Fifth Avenue
Edgar
Auchincloss
69Th Street
42D
Linkey
Trafic
Westth Street
3Th
38Th Street
Auchincless
Ex- Hamilton Bank case hearings resume with Vidaver charges
The Tombs court continued the examination of Nathan Vidaver, former special deputy attorney general, on attempted extortion linked to the Hamilton Bank closing. Frederick Searing testified about meetings with Grossman and Vorhaus, and Vidaver’s claim that Untermyer would reopen the bank if $1,000,000 and 1 percent of deposits were raised. Montgomery denied triggering his dismissal by notes predating the suspension, while Auerbach defended his role and denied being a go-between for Grossman and Jackson. The hearing adjourned for 2 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan Vidaver
Hamilton Bank
William R. Montgomery
Herrman
Tombs Court
Frederick Searing
Paterson
N. J
Montgomery
Vidaver
Moses H. Grossman
Vorhaus
Grossman
Mr. Montgomery
Searing
Arthur C. Palmer
Herbert T. Auerbach
Jackson
Grand Hotel
Mr. Jackson
Auerbach
Grossman and Jackson
Mr. Kiesel
Stewart M Brice Held in Contempt by Justice Leventritt
Justice Leventritt of the Supreme Court found Captain and ex-Councilman Stewart M. Brice in contempt for failing to pay two thousand two hundred seventy one dollars and sixty two cents. Sheriff Foley was ordered to place Brice in Ludlow Street jail until the amount is paid. Mullenkamp had a verdict of two thousand four hundred sixty two cents plus thirty dollars costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Leventritt
Supreme Court
Stewart M. Brice
United States
Calvins. Brice
Foley
Brice
Ludlow Street
Christian F. A. Mullenkamp
Ira B. Wheeler
No. 309
Broadway
Mullenkamp
Wheeler
No. 20
West 107Th Street
Dustin Farnum Fined for Speeding in Broadway Traffic
Actor Dustin Farnum was fined $10 in Special Sessions for overspeeding on Broadway. He was arrested March 9 by Patrolman Merritt of West 68th Street Station after pleading guilty to driving at twenty miles an hour.
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Dustin Farnum
Broadway
Farnum
Bleyele
Merritt
West 68Th Street
Picturesque Nuremberg and its central Württembergerhof hotel
Few Americans think of visiting Europe without staying a few days at Nuremberg, one of the Old World’s most interesting cities. It remains much as it has been for centuries, apart from its comfortable modern hotels led by the central Württembergerhof from which electric cars depart to every part of the city.
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Europe
Nuremberg
Wurttembergerhof
Runaway on Williamsburg Bridge Injures Man and Horses
A Williamsburg Bridge runaway damaged a funeral procession and a trunk wagon yesterday afternoon injuring Julius Fuhrman who fractured his right leg and bruised his face. Two horses were hurt and a wagon wrecked as a second runaway driven by Louis Feinstein flung fifteen cases of cysts from a wagon before being halted by the gate. Feinstein escaped serious injury.
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Williamsburg
Julius Fuhrman
Ne. Bowerr
Fuhrman
Boyland
Bridge Station
Louis Feinstein
Manhattan Avenue
Brooklyn
Fernstein
Tunnel Blasts Trigger Quake Scare in Tenderloin
A violent series of blasts in the Penn tunnel at 32d street startled guests in the Alpine apartment house No West 33d street near midnight. Manager A W Strong phoned Police Headquarters and requested blasting halt after 11. Windows shattered on 32d street, a store window broke opposite the site, and the owner reports $8,000 in insurance collected since the tunnel opened.
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Pennsylvania Tunnel
32D Street
No. West 33d Street
A. W Strong
Strong
Bingham
Inquest on Walter Farns worth Baker resumes in Hackensack
The last hearing in the Baker inquest, into the Boston clubman who died October 1 at Frank H. Hurd s Bogota home, is set for tomorrow afternoon. Coroner Dr C A De Mune plans to recall undertaker W F Ricardo who embalmed the body before a coroner viewed it and Dr G Howard McFadden who advised against embalming. Ricardo faces questions over the hurried burial and potential legal violations, challenging beliefs about pressure from others.
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G. Howard McFadden
Ricardo
Advances in Copper Prices From Metal Exchange
Copper prices moved higher on the Metal Exchange with bid and ask spreads rising to 13 and 13 1/3 cents per pound for electrolytic grade. Casting copper bids reached 12 1/2 cents. Producers reported robust sales to local buyers at short ton rates, with one major producer selling about 50 pounds at 9 1/2 cents.
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Lake
Cab Driver Wins 10000 Damages for Amputation
Edward McCabe, a New York cab driver, won a Supreme Court verdict of 10000 against City Railway for loss of his leg and related pain after his cab was struck at 59th Street and Third Avenue. He had sued for 25000, alleging the amputation occurred while he was conscious and he was run over by a car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward McCabe
New York
N City Railway
Supreme Court
Whi
MetCabe
59Th Street
Third Avenue
What Is Going On Today in New York Events
Mrs Mildred Manly Caldwell hosts a Waldorf Astoria briefing while Edmund Bronk speaks at Southwicken Parks. Free entry to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Museum of Natural History. National Metal Trades convention at Hotel Astor with a 10 am luncheon. Graham Association lunch at Hotel Machatti. Board of Education meeting at Park Avenue. John Chipman Gray lectures at Columbia University. Dinner of the National Metal Trades Association at Astor. David Bisphem lecture on singing at Steinway Hall.
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Mildred Manly Caldwell
Waldorf-Astoria
Edmund Bronk Southwicken
American Institute
Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Museum of Natural History
Zouical Gardens
National Metal Trades Associaciog Hotel Astor
Graham Association
John Chipman Gray
Columbia University
National Mets
Astor
David Bisphem
National 4 Station of Teachers of Singing
Steinway Hall
East 14Th Street
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Berkeley High
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Corn Products Mfg. Co
Saas Ies
McLure
Judge Hough
Jersey City
Uneeda Biscuit
National Biscuit Company
President Roosevelt
E. S. Auchincloss
H. T. Auerbach
Mr. Kresel
Western Union
Postal Telegraph Company
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