Murphy Doom Seen in Mutchel Honors Fear Felt in 14th Street
Tammany Hall leaders denounce President Wilson ally Mitchel for Collector of the Mort as Murphy’s grip on power weakens. Governor Sulzer and anti-Tammany forces press to dethrone the Wigwam Boss while Mayor Gaynor urges Mitchel to remain until June 1 to finish Brooklyn waterfront projects.
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Board of Aldermen
Charles Murphy
Ti Ie
Wilson
Sulzer
Murphy
Tammany
Mitetet
New York Central
Brooklyn
Gaynor
Sam
Brooklyn Docks
Brooklyn Bridge
Gith Street
McAneny
Board of Estimate
Morning News Incomplete Highlights Morbid Mix
This Morning's News outlines various items including wage talk and term choices for inspectors, reflections on a hospital operation for Vincent Astor, and a Graft Trail involving Whitman. Other notes mention marriages health issues court actions and political debates across the general page.
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Mitchel
Murphy
Vincent Astor
Whitman
Roosevelt
Mratse Morgan
Honey Ambassador
Senator & O
Briges
Midocean Rescue
Civic Pride
Iee Co
Paterson Court
Mrs Wilson to Name Rome Postmaster in Georgia
Washington May 8 The President’s wife will appoint the Rome Georgia postmaster her childhood home and the pick will go to a longtime Axson family friend President Wilson asked Representative Gordon Lee of Georgia to come to the White House today The Rome district’s representative remarked Mrs Wilson wants J P Bowie named for Rome Postmaster Bowie knew Ellen Louise Shansen now Mrs Wilton when she was a schoolgirl in Atlanta and Wilson was a young attorney
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Mame
Rome
Axson
Wilson
Gordon Lee
Georgia
White House
Wilken
Bowie
Ellen Louise Sb
Ansen
Wilton
Woodrow Wilson
Atlanta
Ed Pees
Heiress to 7 million works at Curtiss plant
Miss Helen Kleckier, 15, of Campbell, is named as an iron heir to seven million. She works as a stenographer at the Curtiss Aeros plane Company in Hammondsport and intends to keep her job, saying she enjoys typing. The fortune stems from her mother’s Rusvan lineage and land near New York City and Maryland’s Mayre de Grace.
JAIL IF SHE PHONES HIM
Mrs Brown of 225 Weet Hol street must stop telephoning her father in law or face jail. Jefferson Market court adjourned after she failed to appear as the case against her was pursued by her father in law’s lawyer. Magistrate Herbert told the lawyer there must be no telephones in the interim. The case involves a separation and ongoing messages from Mrs Brown to her son.
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Herbert
Grattan Colin
Brown
Ambulance For Humans Finds Horse In A Hole
Dr Inconnu of Hudson Street Hospital rushes to a New Dey Street scene. A horse pulling a wagon fell into a street hole made by telegraph work. An East Side peddler Abe Kazinsky watches his daughter is safe. The horse and driver were rescued by police, an SPCA officer, a horse doctor, and the ambulance crew.
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Lucomng
Hudson Street
Citie
Dey Street
Broadway
Inconnu
Dr. Inconna
Fulton Street
Manufacturer Killed in Auto Drag Fatality at New Rochelle
Frank otooonmn, inc., clothing maker of 1 Weet Sth street, was struck and killed by a car driven by John K. Martin, a candy manufacturer, on Broadway near Webster taverns in New Rochelle. Martin fainted after the collision. Freedman, dragged from beneath the wheels, died en route to Roosevelt Hospital.
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Oelock
Suth Street
John K. Martin
Wheels On Webster Taverns
New Rochelle
Freedman
Broadway
Martin
Tony Hayes
Dro 7Te Everett
Roosevelt Hospital
Underwood Tariff Passes House Amid Turmoil
The Underwood tariff bill cleared the House by a narrow vote amid party divisions. Five Democrats opposed the measure, while two Republicans and four Progressives supported it, as chambers debated protections and consumer relief and the administration warned of potential consequences for industry and prices.
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The
Tribune Museen
Washington
Amd
Tes
Protection Democrats
Meneire
Democratic Party
Underwood
Prestate Tariff Commission
Republi
Mines Rush to Pacific for War Material
In Wilm ington Delaware fort du Pont officers acting on War Department orders opened mines for shipment to Fort Baker California. Two carloads of ore were sent today and more material is expected in the coming hours.
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Whmington
Del
War Department
Fort du Pont
Delawar City
Fort Baker
California
Finger Injury Wins $3400 Verdict in Supreme Court
John Cortess received 3400 in the Supreme Court for a permanently stiff index finger from an accident on the Fourth Avenue extension work site. The injury occurred when a supervisor ordered a worker to break a pipe with a sixteen pound sledge hammer, striking Cortess. The ruling cited employer’s liability in the case against KK Smith Contracting Company. Great Bear Spring Water appears in an unrelated ad excerpt.
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Supreme Court
John Cortess
Cortess
KK. Smith
Corless
Fourth Avenue
Vincent Astor Escape Delays Throat Operation
Vincent Astor avoided an operation today as doctors at Post-Graduate Hospital prepared a room for a possible emergency. His throat trouble has shown improvement, and nurse officials say he is “all right now.” The case remains uncertain, with no definite plan for surgery and the patient resting in Mainebeck, New York.
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Ghent
State Department
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Rinbaney
Owever
Caliifornia
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Japan
California
Bryan
Wilson
Tigan
Johnson
Vincent Astor
Mr. Astor
Astor Haw
William A. Dobbyn
de James F
de McKernon
Mainebeck
N. Y
Vincnt Astor
Lowever
John Jacob Astor
St. Morits
Switzerland
Tired of paying alimony ends as wife remarries
Eleven years of alimony at 15 a week has been paid by Mugene 1 Sutton to Isabelle Sutton. Publicity over Mrs Justine Sutton Gray and household disputes led Sutton to investigate and learn his former wife remarried, now Mrs Sharpe. He moves in Supreme Court to vacate the order.
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Sutton
Isabelle
Justine Sutton Gray
John Hoyd | Gray
Gray
Isabell Sutton Sharpe
Winfield Sheehan Not Gone to Europe
A circulating report claimed Winfield Sheehan secretary to the Police Commissioner had traveled to Europe on vacation. Officials said the reason was the commissioner's secretary felt run down. no official timetable was given. A late night Police Headquarters conference and inquiries at Deputy Commissioner Dougherty’s home in Sheepshead Bay followed the rumor.
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Winefield Sheehan
Europe
King Edward Hotel
Sheehan
Cit
Police Department
S Ad Puty
Dougherty
Sheepshead Bay
Divorce for Baroness Morgantic Wife of King Leopold
Baroness Vaughan, once the morganatic wife of King Leopold of Belgium, obtained a divorce from Emmanuel Durieux today. The proceedings were not defended.
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May S
Vaughan
Leopold of
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Day
Emmanuel Durieux
Los Angeles School Ban Triggers Skirt Controversy
In Los Angeles on May 9, Polytechnic High School students Leone and Leontias Parker were sent home for wearing what administrators called slit skirts. Principal W A Dunn ordered them to change, sparking protests from peers who claimed favoritism after a female office worker was allowed to wear a similar skirt.
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Los Angeles
Polytechnic High School
Leone
Leontias Parker
W. A. Dunn
Woman Severely Injured After L Train Incident
Celicia Beniura, 45, unknown address, was hit by a southbound Ninth Avenue L line train and dragged about fifty feet before the motorman Patrick Dolan stopped the train. Beniura’s hand was amputated at the wrist. She was taken to Polyclinic Hospital in serious condition.
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Celicia Beniura
Ninth Avenue
Patrick Dolan
Dolan
Polyclinic
Two Inspectors Ready to Confess In graft case
District Attorney Whitman presses for full disclosures as ex inspectors Hussey Thompson seek clemency. Lawyers for Hussey and Thompson push for terms, while Murtha and Sweeney face uncertain prospects in the graft indictments and possible testimony. Whitman intends to test all information before granting mercy or witness status.
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Hussey
John B. Stanchfield
James F. Thompson
Whitman
Francis L. Wellman
James H. Hussey
Wellman
Thompson
Mr. Whitman
Blackwell's Island
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Sing Sing
Sweeney
Mr. Whiteman
Alfred J. Taleley
George Gordon Battle
Tombs Steel
Murtha
Herman Rosenthal
Rose
Weber
Valerian
Fox
Walsh
Newell
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