Platt Denies Wood Divorce Claims In Court Testimony
Senator Thomas Collier Platt testified in his defense in Mae Catherine Wood's suit for divorce. He denied writing or signing any marriage or payable confessions and said the alleged typewritten confession was unsigned when he signed it. He acknowledged autograph requests but said he never married Wood and had no recollection of meetings in 1902 or 1903.
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Thomas Collier Platt
Mae Catherine Wood“piatt
Justice O'Gorman
Supreme
Arlington Hotel
Washington
the Arlington
Onls
Abel
Senator Platt
John B. Grandsteiad
Geome
Oriental Hotel
Manhattan Beach
Wes
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Chicago
Stanchfield
Arlington
le Barbier
Mae
Catherine
Platt
la Mont
West 38Th Street
J. Martin Miller
Abe” Hummel
Miller
United States
Rheims
France
Howe & Hummel
Frank Pratt
Coward Shoe Promises Strength Comfort and Value
The Cowand Street for boys claims to endure street and playground wear longer than rivals. It emphasizes built in strength, comfort, fit and service at an economical price.
Receivers move to reinsure Mutual Reserve policyholders
Receivers for Mutual Reserve Life Insurance have proposed a plan to reinsure assessment policyholders with American Temperance Life Assurance in New York. Judge Ward reserved decision, likely next week. A Pittsburgh company faced objections over foreign insured status, now eased by a New York firm. Russell and Rushmore say progress is near finally securing better terms for policyholders.
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Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Society
American Temperance Life Assurance Association of New York
Ward
United States Circuit Court
Mutual Reserve
Legal Reserve
William Hepburn Russell
Rushmore
Pittsburg Life Insurance Company
Court OKs 3.5 Million Receivers Certificates for NYC Rail
The U S Court of Appeals affirmed Judge Lacombe in permitting receivers to issue 3.5 million in certificates to rehabilitate the Metropolitan Street Railway and NYC Railway properties. The order prioritizes these certificates over existing mortgages to fund new cars power stations and line extensions. Additional certificates totaling 2.5 million and 0.756 million were granted for related lines, with funds to cover cars, depots, and a Pelham Parkway extension.
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New York City Railway Company
Lacombe
United States Circuit Court
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Morton Trust Company
Guaranty Trust Company
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Metropolitan
Pelham Parkway
Fordham Station
Bronx Zoological Park
Third Avenue
Third Avenue Railroad Company
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
Union Railway Company
Central Trust Company
Bushwick Hospital Medical Staff Resigns in Reform Plan
The entire Bushwick Hospital medical staff tendered resignations to the board of directors. A June 1 annual meeting will decide which resignations are accepted amid a push to reorganize the staff and expand facilities. Dr William Francis Campbell now leads the surgical staff, with Wilson Scott and Tupper named to run medical services under new structure.
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Williamsburg
Executive Committee
William Francis Campbell
Campbell
Clark and Schilling
Wilson, Scott and
Tupper
Wilson
Matson and Fairburn
Dr. Wilson
Robert Roy
Kings County
William M. Watkins
Tribune
State OF
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Grace of God
Marguerite Pasteur
Maude L. de Morsier
William Freeth
Eugene Martin
St. Luke's Hospital
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the
Protestant Episcopal Church
Society of the New York Hospital
American Bible Society
Home For
St. Luke's Home
Louisa Leroy
Edmond Fatio
Albert de Roulet
Edith Cow
County of
Weld County
Hall of Records
Adrian Iselin, Jr
A. Lanfear Norrie
Henry G. Barber
Charles H. Beckett
Daniel J. Dowdney
State OF New York
God
Charlotte Bergeret
Marie Pastoriano
Jean B. F. F. Bergeret
Louise Weiller
Weiller
Daniel Weiller
Simon Weiller
Leon Veiller
Alice Veiller Sweeney
Alice Veiller
Albert Veiller
Henriette Veilier
Augustine Babette McNaughton
Veiller
Daniel Wei
Abraham Luctem Bergeret
Leonie Anna Bergeret
Marcel Rene Morie Bergeret
Mathilde Henriette
Amelie Bergeret
Aijice Charlotte Bergeret
Marthe Esther Bergeret
Robert Georges Bergeret
Henri Baron Bergeret
Yvonne Marie Dorothy Metzger
Mildred Welller
Ruth Siegbert
Laurence Levi
Richard Metzger
Ruth Metzger
City of
Dantel Weiller
John Abhsbachs
Auguste Weiller
James, SC
Colleges Plan College Night at Herald Square Theatre
A joint committee from Columbia Fordham New York universities and Manhattan City and St Xavier's colleges meets at College Inn to finalize College Night arrangements for June 2. Students from Yale Harvard Princeton Cornell Brown and Dartmouth will attend with alumni. Boxes will feature colors pennants and fraternity and club standards displayed around theAwite.
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Columbia
Fordham
New York
Manhattan
City and
St. Francis Xavier's
College Inn
Herald Square Theatre
Lew Fields
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
Cornell
Brown
Dartmouth
Lilley Censured by House in Submarine Inquiry Verdict
The House voted 157 to 82 to sustain a special committee finding that Representative Lilley of Connecticut acted in bad faith and in contempt of the House in relation to submarine torpedo boat legislation. The report accuses Lilley of using influence for Lake Torpedo Boat Company and hiding the parties behind the investigation. Lilley defended his conduct as misinterpreted and insisted his integrity remains intact.
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Washington
Lilley
Connecticut
House
Williams
Mississippi
Mr. Lilley
Committee On Rules
Lake Torpedo Boat Company
Naval Committee
Representative Loud
Webster
Edinborough
Jilley
Goff
Electric Boat Company
Admiral Bowles
Naval Affairs
Loud
Electric Boat Compa
Ber
Print Paper Report Delayed By House Inquiry
Washington May 2 The special House committee probing the wood pulp and print paper industry did not conclude its inquiry today and a report to Congress this session is unlikely. Several manufacturers were examined and more were expected from the West tomorrow. Testimony covered material cost wage increases and tariff removal arguments.
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Washington
House
Congress
West
Provident Life Deficit Cut. Board Fight Continues
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society lowers deficit from 400000 to under 200000 with expectations to eliminate it soon and resume new business. A power struggle over board control persists between Philadelphia interests and New York banking factions, with court actions and resignations shaping leadership. Stolen bonds in transit from New York to Paris see French police recover all but 2000 of 9900 par value.
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Provident Savings Life Assurance Society
Timothy L. Woodruff
Colorado Insurance Department
Coyle of
Philadelphia
Henry Moir
William T. Gilbert
Gilbert
Coyle
New York
France
Redmond & Co
Savoie
Paris
Gold Engaged for Export to Europe Reaches $1 250 000
Engagements of gold for shipment to Europe yesterday totaled 1 250 000 with 1 000 000 in coin. Goldman Sachs & Co. booked 506 000 for Berlin and Heidelbach Ickelheimer & Co. 540 000 for Paris. Lazard Freres 100 000 in bars and Russo China Bank 250 000 in bars. Total since April: 79 300 000. Despite withdrawals the foreign exchange market remains strong and advancing. The demand for sterling yesterday rose to its highest level.
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Europe
Goldman, Sachs & Co
Berlin
Heidelbach
Itiz
Army and Navy Orders and Ship Movements Report
May 20 dispatch from The Tribune Bureau details Army and Navy orders including lieutenant colonels majors and captains assigned or transferred among Cavarly Infantry and Coast Artillery with postings to Fort Riley Fort Totten and recruiting stations. Navy items note detachments at California postings and staff aids for 34 division Atlantic fleet plus movements of ships Des Moines Navajo Yankton Chester Iwana Firmingham and others with commissioning of the Yankee at Boston.
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ARMY
Charles W. Taylor
4Th Cavalry
William W. Forsyth
6Th Cavalry
Beverly A. Read
T. Pome Schultz
Cavalry
Alfred
Share
7Th Infantry
Nat FP Phister
13Th Infantry
Samuel E. Smiley
Benjamin H. Cheever
18Th Cavalry
Arter P. Johnson
Herbert H Sargent
2D Cavalry
Fort Riley
George Rallin
6Th Field Artillery
John H Raker
21St Infantry
David Y. Beckham
Coast Artillery Corps
Thomas W. Hammond
Charles B. Amory, Jr
1St Infantry
1H Cavalry
Arthur J. Davis
9Th Cavalry
NAVY
W. Bertholf
Ce Ixiant
California. Guard
Mare
R. W. Henderson
T. Hutchins
Atlantic Fleet
F. H. Robilrts
Hopkins
R. P. Scudder
Lawrence
A. C. Meyers
Truxtun
Navy Department
Rayner seeks Senate vote on court of inquiry
Senator Rayner again appealed to the Senate for a vote on a resolution authorizing and requesting the President to appoint a court of Inquiry to investigate charges against Colonel William F. Stewart coast artillery at Fort Grant Arizona. Objection postponed further consideration as the Senate passed the omnibus public buildings bill and other items adjourned at 4:55 p.m.
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Washington
Senator Rayner
Senate
Willam F. Stewart
Coast Artillery
Fort Grant
Arizona
Rayner
Committee On Military Affairs
Congress
United States
Conferrees
Four Treaties Ratified by Senate Today
The Senate ratified four treaties: two with Japan protecting trade marks in China and Korea, an arbitration pact with Denmark, and a treaty with Great Britain allowing prisoner transfer across each other's territory. It also permits wrecking and salving companies from either country to assist distressed vessels in the Great Lakes and boundary waters.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Senate
Japan
China
Corea
Denmark
Great Britain
Great Lakes
Tobacco Defence Opens in Sherman Anti-Trust Case
The American Tobacco Company began presenting its defense before Judges La combe Ward Coxe and Noyes in the US Circuit Court. Junius Parker argued the defendants’ business was lawful and beneficial to planters, manufacturers, and consumers, and disputed the government's antitrust contention.
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American Tobacco Company
Lacombe, Ward, Coxe and Noyes
United States
Junius Parker
Ill treated by gypsies drives boy to insane act
Leonard Allen, 15, of Middletown N Y, allegedly suffered ill treatment by a gypsy band while a captive. In a rage he ran about his home brandishing a butcher knife and threatening his mother before police subdued him and he was committed to the State Hospital for the Insane.
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Middletown
N. Y
Leonard Allen
State Hospital For
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