City Votes to Run Trade School for Girls
Miss Olivia Leventritt championed leasing the Manhattan Trade School for Girls at 209 and 215 East 23d Street to the Board of Education for two years at 5881 per year. The plan, adopted 28 to 1, aims to teach girls twelve months of trades open to women, expanding educational access at city expense.
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Department of Education
Olivia Leventritt
McClellan
Miss Leventritt
Manhattan
East 23d Street
America
Metz
Wingate
Somers
Martin
Maxwell
Tite
McDonald
Christine Towns
House Dead Broke as Contingent Fund Dries Up
The Tribune reports the US House of Representatives is insolvent, payables due to ship subsidy investigation draining the contingent fund. Speaker Cannon orders a quick solution to replenish funds, noting the Treasury should be kept in check while lawmakers seek new revenue. Warnings of potential bankruptcy are avoided if the Paine tariff bill boosts revenue.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
House of Representatives
Cannon
Pacific Coast
Representative Tawney
Committee On Appropriations
Treasury
Tawney
Speaker Cannon
Extra Wall Street Holiday Voted by NYSE Committee
NYSE governing committee voted to grant an extra holiday on the Saturday before Memorial Day, signed by 63 active members. With Memorial Day on Monday, traders gain a three day break. Cotton Exchange already approved, Produce Exchange to stay open for primary, banks to operate normally.
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New York Stock Exchange
Cotton Exchange
Orlene
Fair Women Portraits at Grafton Gallery Exhibit
London May 25. The Fair Women Show at the Grafton Gallery offers a varied blend of winter Academy, impressionist Salon, and International Exhibition. Seven Sargents on view including two new portraits Mrs Barnard and Miss Almina Wertheimer.
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Cable
the Tribune
London
Grafton Gallery
Sir Edward Tennant
Hogarth
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Gainsborough
Romney
Raeburn
Hoppner
Winter Academy
Louis Gustave Ricard
la Péche
Puvis de Chavannes
Gustave Courbet
Taxi Train Crash Injures Coney Island Officer
Captain Michael Galvin of the Coney Island police and his wife were badly hurt when a taxicab they rode in was struck by a West End train at Neptune avenue and West 14th street. The taxi overturned after being pushed fifteen feet. Mrs Galvin recovered. Captain Galvin and the chauffeur were injured.
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Michael Galvin
Coney Island
Neptune Avenue
West 14Th Street
Galvin
Thomas B. Crane
Senator Street
Bay Ridge
George Hackett
Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn
Robert Yule
No. 393
Seventh Avenue
Yule
Plumber Shot in Street Fight Tied to Gang Ties
Charles Manheimer a plumber of 124 Second Avenue suffered a spine wound in a clash with two men at Norfolk and Hester streets. He said he would seek his attacker without help from police. He is said to be a member of the John Spanish gang and may die at Gouverneur Hospital. The suspects fled.
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Charles Manheimer
Second Avenue
Shea
Delancey Street
Manheimer
Norfolk
Hester Streets
Gouverneur Hospital
John Spanish
Landers
the Kid
Three Italian girls arrested for pocket picking in Brooklyn
Lucy Palmeri ten Rosie Brande fourteen and Rosie Terra fourteen were stopped in the Hamilton Avenue ferry waiting room in Brooklyn on a pocket picking charge. Mrs. Mary Cavarese reported a seven dollar loss and police found two thousand four hundred fifty dollars in the girls pockets. The trio confessed to stealing in Manhattan and Brooklyn and were placed in the Children's Society.
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Hamilton Avenue Ferry
Brooklyn
Lucy R. Palmeri
Mott Street
Rosie Brande
Clinton Place
Rosie Terra
Broome Street
Manhattan
Mary Cavarese
van Brunt Street
Lucy Palmeri
Hamilton Avenue
Children’s Society
Archbishop Glennon Warns of Urban Slave Conditions
Arch bishop John J. Glennon told the Mississippi Land and Immigration Congress in Ironton Missouri that twenty millionaires in St Louis control most city wealth while seven hundred thousand workers live in squalid tenements. He warned this imbalance could spark a blood revolt and urged relocating the poor to the country for better homes and opportunities.
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Tribune
Ironton
John J. Glennon
Mississippi Land and Immigration Congress
St. Louis
Special Trains From Atlantic City Memorial Day
Through trains to Atlantic City leave New York at 9 55 AM 2 55 PM weekdays 12 55 PM Saturdays only 7 35 AM Sundays Special trains from Atlantic City depart Monday May 39 4 PM and 5 30 PM via Pennsylvania Railroad Parlor dining and coaches omitted times due to OCR adcht
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Atlantic City
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Fire on Cotton Lading Delays Big Liners Sail
Fire aboard the North German Lloyd steamship Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm at Hoboken harbor started in a cotton bale hold due to spontaneous combustion. Hoboken firefighters faced dense smoke and ammonia fumes, with over twenty hose lines and ambulance crews aiding as several men, including Chief Dunn, were overcome and hospitalized. Despite the blaze, the crew fought to prevent spread and the ship’s sailing was postponed though the ship was expected to depart later.
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Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm
Hoboken
Lloyd Line
Bremen
James A. Patten
Europe
E. Prehn
Frederick Wilhelm
Prehn
City Fire Department
Dunn
St. Mary's Hospital
Arlitz
Owen Kilduff
Timothy J. Kelly
Kilduff
Kelly
Lackawanna Railroad
Bath
Morristown
New York Fire Department
Thomas Willett
Acy
Leprosy Suspected Italian Immigrant Detained in New York
Saverio Marvelli a nineteen year old from Lorain Ohio was held at Hudson Street Hospital after the ship’s surgeon refused him passage to Messina Italy. Doctors including a Board of Health specialist ordered detention for further examination due to an eruption on his arms and face.
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Hudson Street Hospital
Saverio Marvelli
Lorain
Ohio
Messina
Italy
No. 129
Broad Street
la Vake
Board of Health
Marvelli
Burglar Try Sparks Disruption During Browne Trial
During a luncheon recess in the Browne bribery trial in Chicago a burglar attempted to enter Judge McLurely's courtroom. The lock jammed and an intruder was driven off by building attachés. The defense seeks a delay to research federal authority over the senators and representatives case.
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Chicago
Lee O'Neil Browne
Illinois
United States
William Lorimer
Two Men Arrested After Attempted Burglary at Model Apartment
Margaret Rosenthal at the Model apartment building on Manhattan Avenue says two men knocked her down at 6 PM and fled. Building superintendent and a bicycle patrolman pursued and arrested Jacob Weiner of Brooklyn and Philip Rothkin of Prospect Place, charged with attempted burglary.
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Margaret Rosenthal
Manhattan Avenue
Miss Rosenthal
William J. Conroy
Miss Dale
Conroy
White
West 125Th Street
110Th Street
Jacob Weiner
Georgia Avenue
Brooklyn
Philip Rothkin
Prospect Place
Clinic ends in hate and applause over infant killing
Detroit May 25. At a Detroit College of Medicine alumni clinic at St Marys Hospital the practice of killing infants born with disabilities drew applause from physicians after Dr G R Pisek compared surgical trephining to savages and praised such acts as wiser than medical treatment. A baby girl with severe degeneration was shown and the mother excused from the room before the provocative remarks.
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Detroit
Detroit College of Medicine
St. Mary’s Hospital
G. R. Pisek
New York
Banker Sued for Divorce in Taunton Case
Tristram R. Coffin of the New York Stock Exchange was served with divorce papers in North Attleboro. Mrs. Coffin accuses him of cruelty and intoxication and seeks alimony and custody of two children.
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The
Tribune
Taunton
Mass
New York
Massachusetts
Tristram R. Coffin
New York Stock Exchange
Coffin
North Attleboro
German cruiser Von der Tann completes Elbe trial run
Kiel May 25 The German navy announces its newest 19000 ton cruiser Von der Tann reached twenty eight knots in a trial at the Elbe mouth yesterday. She was launched at Hamburg on March 13 1909.
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Kiel
von der Tann
Elbe
Hamburg
Curtis Hudson River Flight on Day Boats Route
Day Boats cover course as Robert Fulton sails up the river with Hendrick Hudson on a Friday, amid music and advisory notices.
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Curtiss Hudson River Flight
Robert Fulton
Taves
Hendrick Hudson
Advi
Seyler Acquitted After Five Hour Jury Deliberation
William Seyler was acquitted of murdering Jane Adams on the Million-Dollar Pier in Atlantic City last February after a trial that drew a large crowd. Orvis Seyler was released on defense motion. The court charged the jury on first degree murder versus manslaughter and noted the lack of evidence for a predeath blow.
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Mays Landing
N. J
William Seyler
Jane Adams
Atlantic City
Trenchard
Seyler
Orvis Seyler
Orvis
Jane
Alice Adams
Alice
Jave Motor
Petersburg
Robert Miller
Goldenburg
Will
Burial claim settles Lord Howe's rest at St Peter's Albany
Rev. Joseph Hooper contends Viscount George Augustus Howe is buried beneath St. Peter's Church Albany, not at Fort Ticonderoga. He cites a 1758 diary entry, a Boston News Letter note, and a church ledger showing ground payment and later entombment in 1859.
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Albany
Viscount George Augustus Howe
Earl Howe
Fort Ticonderoga
St. Peter’s Church
Joseph Hooper
Durham
Conn
Albany Institute and Historical and Art Society
Ticonderoga
Hooper
Samuel Thompson
Boston
Boston News
Lord Howe
St. Peter's Church
Pall
Knight Yancey hearing today in Alabama creditors meeting
Decatur Alabama May 25 local cotton firm Knight Yancey Co prepares for a creditors meeting in Birmingham tomorrow summoning prominent local growers and dealers as witnesses to day The action underscores the firm’s collapse and the ongoing debt settlement process.
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Decatur
Ala
Knight, Yancey & Co
Birmingham
Roosevelt Eulogy Calls Him American Warwick
London editorial in The Telegraph hails Theodore Roosevelt as the most powerful English speaking statesman. It argues his personality is globally known beyond others except the German Emperor and that he could become the Warwick of American politics if he willed.
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London
The
Daily Telegraph
Roosevelt
Telegraph
Taft Lookalike Morley to Perform Monologue Act
Thomas Morley, who resembles President Taft, prepares a staged monologue act depicting the President at his desk. The piece is being written by a Washington newspaper man who closely studies Taft's habits. Morley studies Taft’s walk and gestures and hopes for success.
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the Tribune
Pittsburg
Thomas Morley
Taft
Washington
Morley
Greene resigns Harvard post to lead Rockefeller Institute labs
Jerome D. Greene secretary of the Harvard College Corporation resigns to become business manager of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City. Greene, Harvard graduate of 1896, formerly private secretary to President Eliot, has held the secretary role since 1905.
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Cambridge
Mass
Jerome D. Greene
Harvard College Corporation
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
New York City
Institute
Associated Hospitals
Greene
Harvard
Charles W. Eliot
Stock Firm Faces Exchange Rules Inquiry
A New York Stock Exchange board meeting discussed charges against a well known brokerage house for rule violations. Details were not disclosed and no action was confirmed. Officials were expected to announce if discipline would be imposed, while representatives offered no comment.
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Board of Governors
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
Cat and Fly Cause Death of Jersey City Man
Edward H. Pratt of Jersey City, president of Pratt Roof Protection Co., died at Christ Hospital after septic poisoning followed a cat scratch and a fly bite. He was 45, married, and had his arm amputated after the infection worsened.
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Edward H. Pratt
Gautier Avenue
Jersey City
Christ Hospital
Mr. Pratt
Pratt Roof Protection Company
West Side
Fairmount Avenues
Gordon K. Dickinson
No. 280
Montgomery Street
East Side musician Frederick Luer dies by gas
Frederick Luer a 64 year old East Side musician died by his own action in his Columbia Hotel Bowery room. A rubber tube connected to a gas jet was found in his mouth after the room was searched following his absence from dinner. He had recently lost his violin and was popular at local cafés.
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Frederick Luer
East Side
Columbia Hotel
No. 7
Bowery
Luer
McGuir
Eldridge Street
Gouverneur Hospital
Live babies used as models in Philadelphia nurse lectures
Philadelphia nurses will use babies as live models in a series of lectures in public schools starting tomorrow. Medical inspectors will teach baby culture including food clothing and bathing to older pupils in congested wards with the aim that girls take tips home to mothers. Examinations will end term with merit marks for proficiency.
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The
Tribune
Philadelphia
Bureau of Health
Senate bolts in dilemma over direct primary bill
Albany May 2. Senate leaders led by Thomas F. Grady push Meade Phillips primary bill through amid bipartisan boss coalition. Cobb compromise direct primary bill becomes Republican party measure after caucus. Governor Hughes expected to seek emergency action, risking split with Assembly on the direct primary issue.
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Tribune
Albany
Thomas F. Grady
Tammany Hall
Senate
Hughes
Cobb
Brackett
Coats
Basslings
Rules Committee
Grady
Democrats
Herbert Parsons
Cannon
New York County Republican Committee
George Meade
George W. Aldridge
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Michael S. Link
Forrest
T. R. Coffin
Knight-Yancey
Warwick
Harvard Corporation
A. Suicide
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Dewey & Sons Co
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Meade
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