New Work for Blind Helps Blind Women to Earn
Walter G. Holmes publisher of Ziegler Magazine for the Blind runs a New York plant employing blind, deaf, and partially sighted workers to print and collate the magazine. The operation includes blind proofreaders, a blind collator staff, and routes workers from home to work, hoping to train more blind women as the project expands.
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Walter G. Holmes
Ziegler
New York
Hartford
Columbia Univer
York Point
Io Norman
Anita
Ziegier
Jeanne Hall
Municipal League Plans Grand Tea at Waldorf Astoria
The Woman's Municipal League will hold a September 22 tea on the Waldorf Astoria’s second floor with French pastries, a band, and decorations to attract four thousand guests. Proceeds fund education about the League and its stance on immigration, amid debate on labor and living standards.
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Europe
Waldorf-Astoria
Governor's Island
Foy
Josephine Redding
Onder
Mrs. Burns
The Teachers Mail Offers A Quick Grin Amidst Work
A newspaper snippet captures a teacher’s coping note about parental misreads and comic miscommunications. It recalls parents writing exaggerated descriptions like an ulcerated threat and demoniacs for a child’s illness.
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Tommy
Mary
Teacher Receives Petition About Punishment of Johnnie
A parent writes to Miss protesting corporal punishment for Johnnie, noting home discipline avoids beating except in self defence and seeking the teacher's restraint.
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Mary
Johnnie
New York Charity Leader Says No Homeless Children Here
C Loring Frace of the Children’s Aid Society told New York School of Philanthropy students that the city has effectively cared for orphans, though he warned of growing strain as winter approaches. He noted extensive operations including nineteen day and nine night schools, lodging houses, and a placing-out system, with expenses of 414,500 in the year to September 30, 1908, and expectations of higher needs next year.
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New York
C. Loring Frace
Children's ‘Aid Society
New York School of Philanthropy
United Charities
Naval waist fashion for young girls described in Tribune
The Tribune discusses a naval or sailor waist favored for school wear. It notes its suitability for exercise and its attractive, practical style. The blue flannel version features braid trim, a red flannel stripe, and chevrons, with options for neck openings and front lacing.
Tissue Paper Pattern for Misses Naval Waist No 612
Pattern No 612 offers a naval waist forMisses at 106 cents with guidance on suitable fabrics and matching skirts. Medium size requires four yards 24 inch wide or three and a half yards 32 inch wide or two and a half yards 44 inch wide plus braid. Pattern mailed for 10 cents, specify age and pattern number.
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New-York Tribune
Pattern
Three Big Plots Sold In Ogden Tract Section Of The Bronx
Multiple large parcels in the Ogden tract section changed hands, including a 100 by 53.8 foot lot at 169th Street and Oyden Avenue and two Sedgwick Avenue plots. Archibald Rogers acquired a 5,000 square foot corner group at Gold and Platt streets, fronting Gold Street and Platt Street. Plans filed for a six story Krulewitz Realty building on 122d Street near Morningside Park, costing 175000 dollars, and for remodelling No 59 West 37th Street into a studio building with ground floor stores.
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Bronx
Bernard Smyth & Sons
Whitehall Realty Company
169Th Street
Oyden Avenue
Sedgwick Avenue
Washington Bridge Park
Charles F. Noyes
Archibald Rogers
Platt and
Gold Streets
Gold Street
Platt Street
William Street
Mallinckrodt
Murphy
122D Street
Amsterdam Avenue
Morningside Park
Krulewitz Realty Company
West 37Th Street
R. Miranda
William Lettenham
Charles Volz
Fifth Avenue
31St Street
Marshall Field
Tel-Electric Music Company
Harry E. Donnell
Market News of Game and Produce Prices
The market reports a quiet season with strict laws hampering supply. Quail not available before November. many game items priced per dozen or pair, with ducks veal and salmon trout among listed meats and a wide range of fruits vegetables and specialty produce priced per pound, basket, or quart.
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Maine Coé
Parcel at East 107th Street set for partition sale
One parcel was listed for sale yesterday in the Real Estate Exchange salesrooms at Vesey street. Nos. 205 and 207 East 107th street comprise two four story tenement houses with stores on a 50 by 100.11 foot plot. The partition sale was adjourned to October 2.
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Real Estate Exchange
Vesey Street
East 107Th Street
Brooklyn Costelyou homestead sold with plans for stores and apartments
W M King sells the Costelyou homestead grounds a triangular block bounded by Flatbush Bedford Newkirk avenues and Avenue D in Brooklyn comprising twenty one city lots to builder Charles Fleisher who will add stores and apartments not including the old house. Edgar T Kingsley sells for Caroline Ledoux Ryder to Harriet R Swann a 42 by 100 foot plot on Hancock avenue Lincoln Park Yonkers for a personal residence. E Ss S F Voss rents James Gaffney's Cedarhurst Washington avenue home to Charles Heckscher.
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W. M. King
Costelyou
Brooklyn
Flatbush
Bedford and
Newkirk Avenues
Avenue D
Charles Fleisher
Edgar T. Kingsley
Caroline Ledoux Ryder
Harriet R. C. Swann
Hancock Avenue
Lincoln Park
Yonkers
E. Ss
S. F. Voss
James Gaffney
Washington Avenue
Cedarhurst
Charles Heckscher
Realty Notes Reveals Scarsdale Forty Acre Sale
O'Hara Brothers sold forty acres at Scarsdale to a land developer for the Jones estate. Walter J. Salorman lists multiple leases across Manhattan buildings with tenants including Metaphysical Publishing, Helen Albers, William Alexander, Isaac Grod, Reata Child, Laurette Cate, Wilson & Cort, Crimmins & Baker, Regent Realty, John Bergonza, Economical Electric Lamp Co, Max Wecker, Howard Kerr, New Haven Carriage Co, and numerous firms in the Thoroughfare, Gaiety, Lenox, and other towers.
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Scarsdale
Jones
Walter J. Salorman
Bristol
Fifth Avenue
Metaphysical Publishing Company
J. Ensign Fuller
W. B. Quaintance
Central Building
West 424
Helen Albers
Williams
Alexander and
Isaac Grod
Reata Child
Laurette Cate
Wilson & Cort
Wagner Field Company
Charles F. Hovey
Merchants and Mechanics’ Building Company
Wyatt & Listman
Ernest L. Jones
Sidney A. Been
Hippolyte de Bernard
Remy Electric Company
Lott & Co
Gaiety
46Th Street
Broadway
Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin
Webster Cullison
Louis Cohen
Lenox
8Th Street
New Building Planned for H A Metz Co and Fitzgerald Trust
Ashley M Herron leased from plans a building to be erected at 39 North Moore Street and 24 Beach Street for Mrs Mary A Fitzgerald to Herman A Metz & Co. The 27 by 17 foot parcel will stand for twenty one years at about 175000 dollars in rent.
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Ashley M. Herron
North Moore Street
Beach Street
Mary A. Fitzgerald
Herman A. Metz & Co
Broadway Store Lease Transfers to George W Loft
P H J Daly sells fixtures good will and lease of Fulton Fountain on Broadway Fulton street ground floor. Loft leases the store for a long term of years.
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P. H. J. Daly
George W. Loft
Broadway and
Fulton Street
Mr. Loft
Bronx Building Plans Reveal Three 4 Story Brick Rows
Plans list three four story brick terraces on Bryant Street near 167th Street owned by Samuel Lytle with Harry T Howell as architect, plus additional four story brick row houses on Minford Place. A two story and attic frame dwelling at Grand Boulevard and The Concourse is by Hageman Coast Co with J J Land as architect. Costs cited: 48 000 50 000 10 009.
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Bryant St
E S
Concourse
Hageman Coast Co
J J Land
Bullinger Buys Overbridge Tract at Premium Point
Edwin W. Bullinger publisher of Bullinger's Guide buys the six acre Overbridge site at Premium Point New Rochelle from Henry Holt. The property has a large Sound frontage and an old house to be razed for a modern dwelling.
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Edwin W. Bullinger
Bullinger’s
Henry Holt
Building Loan Notices and Lenders Catalog
Building loan contracts listed with properties in Tolchester and Van Nest avenues. Ameri can Mortgage Co extends a loan to Tolchester Co for 37.50. Names include Emory Clocke as attorney and Joseph C 8600 Wares Ave as lender, with Giuseppina Vairo and Francis J Cox among involved parties.
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Ist Ave
American Mortgage Co
Tolchester Co
van Nest Ave
Matthews
Emory Clocke
Atty
Joseph C
Wares
Berkat
Francis J Cox
Giuseppina Vairo
O'Hara Brothers Sell Bronx Area Dwellings and More
In the brokerage market O'Hara Brothers sold No 2257 Hull Avenue a frame dwelling No 315 East 1st Street a frame dwelling on a 30 by 100 foot plot and No 2757 Creston Avenue a dwelling on a 16.8 by 10 foot lot. George A Twine sold a two family house on lot 25 by 160 on the west side of 174th Street north of Gleason Avenue for Cogswell Taylor Improvement Company. Anna H Brewer sold to Christian H Werner a building on a plot 41.7 by 9 on the west side Brook Avenue 133 feet south of Anna Place. In part payment Mrs Brewer takes the plot 250 by 95 on the east side Bronx Boulevard 10 feet south of 229th Street the sale of which by Kurz and Urea was recently reported.
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Hull Avenue
East 1St Street
Creston Avenue
George A. Twine
Cogswell-Taylor Improvement Company
174Th Street
Gleason Avenue
Anna H. Brewer
Christian H. Werner
Strike Breaker Attacked At Glens Falls Mill
In Glens Falls New York October a strike breaker named George Austin employed at the International Paper mill was attacked by strike sympathizers as he left work. He drew a revolver and fired three shots at his assailants but none took effect. The attackers fled and police posted extra guards around the mill.
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N. Y
George Austin
International Paper Company
Austin
Mil
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