Massive Hudson Terminals Move Spurs City Plan
New York prepares a sweeping relocation of tenants and offices to the Hudson Terminals complex on the riverfront. The plan centralizes moving under corporate control, with 9 000 to 10 000 workers and 4 000 horses. U S Steel and other firms will coordinate shedding, while the new assay office building near Nassau and all streets will rise as a landmark with a 400 foot chimney to vent furnace fumes.
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York
Manhattany
New
Dew
Hudson
McAdoo
Ang
Trenté
United States
Steel Corporation
Bava
New ‘York
New’-York
Treasury
Department
Washington
Nassau
New York
Public Service Commission expands subway plan and routes
The Public Service Commission enlarges subway dimensions to allow standard railroad coaches through tunnels and bridges, enabling more express trains and higher service. Projects extend from Brooklyn and Williamsburg to Manhattan with a four track bridge, avoiding heavy grades and increasing capacity.
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Gtd
Vice
Bates
Reese Avs
Broadway
Lexington
Brooklyn
Williamsburg
Manhattan
Joop
Manhattan Aide
Public Service
High end feasts push dinner costs toward new records
A New York caterer notes dinners may reach $1,000 a plate with recent $5,000 bills to a group of 15 friends. He recalls a $3,000 plate era and says no one can eat more than ten dollars worth food even in luxury venues. The trend toward extravagant feasts shocks observers.
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New
York
Lucullus
Lavish 22 course feast features rotating wines and aquatic centerpiece
An elaborate dinner priced with 22 courses allocated mostly to food and decorations plus imported wines. A large copper tank filled with water hosted aquatic birds as a centerpiece while a complex pipe system delivered a different wine to each guest. Coffee and cigars added extra costs amid business tone.
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Woman Watches Lighthouse as Missing Couple Remains Unfound
A Stamford Harbor lighthouse keeper’s mother describes the night her daughter Martha and son-in-law John Cook vanished in a launch amid a northwest gale. She watched the light all night, prayed, and later learned the couple may have been seen near shore, but the search found no sign of them.
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Stamford
Kopisa Wetchman
John “J
Martha
John
Griftiig
Amy
Agate
Jaunich
Theoice
Long Island
Irish Stage Banter Sparks Audience Applause
fragmentary OCR recounts a New Jersey crowd reacting to a stage Irish performance. actors and crew exchange quips about audience cheers with playful banter about clapping and appreciation.
Fenneti Ends Bid Against New York in Copper Market Shuffle
The text notes AHL Fenneti, aged 72, plans to abandon attempts to beat New York, returning west to regroup after copper mining ventures. It mentions debts, creditor talks, and possible start of anew at a familiar place near Lake City with Copper Company ties, plus broader mining and finance references.
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AHL Fenneti
Augustus ‘Heinze
New York
Coldumbta
Hiake-Butte
Buying Paint Blends and How to Test for Lead
A reader warns against adulterated white lead and linseed oil in paint and explains how to detect impurities. The National Lead Company of Woodbridge Building New York City offers a blowpipe kit and instructions to test white lead and linseed oil upon request.
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Lottery
National
Lead ‘Company
Woodbridge, Building
New York City
Instruc Diona
Marriage Bells and a Hair in the Fish at Supper
A domestic scene mixes wedding talk with jokes as a girl finds a hair in her halibut during a family supper. Grandma explains the fish and a light reminder about salaries and steady foundations echoes from a Catholic Standard and Times note on patient work building great inventions.
Postum Converts Coffee Drinkers to Health
A testimonial列 describes multiple women quitting coffee for Postum, reporting relief from nervous heart distress digestion and chronic dyspepsia. A former WCTU president credits Postum with major health gains noting easier quitting coffee and improved well being. Many cases are cited as genuine and of human interest.
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C.T. U
Wellville
Jeter
Vast Spokane to Seattle notes and mine disaster reports
The item lists varied news: a bill to appoint an additional assistant treasurer located in Seattle. contributions from Japanese in San Francisco. a $2,446 fundraiser for fleet entertainment. Hauser Lake dam damage with $79,000 loss estimate. mine reopenings in Wyoming and deaths from explosions. hospital stays for former Senator W. A. Clark after neck growth surgery. Helena waterworks bond extension of $670,000. Sparks Nevada shop operations resume with 500 affected. multiple homicides and accidents across Reno Butte Pueblo and Colorado. governor Sparks in serious condition from neuritis. a dog inheriting an Helena estate after its owner’s death. a Boulder Colorado case of murder in a train switchstrike.
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Unite 4 States
Seattle
San Francisco
Mahager- Grueber
Great Northern
Hauser Lake
Alte Ib
Honna
Wyo
Nors
eFormer
Clark
Ing& ‘Hospital
Los Angeles
Hiejena
Mont
Ib ‘ Byery
Southern “Pacific
Sparks
Nevada
George E Hie
Burlington Overland
Butte
Henry P. Morrison
Heppner
Oregon Railway & Navigation ’ Company
Nora Wright
Morgan
Oregon
Bonnie Ahart
Morrison
Cleveland Murdock
Reno
Teason
Wickland
Anaconda
Pueblo
Colo
Edward Jones
McAfee
P. J.W. Adams
Adams
Canada
Colorado
Boulder
California
Colorado Springs
John van Tine
Morton
State
van Tine
Renoa
Alg
Lewis
Chicago
Burlington
John’ Sparks
G. D. Beattie
Helena, Mont
Mary A. Pryse
Heléna
Sts
Bride Refuses Altar In Massachussetts Church
Angela Pawlow refused to marry Easy Mulinski at St Stanislaus church in Fall River Massachusetts. The crowd watched as the bride stated he had been unfaithful before marriage and fled down the aisle to her mother, prompting church officials to clear the church.
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St. Stanislaus’ Church
Fall Rivers
Mass
Angela Pawlow
Mulinski
Russia
True Economy in Household Habits and Frugal Living
A short reflective piece notes that economy comes from generalship in small matters. It highlights women who, through disciplined habits and smart arrangements, stretch a dime further than others. Such homemakers keep simple homes bright and content, contrasting with more pretentious households.
Fleur de lis emblem theories in French royalty history
The text surveys theories on the fleur de lis origins linking Clovis I Louis VII and Roman kings. It notes the emblem’s long use since the twelfth century and contrasts claims about its meaning with traditional baptism and name allusions. It also includes miscellaneous humorous extracts from New York papers and social amusements.
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France
Clovis L
Louis MI
Clovis
Loulé
Louis Florus
New York American
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