Fire destroys Gra matan Spring Water Co truck yard blaze
A Gra matan Spring Water Co truck caught fire around ten o'clock Monday night in the yard. Judge McCrea said a gasoline-fueled lantern may have ignited the blaze as workers tried to fill the tank. Bronxville, Tuckahoe, and Waverly fire crews were summoned, but the water company staff controlled the flames with hand extinguishers. The front of the auto and canopy were burned. the engine was unharmed. Loss covered by insurance.
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Gramatan Spring Water Company
Bronxville Engine Company
Tuckahoe Hook and Ladder Company
Waverly Engine Co
Judge McCrea
the Spring Water Company
Little John Kane Returns Home After Accident
Little John Kane, who was struck by a car on Front Avenue Tuesday night, recovered enough to leave Lawrence Hospital on Thursday afternoon where he had been hospitalized for treatment. He was taken home to continue recovery.
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Little John Kane
Front Avenue
Lawrence Hospital
Boy Struck by Car In Bronxville Street Accident
A boy playing in the street was struck by a car on the Avenue. He was rushed to Lawrence Hospital after a driver and passenger from DeWitt Avenue left the scene. Dr John W. Smith found shock and scalp injury but no broken bones. The driver was not arrested.
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Julius Bajusz
John Bajusz
DeWitt Avenue
Our Minister's Honeymoon at Village Hall Thursday
Busy Bee Circle of the King's Daughters hosts a Thursday night event at Village Hall featuring a New York Church cast performing the comedy Our Minister's Honeymoon. The evening includes dancing after the play and proceeds support summer activities for Jacob Riis Settlement children.
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Busy Bee
King’s Daughters
New York
Jacob Riis
Obituary: Elise Steuhl of Bronxville Dies at 54
Mrs Elise Steuhl wife of Village Trustee Jacob Steuhl died Friday night at her Front Avenue home after a two week illness from acute peritonitis. A German immigrant of 35 years, she lived in Bronxville ten years and is survived by her husband and four children Arthur Steuhl Katherine Patterson Elizabeth Comstock and Martha Steuhl. Funeral services were at the Front Avenue home conducted by Dr L Ro and friends. At Kensico in the afternoon the same day Emeline Touchard aged twenty one wife of Gustavus Touchard, former national doubles tennis champion, died in New York City after a miscarriage two weeks earlier. The Touchards resided at 116 East 9th Street.
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Elise Steuhl
Jacob Steuhl
Front Avenue
Stuch
Germany
Bronxville
Arthur Steuhl
Katherine Patterson
Elizabeth Comstock
Martha Steuhl
L Ro
Kensico
Emeline Touchard
Hotel Gramatam
Gustavus Touchard
New York
Touchard
Halea
New York City
East Sth Street
Suffrage Seen as Not a Cure All by Mrs Whitney
An interview with Mrs Caspar Whitney a Californian in Bronxville argues suffrage is part of a broader feminist movement. She defines feminism as a drive for equal rights and duties for women, rejects surrender to antis, and urges women to fight for suffrage with responsibility and intelligence.
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Caspar Whitney
Caspar Whiney
Bronxville
Ter
Antis
Planning for telephone growth and regional investments
The New York Telephone Review argues that U S and European conditions differ greatly and warns against matching systems. It cites large expenditures to expand plants, add buildings, switchboards and cables, with recent appropriations totaling about a million dollars across Niagara Falls North Tonawanda Mt Kisco and nearby communities.
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Shane Ae
Niagara Falls
Tonawanda
Mt. Kisco
New York Telephone Company
Mail service no argument for government telegraph
N C Kingsbury vice president of AT and T argues government ownership of the telephone and telegraph is not justified by its mail and parcel post roles. He notes parcel post expanded government duties but did not alter transportation, which remains largely private, casting doubt on government control of telecom services.
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N. C. Kingsbury
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
New York Telephone Review
Philadelphia
Alaska
Sewer Notice to Property Owners Delayed Private Connections
The Sewer Commission urges property owners to apply for private sewer connections within street lines now to avoid multiple street excavations. Delays are discouraged as completion of the public sewer portion in front of each property will reduce errors in location or elevation. Albert C. Davis signs as official.
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Sewer Commission
Savrhrrs
Te Sith Ms. Neon
Eden Eerie
State Scholarships Exam in White Plains June 6 1914
Competitive scholastic examination for State scholarships will be held at White Plains High School on Saturday June 6 1914 starting at 9 A M. Applicants must be at least sixteen and six months in state schools. residents only. Subjects include English history geometry algebra and two from Greek Latin French German or advanced math. Physics or chemistry may substitute for advanced math. Written papers required. merit decides scholarships with six counties to assign. Officials include Holmes Leonard Preston Cheney Knapp. May 16-23.
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Bell University
of Westchester
White Plains
Can‘didates
Annual Meeting of Scarsdale School District No. 1
The annual meeting for Scarsdale School District No. 1 will be held at the district schoolhouse on Monday June 1 1914 at 9 PM to elect two trustees whose terms expire on the first Tuesday of August and to transact business under Education Law dated May 6 1914 by the Board of Education Thomas F Burgess.
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Scarsdale
Tax Notice from Scarsdale Town Treasurer
The Tax Collector for Scarsdale announces the Warrant for 1913 taxes and will collect at his residence Fenimore and Post Roads on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays for thirty days starting April 17, 1914 from 9 A M to 4 P M. A 5 percent penalty applies thereafter. Chester A. Dobbs, Collector.
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Scarsdale
Fenimore
Post Roads
N. Y
Chester A. Dobbs
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Republic
Republic WM. Tread Tires
Republic Tires and Tubes
Ford
Auto Aero Supply Co
Thomas J. Fisher
Press Depot Square
N.Y
Muir Street
Main Street
M. Goldman
Irving Place
15Th Street
N. Y. City
Westchester Lighting Co
Pennsylvania Express CO
East 34Th Street
Long Island Ferry
Murrary Hill
John Kane
Atte
Homie Savings” Banin
White Plains, WN. Y
David Cromwell
John F. Krepps
Telegraph
Aave
Europe
Uni
Congress
Seversl
New _York
Heview
Mail Service
Government Telephone and Telegraph
Albert C. Davis, Ae
Cornell University
Money Cryo Vor
William H. Holmes
City of Mount Vernon
Albert Leonard
City of New Rochelle
Samuel J. Preston
Charles H. C. Cheney
Robert D. Knapp
J. Preston
Union Free School District
Bates State
Pepe Ees
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