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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1910
Page
8
A New York tale shows the fire departments of New York and Yonkers arguing over building exits and jurisdiction at shared properties on Two Hundred Street and McLean Hall. The dialogue depicts cross city travel for maintenance and disputes as residents juggle city and suburb boundaries.
A Yonkers New York city line borders a neighboring village causing a unique split where meat and cash registers sit on different sides. The butcher notes most trade occurs in Yonkers while most of the shop is in New York, creating a curious legal quirk about charging customers and handling fatalities crossing the line.
Chicago debutantes in a jungle cotillion organized by Mrs. James L. Houghteling and Mrs. Herman B. Butler at the La Salle hotel featured masquerade animals, gilded gun debutantes, and impersonations of Roosevelt led by Jack Winterbotham. The program included Lochinvar figures, clerical garb entrants, and eight brides carried by eight Lochinvars on hobby horses amid elaborate floral and light displays.
Honolulu officials urged immigration of whites to the islands praising white labor as superior to Gilbertese and Portuguese workers. Judge Antonio Perry, Hawaii Supreme Court associate justice, noted economic benefits including a growing tourist trade and agent C. L. Atkinson coordinating efforts.
A garbled preface to a legal dispute about a will in Washington raises questions about the testator's intent and potential contest by heirs. The fragment hints at inheritance issues and the need for clearer wording to resolve who inherits what.
A Hoboken pier porter catalogs six kiss types observed among immigrants and arrivals. He notes the whisker kiss between men, the hopeful sent for kiss from a fiancée, and the holy kiss of a son greeting his mother, among other varieties, as ships dock and new homes begin.
Sophie Rosen, 22, a nurse, awakened by a match, chased an intruder through the Rosen home at 341 Nineteenth Street. She seized him in the parlor, forcing him to the floor as police arrived. the man, Mark C. Moran, 27, claimed a friend lured him to sleep in the basement. He was arrested at Fifth Avenue court.
A Municipal Judge weighs Gus Wit Ham after a man boosts him by the pockets causing a ten dollar loss. Gus recalls the event and declines to press charges, while John Wilson faces accusations of a fake lifting scheme. The court promises rebuttal testimony.
Police arrived at 1164 West Madison street after a caller warned of a murder in progress. Inside they found Mrs Minute Jobsom and Joseph McIntyre, with Felix McGhee seen in the rear doorway wearing no clothing and shivering in the basement area.
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