Reviews of New Books From Sing Sing Prison
A long review covers a Sing Sing inmate editor and his Star of Hope, examining prison reforms, conditions, and the jail’s impact on crime. It also surveys recent titles from The Grito, Imported Americans, Beatrice of Venice, and other new works with author notes, plot highlights, and publishing details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sing Sing
Bobbs- Merrily Co
Indianapori
Hera
Low
Star of Hope
New York
Sage
Gilbert
Cincinnati
Vermila
Troy
Tim
Bul
Pison
Wat Moissa
Ives
Ube
Heath
Clarges
Celine
Eithoueh
Fae Herpet
Une
Wien
Magazines and notable features in February issues
The February magazine lineups highlight Pinkey Perkins adventures, Oriental Cooking, Julia Marlowe portraits, Nome Alaska progress told by Alfred H. Dunham, and Dennis Donohoe’s Truth About Frenzied Finance in Public Opinion. Atlantic reviews Democratic Predicament by Edward Stanwood, and Popular Science Monthly opens with W. W. Campbell on astrophysics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nome
Alaska
Alfred H. Dunham
Denis Donohoe
Lawson
John J. Roach
New York
Popular Science Monthly
W. W. Campbell
Lick Observatory
A. &. Kennelly
Harvard
Epworth League Notes and Union Activities Report
The Epworth League reports active chapters across Brookland Foundry Waugh and Hamline with leaders Hough Ison Tilton and Miss Idly Jett guiding India lecture and devotional meetings. Upcoming events include Denver conference plans, Epworth League News February 12, and a Mount Vernon Place Union reception with a whites versus yellows membership contest ending with yellow victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George C. Hough
Brookland
Foundry
Waugh
Hamline
H. A. Ison
Dumbarton
Anna M. Tilton
Wesley
India
Douglas
Frank M. Bristol
Dumbarton M. E. Church
Robert T. Reamy
Baltimore
Conference League
M. E
E. C. Dinwiddie
Anti-Saloon League
M. Hi
Epworth
Metropolitan
W. C. Hldridge
Board of Control
Transportation Com
Epworth League
Denver
Israel
J. Finney Engle
Epwork League News
KE. R. Rochester
M. R. Spielman
J. Pinney Magle
Epworth League Union
Mount Vernon Place
C. P. Clark
Maude Howell Smith
T. B. Bell
Dera Trent
Ethel Howell
Loubeau Yeatman
Jost
Luke Bimms
PF. J. Prettyman
Little Folks
Washington Street
Alexandria
Epworth League Union of
Washington
Ty and Vicinity
T. P. Bell
Ell
Bleventh Street
Equity Court D.C. cases list broad docket actions
A dense roll of district court matters from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia includes discharges of show cause orders, guardians ad litem appointed, clerk authorized to return deeds, commissions to issue, testimony dates set, and various probate, civil, and bankruptcy entries. Numerous attorneys and parties such as Cumminga, Wierd, Durkin, Knapp, Card, Okie, Carr, Crouse, Crouse, United States, and American Security and Trust Company appear across multiple docket items with deadlines and orders for proof, assignment, and payment. the record also notes mortgage cancellations, real estate conveyances, and trust company actions in equity suits and criminal court proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
District of Columbia
Equity Court NO. 1
Justice Anderson
Cumminga
Wierd
O. H. Merlliat
Durkin
Knapp
Malonsy
Guardian
Douglasa
J. L. Smith
Rogerson
Pierca
WCG
Baldarkton
W. W. Douglas
Hell
Heil
Frank D Breckistone
Neg & Whitt
Campbell Carrington
Pyles
Carpenter
Leonard J. Mather
P. A. Bowen, Jr
F. ©. Handy
Empire State Realty Company
Dante
Lightars
Woolston & Siddons
Brandenburg & Brandenburg
Margaret M. Murray
Examiner
E. B. Hay
Ralston & Siddons
Tyrrell
Tyrrall
W. H. Shipley
George H. Tyalles
Vellars
J. T. Sherrier
J. W. Cox
Webster
Washington Steel Cut Cereal Company
Leckie & Fulton
Shurtie
Davis
Sale
Burton Macatee
Taylor
McLish
Shaw
Dole & Ballinger
Hewett
Lapham
Lambert & Baker
Thomas W. Havens
Real estate transfers record many north DC parcels
Mary J. Ritchie transfers part of Hlu gts Acre to Charles B. Burner in square 1250 for 10 dollars. Margaret R. Shheckela et al. to Bates Warren and John I. Warren in square 599 lots 2 and 4 for 10 dollars. William E. Miller to Charles K. Brown lot 45 block 10 in Le Droit Park for 10 dollars. Fayron Burritt et al. to Hugh and F Augusta Reneipp part of square 210 lot 14 for 10 dollars. James B. Wimer et al. to Bernhard H. Fernow one third in several lots totaling 10 dollars. Samuel Walter Woodward one third in lots 3 and 4 and two thirds in lots 14 15 16 31 32 for 10 dollars. Thomas R. Riley to Dr. Ger trude Hunter lot 271 272 and west half 269 in Morton Place Northeast for 18 dollars. John L. Warren et al. to Helen C. and Mary M. D. Sheckils in Mount Pleasant and Pleasant Plains lots 313 213 226 225 block 4 and 369 304 in block 4 310 for 96 dollars. Raphael A. Caanear et al. to Mary T. Palmer and Ernest Attarback lot 17 square 1846 for 10 dollars. Moore and Barbour's Second Addition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Squard
John D. Coughlan
George GC. Mekinee
William L. Miller
Hugh Keneipp
W. Clarence Duvall
Charles W. Fairfax
Pau
Ton Burritt
William Stones Hutton
John J. Darbyet Ax
Chapin, Brown
Henry H. Bergmann
Oriental Building Association
Jennie E. Davie
Jackson H. Ralstan
H. Quincy Smith
Harvey T. Winfield
Hose F. Poland
Michael Ls
Joseph H Bradley
Marty W Blunt, Jr
Gustav A. Bonnet
John Allen
Clement W. Howard
Willam M. Hoffman
Addie M Howard
Washington Heights
Martha C. Burritt
Payton
William J. Plather
Cheries
Fairfax
George C. Johnson
Pouglas
Fred J Urcar
F. Walter Brandenburg
John
Davia
Joseph A. Clove
Ferdinand L. Richord
David Granmer
Leopold Richola
Charlotte J. Davis
Maria Y. Shurtleff
B. Gertrude Hunter
Percy H Russell
Charles J. Butler
Thomas H Banes
Potormac Realty Company
American Security and Trust Company
National Lafe Deposit, Savings and Trust Company
Sally M P. Brown
Jesse L. Heiskell
John E. McLeran
Mary J. Ritchie
Charles B. Burner
Margaret R. Shheckela
Bates Warren
John I. Warren
LE Droit Park
William E. Miller
Charles KE. Brown
Morton Place
Sixth
Bevantha
Thomas R. Riley
Gertrude Hunter
Mount Pleasant
Pleasant Plains
John L. Warren
Helen C
Mary M. D. Sheckils
O Street
Raphael A. Caanear
T. Palmer
Ernest Attarback
Square
Moore
Barbour
Christian Endeavor Notes and Plans for February Events
Sunday February 5 marks Christian Endeavor Day with the theme What I Owe to Christian Endeavor. The Junior Rhode Island Avenue Church unit grows to about 150 members, under Superintendent Mrs. Anna Moxie and Assistant Mrs. T. M. Rittel, led by Mr. Tom E. Brooks. The District Union meet Monday February 6 features Rev. Tennis S Hamlin at Memorial Lutheran, with Mr. Percy Foster directing songs. A reception for Endeavorers and YWCA at Florence Crittenton Home is set February 10 from 7:30 to 10, inviting wide society participation and attendance records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Endeavor
Junior Christian Endeavor Society of
Rhode Island Avenue
Tennis S Hamlin
D. D
Church of the Covenant
Memorial Lutheran Church
Fourteenth
N Streets
Percy 8. Foster
Christian Endeavor Union
Concordia Lutheran Chapel
Christian Endeavor Society
Ethel Sylvester
Lillian B. Jones
Rhea Menzel
Margaret Menzel
Imperial Mandolin Club
Messrs
William Galleher
Ed. Whittstatt
Charles Galleher
E. Hartsall
Aa. Grupe, Jr
W. Grupe
Christian Endeavor Day
Paul A. Menzel
Christian Endeavorers
Young Women's Christian Temperance Union
Florence Crittenton
Third Street Northwest
Endeavor Union
Knights of Columbus Lecture Series At Washington Council
At the last meeting Washington Council No 224 Knights of Columbus heard an illustrated lecture by Frank J Hogan chancellor of Carroll Council titled My Trip to Hawaii and the Philippine Islands A large attendance was noted. On Tuesday evening February 11 Ira Edgar Hitler of New York City will address the council on The Knight of the Twentieth Century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Council
Knights of Columbus
Frank J. Hogan
Carroll Council
Hawaii
Philippine Islands
Ira Edar Hitler
New York City
Widespread trade activity in South amid cold snap and cotton hold
Reports from Bradstreet and R G Dun & Co forecast mixed early spring trade. Weather slowed some lines yet overall volumes rise. January clearings set records, South shows a brighter cotton mood, rail earnings up, and finished goods orders near peak. Grain, coal, and lumber movements constrained by frost and car delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bradstreet
South
Florida
United States
Canada
R. G Dun & O
Run on Lancaster Trust Company Shakes City Trust Collapse
Lancaster Pennsylvania February reports a bank run on the Lancaster Trust Company following the City Trust Company failure ten days earlier. President John Hertzler defends the bank as solid and promises to pay every dollar deposited. Directors announce surplus doubled to 500000 from 250000 as confidence wanes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Lancaster Trust Company
City Trust Company
John Hertzler
Southern Pacific refunds bonds plan announced
Kuhn, Loeb & Co and Speyer & Co report purchase of 75 million dollars of four percent first refunding mortgage bonds of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company guaranteed by Southern Pacific Company. Total issue 160 million. Matures January 1, 1955 with redemption option after January 1, 1910 at 10 percent plus interest. Proceeds to retire maturing bonds and fund Southern Pacific treasury. demand exceeds allotments in London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
New York
Southern Pacific
Kuhn, Lee & Cao
Speyer & Co
Southen Pavifis Rairoad
Southern
Kuhn Lord & Co
Ananda
Inter
London
Frankfort
Amsterdam
Speyer
Southern Pacific Company
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Moncure Lyne
Neale Publishing Company
Richmond
Cassie Moncure Lyne
Alamo
San Jacinto
Sen
Tee
Texas
Sam Houston
Davy Crockett
Bowie
Travis
Nargauiyot
Alice
Vincennes
Broughton Brondenburg
Stokes
Brentano’s
Brandenburg
Leslie's Monthly
Italy
America
Naples
Sicily
Beatrice OF
Venice
Max Pemberton
Lwth
Dodd, Mead & Co
Woodward & Lothrop
Price
Marquise
Beatring
Count Gaston de Joycuse
Napoleon
Gaston
Beatrice
Asasolry
Nasboleoun
Vernice
Na Vbolean
Beatrice da Sett
Verona
Ste
Kasidine
Semetly
Reese
Merehmen Eepuleon
Verone
Wenfes
Joreuse
Alty
Meadee
Ty Alan Date
Cloth Bobbs- Merrill Company
Indianapolis
Lfe
Ben Jonson
Guthrie
the Times
Joseph A. Altsheler
Doubleday, Page & Co
Ballantyne’s
Altsheler
Frances Aymar Mathews
Peggy
Reh
France
Martin Hume
Mary
Scota
Queen Elizabeth
G. W. E. Russell
Sidney Smith
Men of Letters
Sericea
Willliam A. Bradley
Bryant
Marry Thurston Peek
William Hickling Prescott
Don Quixote
la Mancha
Macmillan Company
Roosevelt
Steve
Nance O'Neil
Sudermann
Magda
Charles Swickard
John W. Luce & Co. Boaten
W. By Moffat
Charles Seripner
R. F. Foster
New York Sun
Helen Keller
England
Richard Watson Gilder
Joseph Jefferson
Joan Lonehan
Drake
Mike Elizabeth Jordan
May Iverson
Mins Jordan
Henrik Ibsen
Georg Brandes
John HA. Laurvik
I-health
Ybaen
Ibsen
Panama Canal
Barrett
Panama
Japan
George A. Walters
Far East
Ife
China
Wilem Armstrong Crozier
N. Hudson Moore
Charlotte Elliott
Allan Sutherland
North American Review
Okuma
Perry Belmont
Crammond Kennedy
James
Metcalfe
Auguste Rodin
Charles F. Thwing
Western Reserve University
John Wilson Murray
Victor Speer
Baker & Taylor Company
Ontario Detective Service
Qed
Josephine Tozler
Thane of Randeker
Pinkey Perkins
Nicholas
Capt. Hammond
West Point
Hecorde
Edward Stanwood
Atlentic
Stanwood
Department of World Evangelization of
Idly Jett
Scord
Circuit Court No. 1
Bernard
Fipkelateln
W. C. Prentiss
F. Willames
Rankin Mason
Downey Ve
Washington Times Company
Hayden Johnson
J. M. McD
Carrington
O'Connell
Talty
L. P. Loving
J. C. Gittings
W. ¢. Clephane
R. ¥. Downing
Hagen Va Stewart
Cole & Donaldson
J. B Archer, Jr
Mailer Vs. Gurley & Johnson
Berry & Minor
H. B. Rowland
Baumgarten
Bingham
Wolf & Rosenberg
Birney & Woodarl
Allag
Portland Ceamen
Emig
A. B. Duval
E. H. Thomas
Circuit Court No
Crabaugh
Staplenoon
National Hotel Company
Jeffords & B Strasburger
Thomas & Calvert
Caywood
Gros
Justice of
A. A. Moghning, Jr
Johnnson Vs. Chappel
C. EB. Exing—Birney & Woodard
Cooper
Cowardin
J. McD
Douglass & Douglass
Beach & Mather
Nash
Columbia Railway Company
Attorneya, Lambert & Baker
J. J. Darlington
King Va
Cook
L. A. Bailey CW. Carr
Joseph Salomon
Chambers
Washington Railway and Eiectric Company
Attorneya
Birnay & Woodard
Charleo Brust
Justice Wright
United States Va
Barnard Weismuller
George Hardy
William Carter
Albert Stewart
Arthur Ware
Frederick Joyce
Dica
Charles P. Posay
Samuel Gassenhelmer
French G. Miller
Criminal Court NO
Justice Gould
Thomas Crosk
William Dixon
Auld
Herman Wasman
Caroline Parker
Mary Ewell
Bond
L. M. King
Mary F. Locke
Ida R. Bartlett
Samuel Harrison
David F. McGowan
John Ridout
Bolden Evans
B. F. Leighton
Edward R. Sprague
C. T. Hendler
James Madison Houge
H. C. Lewis
Margaret Harrigan
Hamilton & Colbert
Susan A. Hills
George EB
Hamilton
Alma M. Aberholtz
James T. Hunter
Margaret Jane Jones
Smith
Roberta 8
Entwiale
Will
C. Whitson
James F. Barbour
Francis
Blandon
G. Warfield Simpson
Alexander H. Lane
Fifteenth
James M. J.brien
Alvah R
Mary R. Hann
Inex W. Sonnemann
Charles
Robert W. Allen
John G. Campball
William A. Hei
Fifteenth Street
H. Latane Lewin
Milton L. Roberts
Robert W. Krumline
George ©. Johnson
Alorthe C. Burritt
Fred J. Qecar
Fourth
Fifth
George C. Pumphray
May FA Wright
Seventh Street
Ari “Son S. Taylor
Ferdinand L. Richard
Charles F. Benjamin
Catharine E. Newton
William L. Valentine
Columbia Heights
Bates Warren Et Ax
Nicholas EB. Young
Fannie N. Bell
John H
Nicholas BE. Young
Richard McLish
Leslie M Shaw
Sollcttora, Dole & Bullinger
Samuel A. Drury
Samuel Maddox
Trestees
William H. Parker
Rosie Altman
Julian I. Peyser
John B. Harrell
Family Supply Company
Appellant
Sadie W. Downing
W. F. Partlow
L. Grea
Iarly & Lampton
Eldridge &, Jordan
Rob. Montague
Crandal Mackey
Christian Endeavor Notes
Railrog
Dun’s Review
Baltimore, Md
Seaboard Air Line
News OF the Railroads
R W Smith
Pittsburg
Lake Erie
Southern Railway
Raleigh
N.C
W H Dudley
Charles W Miller
Wheellog
Canton
Ohio
George W Fisher
Pennsylvania
West Walmview
Enola
Grady
Nashville
Chattanooga
St Louis
Nashvlle
Tern
James C. Ferguson
Union Pacific
Colo W F Potter
Parmeylvania
Lay Island
Wo H Halawin J
Ontario and Western
Pullman Company
Missouri
Poland
Baltimore and City Southmesters
Alaska Central
Centr Railroad
New Jersey
Jersey City
Baltimore and Ohio
Holloway
Cleveland Division
Wheeling
Williams
Ue St Joseph
Grand Island
183S
St Joseph
Charleston
Atlantic Coast Line
Canadian Pacific
MCA
Ana
Cameron
Maola Central
Lauteville
Memphis
D W. Longstreet
Louisville
Freska
Germany
Signsfort
Nnes
Boston
Eouth
Elmer St. John
Brotherhood of Railway
John H McAdoo
Harblson-Walker Refractories Company
Farmers’ Bank
State Tax Commission of
Michigan
Efp
Goodwin
Chesapeake and Ohio
Covington
Philadelphia
Newport News
Chicago
Cuba
National Bank of Commerce
Havana
RUN ON Trust Company
Lancaster Institution
Southern Pacific Bonds
Bradfield Regulator Co
Atlanta
Renee
Newspapel
Berlve
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