Auto News from Many Centres.
Date: 04 April 1909
A model "O" White steamer of twenty horse power made the fastest time in the hill climbing carnival held in San Francisco on last Monday. Being barred from the stock car events, the White entered a special match with the winners of the other trials, and did the mile hill in 1:12 2-5.
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WIRELESS FOR BUFFALO NEWS; Will Install New Telegraph and Telephone Service.
Date: 04 April 1909
Special to The New York Times
BUFFALO, N.Y., April 3. -- The Buffalo Evening News, which is the property of Edward H. Butler, has installed a wireless telegraph service.
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BOSTON COPPER GOSSIP.; The News from the Mining Camps as It Reaches the Markets.
Date: 05 April 1909
Special to The New York Times
BOSTON, April 8. -- The Lake Superior mines produced March, approximately, 18,000,000 pounds of copper and the Butte mines 28,000,000 pounds. In the case of the former this is an increase over March, 1908, of 7 per cent. The lull in shipments is reported over, and copper is moving to the seaboard at a good rate.
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NEWS OF THE ART WORLD --- AT HOME AND ABROAD; The Subtle Pictorial Art of the Chinese as Shown in the Exquisite Porcelains Brought to America. The Sung Dynasty, Three Centuries, Marks the Best Expression of This School of True Mental Art.
Date: 04 April 1909
ALTHOUGH Chinese porcelains have found their stanchest admirers among American connoisseurs, Chinese pictorial art has been but little appreciated here, for the excellent reason that it has been but little known.
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TO FIGHT ASYLUM INVASION.; Nassau County Hears State Is to Locate One There, and Is Indignant.
Date: 04 April 1909
Special to The New York Times
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ELIOT TALKS OF HARVARD.; Guest of Harvard Club of New Jersey at Dinner in Morristown.
Date: 04 April 1909
Special to The New York Times
MORRISTOWN, N.J., April 3. -- There was a notable gathering of educators and alumni this evening at the sixth annual banquet of the Harvard Club of New Jersey, which was held in the Morristown School. President Charles Eliot was the guest of honor, and the other speakers were Gov. John Franklin Fort, Grinnell Willis, Judge Frederick Adams of Orange, and Chancellor Mahlon Pitney.
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BOY NOT KIDNAPPED, BUT DEAD IN POND; Harold Moon's Body Found While Father Treats with Alleged Abductor Demanding Ransom. LURED TO DELAVAN, WIS. Luman Moon Leaves Note in Cannon Asking Proof of Son's Identity, and Then Learns of Drowning.
Date: 04 April 1909
FLINT, Mich., April 3. -- Instead of having been kidnapped when he disappeared from his home here on Feb. 27, 10-year-old Harold Moon fell through the ice of Thread Pond and was drowned.
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE GAINS IN EUROPE; Progress Is Slow, but Unmistakably Sure, Says Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. SITUATION IN GERMANY Society Women Hold Aloof, but Work Is Carried On by Those of the Intellectual Aristocracy.
Date: 04 April 1909
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES
BERLIN, April 3. -- Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt of New York, President of the International Suffrage Alliance, was warmly welcomed in Berlin this week. Her address before the German suffrage societies Tuesday night drew an immense audience and resulted in giving the woman suffrage movement in the Fatherland the liveliest impetus it has ever known.
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Reminiscence of Old Ironsides
Date: 04 April 1909
A FORMER Bostonian, who for nearly half a century has made his home in this city, recently came into the possession of the unpublished memoirs of an old friend of his, a Bostonian, who was once a merchant in the China trade.
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