Antitrust Bill Reported Favorably by House Subcommittee
The House Judiciary subcommittee reported favorably on the Littlefield antitrust publicity bill with amendments. It requires interstate and foreign corporations to file annual disclosures with the Interstate Commerce Commission, detailing organization, capitalization, assets, earnings, taxes, and officers, with penalties for noncompliance.
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Washington
House
Judiciary Committee
Littlefield
Jenkins
Maine
Overstreet
Indiana
Slowers
Massachusetts
de Armond
Missouri
Clayton
Alabama
Interstate Commerce Commission
Seattle Market Report Prices From Local Dealers
Seattle market report lists producer prices for delivery in round lots on the dock or car. Grain oats 24 25 ton barley 24 ton wheat chicken feed 25 ton bran 18 40 ton shorts 17 ton hay Puget Sound 8 10 ton Eastern Washington 41 alfalfa 10 eggs strictly fresh ranch 38c dot poultry live hens 12c per lb old roosters 8c ducks 124 13c spring chickens 138c per lb geese 8 per lb beef cattle cows 34 per lb steers 44 4c per lb sheep 3 1 4c per lb hogs 634c per lb calves 5 7c per lb spring lambs 3c per lb.
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Seattle
Puget Sound
Washington
Market quotes for Tacoma agricultural products
Wheat and oat prices listed across categories including wheat bluestem at 75c and 71c, cattle steer prices 3.95 to 4.00 per cwt, cows 3.00 to 3.75, hogs 6.00, veals 7.00 to 9.00, oats 24.50 to 26.50, barley feed 25 to 26, timothy 15 to 16 per ton, clover 12 to 13, alfalfa 11 to 12, wheat 26, wheat hay 12.50 to 13.50, bran 17.50, shorts 18.50, butter 32c Washington creamery and 22 to 24c ranch.
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Timothy
Washington Creamery
Amendment to constitution and Sherman act to curb trusts
Senator Nelson introduces a joint resolution to empower Congress to define regulate prohibit or dissolve trusts and to control interstate and foreign commerce. A companion bill tightens the Sherman act making mergers in restraint of trade illegal with fines up to 10000 or one year imprisonment. It also requires annual filings with the Interstate Commerce Commission listing stockholders and original issue prices.
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Washington
Nelson
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cable to Alaska proposed via Puget Sound to Juneau
Washington December 9 It is probable a bill will be introduced in congress to lay an ocean cable from Puget Sound to Juneau or Skagway The plan has backing from Secretary Root and the War Department as a military necessity to prevent isolation of Alaska during disturbances or frontier tensions Telegraph lines to Alaska would otherwise require Canadian routes
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Congress
Puget Sound
Juneau
Skagway
Army
Root
Alaska
Canadian
Thomas Brackett Reed Dies of Arsenic Poisoning Legacy in Politics
Thomas Brackett Reed, prominent American political figure and former Speaker of the House, died in Washington from araemic poisoning and acute Bright's disease. Born in 1839 in Portland Maine, Reed rose from Bowdoin College to law and politics, serving in state offices and in Congress where he led as a Republican figure and wielded decisive roll-call authority. He resigned from Congress to practice law in New York, returning to Washington for a final illness.
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Thomas Brackett Reed
Goodnow
Philadelphia
Gardner
McDonald
Portland
Bowdoin College
Reed
Navy
Tennessee
Columbia
Mississippi
State Senate
Mr. Reed
New York
Reed, Simpson, Thatcher & Cornim
Supreme Court
Homes sworn in as Supreme Court member in Washington
Washington reports Oliver Wendell Holmes has been sworn in as a member of the Supreme Court. Attorney General Knox is away in St. Augustine Florida for two weeks due to ill health, accompanied by his physician Dr. McGowan.
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Washington, D. C
Oliver Wendell Homes
Supreme Court
Knox
St. Augustine
Fla
McGowan
Reed Remembered in House with Eulogistic Resolutions
Resolutions submitted by Sherman of New York praise Thomas B. Reed who died December 7 in Washington after 22 years in the House and six as speaker. The measures extol his intellect, leadership, wit, and parliamentary mastery, and the House adjourned at 12:15 after adopting them unanimously.
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Sherman
New York
Thomas B. Reed
Wahington
Congressional
American Republic
House
Thomas Nast Dies in Ecuador After Illness
Consul General Thomas Nast died in Guayaquil at noon after three days of yellow fever. He was buried at five o clock in a funeral attended by the governor, the consular corps, the American colony, and many friends. The coffin was wrapped in the stars and stripes. The British consul read a prayer at the cemetery. Local natives lament his death and held him in high esteem.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Thomas Nast
Nast
Channel shift cuts water to Nebraska City
Sudden Missouri river channel shift to the Iowa side leaves Nebraska City without water. Water mains drained basins empty electric light plant shut down streets dark. It may be days or weeks before pipes can be extended to the main channel risking shutdown of city machinery relying on steam or electric power.
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Nebraska City
Neb
Iowa
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