Great Blessing in Northern Securities Decision Saw by Williams
John Skelton Williams, president of Seaboard Air Line, hails the Northern Securities ruling as a boon for railroads and general business. He says the decision upholds sound law, protects minority and independent lines, and blocks uniting rivals from swallowing competing systems. He warns against political republics with financial tyranny and asserts the ruling will foster fair competition, expansion, and national prosperity.
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Richmond
United States Lreuit Court of Appeals
Northern Securities
John Skelton Wilams
Seaboard Air Line Railway System
Associated Press
Williams
Sam
Supreme Court
Circuit Court
Southern Securities Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Louisville Nashville
Gates
Pershing Captures Bacolod After Moros Killed
Captain Pershing’s force attacked Bacolod on Mindanao killing a hundred Moros and wounding many, while three Americans were injured. Pershing’s unit includes Shaw’s battalion and Kilpatrick’s cavalry in a moving column toward Harahue as clashes continue in the area.
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Captain Perishing
Bacolod
Manila
Captain Pershing
Mindanao
Pershing
Shaw
Twenty-seventh Infantry
Kilpatrick
Fitpeenen
Chacquair
Harahue
Merger 18 Defeated by Federal Court Enjoining Northern Securities
The United States court of appeals voids controlling stock in Northern Pacific and Great Northern by Northern Securities Company. It bars voting stock at any corporate meeting, blocks dividends, and orders return of stock to original holders with transfers to current owners. Judge Thayer wrote the unanimous opinion.
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Northern Securities Company
St. Paul, Mink
United States Circuit
Court of Appeals
United States
Northern Securties Company
Enj
Northern Pacific
Great Northern Railway
Thayer
Securities Company
Great Northern
Gotd
Inter State RR Rates Questioned by ICC in Grain Trade
Washington April 10 The Interstate Commerce Commission named several trunk lines as respondents in proceedings over the legality of local grain rates and class rates. It cites large late 1902 advances between Missouri river points and Chicago and other destinations, with raised local charges. Answers are due by May 1, and a hearing will follow after filings.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago
Burlington , Quincy
Chicago Great Western
Milwaukee & St Paul
Wabast
Rock Island
Kansas & Texas
St. Louis
San Francisco
Texas
Missouri
Mississippi
Schiller
Farmers Tribune
Piper
Farmers Eribung
Karmers Tribune
Marmers Tribune
the Courier
Algona
Iowa
Challenger Disappointing In Shamrock Race For Cup
The Shamrocks won on handicap over the new craft by 60 minutes on a 34 mile course. The challenger led early on the first leg but lost ground in stronger wind on the second loop, with a wind fluke helping Shamrocks close in. In a separate item, Gov. Murphey dissolves trusts not paying annual tax, affecting 927 firms with $239 million capital, mostly inactive chartered ventures.
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Shamrock
Weymouth
Eng
Shamrocks
Trenton
N. J
Franklin Murphey
Mad dog bites and cures in early English medicine
The article surveys 17th century remedies for mad dog bites from Stephen Bradwell and Thomas Sendal. It notes cupping and cautery, then eccentric treatments such as pullets that lay eggs, leeches, powdered crayfish, and mixtures with ale, garlic, treacle, pewter, or milk. It traces beliefs from Galen to Rhazes and comments on dog madness and fear of water.
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Stephen Bradwell
England
Celsus
Galen
Rhazes
Thomas Sendal
Islands Built by Oysters Study Reveals Reef Growth
Dr Grave of the United States examines islands in Newport River and Beaufort Harbor North Carolina. The reefs form from generations of oysters and resemble Pacific coral islands. Original reefs span the river, with swift current keeping edges clean for oyster settlement. Over time wind and waves help accumulate material.
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Grave
United States
Newport River
Beaufort Harbor
North Carolina
Pacific
Hors of oysters the reef becomes an island says journal
The Minneapolis Junior Journal notes that oyster reefs can grow into a solid island formation over time through natural reef building processes.
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The
Minneapolis Junior Journal
No More Tie Counting in Steam of Quotes
An odd fragment describes Stormington Barnes advocating government ownership of a theater and railways. The text mocks or records a stray exchange about whether the government should own cultural and transport institutions, suggesting a call for state control and cooperation between branches of the nation’s system.
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Stormington Barnes
Had Never Seen a Horse in Alaska Camp Tale
An anecdote from the Abercrombie expedition of 1899 recalls a Matanuski hunter who had never seen a horse. The tribe’s dog and pack-sled transport contrasts with horse forage amusement as guides and shore Todians observe his wary, humorous reactions and the Alaska ethnographic note on Matanuskis versus Apache-like plains Indians.
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Quartermaster
F. Rica
Normandie
Abercrombie
Alaskan
Alaska
Plains
Yukon
Washington Star
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Seaboard Air Line
Hague
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WII
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Constantinople
Monastir
Macedonian Revolutionary Committee
Turkey
W. M. Peatman
Centerville
Proudfoot & Bird
Des Moines
Specii
Viva
Damar
G. S. Gilbertson
J. M. Brenton
Gingerman
Treas
Warnera Tribune
Partners Tribune
Nadle
Bounts
Parmers Tribune
Atate
Eni
Laneet
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