Compton Turns Graft Into Efficient Building Control
Electrical engineer Compton, near destitution in New York, exposes graft in office buildings. He convinces Peter Tomlinson to hire him to audit coal, oil, water, and repairs, cut waste, and standardize purchases. Within months, three months show savings, expanding to manage six buildings with a principled, noncommission basis and strong results.
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Richard Spillane
McClure
Compton
New York
Sca
Spofford
Sen Compton
Peter Tomlinson
Rogers
Tomlinson
Tominson
Mr. Tomlinson
Hmasees and
Mr. Compton
Hig
Immenee
War delays trial in Porter Charlton case at Lake Como
New York judge Judge Palmieri, retained by Charlton’s father, travels to Genoa and Lake Como as Italy’s war with Austria disrupts extradition and proceedings. Italy may sentence Charlton for murder in the heat of passion, potentially up to 20 years, with Italy stressing psychology and public sentiment in court. Charlton claims his initial impulse was to reveal all but chooses concealment amid unfamiliar legal norms.
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New York
Porter Charlton
Lake Como
Italy
Palmieri
Charlton
Moltke
Genoa
Austria
Servia
New York World
America
Kansas
Palwleri
Porter Chariton
Enrico Cattaneo
Comoe
Chariton
Mrs Osborne Joins Governor Osborne in Washington
Mrs. John E. Osborne wife of the first assistant secretary of state has joined Governor Osborne in Washington for the weekend. She and her young daughter Miss Joan Curtis Osborne spent the summer with her mother Mrs. John T. Smith in Princeton New Jersey.
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John E. Osborne
Washington
Mra
Osborne
Mra. Osborne
Joan Curtis Osborne
John T. Smith
Princeton
N. J
Prisoner with Leavenworth two years returns to Chicago
Clarence A. Kohl or C Alvin, released after two years at Leavenworth, jokes about meals there. He praises the prison as a boarding house and roaming place while recounting prior mail fraud convictions in Chicago and Pittsburgh and awaiting new sentencing. Government officers rearrested him upon discharge.
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Chicago
Clarence A. Kohl
Leavenworth Penitentiary
Liberty
Ken
Leavenworth
Kohl
Wille
Pittsburgh
C. Alvin
Battle Report from Aisne Describes Enormous Losses
A German officer's letter from Sept 17, 1914, describes holding south of Cerny with French, English, Highlanders, and Zouaves. He cites heavy artillery, fierce hand to hand fighting, and supplies being stretched as both sides suffer large casualties while Paris looms and hopes for a decisive end to the war.
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London
the Aisne
Seventh Reserge
Cerney
Latn
Cerny
Fourteenth Corps
Fourth Jager
Landwell
Paris
Rusala
Maubeuge
Fort Cerfontaine
Rat Robe Slot Machine In Findlay Robbery Foiled
Discovery of a five rat working a blot machine at the Toledo and Ohio Central station prevented suspected thefts from a group of boys. Four hundred sticks of gum and fifty pennies were missed as the rat scrambled near the machine, jumped on a trap, and released the gum and coins.
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Findlay
Toledo & Ohio Central
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Thia
RED Cross
Ben
Cardinal of Marines
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