Uncle Sam Questions Railroad Monopoly Ties
The government in Boston filed a Sherman act petition against the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company and others. It claims the New Haven controls about 500 of 600 miles in Connecticut 400 of 500 in Rhode Island and about 600 in Massachusetts and holds 35 percent of Boston and Maine stock giving practical control.
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Uncle Sam
United States
French
United States Circuit Court
Boston
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
New Haven Company
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Boston and Maine Railroad
Lamphere Indicted On Arson And Murder Charges
Grand jury returns three indictments against Ray Lamphere for arson in the Gunness house fire near Laporte Indiana and for murder as principal and accessory after the fact in the Helgelein and Gunness killings. Also included are other dramatic crime and labor items from the period.
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Lamphere
Ray Lamphere
Guoness
Laporte
Ind
Adulterated Syrup Causes Child’s Death in Minnesota
Four Pelton children in Sauk Rapids fall seriously ill after consuming a maple syrup substitute stored twenty four hours in a porcelain lined dish. One 12 year old, Earl Pelton, dies. others hospitalized as investigations begin into the adulterated product.
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Ernest Pelton
Sauk Rapids
Minn
Earl
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Orders 2000 Steel Cars
The Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad ordered the Standard Steel Car Company to start building 2,000 all steel cars signaling a rebound in demand and industrial activity.
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Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad
Standard Steel Car Company
Rabies Inoculation During Autopsy Sparks Curio
A hydrophobia specialist performing an autopsy on W. T. Marsi, a wealthy New Yorker who died of hydrophobia, received rabies inoculation during the procedure as a precautionary measure.
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W. T. Marsi
Cleveland street car strike erupts in violence
Rioting and dynamiting mark the Cleveland street car strike. A Detroit avenue car exploded near 10th street, with passengers unharmed. Bricks hit a Woodland car injuring David Benjamin and his wife. Mrs Meiser suffered serious injuries on a Woodlawn Lorain car. A deadly explosives box was found on Broadway East Fifty fifth street. Police fought a mob of about 800 as linemen repaired cut trolley wires.
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Cleveland
Detroit Avenue
10Th Street
Woodland
East Fourteenth Street
Woodland Avenue
David Benjamin
Benjamin
Woodlawn-Lorain
Elzabeth Meiser
Broadway
East Fifty-fifth Street
Municipal Traction Company
Cleveland Strike Directors In Car Bombing Rampage
A strike in Cleveland caused chaos as passengers panicked near East Thirty-second street injuring several. A West Madison street car exploded at West Ninety-seventh street injuring a woman and sending others to the curb. The wrecked car operated to a barn. minutes later another car exploded nearby with no passengers aboard.
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East Thirty-second Street
West Madison Street
West Ninety-seventh Street
St. Job's Hospital
Avalanche tragedy near Calgary claims forty lives
At Calgary a snow slide carried two boarding cars with forty Japanese laborers down the mountain side. They all perished. The report notes other international tensions including Venezuela accusing Roosevelt of provoking a conflict and Italy-Turkey post office disputes. A Japanese-US arbitration treaty is praised and a Russian border clash with Persia is described as critical.
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Calgary
Alberta
Caracas
Castro
Venezuela
Roosevelt
Russell
Tacoma
la Guayra
Asia Minor
Tripoli
Turkey
Italy
Porte
Tokio
United States
Japan
Persia
Platt Wins Suit as Mae Wood Is Committed for Perjury
Mae C Wood wife of a second husband is jailed for perjury after New York Supreme Court Justice O Gorman dismisses her divorce suit against Senator Thomas C Platt. He finds no marriage and states she will remain jailed unless $3000 bail is posted. The case centers on forged marriage documents and a forged confession presented by WoodPlatt.
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Mae Wood
Mae C. Wood
Thomas C. Platt
Justice O'Gorman
New York Supreme Court
Mrs. Wood
New York City
United States
United States Express Company
Wood-Platt
Thomas Collier Platt
New York
Commonwealth
Congress
Actors' Fund of America reports surplus for 27 years
Daniel Frohman, president, told the New York annual meeting that the fund had disbursed over $1,000,000 to the needy in its 27 years but faced a $27,000 deficit in the last year. Prince Prospero Colonna of Italy and his son Mario arrived in Washington with the Marquie of Sommi.
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Daniel Frohman
Actors’ Fund of America
New York
Prospero Colonna
Italy
Washington
Prince Mario Colonna
Sommi
Carey Act Lands Offer Low-Cost Homes for Poor Men
The Carey act allows segregation of 1,000,000 acres of arid land to be sold for up to 50 cents an acre and irrigated by private companies. Settlers may acquire water rights by entering contracts with irrigators and paying small yearly installments. A 30 day residence suffices in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin Development area as 245,000 acres open for settlement.
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Wyoming
Big Horn
Trade and Industry Files Articles of Infation
Continental Express Company plans to operate its own express business under the Chicago, St. Paul and Pacific route. Dynamite damaged a Chicago cottage home of Charles Kirchner a woodworker seven occupants unharmed windows shattered stairs splintered. Kirchner left the union for a rival group. A labor colony near Summit on a drainage canal will use ten foot fencing to exclude walking delegates while Corn Products Company hires non union labor for a 4 30 000 plan.
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Trade and Industry
Continental Express Company
Chicago, St. Paul and Oe
Charles Girdhner
Nominion
Chicago
Kirchner
Corn Products Company
Summit
Fire Damages Holliday Read & Sons Chemical Works
A fire at Holliday Read & Sons chemical works in New York caused about $50,000 in damages. No injuries are reported.
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Holliday
Read & Sons’ Chemical Works
New York
Congress Debates Tariff, Currency and Public Lands
A Democratic speech by Senator Taylor of Tennessee centers on tariff and currency policy. Congress approves multiple conference and omnibus bills, including $11,672,106 for an agricultural measure and a $39,000,000 public buildings package. Debates persist over the currency commission, a court of inquiry for Col. Stewart, and maritime and land appropriation issues.
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Taylor
Tennessee
Senate
House
United States
Tokio Exposition
Territories
Pananta Canal Zone
Rayner
William P. Stewart
Coast Artillery
Fort Grant
Arizona
Lilley
Congress
Aldrich
Committee On Finance
National Monetary Commission
William F. Stewart
District of Columbia
Union Station
National Capital Notes on homestead amendments
Conferees on a bill to double homesteads to 320 acres on non irrigable lands agreed to strike Idaho and California from the change. The Senate committee on public buildings and grounds finished consideration of the omnibus public buildings bill, which passed the House, adding about 8 million dollars to bring the total over 30 million.
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National Capital Notes
Idaho
California
Senate Committee On Public Buildings and
House
Catarrh Patient Credits Peruna Cure After Years of Suffering
Miss Sophia Wittleson of Evanston Illinois writes she suffered catarrh for about twenty five years with a persistent cough. After using Peruna her chronic catarrh disappeared and her health greatly improved. She endorses Peruna to others. Peruna tablets and Manalin the Ideal Laxative are manufactured by the Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company of Columbus Ohio.
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Sophia Wittleson
Evanston
Illinois
U.S. A
Perune Drug Manufacturing Company
Columbus
Ohio
Not a Professional Hobos Convention Question
A playful, fragmentary excerpt from a Chicago Tribune item mocks a question about attending a hobos convention. It references casual talk and a humorous aside about amateur status and a mock choice, with unrelated ad-like lines about Our-Pie preparation and lemon pies priced at grocers.
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Jevver
Hafford Knott
Chicago Tribune
D-Zerta Food Co
Roches
Saloon Door Customs Spark Rural Debate
In a town discussion, residents note saloons close front doors on Sundays and keep side doors open. The line about beating the devil around the stump is invoked to highlight perceived hypocrisy and mild punishment in local customs.
The Necessary Shock
A professor seriously ill with fever lies in a stupor as doctors urge patience and hope he will recover. One attendant notes a lurid sunset and the patient corrects the word lurid, prompting the doctor to declare, He will recover.
Grape-Nuts Endorsed by Health Board Chief
A board of health president endorses Grape-Nuts as a superior diet. He cites personal recovery from malnutrition and heart palpitations after using the cereal with cow’s milk, calling it a perfect food within a rational feeding system. The letter promotes the product and notes ongoing reader letters.
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Board of Health
Wellville
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