Government Officials After the Trust in 1907 Examinations
Washington notes expose how government prosecutors may have ties to major trusts. Wickersham admitted receiving a share of a sugar trust fee. Kellogg earned government pay while also serving steel trust clients, with further $15,000 extra for steel work. Senate fights over direct election of senators and gag rules for employees frame the era as trust influence and political struggle.
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United States
Wickersham
Sugar Trust
New York
Strong and Cadwallader
Henry P. Taft
Frank B. Kellogg
Great Trust
Steel Trust
Stanley Committee
Kellogg
Roosevelt
Gray and
H. C. Frick
Spirits of Steel Trust
Anti-Trust League
Bristow
Kansas
Tristow
Ev. W
Sutherland
Utah
Ring of Wall Street
Senate
Lorimer
Illinois
Guggenheim
Colorado
Cumming
Iowa
Lippitt
Rhode Island
Clapp
Minnesota
Smoot
Stephenson
Wisconsin
la Follette
Grenna
Borah
Poindexter and Works
Senate Bave
Lloyd
James T. Lloyd
Missouri
Democratic Congressional Committee
Clark
Champ Clark
Taft
Congress
General Baking Company
Attorney General's Office
Chinese student charged after shooting Maine teacher
Bangor June 20 Tse Shong Linn a Chinese U Maine student faced a preliminary hearing on the charge of shooting Miss Christine Shaw a young teacher of Orono. Linn allegedly confessed the act saying she caused him mental torture and that he was infatuated with her after she refused his marriage proposal.
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Bangor
Tse Shong Linn
University of Maine
Christine Shaw
Orono
Linn
Shaw
Medical Society of North Carolina opens three day meeting
The North Carolina Medical Society opens a three day session with elaborate programs. Papers, reports and addresses cover medicine and surgery. A special Wednesday conference will discuss Hookworm disease after the regular session.
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Carolina
Medical Society of North
Ogden’s Rise From Errand Boy to Wanamaker Partner
Born in Philadelphia Qisden started as an errand boy earning $1.50 a week. In 1885 he joined John Wanamaker and later built a fortune as a Wanamaker partner. Recently he was active in southern education movements.
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York
Qisden
Philadelpha
John Wanamaker
Wanamaker
Ogden
South
Bessie Tift College Adds Teacher Training Course
Forsyth Ga June 20 to relieve teacher scarcity in Georgia the Bessie Tift College has added a one year normal work course for young women aiming to teach in Georgia common schools. Graduates of Bessie Tift are in high demand and have proven notably successful as teachers.
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Forsyth
Georgia
Bessie Tift College
Old Girls’ School
Bessie Tift
Broadening Grand Jury Oath Proposed in Georgia
Gainesville Ga June 20 Representative S K Christopher of Hall may author a measure for the next legislature to widen the grand jury oath. The change would require jurors to report all crimes within knowledge and prosecute offenders. Col Christopher favors the change and may push the bill.
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Gainesville
S. K. Christopher
Hall
Col
Christopher
Modern Woodmen In Session In Buffalo Convention
In Buffalo on June 20 the opening session of the Modern Woodmen of America Head Camp began as a major convention. About 10,000 Woodmen are in the city with more arriving by train. a committee of several hundred handles visitors and carnival decorates the city. The morning routine included welcome addresses by the mayor and others, a reply by Head Consul A R Talbot of Nebraska, and the appointment of committees.
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Buffalo
N. Y
America
Convention Hall
A. R. Talbot
Nebraska
Indiana Municipal League Meets in Crawfordsville
Crawfordsville hosts the Indiana Municipal League three day session with speakers including Mayor Shank of Indianapolis Judge Lawrence Becker of Hammond Robert E Proctor of Elkhart Mayor W W Zimmerman of Richmond and Judge Timothy E Howard of South Bend addressing municipal problems expected to be discussed during the meeting.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Indiana Municipal League
Shank
Indianapolis
Lawrence Becker
Hamond
Robert E. Proctor
Elkhart
W. W. Zimmerman
Richmond
Timothy E . Howard
South Bend
Young Women’s Christian Association Holds Western Conference
The annual Western conference of the Young Women’s Christian Association assembled in Cascade Colorado on June 20 and will continue until June 30. Delegates from many western states are in attendance.
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Cascade
Colo
Young Women's Christian Association
Tn Attenbimee
Nine-Hour Work Limit For Missouri Women Effect Today
Jefferson City Missouri June 20 The nine hour law for women workers enacted by the Missouri legislature becomes effective today. It forbids any woman or girl to work more than nine hours in one day or fifty hours in a week in manufacturing mechanical or merchandising establishments.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Transportation officers convene at Cape May meeting
Representatives of major railroads from the United States and Canada attended the opening of the annual convention of the Association of Transportation and Car Accounting officers in Cape May New Jersey.
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Cape May
N. J
United States
Canad
The
Association of Transportation and Car Accounting Officers
Retirement of Col Scott Ends 37 Years in Army
Washington June 20 Col Walter S Scott of the 15th Infantry was placed on the retired list after thirty seven years of active service The native of Arkansas was appointed to the army from California and ends a long career in the U S Army
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Washington, D. C
Walter S. Scott
15Th Infantry
Scott
Arkansas
California
National Tuberculosis Association Convention Opens in Denver
The seventh annual convention of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis begins in Denver Colorado with delegates from across the country and many prominent medical men in attendance. The event runs through tomorrow and continues the fight against the white plague.
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Denver
Colo
National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
Dowman to transfer after Emory appointment
Gainesville Ga June 20 Dr C E Dowman dean of Emory theological department will move to Oxford after the North Georgia Conference session. During the interim eight weeks he will fill the pulpit at First Methodist Church Gainesville and split time with Oxford on weekdays.
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Gainesville
C. E. Dowman
Emory
North Georgia Conference
Oxford
Emory College
Dowman
First Methodist Church
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