Harriman Estate Isolation Deepens As Markets Slide
Arden New York August 26 Harriman stock losses widen as Wall Street reports indicate heavy declines across Harriman lines. Judge Lovett visits Arden amid market slump while Harriman family maintains strict isolation and no public statements. Walter Harriman arrives from Chicago and declines interview, while son works on surveying gang and discusses home and railway plans.
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Lia
Aban Luter
Mountin
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Bre
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Roed
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Nye
Ana
Heir to Harriman Millions Begins Railroad Training
The elder of Edward H. Harriman’s two sons W Averell Harriman is an eighteen year old working in a surveying gang on the Oregon Short Line. He earns sixty five dollars a month and is treated like any other employee while learning the ground up in railroading. He joined the team during his father’s European trip for health.
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W. Averell Harriman
Oregon
Europe
Wes
Lke
Peonage charges shake Pressed Steel Car strike case
In Pittsburgh August 26 testimony in the federal probe into peonage allegations against Pressed Steel Car Company officials arises from 3,500 striking workers at Southville. Hungarian immigrant Alexander Friedman testifies imported workers were forced to work, with guards and coerced overtime in the kitchen. Evicted striker families endure rain amid aid from committees as Chicago arrivals join the plant.
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Pressed Steel Car Company
Sthvenville
Alexander Friedman
New York
Pressed Steel
Friedman
United States
Silonton Jordon
Anitagy Fe
Chicago
Cholera Fears Rise As Andyk Heads For Baltimore
Cholera cases surge in Rotterdam with four deaths and 42 close contacts under observation. The Dutch ship Andyk is en route to Baltimore with probable cholera aboard, prompting quarantine measures and Surgeon General Wyman to dispatch Dr Wollenburg to Rotterdam. Officials urge people to boil water and milk as a precaution.
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Chotera
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Washington
Andyk
United States
Marine Hospital Service
State Department
Baltimore
Cape Charles
Wyman
Robert A. C. Wollenburg
Naples
Lisboe
Treasury Department
Baron Frightened by Explosion of Tire on Fifth Avenue
Baron Schlippehbach, the Russian consul general, leaped from his car after a rear tire exploded on Fifth Avenue this afternoon. He feared a bomb, grabbing traffic patrolman Jalec Nittel for help as the incident unfolded. The baron’s fright came from a tire blast caused by another chauffeur brushing his vehicle with his hub.
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Baron Schlippehbach
Fifth Avenue
Jalec
Nittel
Sting
Taft Fyre News: Seven Convicts Against Peonage
The president commuted six months of imprisonment for W. S. Harlan S. B. Hugging and C. C. Hilton, while denying clemency to Robert Gallagher Walter Grace. They were condemned in Pensacola Florida for peonage conspiracy, with sentences ranging from thirteen to eighteen months hard labor and fines up to $1,000.
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Washington
Harlan
S. B. Hugging
C. C. Hilton
Ardon
Robert Gallagher
Walter Grace
Pensacola
Flo
Gallagher
Huggins, Hilton and
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Salmon Pack Drops as Columbia River Shortage Shrinks Catch
Astoria Orem August 26 The total salmon pack from the Columbia River fell to 48 pound cages for the season closing totaling 260000 a 20 percent shrinkage from last year The segregated pack shows cases 19800 pickled salmon 2385 tons tierces 4300 with overall decline across units due to shortage.
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Astoria
Orem
Columbia River
Millionaire Byers Dead in Pittsburg After Stroke
Pittsburg August 20. Dallag C. Syera a millionaire manufacturer of this city died today and in Dinard France after a stroke Sunday. Mr Bye was left here during municipal graft exposures months ago. An indictment against him remains in force.
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Pittsburg
Dallag C. Syera
Dinard
France
Bye
Uncle Joe Cannon and His Enemy May Be Speaker
A bitter clash pits Representative Charles N Fowler of New Jersey against Speaker Joseph G Cannon. Fowler accuses Cannon of ignorance and prejudice while criticizing tariff and currency actions. Cannon vows to respond on the floor, trimming Fowler’s power by removing him from banking and currency chair. Townsend of Michigan favored for speakership, famed for Hecht Townsend and Hepburn railroad rate reforms.
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Speaker
Charles N. Fowler
New Jersey
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Fowler
Cainmen
House
Charles E. Townsend
Michigan
House of Representatives
Secretaries War Letter Alleges Graft in Canal Paint Purchase
Representative William F. Bennet charges the Isthmian Canal Commission purchasing department with extravagance and favoritism in buying paint for canal vessels. He urges a central government purchasing bureau to curb graft. Bennet cites a cement contract 600000 to 800000 above the low bid and notes related irregularities.
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New York
William F. Bennet
Secretary of War
Isthmian Canal Commission
Bennet
Crigielam
United States
Canal Commission
Trust Company Sues Railroad for 8141,477.50 in Nashville
Standard Trust Company of New York files chancery suit in Nashville against Tennessee Central Railroad seeking 81,477.50 alleging illegal rebates or refunds in violation of state and federal commerce laws. The bill cites contracts claiming control of the railroad would pass to the complainant, but the transfer did not occur.
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Nashville
Tenn
Standard Trust Company
New York
Chancery Iourt
Tennessee Central Railroad Company
Pearl Discovery in Wabash River by George Rutledge
Mount Vernon, August 26. George Rutledge reports finding eight pearls weighing forty six grains in the Wabash river. The find is valued at about $2,600 with the gem touted as the finest ever recovered from the stream. Rutledge has pursued such finds for years, with varying success.
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Wabash
Mount Vernon
George Rutledge
When Is Ice Cream Court Case Heads Higher
City case tests ice cream purity under butter fat rules. Tugbers fined $25.75 for selling cream below standard. Dispute over definition of ice cream and the adequacy of the ordinance. Gordon argues 12 percent fat benchmark and separation of milk versus ice cream. appeal to higher courts filed.
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Claude Smith
George Gordon
H. Rigbers
Tugbers
Eugene Dodd
Smith
Cooper
Rigbers
Gordon
Behind Station Bars a Candy Store Opens in Prison Ward
An elderly Confederate veteran, Joshua F Callaway, 70, on furlough from Milledgeville asylum, opens a candy store at the entrance to the sleeper’s ward of the police barracks. He sells candies, groundpeas and cologne to passing prisoners, awaiting customers while defending his setup after an accidental coffee spill incident.
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Police Barracks
Milledgeville
Joshua F. Callaway
Callaway
Penn
Afraid to go home with papers unsold
Louis Mitnick, aged 3, of 146 Hagood Avenue, was brought to the police station at midnight by Officer Swinney. In hysterics he said he could not sell his last paper because his father would whip him, and that probation officers will decide his future.
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Louis Mitnick
A.B. Mitnick
Hagood Avenue
Swinney
Bohnéfeld
Joer
Latham Sets World Air Distance Record at 154 Kilometers
Hubert Latham, the French aviator, achieved new world records for distance and speed at Rheima's Betheny Aviation Field. He flew 154 kilometers 650 meters in 2 hours 18 minutes 83.5 seconds, averaging about 68.5 kilometers per hour, while completing 150 kilometers in 2 hours 13 minutes 9 seconds. The flight showcased the Latham monoplane's prowess amid heavy rain and wind as Curtiss and Bleriot also tested their craft.
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Rheima
Hubert Latham
English Channel
Latham
Wright
Lemans
Paulham
Bleriot
Curtise
Mount de Lambert
Weather Prophecy Forecast For Georgia Weekend
Georgia fair Friday and Saturday with moderate variable west winds. Local data show lowest and highest temperatures around 61 and near normal. Mean temperature and rainfall data list 0.08 inches in 24 hours and excess rainfall 2.54 inches since month start, 6.2 inches since January 1.
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Georgia
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