Officers Probe Alleged Sale of Child Brides
Los Angeles officers opened an investigation into the alleged sale of Russian girls to husbands unseen by them. Figures from $100 to $500 are cited. The inquiry followed statements in Judge Wilbur's court by Elsie Natakoff, who says her parents sold her for marriage to a man she has never met. The hearing was continued to January 2 as a thorough examination of the Russian colony's matrimonial dealings proceeds.
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Los Angeles
Egg Trust Has Market Cornered
New York reports extreme egg prices tied to 300 million dozen in cold storage. The Brennen cold storage bill, passed June 15, requires condemning storages after ten months, prompting speculators to rush for gains before April 15. Assemblyman Brennen says the cold storage trust cornered the egg market.
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New York
Cold Storage Trust
Bremen
Brennen
Court of Special Sessions
Assemblyman Brennen
Foreign U S Trade Rises to Record High in 1911
The department of commerce and labor reports U S foreign commerce for the year ending shows an increase of over 200 million dollars from the prior year reaching the highest level in U S history. Exports rise to Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia and Belgium while imports fall overall yet rise from Japan India Egypt and others.
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Washington
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
Canada
Germany
Netherlands
Japan
United Kingdom
Australia
Belgium
South America
Cuba
China
India
Egypt
Packers Charge Government Plot In Armour Case
Defense attorneys told Judge Carpenter that government agents seek to bias the proceedings against J. Ogden Armour and nine other Chicago meat packers. They alleged a plot to fill juries with farmers hostile to packer methods, pointing to venue drawing that included twelve of fifty jurors from Malta. He took the motion under advisement.
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Chicago
J. Ogden Armour
Carpenter
Malta
Burbank Reveals Cactus Finds For Paint Tire Wood
Santa Rosa December 27 Luther Burbank told California fruit growers of a new spineless cactus discovery. He described leaves making ten gallons of paint and a water resistant whitewash, and said cactus fiber could replace rubber in tires and pulp in paper. He cited talks with a major paint firm and an eastern concern.
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Santa Rosa
California
Luther Burbank
Burbank
Hand Lost in Texas Found in England
A Texas cotton gin accident in Spartanville on August 8, 1910, left worker Thomas Warren without a hand. A bale of Texas cotton opened in Manchester England revealed the mangled hand, later identified and traced to Warren, now living in Wisconsin. The hand, preserved and flattened, will be shipped to its owner.
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Galveston
Texas
Manchester
England
Thomas Warren
Spartanville
Warren
Wisconsin
Women Should Propose, Says Cooke at Boston Talk
Boston December 26 George Willis Cooke, lecturer at the Boston School of Social Science, argues women should take the initiative in courtship. He cites Zuni women of New Mexico who pop the question and own the home and business, as an example of feminine leadership in love and family.
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Boston
George Willis Cooke
Boston School of Social Science
New Mexico
Gold Under Fort Snelling Said Sufficient to Pay Debt
In St Paul and Minneapolis a large mineralized area near Fort Snelling shows gold deposits. Assays reach $10 a ton in common sandstone with potential for higher values. H. H. Miller and George H. Haard hold options on over 1,000 acres worth about $1,000,000. The statement claims enough gold under Fort Snelling to pay the national debt.
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ST. Paul
Minneapolis
Fort Snelling
Alfred Patterson
H. H. Miller
George H. Haard
Fow
Life in prison worse than death verdict unusual
Kane county jury sentences Henry J. Morris of Plano to life imprisonment for the murder of Estelle Dumas of Pontiac with a stipulation that on each anniversary Morris be placed in a dungeon on bread and water, and that no pardon board may parole him.
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Aurora
Kane County
Henry J. Morris
Plano
Estelle Dumas
Pontiac
Morris
House Fly Communes With Hookworm, Doctors Say
Dr Woods Hutchinson of New York told the American Civic Association convention that house fly larvae and hookworm eggs form a live partnership. He cited typhoid fever tuberculosis and other germ driven scourges spread by the fly and said the insect cannot exist away from human habitations and would disappear if breeding sites were removed.
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Washington
Woods Hutchinson
New York
American Civic Association
Association
Veterans Death Toll Shrinks Confederate Pension Roll
Houston report shows Confederate veterans and pensioners dying rapidly with 700 plus deaths in the current quarter and an annual pace suggesting the need for state pension appropriations will soon end.
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Houston
Texas
Packers Trial Costs Mount in Sherman Act Case
The Chicago beef trust leaders including Louis Swift J Ogden Armour Edward Morris and eight others face lengthy trial as United States Attorney Wilkerson presses for prison terms on five count indictments. Daily costs soar with lawyers fees and investigators pushing total to millions over eight years of legal battle.
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Chicago
Louis Swift
J. Ogden Armour
Edward Morris
The
Beef Trust
Carpenter
United States
Wilkerson
Public Land and Mining Contests Guidance
Notice inviting interest in public land and mining cases before the Interior Department. Contact Clark & Wright, registered land lawyers, 902 F Street N.W., Washington, D. C., for free information on contests and scrip for locatable public lands without residence or cultivation prior requirements.
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Interior Department
Clark &Wright
F Street N.W
Gen’l Land Office
Washington, D. C
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EGG Trust
U. S
Burbank Works
Cactus Wonders
Cooke
Twin Cities
Alty
Chicago Packers
Meat Trust
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