Tariff Reform Dominates Thanksgiving Week Debate
Washington dispatch notes tariff revision as the winter’s main topic with hearings on wool and wool products and advocacy for two vast parks in the Appalachians and White Mountains. Members expect a special session in March to consider a bill, with supporters pressing for Brandegee park legislation.
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Washington
House
Congress
Taft
National Wool Growers Association
Appalachians
South
White Mountains
New England
House Committee On Agriculture
Brandegee
Rival Italian Brothers Kill Each Other Over Love
In Geneva near Zurich two Italian brothers Louis and Charles Ferrari fought over a Zurich girl. They had a death compact to decide who would kill the other after a month apart. Louis encountered Charles while Louis biked, dismounted, and shot him dead. The judge sentenced Louis to four months in prison.
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Geneva
Zurich
Louis
Charles Farrari
Louis Ferrari
Charles
Supreme court upholds Virginia liquor shipment ruling
Richmond December 3. The supreme court of appeals affirms the Virginia corporation commission ruling in Fortier Brewing Company v Southern Express Company. The decision restricts wholesalers brewers distillers and manufacturers from using common carriers to ship liquor into dry territories to avoid law violations.
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Supreme Court
Virginia Corporation Commission
Richmond
Supreme Court of Appeals
Corporation Commissa of Virginia
Fortier Brewing Company
Southern Express Company
Palmer Resigns Then Kills Self at Minnesota Mutual
Timothy R. Palmer, former president of the Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company, shot himself in his St. Paul residence today. Officials cited illness and poor health as contributing factors to his death, noting he had resigned the previous Friday and had struggled with duties due to illness.
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St. Paul, Minn
Timothy R. Palmer
Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company
Palmer
Prefers Foraker’s Seat in Treasury Post
Washington rumors say Representative Burton of Ohio has been offered the treasury portfolio. Burton has long studied financial questions and would choose the secretaryship above all others, with his selection likely to clear the Senate.
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Washington
Burton
Ohio
Secretary of the Treasury
Cleveland
Barr Leads Lee County Coal With Rising Output
James M. Barr and partners oversee Black Mountain fields in Lee County where mines now output 500 tons daily. Plans push capacity to 750 tons in three months and 1,000 tons in six. The Long Flame coal tests at 95.75 percent combustibles and 1.5 to 2 percent ash.
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James M. Barr
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Jin
Black Mountain
Lee County
Burton weighs senate seat over cabinet post in Ohio case
The passage notes Mr. Burton favors a senate seat and may withhold acceptance of a cabinet offer until the senatorial situation becomes clear.
Independent operators forged into contracts in coal case
In the government Sherman antitrust suit, C D Simpson of Scranton testifies to collieries controlled by Simpson & Watkins selling to J P Morgan interests. He details seven mines bought for 5 million in cash and stock, containing about forty million tons of coal and valued between 150 million and 2 billion dollars.
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New York
C. D. Simpson
Scranton
Simpson & Watkins
Robert Bacon
J. P. Morgan & Co
McReynolds
Simpson
Ag Tieir
Not Guilty of Rebating in Federal Court
Richmond Virginia February 3 The jury found A P Gilbert assistant general freight agent of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway not guilty on a rebate charge. Six minutes decided the case. Eight indictments remain against Gilbert and others against W R Johnson and the Chesapeake and Ohio railway.
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Richmond
Pee
A. P. Gilbert
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
W. R. Johnson & Co
W. R
Johnson
Kodol for Dyspepsia Promises Quick Relief
Advertisement touts Kodol for Dyspepsia as a guaranteed remedy for indigestion weak stomach sour stomach and gas with a claim it will cure dyspepsia and that it is sold by all druggists.
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Booker & Crenshaw
Reems
Kelly
Moyer
Thomas E. Peery, M. D
N. & W. Railway
Bluefield, W. VA
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Xmas Huylers
LEE County Coal
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Dent
Metropolitan Men’ S Furnishing CO
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Hopkins & Allen
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Turk, West Va
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