Hide fat and glue profits top Chicago packing trial testimony
William D. Miles testified in the Sherman law case against 10 Chicago packers that by products yielded 97 percent of profits for Armour. He cited 1899 net profits of 202,875 dollars from the dressed beef department after slaughtering 204,820 animals.
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Chicago
William D. Miles
Armour Packing Company
Kansas City
Miles
Sheean
W. C. Burroughs
Libby, McNeil & Libby
Packers’ Pool
Packers Profits and River Tragedy Singly Reported
An analysis shows Armour Packing Co profits from 1894 to 1902 barely over a dollar per head after by products, while other by products yielded smaller margins. In a separate incident six youths fell through ice on the Contoocook River. four perished, two were rescued with rope-assisted pulls and revived by doctors.
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Contoocook
Cecil Wellington
Leon LeFleur
Telephone Central
H. H. Hunt
G. P. Wellington
Four Crown Two Saved From River
Four boys drowned after falling through Contoocook River ice in East Jaffrey New Hampshire on January 4. Two others, Thomas La Froniere and Raymond Bouvais, were rescued after clinging to the thin ice for about 30 minutes. Victims named Alpha Paradise 14 Emery Santose 15 Alfred Robichaud 10 Leon Chouimard 7.
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East Jaffrey
N. H
Contoocook
Alpha Paradise
Emery Santose
Alfred Robichaud
Leon Chouimard
Thomas la Froniere
Raymond Bouvais
Engraver Henry Carland Robbed in Lower Nassau Office
Henry Carland an elderly engraver was assaulted with a blackjack in his office on lower Nassau street below the Fulton street Dead Line. The attacker fled with jewelry and some cash, leaving Carland badly injured and hospitalized in Jersey City.
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New York
Henry Carland
Nassau Street
Fulton Street
Carland
Jersey City
Memorial for Judge Lowell Remembrance by Boston Bar and Harvard
The memorial exercises for Francis C. Lowell, late United States Circuit Court judge, were held in the federal building with Boston Bar Association, Harvard College, and the U S Circuit Court of Appeals in attendance. M Jelalian presented Armenian citizen resolutions praising Lowell as emancipator, with tributes from jurists and Harvard lawyers. the session closed with engrossing resolutions and adjournment out of respect.
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Francis C. Lowell
United States Circuit Court
Harvard College
Federal Building
Boston Bar Association
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Circuit Court
A. Lawrence Lowell
Moorfield Storey
Bar Association
le Baron B. Colt
M. Jelalian
Boston
Joseph B. Warner
John Do. Gray
Frederic P. Fish
Samuel J. Elder
John Lowell
James D. Colt
Thomas Nelson Perkins
Edgar R. Thayer
Harvard Law School
United States
Asa P. French
William L. Putnam
Lowell
Colt
Man Jumped from Ward Window in Brighton Tragedy
James Walsh eight years old of 21 Shannon Street Brighton died after leaping from a second story ward window at City Hospital in a delirious state. He ran a mile in night clothes before collapse. injuries included serious cuts to head and body from glass and frame.
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James Walsh
Shannon Street
Brighton
City Hospital
Worcester Cigar Worker Pleads Guilty In Joy Ride
Ralph Jardine, a Worcester cigarmaker, pleaded guilty in District Court to endangering lives on railroad property after he took a locomotive for a joy ride last night. He was held on $2000 bail for the Worcester county grand jury. He offered no statement about his motive.
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Webster
Ralph Jardine
Worcester
Worcester County
Jardine
Quadruplets Born in Kentucky With Three Girls and a Boy
Mrs. J. T. Bivens in Hickman Kentucky gave birth to four children three girls and a boy all in good health. The mother was previously married to Tom Wilson once alleged as a night rider in the Reel Foot Lake region who died in Nashville at age 60.
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S. 4Th St
Colwyn
Darby
Eckman
Mary Wasson
Riker-Jaynes
Houghton & Dutton Drug Dept
Eckman Laboratory
Philadelphia
Hickman, Ky
J. T. Bivens
Concord & Montreal Railroad to Issue 4000 Shares
At a special stockholders meeting in Concord New Hampshire the Concord and Montreal railroad voted to issue 4000 new shares at sixteen dollars each to reimburse the Boston and Maine for improvements on the line and for shop expansions. The meeting also approved leasing the Suncock Valley railroad if requested by the Boston and Maine at a three percent annual rent on its capital stock.
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Concord
N. H
Concord & Montreal Railroad
Boston & Maine
Concord & Montreal
Suncock Valley Railroad
Suncock Valley Road
Wagonload of Church Loot Found in Philadelphia
Special policemen recovered a wagonload of church valuables in a three room flat at 1848 Vine Street. The stash includes 200 prayer books with owners removed, 1000 bead strings with gold crosses, plus assorted religious articles from the Catholic Cathedral on Logan Square. Annie Cooper, 60, admitted thefts and told of daily cathedral visits before Magistrate Tracy ordered a further hearing.
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Philadelphyta
Hagerty and Crook
Annie Cooper
Vine Street
Logan Square
Explosion at Aged Women's Home injures Miss Ladd
A gasolene explosion in a foot tub at 108 Revere Street's Aged Women's Home caused panic among 87 inmates. Miss Maria Ladd, 60, suffered serious facial and arm burns while attendants and Fire Department crews contained the blaze to the bathroom. Miss Beatrice F Merriam directed inmates to the reading room to keep them calm.
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Maria Ladd
Revere Street
Beatrice F. Merriam
Miss Merriam
Miss Ladd
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Arthur Colby
National’s Packing Company
Salo
Allour P.& S
Phelan & Steptoe
Boylston St
Judge Lowell
Bar
Brockton
Kuppenheimer
Beverly
Hyde Park
Shell
Lynn
B. M
Tracy
the House of Kuppenheimer
Madras
Bates Street
New England
Summer St. Boston
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