Banker of 99 Still at Work
The 99 year old John A. Stewart, chairman of the United States Trust Company, continues his routine. He travels from Morristown New Jersey to Wall Street twice weekly to review affairs, while the rest of the week he tends his grounds. Once a director of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railroad, he was president pro tem of Princeton University in 1910 after Woodrow Wilson’s resignation.
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New York
United News
John D. Rockefeller
John A. Stewart
United States Trust Company
Wall Street
Stewart Motors
Morristown
N. J
Trust Company
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
Princeton University
Woodrow Wilson
Tug Larine B Shaw Rides Rocks in Fog at Point Judith
The motor tug Larine B Shaw with a barge of crushed stone bound for New York ran aground at Point Judith in fog. The barge foundered but the tug stayed afloat and sailed into Newport with pumps and buckets keeping her up. All hands were saved.
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Newport
R. L
Larine B. Shaw
Forest Island
New York
Point Judith
Campaign Against Edison Co Gets Hearing Backing
Rates war against Edison Electric Co aims to cut rates and remove coal clause. Corporation Counsel Arthur D. Hill announced that 12 cities and towns have signaled intent to be represented at a hearing on July 20.
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Edison Electric Company
Arthur D. Hill
City seeks Edison rate cuts at public hearing
Requests sent to 38 Edison served cities for a hearing before the Department of Public Utilities at the State House. Boston has earmarked 50 000 for the fight and other cities may spend similarly. The city probes the books to show potentially excessive profits and discriminatory rates, while an arbitration request and coal clause dispute are also under review.
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Edison Company
Department of Public Utilities
State House
Boston
Public Utilities Department
Hill
Edison
Public Utilities Commission
Remarkable Margaret Fuller and Her Boston Circles
William Justin Mann chronicles Margaret Fuller born in Cambridge and centered in Boston where she led Conversations at Miss Elizabeth Peabody's rooms beginning in 1839. The piece notes her circle including Emerson, Mrs Bancroft, and Parker, her intense study, family devotion, and the later marriage to Count Ossoli after a Florence meeting.
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William Justin Mann
New
England
Margaret Fuller
Cambridge
Groton
Providence
Concord
Boston
George Bancroft
R. W., Emerson
Horace Mann
Theodore Parker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson
James Freeman Clarke
Channing
Harriet Martineau
Julia Ward Howe
Margaret
Italy
Duomo
Florence
Count Issoli
Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Engagement of Rex Ingram and Alice Terry Confirmed
New York July 13 reports confirm Metro producer Rex Ingram has engaged Alice Terry, a Vincennes Indiana high school graduate who rose from Hollywood extras to leading roles in Hearts Are Trumps and later The Conquering Power and Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The romance and engagement were verified in Los Angeles.
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New York
Rex Ingram
Metro
Alice Terry
Metrostar
Ingram
Miss Terry
Hollywood
Vincennes
Ind
Margaret Lauier
Eugenie Grandet
Los Angeles
Boy Jimmie Bradley Addresses DC Committee on School Funds
Fifteen year old Jimmie Bradley of Washington spoke to a House District of Columbia committee seeking ongoing appropriations for future school study. He carried letters from President Harding and General Pershing and urged continued education on birds trees and animals, marking a historic child hearing before Congress.
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Washington
Wiseacres
House Committee
District of Columbia
Jimmie Bradley
Harding
General Pershing
Jimmie
John Burroughs Club
White House
Congressional
Uphold Wife's Right to Frisk Husband's Pockets
In Riverhead New York on July 13 United News reports the old common law allowing a wife to frisk her husband’s pockets has been upheld. Theresa Marabella who took $10 from her husband’s jeans and spent it in New York won her appeal, was released and the Suffolk county married women contributed to the legal fight.
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Riverhead
L. I
United News
Theresa Marabella
New York
Suffolk County
Theresa
Losses by Theft Threaten American Shipping
Washington prepares a sweeping House sub committee inquiry into steamship losses from theft breakage and short cargo. Hearings set for July 18 19 and 20 in Washington with Boston shippers marine underwriters and steamship companies expected to attend. Insurance rates on these risks have risen above other marine dangers and some underwriters refuse foreign trade.
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Washington
House Committee On Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Boston
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Better Business Bureaus Sramacery
Houghton Dutton Co
China
Billings & Spencer
Billings
Spencer .Co
Hartford, Conn
Motors
Tremont and
Beacon Streets
Mass
Amet
Halifax
N. S
Sidney C. Houghton
Eng
Against Edison CO
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company of
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Liberty Mutual Club
Fred A. Carroll
Helen Curtin
Blanche MacDonald
Bernice Swain
Theresa Cassassa
Augusta Sprissler
James Loughlin
Daniel MacLean
Houghton & Dutton Co
Girard Cord
Globe Tire Mfg. Co
Girard
N.S
N.s.ss
iLuggage
Boyce
Blue Books
New England and Maritime Provinces
Ford
Hastings
Annie
Hamburg
Bliss-Fabyan
Armour’s
Drug Dept
Children’s Derby
Chambray
Ped Pers Pane
Siexei Houghton &Dutton CO
Amar
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