Supreme Court Mulls Standard Oil Case Ruling
Washington discussion centers on the Supreme Court order dissolving Standard Oil as an unreasonable restraint of trade. Administration voices mixed after the ruling, with misgivings on whether courts may deem monopolies reasonable. President Taft, once firm that no reasonable restraints exist, appears disappointed by the Court reversal.
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Harlan
Washington
Standard Oil
Taft
Congress
Taft Views on Anti-Trust Law Attract Attention
President Taft’s message was freely quoted about the capital today, highlighting apparent similarity with Associate Justice Harlan’s dissent yesterday, drawing renewed attention to the scope of the anti-trust law and its legal interpretation.
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Taft
Harlan
English High Nine Disbanded After alleged theft claim
Headmaster John F. Casey of Boston English High School ordered the immediate disbandment of the school’s baseball team after a communication from Haverhill High School authorities. The letter alleged team members appropriated athletic property of Haverhill High School Athletic Association last Saturday.
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John F. Casey
Boston English High School
Haverhill
Haverhill High School Athletic Association
Local School Boys Implicated in Missing Articles Disband Team
Positive information from a letter led to disbanding the school team without renewal prospects. Except for manager Steadfast, no players will receive the usual high school baseball sweater for the season.
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Casey
Newspaper Line Length Debate Prompts Reader Debate
A reader notes that lines and columns vary by city, citing Boston papers with 280 to 306 lines per issue. The alert advertiser values the difference and calls it a fair basis for judging layout and readability.
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Boston
Alert
Missing 15 year old girl stirs Back Bay letters clue
Miss Gertrude Quimby has vanished from her home at 519 Audubon road Back Bay since Monday afternoon. Fervid letters found in her desk show a romance with young admirers of prominent families in Back Bay and Brookline through two married women in the neighborhood and outlet through the general delivery at the Back Bay post office.
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Audubon Road
Back Bay
Miss Gertrude
Brookline
Disappearance of Gertrude Quimby Stirs Boston Society
The Quimby family reports their daughter Gertrude missing after leaving Beacon Pharmacy with a small cash loan and heading to South Station to meet a friend. Police in New York hold names of two young men she befriended, amid fears she may be in danger or held by a wicked man.
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New York
Boston
Miss Quimby
New York City
Castle Square Hotel Offers Private Baths in All Rooms
The Castle Square Hotel advertises a European plan with over one mile frontage and private baths in every room. It highlights long distance telephone access, first class cuisine, and the world’s only no-tp hotel dining room. Rates list 560 single suites at $1.50 daily, 100 double suites at $2.00, and 360 alcove double suites at $2.50 to $3.00 per day with baggage transfer free.
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United States
Falls From Sixth Story Window Shock City Hotel
John J. McCoy a 30 year old traveling salesman for a Philadelphia liquor house fell or jumped from a sixth story window in the rear of the Adams House. He sustained fatal injuries landing head first on concrete in an alley off Mason Street between Keiths Theatre and the Adams House. He died while being carried to the Relief Station.
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John J. McCoy
Philadelphia
Adams House
Mason Street
Keith's Theatre
Man Falls at Adams House Hotel in Philadelphia
An unidentified man named McCoy died after an 7:28 p m fall from a reading room window at the Adams House on Mason Street. He was found unconscious with a crushed head and broken wrist, removed to the Relief Station, then to North Grove Street Morgue. McCoy, of Patterson Coane Company, last seen leaving his room at 5 pm. The hotel kept details private and police inquiry underway.
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Keith's Theatre
McCoy
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Patterson & Coane Company
North Second Street
Philadelphia
Park Square Trust struck down by Massachusetts court ruling
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the Park Square Real Estate Trust arose from an illegal disposition of Park Square property by the New York New Haven & Hartford railroad. Chief Justice Knowlton wrote that the trustees are mainly railroad agents, with the railroad engaging in real estate speculation and the initial conveyance creating a partnership between railroad and speculators.
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Contest on Mrs Bull's will staris Alfred Maine
In Cambridge, Mrs Olea Bull Vaughn seeks to break the will of her mother, the late Mrs Ole Bull widow of the violinist. The hearing opened in Alfred, Maine, with Sherman L. Whipple of Boston contending the estate worth 428000. Whipple said Mrs Bull surrounded herself with a thought body guard against imagined malignant magnetism and feared Abbie Shapleigh of West Lebanon Maine for no stated reason.
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Boston
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Abbie Shapleigh
West Lebanon
Psychic Power Claim Sparks Family Dispute
Mrs Bull accuses Mrs Shapleigh of possessing psychic ability and mental control over others in a family dispute that continued on Page 5 Fourth Column.
Hogan Named as Assessor in City Election
William M. Hogan was elected by the City Council in a joint session to fill the assessor vacancy after Timothy W. Good resigned to become city treasurer. The vote split 28 Democrats to 10 nonpartisans, with Oliver D. Clary as the nonpartisan candidate.
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Ative William M. Hogan
Oliver D. Clary
Hogan
Timothy W. Good
Cambridge
Court holds railroad exceeded powers in Park Square land deal
The court rules trustees of the Park Square Land Trust were not allowed to hold Park Square property through a real estate trust. The New Haven road deeded the old Providence Depot site to the Park Square Real Estate Trust after attempting to sell at a fair price, with conveyance authorized by the railroad board.
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New Haven Railroad
Moses Williams
Amory A. Lawrence
Alfred Bowditch
Lawrence Minot
Park Square Land Trust
Copley Square Trust
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Providence Railroad
Providence
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New Haven Road
Notable Births and Events from Casco and Nation
Casco Missouri was captured by French and Indians in 2690. John Penn a lawyer and statesman born 1741. Theophilus Parsons an author born 1797. Charles F Dole a clergyman and author born 1845. Grant began his circumglobal journey in 1877.
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John Penn
Theophilus Parsons
Charles F. Dole
Jamaica Plain
Grant
Fair Weather Outlook for Boston and New England
The forecast calls for generally fair conditions in Boston and vicinity on Wednesday and Thursday with light variable winds. Across New England, expect mostly fair weather in the east and cloudy conditions in the west, with light variable winds likely on both days.
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Boston
Vicinity
New England
Lost Boy Sought Along New England Coast
William B Blakemore of Boston crews with the Marietta and Gresham and life saving stations to scour the coast from Portsmouth Navy Yard to Gloucester for his son Raymond who vanished after briefly going to sea from Choate Island Essex. The search spanned dawn to dusk with a gasoline launch leading the effort.
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Gresham
William B. Blakemore
Boston
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Gloucester
Raymond
Atlantic
Choate Island
Essex
Charles
Knobb’s Beach
Plum Island
Mr. Blakemore
Stevens
Newburyport
Boy Raymond Blakemore Missing After Coast Search
The ill boy Raymond Blakemore vanishes from a Choate Island cottage as life saving crews along the coast mount a wide search. A motor dory with two sails is the last lead seen near the Essex river mouth, with naval vessels also combing 50 miles of shoreline for clues.
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Raymond
Essex River
Young Blakemore
Hayward
U. S. & Marietta
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