Sliding Scale Regulates Public Utilities in Boston Case
At the National Municipal League meeting Edgar N. Wrightington outlines four regulation systems for public utilities and explains the sliding scale used in Boston. The method fixes gas prices and dividends, allows price cuts with higher dividends, and uses auction sales for new stock to benefit the public through lower prices.
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Buffalo
N. Y
National Municipal League
Edgar N. Wrightington
Boston Consolidated Gas Company
England
Boston
Board of Gas and Electric Light Commissioners
Canada to show 50 percent population gain in 1911 census
Montreal November 15. E S MacPhail of the census bureau of Canada said the next census, to be taken in June 1911, will show a population near 8 million, about 2.7 million more than 1901, a rise of roughly 50 percent.
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Montreal
E. S. MacPhail
Census Bureau of Canada
Cat Rides Hen in Doll Carriage Caper Reported in Brattleboro
A Brattleboro resident notes a cat named Teddy gives a hen named Old Maid rides in a doll carriage. The animal, owned by E. M., is famed for intelligence and can jump eight feet from a standstill.
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Cat
Hen Chum
Brattleboro
Teddy
E. M. Goodenough
Indian Bible Brings $1250 at Boston Auction
A rare John Eliot Indian Bible sold yesterday in Boston for 1250 dollars. Co F Libbie ordered the sale for a customer believed to be the New Hampshire State Library. auctions included Audubon's Birds of America at 231.00 and Holmes dedication poem at 27.00.
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John Eliot
Boston
Co. F. Libbie
New Hampshire
Libbie
Edward Everett
United States
Massachusetts
England
William Everett
Quincy
New York
John James Audubon
America
Russia
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Stratford-on-Avon
George W. Childs
William Cullen Bryant
EE. Foley
Holmes
Ackerman
University of Cambridge
Charles E. Lauriat Company
Univerity of
Oxford
Bishopthorpe Palace
York
Daniel Boone
Timothy Flint
Cincinnati
Drake
Duke of Sussex
Dryden
Walter Scott
Virgil
Spanish Fryar
Joseph and
Simon Cotile
Henry Kirke White
Mrr. Southey
Keswick
Mr. Southey
Herman Cortes
History de Nueva Espana
William Cower
R. H. Dana
W. C. Bryant
Henry W. Longfellow
Plummer
Plummer’s
Foss appoints Dudley Holman as private secretary
Governor elect Foss selects Dudley M. Holman editor of the Taunton News as private secretary. Holman spoke with Sergeant at Arms Pedrick for temporary inaugural address quarters and coordinated publicity for the Foss campaign. Holman, born September 23 1863 in Ballston Spa New York, has spent his life in newspapers.
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Foss
Dudley M. Holman
Taunton News
Holman
State House
Pedrick
Republican Party
Mr. Holman
Ballston Spa
N. Y
Boston
Boston Latin School
Colby College
Woman declares herself goddess of Liberty in court
New York Nov 15 Susan McKenna a dish washer arrested at the instance of Anthony Comstock for writing scurrilous postcards to President Taft was committed to Bellevue Hospital for observation by a magistrate today. When arraigned she announced dramatically that she was the goddess of Huberty.
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New York
Susan McKenna
Anthony Comstock
Taft
Bellevue Hospital
Fright Over Skyscrapers Traced to Hoax Alarms
Three fake fire alarms at the Singer building, United States Realty, and Broad Exchange triggered downtown fire units. Investigators found broken glass in signal boxes, indicating a single mischief maker after a string of hoax calls in the hour.
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New York
Singer
Broad Exchange Building
Bre@ad street
United States
Trinity Place
Siinger
LURES SISTER TO CHINAMAN LURES SISTER TO CHINAMAN
In New York a Chinese merchant offered 250 for a white girl under 16. Irene Stuber lured her 18 year old sister from Scranton to sell her. A missionary rescued the girl from a Chinese resort. Tom Lee received a penitentiary sentence and Irene Stuber was sent to the reformatory.
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New York
Irene Stuber
Tom Lee
Scranton
Penn
Pape's Cold Compound Claims Fast Cure for Grippe
Advertises Pape's Cold Compound as a proven remedy that will end a severe cold within hours. States no quinine is included and credits three years of research and a $50000 cost. Describes rapid relief from neuralgia headaches and other grippe symptoms after the first dose.
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Pape
Grippe
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Guinine
Eroro
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California
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Fred Harvey
Solaiest
Good Old Santa FE
Sara Ipi JR
Mrs. Bright
Marjorie
Fine & Munney AR
Santa Fe
Pullman
California Fast Mail
Los Angeles Express
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C. L. Seagraves
Gen. Colonization Agt
Railway Exch
Chicago
W. Mannine
New Eng. Agt
A. T
F. Ry
Washington St
Mass
His Frien
Everett Library
Bryant Hymn
Goddess OF Liberty
Washington Street
Crawford
Walker & Pratt Mfg.Co
Union St
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