Taft to seek broad reform via Congress Cabinet debates
President Taft plans sweeping changes in the Hepburn act to empower the Interstate Commerce Commission and create a five judge Interstate Commerce Court with direct Supreme Court appeals. He also targets Sherman act modernization, federal licensing for corporations, labor law stance, forest and water rights, postal savings bank, currency reform, and federal health instruments bureau.
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Cook in New York Feels Abduction Plot Fear
Dr. Frederick A. Cook remains in New York avoiding Europe travel as friends reveal his nervous collapse and daily fear of a plot to abduct him and seize his records.
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Frederick A. Cook
Europe
Dr Cook Shadowed as He Sends Data to Copenhagen
Dr. Cook faced weeks of shadowing with a private detective agency hired to follow his movements. His representative W. L. Wake said the explorer, near New York seeking rest, may travel to Europe with no secrecy and urged charity toward him while he recovers.
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Cook
Evident Imposture in Polar Claims Criticized by Wellman
Walter Wellman denounces Dr. Frederick A. Cook as an impostor and endorses Commander Robert E. Peary as precise and credible. He argues Cook could not have achieved the Pole with a meagre party and gear, calls Cook’s data overminutely precise and untested, and ridicules Cook’s astronomical observations as manufactured.
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Frederick A. Cook
Robert E. Peary
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Gould to Fight Actress Suit in New York
Frank J. Gould seeks to defend a $200,000 heart balm suit filed by dancer Bessie De Voe. The suit, said to not be for breach of promise, followed papers served before Gould's Europe trip. a stay was obtained to prevent default while he travels.
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Frank J. Gould
Jay Gould
Bessie de Voe
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Helen Kelly Gould
Ben Teal
DeVoe
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Paris
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New Pastors Appointed to Parishes in Cambridge Area
The Rev. Michael P. Mahon, formerly assistant at Sacred Heart East Cambridge, is named pastor of St. Patrick's South Groveland and St. Mary's Georgetown. The Rev. F. A. Cunningham, moving to St. Leo's Dorchester, had led the South Groveland Georgetown parish since its division two years ago after serving at St. Joseph's Belmont.
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John O’brien
the Sacred Heart
East Cambridge
St. Patrick’s Church
South Groveland
St. Mary's Church
Georgetown
Ll. W. Slattery
Cambridgeport
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Dorchester
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Sacred Heart Church
St. Leo’s Church
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Sacred Heart Parish
St. Joseph’s Church
Belmont
Tiffin Mill Owner Sued Over Large Gas Diversion
Through a deathbed confession a plan by Joseph Loudenslager, a wealthy miller, is alleged in a suit by Logan Natural Gas & Fuel Company. The firm claims Loudenslager diverted 25 675 000 cubic feet of gas over six years and seeks 8078.87 dollars in unpaid charges.
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Joseph Loudenslager
Logan Natural Gas & Fuel Company
Loudenslager
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