Shippers Denounce Increase In Interstate Rates
Live expert witnesses for shippers testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission on proposed rate hikes extending from New England to the Mississippi. D. O. Ives of the Atlantic Seaboard trade group argued rebates were largely abolished but that hidden preferences persisted in tariffs, urging classification reform over broad horizontal increases.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
New England
Mississippi River
Ohio
Potomac
O. Ives
Boston
Mr. Ives
Ives
Homeopathic Doctors Challenge Rutland Segregation Plan
Massachusetts homeopathic physicians led by Dr. Herbert A. Clapp protest moves to end homeopathic care for consumptives at Rutland sanatorium. They warn removal of men patients to other state hospitals could end homeopathic treatment and plan to appeal to the Legislature after a commission report.
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Massachusetts
Rutland
Westfield
North Reading
Lakeville
Massachusetts Homeopathic Society
Draper
Homeopathic Society
Board of Trustees
State House
Cupid
H. A. Clapp
Commission On Consumptives
Tempest Over League Slate Frays Reach Friday Meeting
The Municipal League faces a heated session Friday as the Nominating Nine prepares to report and name the school committee and City Council slate. Fractures form with factions backing six council candidates and objections to Dr Thomas F Leen for the school panel.
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Municipal League
Ernest R. Smith
Logan McLean
Moses S. Lowrie
Daniel J. McDonald
John A. Coulthurst
Benjamin W. Lane
Frederick J. Brand
Brand
League
Frank A. Goodwin
East Boston
Judge Severoni
Goodwin
Severoni
Thomas F. Leen
Opposes Check on Railroads Debate in Washington
James J. Jackson of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission told the Railway Security Commission that federal regulation should not curb public railroad development. Massachusetts methods for stock issues and dividends were discussed, with notes on par value, consumer protections, and local fairness of returns.
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Washington
James J. Jackson
Massachusetts Railroad Commission
Railway Security Commission
Massachusetts
Hall
Massachusetts Commission
Hadley
Railway Securities Commission
Arizona
Pennsylvania Station
Somerville Police Shakeup Transfers Officers Across Districts
Somerville police chief Ken dall ordered a department shakeup after directing staff to better follow regulations on informing outsiders. Patrolmen Downey Heron and McNamara received new assignments, with several others reassigned to routes in East Somerville Dane Street Union Square and surrounding areas.
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Kendall
Somerville
Downey
Central Hill
Arlington Line
Heron
Clarendon Hill
McNamara
East Somerville
Dane Street
MacNamara
John J. Cummings
Crossman
Belzarini
Keane
Patch
Neylon
F. C. Hopkins
West Somerville
Union Square
Burns
Webster Avenue
Strolman Rice
Washington Street
Peters
Spring Hill
Jones
Powder House
FE. J. Hopkins
Highlands
Sec
Woman Makes History as First Female Ocean Liner Wireless Operator
Miss Graynella Packer becomes the first woman to operate a wireless station aboard an ocean liner. She takes charge of the Mohawk on the Clyde line, sailing to Charleston and Jacksonville. She aims to use wireless work to advance her plan to become a concert and church singer. Her home is Jacksonville and she traveled north to New York aboard the Mohawk.
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New York
Graynella Packer
Miss Packer
Mohawk
Charleston
Jacksonville
From Telegraph to Wireless Operator in New York
The speaker recalls first seeing wireless in operation and moving to New York to study vocal lessons while pursuing a wireless operator path. He notes prior experience as a telegraph operator in Florida, underscoring his familiarity with telegraphy.
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New York
Florida
Five Years for White Slavery Conviction in Portland
In Portland Oregon Navy territory David Westman was convicted of engaging in white slave traffic and sentenced in Federal Court to five years in prison.
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Portland
Ore
Navy
David Westman
Dense fog delays local shipping after rainstorm
Dense fog followed a northeasterly rainstorm and hindered local shipping. The steamers Indian for Philadelphia Howard for Norfolk City of Macon for Savannah and Herman Winter for New York departed as scheduled. The Bay State skipped its Portland trip yesterday night.
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Indian
Philadelphia
Howard
Norfolk
City of Macon
Savannah
Herman Winter
New York
Bay State
Portland
Adams to Receive Sentence Today
A. D. F. Adams the convicted State street broker was arraigned for sentence but a second motion for a new trial was filed based on juror Albert J. Ellis residence. Judge Stevens postponed the sentence until today to summon Ellis and determine his residence.
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A. D. F. Adams
State Street
Clarence F. Rowley
Albert J. Ellis
Lexington
Suffolk County
Adams
Stevens
Ellis
Senator Elihu Root Sells New York Mansion
Senator Elihu Root sold his Park Avenue residence at Seventy-First Street to an unnamed New Yorker. The price was reported between $325,000 and $250,000, with Root remaining in the house briefly as his political career progresses.
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New York
Elihu Root
Park Avenue
Seventy-First Street
Root
Hair Cure Secret Promises Permanent Removal at Home
A woman asserts a simple harmless liquid cures unwanted facial and arm hair after failed depilatories and electrolysis. She claims it is safe private at home, requires no pain, and offers full details to readers for a two cent stamp addressed to Caroline Osgood in Providence Rhode Island.
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Caroline Osgood
Vaughan Building
Providence
R. I
Signatures Questioned on Julia Duff School Board Papers
Election commissioners found suspicious signatures on nomination papers for Mrs. Julia Duff, candidate for the school committee. One commissioner alerted Dr. Duff, her husband, noting the questioned signatures would not be accepted as the papers were filed.
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Julia Duff
Duff
Dr. Duff
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