Amazing Confession of John M. Fisher
John M. Fisher head of J M Fisher & Co pleaded guilty to nine indictments charging defrauding customers by means of the mails. His partner Frederick E Betts also pleaded guilty. Fisher, a former laundry wagon driver, admitted a year long scheme with Betts to take about 285000 from victims by promising large returns. Post office inspectors testified to seized evidence while witnesses described money from dupes poured into the firm.
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John M. Fisher
J. M. Fisher & Co
United States District Court
United States
Fisher
Frederick E. Betts
Post Office
Herbert L. Baker
Baker
Henry P. Moulton
John H. Casey
Charles W. Bartlett
Pratt
Lowell
Lillian Maitland
Betts
Hattie May Jackson
Casey
Jillian Maitland
Hetts
Missouri Pacific
James A. Nash
Bankers’ and Mercantile Agency
Frank & McMillan
Mayor Holds Coal Conference Invitees List in Boston
Mayor Collins calls a public conference in Boston to address the coal famine and prevent winter distress. The circular urges attendance of city leaders and prominent figures, listing many invited guests from government, business, and academia for the feasibility meeting.
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Collins
Boston
Settlement of coal strike believed near
Wilkesbarre Pa Sept 29 President Mitchell and District Presidents Nicholls Duffy and Fahy of the United Mine Workers arrived from Philadelphia. Mitchell declined to speak on their mission. Strike leaders sense a settlement may be near as Eighth Regiment at Duryea and Ninth at West Side Park kept quiet with no new mines or washeries operating.
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Wilkesbarre
Penn
Mitchell
Nicholls
Duffy
Fahy
United Mine Workers
Philadelphia
Quaker City
Duryea
West Side Park
Striking miners meet with Loomis in Scranton talks
Loomis of Lackawanna Coal met with strike leaders in Scranton to discuss the strike situation. The conference, arranged by Assistant Superintendent Davies, drew President Mitchell and district presidents Nicholls Duffy and Fahy. Officials said no early end to the strike is in sight as the group prepared to travel to Wilkes-Barre for further negotiations.
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Scranton
Penn
Loomis
Lackawanna Company
Davies
Labor leaders meet in Philadelphia coal conference
President Mitchwell and Secretary-Treasurer Wilson of the United Mine Workers arrived from Pittsburg and met District Presidents Nicholls Fahy and Duffy at the rail station. They conferred with John J. Keegan of the Machinists International Union and Ford onward to the Hotel Walton for a high level session lasting into the morning.
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Philadelphia
Mitchwell
Wilson
United Mine Workers
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Nicholls
Fahy
Duffy
John J. Keegan
Machinists' International Union
Mitchell
Walton
Messrs. Wilson
Erie Officials Agree to Arbitrate With Engineers
New York Sept 29 Erie railroad officials and dissatisfied ferry engineers reached an arbitration agreement today. Arbitrators were chosen and both sides bound themselves to accept the decision. The move signals a willingness to negotiate amid Erie's extensive interests in the anthracite coal fields.
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New York
Erie Railroad
Tribune
Erie
Father John’s Medicine Promises Cure for Coughs and Colds
A Longstanding guarantee claims Father John’s Medicine cures coughs colds throat and lung trouble. Origin traces to Rev. Father John O’Brien of Lowell Massachusetts who prescribed it fifty years ago and it gave the product its name.
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Father John
Father John O’brien
Lowell
Mass
Tidal Wave Devastates Odawara Area in Japan
Typhoon conditions in Yokohama area cause a tidal wave that overwhelms many houses in Odawara. Five hundred people are reported drowned. The battleship Shikishima lies ashore at Yokosuka and may be refloated with minor damage. Widespread fear of maritime fishing casualties persists along the coast.
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Yokohama
Odawara
Shikishima
Yokosuka
Milk price agreement seals eight cent quart for Boston
Milk contractors and Milk Producers Union after a four day convention at the American House reached a winter price deal. Producers accept 37 1 2 cents per can of eight and a half quarts with no surplus on price cards and limit production to last winter’s level. Oversupply will be paid at 16 or 17 cents per can. The old contracts expire today and new prices start tomorrow with a 3 cent per can raise from last October.
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Boston
Milk Contractors of
Milk Producers’ Union
Bloody Monday at Harvard ends with streetcar chaos
A Harvard freshman sophomore riot turned into a trolley melee along Massachusetts Avenue. About 1500 students fought, with 1000 spectators, pulling trolley ropes, disabling cars, and delaying service for roughly three-quarters of an hour before police and conductors regained control.
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Harvard
Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge
Boston Area Weather Forecast Outlook
Local forecast for Boston and vicinity notes Tuesday mostly partly cloudy conditions and Wednesday generally cloudy with possible local showers. Light variable winds.
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Boston
Vicinity
Subway Injury in Scollay Square Station
Girolamo Chiesa aged 40 of 46 Endicott Avenue Beachmont was injured at Scollay Square subway station late yesterday afternoon while attempting to board a moving car. He was dragged several feet, then taken to the Relief station with serious bruises to his back and right thigh.
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Girolamo Chiesa
Endicott Avenue
Beachmont
Scollay Square
Brookline Delegation Stays Same After Republican Caucus Recount
Brookline voters kept the same delegation to the senatorial convention after a recount by local registrars of voters completed last evening.
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Brookline
Great Financier Advances Millions to Stem Tide
New York dispatch reports a stock panic in Louisville and Nashville shares with price drops from 149 to 142. J P Morgan & Co and National City Bank acted quickly, releasing 20 million dollars to steady markets including a 5 million dividend on steel trust stock. Morgan advised that the worst may be over though settling could take time.
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New York
Louisville & Nashville
J. P. Morgan & Co
National City Bank
J. P. Morgan
Steel Trust
Mr. Morgan
Morgan
Louisville
Nashville
Atlantic Coast Company
Atlantic Coast Line
Gates-Hawley
Shaw
Lyman J. Gage
United States Trust Company
Hepburn
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Vanderlip
Treasury Aids Banks By Releasing Reserve Credit
Secretary Shaw says the treasury will cooperate with banks to supply needed credit as railroads and steamship lines strain finances. Banks holding government deposits secured by bonds will not be required to carry reserve against them, releasing about 30 million in gold equivalents and adding roughly 39 million in credit. He plans to deposit about 600 dollars daily and may accept municipal securities as collateral, printing up to 25 million in currency ready for rapid distribution to support fall trade. He outlined three relief steps including reserve release, security substitutions for consols, and ongoing deposits within legal limits. He will stay in New York and visit the financial district.
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New York
Shaw
Treasury
Financial
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