Government Severs Ties With Major Tobacco Trusts
Secretary of War Dickinson directs the army commissary to avoid purchasing tobacco from five companies judged as trusts in restraint of trade. He argues government dealings with them are illegal, urging public action to tighten the trust’s hold. The move targets the American Tobacco and related firms, including McAndrews and Forbes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickinson
American Tobacco Company
American Snuff Company
American Cigar Company
American Stogy Company
McAndrews and Forbes Company
American Stogg Company
Standard Oil
Sugar Trusts
Tobacco Trust
Congress
New England Cigars Promise Fair Prices From Local Factories
The advertisement urges consumers and retailers to buy New England made cigars produced locally to avoid imports and child labor. It condemns factories outlawed by the U S government and warns that buying their products harms fair manufacturers and organized labor, while protecting schoolchildren from exploitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
United States
War Dickinson
Ballinger Pinchot Controversy Sparks Congressional Probe Call
Washington reports intense political maneuvering over Secretary Ballinger in the Ballinger Pinchot dispute. Representative Hitchcock urges an immediate oral inquiry by Congress into the interior land office while Ballinger seeks Taft support to defend his stance against critics linked to Roosevelt’s circle.
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Washington
Richard A. Ballinger
Secie
Interior
Represen
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Congress
Land Office
Ballinger
Presid Taft
Pinchottion
Roosevelt
Plan to Make A B C Name State Famous
Edward Madigan James Mahoney and Walter Schneider corporators of the A B C club were appointed to confer with the Waterbury Minstrel club on affiliation and a grand organization in the city. A banquet for members and ladies will occur after two weeks. The club will attend the Sorority club minstrel show at Hall on January 3, with Finkiestone and Burdick teaching songs and dances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Madigan
James Mahoney
Walter Schneider
A. B. C. Club
A. B. C. Minstrel Club
Waterbury
Waterbury Association
Bridgeport
Oung
Sorority Club
Hall
George Finkiestone
Lester Burdick
Second Marriage Annulled After First Existed
A notice reports the annulment of a second marriage due to the existence of a first marriage. The text blends with an old time medical advertisement for Foley's Honey and Tar claiming cough relief and congestion reduction.
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Lecause
Foley
Brill
Curtis F. B
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Cigar Makers
International Union of America
CHL
America
The
Boston Journal
Cigar Makers’ Union NO
Conn
Sovereign
U. P
Sun Keelea
Magnolia, Challenge and
Eagle
Main Street
A. B.C
Mant
Burpee
Mortimer Drum
Drum
Bertha Mc Mester
Cobleskill
N. Y
Bertha
John H. Pinder
Ida Jordan
Druin
Fieeant Hotel API
Mand Cafe
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