States Aid to Tax Dodgers Prompts Connecticut Trust Limits
A Springfield dispatch critiques Massachusetts tax dodging via pee trust schemes. Connecticut banks grant permanent trust company permits, with officials noting high capital and trusted founders. The piece weighs how 1913 law and bank commissions shape trust operations, its limits on new firms, and the push for uniform state tax laws.
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Springfield
Martford Times
Pee Trust
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Times
Bank Commission
Permaision Ee Sea Trust
Genk Commission
New England
Connecticut Advantage Sparks Possible Massachusetts Retaliation
The text discusses Connecticut holding a financial edge and warns Massachusetts could respond in ways that create a more burdensome disadvantage for Connecticut, making the current benefit less profitable. The exchange hints at strategic fiscal moves and potential inter-state pushback.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Ban on roads owning canals to be removed
Washington reports major changes planned for the administration railway capitalization bill. Prohibitions on railroads owning hotels, amusement facilities, and water lines will be dropped. Penalties will target railway management for unauthorized stock issues, with separate treatment of interstate and intrastate commerce to be clarified. Also includes poultry standings and egg yields across various Connecticut pens.
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Washington
Administration
House
Interstate Commerce Commission
Intersate Commerce Commission
Congress
Hog escapes stable yard and swims river chase
A hog escaped from Paul and Walker's stable yard on Monday afternoon and was chased by about fifty children along Main Church and Bridge streets toward the Bar rington Mills. The animal swam the river to the opposite bank pursued by two men, then swam back, and was finally cornered by a man. The Berkshire Courier article about an "assassin" reference is quoted by Mrs Bascom with a sharp remark on hanging.
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Paul & Walker
Main Street
Church Street
Bridge Street
Barrington Mills
Berkshire Courier
Priceless Relics Burn With Church in Derby
A historic church at Breadsall dating to Norman times and housing priceless relics was destroyed by fire. Authorities suspect suffragettes due to prior disturbances and arson-style explosions heard before discovery. An ancient chained Bible and monuments to Erasmus Darwin were among items ruined.
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Derby
Eng
Breadsall
Erasmus Darwin
Growth of 101 Ranch Comes to Bridgeport Friday
Bridgeport readers will witness the expanded 101 Ranch Wild West show this Friday June 13. The exhibit, now larger than two years ago, preserves the real Wild West flavor with native Indians and frontier warfare scenes, featuring a genuine cowboy cast and dramatic reenactments from the old west.
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Miller Brothers
Arlington
Bridgeport
101 Ranch
Ife
Far West
Langley Folly Flies On Short Trips By Curtiss In Hammondsport
Glenn H. Curtiss conducts brief flights with Langley’s Folly, the old Langley airship, near Hammondsport. He says motor tuning limits flights but plans extended runs with a stronger engine or propellers after thorough testing of original equipment with Smithsonian representatives. The piece notes the Iron Trail coin design and features a Western ranch scenes, a stage hold-up, a horse thief rounded up, pony express imagery, and a parade slated for 10:30 Monday.
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Hammondsport
Glenn H. Curtiss
Langley
Washington
Mr. Curtiss
Curtiss
Smithsonian Institution
Curtis
Iron Trail
Pony Express
Lee Brothers
Lee Brothers’ Ranch
Bliss
Goldfish Death Warning Sparks Smoke Free Pet Rule
A scientist warns a pipeful of tobacco will kill a goldfish and urges never to let it smoke. The Toledo Blade reports the caution as a lighthearted but serious pet care warning, reflecting period concerns about tobacco risks.
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Toledo
State convention confirms primary choice for senator
Pine Bluff Arkansas June 5 By unanimous vote the Democratic state convention here has confirmed the nomination made in the recent primary Senator James P Clarke as United States Senator The official vote shows a majority for Clarke Ferdinand A Winter of Altoona aged 70 claims a longevity recipe Associate only with children and dumb animals The Pittsburgh Gazette Times notes there is no doubt talkative bores shorten life but not their own
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Democratic
James P. Clarke
United
State Committee
Ferdinand A. Winter
Altoona
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
Houses Destroyed by Lava Streams in Sanguli Islands
Batavia June 5 reports: violent eruptions on Sanguli near Mindanao send lava streams down mountain sides. Official word lists 100 houses destroyed with no reported fatalities. Sanguir Island is the largest in the Talantse group in Celebes, about 500 miles east of British North Borneo.
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Batavia
Java
Sanguli
Mindanao
Philippines
Sanguir
Talantse Islands
Celebes
British North Borneo
Aquitania Arrives at Quarantine Maiden Voyage to New York
The Aquitania, Cunard’s new liner and the largest British flag ship, reached Quarantine on her maiden voyage to New York with sister ships Mauretania and Lusitania. She crossed the Long Island coast at 23.22 knots, second in size to the Vaterland, with 901 foot length, 47 000 tons, 5000 passengers, and service between Liverpool and New York.
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New York
Cunard Company
Liverpool
Long Island
Aquitania
Vaterland
June Sales Inaugurated At Caesar Misch Inc
Caesar Misch Inc launches June sales with a wide array of wearing apparel for all ages. Store promises record offerings with unusually low prices and generous credit. Read: “pointing out values” and keep in touch with the hustling store for weekly savings.
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Caesar Misch, Inc
Caesar Misch
Adv
Westinghouse workers strike in Pittsburgh
About 3,000 Westinghouse Electric employees refused to work as whistles blew on June 6 in Pittsburgh. By 7 am roughly 10,000 had gathered, with union leaders circulating bulletins urging a full walkout. A picket line formed at the plant gates but there was no disorder.
Morton Plant to Wed on His 62nd Birthday
The wedding of Mrs Gatlen B Mcs waring and Morton F Piast of New London is set for August 18 at the home of the bride's mother Mrs Rowena Cadwell Hartford Conn The groom a wealthy industrialist will be 62 on the wedding date and plans include celebrating his projects in roads church hotels and trolley lines with a New York residence at 2 Hast Fifty escent street
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Gatlen B. Mcswaring
Morton F. Piast
New London
Rowena Cadwell
Hartford
Conn
Plant
New York
President speaks at dedicatory service of Confederate shaft
Washington June 1 a grand ceremonial dedication of the Confederate memorial sculpture by Moses Ezekiel drew President and other leaders in a crowd of veterans and civic figures. Mrs Danny McLaurin chaired the fundraising tribute by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, honoring Civil War heroes and stressing their heroism.
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Washington
Moses Ezekiel
Arline
Omee’ Confederats
Mermben
Clark
United Daughters of the Confedery
Danny McLaurin
W Son
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Storr’s
Rhode Island
Marwood Poultry Farm
Butler
Wolverine Poultry Farm
Grand Rapids
Mich
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Central Village
A. B. Hall
Wallingford
Orpington
O. Wilson
Oak Hill
West Va
P. A. Degmar
Braw Station
N. Y
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Catforth
England
Wyandottes
J.A. Fritchey
Harrisburg
Rhode Island Reds
A. B. Brundage
Danbury
Jules F. Francis
West Hampton
Plymouth Rocks
A. B. ‘Brundage
D. J. Ryan & Son
White Wyandottes
Ste
Langleys Folly
Sally
Bertha
Sue
Worlan
Westinghouse
Morton Plant
Chicago Daily Newn
Gesar Misch
Sesar Misch
Wy Eee
Norfolk
Misses
Dolly Warden
Main, Golden Hill and
Middle Streets
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