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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1916
Page
23
John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers of America, condemns an organized effort to discredit Wilson. He commends the President for maintaining peace and supporting humane labor laws, child slave abolition efforts, and achievements benefiting humanity and progress.
Testimony in Brooklyn Supreme Court detailed diagnosis and quarantine of an infant from Jamaica in Queens Hospital, with Dr. Emerson and others describing poliomyelitis, its communicability, quarantine rules, and hospital outcomes. The case centers on whether the child should remain hospitalized or be released to home quarantine.
Fire destroyed the main building of Christian Brothers College at St. Louis. The piece recalls 1904 American alienist Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton arguing Emperor William II suffered delusions of grandeur and danger in autocratic misrule.
New York Oct 6 a suit for 1 250 000 alleges profits on a war contract with the Russian government for shrapnel shells worth more than 31 000 000. The Robert Dollar Co of California sues the Canadian Car and Foundry Co Ltd and its New York agency. The case questions agency as a device to evade New York law and whether a foreign firm can be sued in state court through an agency. The complaint traces negotiations before December 1914 and an Alison Committee contract for 2 000 000 shells at 15 85 each. Deposits and payments totaled 7 925 000 with deliveries starting May 1915. the Canadian firm allegedly diverted funds to the agency and to Knaap Dumbadze Zimdin. Names of bankers and trustees are listed. a demurrer is expected. The report also mentions various unrelated legal and criminal items in brief.
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