Prominent Oil Figure Absent as Dopey Dome Case Unfolds
Col Robert W Istewart of Standard Oil Indiana was reportedly on a business trip to Mexico to study Doheny properties. Upon return he arranged a Pan American Petroleum and Transport acquisition giving Standard Oil control of its Mexican assets tanker fleet and refineries. The consolidation values reach into the hundreds of millions with shares estimated around 5010000 and securities near 787000. Stewart to chair the enlarged board becoming a leading figure in the oil industry.
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Robert W. Istewart
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Mexico
Doheny
Doneny
Pan-Amartan Petroleum and Transport
Com
Der
Pan,merican Petroleum
Trateport Aga Rea Ipi Nes
Stewart
Ice Cate Eee Eee Wike
Princess Bertha Cantacuzene to wed Bruce Smith
Washington reports an engagement between Princess Bertha Cantacuzene, great granddaughter of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and Bruce Smith of Louisville, Kentucky. The wedding date is not fixed but expected this summer. Bertha’s Cantacuzene line traces to Constantinople and Russia, with royal connections and a noted Kentucky Honore lineage through Frederick Dent Grant's widow.
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Eimetlini
Washington
Bertha Cantacuzene
A. S. Grant
Bruce Smith
Louisvlle
Michael Cantacuzene
Princess Cantacuzene
Bertha
Michael Cantacuzena
Migs Clarissa Curtis
Boston
Chicago
Ida
Russia
Potter Palmer
Siberia
Fainother
Honore
Kentucky
Frederick Dent Graint
Migs'Ide Honore
Fredikc Dent Grant
Grant
Ith
Thomas Foyd Smith
Cantacuzene
John Cantacuzene ‘VI
Constantinople
Hammond at Forty and Seventy A Storied Life in Mines and War
The article chronicles John Hays Hammond’s decades spanning from 1896 in South Africa under Cecil Rhodes to his later roles in American mining, government commissions, and education. It notes his youth in Washington and later international work as a mining engineer, lecturer, and promoter of American industry and universities.
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Zermand
Landers
Paul Kruger
Gorts
Capby
Pammond
Uberty
Pan- S
al Enutronimis- Tuchit Exposition Commission
United States
American’ Institute of Mining
America
Goy and Mrs Gifford Pinchot Seek Joint Congress Run
In Republican circles, Goy and Mrs Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania are pushing to be the first family to enter Congress together. Pinchot plans a senate bid against Lepper and Willan Ware, while Mrs Pinchot reportedly aims for Louis T. McWadden’s House seat. They campaign on a bone dry platform centered on strict prohibition enforcement.
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Goy
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Congress
Washington
Pinchot
U.states
Senate
Lepper
Willan
Louis
T. McWadden
Makes Millions in Twenty Years in Toronto Career
Italian immigrant James Franceschini arrived penniless in Toronto nineteen years ago. A policeman sheltered him, he learned English, and he rose from laborer to highway contractor. He built a fortune in concrete work, cellars, and wheelbarrow to horse drawn carts, eventually buying a villa with Italian gardens overlooking Lake Ontario.
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Toronto
Ont
James Franceschini
A. B. Ormsby
Lake Ontario
Franceschini
Tella
Franceschia
Italan
Miss Jdx Vera Simonton Wins Suit Over Play Theft
Biography of Miss Simonton recounts a court ruling by Federal Judge John C. Knox in her favor against Leon Gordon and associates over alleged theft of her book Bell's Playground for the play White Cargo. Simonton’s financial settlement potential is noted at 500000, with her career hardship and later business revival detailed.
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Jdx
Vera Simonton
Autchor
John, C. Knox Hag
Leon Gordon
Knox
Miss Simonton
Bell
Milas Simonton
Exposition Brussels planned for Belgian centennial
An international exposition will be held in Brussels in 1630 to celebrate Belgium's independence centenary. Subscriptions total 17,000,000 francs toward a 40,000,000 franc goal.
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Brussels
Belgium
Rich Treasures Believed Buried in Ancient Roman Necropolis
Archaeologists near Rome report a 700 acre necropolis where burial sites and disturbed debris reveal funeral items, clay vases, toys, and figures. Ten tombs explored. vast burial grounds hinder rapid work as researchers seek wealthy tombs likely to hold gold and silver objects rivaling king Tut.
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Rome
Kingala
Thes
Carere
Etrusca
Vatican Mygeum
Rhamental
Terry
Atruria
Great-Grandma keeps business in Green Verdugo Hills area
Glalma May Dean proprietor of the oldest store in Tujunga Glendale remains active in business life in the Green Verdugo Hills. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Dear Willama at Research Hospital Glendale, making the child Miz Deans great grandson.
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Tujunga
Colo
May Dean
Glalma
Green Verdugo Hills
Dear Willama
Research Hospital
Glendale
Miz, Dean
A Lover of Statistics Seance Tale in Black Cheesecloth
A humorous piece recalls a Brooklyn based spiritualist event with a stout black clad medium and a young farm youth from R F D 8. The seance scene unfolds with a ringmaster husband and a cabinet voice answering a boy asking how far heaven lies, ending in a quip about measurement from tip to tip.
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Brooklyn
R. F. DB
Paw
No Smoking Sign Sparks Stage Door Exchange
A fireman on duty backstage at a New York theater confronts an East Side cloak and suit seller who entered through the stage door to hawk wares to chorus girls. The man refused to heed the no smoking sign, insisting the sign omitted a key word.
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New York
Miister
Ladies First Always The Grand Canyon Tale From a Southwest Camp
A rough frontier anecdote recalls a mover at an Arizona cow camp preparing to move to the desert on a prospecting tour. A neglected wife complains of hardship as foremen rebuke the husband while the seven accompanying animals and laborious life illustrate frontier strain and domestic neglect.
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Grand Cariyon
Naver
Arizona
Desert
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