Prosecution Call Over Standard Oil Debate
Washington notes push by Fitzgerald of Massachusetts to prosecute Standard Oil for alleged Sherman Act violations. Resolution claims price and tax effects on kerosene hurt homeowners, urging Attorney General to direct district attorneys to pursue violators. Also mentions Fort Hays reservation transfer and rising Dublin death rate amid wartime anxieties.
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Fitzgerald
Massachusetts
Standard Company
City of
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Lueres
Orney General
United States
New Home Items and Local Notes
Winter weather returns as Frank Robbs dance draws a jolly crowd. Mrs Sue Morris is very sick with many friends hoping for recovery. John Borum issues wedding invitations and Tom Badgett works for Joe Littlefield this spring. Henry Briscoe plans Montana departure for an extended stay. Mrs Curns and Mrs Moore of Butler are on the sick list and visiting friends. Harve Bush rents a firm and shifts to farming after a fire loss. Miss Ollie Morris and Miss Nettie Exline visit with friends. Rosa Elgin stays near Hume. Ernest Swearens becomes a new father as a baby girl arrives.
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Sue Morris
John Borum
Tom Badgett
Joe Littlefield
Henry Briscoe
Montana
Curns
Moore
Butler
Harve Bush
Mr. Exline
Ollie Morris
Lucy Buotcher
Poster
Boss McCaun
Lettie Peeler
Rosa Elgin
Hume
Nettie Exline
Ernest Swearens
Cigarettes by His Side In Mystery Death
Atlanta March 22 The body of Kelly Brinsfield a minister's son who had vanished months ago was found under his former home. He owed money to an insurance company and a half pack of cigarettes lay beside him, supporting his father's claim that cigarettes drove him to madness.
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Atlanta
Kelly Brinsfield
Brinsfield
Phelps denounces Stone campaign against him for delegate
Globe Democrat reports Col. W. H. Phelps denies any bid for delegate at large and defends his ties to the Missouri Pacific Railway. He says Stone’s opposition is political, not personal, and warns against harming party unity. The piece also notes Goebel era clashes and related security lists in Kentucky.
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W. H. Phelps
Globe Democrat
Stone
Phelps
Independence
Col. Phelps
Caandidate
Lume
Leontess
Gov. Stone
Missouri Dacific Railway Company
Dalton
Missouri Pacific Company
Senator West
Speer’s Oldest U S Wine Grower Taps Portugal Grapes
The report notes many Portuguese men in a column treading grapes for wine. It references Speer’s improved grape and wine making method, dating back to Noah after the Flood. Speer, described as the oldest U S wine grower, cultivates Portugal grapes whose wines age to great value.
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Speer
U. S
Dinsmore Introduces Probe Into Mail Censorship Case
Washington March 21 Representative Dinsmore of Arkansas introduces a resolution seeking state department replies on any British correspondence about alleged detention opening and censorship of official mail to Charles Macrum former United States Consul Pretoria South Africa The House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to investigate the charges with possible involvement by Representative Wheeler and Mr Macrum is summoned to Washington to testify The move may reduce push to press Dinsmore resolution by Democrats.
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Dinsmore
Arkansas
Secretary of State
Great Britain
Charles Macrum
United States
South Africa
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Charles F. Macrum
Pretoria
Wheeler
Kentucky
Committee On Rules
Hitt
Foreign Affairs Committee
House
Macrum
British force movements in Transvaal described in Telegram
London dispatch dated March 21 reports Lord Roberts telegraphing that many brothers seek surrender under the proclamation and small columns are deployed to register names and seize arms. Forces include a cavalry brigade toward Thahanchu, Springfontein detachment at Smithfield with captured wagons and arms, Scots Guards at Edenburg and Reddersburg, Clement's brigade moving via Philippopolis and Fauresmith. No new peace overtures to Lord Salisbury. telegraphes discuss British prisoners.
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Lord Roberts
Bloemfontein
Springfontein
Smithfield
Scots Guards
Edenburg
Reddersboro
Clement
Phillipopolis
Fauresmith
Lord Salisbury
Great Britain
Goebel assassination witness Golden testifies in Frankfort
In Frankfort Kentucky attorney T C Campbell and county prosecutor met with Sergeant F W Golden to discuss the Goebel assassination case Golden a Barbourville native and Republican insider reportedly provided key information and named figures behind the 1200 mountain men influx and related plots. The session followed Golden’s agreement to testify for the common wealth and concerned efforts to convict Goebel's assassins.
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T. ©. Campbell
New York
William Goebel
Commonwealth
Bob Franklin
Polsgrove
Franklin County
F. W. Golden
Barbourville
Phoenix Hotel
Golden
Goebel
B. B. Golden
Col
D. G. Colson
Colson
Ethelbert Scott
Goethe
Militia
Statehouse
Campbell
Barboursville
Caleb Powers
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