Trust Offenders May Voluntarily Dissolve
Government opens fight against a major electric industry monopoly by filing suit against 35 manufacturers including General Electric Westinghouse and National Electric Lamp alleging a conspiracy to control 97 percent of output and restrain trade. Eighty million incandescent taps are sold yearly for eighteen million dollars. Wickersham hints at possible voluntary dissolution of the combination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Mar
General Electric
Westinghouse
National Electric Lamp
Wade
Washington
Wickersham
Kaiser’s Auto Fleet Tops Thirty Cars in Court
Berlin reports the Kaiser has ordered four new antimobiles, raising his total to thirty. He maintains five cars at Corfu for travel with the Empress and heirs, and each of his fifty palaces includes a private garage with fireproof benzine storage. His car is identified by a unique horn and the imperial standard, visible at the chauffeur’s right, with a nighttime glow shield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Mar
Corfu
Cholera Deaths Rise in Honolulu Report
In Honolulu on March 3 two more deaths from cholera were reported bringing total cases to 15 and deaths to 12. Local health officials noted ongoing outbreak and urged precautionary measures.
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Honolulu
Mar
A Bomb Thrown in a Colorado Town
A dynamite charge exploded at the residence of Benjamin Beach, superintendent of the Canfield mine at Coal Creek, Colorado, waking residents and shattering windows. No injuries were reported, and a half stick of explosive was found near the fence.
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Florence
Colo
Coal Creek
Benjamin Beach
Canfield
F. & I. Company
Beach
Aerial accident in Madrid injures crowd at field
French aviator M. Maur vaigva drove an aeroplane into a crowd at a Madrid field on March 3. The propeller cut off a woman's head and four others suffered serious injuries as bystanders surged onto the field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Spain
M. Maurvaigva
Railroad rates to be readjusted under ICC relief plan
The Interstate Commerce Commission announced that many railroads may gain relief from long and short haul provisions. It orders joint tariffs to be adjusted between defined passenger territories and across all territories to reflect the changes.
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Washington, Mar
Interstate Commerce Commission
Denver Lodge Tries To Secure American's Freedom
The Knights of Columbus moved to free J. A. Farrell of Florence Colorado who got ten years in Guadalupe Mexico for an accessory in a Mexican fight after lending a revolver to a storekeeper. Telegrams were sent to Senators Guggenheim and Carter requesting aid tonight.
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Denver
Mar
Knights of Columbus
J. A. Farrell
Florence
Colo
Guadalupe
Mex
Farrell
Guggenheim
Carter
Industrial Workers Freed After Street Speaking Fight
Fresno report says sixty five Industrial Workers of the World held in jail for ten months over a street speaking ordinance have been released and left town without disturbance. Fifty more to be released by Sunday night. The conflict ends with a compromise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Fresno
Cal
Senate Paves New Mexico Constitution Approval
Washington March 8 a senate territories sub committee recommended favorable action on the New Mexico constitution. The house had already adopted the legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Committee On
Territories
New Mexico
House
Mar
Senate
Tetrazzini Advocates World Vocal Aristocracy Plan
New York reports Madame Tetrazzini proposes reproducing a vocal aristocracy through later marriages of renowned singers to sustain music’s purity and tone. She cites Bach, Strauss and others as exemplars, argues birth and throat shape determine voice, and contends opera stars often sacrifice home life for art.
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New York
Mar
Luge Tetrazzini
Toronto
Bache
Germany
Strausses
Oth Mrere
Mia Gl
Chotru
Madame Schumann- Helri
Laulee Homer
Opera Eiagers
Plague Epidemic Strikes Manchuria and Mongolia
The plague grips Manchuria and Mongolia with rising tolls as officials fall ill. Reports cite 160 deaths in Fu-Chia-Tien in one day and 300 or more in Harbin and Mukden. Relief expeditions and troops are dispatched from Pekin to the affected regions at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchuria
Mongolia
Dred
Fu-Chia- Tien
Harbin
Mukden
Pekin
Fasl
Bustillos Lets Navarro Reach Juarez amid Mexican conflict
Reports from Torreon say Captain Bustillos allowed Navarro to reach Juarez while Orozco ordered his interception. The move follows Bustillos being deposed at Ocampo as fighting rages in Coahuila with rebels reportedly defeated. Washington and El Paso dispatches note cross border tension and U.S. border actions involving insurrectos and federal troops. Rabago returned with 660 men from Abúmada after failure to locate the injury.
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Mexico City
Navarro
Juarez
Bustillos
Torreon
Orozco
Oronco
Ocampo
Coahuila
Washington
Mar
United States
Mexico
Colorado River
el Paso
Public schools urged for expanded use in Massachusetts conference
Boston report on the Massachusetts Civic Conference quotes Dr. Baynard Stitt urging more efficient use of public school buildings. He cites mixed dancing for children moving pictures weekly, a cellar bowling alley, cooking classes and clubs for fathers and girls, as proof current use is far too limited. Stitt, a superintendent in New York City, criticizes the underutilization of school facilities.
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Boston
Mar
Baynard Stitt
New York City
Massachusetta
Biltt
Two Wyoming Girls to Get Fortune Despite Kinnear Fate
Denver dispatch reports Na poleon Bonaparte Kinnear’s disputed will leaves wealth to his two Wind River halfbreed daughters, not Edith Kinnear Todd. Investigation by Attorney Paul DeLaney finds Kinnear’s estate largely in realty with a major share to the daughters and a contested portion tied to Kinnear’s marriage to a Baker family relation with Shoshone roots.
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Denver
Mar
Edith Kinnear Todd
Umatilla Street
Napoleon Bonaparte Kinnear
Kinnear
Wind River Reservation
Wyoming
Jim" Baker
Baker
Dillon
Wyo
Paul DeLaney
Todd
Lander
Wyre
Riverside
Gal
Buk
Joop
Kinneer & Rebesg
Jim Baker
Aewolal
Kit Carson
Materal
Quarre
Guns and Ammunition Aim at Toppling Mexican Government
Denver reports center on insurgent sympathy across the west coast with 90 percent backing the rebels. Frank Howbert, tax chief, cites heavy taxation as cause and warns fighting may last years. Insurgents reportedly avoid harming American property though danger to life and property grows with continued battle. General Madero remains a favored leader in Mexican sentiment.
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Denver
Mar
West Coast
Frank Howbert
Mexico
Howbert
Madero
Candy Hats To Show New Parisian Styles
New York March exhibition at the Hotel Belmont palm garden features hats entirely made of candy. They copy Paris styles with flower arrangements on top, praised for beauty but noted as perishable. Designs include a blue toque with bachelor buttons, white Chiotte Corday style with pink rosette, yellow straw with cherries, and a grenadier style with fifty pink roses.
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New York
Mar
Palm Garden
Hotel Belmont
Paris
Chiiotte Corday
Columbia Leads All rivals in Student Enrollments
New York reports Professor Rudolf Tombo Jr. shows Columbia University tops U S universities in total 1910 enrollment with 7411 students. Chicago 6883 Michigan 6230 Harvard 6929 Pennsylvania 1187 Cornell 5169.
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New York
Rudolf Tombo, Jr
Columbia Univerally
Columbia
Chicago
Michigan
Harvard
Pennsylvania
Cornell
Proteasor
Tombo
Yale
Hilnels
Universitien
Columbia Areo
California
Wisconsin
Indiana
American harem skirt makes a hit in New York
The pantaloon skirt, an American brand, has been worn in New York for a solid month and impresses visiting skirt buyers nationwide. Designers William H. Davidow & Brow report overwhelming orders as the model features two pantaloons concealed by front and back panels for freedom of movement.
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New York
Mar
William H. Davidow & Brow
Colorado Coal Co Sued by Government in Coal Lands Case
Denver March 3. The government sued the Carbon Coal and Coke Company a subsidiary of American Smelting and Refining to recover coal lands in Cokedale valued at five million dollars alleged to have been obtained through dummy entrymen.
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Denver
Mar
Carbon Coal and Coke Company
American Smelting and Refining Company
Cokedale
Daughter of former governor dies by own action
In Los Angeles on March 3, Mrs. Josephine Waite Quirlez, daughter of former Colorado governor Waite, killed herself in a rooming house by gas as husband Constantine Quirles arrived from work. He restrained from self-harm after finding her fully dressed, no note left for her brother Frank H. Waite of Denver.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Josephine Waite Quirlez
Waite
Colorado
Constantine Quirles
Quirrez
Veteran railway engineer Kaub dies in Denver at 79
Frank H. Kaub, a noted engineer who once rode into Denver on the Kansas Pacific in 1908 as Indian pursuit rumors spread, died at his home on Stout Street. He was 79, born in Bavaria, made a fortune in Denver real estate, and earned $250,000 for his three daughters before a world trip in 1903. He and Mrs Kaub celebrated their fiftieth anniversary in 1904.
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Denver
Frank H. Kaub
Kansas & Pacific Railroad
Stout Street
Kaub
Bavrdria
Seventeenth
Champa Streets
Mro
Clayton Attacks Republicans On Tariff Board Plan
Representative Clayton of Georgia interrupted the House session to denounce Republicans for trying to force tariff board legislation into the House. He warned the move would affect fiscal policies and provoke Senate scrutiny tonight.
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Clayton
HOUSE
Washington
Mar
Georgia
Senate
Tariff Board
Taft Considers Extra Session. Congress In Session Late
Washington reports March 3 shows both houses wrestling with routine legislation awaiting presidential fate of reciprocity. Taft may call an extra session around March 15 if reciprocity fails. Lorimer defense aid debate sparks acrimony before lawmakers strike the grant.
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Washington
Mar
White House
Taft
Lorimer
Senate
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