Supreme Court Upholds Payne Aldrich Corporate Tax
The Supreme Court rules the Payne Aldrich act corporate tax constitutional in a unanimous decision. It confirms the tax applies to corporate doing business and sets the baseline at one percent of net income over five thousand dollars for the year.
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Washington
Mar
Supreme Court of the
United States
Taft
Congress
Treasury
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Boston
Day
No Senator Chosen in Joint Colorado Assembly
Denver March 13 The absence of paired members reduced the total vote in the Joint assembly for United States Senator Today but the voting produced no choice as no candidate secured a result.
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Colorado
Denver
Mar
Joint Assembly
United States
Turret Cover From Maine Raised in Havana Harbor
The forward turret cover of the wrecked battleship Maine was raised weighing twenty tons and twenty one feet across. The heavy bolts were sheared in half, indicating a sharp cutting action. Pile driving halted earlier due to an obstruction in the harbor bed, now identified as the turret top brought up yesterday.
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Havana
Mar
United States
Maine
Methodist Leaders Clash Over Rome Anniversary Letter
In Rome on March 13 American Methodists denounced Archbishop Farley of New York for a pastoral letter opposing the planned fortieth anniversary celebration of Rome's loss of papal control. Bishop William Burt Rev. D Walling Clark and Rev. B M Tipple condemned Farley and urged Americans to join the Rome celebration.
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Rome
Farley
New York
Mar
Fa Ped
William Burt
Methodist Episcopal
Europe
D. Walling Clark
Methodist
Italy
B. M. Tipple
Methodist Church
Farrey
Vatican
Famous Iowan Attacks Aldrich Bank Scheme
New York March 13 Leslie M Shaw former secretary of the treasury emerges as a prominent monetary expert to oppose the Aldrich banking plan. He doubts Taft can appoint leaders independent of Wall Street, warning the institution would place the nation’s business in Wall Street hands.
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New York
Leslie M. Shaw
Secretary of the Treasury
Aldrich
Shaw
Taft
Wall Street
United States of America
Marshall Field's store to old employees under a co operative plan
Chicago March 19 A cooperative plan would convert Marshall Field's estate into a joint ownership structure for former workers. Twenty five deputies will receive an allotment and the scheme allows others to buy shares over time from profits of the business. Trustees hold the bulk of the estate for grandsons Marshall Field Jr Henry Field until age 50.
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Marshall Field
Chicago
Dowine
Marabal
Sala
Sorito
Marahall
Yach
Marehall Field
England
Holde Id Drummond
Pleld
Henry Field
Leo
Trum Fund
Family Quarrels May Cause Though Violent Deaths
Denver Mar 13 Edan McLennan a department store employee was shot by his wife after an argument over whether the door should be closed. She retrieved a revolver from under their bed and fired, bleeding internally. She remained at his bedside as he received hospital care. Father Shoots Son Los Angeles Mar 13 In front of relatives Charles B Menge 22 was killed by his father Charles M Menge after a struggle over a rifle ending in the father firing the gun.
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Denver
Mar
Edan McLennan
McLennan
Los Angeles
Charles B. Menge
Charles M. Menge
el Paso
Tex
Casae Grandes
Oscar G. Greighton
Harvard
Navarro
England backs arbitration over war in naval policy hint
London reports that Sir Edward Gray, foreign secretary, signaled in the House of Commons that England favors Taft's arbitration proposal over war. He warned that expanding armaments risks destroying civilization or triggering international revolution.
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London
Edward Gray
House of Commons
Taft
England
Escaped Trooper Recaptured After Train Stay
Private William Brown of troop C Ninth Cavalry, who escaped two guards last Saturday, was arrested at 5 AM Sunday by Patrolman Talbot at the Union Pacific depot and handed to military authorities at Fort Russell. A woman claiming to be Brown’s wife shadowed him, and Brown boarded a waiting train toward Omaha. he offered no resistance. Brown’s army uniform was found later in a West End resort.
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Talbot
Brown
Union Pacific
Omaha
West End
Mexican Prisoners and Officers Battle in Vera Cruz
In Vera Cruz on March 14, forty prisoners overpowered a guard who opened a dormitory door for coffee and broke for the city outskirts. The ensuing battle between prisoners and police killed one officer and one prisoner, wounded three, with all but two prisoners escaping. authorities mounted police in pursuit.
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Vera Crus
Max
Special Union Pacific train brings homeseekers to Cheyenne
A special UP colonist train passed Cheyenne this morning carrying homeseekers from eastern states toward Pacific coast cities and towns. The train was a forerunner of several specials planned to follow daily this week before leaving Cheyenne at 20 o'clock each morning.
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Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Pacific Cosal
Conference plan on sensational oil holding between New York officials
Albany dispatch reports a conference plan in New York to discuss a sensational oil matter involving Coy, Dis, Gaynor and Murphy of Tam Were, with a failure causing postponement and no meeting scheduled yet.
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Bunatporial Cauoun
New York
Albany
Coy
Dis
Gaynor
Son of Wealthy Sire Victim of Her Smile
Katharyn Taylor, linked to the Thaw case, again appears in a life and death tragedy in Glenwood Springs. Edwin Woolfolk, 27, from Roanoke, Va., after a night of drinking, swallowed two vials of poison in a saloon and died. A bystander intercepted one vial. his final words summoned Katharyn before he died.
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Glenwood Springs
Colo
Katharyn Taylor
Rosnoke
Edwin Woolfolk
Silver Club
Woolfolk
Fred Ewing
Katharyn
Roanoke
Bryan urges law to reveal newspaper ownership
Philadelphia crowd hears William Jennings Bryan advocate a 9 law requiring papers to publish not only owners names but mortgage holders. He warns that editor and news content is polluted by powerful interests endangering the nation.
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Philadelphia
J Bryan
Club
Tonight
Plague Spreads to European Islands and Quarantine Declared
Telegraphic dispatch from Constantinople reports Manchurian plague reaching European shores with four fatal cases in Aura chon area. The incident causes public alarm as authorities impose strict quarantine and commerce restrictions to halt further spread.
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Mar
Conatentinople
Aurachon
Trouman
Still Lives With Bullet In His Brains
Joseph Malone an Italian youth shot last Monday in Denver opened his eyes and smiled at relatives in the county hospital. Surgeons say he will likely survive the wound though it will leave him speechless with partial paralysis on the left side. The bullet entered below the left eye and lodged at the back of the head, traveling through the brain.
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Denver
Mar
Joseph Malone
Malone
Mrs Russell Sage Donates Large Japanese Netsuke Collection
In New York on March 13 the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Mrs Russell Sage presented more than 2500 Japanese netsuke specimens. The donor acquired the pieces from A C Vroman of Pasadena, California. The collection is described as among the most important in the country, with ivories on view in the race room accessions. The museum also added several valuable paintings.
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New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ne. Russell Sage
New Ice Plant to Start Next Month in Cheyenne
Cook Bros and Company advance the Cheyenne project at Reed and Twentieth streets as construction nears completion. The plant, Wyoming’s only artesian ice facility, will cover 106 by 112 feet, rise two stories with a basement, and reach forty tons per day once running by April 1.
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Cook Bros. and Company
Reed and
Twenntieth
Cheyenne
Wyoming
al Tkihood
Roosevelt calls fortifying Panama Canal criminal folly
Roosevelt told Dallas Chamber of Commerce that failing to fortify the Panama Canal would be criminal folly. He noted only two trestles existed and warned that in war any other nation could destroy it, prompting fears about security with England and Panama.
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Dallas
Texas
Panama Canal
Roosevelt
Dallas Chamber of Commerce
England
Panama
Mherry
Mount Vesuvius Landslide Strikes Maples and Rail Route
A severe earthquake and large landslide from Mount Vesuvius damaged the Wunledlar railway near Maples on March 19. Investigators estimate the slide measured about 1,000 by 250 feet and produced a massive dust cloud. tourists in the area were injured as the blast struck the route.
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Maples
Mar
Mount Vesuvius
Mile
Wunledlar
Tourlete
Missing $1000 in Great Northern package case
A $1000 package dropped from a Great Northern rate train in Yankton on March 10 is missing. The train crew and Mississippi Messenger Mayhla morning searched a toilet room but the currency, consigned from Bi to Davis, has not been recovered and investigators continue the hunt.
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Yankton, & D
Vkpress
Able Force
Davis
Bathtub Trust Must Stand Criminal Trial
Washington March 13 after negotiations with defendants attorneys the government will begin criminal trial in early April against thirty four individuals and fourteen corporations in the bathtub trust cases all defendants will face indictments with no immunity granted any of them
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Washington
Mar
County seeks clean politics as indictments total 100
Vermilion county grand jury ends six weeks of vote probe with 100 indictments for vote selling and election irregularities. Two jurors defend the outcome saying county cannot afford more trials and that they have done their duty. They acknowledge funding limits influenced their decision to quit.
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Danville
Vermillion
County
Joseph G. Cannon
Democrats sweep Maine city elections in four of five
Democratic candidates won mayoral contests in Bangor Augusta Belfast and Biddeford while Brewer stayed Republican. The Maine city elections show Democratic gains with victories across four municipalities as voters chose municipal officers today.
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Porland
Mar
Maine
Bangor
Augusta
Belfast
Biddeford
Hrewer
Weather forecast for Wyoming noting fall Tuesday and Wednesday
Washington reports a Wyoming forecast calling for a fall on Tuesday and Wednesday. Local data for the twenty four hours ending at 6 p m shows maximum temperature 1 degree and minimum 21 degrees. Palmer, Section Director.
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Washington
Wyoming
Palmer
Mexico Faces Reduced Tension as U S Signals Restraint
Mexican ambassador and minister of finance in New York receive Washington assurances of cooperation between Taft and Diaz administrations. Warships ordered to Mexican ports only for coal before withdrawal. Dickinson denies plans for intervention or mobilizing a second army corps.
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New York
Washington
Taft
Dian
State Department
Pacific
Gulf
Mexico
Dickinson
Fear of a Jail Delivery or Lynchings Stun Lake City
Sheriff Thomas Kelter of Carbon County moves three Italian prisoners Frank Lamaer Robert Vaffy and John Corter from the local jail to the state penitentiary to avert mob violence. The men are charged with the murder of Albert V Jenkins connected to the Magnolia Mercantile store robbery. Jenkins was slain Feb 5 and banker George Heatley was wounded. money missing from the victim's body. Trial set for June 20.
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Lake City
Mar
Shariff Thomas Kelter
Carbon County
Frank Lamaer
Robert Vaffy
John Corter
Albert V. Jenkins
Ault Lake City
State Penitentiary
Jim
Tre
Belo Peade Tes
Ron Y
Jenkins Wee Mwanader
Magnolia Merantile Com Store
Bunnysidy
George Heatley
Price
Jenkin
Fire Devastates Newport Residence Of J Copein
March 3 a blaze swept the Chentout street simmer residence of J Copein a retired New York man destroying a pure rare art collection valued at about 40000 dollars. The house and contents including furniture and works of art were burned. No injuries reported and cause under investigation.
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Newport
Chentout Street
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