Maiden's Sister Scandals Target New Trial in $329000 Suit
Mollie McGuire sues The C H D Railway over a crash that cost her legs and wins $25,000 in Hamilton County. Defendants seek a new trial claiming juror distraction by Mollie’s sister Fanny McGuire and favoring glances during closing remarks. Juror named is George L. V. Steiner.
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Mollie McGuire
C., H. & D. Railway Company
Hamilton County
Harmon, Colston, Goldsmith & Hoadly
W. D. Corn
A. W. Goldsmith, Jr
Fanny McGuire
Fanny
Mollie
George L. V. Stiener
Ellio Proposes Taxing Professions in Ohio Tax Reform Speech
Attorney General W. H. Ellis, member of the State Tax Commission, urged taxing professions such as lawyers doctors and dentists in a broader tax system overhaul. He argued personal property is increasingly illusive, corporate taxes are unfair, and reforms should include a taxed income, revived inheritance tax with higher exemptions, and better assessors.
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Commercial Tribune Burkav
Outlook
Columbus
Ohio
Commercial Tribune
State Chamber of Commerce Tonight
W. H. Ellis
State Tax Commission
Hope receives six year term in Hartje divorce case
Clifford Hope, the negro coachman convicted of perjury in a deposition linked to the Hartje divorce trial, was denied a new trial and sentenced by Judge Robert S. Fraser to pay a $50 fine and court costs and to six years in the Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania. An appeal to the Superior Court is planned, arguing the letters in the suit were not forged and should be deemed genuine.
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Commercial Tribune
Pittsburg
Clifford Hope
Hartie
Robert S. Fraser
Western Penitentiary
Pennsylvania
Augustus Hartje
King Oscar II Ill, Swedes Alarmed at His Condition
Stockholm reports King Oscar II seriously ill with heart failure suspected after days of indisposition. Crown Prince summoned from Berlin as four doctors attend. latest bulletin calls his condition tolerably satisfactory though pulse irregular. Revolt of Norway noted as major grief of his reign.
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Oscar
Stockholm
Berlin
Norway
Roosevelt Drops Spelling Reform Order
President Roosevelt will revoke his simplified spelling order and restore old-fashioned orthography in executive documents. Representative Landis discussed the issue with the President, and the House approved a resolution returning to the standard spelling.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Roosevelt
Executive Departments
Representative Landis
Joint Committee On Spelling
House of Representatives
House
Vanderbilt Has Very Close Call
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune reports W K Van derbilt Jr escaped death after his sixty horsepower racing car on Lake Success shore U L I broke its front axle and sank him into the icy water He resurfaced and reached the shore while the chauffeur clung to the car seat. neither party was seriously injured.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Lake Success
L. I
Mr. Vanderbilt
Women fight 10 meet in Commons
In London on December 13 police arrested five women and one man after suffragists attempted a meeting inside the House of Commons precincts. Protesters fought, scratched, and kicked officers before being forced back and taken to a nearby station.
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London
House of Commons
Cardinal Gibbons Sees France Crisis in American Sight
Baltimore December 13 Cardinal Gibbons voiced alarm at France's treatment of religious leaders and property, urging Americans to protest and defend liberty. He contrasted anticlerical France with U S tolerance, citing Jacobin hostility to Christianity and calls to secularize education and public life.
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Commercial Tribune
Baltimore
France
Cardinal Gibbons
America
Alma Robert Recalls Teddy Pell Nicknames in Interview
Miss Alma Robert recounts terms Teddy Pell used for her calling them lump of sweet love and my little sugar plum and my cuckoo darling. The feature includes portraits at the top and bottom with a central sketch of Miss Robert describing her story in detail.
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Alma Robert
Miss Robert
Teddy
Swinburne
Pell
Promises Letters Will Startle the 400 in New York Suit
Miss Alma Robert a 25 year old chorus girl sues Theodore Roosevelt Fell for 25000 damages alleging breach of promise. She claims Pell wrote love letters and poems after he was married and says the letters will reveal his business dealings and calumny. She recalls their social circle at Sherry's Delmonico's Waldorf Cafe Martin and her family lineage.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Teddy
Pell
Alma Robert
Singer
Theodore Roosevelt
West Forty-sixth Street
Robert
Teddy’ Pell
Paolo
Abelard
Launcelot
Romeo
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Herr .Conried
Chopin
Liszt
Sherry’s
Delmonico’s
Waldorf-Astoria
Cafe Martin
Clairmont
Lakewood
Long Island
Louis Henri Phillipe
France
Duc d’ Orleans
Valenciennes
Archie Pells
the Waldorf
Senator Chauncey
Russell Sage
John Crimmins
Reginald de Koven
Switz Conde
Beveridge Bill Urged by Child Labor Delegates
Cincinnati opened its eyes to the child labor movement at Music Hall as delegates hear Senator Beveridge defend the Beveridge-Parsons bill. Dr. Adler and Miss Addams outline national efforts while the convention endorses a national standard and urges swift congressional action.
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Cincinnati
Music Hall
A. H. Freiberg
Ohio State Child Labor Committee
Senator Beveridge
Senator Lodge
Felix Adler
National Child Labor Committee
Jane Addams
Chicago
National Children’s Bureau
Labor of Women and Children
Bill
Samuel McCune Lindsay
Beveridge-Parsons
Republic
Advertising Deadline Notice for Sunday Ads
The Commercial Tribune urges patrons to place large Sunday ads by Friday night or Saturday noon at the latest to ensure proper printing and prime placement. The notice emphasizes timely copy submission for best advertising results.
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the Commercial Tribune
Reichstag dissolved after vote on Southwest Africa bill
Berlin December 13 Emperor William dissolved the Reichstag and called new elections after the government lost the vote 178 to 168 on a bill to authorize troops for ending the insurrection in German Southwest Africa and defending the colony. Clericals Socialists Poles and part of the Radicals opposed the government while Conservatives National Liberals and moderate Radicals supported it.
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Berlin
William
Africa
Birdsong murder case bail requested in Mississippi
R N Miller chief counsel for Angie Birdsong petitions the Mississippi Supreme Court for bail after a trial judge denied bail. A petition signed by leading businessmen officials county clergy asks bail pending appeal. Two jurors urge the court to impose the lightest possible penalty.
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Commercial Tribune
Jackson
Miss
R. N. Miller
Hazlehurst
Angie Birdsong
Thomas Butler
Supreme Court of the State
Birdsong
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