Man Fights Loan Case Against Chesapeake & Ohio Rail
Harry Rodenfels of Loveland sues the Chesapeake & Ohio railway for $100 over an unpaid loan from Boyd Investment. The case arises after Rodenfels blamed his wife’s injury and ensuing bankruptcy on years of costly litigation with the Baltimore & Ohio and loan sharks.
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Harry E. Rodenfels
Loveland
Kanawha
Ingalls
Rodenfels
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Boyd Investment Company
Myers
Meyer, Bates & Meyer
C. & O. Galvin & Galvin
Kanawha Dispatch
Charles M. Leslie
Rodénfels
Roedenfelt
Leslie
Jo&ans
L. H. Lanning
Body Investment Company
Chesapeake & Ohio
Harry Rodenfels
Rodenfel
Five Die as Trains Collide in Batavia Wreck
In Batavia New York a rear collision between the Western express and the Boston and Buffalo special left five dead and more than twenty injured. Engineer J B Lydell of the Western express appears to have run past signals amid dense fog and ice covered rails. The wreck tore a Pullman from the standing cars and toppled a day coach, with several listed as fatally injured.
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Batavia
N. Y
J. B. Lydell
Buffalo
Everett
F. van Culkenburg
Fultonville
H. A. Cade
Chicago
Monte Friscus
Indianapoli
H. C. Stiles
Dorchester
Mass
Pullman
R. A. Smith
Catharine Haggins
Thomas
Richland
John Shaw
Toronto
Abram Cole
Boston
Walter Gildersleeve
Gildersleeve
Conn
C. D. van Lyer
Goldridge
Nev
W. R. Barber
Cleveland
Edward Dobsch
Terre Haute
Ind
Edward Lorrin
Brooklyn
John Duncan
Indianapolis
Syracuse
There
Lydell
Congressmen Oppose Fortification of Panama Canal
Congressmen led by James A. Tawney unite against fortifying the Panama Canal. The stance reflects congressional opposition within the ongoing debates on defense and strategic waterways.
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Panama Canal
Opposed to Canal Forts by Tawney and Foster
New York peace leaders denounce canal fortifications as a crime against civilization and a costly temptation to war. Representative David J. Foster argues fortifications would burden future generations and may become useless due to aviation advances. Tawney says armaments threaten peace and cites US naval buildup as a better defense.
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Tawney
Foster
New York
Panama Canal
Taft
David J. Foster
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
House Appropriations Committee
New York Peace Society
People’s Institute
Tehuantepec
United States ‘Navy
Tammany Hall Seeks Ryan as Clerk Against Indiana Rival
Tammany Hall pushes ex Congressmen W H Ryan for clerk of the house after long talks. Murphy signals possible switch to sergeant at arms if clerk bid stalls, with New York and allied delegations ready to test votes. Ohio and other states pressed to secure Ways and Means representation amid party harmony efforts.
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Commercese-2
Tribune Bureau
Munsey Building
Washington
Charles ¥. Murphy
Tammany Han
House of
Murphy
New York
W. H. Ryan
Ryan
Stokes Jackson
Indiana
Tammany
Kentucky
South Trimble
Kentucks
Trimble
Atarms
Fom
Jackson
Endough
Amman
House
Buffalo
Congress
Chicago
Massachusetts
Ohio
Louisiana
Harmony
Ways and Means
Buckeye
Committee On
Cox
Denver
Proposed Traction Bridge Sparks Citywide Protest
Residents along East and St Andrews avenues mobilize against Cincinnati Traction Company plans to build a second coal bridge near the East End power station. They call the structure a dangerous eyesore and obstacle to fire and trolley operations. The article notes company expansion plans, property acquisitions, and a civic effort to block or halt the new bridge, with broader political maneuvering referenced nearby.
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Cincinnati Traction Company
Cincinnati
Easte
St. Andrews
Moss
Peaieies
Eee
Foster Street
Engine Jumps Track Plunges Into River Near Priest River
Great Northern Engine 1012 running light toward Spokane derailed four miles east of Priest River Idaho. It dropped twenty five feet into the Pen d Orleans river after leaving the track. Both Engineer W F Sumwall and Fireman Don J Kiesler were killed.
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Spokane
Wash
Great Northern
Rockies
Priest River
Idaho
Pen d'Orielle
W. F. Sumwall
Don J. Kiesler
Mother admits killing 5 year old son in Albany swamp
Rochester dispatch reports Edith Melcher a 23 year old widow from Schenectady confessed to giving her 5 year old son George carbolic acid in a swamp near Albany last Friday. She was arrested at New York Central station and charged with first degree murder. Police note burns and stains on her hand and clothing suggesting the child struggled. She said she acted after a life of hardship and sought work in Albany.
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Rochester
N. Y
New York Central
Edith Melcher
Schenectady
Albany
George
New York
Central ‘Station
Opposing Lawyers in Suit TQ Oust Standard Oil Co
John G. Milburn represents opposing lawyers in a suit to oust Standard Oil Co. The case name appears as a legal dispute involving TQ. The filing centers on corporate conduct and regulatory actions. Further details are unreadable in the fragment.
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Standard Oil CO
Carnegie and Roosevelt Talk Labor Strikes and Reform
Andrew Carnegie told National Civic Federation delegates that most strikes stem from employers' assistants, not money. Theodore Roosevelt urged evolution over revolution and federal action, saying Uncle Sam is the only force to curb powerful corporations.
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New York
Andrew. Carnegie
Carnegie
National Civic Federation
Roosevelt
John Mitchell
The
United Mineworkers
Mr. Roosevelt
Uncle Sam
P. Tecumseh Sherman
Legal Committee
Enou
Debris rescue as wrecking crew fights to reach trapped men
A massive dig at the former Early & Daniel offices follows a deadly fire in the Chamber of Commerce building. Wrecker Jim Reynolds crawled to the floor but remains trapped. 226 workers press on through debris as dawn nears. Family members grapple with hope and loss amid the hazardous retrieval.
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Piete
Chamber of Commerce
Early & Daniel Company
Fred Selm
Jim Reynolds
Early & Daniel
Isaac Bishop
Brent Marshall
Charles Sibbald
Lester Buchanan
Brent
Elizabeth Marshall
Tarlton Marshall
Walter Draper
The
Kellogg Attacks Standard Oil in Supreme Court Argument
Frank B. Kellogg, special assistant to the U S attorney general, urged the Supreme Court to dissolve Standard Oil of New Jersey as a Sherman act violator. He described reorganizations as illegal and warned that without prosecutions the independents would be wiped out in five years. He pressed for disclosure of profits and questioned the fate of earnings including 23 million dollars.
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Washington
Standard Oil Organization
Frank B. Kellogg
Attorney General
United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Kellogg
John. G. Milburn
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Trust
Standard of New Jersey
Missouri
Union
Standard Oil Com
Standard Oil
Justice White
Mr. Kellogg
Justice McKenna
Justice Lurton
Milburn
Missing $2000 prompts search for agents in Evansville area
Two thousand dollars in currency sent from City National bank of Evansville to Tennyson National bank for tobacco crop payments has disappeared. Thomas W. Basham, Southern Express company agent and Southern railway agent at Tennyson, is missing. Basham's express and Reece accounts were placed in the hands of auditors.
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Evansville
Ind
City National Bank of
Tennyson (Ind.) National Bank
Thomas W. Basham
Southern Express Company
Southern Railway
Tennyson
Basham
Express
Reece
Autors
Carrie Nation Suffers Nervous Collapse in Eureka Springs
Mrs. Carrie Nation, famed Kansas temperance crusader, collapsed at her Eureka Springs home on January 18, raising fears that her career as a temperance lecturer and anti alcohol campaigner may be ended.
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Carrie Nation
Eureka Springs
Ark
Kansas
Coxswain Drowned Aboard Virginia in South Atlantic
James K. Baxley a coxswain on the battleship Virginia was drowned when a heavy wave washed over the deck in South Atlantic waters January 3. His home is Hepzibah Georgia.
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Augusta
James K. Baxley
South Atlantic
Hepzibah
Vaughn Confesses to Wife Murder in Lexington
W. O. Vaughn a 22 year old in Lexington Kentucky confessed in circuit court today to the murder of his wife fearing a death sentence by electrocution He pleaded for mercy and was sentenced to life imprisonment the crime occurred August 31 in Lexington based on the readable text from the article.
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Lexington
W. O. Vaughn
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Meyer
Cassius C. Perrin
Robert M’farland
Detroit
Fred J. Speakeral
Dead-Mead Company
A. R. Brown
George C. Bachellor Company
Leon Doncourt
Cary Bros
Philadelphia
James A.tawney
Congressmen
England
Theodore Roosevelt
Tammany Hall
Charles F. Murphy
Will
Man
Eastern Avenue
Hammond
Minnesota
Representative Sharp
Sharp
Anderson
Ohio Democrats
Denman
Harry Daugherty
Dayton
Burton
A. G. Denman
Peattene 7
Hocking H. Nolte
John G
Frank Bukellqgg
Commerce ‘Chamber
Hole
Wrecker
George Hayman
Harry. Hanover
Hayman
Elizabeth L. Hayman
Kenyon, Military Academy
Cleveland University School
Pany
Virginia
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