Packers Used Politics to Stave Off Inquiry in 1916
Confidential Swift & Co files reveal packing firms plotted to block a livestock investigation. Attorneys moved to Washington to derail the Borland and Doolittle resolutions, with plans to misdirect inquiry by triggering a bureau led review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Swift & Co
Chicago
Federal ‘Trade Commission
Middle West
Walter Twombly
Commission
Swift
Francis J. Heney
Chiéaugo
Congress
Borland
Missouri
Doolittle
Kansas
G. I. Swift, Jr
Statesmen Buried After Petrograd Radicals Slay Them
A double funeral in Petrograd honored Prof. Feeder Kokoshkine and A N Shingaroff, two Constitutional Democratic leaders and Constituent Assembly members assassinated while hospitalised. The service drew many educated mourners and was carried to the graves by former Duma members with no disorder reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Underwood & Under Food
Petrograd
Feeder
Kokoshkine
A. N. Shingaroff
Constitutional Democratic
Constituent Assembly
Dumas
Weather Summary With Cold and Snow Across States
The report covers Ohio and surrounding states with fair to snowy conditions. It lists temperatures and precipitation at stations from Montreal to Kamloops and notes Cincinnati’s January 25, 1918 record with hourly readings and year comparisons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
Montreal
Denver
Jacksonville
Phoenix
Pittsbore
Spokane
Chattanooga
Seattle
Chicago
Portland
St. Louis Ene
Winnipeg
Omaha
Kamloops
Cincinnati
S.W
Mackay Devastated as Cyclone Deluges Queensland Port
Mackay in Queensland is hit by a cyclone that caused a tidal wave and flooding. Fourteen bodies have been recovered and heavy sugar stock losses exceed 3 million dollars. Authorities organize relief while calls for food and aid go out to the stricken seaport community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Sydney
S. W
Mackay
Queensland
Gutlet
Murdered Sailor Confession Ties Jailbreak to Jackies
Chicago January 25 Police say John Dell Claude alias John King a sailor at the Great Lakes Training Station confessed today to the murder of John Henry Becker in November and other assaults and robberies of Jackies. He implicated Raymond Dunn who denied guilt. Becker was lured to the Sharpless Building and beaten to death. Another victim is in hospital with a fractured skull.
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Associated Press
Chicago
John Dell Claude
John King
Great Lakes
John Henry Becker
Jackie
Claude
Beckett
Bombs Hit Goeben and Galata Airdrome in Dardanelles
In the last forty eight hours seven tons of bombs were dropped on and around the former German cruiser Goeben stranded in the Dardanelles and on the Galata airdrome. Several direct hits were reported.
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Associated Press
London
Goeben
Dardanelles
Galata
Warning on cosmetics warns of poison danger
Washington officials urge caution in using hair dyes rouge hair removers and similar cosmetics after reports of mercury poisoning and caustic ingredients. The Bureau of Standards warns that vermillion calcium hydroxide arsenic and metal salts can cause serious poisoning and should be treated as poisons.
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Associated Press
Washington
Bureau of Standards
Bureau
Baker to testify before Senate Military Committee
Secretary Baker will address the Senate Military Committee Monday in a prepared summary of War Department actions. He requested an opportunity to present to Congress and will appear in the committee room at 10 30 a m. The committee invited him to speak and cross examination is allowed. The War Department also appoints Edward R Stettinius as Surveyor General of purchases.
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Associated Press
Washington
Chamberlain
Senate
War Department
Baker
Senate Military Committee
America
Congress
Altho
House Military Committee
Reed
Secretary of War
Edward R. Stettinius
New York
Mr. Stettinius
Palmer E. Pierce
United States
Allies
Allied Purchasing Commission
Pierce
War Industries Board
War Council of the
Gorgas Testifies on Army Health and Camp Sanitation
Surgeon General Gorgas told the Senate Military Committee that crowding in cantonments aided epidemics and that rapid training pressured hastened camp construction. He endorsed observation camps to curb sickness, denied clothing shortages as pneumonia factors, and praised camp site choices aside from Camp Funston.
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Gorgas
Senate Committee
Associated Vess
Washington
Senate Military Committee
Department
Senator Frelinghuysen
Camp Funston
Kan
Incendiary Fires Hit Baltimore Plants Menaced Worker
In Baltimore Maryland on January 25 a major shipbuilding plant, Henry Smith & Sons at Curtis Bay, and the Della Woolen Mills in Baltimore County near Ellicott City were burned. Losses total about 700000 with a watchman fired at an alleged incendiary who jumped into the water and disappeared. The shipyards central building and large timber stock were destroyed while the firm was building eight 3500 ton wooden ships for the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Henry Smith & Sons Company
Curtis Bay
Della Woolen
Baltimore County
Ellicott City
Burzed
Shipbuilding Company
Representative Reavis Seeks Notice to Relatives in Army Hospitals
Washington January 25 Representative Reavis of Nebraska introduced a resolution requiring that when an enlisted man or officer is admitted to an army hospital in continental United States his nearest relative be notified by telegraph of the nature and seriousness of the disease.
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Washington
Reavis of
Nebaska
Continental
America
Miners Back government control in war coal policy
In Indianapolis on January 25 the United Mine Workers voted to back government takeover of coal mines if unions secure the right to bargain collectively. They expelled the I W W, praised President Wilson’s bid to make the world safe for democracy, and stressed loyalty to the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Indianapolis
Ind
Industrial Workers of the World
United Mineworkers
Wilson
Service
Coal Fields Split Into Twenty District Zones
Washington Jan 25 The Fuel Administration moves to a zone system for bituminous coal distribution dividing the country into twenty districts with seven boundaries named and representatives appointed. The plan aims to reduce cross hauling and speed mine to consumer delivery, with consuming districts to be defined jointly with the railroad administration. District reps will be operators familiar with production and will route orders from State Administrators to ensure prompt movement of coal from producing fields. Emergency coal demands will go directly to the district reps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Fuel Administration
Garfield Hass
Railroad Administration
England
Kentucky
Georgia
Tennessee
J. R. Clayton
Harlan
Gauley Fields
West Virginia
Baltimore & Ohio
D. R. Lawson
Fairmont
W. Va
Chesapeake & Ohio
Norfolk & Western
A. H. Lund
Huntington
Alabama
E. A. Holmes
Birmingham
Indiana
C. G. Hall
Terre Haute
Ohio
Mason County
Vet urged horse meat as beef substitute in hunger drive
Dr. W Horace Hoskins dean of the New York State Veterinary College told the New York State Veterinarians convention that horse meat is more nutritious than beef because working animals have richer muscle nutrients. He predicted cities will need to aid this shift to mitigate food scarcity.
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New York
W. Horace Hoskins
New York State
Veterinary College
Receivers named for Denver & Rio Grande Railroad case
Judge in St Paul will appoint Alexander Baldwin and Edward Brown as receivers of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad following a suit by Elliott, with Equitable Trust Co holding a $36.5 million judgment. The action marks a third receivership for the line started in 1871 amid prior reorganizations and ties to Western Pacific and Gould interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Col
Alexander i. Baldwin
San Francisco
Western Pacific Railway
Edward L. Brown
Denver & Rio Grande
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Walter H. Sanborn
St. Paul
Federal District Court
Equitable Trust Company of
New York
Elliott Frog and Switch Company
Equitable Company
Elliott Company
Equitable Co
William J. Palmer
Gould
Denver & Rio Grande Western
Salt Lake City
Equitable Trust Co
Alsace Lorraine Sticking Point With Von Hertling
In the Reichstag main committee Count von Hertling said Germany would not cede Alsace Lorraine to Belgium under any circumstances. He noted no aim to forcibly annex occupied French territory and that talks on it would be with France. Evacuation of Russian lands would be discussed with Russia only, and Germany aligned with the first four points of Wilson’s peace program.
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Austria
America
Germany
Russia
Teutons
Legén Trotzky
Best- Litovsk
Amsterdam
Count von Hertling
Wilson
Lloyd George
Alsace- Lorraine
Belgium
France
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Packers
Trail
American National Live Stock Association
T. W. Tomlinson
Armour
Morris
Cudahy
R. C. McManus
Murdock
Bureau of Markets
Federal Trade Commission
Kerensky
Australia
Stettinius
Indorses
William
Imiex
Wiseacres
von Hertling
Czernin
Berlin
Vienna
C. & R. G. Railroad
Alsace-Lorraine
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