Governor Harris to Probe Athens Asylum Scandal
Reports from Athens allege Rebecca Adams, a state hospital inmate from Scioto County, was dressed and forced to dance for hospital officials on New Year’s Day. Governor Harris, visiting Athens for a regimental reunion, vows to investigate and consider reformation of hospital leadership if the charges hold true.
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Athens
Commercial Tribune Bureauk
CoLumsBus
Oxioc
Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Rebecca Adams
State Hospital
Scioton County
Roosevelt to Spend Seventeen Days Vacation in Louisiana Camp
President Roosevelt plans a camping trip in northeastern Louisiana starting around October 5 as part of a broader speech itinerary. He will travel from Oyster Bay to Washington, then tour Memphis and Vicksburg before breaking camp October 21 and returning to Washington October 23. Assisted by Civil Service Commissioner John A. McHihenny of New Iberia and John M. Parker of New Orleans, he may also address Hermitage, Tennessee.
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Commercial Tribune
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Louisiana
Loeb
Washington
Memphis
Tenn
Vicksburg
Miss
White House
Civil Service
John A. McHihenny
New Iberia
John M. Parker
New Orleans
Hermitage
Laymen to Form Militant Body in Southern Methodism
Knoxville Sept 19 Full details of creating a militant body of ten thousand laymen in the Southern Methodist Church will be completed at a delegates meeting next April to be set by a Memphis committee led by John A Pepper Temporary President General Julian S Carr of Durham NC pledges Five or ten thousand dollars to fund the move The laymen will handle the churchs business matters and church leaders call it a great milestone in Methodism history.
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Commercial Tribune
Knoxville
Tenn
Southern Methodist Church
South
Memphis
John A. Pepper
Julian S. Carr
Durham
N. C
Hendrix
Hoss
Tobacco Trust Guilty In Kentucky Anti-Trust Case
The Commonwealth of Kentucky convicted the American Tobacco Company on a quasi-criminal anti trust charge in Newcastle. The jury assessed a 2700 fine for conspiracy to control leaf tobacco prices, the first such trust trial in the state. Appeals will be pursued by the defense.
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Commercial Tribune
Newcastle
The
Commonwealth
American Tobacco Company
Guilly
Trust
Continental Tobacco Company
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Kentucky
Rockefeller Holds 256,854 Shares in Standard Oil
Testimony shows John D. Rockefeller owned more than a quarter of Standard Oil's 972,500 shares. Treasury official Westley H. Tilford details Rockefeller profits totaling about 125 million dollars over eight years, amid government antitrust actions.
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Retal Tribune
New York
Standard Oil Company
Corsicana Refining Company
Texas
Westley H. Tilford
H. C. Folger
C. M. Payne
Frank Kellogg
Folger
Payne
Corsicana Company
John D. Rockefeller
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Mr. Rockefeller
Kellogg
Standard Oil
Standard Oil Company of
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Mr. Kellogg
St. Louis
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Standard Oil Companies
Millionaire Jeweler Marries His Late Wife's mother
Denver September reports James Parsons a Boston wool merchant who mourned his wife for two years married her mother Augusta J. King after proposing to her following a long companionship with his mother-in-law since his wife’s death.
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Commercial Tribune
Denver
Col
James Parsons
Boston
Parsons
Augusta J. King
Railway Agent Shot in King's Mountain Tragedy
At King's Mountain Kentucky Harvey Watts a lumberman shot railway agent W B Vandivier in the depot after demanding the grip be opened Vandivier died instantly Watts fled but was captured and jailed Authorities fear lynching public sentiment runs high Vandivier a Harrodsburg Kentucky native was long associated with Cincinnati Southern operations in High Bridge and Nicholasville A separate dispatch from Grand Canyon Arizona reports Mrs Nicholas Longworth Roosevelt aiding in the search for Mrs Charles F Joy lost during a canyon excursion.
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Commercial Tribune
Danville
Harvey Watts
Tennessee
King’s Mountain
Here
W. B. Vandivier
Vandivier
Watts
J. W. Acton
Moreland
Harrodsburg
Cincinnati Southern
High Bridge
Nicholasville
G. T. Helm
T. R. Griffen
Somerset
J. T. Brown
Dr. Acton
Marshal Brown
Stanford
Grand Canyon
Ariz
Nicholas Longworth
Roosevelt
Charles F. Joy
St. Louis Society
Congress
Longworth
Barr resignation seen as sign of demoralization at Jamestown Exposition
Washington on September 19 officials viewed James M. Barr’s resignation as evidence of the demoralization surrounding the Jamestown Exposition. T. Southgate of Norfolk was expected to succeed him, while the Treasury declined immediate steps to collect the $1,000,000 government loan and discussed possible land transfer for a naval training site.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
James M. Barr
Treasury Department
Barr
T. Southgate
Norfolk
Exhibits
Tucker
Prince Wilhelm
Sweden
Treasury
Edwards
Southgate
Department
Uncle Sam
Congress
United Staes
Treasury Partment
Sam
Dempsey Bryan Mayoral Plot Fueled by National Ties
The Commercial Tribune reports Mayor Dempsey likely not to run again, urged by Colonel Bryan and Longworth’s candidacy. The piece outlines Dempsey as a key pawn in a larger national strategy, with Bryan backing him and Republicans awaiting Longworth’s decision to enter the race.
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the Commercial Tribune
Dempsey
W. J. Bryan
Bigelow
Nicholas Longworth
Longworth
Colonel Bryan
Bryan
Ohio
Burton
Cleveland
Roosevelt
Cincinnati
Sia
Judge Dempsey
Thousand Unmarried Women Sail From Liverpool on Baltic
Liverpool dispatch notes a mass emigration as 1,000 unmarried women depart on the Baltic with several hundred more among 5,000 total passengers on three trans Atlantic steamers. The exodus underscores the large flow of marriageable women leaving Britain for the United States and Canada.
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Commercial Tribune
Liverpool
United States
Canada
King Frederick August Thrown From Horse at Saxony Maneuvers
King Frederick August of Saxony was thrown from his horse during maneuvers near Dresden today. He sustained several slight injuries but remounted and resumed command of the troops.
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Frederick August of
Saxony
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