Pith of the Week News on War Rumors and High Politics
The week reports furor over forthcoming wars and global affairs. J Pierpont Morgan testifies before the Pujo committee claiming no short selling. Wickersham rejects a plan to distribute Union Pacific holdings in Southern Pacific. Union Pacific to seek Supreme Court review. Hearst testifies that Eddy handed Archbold letters to him in 1908 but offers no lead on source. Supreme Court rules anthracite railroads did not violate anti trust but rejects 65 percent control contracts.
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J. Pierpont Morgan
Pujo
Wickersham
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Supreme Court
W. R. Hearst
Clapp Committee
John Eddy
Hearst
Archbold
Columbus
Eddy
United States Supreme Court
Clara Munson elected Warrentown mayor by sixteen votes
Clara Munson wins the Warrentown Oregon mayoralty by a narrow margin of sixteen votes. Cardinal Farley and allies press a New York campaign against immoral plays urging public abstention. Helen Gould and F J Shepard reportedly linked by a train wreck rescue and engagement timing. Missouri Pacific Railway employee sends St Louis telegram congratulating Gould on her marriage plans to Shepard.
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Clara Munson
Warrentown
Ore
Cardinal Farley
New York
Helen Gould
Mr. Shepard
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Helen M. Gould
The
Road
St. Louis
F. J. Shepard
Kilbane and Dundee to fight twenty rounds for featherweight title
Sporting Kilbane of Cleveland and Johnny Dundee of this city have been matched to fight twenty rounds for the featherweight title in Los Angeles. Soldier Kearns, the heavyweight boxer of Brooklyn, knocked out George Davis in the first two minutes at the Fairmont A C. Joe Tinker plans to manage the Cincinnati Reds and will test Miner Brown, formerly of the Cubs. Several Cornell alumni pledged 100000 for a training house on Alumni Field.
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Johnny Kilbane
Cleveland
Johnny Dundee
Los Angeles
Kearns
Brooklyn
George
Tinker
Cornell University
Mixed National News and Local Court Actions
General Capt. C. W. Barber asserts all 200 Canal Zone policemen are honest. Murphy guards Wilson in Princeton after leaving Boston. New York votes to move Poe Cottage to Poe Park. Kentucky’s George M. Davidson dies at 57, a long-time Republican. Chicago women threaten egg market actions. Bodies of Chester Lawrence and Horace Kearney found in the Pacific. Taft commissions aeronautical labor study. Albany Justice Chester blocked Beekman tramp farm plan. Gen. Slocum master Van Schaick pardoned by Taft. Illinois Supreme Court on postdivorce remarriage. George R. Lunn and 13 others indicted over Little Falls textile clashes. NYC Central vice presidency and lines indicted for rebates to O Gara Coal.
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C. W. Barber
Canal Zone
New York
Joseph A. Murphy
Federal Secret Service Department
New England
Boston
Princeton
Wilson
New York Board of Estimate
Edgar Allan Poe
Fordham
Poe Park
George M. Davidson
Kentucky
Stanford
Chicago Club
Chester Lawrence
Horace Kearney
Los Angeles
Pacific
Taft
Supreme Court
Chester
Albany
N. Y
Beekman
Dutchess County
Wm. H. van Schaick
Gen. Slocum
Sing Sing
Illinois Supreme Court
George R. Lunn
Schenectady
Little Falls
Carstensen
New York Central
Chicago
O'Gara Coal Company
Congress
State Bank
Kyle
Texas
Gov. Wilson
Smith-Nugent Machine
New Jersey
Adam J. Boehler
Memphis
Herman Rosenthal
Bailey
Senate
John T. Butler
Structural Iron ‘Workers’ Union
Indianapolis
Nyack
Leo Shuart
Erie
Griffen
Kansas City
John H. Hurley
Salem
Mass
Hurley
Will Carleton
Brooklyn
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Natal
Whitelaw Reid
United States
San Francisco
Gavilson
Chancellor Walker
van Syckel
Carmody
Sickles
Monuments Commission
Sulzer
Grand Trunk Railway
New Haven Railroad
Grand Trunk
New Hampshire
Burnett-Dillingham
House
George Moore
Mary J. Wilson
Columbia
William J. Flynn
Secret Service
John E. Wilkie
Flynn
Service
Peter L. Shepard
Finley J. Shepard
Helen Gould
New Haven General Hospital
Ellis Wilson
Jackson
Miss
New York World
The
Hague
Congress adjourns for holidays until January second
The report lists a flurry of 1911 era items including a Kyle Texas bank robbery with $17000 taken by four bandits, Boehler the Memphis murder suspect killed after eight hours, multiple death sentences and appeals, and political shifts from New York to Texas.
Czech Radical Fresi Breaks Parliament Time Record
Fresi spoke 15 14 hours without a break, shattering the prior record by 234 hours as news from Vienna reports. Several geopolitical notes follow including Russian assurances in Berlin and a Paris murder mystery. The Seine body of Jean Wetzel is found. airship losses total 400000 dollars.
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Fresi
Alexis
Russia
Berlin
Jean Wetzel
Seine
Izey Des Molineaux
France
Nora Lackay
London
Freyre Andrade
Havana
Ruejuquilla
Mexico
Amoy
China
Messina
Catania
Italy
Monarch
Belfast
Morgan Defends Finance Power in Pujo Testimony
New York banker J Pierpont Morgan testified before the Pujo Money Trust Investigation Committee claiming financiers shape US commerce, supporting voting trusts and limited state control. He defended his firm’s purchases and loans while noting some deals and the role of character in business.
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New York
House Committee
Washington
J. Pierpont Morgan
Pujo Money Trust Investigation Committee
America
Morgan
New York Stock Exchange
Europe
International Harvester Trust
George W. Perkins
Née
Wall Street
Georgia liquor shipments barred. express companies enjoined
United States Judge Cheney in Jacksonville Florida issues a ruling barring Southern Express Co from accepting liquor shipments from Georgia dealers destined for intrastate points. If upheld, every wholesale liquor house in Georgia may be forced to close. whiskey dealers in Savannah Augusta and other cities have long ignored the prohibition law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
United States
Cheney
Jacksonville
Fla
Georgia
Southern Express Co
Savannah
Augusta
New Jersey News Roundup With Crime Farming And Tragedy
A wide state digest notes Frederick Speckmann's death from inhaling gas in Newark. Atlantic City officials report former councilmen John Martland and Harry Dougherty plan appeals after conviction. A Jersey City burglary case and a court fight over a miser’s bank book are noted. Agricultural bulletins urge dairy and poultry practices and feature farm tips for season readiness and profits.
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John Martland
Harry Dougherty
Atlantic City
Mays Landing
Court of Chancery
Jersey City
Thomas Culla
James Adams
John Carey
Carey
Hudson City Savings Bank
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Newark
Kilmer
State Street
Edward Malley
Mahon
Hugh Robinson
Elizabeth
Curtis Earl
Sheldon
Millville
Drs. Ware
Wade
William Cope
Mantua Avenue
Woodbury
Connecticut
Bloomfield H. Minch
Bridgeton Gas Light Company
Daniel Bacon
Amy Nuckols
Donnelly
Anna Eckert
Essex County Jail
Richard McGuinness
John F. Monahan
Mann
United Singing Societies
Hudson County
Saengerbund
Philadelphia
Herman von Galin
Hoboken
Wiliam Riley
Clinton and
Beaver Streets
New York City
Frieda Weinberg
Sherman Street
Charles Snyder
Sherman Avenue
Common_Pleas
John A. Blair
Richard McDonald
Blair
Westfield Avenue
E. A. Strong
Henry A.’ Heines
Bridgeton
Commerceial League
Clayton W. McPherson
Electric Company
Vincent Esposito
Theresa de Kresenzo
Trenton
Esposite
Fan Meadowbrook Farm
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