Hepburn Law Not Repealing Elkins Act upheld by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court sustains Elkins Act restrictions on rebates in the Great Northern case and rejects claims Hepburn repealed Elkins. It leaves intact all original rebate provisions, affecting many appeals and limiting the Standard Oil rebate defense. Justice White writes for the court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Federal
Supreme Court
J J. Hin
Burlington
Standard
Great Northern
United States District Court For
Minnesota
Elkins
W. P. Devereaux Company
Minneapolis
Points
Washington
Justice White
District Court
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Juistice Day
White Smith Music Publishing Company
Massachusetts
Apollo Company
New Jersey Corporation
Wescen
United States Circuit Court
New York
Justice Day
Holmes
Oregon
Curt Muller
Portland
Muller
Justice Brewer
Death at an Annual Ball Claims Young Iowa Pupil
Miss Blanche Arnold eighteen from Audubon Iowa died at the Morgan Park gymnasium parlor after a boy rose carriage delay during a Rett School for Girls dance. She reportedly said she had the best time of her life then collapsed from heart disease.
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Chicago
Blanche Arnold
Morgan Park
Audubon
Iowa
Starrett School For
Academy
Tin Plate Mills Resume Operations After Shutdowns
Nearly 1000 workers return to Pittsburg Tin Plate Company facilities as four more mills at Martin's Ferry restart under American Sheet and Tin Plate. Vandergrift works employ 500, No. 4 Mill of Spang-Chalfant restarts with 200, while No. 2 Mill in Buttweld had been active and No. 4 was idle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh Tin Plate Co
Pittsburg
Martin's Ferry
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
Vandergrift
Spang-Chalfant Company
Ktva
Buttweld
William Mitchell
Trinity Methodist Church
Millville
Hanson Arpe
Allentown
Notable Notes on Figures and Projects Compiled
Disconnected items list Harriman’s $4 million New York house project and a Peruvian government order, plus an array of brief biographical notes. It mentions Vice-Admiral honors, Nathaniel Ames and Decham tavern, Rev. Thomas Spurgeon’s resignation, a Maryland senator seeking consistent naming, Charles J. Carter’s stated ancestry, and ex Senator Chandler’s fifty years in public life with diaries revealing political history.
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Harriman
New York
Beynnd Lo
Evans
Nathaniel Ames
New England
Thomas Spurgeon
Metropolitan Tabernacle
London
Maryland
William Pinkney Whyte
W. Pinkney Whyte
William P
Wia
I. Whyte
Charlen J. Carter
Chandler
New Harpshire
Magdalena Bay
California
Arthur Hyne
George H. Witzhoff
England
Nicholas Gerhard
Finland
van Boeckman
St. Petersburg
O’brien
America
Helsingfors
Grand Duchy
Evang
Lima
Portugal
M. Edmond Blanc
Blankenberghe
Belgium
John Calvin
Geneva
Denmark
Copenhagen
International Cotton Federation
Paris
Sir
James Laing & Sons
Tynaz Edler von Plener
Vienna
House of Representatives
Tokio
Asia Minor
James Willcocks
Bazar Valley
British India
Walal
Ong Ipaq
Tragic Stagecoach Crash Kills Nine in Nyack Area
A late night collision near West Nyack between a stage and an Ontario and Western express killed nine returnees from Nyack, injured four, and left several others seriously harmed. Driver Nelson May and six others died on impact or en route to hospital. two died later.
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Nynex
Little Valley
George Young
Iverymian
Nyack
Ontario and Western Mountain Express
West Nyack
Nelson May
Jeanette Palmer
F. B. Palmer
George Reich
George Shinn
Edith Singer
Leonard Singer
Bertha Singer
Edith Bird
Henry Dicterlen
Warren Palmer
Jeanette
Dicterlen
North Hudson
Union Hill
Jeannette Palmer
May
Union Hit
Hudson County Hospital
Recall Restores Labor Across Baltimore and Ohio Shops
In Cumberland Maryland most fur workers and many car repairers are recalled to duty at Baltimore and Ohio shops and round houses. Overtime is needed to catch up on freight locomotive work halted earlier. In Baltimore twelve hundred unemployed men urged the Federal Government to loan non interest bonds to states and municipalities for highways bridges and other public works.
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Cumberland
Baltimore and Ohio
Baltimore
Fire tragedy ends life of Miss Emma Fink at Statedale
Emma Fink of SIntington Pennsylvania set her clothing aflame with coal oil after visiting her mother’s grave and the ruined Strned house. She then set her own skirt on fire, drawing help from friends too late to save her. She had been in good health.
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Emma Fink
Sintington
Statedale
Miss Fink
Brothers Killed by Train Near Corinth
Samuel O. Sheppard of West Day Saratoga County and his brother Delbert Sheppard of Woadbine Iowa were struck by a Delaware and Hudson passenger train near Corinth New York and killed instantly as they were traveling from West Day to Corinth. Samuel leaves a widow and five children and Delbert a widow and four children.
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Samuel O. Sheppard
West Day
Saratoga County
Delbert Sheppard
Woadbine
Iowa
Delaware and Madson
Corinth
N. Y
Samuel
Delbert
Railroaders in Atlanta Back Roosevelt Wage Inquiry
Fifteen hundred workers from all railroad unions in Atlanta meet in mass gathering and adopt resolutions endorsing President Roosevelt for ordering an investigation into wage cuts. The resolutions cheerfully praise the President and his decisive action.
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Roosevelt
Atlanta
Edison Treasurer died in own act at Orange New Jersey
John F. Randolph treasurer of the Thomas A Edison company died by his own action in Orange New Jersey during a sudden attack of fear. The inventor arrived just in time to prevent the widow from leaping from a window.
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Edison
John F. Randolph
Thomas A. Edison
Orange
N. J
Fea
Mississippi Legislature Bans Saloons Statewide
The Mississippi Legislature unanimously passes a prohibition bill ordering the closure of all saloons in the state effective January 1. The action marks a sweeping move to enforce dry laws across Mississippi.
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Mississippi
Ex Governor Voorhees and Combes Surrender in Perjury Case
Ex Governor Voorhees of New Jersey and Frank S. Combes of Philadelphia surrender in New York and are admitted to bail on perjury indictments connected with the Bankers Life Insurance Company.
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Voorhees
New Jersey
Frank S. Combes
Philadelphia
Bankers’ Life Insurance Company
New York
Pilgrimage of American Catholics Planned for Pope
Vatican welcomes a near thousand strong pilgrimage of American Catholics organized for the Pope in the Holy Year marking the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination. In Hartford Connecticut K Arthur Foster killed himself after marrying Amanda Hammond a week earlier. He used a shotgun placed on a trunk with a cord triggering the blast. The wounds were not immediately fatal but his weak heart and frail constitution hastened death.
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Vatican
Hartford
Conn
Arthur Poater
Amanda Hammond
St. Francis
Hoapital
Foster
Mrs McDonald Acquitted in Chicago Murder Case
Mrs Dora McDonald was acquitted in Chicago of the charge of murder in the Wobstoy Guerly case. The outcome ends a high profile trial with the defendant maintaining innocence as the court discharged all charges.
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McDonald
Dora McDonald
Chicago
Wobstoy Guerly
Country merchants flock to New York for spring trade
Ten thousand buyers from the West and Southwest descend on New York City for the spring buying period. They report strong crops, rising confidence, and a buoyant outlook, with 2000 registered buyers and hotel demand at capacity as rail discounts draw traders from Texas Oklahoma Arkansas and major cities.
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New York City
Texas
Chicago
St. Louis
Merchants’ Association
C. Mead
The
Merchants' Association
New York
Igy
Okla
Southwest
St. Loui
Indlanpolis
Detroit
Oklahoma
Arkansas
H. 3B. Claflin Company
Tefft, Weller & Co
C. T. Rouss
Chelsea Trading Company
Alexander Bombard
Galveston
Semmes
Chester L. Walbridge
Baton Rouge
Louisville
No. C. Fisher
Buffalo
New -York
Mr. Fisher
Abraham Newman
Middle West
Mr. Newman
Columbus
Cincinnati
Youngstown
Irwin Hochstein
Atlanta
Albert Fresch
Memphis
Panic Didn’t Hurt the South, Wakeman Says
Wilbur F. Wakeman of the American Protective Tariff League reports only one Southern bank failed during the panic. He notes high cash deposits in many banks, a December currency sale, and wide interest in Southern development including waterway improvement, fertilizer demand, and unused Savannah River horsepower.
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Wakeman
New York City
South
Wilbur F. Wakeman
American Protective Tariff League
Cotton Belt
Savannah River
Augusta
Farmers Buy Michigan Prison Twine Output for Farmers
The Michigan State Prison Board sold the Binder twine plant output, estimated at 1,000,000 pounds for the coming year, to the Order of the Gleaners, a farmers organization. International Harvester reps and other dealers bid. Gleaners to pay eight and one fifth cents per pound with only handling costs added.
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Michigan
Jackson
Mich
State Prison Board
Gleaners
International Harvester Company
Irish Parliamentary party reunites after years of schism
A nineteenth century news digest notes the Irish Parliamentary party ends a seventeen year split. Other items report a letter mailed in 1854, Duveen advocating soap cleaning for Louvre paintings, college frauds in Georgia, London prohibition leaders aiming at a world confederation, a large credit from New York to Budapest, a mass meeting for Governor Hughes, and Dr Jameson resigning as Premier of Cape Colony after Dutch victory.
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Newark
London
Budapest
New York
Lagalo Szecheny
Majestic Theatre
New York City
Hughes
Dr. Jameson
Cape Colony
Cuban Sugar Mills Run Near Capacity, Immigrant Growth Sought
The Agrarian League formed a committee to memorialize Governor Maugoon urging use of the $1,000,000 approved by the Cuban Congress to promote immigration. The move follows a cane-cutting shortage caused by roadbuilding and public works, with mills grinding at most three quarters of capacity.
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Cuba
Havana
Agrarian League
Maugoon
League
Prominent Figures and Honors Across Nations
Dr Felly Adler praises Governor Hughes on anti race track betting. William J Rolfe the Shakespeare scholar marks his eightieth year in Cambridge Massachusetts. Henry Campbell Bannerman breakdown blamed on overwork says Brand Whitlock Toledo Ohio. The Pope names Mgr Kennedy rector US College Titular Bishop of Adrianapolis as a special US compliment. Julius Kahn California Congressman has background as an actor. Rev John Shaeffer possibly oldest minister celebrating 1020th birth anniversary in North Benton Ohio.
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Felly Adler
Hughes
William J. Rolfe
Cambridge
Ienry Campbell-Bannerman
England
Brand Whitlock
Toledo
Ohifo
John Shaeffer
North Benton Obio
Priest Murdered by Anarchist at Altar
Father Leo Heinrichs of St Elizabeth Roman Catholic Church was shot dead during Mass as Giuseppe Guarnacoto an anarchist proclaimed his crime and attacked worshipers in a packed church. Police pursued and captured him. he denied personal enmity and said his sorrow was not killing priests. The crowd and officers subdued him and he was jailed in solitary confinement.
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Penser
Leo Heinrichs
St._Elzabeth' 8
Giuseppe Guarnacoto
Father Heinricha
Father Heinrichs
Guarnacoto
Iterhin —Yatroimman
Cronin
Akie
Hearst's Party Active in Chicago Conference
At a Chicago meeting of the Independence League a plan for a new national party was set in motion. William Randolph Hearst outlined principles including direct nominations, an income tax, referendums, recall, government ownership of railroads and telegraphs, eight-hour workday, anti-blacklisting in interstate courts, a ship subsidy, and trusts treated as beneficial only with public participation.
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Chicago
Inpendence League
William Randolph Kearst
League
aMec
iNegar
Interstate Commerce Courts
Interstate Commerce Commission
Check For Tuberculosis Campaign In Chicago
A campaign to check tuberculosis among the colored people of Chicago has been inaugurated by the City Health Commissioner. In Tamaqua Pa Charles Riegel aged seventeen hinged himself because he had been reprimanded.
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Chicago
Bangs
Tamaqua
Charles Riegel
Peter Janssen Funeral Obituary in Berlin
Peter Janssen director of the Dues seldorf Academy of Art and noted German painter of seascape died in Berlin at sixty three from acute influenza.
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Peter Janssen
Duesseldorf Academy of Art
Secicture
Berlin
Rhode Island Court Limits Uniformed Sailor Access
The Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled that dancing pavilions may bar gallery members in United States Navy uniforms from entering. The decision affects military personnel seeking admittance to civilian social venues while in uniform.
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Rhode Island Supreme Court
United States Navy
Oriental Expo to Open in Blub Endy News 1912 Era
Local notes from 1912 recount Blub Endy of News Japan planning an Oriental Exposition. Spanish royalty offspring press for pensions. Illinois counties vote spring local option. Stuyvesant Fish asserts control over farm debts to Illinois Central. Signor Iuzzard calls for an American national bank. National Civic Federation to dispatch teachers for foreign methods study. Westminster Church New York closes doors over racial funds. Lawyer JL Glaser indicted for perjury in Kissena Park scandal. Tariff Reform League meets in London as Chamberlain comments. Irish cropland race fee debated at Vichy for September.
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Blub Endy
Japan
Miinois
Stuyvesant
B. J. Harriman
Ifnois Central
Signor Luzzard
Financr
National Civic Federation
GAU
Westminster Presbyterian Church
New York City
JL. Glaser
Kissena Park
Tarif Reform League
Lonton
Joseph Chamberlain
Vichy
Roosevelt Opens Hudson River Tunnel Linking Two States
President Roosevelt inaugurates the Hudson River tunnel linking Manhattan with New Jersey. Governors Hughes and Fort attend along with city officials as the first electric trains run from Nineteenth street to Hoboken. McAdoo praises the project while crowds cheer and thousands benefit from reduced ferry time.
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New York City
Hudson River
Manhattan
Roosevelt
Washington
Nineteenth Street
Sixth Avenues
Lackawanna Terminal
Hughes
New York
Fort
New Jersey
Hoboken
Jersey City
William G. McAdoo
McAdoo Tunnel Narrows NYC Hoboken Rail Link Details
Facts describe the McAdoo Tunnel connecting Hoboken to Sixth Avenue and Nineteenth Street New York City. North bore length is 2.85 miles with a three minute river crossing and 10 000 passenger capacity per hour in rush. Completion cost 70 009 000 dollars with 6500 workers. Work began 1878 resumed 1890 and 1901 with aim to finish by 1908. Stations near completion include Christopher and Greenwich streets Sixth Avenue and Christopher Street Fourteenth Street and Sixth Avenue Nineteenth Street and Sixth Avenue Twenty third Street and Sixth Avenue Twenty eighth Street and Sixth Avenue and Hoboken D L W R R station.
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Hoboken
Sixth Avenue
Nineteenth Street
New York City
Ihoboken
Herald Square
Newark
William G. MeaAdoo
Christopher
Greenwich
Historic Hudson tunnel opens with dual midnight trains
The opening of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad tunnels marks a landmark moment as two five car trains from Manhattan and Hoboken depart at midnight. Passengers celebrate American engineering as trains travel beneath the Hudson to reveal a new era of cross river travel. President Roosevelt signals the event from the White House via a telegraph room button. The official ceremony includes a silver button engraved with the momentous date February 25 1908 and the tunnel route.
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Hudson and Manhattan Railroad
Nineteenth Street
Hoboken
Mra
Barbara Schlatter
Bloomfield Street
Woboken
Richard Scully
Washington Street
William G. McAdoo
New Jersey
Manhattan Island
Hudson River
Hudson
Sherry’s
Manhattan
Hudson's
Washington
D. C
White House
Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company
Loeb
Roosevelt
Sixth Avenue
New York
N. J
Navy Budget Rises As Army Cuts Offset Increases
London reports the naval estimates for 1908-09 at 1 261 697 500 dollars, up 4 500 000 to cover stores coal and works. A balaing program gets 2 850 000. Plans include one battleship one armored cruiser six unarmored cruisers fifteen torpedo boat destroyers and some submarines.
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Londonn
Cruser
Prohibition Leader Pledges Voter Total in Presidential Drive
Telegraphic Condensations report La Follette expected to secure 222 votes on first ballot and Prohibition Chairman Jones predicting one million votes in the presidential campaign. Inflation of influenza strikes London with cabinet ministers affected. Emperor William orders jiujitsu defense tactics for army and navy. Paris hotel boom spurs fear of vacancy. Interior Department outcomes show 2 acres of land fraud claims resolved in a year. Senate finance stance cited as relief not dangerous. Taft dominates Republican stage as Knox Cameron and La Follette aid Republican efforts.
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la Follette
Charles R. Jones
Prohibition Party
Porsons
London
West End
Emperor Wiliam
Imperial Army
Paris
Interior Department
Sereno
EB. Payng
Aldvieh
Taft
Repubican Party
Knox
Camron
Airbanks
la Jollette
Washington
North Castle
N. H
Miyaoka
Tokio
K. Matsui
Converse
Fc T
Cullom
Frank H. Hitchcock
Tatt
United States
France
Root
Ambassador Jugserand
State Department
Governor Toole Resigns Over Ill Health
Montana Governor Jos. K. Toole announced in Los Angeles that ill health forces his resignation from the governorship. The resignation will take effect April 1, with Toole stepping down after serving from Helena.
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Montana
Hllealth
Los Angeles
Cal
Jos. K. Toole
Helena
Holyoke Theatres Closed by State Inspector
Three moving picture theatres in Holyoke Massachusetts were closed by State Building Inspector Howes for alleged repeated violations of the statute against allowing patrons to stand in aisles or block exits.
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Moving Picture
Holyoke
Mass
Howes
Japan Expresses Kind Feelings Toward America, Says Baron
Baron Takahashi of the Imperial University of Tokyo declares that only kind sentiments toward the United States are expressed in Japan. The professor emphasizes goodwill amid tense postwar exchanges and rising public diplomacy efforts.
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Japan
Baron Takahashi
Imperial University of Tokyo
America
Thaw Jury Expenses Reported for 1902 Case
Captain Willim H. Ricketts of New York City filed the jury expense bill for the Thaw jury. Items include hotel costs 33220 and carriage hire 642.5 with 459 for luncheons, totaling SAN02.159.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willim H. Ricketts
New York City
Kalekurhocker Onl
Han
Bank Robbery Ends With Cash Stolen From Vault
A robbery at a bank in Grande Mary North Carolina saw the cashier locked in the vault while two suspects escaped with all the cash. Police are investigating the heist and reviewing surveillance footage for leads.
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A. Grande Mary
N.C
Northwest survey project to probe Peace River Valley
A early 20th century note describes the Grand Trunk Pacific sending multiple surveying parties into the Peace River Valley for two years. The effort aims to map routes from Edmonton toward the Yukon, using the old Edmonton trail as a potential corridor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cound Lewrk Pacific
Northwest
Edmonton
Alberts
Grand Trunk Paclhe Ds
Peace River Valley
Omaine
Yukon
Edmonton Trail
Wealthy Lawyer shot in Brooklyn details emerge
Charles M. Sanford a wealthy lawyer is shot and wounded in Brooklyn New York with other victims reported in the incident leaving several injured. Police investigate motive and suspect(s) details remain unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milby
Biine
Charles M. Sanford
Brooklyn
N.Y
Dies in buggy collision with freight train in New Jersey
A 16 year old, Leslie Douglas of Cold Spring, was killed when his horse hit a West Jersey and Seashore special freight train. James Hawn found the body among wreckage. Douglas was en route to visit his sweetheart, a McNel daughter of Erma, and was a Cape May High pupil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Douglas
Shamgar Douglas
Cold Spring
West Jersey and Seashore Railroad
James Hawn
Douglas
George McNel
Erma
Cape May High School
Pork Chops and Cheese Link to Beloved Mrs Lula DE Death
Mrs Lula DE was found dead at her Belt Avenue home in St. Louis. Her delirious husband was hospitalized. He claimed both ate pork chops and cheese and blamed ptomaine poisoning for the tragedy.
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Lula DE
Belt Avenue
St. Louis
Joe
Record Lumber Output in 1907 Sets New U.S. Benchmark
The United States produced a historic lumber yield in 1907, with 37,050,756 thousand board feet cut. Output value reached an immense 3,622 million dollars, underscoring the era's booming timber industry and industrial scale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Protests Grow Over Army Barracks Location
North Castle New Hampshire citizens press President against barracks site. Reports note diplomatic recalls and shuffles including Miyaoko to Tokyo and Matsui taking Paris post as rest of world reacts to naval and political moves across Washington.
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J. Hill
Hill
Clarence H. Venner
Great Northern Raiway
James J. Hil
United States Circuit Court For
Southern District of New York
Venner
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Chicago, Burington and Quincy Railroad
Ontario Express
Scar
New York Globe
Noah
Georgia
South Carolina
Denver
Giusappe Guarnacoto
Slayer
Hearst's Party
New York World
Hudson Tube
Wari
Manehattan
Mcadoo Tunnel
Toole
Clan Rattroad
Practical Jokers
Edward Neijsner
Somerville
Jacob Ross
William Brinstein
Koch
Ross
Brinstein
Nejaner
Nelsner
Cape Mey
Towls Malford
Clarence Drake
New Jersey Central
Plainfield
Drake
Mulford
Leonard K. Dodge
Belmar
Woodbury
Frank Walker
Almonceson
John Rickert
Houge
Broad Street
Joseph Lepedot
Marie Boros
Essex County
Essex County Park Commission
South Mountain Reservation
Pour- Balvania
Missanna. Hazleton
Dowrer
Bunlington
Lt. Joseph
Willamstown
Dome Slartin
Omcer William Martin
Glassboro
Henry Stanley
Westville
Trenton
Fen
Late News BY Wire
Wood
Philippines
John F. Weston
Porto Rico
House Committee On Insular Affairs
Cooper
Manila Custom House
Coronel McCoy
Diario Espanol
Maine
American War Department
Frank Westerberg
San Juan
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Charles N. Schmick
Harry
Leetanla
Ohio
Hibbard
Boston
Kentucky
Phoenix
Ariz
Lindsey
Juvenile Court
Free Synagogue
Dallas
J. S. Armstrong
Theodore
Burton
Cleveland
West Point
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