Standard Oil Case Ends in Acquittal After Invalid Proof
In Chicago Judge Anderson acquits Standard Oil Company and codefendants after the government concedes insufficient proof on Illinois classification and legal rate issues. The circuit court of appeals reversed Landis, with Supreme Court failure to review cited as authority. Washington insiders note ICC members doubted success from the start.
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Standard Oil Company of Indiana
Yicago and Alton Railroad
Whiting
Ind
Pact St
Jndee Anderson
Edwin W. Sims
James H. Wilkerson
Anderson
Grosscup
Baker and Seaman
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Landis
Bild
Emperor Mutushito Congratulates Taft on Inauguration
Cablegram from Tokio dated March 15 expresses warm personal friendship toward Taft. Emper or Mutushito congratulates the president on his inauguration and recalls Taft’s visits to Japan. Taft replies from the White House affirming gratitude for hospitality and pledging to maintain the bond between Japan and the United States.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Tokio
Washington
Japan
The
United States
Mutsuhito
Mr. Taft
White House
France passes income tax law after long effort
Paris reports the chamber of deputies approved a new income tax measure after twenty years of effort. It shifts to a graduated system, raising taxes on high incomes while exempting dayla and reducing burdens on smaller earners, restructuring the French tax regime.
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Paris
France
Chamber of Deputies
Amo
Tariff League Urges Washington Presence for Manufacturers
The American Tariff League issued circulars urging manufacturers to keep executive heads or their deputies in Washington after Congress calls a special session. A member reportedly said even an office boy should handle factory affairs in the capital until tariff matters are settled, with the sentiment echoed by others.
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Protective League
Washington
Federal Jobs in the South and Taft's Patroage Shakeup
President Taft discussed southern federal appointments with Postmaster General Hitchcock, signaling heavy influence for campaign handlers in distributing patronage to states like South Carolina and Alabama. A Charleston推荐 successor to customs collector Crum is debated, with hints a white nominee will be chosen. Interim Judge Handley may remain without Senate confirmation as Taft preserves judicial operations amid a heated contest by lawyers. Senator Bacon recovers from a severe cold, with pneumonia danger easing if he avoids exposure.
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Taft
Hitchcock
Washington, D. C
White House
South
W. D. Crum
Charleston
Harris
BE. W. Dormand
Crum
Judge Handley
Alabama
Handley
Senate
Bacon
Roosevelt expedition medical kit promises vast field care
A NYC prepared medical chest for Theodore Roosevelt’s Africa trip holds fifteen thousand doses including quinine and swamp water purifiers. Surgical tools, bandages, and opiates fill airtight vulcanite bottles in a compact aluminum case. Major Edgar A. Mearns directed selections from a London-NJ firm famed for explorer chests.
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New York City
Theodore Roosevelt
Africa
Equatorial Africa
London
New Jersey
Livingstone
Stanley
Emin Pasha
Peary
Duc d’Abruzzi
Edgar A. Mearns
United States Army
Kermit Roosevelt
Old age pension bill aims to form inquiry commission
Ex Senator C W Hinds of Mississippi promotes a pension plan and petition for an extra session of Congress. The bill would create a five member presidentially appointed old age pension inquiry commission to study Americans over sixty and report findings to Congress. In San Jose California George Campbell woke to his Sunnyvale fire alarm. He had wooden legs burning in the American hotel blaze, saved by the hotel owner’s daughter who warned the fire department in her night clothes.
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Hins
Mississippi
Boston
Mass
United States
C. W. Hinds
Congress
Senate
San Jose
Cal
George Campbell
Sunnyvale
Campbell
Former Ambassador Hinton Helper Dies by Own Action
Washington report states Hinton Rowan Helper, former United States consul general at Buenos Ayres, died by suicide in the capital. Heartbroken over an unrealized dream of an inter continental railroad linking commerce with Central and South American valleys. His wife and children reside in Chicago.
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Washington, D. C
Central and
South America
Hinton Rowan Helper
United States
Buenos Ayres
Chicago
Pittsburg man named Republican candidate for Senate
George T. Oliver of Pittsburg has been named by a joint caucus of the senate and house as the Republican candidate to succeed P. C. Knox as United States senator. The action in Harrisburg, Pa., places Oliver at the forefront of the party’s bid for the seat.
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Harrisburg
George T. Oliver
Pittsburg
United States
P. C. Knox
Senate
House
Georgias Daughters Choose Andersonville For Wirz Monument
The Georgia division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy voted 125 to 70 to place Captain Wirz monument at Andersonville instead of Richmond. The decision followed a stormy session and protests from chapters state wide. A special appeal from Andersonville leaders and mayors urged site at the prison town.
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Avlanta
Georgia
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Andersonville
Wirz
Richmond
Macon
Americus
Georgia Division
Savannah
Dresden Philharmonic to Play at Great Southern Festival
The Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra from Germany will perform at the Great Southern Music Festival in Atlanta on May 4 6 and 6. The seventy member ensemble includes fifteen first violins and ten second violins and features horns drums and cymbals. Tickets range from 1 to 2 dollars per seat with season tickets priced 7.50 for five performances. Balcony season tickets are 5, boxes for four seats 40 and six seats 60 for the full series.
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Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
Atlanta
Dresden
Germany
Dresden Orchestra
Wagner
Unexpended Military Fund Reverts to State Treasury
An unexpended balance of 53,597.72 from the state military fund reverted to the state treasury. Of this, 47,211.06 was from 1907 appropriations for equipment under the Dick bill, denied by Governor Smith. The 1907 remainder was unused before July 1, 1908. Troops hold 18,954.07 from 1908 funds plus a 25,000 current-year appropriation, totaling nearly 39,000 available for this year.
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Atlanta
Smith
Need of Industrial Training Pushes Davis Bill in Congress
J. B. Stewart of Athens Ga urges support for the Davis bill aimed at funding industrial training through annual national grants starting 1909. The plan allocates Georgia about 25,000 yearly for teacher training and up to 250,000 yearly for secondary industrial schools including practical agriculture and industrial sciences. He urges counties to prepare facilities and local funding, arguing the bill will promote district agricultural schools and county city high schools. He notes constitutional allowances for local tax support despite limited state aid.
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Congress
Georgia
Agricultural College
Iny
Stewart
Athens
Caruso to headline Great Southern Music Festival in Atlanta
The famous Italian tenor Caruso will be paid ten thousand dollars to sing two nights at the Great Southern Music Festival in Atlanta next May. The festival runs May 4 5 and 6 and promises top international talent. Georgia railroad plans extend Kingsland to Sparks linking with Georgia Southern and Florida. Athens cotton receipts soar breaking records with 112000 bales this season and climbing to 115000. Ben Hill county wildfires devastate farms and homes amid March winds. Commissioner Hudson pushes cattle tick eradication in Washington and soil surveys for the Third district. Republicans contest Gordon Lee’s seat. Adjutant General Scott plans state guard encampments near command locations. Milledgeville to get marble post office. Atlanta opens a grand auditorium hosting Caruso and world famous musicians.
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Caruso
Atlanta
South
New York City
Georgia
St. Mary's-Kingsland
Kingsland
Waycross
Sparks
Georgia Southern and
Florida
Athens
Ben Hill County
T. G. Hudson
Washington, D. C
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Hudson
James Wilson
Washington
Gordon Lee
A. J. Scott
National Guard
Holton
Macon
Fitzgerald Military Company
F. L. Palmer
Joe Campbell
Chattooga County
Milledgeville
Madame Fremsted
Petschnikoff
Royal Orchestra of
Germany
Germaine Schnitzer
Tornado Fatalities and Destruction Reported in Arkansan Brinkley
A massive tornado devastated Brinkley Ark killing about thirty people and injuring sixty. Main streets were wrecked and many hotels demolished while the Catholic Church was converted to a temporary hospital. Relief trains arrived as locals offered aid and neighboring towns prepared funds. In Little Rock six dead eight injured were reported and Mount Carmel church and Hurricane Creek homes were destroyed near there.
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Brinkley
Ark
Main Street
Cypress Avenue
Arlington
Wighty
Brinkley Hotel
Southern Hotel
Kelley Hotel
Helena
Memphis
Little Rock
T. M. Kimmell
Kimmell
Weakley
J. M. Wojtawuzki
Richards
Gale
Mount Carmel
Hurricane Creek
Cuthbert
Forty Dollars to Eat Horse Radish Trashed Memoir Tale
Albert Pulitzer, retired editor writing memoirs, paid $40 for a cablegram asking his Vienna physician if he could eat horse radish. The doctor answered Yes via the Atlanta cable, and Pulitzer considered the cost well spent despite not buying a garden.
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Cablegram
San Francisco
Cal
Albert Pulitzer
Vienna
Pulitzer
Atlanta
Didn't Realize How Injurious Coffee Really Was
A Washington woman claims coffee caused rheumatic attacks and teethed decay in children. She quit coffee and drank Postum for six months, reporting restored sleep, remission of rheumatism, and overall health improvement. The letter, from Postum Co. of Battle Creek, invites readers to examine "The Road to Wellville" as proof.
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Washington
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Roosevelt
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Geogia
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Aurelehus
Great Southern Musical Festival
Davis
Arkansas
America
Europe
Tommy Tucker
Mexico
Job
Outing Magazine
Aquarium
Frances Dean Wilcox
New York Tribune
Paris Temps
Orient
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