United States Steel report describes owner control of crude ore
President Taft released Herbert Knox Smith’s bureau of corporations study on United States Steel. The narrative assessment notes monopoly through ore holdings and transport, with the steel giant owning 75 percent of lake ores and consolidations shifting to fewer firms after 1890s mergers.
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Washington
Taft
United States Steel Corporation
Bureau of Corporation
Herbert Knox Smith
Smith
Steel Corporation
Trust
Carnegie Company
Federal Steel
National Steel
American Steel and Wire
American Tin
American Steel Hoop
American Sheet Steel
National Tube
American Bridge
Interstate Commerce Commission orders sweeping express probe
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered a national investigation of all express companies. The probe will assess rates classifications regulations and practices for fairness and legality, with no time limit. About a year earlier 100 commercial groups urged a general inquiry into the express trust.
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Washington
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Express Trust
McCreary Wins Kentucky Democratic Gubernatorial Nomination
Returns from Kentucky Democratic primary show James B. McCreary nominated for governor over William Addams while Ollie M. James leads Thomas H. Paynter in the U S Senate race in Louisville.
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McCreary
Kentucky
Louisville
James B. McCreary
William Addams
Ollie M. James
Thomas H. Paynter
United States Senate
Aged Packer Shoots Himself in Indianapolis Home
Albert W. Cofin of the Coffin Fletcher Packing company commits suicide at his residence in Indianapolis. He is reported to be sixty one years old.
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Packer
Himsel
Indianapolis
Albert W. Cofin
The
Coffin-Fletcher Packing Company
Indict Wire Trust Charged With Restraint of Trade
Federal grand jury returned nine indictments against associations and many individuals tied to the wire industry. Prominent names include Frank J. Gould Herbert Satterlee William P. Palmer Charles F. Brooker Henry G. Stoddard Erskine Hewitt Frank N. Phillips and Ferdinand W. Roebling. Offense cited is unlawful restraint of trade under the anti trust law. Satterlee is J Pierpont Morgan's son in law and Gould is a noted financial magnate.
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New York
Wire Trust
Frank J. Gould
Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works
Virginia
Herbert L. Satterles
Habershaw Wire Company
William P. Palmer
American Steel and Wire Company
Charles F. Brooker
Ansonia Brass and Copper Company
Republican National Committee
Connecticut
Henry G. Stoddard
Trenton Iron Company
Erskine Hewitt
Frank N. Phillips
American Electrical Works
Ferdinand W. Roebling
John A. Roebling, Sons * Co
The
Bare Copper Wire Association
Wire Ropes Manufacturers’ Association
Lead Ene Rubber Cable Association
Fine Magnet Wire Association
Underground Power Cable Association
Horseshoe Manufacturers’ Assoc N
Telephone Cable Association
United States Steel Corporation
Trenton Ironworks
Herbert Satterlee
J. Pierpont Morgan
Frank Gould
Five Million Dollars of Public Funds In Bank Report
A state banking board report shows deposits across 658 banks totaling 76.964 million dollars on June 1 1910 down about 96 thousand from a year earlier and roughly seven million less than February. Public funds in deposits total nearly 5.639 million. The report lists resources, discounts, and taxes among entries with total assets near 9.086 million. Sullivan Aske Pardon James Sullivan seeks a governor granted pardon for the 1904 Sidney railroad night watchman killing. A July hearing is planned on a Union Pacific railway complaint seeking an extra passenger train between North Platte and Grand Island.
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Rouse
Banking Board
Royse
Sullivan
James Sullivan
Aldrich
Frank Wiser
Sidney
Thomas McIntyre
Harry Neville
Railway Commission
Kearney Commercial Club
Union Pacifi Railroad
Neth Platte
Grand Island
Frisco 15 Shaken as Two Earthquakes Rock Bay Area
An earthquake swarm rattled central California and western Nevada, 2:01 and seconds apart, causing panic in San Francisco Oakland and other cities. Minor structural damage occurred in San Francisco and Carson City while Santa Rosa detoured into the larger 1906 disaster memory.
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San Francisco
California
Nevada
Oakland
Sierras
Sacramento
Sacramento Valley
Fresno
Carson and
Reno
Ney
Mechanics’ Bank
Herbert Hadley
Santa Rosa
San Jose
Stockton
Carson City
Nev
HINES DENIES STORY OF LOOMING FUNK LORIMER CHARGE
Chicago lumberman Edward Hines testified before the Lorimer investigating committee denying Clarence Funk's claim that Hines offered $10 000 to help Lorimer win the Senate seat He contradicted W H Cook on a phone talk with Governor Deneen and described a meeting at the Union League club with Pred Carney Charles Hall and Isaac Baker
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Washington
Edward Hines
Chicago
Clarence 8. Funk
Hines
Benator Lorimer
W. H. Cook
Deneen
Fynk
Union League Club
Pred Carney
Marinette
Wis
Charles Hall
Sault
Lorimer Funk
Cardinal Gibbons Reaches Milestones in Faithful Service
In a small chapel near Baltimore Cardinal Gibbons offered a mass of thanksgiving marking 60 years as a priest and 25 years as cardinal and nominal head of the U S Roman Catholic Church. He was ordained June 90 1861 at the Baltimore cathedral and received the red hat June 80 1884.
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Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
United States
Father Gibbons
St. Mary's Seminary
Kenrick
State Fair Grand Stand Progress and Preparations
The state board of agriculture aims to finish the new grandstand before the fair opens. Two iron sections are done and the entire iron framework should rise within ten days. They have filled 90 by 420 feet to three feet deep and will grade the east end for exhibit space. A dyke up to six feet wide and 2400 feet long protects the grounds from floodwaters from Salt and Antelope creeks. Bands from Fairbury Wood River and Wilbeg have been engaged.
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State Board of Agriculture
Thhe
Salt Creek
Antelope Creek
Fairbury
Wood River
Wilbeg
State Board Purchases Automatic stokers for Lincoln Hospital
The state board of public lands and buildings bought two automatic stokers for the state hospital for the insane at Lincoln at a cost of 1600 dollars. Five stokers were bought for the state penitentiary at a total of 4500 dollars, with the higher price including extra equipment.
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State Board of Public Lands and Buildings
State Hospital
Lincoln
State Penitentiary
Parle Couple Marks Sixty Years of Marriage at Auburn
Nemaha County records celebrate Mr and Mrs W F Parle’s 60th wedding anniversary with a family gathering at their Auburn home. The note recalls their 1851 Iowa marriage of Mr Paris and Mrs Alvia Fraser.
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Nemaha County
W. F. Parle
Auburn
Paris
Misa Alvian Fraser
Iowa
Immigrant Dies of Cholera in Auburn New York
Tomaso Bilrardi, seventeen, who arrived in the United States aboard the Duca Deglia Abruze on June 20, died in Auburn from a diagnosis of Asiatic cholera as determined by local authorities.
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Auburn
N. Y
Tomaso Bilrardi
Hoke Smith Returns as Georgia Governor in 2nd Term
Hoke Smith is inaugurated governor of Georgia for the second time, succeeding Joseph M. Brown who had previously relieved him. The sequence marks Smith's return to the state's top office with Brown stepping aside.
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Hoke Smith
Atlanta
Georgia
Joseph M. Brown
Smith
Fire on Battleship Ohio Threatens Magazine
A fire broke out in the after turret of the battleship Ohio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It grew dangerous enough that Captain Bunehanan ordered the after magazine flooded to prevent explosions.
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Ohio
New York
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Bunehanan
Trenton Family Killed in Train Car Collision at Post Roads
H. G. Novell of Trenton his wife and their sixteen year old son were killed when their automobile was struck by a Boston and Albany train at the Post Roads crossing in Albany New York authorities reported.
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Albany
N. Y
H. G. Novell
Trenton
N. J
Boston & Albany
Post Roads Crossing
Eugene F Ware Guccumbs Dies in Cascade Colorado
Eugene F Ware poet jurist and U S pension commissioner under Roosevelt died at Cascade Colorado twelve miles west of here of angina pectoris aged seventy years.
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Eugene F. Ware
Colorado Springs
Colo
United States
Roosevelt
Cascade
Here
Harvard Wins The Varsity Boat Race At New London
Harvard defeated Yale by fourteen lengths in the varsity race with a time of 22 minutes 44 seconds to Yale's 23 minutes 40 seconds. The Crimson led from the start, while Yale showed late effort. a plane circled above the course. Freshmen eights saw Harvard win with a late spurt and Harvard substitute varsity fours beat Yale by two lengths amid wind and tide delays.
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New London
Conn
Harvard
Yale
Cambridge
Gold files injunction challenge to free gift enterprise law
William Gold of this city petitions the federal court to strike down the 1911 session measure prohibiting trading stamps as a gainful enterprise. He argues the act bars gifts promised or implied to induce purchase of goods, logging the assault on the law in court.
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William Gold
Regiments to Quit Texas Washington Move Approved
After talks with Secretary Stimson and Major General Wood, President Tat authorized withdrawing four regiments from the maneuver division at San Antonio Texas. The regiments will be withdrawn within the next thirty days.
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Texas
Washington
Stimson
Wood
Tat
San Antonio
Tex
Iditarod City Fire Threatens Destruction
Iditarod City Alaska was nearly destroyed by a large fire on June 25. News of the conflagration has just been received there.
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Iditarod City
Alaska
Beatle
Wash
Nebraska Primary Law Faces Backlash in Custer County
F. M. Currie of Broken Bow a former state legislator declares Nebraska's primary law a failure. He argues the system is flawed and nearly all of Custer county favors returning to the old convention method.
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Nebraska
F. M. Currie
Custer County
Parmera Cultivation Promised to Boost Nebraska Corn
Secretary Mellor of the state board of agriculture urges farmers to cultivate corn weekly to boost yields by ten bushels or more. He notes fields are clean but warns against ceasing cultivation, saying continued stirring and pulverizing can offset losses from a poor crop of small grains.
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Mellor
State Board of Agriculture
Nebraska
Bank Guaranty Assessments and State Bonds Report
Secretary Royse reports 866 million 255 thousand 608 and 72 cents in average daily deposits under the guaranty law across 58 banks. An initial one quarter of 1 percent yields 165 thousand 684 dollars 92 cents. annual eighteen month payments follow. July 1 is payment due. Royse instructs directors’ meetings in early July to review banks’ affairs under the new law. State Treasurer George sells 220 thousand in state bonds and 224 thousand in drainage bonds. purchases North Carolina Maryland Louisiana issues. Eighteen Nebraska postal savings banks to open by July 15. Patton seeks authority to issue 7 thousand stock. retroactive approval of 4,500 stock already issued. Pardon request filed for Pumphrey, serving seven years for 1907 Chinaman murder. governor previously commuted from life to seven years.
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Royse
Atate Banking Bord
Atate
Banka
George
Nebraska
North Carolina
Maryland
Louisiana
Pumphrey Abba Yor
Charlen Pumphrey
State Penitentiary
Omaha
Pumphrey
Shallenberger
Burwell Man Files for Judge Nomination
Charles I Bragg of Burwell files as a Republican candidate for judge of the Eleventh Judicial District. He seeks election to the judicial post.
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Charles I. Bragg
Burwell
Eleventh Judicial District
Abstracts show little change in county assessments
State board of equalization notes minor shifts in 1911 county valuations with Dakota Dixon Franklin Chase Grant and Kickan Soggy Read. An elderly Milford veteran, unnamed, described bread flaws to Land Commissioner Cowles. Nebraska proclaims a primary election for August 15 to fill state offices.
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State Board of Equalization
Dakota County
Dixon County
Ranklin County
Chase County
Grant County
Milford Home
Cowles
The Lincoln Tax Showing
Lincoln real estate values rise but overall tax totals stay below hoped gains. The city’s assessed real estate valuation is 5,672,170 up from 5,496,405 a year ago, a gain of 235,665, reflecting new growth and real estate activity.
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Lincoln
Engineer’s bold dash saves seven coaches on burning trestle
George A. Smith, a Southern Pacific locomotive engineer in Los Angeles, chose to drive Mountain mogul engine 207 across a burning trestle to save all seven coaches and their passengers. The train crossed the blaze with flames everywhere, the bridge cracking beneath, and Smith quitting only after all cars cleared.
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Los Angeles
Cal
George A. Smith
Gants Clara
Terra Firma
Smith
Guisty
Alk
Jim Bledsoe
Ice Cream Poisoning Claims Life of Thomas in Charlotte
Charlotte Michigan reports sixty four year old P. M. Thomas, a traveling man, died from ptomaine poisoning after eating ice cream. Local health officials investigate the supplier and hospital records to determine contamination source and public health risk.
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Charlotte, Mich
M. Thomas
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United States Corporation
Gary
Congressional Steel Investigating Committee
Combine
Express Probess
Commerce Board
Steel Industry
Soagri Tien
Marent
Cei
Eeseveeeceuues
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Coeur ci
Cece Ceesenverssens
Frisco
Pacific Coast
Lorimer
Masa
Stokers
Buchanan
Bank Guaranty
Postonce
A. R. Patton
Gage County Independent Telephone Company of
Blue Springs
State Railway Commission
State Supreme Court
State University
Rausheua
Guisk
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