Taft’s anti trust message urges new federal incorporation plan
President Taft centers his annual message to Congress on the anti trust law and its enforcement. He argues Supreme Court rulings confirm the act’s purpose, supports supplemental legislation to detail unlawful practices, and proposes a federal charter system to regulate large interstate combinations while preserving competition and avoiding broad overhaul.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
Senate
House
Supreme Court
United States
Tobscco Trust
Ita Free
Supreme and
Circuit
New Jersey
New Jersey Company
Standard Oil
Ie Dourt
Standard Oil Trust
American Tobacco Company, & Manufacturing, Bolling and Holding Company
Bualneas
Amall Ynite
Supreme Court Makes Clemhat
Buatens
May
Combinera
Stich & Plan
Supreme Court Staelf
Enn Ace
Businesa
Pastorera
Federal Incorporation
Ina
Inn
Praper
Union
Federal Corporation Commission Pro“sd
Alatuto
Combina Diona
Department of Commerce and Labor
Ite Incorporatora
Manigera
Comptroller of
Currency
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bargain Handkerchiefs Inspire Tiny Gift Ideas
A Western Newspaper Union piece extols inexpensive handkerchiefs as versatile gift material. It details price ranges from five to fifty cents, plus ideas for turning them into collars jabots bibs and accessories, and lists quick craft projects for babies aprons oversleeves and bags using lace embroidery and hemmed trims.
March on Persia Dismissal Refusal Could Spark War
Tehran rejects Russia and Britain by defying demands to dismiss American treasurer general W Morgan Shuster. Russia orders troops to Caspian port Enzell as anti Russian riots erupt. Ex governor Al-El Dowleh assassinated amid growing Persian bitterness over Shuster affair and external pressure. British Foreign Secretary Grey cables urged compliance amid claims of Russian injustice.
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Tehran
Persia
Russia
W. Morgan Shuster
Great Britain
National Council of Persia
Enzell
Caspian Sea
Merch
Shuster
Atorm
Sir Edward Grey
Tongland
Standard Oil Trust Ends as Split Into Thirty Four Parts
New York reports that Standard Oil has technically ended as a trust by splitting into thirty four independent entities. Each unit will operate separately with own records and earnings for stockholders. Shares were exchanged for those of the subsidiaries, leaving only a few rooms vacant at 26 Broadway while several Standard Oil entities remain in place.
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New York
Standard Oil
Suprema Court
Temple of
Rockefeller
Broadway
Standard Oll Company of
New Jersey
Butkeye Pipeline
Colonial Oil
New York Transit Company
Northern Pipe Line Company
Standard Oil Company of New York
Union Tank Line Company
Queen Mary Is Seasick on Medina Passage
Reports from the Bay of Biscay say King George and Queen Mary endured a rough voyage to the Indian dur bar aboard the Medina. The queen’s cabin flooded she moved to a swinging cat’d room while the king, a sturdy sailor, remained in his cabin.
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London
King George
Queen Mary
Medina
Bay of Biscay
Haïtian Fearful Of Uprising And Kingston Travel
Kingston reports Haiti refuses business departures from Port au Prince to Kingston citing fear of revolutionary communications to the new leader of the national progressive party and adherents. Haiti accuses these progressives of aiming to topple President Leconte.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Halden
Port Au Prince
National Progressive Party
Haiti
Leconte
Drowning at Carthage Ice Break in Illinois Pond
Four girls from Carthage Illinois were skating on a pond when thin ice broke. Elx Dorsey aged fourteen, Keokuk Dorsey aged eight, daughters of George Dorsey of Carthage, and Isabelle Dorney suffered drowning. Two other companions escaped with narrow chances of life.
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Gistera
Keokuk
Anna Dorsey
Isabelle Dorney
George Dorsey
Carthage
Elx
Charles Spencer Francis Dies in Troy Times Founder
Charles Spencer Francis, proprietor of the Troy Times and former ambassador to Austria-Hungary, is dead in Troy. His career spanned journalism and diplomacy, shaping local and international press connections.
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Charlies
Francie la
Troy, N
Charles Spencer Francis
The
Troy Times
Austria-Hundgary
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Porto Rican Tobacco Company
Indiyidust
Western Newspaper Union
Teheran
England
India
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