Distant Kin Plan New Fight Over Hetty Green Fortune
California relatives descended from Sylvia Anne Howland announce a new contest to challenge Hetty Green’s fortune after her death. They allege a forged will and seek an accounting of how much of the Howland legacy became Green’s wealth, with financiers from Napa and Oakland backing the bid.
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York
Hetty Green
San Francsco
California
Sylvia Anne Howland
Green
Howland
Howlands
Hetty Green Inso
New Hedford
Mass
Hetty
Howland Robinson Green
Whiamson Finnell
Napa
Cal
Wiliam Leacock
Oakland
Finnell
Hetty Grees
Court Upheld Blue Laws Limiting Sunday Activities
The court ruled that old blue laws govern Sunday observance, voiding city ordinances that allowed religious exemptions. Enforcement shifts to state level, with Attorney General empowered to seek penalties and bar local officials from enforcing Sunday bans on venues like Coney Island.
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Coney Island
Greenbaum
Supreme Court
Attourney General
New Yorker Weds Dutch Countess in Grace Church ceremony
The New Yorker wed Baroness Wilhelmina Adrian van Haeften in Grace Church, after which Mr Charles Phillips Hatch of Newport and New York honeymooned briefly before sailing to Europe. The baroness, born in Java, is from an old Dutch family and is connected to the Dutch court. Her late husband, the Hague-born George Mueller, previously bore her name. Baron Franz van Haeften, married to Violet Brockelhurst of London, is her brother.
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New York City
Europe
Baroness van Haeften
Charles Phillips Hatch
Newport
New York
Wilhelmina of
Holland
Hague
Juliana
Wilhelmina Adrian van Havsten
John Cornelius Adrian van Haeften
Java
George Mueller
The
Mr Hatch
Grace Church
Mr. Hatch
Henry Hatch
Philadelphia
John Austin Stevens
Hatch
Harvard
Baron Franz van Haeften
Violet Brockelhurst
London
Mrs Tom Pierce to Appear On Stage in Philadelphia
Boetoo New Port Long Island socialite Mrs Alice Crowinshield Rogers later Mrs Pierce plans a Philadelphia stage bow aided by Mrs Leslie Carter and Adele Ritchie. Ex husband a Boston millionaire and yacht club sportsman. she is a noted horsewoman with past Meadow Brook riding triumphs and a 500 weekly allowance dispute followed by custody issues.
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Tom Pierce
Boetoo
Newport
Long Island
Boston
Leslie Carter
Adele Ritchie
Philadelphia
Pierce
Alice Crowinshield Rogers
Salem
Mass
Puritan, Exchange
Eastern
Taft Administration Faces Fiscal Challenge and Cutbacks
The Taft administration plans major expense reductions to curb extravagance across departments. Thirty million dollars will be slashed from the military budget and thirty five million ninety thousand from the naval budget, with further cuts expected. Public support is anticipated as the administration pursues a firmer handling of government costs.
IS NO OCCASION FOR HARRY
Mr. Meyer takes charge of the navy department and suspends to study protests against Newberry era policies. He forms a board to review issues, but delays action pending a more elaborate investigation and broader input from naval officers and foreign practice.
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Meyer
Navy Department
Newberry
Navy to Be Taken Care of and Build Two Battleships
Secretary Meyer announced that 1911 navy reductions do not affect the battleship program. Two heavy single calibre battleships will be funded, completing a plan for a squadron of eight ships, with no public details released on the new vessels.
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Navy
Taft
Meyer
General Board
Congress
Atlantic
North Dakota
Delaware
Florida
Utah
Arkansas
Wyoming
Sugar Trust Fallout Sparks Public Demand for Reform
The New York Sun notes Collector Loeb may launch a vigorous probe into corrupt ties between powerful trusts and government corruption at the customs house. It also reports the American Sugar Refining Company has already been forced to disgorge part of its proceeds amid ongoing justice department scrutiny of the sugar trust.
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Edtizens
New York
Loeb
United States
Custom House
American Sugar Refining Company
Department of Justice
Sugar Trust
New York Sun
Dem
Restrictions on Imports to Boost Domestic Production
Essay argues for imposing restrictive duties on overseas articles to support American industry and protect consumers. It contends relief from duties would unjustly increase imports if U S producers could be made productive at home.
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America
Army Budget Cuts for 1911 Proposed
Secretary Dickinson outlined a plan to cut the military establishment budget for 1911 by 20 million dollars compared with 1910. He said reductions could not touch pay or field expenses, so most savings would come from public works including river and harbor projects, fortifications, and barracks. The approach would delay ongoing improvements, and the matter remained under review by Dickinson, Assistant Secretary Oliver, and bureau chiefs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickinson
Quartermaster’s Department
Seotary Dickinson
Oliver
Nail and Wire Industry Surges After Weeks of Slump
In six weeks the nail and wire business shifted from heavy stockpiles to brisk demand. American Steel and Wire warehouses, capable of three months output, are selling all quickly with orders ahead. Industry foresees a strong fall, more production, and better conditions ahead.
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American Steel and Wire Company
Real Functions of a Tariff Practical principles for lawmakers
A discussion notes that tariffs should not tax items mainly to profit enterprises. The producer serves the consumer. when production serves consumption, the producer prospers. If production fails to serve consumers, the producer has no right to thrive, per the Baltimore American.
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Baltimore American
Odds Are on Bill
Conservative Democrats have resolved to make Mr. Bryan a negligible quantity, thus doing for him what he has already done for the Democratic party. Every consideration of national interest and policy demands that the Panama canal shall be exclusively ours, that we shall have no partners, that other nations shall use it only as we see fit.
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Penn
Bryan
N. Y
Panama Canal
Still Losing Train Talks Bryan and Politics
Reports from the southwest say Mr. Bryan recently lost a train while talking horse. This is the same Mr. Bryan who thrice lost the presidency while talking politics.
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Southwest
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Seven Story Elevator Disaster at Murdock Building
In Cincinnati on Monday evening eight Murdock Electro-Engraving and Stamp-Cutting Co workers crammed into a seventh floor elevator cab at 116-120 Opera Place. The descent collapsed the shaft causing one death and seven injuries. elevator man William Orr survived. Superintendent William Vosel was ejected unharmed.
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Cincinnati
James Murdock, Jr
Murdock Power Building
Opera Place
William Orr
George Deinlein
Devilein
Murdock
William Vosel
Murdock Plant
Break in wall of reservoir claims three lives
A wall of water 20 feet high swept the Missouri River water works pumping plant in St. Joseph. Foreman John Lewis and James Lilliger and his son John died in the disaster. Six men were trapped and five escaped. The incident hampers city service and recalls a prior drowning of Lewis's son.
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St. Joseph
City Water Works
Here
John Lewis
Jas. Lilliger
John
Lewis
Two Killed By Powder Explosions at Macbeth Fuse Works
Two men were killed and four injured in two powder explosions at the Macbeth fuse works in Pompton Lakes New Jersey on Monday. Six buildings were wrecked and three of the injured are in serious condition with the blasts reported late today.
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Camden
N. J
William Wryand
Atlantic City
Ferry Avenue
Wes Jersey & Seashore Railroad
Glenn H. Dobbs
Collingswood
Pompton
Lakes
Macbeth
Mixed Blood Quip From Cincinnati Enquirer Tale
A Cincinnati Enquirer fragment recalls a New York tobacconist and a countess who tease aristocratic boasts by comparing lineage. The countess notes English Tudor and Plantagenet blood wouldn’t impress a Texas cowboy, who adds his own mixed heritage with a joke about meeting for a drink.
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Countess de Fourtales
New York
Biarrita
Wild West
Cincinnati Enquirer
Tuberculosis in Japanese labor camps causes concern
The article notes rising consumption among Japanese workers sent abroad. It cites Japanese newspapers saying hospital shortages in labor camps worsen TB rates and calls for a new system to care for the sick amid widespread health ignorance.
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Japan
Christmas Gift Dilemma In Mrs. Dennis’s Washday Visit
In a festive season exchange Mrs. Dennis jokes about gifts for Pat as she finishes a washday. The tale in Success Magazine contrasts a planned present with Pat already wearing last night’s new pants. An advertising insertion for Allen’s Foot-Ease follows.
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Success Magazine
Come We Must Go Home Dinner Waiting Two O Clock
A light captioned fragment cites Mrs Gadsky urging a child named Max to stay, insisting dinner and their old pot cheese await. The snippet then shifts to a product notice for Souders Vanilla Extract highlighting Mexican vanilla beans and retail bottles of 1 15 and 25 cents.
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Max
Pope Notes and Mrs Winslow's Syrup Advert Record
Mention includes Pope and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething gums. claims to ease pain inflammations and wind colic. Ad cites 23 cents per bottle and notes breaking a five dollar bill leads to pieces being lost.
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New Yorker
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Washington
Meyer Wise
Daniel Baugh & Son
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Swansken Street
Chicago
A. F. Watkther
White Fish
Mont
Great Northern
Jimmy Green
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy
Pope
Dodds
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