Interstate Commerce Commission plans departmentary commissioners
Fairfield Weekly Journal reports a modern plan for the Interstate Commerce Commission to deploy departmentary commissioners in distant cities such as Chicago St Louis San Francisco and St Paul to hear complaints. Deputies will handle hearings on minor issues report testimony to the main commission and avoid rate fixing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Departmentary
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
System Magazine
Chicago
St. Louis
San Francisco
St. Paul
Commission
Edwin C. Pendleton
Missouri
League Island Navy Yard
Philadelphia
Tilley
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Akron
Edward Payson Weston
Portland
Swift & Co
South St. Joseph
Willis Smith
Shoal Creek
Tennessee
John D. Rockefeller
Charles F. Aked
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
New York
Lawrence
Kan
L. H. Perkins
Roosevelt
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburg
P. H. Morrissey
G. G. Thorp
United States Steel Corporation
W. E. Corey
Southern Pacific
Lozier
Tex
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
Argentine
Richard Croker
Tammany
Arthur Smith
St. Marys
Marvin Kuhns
Rock Island & Pacific
Union
Griscom
Liord C Griscom
Italy
Pierpont Morgan
Arezzo
Perugia
Florence
Rabbi Hirsch
Hebrew Union College
Cincinnati
Berlin
Lawson Lane
Kentucky
Zeigler
McKinley
Pullman Sleeping Car Company
Interstate Commission
George Paul Kramer
Iron Mountain
Tioga
State of Texas
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Creighton
Tarentum
Frank M. Geiger
Calvert Hazlett
The Triumph of Sweets and Modern Ideas
A London doctor argues that candy is beneficial and should be consumed daily with four ounces of chocolate proving energy. He suggests soldiers deserve a quarter pound of sweets and minimizes toothache risk by brushing teeth more often. The Troy Times notes candymakers would likely welcome his views.
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London
Troy Times
Smoothing the Worker's Way
A discussion of welfare work for workers, detailing employer duties to provide light, air, drainage, pure water, elevators, seats for women, baths, and meals. It notes possible future benefits like picnics, balls, lectures, and clubs but centers on physical comfort and safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circle Magazine
Secrecy Rules For Telegraph Dispatches In China
A forthcoming provision aims to secure telegraph secrecy by capital punishment for those who reveal contents of important messages. For ordinary commercial messages disclosure carries ten years in prison. Five years are prescribed for those who know of the leakage but fail to report it.
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China
Pittsburg Millionaire Opens Nine Acre Chicken Farm
A Pittsburg millionaire has established a chicken farm on nine acres in the residence district to provide his family with fresh eggs and tender chickens. The land is valued at 450000, a large outlay for eggs for a city family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Kansas City Southern
Neosho
Theodore Roosevelt
Harvard
Harvard Corporation
Cambridge
Southern Pacific
San Francisco
Bradley
Cal
Chicago
New York Insurance Department
New York
Joseph W. Folk
Missouri
John A. Johnson
Minnesota
Wisconsin University
Syracuse
Cambon
Pichon
Berlin
Foreign Office
Payette River
Garden Valley
Idaho
Liberals
Peasant League
China
Amoy
Santo Domingo
Nickie” Shepard
Roosevelt
Agricultural College
Lansing
Mich
Howard Gould
Denver
Cheesman
Hempstead Harbor
Chicago's weekly earnings exceed expenses by 44 cents
A reader notes that average Chicago income is eight dollars per week while average expenses run seven dollars and fifty six cents. With the remaining forty four cents, the average resident still faces a tight margin to keep up with leisure.
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Chicago
Forecast of Airship Dominance Over Automobiles
A scientist predicts cars will be displaced by airships a decade hence while asserting car makers will pivot to building airships. The remark notes automotive producers shifting focus to aviation technology.
Multiple Iowa Deaths, Robberies and Public Notices Across Cities
A serialized report recounts Ralph Isham's fatal fall from a windmill tower near Anamosa after an epileptic seizure during mill work with his father. It also notes Peter Isenhour's suicide attempt in Waterloo, a saloon case at Dubuque, the Iowa Grand Lodge convocation in Clinton, and other incidents from Mason City to Des Moines including thefts, a capital-consular appointment, and a public stone-laying ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Isham
Central City
Anamosa
W. B. Isham
Peter Isenhour
Hobo
Waterloo
Dubuque
Thorne
Supreme Court
Iowa
Clinton
Grand Lodge
New Temple
William Cleveland
Harlan
George S. Garton
Des Moines
Joe Navretall
Mason City
McAnna
Arerst
Ottumwats
Morgan Palmer
City
Montana
Northern Pacific Northwest Limited
Butte
Clark
Palmer
Ottumwa
Sheridan
Wyo
Wyoming
Burlington
Standard Oil Company
Government Inspection Service
Omaha
Sioux City
Chicago
Lee Chapman
Pisgah
L. B. Cousins
Council Bluffs
Chapman
Strong
T. R. Wallace
Atlantic
United States
Crefeldt
Germany
Jerusalem
Harry Scroggs
Denison
Willam Thaller
Bagleys
Mat Cavanaugh
Cedar Rapids
Frank Maturin
Chelsea
Cavanaugh
Waverly
Dunshee & Dorn
Temperance
J. H. Campbell
Prohibition Party State Central Committee
Temperances
The
Commonwealth
Bentley & Olmsted Shoe Company
Harbach
West Third Street
Court Avenue
Walnut
Sears
West Third
William H. Taft
Iowa City
Iowa University
Commercial Club
Woodmen of American
C. W. McCurdy
McCurdy
C. H. McNider
Iown
Allen Barker
Boone
Barker
Moingona
C. A. Reeves
St. John’s Church
Sixth
Chestnut Streets
Notable Happenings From A Week Of World News
A snapshot of major events includes the Boise Haywood jury formed in Idaho, Lincoln civic leaders summoned before a federal grand jury over coin molds, a near end to the French seamen strike, a Buffalo magnate Harry Hamlin killed in an auto crash, and a Confederate memorial statue unveiling in Richmond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Lincoln
James R. Kaye
United States
Harry Hamlin
Buffalo
N. Y
Cicero J. Hamlin
Jefferson Davis
Daughters of the Confederacy
Richmond
Confederate Veterans
Thomas H. Ruger
Stamford
Conn
Patrick Reardon
Thomas Morton
M. M. Moorhead
Pittsburg
Charles F. Grotefend
Washington National Bank of
St. Louis
Trieber
United States District Court
Supreme Court
Denver
Col
District Court
Leonard Imboden
James A. Hill
Denver Savings Bank
Robert M. Laughlin
McMillen Sanitarium
Columbus
Dublin
Richard Croker
Philadelphia
G. F. Baer
American Flag Day Association
Grace Dillon
Champaign
Irc
Campbell
Nemens
Ark
St. Louis, Kenneth
Catherine Killeran
James Killeran
Bronx
New York
Cleveland
United States Pension
Horace Thompson
Wisconsin
Marinette
Arthur B. Linds
Harlin
A. I. Laing
Universallet
Joliet
Salina
Kan
Japanese Nowspaper
San Francisco
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Fairfield Weekly Journal
the Journal Printing Co
Fairfield, I
Odd Fellows’ Temple
Highland Park
Odd Fellows
I. O. O. F. Band
John Ball
C A. Palmer
Frank Croxton
Roanoke
Ind
Rome
Harriet Matilda Baih
Edward Balin
Kenosha
F. 8. Newell
Lopey
Oregon
George Galbraith
William J. Bryan
Senator Foraker
Steubenville
John R. Walsh
the Chronicle
Frank O. Lowden
Joe” Cannon
Cra Leaderbrush
Springfield
Ill
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