Standard Oil profits and price manipulation report released
Washington reports reveal how Standard Oil used monopoly power to raise prices and margins over two decades. Commissioner Smith details massive profits, dividend history, and methods including rebates and discrimination, questioning claimed benefits to consumers and noting ongoing investigations and future sections on price discrimination.
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Washington, D. C
Standard Oil Company
Smith
Standard
Roosevelt
United States
Standard Oi
Stadard Oi! Company
Standard Oil Practices and Anti-Trust Claims
A historical charge describes Standard Oil using independent firms to escape anti-trust scrutiny by undercutting prices for select customers while not lowering prices for all trade. It alleges extensive espionage bribery of railroad workers to track rivals receipts and shipments, plus short measures and deceptive quality claims.
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Ss Standard
Standard
United States
Germans Pledge Against Oppressive Laws At Germania Park
At Germania park Indianapolis, Herman Mackwitz of Fort Wayne submitted resolutions urging candidates to pledge against oppressive laws and to repeal such laws. Gustav Donald urged cautious liquor policy, while Mackwitz argued Germans favor some saloon restrictions but oppose state enforcement of prohibition. Officers re elected. Welcker of Evansville becomes second vice president. delegates Kuhn and Mackwitz chosen for national alliance meeting in New York on November 3.
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Indianapolis
Germania Park
Herman Mackwitz
Fort Wayne
Staatverband
Gustav Donald
The
der Demokrat
Davenport
Iowa
Mr. Donald
New England
Mackwitz
Hermann Mackwitz
Old Country
America
Ernest Welcker
Evansville
Karl Lauenstein
Joseph Keller
Harmann Mackwitz
Jacob W. Loeper
H. QO. Thudium
August M. Kuhn
Alliance
New York
Much Gold in Yukon Gravel
Ottawa reports that four experts sampled Yukon's gold gravels and estimate about 64 million dollars in remaining gold. They note gravels have already yielded 119 million dollars and that advanced mining methods will be required to recover the remaining riches from gravel banks hillsides and valleys.
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Ottawa
Yukon
Taylor Seeks Quiet on Kentucky Topic
The brief item notes that Taylor from Kentucky has nothing to say on the matter and remains silent amid ongoing discussions. No further details or names are provided in the readable text.
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Taylor
Hon A Green Smith Dies After Long Illness
Indianapolis August 5 Alonzo Green Smith former lieutenant governor and attorney general of Indiana and a leading Democrat died today of heart trouble He was born September 6 1848 in Meigs County Ohio and moved to Indiana at nineteen He rose as a Democratic leader in Jennings and Jackson counties and served as Indiana attorney general from 1890 to 1892 after a storied battle for the senate presidency in 1887 that boosted his statewide profile
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Indianapolis
Alonzo Green. Smith
Indiana
Meigs County
Ohio
North Vernon
Jennings County
Franklin College
Indiana State Senate
Jackson
Jennings
Senate
Green Smith
Manson
Mexico
Col
R.S. Robertson
Fort Wayne
Smith
Colonel Robertson
Robbertson
Robertson
Woman Strangles Her Two Little Ones to Death
Baltimore, Aug 5. During a recurrence of insanity three-time confined in a state asylum, Christine Nenadel 26 wife of Joseph Nenadel strangled her two small children. Neighbors heard sounds, doors locked, police broke in but too late to save the children's lives. The mother is under arrest.
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Baltimore
Christine Nenadel
Joseph Nenadel
Nenadel
Fines Land Men Ten Thousand In Monarch Coal Case
In Cheyenne Idaho Aug 6 Judge Ryner overruled a new trial motion for E M Holbrook E B Lonebaugh and Robert McPhilamey all recently convicted of conspiring to defraud the government in acquiring Monarch Wyoming coal lands The judge fined Holbrook and Lonebaugh 10000 each and McPhilamey 2000 He ordered them to pay one third of costs and remain in county jail until fines and costs are paid The cases will be appealed to the United States circuit court of appeals
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Ryner
E. M. Holbrook
E. EB. Lonebaugh
Robert McPhilamey
Monarch
Holbrook
Lonebaugh
McPhilame
New York
Standard Oil Company
Landis
United States
Chicago
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Wall Street
Standard Oil
Stock Exchange
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
Chicago and Alton Railroad
Moffatt
James A. Moffatt
Oil Company
Indiana
Standard Oil Company of
Chicago & Alton
Whiting
Ind
East St. Louis
Illinois
Will Build at Winona Methodists Buy Around for Se
A local report notes a Methodist group in Winona plans construction and purchase actions surrounding community use. It outlines goals to expand facilities and the project’s anticipated timeline, highlighting church leadership and neighborhood impact.
Five mysterious assaults shake Chicago police force
Five violent attacks, four resulting in death, alarm Chicago as detectives chase leads. Victims include Fusario Rocco on 129 Austin avenue with two fatal stiletto wounds and Edward Smith, a policeman at 667 Warren avenue. A suspect linked to Smith case is named by Laura Nightingale of 525 Park avenue. Further victims include John Barbour near Thirty-first street tracks, John Naughton assaulted at Lake avenue, and William Donovan severely wounded at Hermitage avenue. No solid clues yet.
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Chicago
Fusario Rocco
Austin Avenue
Edward Smith
Warren Avenue
Barbour
John Naughton
Lower Avenue
Thirtyseventh Street
Lake Avenue
William Donivan
Jonovan
Hermitage Avenue
Strenuous Life Shortens Chicago Men Population
Chicago officials report a health bulletin showing a striking gender death gap. For seven months of 1907, 12 000 men died versus 8 000 women, with a 30 percent higher male death rate over twenty years. The cause cited is the strenuous life and risky, careless habits. The remedy urged is a return to the simple life of earlier times.
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Chicago
Evans
Eden
Lfe
A Revised and Modern Version of Ugly Duckling
A Hungarian peasant at Neusandec admitted murdering his 18 year old daughter claiming she was too ugly to marry. The jury found extenuating circumstances and returned a manslaughter verdict. The court sentenced him to three years in prison.
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Vienna
Neusandec
Major Broadway Fire Threatens Two Skyscrapers on Fulton
A spectacular blaze in New York on August 5 caused no major financial damage but for a period endangered two large office buildings housing thousands. Fire officials battled flames near Fulton Street, creating turmoil and excitement on Broadway as crews contained the blaze and evacuated several floors.
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New York
Broadway
Fulton
Fort Wayne Selected for Indiana Saengerbund Meeting
Terre Haute hosts the Indiana Saengerbund as Fort Wayne wins the bid with Evansville close. State officers named Fred Kipple Fred Biel Karl Bartenbach and Thomas Bukenhofer serve next year while delegates tour the city including breweries. A grand ball at Lake View Park will close the event.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Fort Wayne
Indiana Saengerbund
Evansville
Fred Kipple
Fred J. Biel
Karl Bartenbach
Thomas Bukenhofer
Preparation for grand jury probe of Alton rebates
Chicago August 5 preparation for the federal grand jury investigation of charges against the Chicago and Alton in the granting of rebates to Standard Oil of Indiana began today. Subpoenas will be issued tomorrow for witnesses, the first expected to testify August 14.
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Chicago
Federal Grand Jury
Chicago & Alton
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Road Wins In Suit Against Railroads Over Livestock
United States Judge Thompson sustained the demurrer of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway in a case brought by W. W. White for failing to feed and water livestock in transit from Xenia to Lewisburg Ohio. The petition did not prove a statute violation. Other suits against several railroads remain pending.
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Cincinnati
United States
Thompson
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway
W. W. White
Xenia Ohio
Lewisburg
Ohio
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
Big Four
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Chesapeake & Ohio
Cincinnati Northern Railroads
Alderman Flogs Wife Beater in Public in Hazelton
In Hazelton Pennsylvania on August 3 Louis Sambolia accused of wife beating was publicly flogged by Alderman D A McKelvey after a hearing. McKelvey dragged him into the street stripped his coat and handcuffed him to a tie post while a bystander supplied the belt for a vigorous flogging. The crowd and the wife observed the punishment.
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Hazelton
Louis Sambolia
D. A. McKelvey
McKelvey
Duchess of Marlborough Aids Prison Wives and Children
The Daily Mirror reports the duchess funds two London houses for prisoners wives and their children. One house will shelter about twenty wives with lessons in laundry work and sewing, while another offers a day care for babies from 8 am to 6 pm as the duchess visits daily and forgoes a planned American trip.
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London
The
Daily Mirror
Duchess of Marlborough
America
Attempt to wreck train near Garretsville reported
An effort to derail the Pittsburg flyer No. 23 on the Erie line occurred between Hiram and Garretsville. A tree trunk was dragged onto the track and chained down but section men removed the obstruction and halted the train. No injuries reported.
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Hiram
Pittsburg
Erie Road
Garretsville
Unprecedented Standard Oil Fine Shocks Wall Street
New York reports Judge Landis imposes a maximum penalty of 29.24 million dollars on 1,462 counts against Standard Oil of Indiana. Officials call the sum unjust, vow appeal, while analysts note market indifference and focus on potential further actions against related firms and rail interests.
Cornetist Mershon Suffers Tongue Nerve Injury
Wabash Indiana August 3 Prof W H Mershon noted cornetist and head of the Winona Lake music school suffered a nerve injury in his tongue making it impossible to play a note and affecting speech efforts to recover begin immediately
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Mpar
Pennsylvania
Waters-Pierce
Waters-Pierce Oi Company
Waters- Pierce Oil Company
Ite
Entucky
A. Green Smith
of State
Alonzo Greenshyth
Winona
Methodists
Hazelton, Pa
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