Pere Marquette Hikes Dividend Ahead of Merger Talks
New York March 10. Pere Marquette Railroad directors raised the common stock dividend from 4 to 6 dollars and declared an extra 2 dollar share dividend. The action follows the Interstate Commerce Commission's rejection of the Van Sweringen merger. the extra dividend is to reward stockholders amid improved prosperity. The extra quarter dividend of one half percent joins a regular 1 dollar quarterly dividend. Wall Street priced stock lower before the announcement, then bounced as markets rallied with other issues.
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New York
Pere | Marquette | Railroad Company
Interstate Commerce Comission
Pere Marquette
van Sweringens
Wall Stret
UT Contest Plans Ready For High School Event
Mareh 1i inl details for the state high school literary at University May 1M announced. Contests in essay ext extemp extempore oration and dating for contestants under 21. Winners receive scholarships. medals for top three in each event. Debate topic on the United States joining the optional clause to the protocol. Extemporaneous topics include prohibition immigration freedom of speech and national defense. Essay prompts cover School Athletics Town and Country and The Use of Money.
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Lroahtown
W. Va
Esay
United States
Permanent Court of Notice
Electric Generator Perfected In Germany
Berlin March 11 reports Dr Walter Paul an electrical engineer has devised a thermo magnetic electric generator to reduce coal usage in power plants. Demonstrated before the German Electro technical Society the apparatus uses a heated iron ring and induction coil to produce alternating current as the iron cools.
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Berlin
Walter Paul
Igineer
Paul
German Electro-technical Society
Abbe Bacle Invents Seedling Planting Machine
Nantes March 1. Abbe Bacle parish priest of Treis Vents invents a seedling planting machine. It places each cabbage seedling in a hole with a moving arc and fills the hole with a second attachment. The inventor claims labor savings of about nine tenths.
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Nantes
Abbe Bacle
Treis-Vents
Havig
State awaits beauty vote at Morgantown campus
Morgantown West Virginia March 11 the state awaits the beauty vote to be cast March 17 at the State University to select six most beautiful campus girls. Men will vote by plan used on the Pacific coast pictures of contestants posted in Commencement hall to aid final selections. The winner to receive an oil portrait. full page Monticola yearbook pictures to follow.
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Morgantown
W. Va
The
State University
Pacific Coast
Monticola
Associated Press
Alpha Xi Delta
Betty Morrison
Wilsonburg
Louise Bolton
Chi Omega
Julia Bates Welch
Parkersburg
Barbara Dowd
Weston Mappa Kappa Gamma
Margaret Maple
Point Marion
Mary Handlay
Wheeling
Fi Beta Phi
Edna Douglas
St. Marys
Margaret Reed
Fairmont
Delta Gamma
Alice Pirkiss
Grafton
Mpbaelu Pi
Intervention Opposed By Commerce Commission
The Interstate Commerce Commission has authorized intervention in the lake cargo coal rate case by the Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania, the attorney general of Ohio, the Tri State Coal Stripping Association, the Board of Commerce of Butler Pa and the Butler Mercer Coal Operators association. The case concerns how rates affect shipments from different coal regions.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commsion
Lake Cargo
Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania
Attorney General of
Ohio
Tri-State Coal Stripping Association
Board of Commerce of
Butler, Pa
Butler-Mercer Coal Operators’sociation
Slasher Sought After Two Women Attacks in Back Bay
Osu reports a well dressed man about 35 in Back Bay attacked Mrs. Levereth Sultonstad Tuckerman as she crossed the public gardens. He lunged with a knife through her coat and velvet dress, then tipped his hat and said how do you do. A maid was similarly assaulted in the same area. Police search for the assailant.
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Osu
Poolite
Back Bay
Levereth Sultonstad Tuckerman
Adenly
Tuckerman
Court Orders 16 Mines To Close For One Month
Uniontown Pa March 11 Under an order entered in spur t here Tuesday the mines of sixteen Indian Creek Valley Coal Companies will be closed down indefinitely within the next thirty days they having been adjudged in contempt for allowing mine drainage to flow into the creek Four larger companies were given until June 15 next to remedy the condition or close down The order held that the companies had violated an injunction granted the Mountain Water Company a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company which complained several years ago that the sulphur mine drainage flowing into Indian Creek affected the water to such an extent it ruined the boilers of railroad locomotives.
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Uniontown
Indian Creek Valley
Mountain Water Company
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Indian Creek
League Meet To Be Sunday In Pittsburgh
Fairmont West Virginia and Mid- Atlantic League leaders prepare for two Sunday sessions at the Henry Hotel in Pittsburgh. The 2 PM meeting will review Clarksburg’s status and Jeannette and Uniontown bids for league admission, while the 3 PM session will elect officers at the regular annual meeting. President Archibald’s dispute looms as a showdown, with expected full representation and Fairmont’s opposition to Archibald.
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Fairmont
W.va
Fred L. Doringer
Fairmont Club
Henry Hotel
Pittsburgh
Ray Archibald
Clarksburgh
Jeannette
Uniontown
Archibald
Doringer
Five Papers Sued By Actress For Libels
Actress Alice McCormick sues five Pennsylvania newspapers for 70000 dollars in federal court claiming December stories linked her to Emma A Miller of City Pa in a divorce case involving 83 year old General Charles Miller. She says she does not know the Milers and that the name caused public disgrace. Named defendants include the Philadelphia Daily News Luton Free Press Bethlehem Globe and Lancaster papers.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Alice McCormick
Emma A. Miller
City
Charles Miller
Miss. McCormick
Philadelphia Daily News
Luton Free Press
Bethlehem
Guard plant from maniac guard plant from mani
Borkford Alabama March 11 The Chappell Brothers horse meat packing plant has been turned into an armed camp after the escape yesterday of Frank Litts a prisoner who was found sane by a jury two weeks earlier following an attempted dynamiting of the plant Litts denied insanity and said his love for horses drove him to damage the plant He also tried to burn the plant and threatened company officials guards patrol the grounds flood lights illuminate the plant Authorities at Menard hospital for the criminal insane cannot determine how the prisoner escaped
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Borkford
Chappell Brothers
Frank
Litts
Menard
Lawyers Once Again Are Rulers of France
A Briand ministry survey shows 21 ministers and under secretaries with 13 lawyers. University professors hold four posts while others include a journalist, physician, manufacturer, and an accountant.
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Varia
France
Briand
Woman Mayor-Elect Resents Petticoat Rule Remarks
Seattle's first woman mayor Bertha Landes rejects the idea of a Petticoat Rule. She recalls campaigning, notes men should show interest in city government, and says she will return to address policy and appointments after a brief rest. Landes, wife of UW professor Henry Landes, served on the city council.
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Seattle
Wash
Bertha K. Landes
Landes
Henry Landes
University of Washington
Huge merger reported as two railroad equipment firms unite
American Locomotive and Railway Steel Spring Companies approve a merger creating a combined asset base of 130 million. Exchange terms involve two LOC shares for three RSS shares, with preferred on a one-for-one basis. William S. Woodin to lead the new group as chairman, Frederick Fitzpatrick to be president. Potential further consolidation with American Car and Foundry discussed.
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New York
Marea 11
American Locomotive and Railway Steel Spring
American Locomotive Common
Railway Steel Spring
Exchange of Preferred
William S. Woodin
Woodin
American Car and Foundry Company
American Locomotive Company
Frederick Fitzpatrick
Railway Spring Company
Wall Street
Robbers Cut Train In Two In Peoria Area Heist
Bandit gang halted a Minneapolis and St Louis freight near Peoria early today, uncoupling 18 of 40 cars and looting cargo. A brakeman was warned they sought cigarettes and liquor and could haul away two carloads in trucks before detectives and crew reconnected the train. A similar Rock Island holdup nearby recently yielded a large quantity of alcohol.
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Peoria
Minneapolis and
St. Louis
Here
Rock Island Road
Chile and Peru May War Foreseen by Senator
Lima March 11. Senator Loreto Cuilette warned in a senate speech on the Tacna Arica plebiscite that a new war between Chile and Peru may come if the award by President Coolidge is not adhered to. He argued peaceful settlement requires strict equality in the plebiscite and warned sovereignty could be at stake if not achieved.
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Chile
Peru
Lima
Senate
Loreto Cuilette
Coolridge
DeValera resigns Sinn Fein presidency in Ireland
Eamon DeValera quits as head of Sinn Fein after Ard Pheis vetoes his motion for Republican representation in the Dalghenn and Ulster parliaments. The Dublin report notes the March 11 date and the rejection by the Republican general assembly.
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DeValera
Sinn Feiners
Dublin
Eamon DeValera
Sinn Fein
Ard Pheis
Republican General Assembly
Dalghenn
Ulster
New Pharmacy Readies for March Twenty Seventh
Dr E L Love plans to open a new drug store in the Tobias building on Main Street about March 27. The room is equipped with a soda fountain show cases medicine cabinets and a private grill room behind a rear partition. Dr Love will stock hundreds of dollars worth of goods and will return to eastern cities to complete a full line of drugs and medicines. He previously operated Love Drug Company on Main Street and has long been known in Grafton. The renovated space promises to be among the citys most modern drug stores.
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Dr. E. L. Love
Tobias
Main Street
Dr. Love
Love
Love Drug Company
Grafton
Partial divorce granted in Baltimore case over railroad witness
Baltimore judge granted Mrs Mabel J Reynolds a partial divorce and ten dollars weekly for her son's support after Baltimore and Ohio railroad vice president Charles W Galloway testified for her. The husband defended her conduct citing earlier trips and alleged liquor, while Reynolds said he earned a bond clerk’s wage and she worked as a stenographer. A Danville safe incident with a ninety thousand dollar fee warning followed.
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Baltimore
Mabel J. Reynolds
Eli Frank
Charles W. Gilloway
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Reynolds
Galloway
Harry A. Reynolds
Atlantic City
Frank
Elemony
Young guard killed in prison knife attack at West Virginia facility
Eerl Langfitt guard aged 25 at the Parkersburg area state prison was stabbed by Henry Jackson a life prisoner from McDowell County. Langfitt died 30 minutes after being stabbed in the dining hall with an improvised knife. Jackson restrained by guards. An inquest set for 2 PM before Coroner W E Clayton at Gressell morgue. Body to be shipped to Parkersburg via B and O railroad tomorrow.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Eerl Lawfitt
Yarkersburg
Henry Jackson
Guard Langfitt
Mra
H. A. Langfitt
Parkersburg
Wood County
R. Emerson. Langfitt
Beckley
Glenn
Donald Langfitt
Langfitt
Jackson
Lanfitt
I. A. Ashworth
C. P. Wilson
W. E. Clayton
Gressell
Theody
Langiltt
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Rancher sues Chicago woman for $100000 claim
Oregon rancher Cyrus R. Shipman sues Mrs. Katherine Thorne in Chicago for 100000 alleging she promised stock and payment for his role in securing a divorce for William Tilly Camp so she could remarry. Case filed two years ago, details only ready now. trial set April 1. Mrs Thorne, ex-wife of a Montgomery Ward VP, purportedly guaranteed stock and bonds unused.
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Chicago
Cyrus R. Shipman
Oregon
Katherine ©. Thorne
Floita Otis Camp
New York
Thorne
Camp
Billy Camp
Tunney Stritting Go Match Off In Miami
The Tunney versus Young Stribling bout for Friday night in Miami was declared off. Tunney’s manager Billy Gibson said he would not let Tunney fight because promoters failed to meet advance obligations by March 1 as per contract and no hope of securing the stippled money.
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Tunney-Stritting
Miami
Fla
Gene Tunney
Young Stribling
Tunney
Billy Gibson
Sunday School Lesson on the Death and Resurrection of Jesus
The lesson outlines Jesus crucified between two criminals, the inscription over the cross, garments gambled for, and utterances from the cross. It covers the resurrection narrative from the empty tomb to Mary Magdalene and the disciples, including Jesus’ greetings, commissions, the Holy Spirit, and Thomas’ doubt resolved by Christ’s postresurrection appearance.
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Jesus
Golgotha
Christ
Mary Magdalene
Peter
John
Mary
Thebias
Thomas
To Make True the Dream Quote by Edward A. Steiner
The passage expresses a conviction that Christianity holds a valuable possession in an unfinished task and ongoing conflict. It frames life as a duty to invest in the dream for the Son of Man, attributed to Edward A. Steiner.
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Edward A. Stein
Depend on Jesus Never for euritily things
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Jesus
Mandi
Arnston
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