Giant trust controls American telegraph and telephone firms
An Indianapolis official reports Morgan interests dominate the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and many independents, with central links to Western Union. The Central Union line operates under a perpetual franchise, while a new Indiana district line challenged it. Prices rise with unbridled monopoly, risking service and rates in multiple cities.
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Indianapolis
Morgan
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Central Union Company
Western Union and
Postal Telegraph Companies
House of Morgan
J. P. Morgan
Central Union Telephone Company
Indiana
Illinois
Ohio
Western Union
H. F. Hill ,Sr
Theodore N. Vail
Western Union Telegraph and Cable Company
Raidway
Brown County
Europe
New York
London
New York Dispatches
Anglo-American Cable Company
Bell
Centrall Union Telephone Company
Haois
Central Union
E. W. Gleason
Indiana District Telephone Company
Gleason
Council
Board of Works
Central Tunion Company
City charity survey to map social uplift efforts
James Fieser director of Indianapolis public schools truancy unit leads a five district social survey in Indianapolis. The study will examine schools as social centers and assess employer benefits while charting lodges unions churches and charities. Investigations will begin with a focus on community centers and address housing and labor needs.
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Agenr
James Fieser
Social Workers’ Club
Fieser
Indianapolis
Ancial
Jung
Pittsburg
Commercial Club
Ethel Clark
Board of State Clarities
Indiana News Briefs: Williams Wrath and Navy Pension Bill
Washington dispatch reports Ed Williams of Indianapolis angrily denying interference in Indiana politics and requesting USPS inspectors. The piece notes Rep Morrison proposing a service pension of 0 cents per month for Civil War navy and marine veterans, in addition to any disability pension, with four Democratic representatives from Indiana backing appointments.
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Sun
Washington
Hibbs
Ed Willams
Indianapolis
Jesse Overstreet
Indiana
Post Office Department
Morrison
Navy
Marine Corps
Mustard Pickle Stings Isador and Damsel
Isador Wulfson encounters a young woman selling mustard pickle and a cheap 28 cent turkey while discussing weather, charity, church, and family. The exchange weaves through remarks on honesty, farms, and sewing society charity work before returning to the pickle.
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Isador
Isador Wulfson
Parcels Post Debated as Major Congress Issue
Washington dispatch notes parcels post as a key 1910 Congress topic with Taft Hitchcock endorsements and a push by James L. Cowles for swift action. Two bills, Bennett and Sulzer, seek rural parcel rates, with opposition from the House committee and details expanding weight limits and door to door rates across rural routes.
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Washington
Congress
Taft
Hitchcock
James L. Cowles
Postal Progress League
Sixty-Second
Bennett
Sulzer
House
Suizer
United States
Universal Postal Union
Post Office
Bookwalter Urges Public School Reform and Trade Focus
Former Mayor Charles A. Bookwalter tells the Social Workers Club at the YMCA that Indianapolis should fund a public school tied to Winona technical institute to train boys as skilled workers. He criticizes current schooling as producing intellectual misfits and advocates practical, work-oriented education while stressing the need to support clerks and watchmen with a bond issue. John L. Ketcham adds a brief closing remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Social Workers Club
Winona Technical Institute
Indianapolis
John L. Ketcham
Judge Declares Receiver Needed for Insurance Company
Judge Collier of the superior court appointed J. M.ull as receiver and barred the transfer of stock from the Automobile Insurance Company of America to the Federal Union Surety Company. The suit, led by Dr. Orion S. Miller, contends the exchange undervalues the insurer’s stock. The court found the transfer chaotic and not insolvency related.
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Automobile Insurance Company of America
Federal Union Surety Company
J. M. [Ull
Hall
Collier
Orion S. Miller
Insurgence Company
Dr. Miller
Surety Company
Insurance Company
Judge Collier
Insurance
Federal Union
Local Forecast Fair and Warmer Into Midweek
Tuesday night will be fair with increasing cloudiness by Wednesday. Temperatures rise as the day progresses with mild to warm conditions expected across the area.
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Indiana
Deldangee
Rebels Pen Forces of Diaz in Mexican Town
Federal troops sent to crush Chihuahua rebels are penned in Pedernales, with Gen Navarro a prisoner. About 3000 rebels surround, machine gun positions guard escape routes, and reports say Navarro could be executed if the siege holds.
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Diaz
EU Paso
Tex
Chihuahua
Pederdales
Navarro
Mexico
War Ministry
Mexico City
Terrazas
Enrique Creel
Pedernales
Madero
Sierra Madre
Loiterer Boasted He Was Too Clever
Ernest Bibey alias Burton alias James Bryant, 29, and Emma Catherine Gray were arrested. Bibey claimed to sell an automatic air brush for sign painters. Detectives found little against him but note he boasted Hoosiers are slow. He confessed past arrests in New York Baltimore Cleveland. Held on loitering charge with $1,000 bond.
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Ernest Bibey
Burton
James Bryant
West North Street
Emma Catherine Gray
Coffin
New York
Bertillon
Baltimore
Cleveland
Broderick Released From Federal Prison
Justus L. Broderick formerly of Elk Hart Indiana is released from the federal prison at Leavenworth after serving ten years for violations of national banking laws. He had been assistant to the chief clerk of the prison for several years and can have his Christmas dinner at home.
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Leavenworth
Eas
Justus L. Broderick
Elkhart
Ind
Stranded Actor Richard Brake Hears Snowy Train News
Richard Brake, a 14 year old actor, stands stranded at the traction station with only a shirt and a dressing room picture wrapped in paper and bound with twine. He laments poverty after a quick reassessment of his failed Imperial Stock pay and missing manager as he contemplates moving on from Detroit to Cincinnati amid cold and uncertainty.
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Richard Brake
Imperial
Detroit
Indianapolis
Railway clerks resist Hitchcock budget wrecking health on runs
Indianapolis railway postal clerks protest Postmaster General Hitchcock's economy plan saying it injures their health and nerves. They face sack shortages, high speed sorting, and longer shifts with little expense allowance while duties include tracking thousands of offices across multiple states and handling tens of thousands of letters and papers daily.
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Indianapolis
Hitchcock
Congress
Federal Building
Louiisville
Chicago
Roadhouse
David Rosenbaum
Louisville
Kankakee
Cincinnati
George Birr
New Albany
Michigan City
A. J. Ball
Rallway
Terre Haute
Richmond
Spunkville
Terrestial Apple
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The
Great American Telephone, Telegraph and Cable Company
Lodges
Hoosiers
Carlessly
Charity
Barrio Vp
EWLNG
Taft and Hitchcock
Committee
Frank H. Platt
Fred C. Beach
Bookwalter Burng Public School
Says
Ao Union
Charles A. Bookwalter
Superior Court
Broderick
Rail Boulevard
Pal
Mie
Cincy
Cheok
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