Unprecedented Railways Probed Over Rebates in 1906
Special from Chicago reports that 1906 saw an unprecedented wave of federal rail law prosecutions. President Roosevelt and Attorney General Moody spurred actions against rebates, with fines totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. Notable cases include Wood & Co. acquittal in Philadelphia and Burlington Railway officials fined for secret rate deals to Vancouver.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Moody
Chisago Tribune
R. D. Wood & Co
Great Northern Railway
Mutual Transit Company
Philadelphia
Great Northern
Wood & Co
Camden
N. J
Winnipeg
Canada
Burlington Railway
Darius Miler
Claude G. Burnham
Geent
United States Steel Products Company
Vancouver
Interstate Commerce Commission
Prosecution of Rail Rebates Shocks Nation
The Milwaukee Transit and Pabst Brewing case revealed a subsidiary relation and illegal rebates to private transit interests. Chicago & Alton was fined for discounts to Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Packing. Kansas City actions against Burlington, Swift, Cudahy, Morris, Armour fined multiple sums. Santa Fe and Colorado Fuel faced rebates with Morton not charged. New York Central indicted with Guilford for aiding sugar cartel. Pomeroy died after trial. Rail safety and anti trust actions continued under Roosevelt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee Transit Ny
Pabst Brewing Company
Grow
W. H. Seaman
Kansas City
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway Company
Swift & Co
Cudahy Packing Company
Morris & Co
Armour Packing Company
George L. Thomas
New York
L. B. Taggart
Burlington
Thomas
Taggart
Swift & Cos
The
Cudahy Company
Armour Company
Santa Fe Railway
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Paul Morton
Santa Fe
Morton
Roosevelt
Secretary of the Navy
Messrs
Judson
Harmon
Senta Fe
Nathan Guilford
JL. Pomeroy
Trafic
Buffalo
American Sugar Refining Company
Sugar Company
Sugar Trust
New York Central
Pomeroy
Edgar & Earle
Detroit
Truths In A Few Words From A Quotation Page
A jumble of aphorisms on love trust politicians and self knowledge each short line delivers wry observations. Witty lines reference noses brains charm flirting friends and philosophy with few concrete details or context. The tone imitates a newspaper snippet of pithy maxims.
Mrs Potter Palmer Hosts National Civic Federation Meeting
Mrs Potter Palmer will open her home for the National Civic Federation meeting on January 12 at her house. She notes Cyrus McCormick and Franklin McVeigh asked her to lend the venue, and she is glad to help the federation but remains not personally involved in politics or social aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan Sea
Greatest French Novelist Sizes Up the American Girl
Paul Bourget, famed French critic and novelist of the Academy, surveys American women. He notes bold independence, late marriage, and the chaperon system, contrasting American self governance with French stereotypes. He reflects on love, mating, and social freedom shaping modern American womanhood.
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Paul Bourget
The
French Academy
Happiness paths for a young man and a American girl
Paul Bourget remarks on the ideal routes to happiness for a young man and a girl. He suggests a well born Englishman finishing at Oxford as the path to perfect happiness, while a girl should be born American with a father wealthy in mines, railroads, or land, arriving with sponsors in New York or Washington society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Oxford
Washington
Paul Bourget
Indian Admits Historic Murder at Dutch Creek Mine
In Dutch Creek Nevada, Kit Carson, the Piute Indian involved in the Dutchman mine raid, recalls the killing of German miner Schmitt during a 1860s siege. Carson admits firing the first shot and reflects on the raid that left Schmitt and three nephews dead after gold dust sparked a brutal confrontation.
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Dutch Creek
Walker Lake
Indian Res
Nev
Old Dutchman
Kit Carson
U. S
Schmitt
Chicago and Southwestern Electric Company chartered in Guthrie
The Chicago & Southwestern Electric company received its charter with 250 million dollars capital to build a 2500 mile electric line from Chicago to Denver. The route includes Joliet Mendota Rock Island Moline Galesburg Peoria Pekin Streator Bloomington East St. Louis and other Illinois points then Missouri Iowa Nebraska Kansas and Colorado. Main incorporators are B. M. Dunn and Louis E. B. Rabe of Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scripps-McRae Press Association
Guthrie
Okla
Chicago & Southwestern Electric Company
Chicago
Denver
Col
Joliet
Mendota
Rock Island
Moline
Galesburg
Peoria
Pekin
Streator
Bloomington
East St. Louis
Illinois
St. Louis
Jefferson City
Sedalia
Independence
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Missouri
Davenport
Muscatine
Des Moines
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Omaha
Lincoln
Tobin
Superior
Nebraska
Lawrence
Topeka
Junction City
Minneapolis
Osborne
Stockton
Kansas
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Colorado
B. M. Dunn
Louis EB. Rabe
Central Construction Company Chartered in Chicago and Guthrie
Central Construction company of Chicago and Guthrie is chartered with a capital of $500,000 to build the proposed line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Construction Company
Chicago
Guthrie
Newspaper Production and Reach in the United States
A census bureau bulletin cites 19,624,757 daily copies nationwide, about one for every four people, with Sunday print runs at 11,539,521. Advertising expenditures in 1906 totaled 145,531,811 dollars, and capital invested in printing and publishing stood at 384,021,309 dollars.
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Census Bureau
Washington
Hotel English Tailoring and Pressing Parlor
Open all night. We work while you sleep. Goods called for and delivered. Phone Main 347.
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Hotel English Tailoring and Pressing
Kingston whiskey and dining ads at Odd Fellows Building
An old newspaper card advertises accordion dress flasting and buttons recovered near Room 8 in the Odd Fellows' Building at Penn and Wash stations. It promotes Gayety Buffet as best in the city, Kingston’s specialty old whisky, and Smith's eight dinners served 11 am to 2 am at 38-41 Belinois Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odd Fellows’ Building
Penn
Clinois St
Social life and the allure of prominence in society
The passage argues that social display acts as a gauge of self-respect and status among Americans. It notes women seeking fame through adorers, aided by male reserve and women's keen understanding of masculine nature. It likens this intimacy to circus riders and horses, reflecting early mingling with men.
Raisuli in Fierce Fight With Moroccan Forces
Raisuli the bandit leads a fierce clash near Tangier as government troops close a cordon. Reports from Arzilla say the aggressor attacked forces under Sidi Mohammed Gabbus to break toward his mountain stronghold. Details are scarce but Raisuli is believed to have slipped through with much of his army.
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Scripps-McRae Press Association
Tangier
Morrocco
Raisuli
Arzilla
Sidi Mohammed Gabbus
Raisali
Double Funeral For Wreck Victims In Indiana
Charles Gullion aged 23 and his cousin Lee McIntire were killed in the Big Four wreck at Montmorenci while riding to Kankakee to seek fireman jobs. A double funeral is planned at Gullion’s Lebanon home tomorrow.
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Lafayette
Ind
Charles Gullion
Montmorenci
Lee McIntire
Kankakee
Guilion
Lebanon
Safe coal mine in Hongan Tonkin China touted
A mine in Hongan Tonkin China claims the safest coal mine in the world. It sits on a hill side with a single solid coal block about 200 feet high. Access is by removing a surface schist layer. The coal is good quality, mined at about 1000 tons daily. Dust is used for briquettes. Staff totals 50 Europeans and 3500 natives.
Largest Pipe Carving Depicts Columbus Landing
The world’s largest pipe, valued at 40000 dollars, is a single solid meerschaum piece showing Columbus landing. It features twenty four four inch high figures. The carver is dead and few artisans remain to reproduce this remarkable work.
The Jap as a Changing Card in Society
A wartime opinion piece recalls shifting views of Japanese people and a stereotype laden era. It traces changes from exoticized portrayal at religious meetings to ridicule of jiu jitsu and wartime tensions, noting a pivot to recognizing common decency in laborers and a broader shift in attitudes.
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Fair Nippon
Jim Jeffries
West Pointers
Goda
Frisco
Framing the Face With Hair Styles for Face Shapes
The article advises women to tailor hairstyles to face shapes, noting a long thin face suits soft loose waves and low English styling. It emphasizes hair condition, offering a simple driving lotion recipe using bicarbonate of soda, borate of soda, eau de cologne, alcohol, tincture of camphor, and distilled water for daily use.
Whang Ho Chinese war junk arrives in San Francisco bay
The Whang Ho, a Chinese war junk and first of its kind to enter San Francisco Bay, arrives for exhibition and will tour Pacific coast ports. W. N. Milne led the effort to bring her from Chinese waters amid objections over cruel instruments aboard. The ship carries infamous devices such as the starving cage, bleeding table, and drowning basket.
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Bay of San
A School For Cabbies In Paris Plan
Paris will establish a school for cabmen with the Anti Cruelty society and the Cab Owners Association agreeing on a training plan. The program includes instruction and probation covering horse anatomy and pathology, harnessing, feeding, driving, and police regulations for aspiring whips.
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Paris
Anti-Cruelty Society
Cab Owners’ Association
Johu
Women Make Trousers in Amiens Home Industry
In Amiens France women run a large home based tailoring industry making thousands of pairs of trousers. They work at home with their own sewing machines needles and thread earning 4 cents a pair. Hood s Sarsaparilla claims to cure ailments affecting appetite in illnesses showing others.
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Amiens
France
Riot in Chicago Negro District Wounds Two Officers
A race riot in Chicago's Twenty-ninth and Dearborn area left one patrolman fatally injured and another seriously hurt. Officers fought a mob of over thirty Negroes as a patrol wagon arrived, with twelve suspects arrested. Patrolman James Haver sustained serious injuries and may die.
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Twenty-ninth
Dearbornsts
James Haver
Forgery Alleged in Walsh Bank Crash Notes
Chicago Jan 7 The 29 notes for 100000 linked to the Walsh banks crash were declared forgeries. George Pardis said his name was forged on one note while testifying before the federal grand jury probing John R. Welsh affairs. E A Burrill of Peoria also testified a note bearing his name was forged.
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Walsh
Federal
John R. Welsh
George Pardis
Umnots Southern Railroad
E.A. Burrill
Peoria
Paradis
Applications for liquor licenses in Indianapolis wards seven to fifteen
Notices to voters in Marion county Indiana that multiple applicants will seek February 1907 licenses to sell spirituous vinous malt and other intoxicating liquors in quantities under five gallons with on premises drinking rights. Businesses at addresses along Walnut Walnut Douglass Illinois West Michigan streets require pool or ship table privileges. names include EVANS BADEN MAKER and SEARLES ZIEGLER.
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Center Township
Marion County
Indiana
Board of County Commissioners
Walnut Street
Douglass and
Walnut Streets
Ames
Indianapolis
Station County
Douglass Street
P. Cc. Evans
Board of Commissioners
South Twinois Street
Frank J. Baden
West Street
Hendrick’s
Eckert
South West Street
Peter B. Mw.laughlin
Harely
Delaware Street
Adolph Maker
Wayne Township
Michigan Street
Olleman
Haughville
Searles Ziegler
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FED
Eral Law
Congress
A. B. Stickney
Chisago Great Western Railway
Interstate Commission
Road Pays
Fnes
Milwaukee Case
Chicago & Alton
Chicago & Alton Railway Company
John N. Faithorn
John A. Wann
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Packing Company
Faithorn
Wann
Chicago & Alton Company
Packers
New York Central Railway
Department of Justice
Commission
Pennsylvania
Baltimore & Ohio
Chesapeake & Ohio
Norfolk & Western
Orta
America
Outre Mer
Victor Hugo
Chi
Cago
United States
Gayety Buffet
Best In the
Kingston
Hongan
Tonkin
China
Eins
San Francisco
Cal
Golden Gate
Die
Hood
Scrippa-McRae Press Association
Boquet Cigar 10c Cigar Co. W. Kriel “Ore Distributers of
Indianal
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