Ten Years In Prison For Counterfeiting and Crime
Multiple cases onsentenced in Ft Leavenworth and local courts with fines for counterfeiting, misbranding drugs, mail fraud, and obscenity. Defendants include Robert Jackson who confessed to murder, Elsworth Kaufman fined for stock scheme, and Garnet Lancaster pleads not guilty. Several others receive fines for shipping below standard, oleomargarine, and obscene mail.
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Ft. Leavenworth
Anderson
Robert Jackson
Edward Chester
Laurel
Kentuck State
Elsworth D. Kaufman
South Bena
J. N. Kaufman
Violet Lancaster
Herd
Merrill Owens
Winchester
Wien Wating Dow
Fred E. Kaiser
Milan
Mike Bean
Keenowar
Lewis Schutte
Delaware
Joseph Volz
Pierceville
E. J. Keechlin
Henry
H. A. Borink
Lawrenceburg
Sure Pop Company
W. A. Wells
Lafayette
Sure Pop Medicine Company
Fort Wayne
Chas. Cornelius
New Albany
Wells
James Dushane
Oakland
Cal
Clairvoyants Target Murphy Ads Ban in Mail
In Washington on May 17 clairvoyants palmists and fortune tellers flood Representative Arthur Murphy of Missouri with letters over his two congress bills to bar ads for the profession from the mail. The proposed laws would require first class postage on each publication containing such advertisements.
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Washington
Arthur Murphy
Missouri
Congress
Prince Nicholas Receives Heroism Decoration
Berlin May 17 Prince Nicholas heir to Oldenburg grand duchy throne, aged 12, awarded a high decoration by Emperor William for saving his grandmother’s life. He and the grandmother were in a boat when it overturned. he held her head above water for 15 minutes until aid arrived.
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Berlin
Grand Duchy of Oldenburg
Prince Nicholas
William
Nicholas
Income Tax Fight in New York Senate
Albany May 17 The battle over the proposed federal income tax resolution was revived in the New York senate. The measure mirrors a Murray resolution twice defeated in the assembly. Leaders say debate is to record senators on record for and against the proposal, as in the assembly.
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Albany
Senate
Assembly
Train Arrives Four Months Late in Salt Lake City
Train No on the Salt Lake route reached Salt Lake from Los Angeles four months behind schedule. It was due January 2 and had been stranded near Calienta after the January washout. Service on the Salt Lake line will resume June 15.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Los Angeles
Calienta
Statehood bill sparks Senate fight in Congress
Washington May 17 The administration program faces a showdown as Senator Aldrich and regulars reject Beveridge statehood bill claiming it adds two states with four Democratic senators. Democrats and insurgents threaten to block railway and postal savings bills if the measure fails. Indiana Rep Campbell faces taunts from his delegation as he backs the Payne Aldrich tariff, calling the Indiana group aristocrats or demagogues.
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Sun
Washington Service
Hibbs
Washington, D. C
Congress
Aldrich
Beveridge
Sena
Tor Aldrich
White House
Condii
Borah
Campbell
Kansas
House
Indiana
Hughes After Railroads Emergency Message Seeks Rates Bill
Gov. Hughes urged the senate to promptly pass the public service commission amendment. The measure grants the upstate commission power to fix and determine railroad fares for suburban traffic.
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Public Service Commissions
Upstate Commission
Battling Nelson Opposes Boxing Fight Film Bill
Battling Nelson testified before the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee to oppose Rep Smith of Iowa's bill to ban interstate transport of moving picture films of prize fights. He warned the law would kill boxing and harm athletics, citing over 5 million dollars invested in the sport.
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Washington
Battling Nelson
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Representative Smith
Yowa
Smith
Hoosier Banks Hold Share of Corporation Tax
Secretary MacVeagh replies to Indiana bankers amid inquiries on corporation tax deposits. Collections will stay in designated Indiana national banks up to current limits, with any surplus above that sent to the treasury. Indiana’s assessed tax totals 403,661 dollars.
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Hoosier
Indiana
MacVeagh
Indianapolis
Treasury
City council urged to act after boy killed at crossing
Coroner Blackwell ruled George Fisher, 10, died May 2 when struck by a Big Four train at Newman street crossing. Verdict cites lack of crossing gates or flagman and train exceeding speed limit, urging mayor and city council to force railroad to install watchman and safety gates.
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Blackwell
George Fisher
Newman Street
Wife of Hyde Still Proclaims Innocence in Missouri Affair
Frances Hyde defends her husband Dr. B Clarke Hyde as innocent despite a jury verdict finding him guilty of murdering Col Thomas H Swope billionaire philanthropist. Juror W C Crone says he believed Hyde innocent until testifying. Hyde to appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court to seek a new trial, arguing trial errors allowed testimony about related deaths and typhoid.
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Kansas City
B. Clarke Hyde
Col
Thomas H. Swope
Frances Hyde
W. C. Crone
Hyde
Clark
Bb. Clark Hyde
Supreme Court
Bennett Clark Hyde
Jefferson City
Moss Hunton
Chrisman
Funds Misuse Arrest Shocks Port Clinton Woman
Toledo reports Mrs. L. Perry of Port Clinton was arrested on May 17 for illegal use of funds from the National Veteran Women of America, where she serves as secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Veteran Women of America
Toledo, O
L. Perry
Port Clinton
Saxophone dispute leads to $1000 suit in court
Mrs Mary Dorzdowitz sues Frank J Carlin Edwin Lennox and Wm E Carlin for 1000 damages claiming two men posing as Carlin Lennox mince dealers demanded a saxophone and assaulted her husband when he refused, after visiting their home Tuesday morning.
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Carlin & Lennox
Mary Dorzdowitz
Frank J. Carlin
Edwin Lennox
Wm. E. Carlin
Corey Predicts More Prosperity For Nation
New York United States Steel president William E. Corey says underlying conditions in the country are sound and with fair crops the year should be very prosperous. He sails to Europe with Prince Tsai of China and may secure a contract for part of fifty million dollars in equipment for the emperor’s army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William E. Corey
United States Steel Corporation
Europe
Accident likely cements Mrs Moore as federation president
At the General Federation of Women's Clubs tenth annual convention in Cincinnati Mrs Philip N Moore of St Louis broke her right leg after a fall Monday evening. Despite opposition to her re election she is expected to be unanimously chosen again. John Mitchell and Leonce Maxwell received director nominations, with Moore slated for re election as president amid the accident.
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Cincinnati, O
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Philip N. Moore
St. Louis
Moore
John Mitchell
Leonce Maxwell
Cincinnati
Federation
Addison Broomball
Phillip N. Moore
General Federation
J. E. Cowles
Los Angeles
J. B. Sherman
Chicago
H. W. Dawson
Newark
N. J
Frank N. Shiek
Wheatland
Wio
L. L. Frankenburg
Philadelphia
J. Threadgill
Oklahoma City
Okla
Social club man placed on trial in Anderson court
Joseph Carper, who ran a social club near Anderson, Ind., was arraigned Tuesday in circuit court on a grand jury indictment for running a blind tiger. He has paid out hundreds of dollars in fines since the state went dry, and the case proceeds amid long-standing difficulties.
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the Sun
Anderson
Ind
Joseph Carper
Aloost
Carper
Harahan May Be Official Head As Rumors Fly
May 17. J. T. Harahan, president of the Illinois Central railroad, is in New York and sails for Europe to be gone until next fall. Rumors persist that upon his return to Chicago he will not remain president, with W. L. Parks seen as the likely successor.
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Chicago
J. T. Harahan
Illnois Central Railroad
New York
Europe
Harahan
W. L. Parks
Mob pursues Black fiend to use rope in Mississippi
In Memphis on May 17 an angry crowd from Sledge Mississippi hunts Elmo Curl a Black man who shot W P Miller mortally. After Miller's sister received a troubling letter Curl fled from his cabin a mile from town. Carl Curl and his wife fired at the mob injuring Miller’s killer who likely will face lynching.
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Memphis
Elmo Curl
W. P. Miller
Miller
Carl
Educated Democracy Keynote At California Jubilee
President A T Hadley of Yale addressed the Golden Jubilee at the University of California. He warned that large capital blends are symptoms not causes of peril and urged separating people’s problems from expert problems. He urged an educated democracy with vigilant public opinion and reliance on trained judgment for technical issues.
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Berkeley
Cal
A. T. Hadley
Yale
University of California
Jamin Ide Wheeler
Hadjamin Ide Wheeler
Hadley
Chimpanzee Charles I Suffocated En Route
Portland observed chimpanzee Charles I worth $75,000 suffocated in a car during transfer from Seattle to Portland. The educated animal reportedly smoked cigarettes and signed its name.
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Portland
Gre
Charles I
Seattle
Railroad Bill To Be Rushed To Passage
Washington May 17 The administration leaders in the senate aim to defeat further Cummins Lafollette amendments as the long and short haul dispute continues. Leaders hope to complete the bill by week’s end and send it to conference, with focus on the capitalization provision and a tariff board appropriation of 250000 for information gathering.
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Washington
Senate
Cummins-Lafollette
Court of Commerce
Department of Justice
Commission Upon Appeals
House
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Advocates of
Tariff Commission
Taft
Tariff Board
Puppy Death Prompts Macaroni Food Condemnation in Chicago
In federal court Chicago May 17 a 200 dram puppy died after an injection of martini yellow coloring used in macaroni. Dr Harvey Wiley testified the color is poison. Judge Landis ordered destruction of 5 carloads of macaroni as unfit for food.
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Chicago
Harvey W. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
United States Department of Agriculture
Landis
Albert Matthews
University of Chicago
Dr. Wiley
Washington
St. Louis
V. Viviano
S. Viviano
Wild Forest Fires Rampant Despite Rainfall
In the Duluth area May 17, heavy rain failed to quell forest fires in the frontier region and upper Michigan. A severe blaze north of Hibbing threatens the timberlands, with more than 60 million feet of pine already burned and containment unlikely without days of rain. Rain slowed the Bemidji area blaze but did not stop the overall danger.
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Duluth
Minn
Fron Range
Upper Michigan
Wisconsin
Hibbing
Bemidji
Woman Finds 500 Dollar Bank Note in Trash
Mary Wagner found a $500 bill while cleaning her front yard and turned it over to a bank where it was confirmed as a genuine bank note. The incident occurred on May 17.
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Mary Wagner
Sugar fraud case begins in New York
The jury to try Charles R. Heike and five other American Sugar Refining employees for conspiracy to defraud US customs duties was completed. Detailing the case, Assistant US Attorney Denison described a “roly poly gang” that manipulated scales to falsify sugar duty records from Williamsport to the main office, with payments routed by cashier James F. Bendernagel and overseen by General Superintendent Ernest A. Gerbgast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles R. Heike
American Sugar Refining Company
Trust
Torney Denison
Williamsburg
Sugar Trust
Denison
Uprising in Kiang-Su Reaches Imperial Troops' Alert
Revolution erupts in Kiang Su Province as rebels sever queues signaling rebellion. Imperial forces at Nankin ordered under arms amid anti foreign sentiment driving the unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imperial
China
Peking
Kiang-Su
Nankin
Off for California Goes Onl Three Blocks Later
Detectives Mullin and Hauser halted Roy Duff aged 19 as he neared three blocks into a trip to California and took him to city prison on petit larceny charges. Mrs Carl Elmore of 25 E Merrill Street alleges Duff, who rooms at her home, stole a revolver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nia
Roy Duff
Mullin and Hauser
Carl Elmore
Merrill Street
Duff
No Excuse for Ugly Faces Remains in Possum Remedy
An advertisement extols possum as a skin remedy for pimples blemishes red noses hives fever blisters and inflammation. It claims quick non greasy healing restoring natural color and offers free mail samples from Emergency Laboratories New York City. A pharmacist and local drugstores are named as outlets.
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H. J. Huder
Gnn Weber Drug Co
West Twentyfifth Street
New York City
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London
Actors’ Fund
Miss Chase
J. M. Barrie
England
Statehood
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Hoosiers
Hughes
N. Y
Prize Fight Pictures
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Hibbs Building
Corey
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Home For Savings
Roly
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Califor
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Kentucky Ave
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