Sims Eyes Fresh Push Against the Trust
Edwin W. Sims United States district attorney of Chicago, whose victory over Standard Oil was overturned by Judge Grosscup, plans a renewed government fight against the trust. Born in Canada and raised in Michigan he started as a Bay City Post city editor before studying at the University of Michigan. He moved to Chicago, started a solo practice after a $500 fee for an opinion, then built a career as county attorney district attorney solicitor for commerce and labor, and rose to his current top post.
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Edwin W. Sims
United States
Chicago
Standard Oil Company
Grosscup
Mr. Sims
Michigan
Old Bay City Post
University of Michigan
Sims
Department of Commerce and Labor
Potomac Flats Transforming Into Public Park
Transformation of Potomac flats along Washington front into a spacious public park with verdant lawns trees and shrubbery. New walks drives and seats offer river views replacing swampy waste land and thickets. The city aims to provide a cool attractive summer living area with shaded streets and comfortable outdoor space.
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Ashington
Potomac
Washington
Memorial to Bishop Satterlee A new All Angels church planned at Twilight Park
Plans move forward to enlarge and convert the Twilight Park chapel at Haines Falls Catskills into a stone church as a memorial to Rt. Rev. Henry Yates Satterlee bishop of Washington. The All Angels mission began in 1895 with Satterlee hosting the first service and guiding its growth over the years.
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Washington
Henry Yates Satterlee
Twilight Park
Haines Falls
Catskill Mountains
All Angels
Diocese of
Satterlee
Catskills
Hint
All Angelis
Bishop Satterlee
Guarding the Precious Declaration
A report notes a hoped for permit to view the original Declaration of Independence, last seen in 1903, but the plan failed. The document has since been kept in a dark, dry safe after 1903 to prevent further damage from light, folding, and handling.
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Department of State
John Hancock
John Hay
New Plan Aids Aliens in Finding Farm Work Nationwide
The bureau of immigration and naturalization information branch reports a program sending aid cards to job seekers guiding aliens to employment mostly in farming. Since February the effort has placed nearly 1,000 individuals across 26 nationalities in states including South Dakota, Vermont, New York, California not listed, and Texas, with New York and Vermont receiving the highest counts.
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Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization
Congress
Information Branch
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New York City
Alabama
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Delaware
Georgia
Illinois
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Iowa
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Massachusetts
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Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Independence party leader Thomas L Hisgen and early life
Thomas L Hisgen, Massachusetts resident and Independence party presidential nominee, was born in Petersburg Indiana on November 27 186? to German parents. He started as a country school student, later clerking in Albany and co developing a patent axle grease. He married Barbara Fox in 1900 and fathered three children. He ran for state auditor in 1906 with Democratic and Independence League support, then for governor in 1907 on the Independence League ticket, earning about 75 000 votes and elevating his party in Massachusetts politics.
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Thomas L. Hisgen
Independence Party
Massachusetts
Indiana
Albany
William Hisgen
Petersburg
Ind
Thomas
Hisgen
Barbara Fox
Independence League
Miller Leads Oil and Beef Trust Battles at Chicago
STANDARD'S CHIEF ATTORNEY John S. Miller, a Chicago lawyer and former city corporation counsel, achieved reversal of a $29,240,000 fine against Standard Oil in federal appeals court. He also played a pivotal role in the beef trust cases and coined the term immunity bath after pulling packers from sentence.
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John S. Miller
Standard Oil Company
United States Court of Appeals
Rockefeller
Landis
Standard Oil
Chicago
United States
Roosevelt
Congress
John R. Walsh
Miller
Hempstead Washburne
George B. Swift
Beef Trust
National Department of Justice
Prince of Wales In Canada May Visit U S Before Return
The Prince of Wales, newly second in line to the British throne, tours Canada for the Quebec Tercentennial and may visit the United States. He travels with his wife and a distinguished staff, including Lord Roberts, in contrast to his earlier casual visits to Quebec.
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George, Prince of Wales
Canada
Quebec
United States
England
Europe
Prince Edward
Royal Navy
Gibraltar
America
Roberta
Kipling
Burglary Record Stops Police Appointment in New York
In New York Father Knickerbocker narrowly avoids appointing burglar Croughan as a patrolman. A detective exposed the candidate’s three prior burglaries and dishonorable army discharge, sparking a warrant for perjury and preventing a potentially dangerous hire.
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Cants
Croughan
Gen
Bingham
Standard Oil Prepares for Melon Cutting Amid Large Surplus
Standard Oil reports net profits near 40 million for the first half of the year and plans dividends totaling about 23.6 million, leaving a surplus of 16.4 million as investigations weigh on potential fines. The accumulated surplus since 1902 nears 210 million while total profits approach one billion, with executives expecting no dissolution despite legal pressure.
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Standard Oil Company
Landis
Industrial Christian Alliance Aims to Reclaim Hobos
The Industrial Christian Alliance pledges to reclaim hobos through faith and 16 years of aid work. It plans a new $200000 ten story building at Lafayette and Bond streets as trustees trust the approach. Most applicants are skilled workers, not ordinary laborers, and alcohol abuse figures heavily in downfalls.
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Industrial Christian Alliance
Hobo
Central Park
Alliance
First Aid
Down and Outers
Lafayette and
Bond Streets
Harvey Graeme Furbay
The
Stokes Couple Boost Socialist Ticket In New York
Rose Pastor Stokes plans to stump for J G Phelps Stokes in the Eighth district as he runs for the Socialist Labor party seat in the New York assembly. Mrs Stokes offers to campaign as cart tail orator, drawing on her district knowledge and appeal to mobilize votes for the candidacy. Robert Hunter, Stokes’s brother in law, will seek the Tenth district seat in Congress, with both men aligned to the East Side Socialist push.
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New York Assembly
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Socialist Labor Party
Highth
Mr. Stokes
Robert Hunter
Congress
East Side
Hunter
Stokes
Jacob Banken
Banken
James G. Phelps Stokes
Rose
Pastor Stokes
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