How the Wilson Administration Aims to Curb Big Combinations
The annual Redfield commerce report outlines anti trust aims for legislation this session. It cites presuming restraints of trade as unreasonable, prevents stock watering, limits cross holdings, and requires scrutiny of large scale monopolies. It urges a Bureau inquiry into industrial efficiency and the costs of production in clothing and seeks broader study of retail price fixing.
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Redfield
Department of Commerce
Wilson
Joseph A. Davies
Congress
Davies
Secretary of Commerce
Tifa
Bureau of Corporations
Salient Features Of The Proposed Trust Inquiry
A law declares restraints of trade unreasonable. A law against watering industrial securities. A law against interlocking corporations and directors. Determination of whether trusts are socially and economically efficient. Bureau of Corporations investigates this question with $421 700 appropriation. Inquiry into fixing retail prices. Inquiry into the cost of production of clothing.
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Bureau of Corporations
Turner proposes meteor fragments from Saturn cause sun spots
Oxford astronomer Herbert Hall Turner argues in the London Times that sun spots reform when fragments from Saturn’s rings, carried by lonids meteors, strike the sun. He admits the idea may be incredulous but cites ancient Chinese records as supporting evidence.
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Herbert Hall Turner
Savilian
Oxford
England
Turner
London Times
To the Old Year Alone We Farewell
Mary H. Blynn writes from Philadelphia Record bidding farewell to the departing year. She laments its passing, credits the year with gifts of health happiness and fortune, and wishes it godspeed before turning to greet the newborn year.
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Mary H. Blynn
Philadelphia Record
Forest service data show forests sustaining livestock and meat supply
A Washington bulletin notes while meat prices rose sharply from 1899 to 1909 Americans consumed about 105 pounds of beef veal and mutton per person. U S forests under Henry Graves support over 20 million livestock head with grazing revenue exceeding 1.9 million dollars. The service logged 2 billion board feet valued at 4.6 million dollars, with total revenue just under 2.5 million.
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Washington
Henry
Graves
United States Forestry Service
School to Train Beggars and The Gay Cats Society
Chicago police report an nationwide beggars network known as the Gay Cats with Chicago headquarters. The group, called panchandlers by some, runs camps and a school of instruction teaching deception and disguise, including making cripples and using acids to feign injuries.
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Mendicants
Chicago
James P. Larkin
Chicago Detective Bureau
United States
Panhaandlers’ Trust
Larkin
Doctors as Court Judges
Dr Harold W Wieht of Bellevue New York proposes sentencing criminals by state physicians trained in mental disease rather than by judges. He argues punishment fails to address underlying causes and that true justice lies in correcting the condition that led to the error.
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Harold W. Wieht
Bellevue Hospital
New York
Journal of the American Medical Association
Chicago judge grants divorce after husband bites nose incident
Judge Forti in Chicago grants a divorce to Mrs. Rone Watkins after she testified that her husband struck her on the nose when she was not dressed at the agreed time. The decree follows her claim of domestic violence amid an argument over readiness.
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Forti
Chicago
Rone Watkins
West Bottoms
Myriad Thoughts Came as He Fell From Fire Rescue
Bertrand H. Biman of the National Railway News Company described leaping eighty feet from a burning Albany Fort building. He clung to the sill, directed rescuers, and landed in a life net, waking weeks later in hospital after surviving the fall.
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Bertrand H. Biman
National Railway News Company
Albany
Billman
Billtian
University expedition discovers three unknown Indian tribes
A Philadelphia letter from Dr. Parahee reports the University of Pennsylvania Amazon expedition locating three hitherto unknown tribes in Brazil near Bay Vista on the Araracuera river. The Porocotos Ajumaras and Zapacas were named and vocabularies and ethnological specimens were collected.
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University
South America
University of Pennseytvan
Amazon
Brivil
White Ney
University Museum
Philadelphia
Parahee
Bay Vista
Brazil
Araracuera River
Farahee
Do Your Christmas Shopping Early
A column reviews a London Weekly writer who condemns the motor car as pretentious and absurd for education and pleasure. It contrasts old travel on foot or by horse with modern motorists racing through landscapes, mocking speed as eroding genuine encounters with places and history.
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T. P. O'Connor
London Weekly
Enfield
Charles
Mary Lamb
Weatmoreland
Christopher North
Loch Tolla
Huw
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Henry McCall Jr
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McCall Ranch
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Ore
Long Branch
Daily Record
RED Bank
Asbury Park
J. Kride
Lemaistre Lace and Embroidery CO
Cookman Ave
Emory St
Monmouth County
Berger’s
Cookman Avenue
N. J
Regal
The
Regal Shoe Store
Broad Street
Red Bink
Richmond
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Bridge Avenue
Joseph Salz
New Jersey
Kansas City Journal
California
Eli Perkineg
San Francisco
Union Pacifi
Ogden
Boston
Massachusetts Sunday School Association
Knabe Chickering
Steinway
Haines Bros
Sohmer
Partor Grand
Am Steck
Mahorany Naby
Parton
Hardman
Raby
HNABE
Mahorany Raby
Ttn
KNATN
Krare
Rowe Hwa
Epiendra Silon
Loule
Roemerd Mouhleicher
Ark Wheeler
Brewster
Marshall & Wendell
Kardman
Mahogny
Armstrong
Tves Bros
Wazelton
Grant Mason & Hamlin
Nike
Roe Knabe
Hrat
Marshall & Wendwe
Baines
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