Last Insular Cases Decided In Supreme Court Rulings
The Supreme Court issued opinions in the last two insular test cases, upholding duties on goods shipped to Porto Rico as a tax benefiting locals, while exempting Philippine rings from duty under the Paris peace treaty. The decisions clarify that the Philippines became U S territory with sovereignty vested in the United States, affecting future tariff policy and legislation.
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
United States
Philippine Islands
New York
Porto Rico
Fuller
Philippines
Dooley
Brown
Gray
Shiras
White
McKenna
Philippine
Pepke
Luzon
Chicago
Supreme Court
District Court of the United States
Illinois
de Lima
Bidwell
Downes
Porto Rico Tariff Case and Catarrh Cure Ads
The article mixes a legal note on tariff duties imposed on Porto Rico imports by the 1900 act, drawing implications of Congress powers and a court ruling, with an advertisement for Stuart's Catarrh Tablets claiming to cure catarrh and related ailments using eucalyptus gum and antiseptics. The piece cites Dooley, Smith & Company and mentions San Juan as the collection port.
Joyful maternity and Lydia Pinkham’s remedy letters
Two grateful women relay how Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound aided their path to motherhood. They describe relief from uterine and ovarian pain, improved fertility, and renewed health, attributing babies and brighter homes to the medicine and Mrs. Pinkham's guidance from Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
L . Mass
Supreme Court Sustains Dooley Porto Rico Tax Case
The United States Supreme Court sustained the government in the second Dooley case regarding the April 12 law taxing articles shipped to Porto Rico. Justice Brown held Porto Rico not foreign territory, rendering goods there not exports, and affirmed the Foraker act framework as a temporary expedient with Porto Rico’s legislature able to alter the law.
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
Dooley
United States
Porto Rico
Brown
Congress
Downs
Insular
Justice Brown
Port Rico tax duties debated in Supreme Court ruling
The article reports on a Supreme Court discussion of whether duties on goods moving to Porto Rico from New York are taxes on imports or exports. Justices consider federal power over territories, and whether a temporary duty aids local government. Chief Justice Fuller and others dissented in the Dooley case, stressing explicit constitutional limits on taxing imports and exports.
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New York
de Lima
Porto Rico
United States
Congress
Brown
Houston
Bidwell
San Juan
Legislative Assembly of
Revenue Officers
Treasury
Circuit Court
Fuller
Brewer, Harlan and Peckham
Dooley
Root Refuses to Comment on Insular Court Decisions
Washington reports Secretary Root declined to express an opinion on the effect of insular court decisions until he can read them fully. War and treasury statistics show US-Philippines trade since 1898 with imports from the Philippines totaling 1. six million to the US and 1.99 million from Spain, while US imports from the Philippines between 1898 and 1901 reached 15.45 million, only 1.89 million of which were dutiable goods, implying limited potential refunds.
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Washington
Root
Supreme Court
War Department
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
United States
Philippines
Spain
Storti fate faces further bid to overturn death sentence
Washington December 2 supreme court upheld Massachusetts circuit court ruling and ordered the death warrant to issue. Storti, now imprisoned in Boston under a death sentence, may seek a writ of error before U S courts. Attorneys hint at possible further delays and a new appeal based on ex post facto grounds and recent governor Crane respite.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Luigi Storti
Storti
U.S. Circuit Court of Massachusetts
U. S. Supreme Court
Boston
Stockbridge
U.S. Supreme Court
U. S. Circuit Court For
Massachusetts
Stort
U. S
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Charlestown
Gas deaths at Port Jef ferson hotel in New York
A man and a woman registered as James O Neil and wife at Port Jefferson hotel on Sixth Avenue were found dead in bed. Police identify the man as Daniel Flannery. the woman remains unnamed. Reportedly, gas was inhaled and the death caused by an accidental gas turn on.
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New York
Port Jefferson Hotel
Sixth Avenue
James O'Neil
Daniel Flannery
Real Good Value in Pillow Cases from Dwight Anchor
A. G. Pollard & Co offer Dwight Anchor pillow casings made by their steamstresses. Available widths 40 42 and 45 inches with yard lengths. Priced at 10 cents each or 1.10 per dozen, claimed as better quality than typical cotton offerings.
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Dwight
Bagement
A. G. Pollard & GO
Killpartrick Bros Offer Mixed Nuts and Fruits
Dates figs mixed nuts oranges lemons bananas featured by Killpartrick Bros as a selection of best confectionery and related fruit products offered for sale.
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Killpartrick Bros
Stowaway Found After Fifteen Days in Packing Case
A German man about 30 years old was discovered unconscious in a packing case marked J. B. 71 aboard the steamer Palatin at Hoboken. He had been hidden for about fifteen days, subsisting on air, bread crumbs, and whiskey, with little money and no signage of the sender. He is hospitalized with little chance of recovery and cannot tell his story. No consignor or consignee identified yet.
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New York
Hoboken
Germany
John Beck
Palatia l
Palatin
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