Governor Mann Advises Farmers on Cotton, Sherman Act
Virginia governor William Hodges Mann urges farmers to hold crops, buy forward bales, and avoid planting in 1912 to boost prices. He condemns manipulation under the Sherman act and advocates arbitration or a clear government interpretation to end business uncertainty and support national progress.
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Richmond
Wiliam Hodges Mann
Virginia
United States
Colquitt
New Orleans
Sanders
Louisiana
South
Citzens
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
Law Department
Foreigners Can't Sell Tickets Here in Postoffice Action
The Postoffice Department issued fraud orders against eight foreign lottery concerns from Copenhagen Hamburg and Zagreb. Debarred their circulars from malls after discovery they were attempting to sell lottery tickets in the United States. Individuals named include Johannes Depmer Eck berg & Co J Smithfield M Koval O Valecki Emil Hagen O Schmidt and Peters & Co.
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Washington, D. C
Postoffice Department
Copenhagen
Denmark
Hamburg
Germany
Zagreb
Hungary
Johannes Depmer
Eckberg & Co
J. Smithfield
M. Koval
O. Valecki
Emil Hagen
Firemen's Narrow Escape in Major Chicago Blaze
Fire Chief Seyferlich and twenty firefighters escaped death as a blaze destroyed the Chicago Flour Mills Company plant at 4633 Granada Avenue. The $360,000 fire, under investigation for possible arson, began in a storage room where twenty five gallons of kerosene were kept for heating.
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Chicago
Ill
Seyferlich
Chicago Flour Mills Company
Granada Avenue
Government seeks dissolution of International Harvester
In Washington the government plans to file suit to dissolve the International Harvester Company unless it voluntarily dissolves. General Counsel Bancroft and Assistant Attorney General Fowler were in conference at the Department of Justice. A report by Special Investigator Burdette Townsend calls the company a mega combination connected to steel trust inquiries.
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Washington, D. C
International Harvester Company
Bancroft
Harvester Combine
Fowler
Department of Justice
Stanley
Department
Burdette Townsend
Steel Trust
Lillian Russell Details Gowns In Shubert Suit
New York special reports Lillian Russell testifies in City Court over a $1717 bill for gowns supplied by Mrs. Osborne Company for the 1904 Lady Teagle production. She defends herself as not responsible for ordering costumes while recounting prices like a $700 gold embroidered net gown and $40 rhine stone buttons.
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New York
Lillian Russell
Mrs. Osborne Company
Sam S. Shubert
Lee Shubert
Miss Ruswell
Shuberts
Treasury Satisfied With Alarm Device at Vaults
Treasury officials say new burglar alarm system protecting the currency vaults is adequate after agents and Treasury experts rushed to the building last night following a test by the police. Final connections were completed just yesterday.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury Department
Treasury
Wets File Petition for Election
Norfolk special report notes the Isle of Wight county Smithfield area petitioning in a wets vote by a bare majority of one. Police and election officials monitor the contentious process as local measures seek approval.
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Wets
Norfolk
Weta
Smithfield
Isle of Wight
Local Option Election Petition Cleared to Vote
The petition to call a local option election has been secured. Smith Erd has endured dry years and the vote is scheduled for the second Tuesday in January.
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Ave
Smitherd
Worker knocked from bridge at Dan River fall near South Boston
A Norfolk and Western worker, Alex Woolridge, was struck by flying metal while on a Dan River bridge at South Boston and knocked into the river. His body had not been recovered, leaving uncertainty whether he died from the blow or drowned.
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Houston
Norfolk and Western Force
Dan River
South Boston
Alex. Woolridge
Mayor With Working People in Schenectady
Special. Rev. George R. Lunn, Socialist mayor elect, declares working people will have first consideration in city plans. He says Socialists gain national respect as the first Socialist mayor chosen in New York State and pledges to make Schenectady one of the best served cities in the Union.
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Schenectady
N. Y
George R. Lunn
New York State
Lunn
Socialist Party
Union
I Know Who Killed Him Says Five-Year-Old Girl
Grace Sutton five declares knowledge of a murder near Bedford Maryland aiding police in solving the case. The child implicates Lulu Sutton Joseph Fultz and Oliver Younger as conspirators in James Mitchell's killing for money he carried. Fultz allegedly struck Mitchell. a confession from Lulu Sutton follows the child’s account.
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Bedford
Grace Sutton
James Mitchell
Lulu Sutton
Joseph Fultz
Oliver Younger
Mitchell
Fultz
Theolice
Italian Ambassador Reports To Tripoli On Attack Repulse
Marquis Cusini Confalonieri, the Italian Ambassador, received dispatches from Tripoli today stating that Italian forces repulsed an assault by Arabs and Turks with artillery on their left wing. The berichten describe continued fighting and imply ongoing hostilities in the region.
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Washington, D. C
Cusini Confalonieri
Tripoli
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