Plumb Accuses Railroads of Bonuses and Big Dividends
Washington charges that 18 railroads issued stock bonuses totaling 460 million dollars from 1900 to 1901 and paid millions in dividends on these bonuses. Glenn Plumb, proposing tripartite control, urges Congress to investigate alleged private ownership exploitation and wall street ties. Garretsen argues government ownership not best and rails should remain private.
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United States
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Glenn EB. Plumb
Chicago
Umb
Plumb
Publc
Morgan
Rockefeller
Gould
Congress
Committee of Congress
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chicago & Northwestern
Great Northern
Mlinois Central
Southern Pacific
Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio
New York
New Haven & Hartford
New York Cental & Hudson River Railroad
Boston & Maine
Delaware & Hudson Company
A. B. Gerretsen
Gcvernment Comm
Gemors
Garretson
Wall Street
U S Rushes Aid to Kolchak
The United States orders material aid for Admiral Kolchak's Siberian retreating army to Vladivostok. Official reports say 45,000 rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition已 been sent from San Francisco with more equipment to follow this week on an army transport. Copenhagen reports Bolsheviks recaptured Riga as Denikine’s southern front advances against Bolshevik forces continue. Kamishin, seized July 28, yielded 11,000 prisoners, 60 guns, 150 machine guns and vast war material.
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Washington
Admiral Kolchak
Siberia
Vladivostok
San Francisco
Copenhagen
Berlin
Riga
Denikine
War Office
Kamishin
Heflin Accuses German Money Behind League Propaganda
Representative Heflin of Alabama charged in the house that German money munition money and manufacturers money back the propaganda to defeat the League of Nations.
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Washington
Heflin
Dem
Alabama
League of Nations
Airplane Searches In Alabama Mountains For Distilleries
Airplanes were used in locating illicit distilleries in the Alabama mountains. Deputy Marshal J A Wall conducted a flight over the area and anticipates arrests based on the findings.
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Stille
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Mountains
J. A. Wall
Inheritance Tax on Carnegie Estate Estimated High
The inheritance tax on Andrew Carnegie's estate, valued at 500 million, was estimated at 144 181 000 by TLBE in Cleveland. The report also notes U S Treasury activities and a Panama race riot suppression involving West Indian troops and marines.
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Cleveland
Andrew Carnegie
TLBE
Peckin
States Revenue Department
Kingston
Panama
Jamaica
Exodus of renters as Chicago faces rising rents
Evidence of a renter exodus from Chicago grows in the department of public service as many residents move out to escape harsh rental demands. The mass departure illustrates mounting discontent with current housing costs and policies.
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Chicago
Department of Public Service
Strikers Battle Wounding Several at Keystone Plant
In Bartonville near Peoria several hundred strikers and sympathizers attacked the Keystone Wire and Steel plant. Three men were seriously wounded and others injured as deputies defended the site. Reuben and Alvin Sommers, connected to the firm, and a night watchman were among the wounded.
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Keystone Steel
Bartonville
Springfield
F. C. Towden
Tantey
Q. J. Yorker
Danville
Peoria
Teoria
M. HL. Hull
Keystone Wire and Steel Company
Reuben Sommers
Alvin Sommers
Sommers
Fred
Wilson Shows League Plan Differences From Paris Covenant
The original American draft of the League of Nations covenant sent to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by President Wilson differs from the Paris covenant in key areas. It retains a similar Article X on collective security but omits withdrawal terms and Monroe doctrine references, questions compulsory military service, and withholds certain confidential communications.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Wilson
Paris
League
Wisin
Senate
General Buss
Final casualty figures released by War Department
Final casualty reports from the A. E. F central records office show 49,498 battle deaths and 205,690 wounded with 4,480 prisoners. Only single revisions will be made in this report.
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Washington
A. E. PF
Central Records Office
War Department
Mexico Fears Intervention Senate to Meet in Secret Session
Mexico City on August 14 reports that the Mexican senate will hold a secret session at the opening of the regular congress to discuss international relations amid fears of intervention following reports from abroad.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Senate
U S to Sue Cement Trust in New Jersey Suit
Attorney General Palmer announced a suit in equity to dissolve the cement combination. The action will be brought in the district of New Jersey against 19 individual companies.
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U. S
Cement Trust
Washington
Sait
Palmer
District of New Jersey
Turkish attempt to sink Goeben thwarted at Ismid
Constantinople newspapers report Turkish officers tried to sink the former German cruiser Goeben at Ismid in Asia Minor but British officers stopped the effort.
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Athens
Constantinople
Goeben
Ismid
Asia Minor
Marines Transferred to Navy Department
Washington August 13. The marine brigade of the second division returns to Navy Department supervision after release from the War Department noting a formal transfer.
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Navy
Washington
Second Division
Navy Department
War Department
Oil Workers Win $5 Day Wage In California
Twelve thousand California oil field workers win a minimum wage of five dollars per day retroactive to July 1 with back pay of six cents per day from January 1.
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Bakersfield
Cal
California
Jaanuary
New York Painters Plan Strike Over Wages
Eight thousand printers decorators and paper hangers in New York will strike on August 15 unless demands are met. Union officials say the men seek one dollar an hour for an eight hour day.
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New York
Union Ofcials
Government Seizes Hoarded Food To Lower Living Costs
Government raids seize large stocks of eggs sugar and canned goods across Chattanooga Jacksonville and Chicago as part of price reduction efforts. Officials announce penalties fines and potential seizure of hoarded foods to curb anti price-gouging while retailers cut prices on army and civilian supplies.
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Chicago
Chittanoogi
Tern
Jacksonville
Phi
United States District Attorney’s Office
Chidage
Department of Justice
Palmer
Washington
Chattanooga
Atlantic Tee and Cal Corporation
Morris & Co
Middle West
Wse
Testamister Curtite
Wilson
War Department
President Wilson Mourns Carnegie Loss
President Wilson lauded Andrew Carnegie as a major philanthropic force and said his death constitutes a serious loss to humanity. The remarks came as messages of condolence were sent from Washington on August 14.
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Washington
Wilson Fin
Andrew Carnegie
Labor Alliance Postpones Street Action Referendum
London August 14 executives of Britain's labor alliance of railway workers gunners and transportation staff decide to postpone the street action referendum on political demands.
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Labor Alliance Broken
London
Britain
the Labor Alliance of Railway New, Gunners and Transportation Workers
Polish Army Tag Leaves Minsk for New Bolshevik Offensive
A wireless Warsaw dispatch says Polish troops have left Minsk to launch a fresh offensive against the Bolsheviks. The force is described as well trained and supported by artillery.
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Basel
Minsk
Warsaw
Double Shooting Mystery Rocks Danville Hotel
Following the mysterious death of Walter Whisman, hotel clerk, two women Mrs Whisman and Mrs E Hultz were arrested in Danville after the probable fatal shooting of Charles Moltz at the Holtz home.
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Danville
Tih
Walter Whisman
Charles Moltz
Holtz
Mears Named Chief Engineer of Alaska Railroad Project
Washington Aug 12 Col Frederick Mears former general manager of American lines in France during the war was appointed chief engineer of the government railroad project in Alaska.
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Washington
Frederick Mears
France
Government
Alaska
Boost Ship Transfer Rates Granted by ICC to Clyde Steamship
Washington August 12 The Interstate Commerce Commission approved higher transfer charges at Boston for the Clyde Steamship Company while denying similar rates to the Eastern Steamship Nous.
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Washington
Boston
Interstate Commerce Commission
Clyde Steamship, Company
Eastern Steamship Nous
Carnegie Dies at 84 in Shadow Brook Summer Home
Lenox Massachusetts August 12 Andrew Carnegie died at his Shadow Brook summer home at 7 o clock Monday the cause of death bronchial pneumonia He was eighty four years old and had been cared for by physicians and nurses for months He endowed libraries and charitable funds born November 25 1835 in Dunfermline Scotland he moved to America in 1848 worked as a weaver assistant and telegraph operator later rising to superintendent of the Pittsburgh division of the Pennsylvania railroad He helped found the Woodruff Sleeping Car company built Keystone Bridge works and Union Ironworks introducing the Bessemer process to the United States in 1868 transforming the steel industry He later owned Homestead and Eagar Thompson Steel works and his interests merged into Carnegie Steel Company in 1899
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Lenox
Mass
Andrew Crenegie
Shadow Brook
Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Dunfermline
Fifeshire
Scotland
America
Pittsburgh
Nis
Allegheny
Ohio Telegraph Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Keystone Bridge Works
Union Ironworks
Bessemer
Homestead
Eagar Thompson Steel Works
Carnegie, Whipp & Co
Carnegie Bros. & Co
Carnegie Steel Company
Attacks on Jews in Budapest Escalate
Budapest reports say Roumanians have emptied the countryside of provisions around the capital. The American food mission based in Vienna plans to feed Budapest school children. Anti Jewish sentiment runs high as Jews are beaten and dragged from cabs while Romanian troops jeer and egg on further violence.
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Budapest
Vienna
Wage Increase Granted in New York Subway Elevators
The Rapid Cranste company operating subway and elevated lines in Manhattan grants a general wage increase of 10 percent to its employees. The measure affects workers across the boroughs served by the system.
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New York
Tnterborough Rapid Cranste Company
Manhattan
Parliament approves oil price fix amendment in debate
London August 1 The house of commons adopted an amendment to empower the board of trade after an investigation to fix wholesale and retail prices for oil The vote stood 182 to 95 in favor.
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London
House of Commons
Board of Trade
Viscount Grey Likely Named British Ambassador to United States
Viscount Grey of Falloden, retired head of the British foreign office, is understood to be likely to accept the post of British ambassador to the United States. Also, George Dickson of Dixon was appointed by the Attorney General Brundage to serve as special attorney general enforcing the search and seizure act.
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Viscount Grey
Toudon
Viscount Grey of
Falloden
United States
Dickson
Springfield
George
Dickson of
Dixon
Brundage
Electrification Plan for Belgium Railways Approved
Brussels August 12 Belgium will immediately begin electrifying major rail lines following a commission decision. The move aims to modernize the national network and improve efficiency across key routes.
Somme District Grants Honorary Citizenship to Nurse Miss Stuart
Twenty villages in the Somme district honor Miss Stuart of Washington for her service as an American Red Cross nurse in the region.
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Anmiens
Somme
Stuart
Washington
Ford Wins Suit Against Tribune
Mount Clemens Michigan August 16 Henry Ford won a verdict against the Chicago Tribune in a libel suit over an editorial calling him an anarchist. The jury awarded nominal damages of six cents as a moral victory, with the judge outlining fair comment and libel principles.
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Motor Magnate
Chicago
Mount Clemens
Mien
Henry Ward
Chicago Tribune
The
Tribune
Ford
Edsel
the Tribune
Roosevelt
Orry Stulett
Word
Solomon News Company
Michigan
Tucker
Roumanian Troops to Leave Budapest After Peace Note
A Vienna wireless dispatch says Roumanian troops are about to depart Budapest in response to the peace conference note. Amsterdam reports the move as Allied pressure from the August date noted.
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Budapest
Amsterdam
Roumania
Peace Conference
Vienna
Bolshevik Hold on Black Sea Coast in Jeopardy
Odessa and London report Russian volunteer troops under General Denikine closing in from the northwest and east. Officials believe the entire Black Sea coast may soon be out of Bolshevik control.
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Odessa
London
General Denikine
Black Sea
Bolsheyist
Government to Set Prices in Palmer Prosecution Claim
Attorney General Palmer told rural committees he intends to prosecute all healers inseces selling above prices to be set by price committees.
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Washington
Gener Palmer
Senate Engerlyaa
Kolchak Forces Retreat in Ural Campaign Update
Reports from Lonton dated August 16 say Kolchak’s forces retreating in the Ural Mountains continue. Bolshevik troops have driven Cossacks about 60 miles south of Uralsle, according to trews received.
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Kolchak
Lonton
Ural Mountains
Admiral Kolchak
Uralsle
Yaqui Indians Attack Town in Arizona Frontier Clash
About 200 Yaqui raiders struck the town of Nogales area in a border region fight. They attacked a Guaymas command post on the western coast near Brex Jeo and killed a child, according to travelers.
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Nogales
Ariz
Kuburh
Guaymas
Brex
Jeo
Beer in Wisconsin Becomes Prosecution Focus
Madison August 16 United States District Attorney Wolfe announced that every miller who has been mated or selling beer in the western district of Wisconsin will be prosecuted.
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Wisconsin
Madison
Hvery
Wie
Ensin
Wolfe
Woman Attends White House Functions Since Early 1800s
Mrs. H. W. Somers, widow of Civil War General Somers, has met 20 U.S. presidents. She first entered White House society with Daniel Webster during William Henry Harrison’s era and has long lived in Washington for 90 years, active in aiding the poor through varying weather.
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Wilson
H. W. Somers
General Somers
United States
World markets and industry notes from 1920s summaries
Crop prospects in Canada show maple sugar output 8,000 pounds below average. Britain and allies face debts 80 to over 40 percent of national wealth as substitute goods replace wartime imports. Japanese matches expand markets in the South Pacific and India. London clerks form a union while Manitoba sets minimum wages for women in 12 industries. Widespread wage gains boost New England textile workers. South Africa hosts six candle factories producing 14,600 short tons valued at $3 million with minimal imports.
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Canada
Great Britain
France
Italy
England
Pew
South Bedk
India
North Averton
Mrz
Minnie MM
Whitney
Kansas
Missouri Phartan Revies Watartiation
Chatnesoudasion Fe F
Evans
London
Manitoba
New England
Union of South Africa
Heard at Longwood Hints on Recreation and Marriage
In a chatty Longwood swap, a retired hard hitter is rumored to be reconciled to married life as a joke about ashes and an old tennis racket surfaces. The remark frames a light, social moment about sports figures and domestic changes.
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Longwood
On the Beach Seaside Note From Boston Transcript
A brief quoted exchange about a seashore resort. The Boston Transcript audience notes it as quiet with a witty remark about belles peeting, reflecting light social chatter from a coastal resort setting.
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Boston Transcript
Itinerary to romance through books and plays
A short exhortation invites readers to seek romance in literature and theater. It promises refuge from the daily grind and a chance to refresh through embracing romantic stories and performances.
Cattallo a Hybrid in Texas Panhandle Ranch
A hybrid animal called cattallo, a cross between a buffalo and a cow, has been raised in considerable numbers on a Texas Panhandle cattle ranch. The article notes the hybrid nature and the ranching context.
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Panhandle
Texas
Concert Compliment Turns to Comedy
In a London scene critter jokes about a neighbor’s wife at a concert. The neighbor explains she has superb vocal control but cannot stop singing. The remark frames a humorous moment in a social setting.
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Critte
Neighbor
London
Diet and stature in the Orient and Europe
A short notice claims orientals are smaller and less progressive than Europeans, attributing this to reliance on a vegetable diet. The piece frames diet as the chief cause and contrasts peoples of the Orient with Europeans.
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The
Orient
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