Bucking the System Lawson's War on Standard Oil Power
Tom Lawson launches a high profile campaign against the Standard Oil dominated Wall Street system. The piece portrays Lawson as a magnetic but isolated figure aiming to expose bankers insurers and bucket shops, detailing how a few men control banks trusts railroads and insurance firms and how Lawson’s attack could reshape market power and prices.
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New York
Thomas W. Lawson
Lawson
America
New York Yacht Club
Cleveland
Rothschilds
Japan
United States
Germany
Cromwell
Corbett
Sullivan
Standard Oil
Morgan
Wall Street
Bank of Commerce
National City
Stillman
A Rockefeller
Trust Companies
Banking and Trust
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Miss Tarbell
Rogers
J. P. Morgan
Life Insurance Companies
Perkins
Shipping Trust
Montana
Lawsons
Richymen
Delaware
Bay State Gas
Jim Keene
Keene
Amalgamated
Standard Oil and Amalgamated Copper
Col. Greene
Greene
Boston
Greene Copper Company
Hoss
St. Paul
Pennsylvania
Olly
Everybody's Magazine
John Wanamaker
W. A. Patterson
Big Indian School at Haskell Institute Shapes 60 Tribes
ERNEST HEYWORTH describes Haskell Institute in Lawrence Kansas as a large diverse school with 800 Indian students from more than 60 tribes. The piece highlights peaceful coexistence among tribes, mixed-race tensions, daily life, uniforms, dress, housing, and the emphasis on drills, crafts, and hand and mind training.
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Lawrence
Kan
Haskell
Carlisle
Hassell
Kansas School
Southwest
Stocri Ag
Nature
Kansas
Ernest Heyworth
Nervous host officiates as goose dinner stirs family tension
A Chicago Tribune piece notes a man officiating at a family meal faces nerves and a red face while his rich aunt, dining with relatives, asks for white meat from the goose, highlighting awkward family dynamics during Christmas.
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Chicago Tribune
Rare Elements Found Named After Ancient Prophecy
Recently identified elements scandium gallium and germanium were predicted thirty years ago by Mendeleit who called them probational eka boron eka aluminium and eka silicon.
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Mendeleit
Woman Keeper At Santa Barbara Light Serves 88 Years
The Santa Barbara lighthouse two miles southwest of town has been tended by Mrs. Julia I F Williams for 88 years, succeeding her husband Albert J Williams who began in 1856. The fixed white first order beacon can be seen 17 miles at sea. Mrs. Williams has rarely left the post, missing only two nights in 27 years and Sundays for church. The Williams family originated in Maine.
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Santa Barbara
Santa Babara
Los Anne
Albert J. Williams
Julia I F. Williams
Franklin J. Pierce
Williams
Congregational Church
Maine
Lighthouse
Railways Halt Round Trip Tickets Amid Scalper Losses
Report states several Mexican railways will not issue round trip tickets anymore after losses caused by ticket scalpers. The action aims to curb unauthorized resale and protect revenue.
New Hay A Mosquito Cure
A Galveston News report recounts a man returning from the country with a novel remedy for mosquitoes. He slept on a pile of new mown hay and claimed the pests avoided hay smells, delivering a nightly rest free of bites. he cautions against widespread use but suggests hay as a temporary outdoor sleeping refuge.
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Galveston News
Galveston
Long Flashes Across Nine Mile Lightning Line
A flash of lightning streaks across a nine mile long line, illuminating the sky briefly and drawing observations from nearby witnesses about its arc and intensity.
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Tom Lawson
Money Powers of
Great Rock Island
Brooklyn
Heinze
Kuhn, Loeb «& Co
Speyers
Bears
Marcus Daly
New England
Henry H. Rogers
Wead
The
J. Edward Addicks
Bay State
BIG Indian School
Haskell Institute
Texas
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