Standard Oil Dissolution Plan Divides Stocks Among NJ Holders
The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey announces a court ordered dissolution plan. It will distribute shares of directly or indirectly owned subsidiaries to stockholders of record as of 1913, closing transfer books on August 5. Frills include fractional shares in numerous affiliates like Colonial Oil and Washington Oil.
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New York
Standard ON Company of New Jersey
Standard of Trust
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
United States
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey Et al
National Transit Company
Towit
Anglo American Oil Company
Hmited
Athaetic Refining Company
Borne-Scrymser Company
Jackesye Pipe Line Company
Chesebrough Manufacturing Company
Consolidated
Kansas
Standard Oi) Company
Kentucky
Standard Oi Company
Nebraska
Standard Oi! Company
Ohio
Swan & Finch Company
Union Tank Line Company
Vacuum Oil Company
Washington
Watera-Pierce
Standard of
Deel i
Ibd
H.C. Polver, Jr
M.P. Elliott
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Wwe
Ieb
Hace Heen
Pho
No Broadway
Munojr Corporation
Supreme Court
Mero Filicate
Folens Jetter
Standard of New Jersey
Standard Oil of
Standard Oil
Standard Ol
Washington Oil Company
Lord St. Aldwyn Leads Fifty Peers in Veto Plot
A group of fifty peers, led by Lord St. Aldwyn, moves to secure passage of a veto measure. Key figures press the plan in parliament as opposition calibrates its response and public debate grows.
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London
Lord St. Aldwyn
Michael Hicks Beach
Wickersham Faces Dilemma Over Alaska Charges
Washington August 1 The House Judiciary Committee imposes a choice on Delegate Wickersham to withdraw charges against Attorney General Wickersham or move to impeach. The delegate has alleged grave misuse of office by shielding Alaska syndicate criminals and blocking fraud and perjury prosecutions. He has not indicated which path he will take.
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Washington
Wickersham
Alaska
House Committee On Judiciary
Lmitations
Boy falls from embankment. son of local fruit grower injured
Lawrenceburg Indiana August 1 Elmer L Terri fourteen son of Lewis S Terrill fruit grower fell over a thirty foot embankment and broke his left arm and leg. His shepherd dog led rescuers to the creek bed where he lay unconscious and bleeding from his injuries
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Lawrenceburg
Ind
Elmer L. Terri
Lewis S. Terrill
Ban of Secrecy Sealed Caucus Adopts Strict Privacy Rule
More than 150 Democrats attended a caucus in the House hall to decide party stance on the senate amended campaign publicity bill. A stringent resolution forbids members from revealing proceedings and threatens immediate discharge of any employee who leaks information. The move follows a clash between Mr. Clark and Majority Leader Underwood. Rep Rucker may be directed to bring the bill to the floor with senate amendments.
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Washington
House
Senate
Clark
Underwood
Rucker
Missouri
Farmers Free List Debate Complicates Senate Caucus
Washington August 1 The Senate Democrats caucus agreed to support the farmers free list bill as drafted by the House. If the bill fails amid likely defeat a motion to reconsider will be made and Senator Kern is to propose an amendment to admit meat and flour free from duties from countries that grant duty-free entry for wheat corn oats hay cotton and hemp.
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Washington
Senate
House
Kern
Indiana
Notable Reunion Hints as Shonts Party Arrives
Mrs. Theodore P. Shonts and daughters the Duchess De Chaulnes and Miss Marguerite Shonts with the duchess's young son arrive from Europe aboard the Rotterdam. Mr. Shonts meets them by the bay but declines to discuss rumors of a marital split. Mrs. Shonts denies the reports as false.
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New York
Theodore P. Shonts
Duchess de Chaulnes
Marguerite Shonts
Europe
Rotterdam
Mr. Shonts
Noted artist Edwin Abbey fading in London
TERSE TELEGRAMS report Edwin Abbey, the American artist, dying in London. Taft slated to visit Parra matta near Aug 10. Cincinnati election push for mayoral candidate John Arn Lloyd backed by Democratic faction. Turkish warning to Montenegro about war risk. Rockefeller funds university at Waco amid $400,000 milk fund drive. Boston hosts advertising club convention with many specialists. Nueva Leon treasury bankrupt, salaries unpaid. European boards discuss cholera concerns. Senate census chair opposes copper-article bill. El Grande? Mexican miners strike under foreign capital. Testimony expected on Tennessee Coal and Iron merger. Alden Coal co workers return after strike. Eleven lives lost in New England midsummer gale. shipping damaged.
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Edwin Abbey
London
Taft
Parramatta
White House
Beverly
John Arn Lioyd
Cincinnati
Turkey
Montenegro
da Pollette
el Gro Hanes
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Alden Coal
New England
Keister Fatally Shoots Man Who Beat Wife
Memphis Aug 1 A. M. Keister sporting editor of a local paper formerly of Louisville fatally shot William Chum a plumber who was beating his wife when Keister intervened After being knocked unconscious Keister was given a pistol by a black maid and fired twice Chum was taken to a hospital in critical condition
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Memphis
Tenn
A. M. Keister
Louisville
William Chum
Keister
Chum
John W Gates in Serious Condition in Paris
Charles G Gates reports his father John W Gates is in a serious condition in Paris and semi conscious after an extended illness. The elder Gates has been ill for some time and the change in his condition was described as slight by his son.
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Paris
Charles G. Gates
John W. Gates
Gates
New York Takes Control of Mexican Railways
Mexico City reports diaz and Limantour resignations shift control of the National Railways of Mexico from the government to New York financiers. Rumors say Madero placed representatives on the merger board as government stake falls to about 41 percent. With Diaz and Limantour gone, their holdings are said to be disposed and foreign financiers presumed to run the company.
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Mexico City
General Diaz
Jose Yves Limantour
National Railways of
Mexico
Madero
Mir. Limantour
New York
Motives For Increasing Minimum Freight Charges Questioned
In Indianapolis a railroad commission hearing probed why railroads raised then canceled a plan to lift the state minimum freight charge from 26 to 50 cents. Railway committee refused defense and withdrew as shippers presented extensive records. A permanent order against the increase is anticipated.
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Indianapolis
No Railroad Commission
Frank Littleton
Big Four
Wood
Tafts Winning on Reciprocity and Press Support
Washington dispatch reports Republican faith in Taft’s reciprocity push with Senator Root praising his forceful leadership. Bailey recalls Populists as a warning to Democrats while Woods of Iowa pushes cornstalk paper experiments. A photo gimmick and Hammond/Kahn modern diplomacy notes round out the spread.
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Root
Bailey
Washington
Taft
Canada
Congressman Woods
Iowa
Agricultural Department
Indiana mine dispute delays in two unions
Action delayed with no fixed time for considering Indiana mine disputes referred to John P. White and H N Taylor. Miners return to work as settlement looms. President White cites crowded schedule while W H Vantforn heads to Boonville to settle a local mine dispute.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana
John P. White
United Mine Workers’ International Union
H. N. Taylor
Illinois Operators’ Association
White
Taylor
W. H. Vantforn
Eleventh District
Boonville
Youthful Bellboy Indicted for First Degree Murder
In New York on August 1, seventeen year old Paul Geldel, a hotel bellboy, was indicted by the grand jury for murder in the first degree for strangling a helpless elderly man in his room at the Iroquois hotel to obtain funds for gaudy clothing.
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New York
Paul Geldel
Iroquois Hotel
Crop Woes Drive Indiana Farmer to Suicide
Indianapolis august 1 A Henry Kollman a 48 year old Marion county farmer despondent over poor weather and expected small crop proceeds hanged himself in his barn in a self inflicted death.
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Indianapolis
A. Henry Kollman
Marion County
Baseball Scores Across Leagues For Cincinnati St Louis Pittsburg And More
Reports from National League American League and American Association detail games across cities including Cincinnati St Louis Pittsburg Chicago Boston Philadelphia Washington New York and others. Notable innings and pitcher pairings such as Burke and Bergen Marquard Meyers Sallee Lau dermilk Golden Bresnahan Moran Archer Mitchell Kritchell Collins Carrigan Powell Clarke Pape Williams Mullin Stanage Krause Thomas Kaler Fisher Street White Sullivan Warhop Blair James and Street are listed with run totals and final scores.
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Cincinnati
Rule
Brooklyn
Burke
Bergen
Keefe
McLean
St. Louis
Griffin
Mattern and
Kling
Selfield and Simon
Chicago
R.H.E
Philadelphia
Alexander and Moran
Brown and Archer
Boston
R.H.E. St. Louis
Mitchell
Kritchell
Collins
Carrigan
R.h.le
Powell
Clarke
Pape
Willams
Detroit
Mullin and Stanage
Casey
Krause
Thomas
Washington
Cleveland
James, Kaler and Fisher
Johnson and Street
New York
White and Sullivan
Warhop and Blair
Mayor Knotts Seeks ALM Presidency At New Orleans Meet
Gary Indiana August 1 backed by city officials Mayor Thomas Ek Knotts first vice president of the American League of Municipalities will seek the presidency of the organization at the convention in New Orleans next month.
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Gary
Ind
Thomas Ek. Knotts
American League of Municipalities
New Orleans
More Fines Paid in Wire Fraud Case Action
Thirteen more indicted wire men pleaded and were fined 1000 dollars each in circuit court. Commissioner Shields collected 15 500 in fines, total now 71 400. Of 83 indicted, 62 have pleaded. Judge Archbald to reconvene Friday for further pleas, with Herbert L. Satterlee expected to appear.
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New York
Tragic Drowning of Wife in Ohio River
Mrs Ella Trickel aged thirty drowned while bathing in the Ohio river at Evansville Indiana. Her husband witnessed the accident but could not save her.
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Evansville
Ind
Ella Trickel
Ohio River
Old Game Worked at Evansville
Bud Scott aged 31 from Sullivan is under arrest in Evansville Ind for passing two Confederate lot notes one for 20 dollars and one for 10 dollars.
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Evansville
Ind
Bud Scott
Sullivan
Johnson Kills Father in Pikeville Family Quarrel
In Pikeville Kentucky on August 1 William Johnson fifty a railroad laborer was stabbed to death by his son William Lee Johnson twenty one. The son was arrested and said the killing followed a quarrel over family affairs.
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Pikeville, Ky
William Johnson
Shelby Creek
William Lee Johnson
Young Johnson
Wick Compton Suicide Shocks Pikeville Camp
Wick Compton a 32 year old foreman in a lumber camp two miles south of Pikeville Ky shot and killed himself his body found in bed by his wife on August 1 authorities investigated the incident as a suicide.
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Pikeville
Wick Compton
Here
Compton
Weather Observations From U S Weather Bureau
Observations at 8 p m show temperatures across cities with conditions. New York 78 clear Boston 78 clear Denver 56 partial cloudiness San Francisco 52 clear St Paul 66 cloudy Chicago 80 cloudy Indianapolis 82 partial cloudiness St Louis 80 cloudy New Orleans 82 clear Washington 80 partial cloudiness Philadelphia 78 clear Forecast indicates showers and cooler weather on Wednesday with a chance of showers.
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New York
Boston
Denver
San Francisco
St. Paul
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
New Orleans
Washington
Philadelphia
James M Lynch Named President of International Typographical Union
James M Lynch is identified as the president of the International Typographical Union in the readable text. The record notes his leadership role within the union and mentions his prominence in the trade organization.
Typographical Union Leaders Headed to San Francisco Session
Officers of the International Typographical union from Indianapolis depart for San Francisco for the fifty seventh annual session to be held August 14 to 19. The party includes J M Lynch president J W Hays secretary treasurer Hugo Miller second vice president and the Indianapolis national headquarters staff.
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Indianapolis
International Typographical Union
San Francisco
J. M. Lynch
J. W. Hays
Hugo Miller
Labor sympathizers alleged in August vandalism case
Indianapolis authorities investigate $2000 damage to a business block amid claims the act was by labor sympathizers angered by contractor Albert Von Spreckelsen's alleged testimony before a grand jury in the McNamara dynamite investigation. Blocks torn, rooms daubed, plumbing ripped. case tied to labor disputes and revenge theory.
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Indianapolis
Gala
Albert von Spreckelsen
Grand Jury
McNamara
Labor
Reduced Rates to Lafayette Convention Tickets Offered
The Knights of Pythian Grand Lodge Indiana Brigade Uniform Bank of P K P announce reduced travel to Lafayette for the convention. Tickets will be sold at one and a half fare for the round trip on specific dates, with sales continuing through the convention period.
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Knights of Pythian Grand Lodge
Indiana Brigade
Uniform Bank K. of P
Booze Fueled Tragedy Near North Cal Dust
A man named Seth Wood was killed after a confrontation with Stamey and Woda who allegedly drank heavily. The suspects, both under twenty one, allegedly taunted Wood then stabbed him. Wood died in the county jail after suffering multiple injuries. Police say the incident stemmed from excess liquor and a heated quarrel.
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Rabiel
Seth Wood
Stamey
Woda
Prentange
Wood
Cear
Market Quotations From Indianapolis and Chicago
Market notes show grain and livestock prices across Indianapolis and Chicago with figures for wheat corn oats and cattle hogs sheep and lambs. The piece also includes a testimonial praising Dr King s New Discovery for coughs colds and throat ailments and mentions landlord tenant law updates about receipts.
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Indianapolis
Timothy
Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company Invitation
Telephone Talk No 8 invites customers to inspect the company operating room during business hours to see service conditions and the effort to provide quicker, cooperative service. The notice emphasizes informing customers about the telephone’s advantages and urges cooperation.
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Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company Incorporated
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Farmers’ Free List
Theodore Shonts
Beriously
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THE
Arthur W. Dunn
Texas
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Democracy
Bourne
Oregon
Gore
Leonard Wood
Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Cuba
Philippines
General Wood
Nike
Henry
John Hays Hammond
Hammond
Julius Kahn
Kahn
Pittsburg
St. Bernard
Nereagi
West Vi
St. Bernard Mining
Pearl
National League
American Association
Toledo
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Columbus
Milwaukee
Wire Trust
Jou
United States Weather
James M. Lynch
O. T. Budahs
Lafayette
North
Cal Dust
Gincin
East Buffalo
Thos. Arieg
Concord, Mich
Chas. D. Enoefel
Hent
Carl
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