Standard favors foreign oil buyer in price policy report
Commissioner Herbert K. Smith's study on petroleum accuses Standard Oil of sacrificing American consumers to boost foreign sales. The report notes 1904 exports dominated by Standard Oil and outlines price disparities between U S and foreign markets with a focus on New York Hamburg London and other prices. It cites alleged monopolistic pricing at home and drastic foreign discounts to maintain export power and criticizes so called excuses from Standard apologists.
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Washington
Herbert Knox Smith
Standard Oil Company
Standard
United States
New York
Hamburg
London
Russia
United Kingdom
England
Germany
Europe
Orient
Atlantic Seaboard
Delaware
Woman reports alleged hotel robbery at Carlton
Mrs Secretan housekeeper at the Hotel Carlton on Fifty fourth Street says a man entered her twelfth floor room around 1 am took $250 cash a gold watch a wedding ring and a diamond ring from the dresser she fled to the office for help after the intruder vanished via the window police searched the room but found no trace the clerk denied the incident saying there is nothing to it and cautioned against publishing the tale to avoid alarming residents
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Secretan
Black Hand extortion case leads to three arrests in Paterson
Paterson police, probing Black Hand activities, jailed Santene Fasini George Sportelly and Guentenao Paternelli. They captured after taking an envelope from barber George A Paterno believed to contain money under death threat. The case details a false initiation involving blood of two members and a dagger sacred oath.
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Paterson
N. J
Santene Fassini
George Sportelly
Guentenao Paternelli
George A. Paterno
Beach Street
Nicholas Sportelly
George
New York
Nicholas
Og Hand
Fatal crush at Burlington County Electric Railway plant
Justus Sutliffe, assistant fireman, was killed in Mount Holly New Jersey when caught between the large belt and the flywheel as the engine restarted. Power had been shut off and Sutliffe lay sleeping in the hang of the belt. An inquest is planned for next Tuesday in Plymouth, Pennsylvania.
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Mount Holly
N. J
Justus Sutliffe
Burlington County Electric Railway Company
Elbertson
Sutliffe
Lymouth
Penn
Auto Crash Wrecks 15 000 Car on Merrick Road
Samuel Bowne of 882 East Thirty fourth Street Brooklyn drove a nearly new fifty horsepower auto through Merrick Road Jamaica Long Island at 4 am. The vehicle struck a telegraph pole then rolled into a roadside ditch. Bowne suffered deep wounds and bruises and was hospitalized after regaining consciousness. The car belonged to Louis Sert of Bay Shore Long Island.
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Samuel Bowne
East Thirty-fourth Street
Brooklyn
Merrick Road
Jamaica
L.il
Lowne
Jamaica Hospital
Louissert
Bay Shore
L. I
Oxford Street
Bowne
Mac
Four Men Drown in Raritan Bay After Leaking Launch
Four Newark men died when their naphtha launch Savoy flooded off Port Monmouth in Raritan Bay. Capt Gunther and Gustave Metzger perished. Weber and Schreier are presumed drowned. Seven men survived, aided by rescuers and a skiff from the sloop Hand. bodies were sent to Belord and Belview for burial.
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New York Times
Red Bank
N. J
Newark
Port Monmouth
Savoy
Raritan Bay
Gunther
Metzger
Schreier
Weber
Scheier
John Carroll
Metager
Crowded river tragedy as boy and girl drown
John Kelly 19 of East Forty-fourth Street went swimming near 231st Street and the Harlem River. He used insecure rubber wings that failed when struck by a barge dive, sank after spectators stayed away. Harry Hanson raced his barge to save his daughter Gunda who also fell in, but the motor boat passengers refused aid as Hanson dragged her to safety.
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John Kelly
East Forty-fourth Street
231St Street
Harlem
Kelly
Harry Hanson
Holland
Gunda
Hanson
Yellow fever outbreak in Havana garrison worsens
Yellow fever spreads in the American garrison at Cienfuegos with eight new cases today, total ten cases reported. Hospital Corps conducts quarter inspections and enforces precautions to curb further spread.
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Havana
Cienfuegos
Water Cyclist Rescued After Long Coney Island to Salt Attempt
John H. Mitchell of West 135th Street launched a water cycle from Coney Island at 10 AM aiming for Long Branch before Jamestown. After five hours battling tide and wind he was towed ashore by Capt. Wooley of the Spermacetti Cove Life Saving Station off Sandy Hook as fellow life savers accompanied the craft.
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Long Branch
Coney Island
John H. Mitchell
West 135Th Street
Wooley
Spermacetti Cove
Sandy Hook
Mitchell
Jamestown
Rockaway Point
Metcalf Inspects Yachts During New London Visit
Secretary of War Metcalf arrived unannounced aboard the Dolphin in New London and began a tour of the big yachts. Rumors circulated that the government planned to purchase vessels for naval use, but no official confirmation was provided. He planned to return to Lee tomorrow as the Dolphin heads to Watch Hill.
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New York Times
New London
Conn
New York Yacht Club
Metcalf
Washington
United States Dispatch
Dolphin
Mizzentop
Lee
Watch Hill
Traffic Tie Up Ten Hours In Madison Avenue Weekend Work
Surface-car traffic on the Madison Avenue route was paralyzed from midnight Saturday until after 10 yesterday morning while workmen widened the gap between the northbound and southbound tracks at the Forty second Street and Park Avenue curve. The change precedes the introduction of new sixty foot air-brake cars to be run at the end of September. Thousands were forced to disembark and walk to complete connections at Park Avenue uptown or Madison Avenue between Forty second and Forty third Streets in the opposite direction.
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Madison Avenue
Forty-second Street
Park Avenue
Forty-second
Forty-third Streets
Plans Bigger Dreadnought Rumor Stirs Naval Circles
Washington reports a British Admiralty plan to lay the keel for a battleship about 50 percent larger than the Dreadnought and displacing 30 000 tons. The design may feature three guns per turret for a six turret main battery of eighteen 12 inch guns and be built behind closed gates to keep ahead of rivals.
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Washington
Day Line Outsurge Desb yard in fierce showing
A terse report notes surpassing yard marks at daylight with times 8:40 and 3:40 and references Abe See Stmbt and Exc cola in a brief sports style update.
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Desb. St
Stmbt
Exc. Cola
Theatre scrap at Asbury Park ends without arrests
Richard Harding Davis and Casino manager Walter Rosenberg clashed outside the box during The Yankee Tourist. A single cut lip and no serious injury were reported. Davis blamed the insult of being called an imitation Englishman. Police took no action as bystanders separated the fracas.
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Richard Harding Davis
Asbury Park
Davis
Rosenberg
Mr. Davis
Rosenberry
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pittsburg tycoon buys Zellwood town in eccentric move
James Laughlin Jr. of Jones and Laughlin Steel plans to buy Zellwood in Orange County to impose changes he deems improvements. He faces town council resistance and intends to move parts of the village from his Winter home, after years of antagonism over progress.
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New York
Pittsburg
Mr. Laughlin
Zellwood
Pittsburg Steel
Fears for the Nicaraguan Missing Steamship
The British steamship Nicaraguan of the Leyland Line, 2 5,000 tons, built in 1891, departed Port Tampa June 3, called at Norfolk June 8 for coal, then passed the Virginia Capes and has not been heard from for sixty four days. Capt. Shacklock led a steel laden liner with a crew of about forty. feared iceberg or derelict collision may have doomed her near Dublin bound route. Lloyds classed as AI.
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Leyland Line
Port Tampa
Norfolk
Virginia Capes
Dublin
Ireland
Capes
Shacklock
Glasgow
Barclay, Curle & Co
Lloyd’s
Roosevelt Has Not Intervened In Telegraph Strike
Secretary Loeb said President Roosevelt has not asked Labor Commissioner Neill to act in the telegraph strike and has not been informed of his Chicago settlement plans. Loeb emphasized Neill has full authority to act as he sees fit.
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Oyster Bay
L. I
Roosevelt
Loeb
New York
United States
Neill
Chicago
Telegraphers Union Leader Urges Strike End
President Small of the Telegraphers' Union telegraphed Labor Commissioner Neill that the telegraph strike is unjustifiable and violates union laws. Neill has discussed a compromise with Small and Gompers but has not received a formal offer due to Small's difficulty in enforcing union views against action conflicting with the union constitution.
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New York Times
Washington
Small
Telegraphers’ Union
Neill
Gompers
Woodruff to See Roosevelt Before Taft Campaign
Woodruff, Republican State Chairman, was due to arrive from Albany en route to Oyster Bay to meet President Roosevelt and report on Republican sentiment for Taft. After Oyster Bay, he plans a few weeks in Nantucket before fall political skirmishes begin.
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Timothy L. Woodruff
Albany
Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Woodruff
Taft
Nantucket
R. I
President Stays At Home in Sagamore Hill Church Day
Rumors tied Baron Von Sternberg to a Sagamore Hill visit and a possible church party but the Baron and the Baroness did not attend. President Roosevelt remained at home while Mrs. Roosevelt and the Baroness joined Archie Quinten and young Miss Ethel Roosevelt at Sunday school.
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Oyster Bay
Baron von Sternberg
Sagamore Hill
Stamford
Mansfield Surrenders Driving Role Amid Health Concerns
In Saranac Lake New York Dr L J Leminx says nervous disease specialist from Montreal attends Richard Mansfield. Mansfield will not see visitors and family asserts no change in patient condition but his daily drives have stopped and carriage horses are discharged. His brother calls him extremely nervous.
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New York Times
Saranac Lake
N. Y
L. J. Leminx
Montreal
Richard Mansfield
Mr. Mansfield
Mob resists arrest in Williamsburg rescue attempt
Policemen Fallon and Weiss, in Williamsburg, were attacked by a mob while escorting Ricardo Mascolo of 85 Roebling Street after arresting him for selling beer to a child. The mob tried to rescue Mascolo as the officers, outnumbered, fought back and Mascolo escaped. leader Larry Tino was arrested.
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Fallon and
Weiss
Williamsburg
Ricardo Mascolo
Roebling Street
Mascolo
Fallon and Weiss
Larry Tino
Birthday Salute As 112th Year Is Celebrated
Esther Davis marked her 112th birthday at the Home of the Daughters of Jacob on East Broadway near Grand Street. About seventy residents gathered as wine and cake were served. Born in Russia and emigrating twenty years ago, she spoke little English and once sold candles on the East Side. she declined living to 212, saying some years are good others bad.
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Esther Davis
Albert Kruger
Daughters of Jacob
East Broadway
Grand Street
Hannah Morochnick
After Ali Usher’s the Scotch Highball Fame Ady
A brief note mentions a figure named Ady tied to Scotch and highball fame following Ali. The readable text is fragmentary and hints at branding or win in a social setting. No dates or organizations are clearly legible.
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Ali
Usher
Ady
No Strike Here Until Friday Stalled Telegrapher Talks
New York telegraphers delay any strike until Friday noon as leaders seek arbitration with Chicago officials and federal mediators. United States Labor Commissioner Neill AFL President Gompers and National Civic Federation head Easley travel to Chicago to urge comporomise. local members debate action while Roosevelt officials deny involvement.
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New York
United States Labor
Charles B. Neill
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Ralp M. Easley
National Civic Federation
Chicago
Western Union
Russell
The
Telegraphers’ Union of America
United States
Canada
Railway Telegraphers’ Union
Associated Press
Union
Manhattan
Lyceum
East Fourth Street
Messrs. Myfll
Gompers
Small
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Ahearn
Charles P. Neill
New York Council
Brotherhood of Painters
Neill
Archibald
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Newark Metal Company
van Buren Street
Man
Mitchell Falls
42D St
Park Av
R. Harding Davis
MR. Rosenberg
Pittsburger
James Laughlin
Zellwood, Fla
President
Baron Sternberg
Mansfield
Easley
San Francisco
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