Taft Plans Commerce Reform Message Delayed Until Supreme Decision
President Taft begins writing a special message on interstate commerce law with likely references to the Sherman Act. A separate paper may cover antitrust matters after the Standard Oil Supreme Court case. Proposes a federal incorporation act and enhanced powers for the Commerce Commission. Includes expansion to telegraph and telephone oversight and routes designation by shippers.
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New York Times
Washington
Taft
Congress
Senator McLaurin
Mississippi
Supreme Court
Standard Oil Company
Special Commission of
Wickersham
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Nagel
Generel Bowers
Townsend
Intergee Court
Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Inter-States
New York City's Big Debt Lead in 1907 Census Figures
Census Bureau data show New York City accounted for 39.2 percent of the net indebtedness among 158 cities over 30,000. the per capita debt reached $142.52. Other high per capita debts appeared in Cincinnati Boston Galveston Pueblo and Newton. The total net debt increased by $120.9 million, with most of the rise in the 15 largest cities.
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Washington
New York City
United States
Cincinnati
Boston
Galveston
Pueblo
Newton
Mass
San Francisco
Detroit
J. Jougph
Indleuepolis
Beattie, Wash
Hoesig
Indianapolis
City
Fires Destroy Tenements in East New York Block
Two fast moving fires in East New York driven by snow left ten families homeless. A blaze at 41 to 47 New Lots Avenue and another at 2825 to 2831 Atlantic Avenue caused about 60 000 dollars in damage. Deputy Chief Sally led three alarms as residents escaped with minimal injuries.
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Brooklyn
New York
New Lots Avenue
Atlantic Avenue
Sally
Joseph de Mar
Louis Berger
Atlantic Apeeia
Fugitive Col James Gordon Named Mississippi Senator
Col James Gordon of Okolona Mississippi, once sought by federal authorities with a $10000 reward for alleged Lincoln assassination conspiracy, is appointed by Governor Noel to fill the late Senator A J McLaurin. Gordon escaped arrest after crossing swords with a New York cavalry officer in Virginia and later surrendered to Gen Dix in New York.
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Memphis
News-Scimitar Today
United States
James Gordon
Okolona
Miss
Noel
Mississippi
A. J. McLaurin
Mr. Gordon
J. Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Virginia
Col. Gordon
Booth
Lincoln
Canada
Dix
New York
Gambling raid shocks Naval Y M C A in Sands Street
In the Naval Y M C A Bible Room on Sands Street Brooklyn a gambling raid was discovered by the night manager. Two sailors Rene Coward of the battleship Connecticut and Henry Willis were rounded up by Patrolman Patton and later charged with shooting craps. Both sailors faced Magistrate Dooley for a lecture after acknowledging their misdeed.
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Brooklyn
Naval
Young Men’s Christian Association
Sands Street
Helen M. Gould
Jackies
George Patton
Fulton Street
United States Navy
Patton
Bluejackets
Adams Street
Rene Coward
Dooley
Judge Finds Graft in All Public Work
In Troy New York Supreme Court Justice Wesley O Howard reduces the compensation of the Ashokan reservoir damages commission from 3650 to 2200 dollars stating graft wastes 40 percent of public funds. He calls for a single fixed salary commission and warns the public bears responsibility for tolerance of waste in major undertakings. The trio under review includes Sidney Harris C Gordon Reel and Dr James T McKenna.
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Troy
N. Y
Supreme Court
Wesley O. Howard
Ulster County
New York City
Justice Howard
Ashokan Valley
Howard
City of
New York
Condemnation Commissionersappointments under scrutiny
The Bureau of Municipal Research sues over its Condemnation Commissioners exposure listing Supreme Court Justices appointments. It notes forty seven total, with twenty three from city employes and twenty four from private citizens who later became city employes. It names Justices Bischoff Greenbaum Kelly Maddox and others and observes four Justices made no city employee appointments.
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Bureau of Municipal Research
Service of Condemnation Commissioners
Supreme Court
Point- Em- City
Henry Bischoff
William J. Carr
Vernon M. Davis
Victor J. Dowling
Samuel Greenbaum
William J. Kelly
Martin J. Keogh
David Leventritt
Edward ‘Eb. McCall
Samuel T. Maddox
Josiah T. Marean
James A. O’gorman
Css
Bureau
Bischoff, Greenbaum
Kelly
Maddox
Carnegie's Injured Knee Improves in Rest at Home
Andrew Carnegie rests at his Fifth Avenue home after an injury to his knee. Officials report he is in good spirits despite pain and hopes to be able to go out in a few days.
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Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Fifth Avenue
Ninety-first Street
Bomb Explodes in Brooklyn Tenement Panic Fearing Black Hand
Fifteen families in a four story Brooklyn tenement at 578 Union Street flee in panic after a bomb blasts the hallway front doors. Police report Black Hand letters to owner Thomas Pero and a demand for $300 with Christmas Day deadline. A separate blast at Columbus Avenue and Ninety fifth Street harms Giovanni Gossino’s fruit stand.
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Union Street
Brooklyn
Bergen Street
Lewis Stokes
Thomas Pero
Pero
Giovanni Gossino
Ginsbourger Brothers
Columbus Avenue
Ninety-fifth Street
Jersey Town Merger Fails Amid Voter Rejection
Ministers and a real estate operator led a plan to merge West New York Guttenberg Union Hill West Hoboken and North Bergen Weehawkeninto a single city of about 90000, but all six towns voted against consolidation with low turnout 6262. Each town rejected the proposal by wide margins and no two could meet population requirements.
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West New York
Guttenberg
Union Hill
West Hoboken
North Bergen
Weehawken
Thief at Columbia University Science Reception
Mrs. A Barton Hepburn reported her missing pocketbook containing $50 at a reception in Earl Hall Columbia University hosted by the Academy of Political Science for the American Historical Association and American Economic Association. Police and Harlem detectives investigated after the purse disappeared from the auditorium platform.
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A. Barton Hepburn
Earl Hall
Columbia University
American Historical Association
American Economic Association
Academy of Political Science
New York
Hepburn
W. R. Sheperd
Columbia
Mayor Johnson to Take Five-Week Rest Cure
Cleveland dispatch reports Mayor Tom L. Johnson will depart after his term ends January 1 for a five weeks rest cure on doctor orders. He will not disclose destination, saying only his physician and nurse will know his whereabouts due to prolonged health issues.
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New York Times
Cleveland
Ohio
Tom L. Johnson
Storm Strips Sunken Cruiser Yankee
The cruiser Yankee in Buzzard's Bay was damaged in a Sunday blizzard. The smokestack and part of the forward rigging were carried away while the foremast remained but lost the divers' platform. Arbuckle air workers are expected to resume after January 1.
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New Bedford
Mass
Buzzard’s Bay
Arbuckle
Shipping Arrivals Reported for December
Latest shipping news notes arrivals of the SS Furnessia at Glasgow on December 18, the SS Ponce at Porto Rico on December 21, the SS Caracas at San Juan on December 22, and the SS Madonna at Naples on December 15.
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Furnessia
Glasgow
Ponce
Porto Rico
Caracas
San Juan
Madonna
Naples
Seaboard Florida Limited Service Advertised
The Seaboard Florida Limited offers Pullman cars with electric lighting aboard the Fla ming o, Seaboard Express and Florida Fast Mail. Serves Pinehurst Camden and winter resorts south. Inquiries at Seaboard Air Line 1,183 Broadway.
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Seaboard Florida Limited
Flamingo
The
Seaboard Express
Florida Fast Mail
Florida
Pinehurst
Camden
Winter Resorts
Inquire
Seaboard Air Ry
Broadway
Two Penn Botany Professors Die in New Jersey Hunt
Dr. Lewis Krautter Jr and Ernest J. Chamberlain, son of Prof. John M. Chamberlain, were found frozen near Wildwood New Jersey after a hunting trip that started Friday. Authorities say Krautter likely froze to death while Chamberlain drowned.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Lewis Krautter, Jr
University of Pennsylvania
Ernest J. Chamberlain
John M. Chamberlain
Swayne’s Channel
Wildwood
N. J
Prof. Chamberlain
Wildwood Crest
Williem Stein
Holly Beach
Nathan A. Cohen
Krautzer
Chamberlain
Dr. Krautter
Julius A. Uber
Kaighn Avenue
Camden
Frei Ww. Krautter
Wissahickon
Ridge Avenues
Uber
Harry Krautter
Fred D. Krautter
Young Chamberlain
Drexel Institute
Europe
Tammany led Independence League convention details emerge
Magistrate Kernochan hears the Dolan case over a Tammany run Independence League convention held October 8 at 158 Third Avenue. Bernard Rosenthal testifies 349 delegates named, with many Tammany names called. Dolan’s attorney vows to swear out a warrant for William Randolph Hearst if he did not call a convention.
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Independence League
Third Avenue
Tammany
Kernochan
West Side Court
Francis Dolan
East 1224 Street
Bernard Rosenthal
Fifteenth
Louis A. Cuvillier
Dolan
William Randolph Hearst
Cuvillier
Hearst
Boy Returns to Real Mother After Foster Home Swap
Carlton Clark Kremer, known as Carlton, aged four, leaves the Kremer foster home to return to his real mother Maud Clark. Mrs Clark had him sent to Lakewood under Mrs Gordon’s supervision after a snowball scene in front of the Kremer residence. The Kremer family and Maud Clark mutually consent to the arrangment and future visits.
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Carlton Clerk
Carlton Kremer
Maud Clark
Kremer
West Eighty-third Street
Amsterdam Avenue
Kremers
Wines for New Year’s From H Dewey & Sons Co
Assorted wine cases offered by H Dewey and Sons Co at 188 Fulton Street New York priced 4.00 5.00 and 6.75 per case.
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H . Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Kentucky man absconds with legation funds in Peking
Washington reports Frederick Faulkner formerly in a clerical post at the United States Legation in Peking is said to have stolen legation funds. The exact sum is not disclosed. Earlier reports of a hunting trip and possible murder are not credited.
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Washington
Frederick Faulkner
Kentucky
United States Legation
Peking
China
Legation
Faulkner
Dreyfus in a Fist Fight in Paris Colony
Major Alfred Dreyfus now on Gen. Dalstein staff and Royalist M. Boerner clashed in a violent altercation in Paris. The fight ended without injuries and police took no action.
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Paris
Alfred Dreyfus
Dalstein
M. Boerner
Metz Sees 10 to 12 Million Deficit Pushes Tax Increase
Controller Metz warned of a budget shortfall of 10 to 12 million dollars next year due to delayed lighting bill payments and higher costs. He blamed the late expenses tied to the cheaper gas agitation. An offhand remark about Gaynor and a joke about chapped lips followed in the discussion.
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Metz
Gaynor
Game One
More Snow in Chicago and Looming Cold
Chicago forecast colder weather for the region after a 10 degree day. The Weather Bureau warned of near zero temperatures tomorrow as a snowstorm hit Chicago with 26 mph winds. Minnedosa and Winnipeg reported 16 degrees below zero, marking the Northwest chill.
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Winnipeg
Chicago
Northwest
Minnedosa
Weather Bureau
Brother-in-law held against will freed in court
Magistrate House ordered Charles L Hughes to surrender his brother to Mrs John Hughes who alleged he detained him as security for a board bill. Hughes claimed Mrs Hughes owes him about 70 dollars for board for her husband who is an invalid. The magistrate ruled there is no law allowing detention for rent and restored the brother to Mrs Hughes.
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Brown
New York Central
Washington
Cumm
Cummins
Magistrate House
Charles L. Hughes
237Th Street
Webster Avenue
John Hughes
Hughes
Baroness Wilmowski Arrives in Bonn Nobility on Holiday
Baron and Baroness Wilmowski of Bonn Germany arrived from Europe and checked into the Plaza for several weeks. The Baroness, formerly Barbara Krupp, is about 20 and enjoys horseback riding and golf. The Baron, a Bonn government official, married in 1907 after her sister’s marriage drew comment. she holds an interest in Essen gun works in her father’s will.
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Wilmowski
Bonn
Germany
Europe
Barbara Krupp
Herr Krupp
Bertha
Essen
Rabid dog bites four in Newark area on Christmas Eve
Four Newark area residents were bitten by a hydrophobic dog on Christmas Eve prompting Police Chief Corbitt to warn of rabies danger. Victims include Charles Dutcher George Dempsey Mrs William McPhall of Kearny and Mrs John Darrah of Rahway. The dog was shot by a special officer.
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Newark
N. J
Corbitt
Charles Dutcher
George Dempsey
William McPhall
Kearny
John Darrah
Rahway
McPhall
Ambassador Bryce Joins City Baby Parade
Ambassador Bryce attracted a crowd on 120th Street near Columbia University as he walked in a baby parade with a companion. He dodged thaw slicks on his heels while mothers watched, relieved he did not stop to notice any babies.
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Ambassador Bryce
120Th Street
Columbia University
Horace Mann School
America
Gaynor Seeks Bridge Commissioner Amid Lack of Aspirants
Brooklyn Mayor-elect Gaynor told the Montauk Club dinner crowd he struggles to fill the Bridge Commissioner post, noting few club members seek political office and that editors overstate ease in naming appointees. He praised Brooklyn’s eight Board of Estimate votes and pledged careful, honest work.
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Gaynor
Timothy Ih Woodruff
Brooklyn Montauk Club
Woodruff
Brooklyn
Board of Estimate
Edward M. Grout
Wan
Pale
Mr. Gaynor
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Mr. Bryce
Montauk Club
Brooklynite
William H. English
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Mr. Prendergast
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