Standard Oil Seeks Missouri State Partnership
The Standard Oil Company of Indiana petitions the Missouri Supreme Court to form a Missouri corporation with state trustees supervising the Indiana unit. The plan would place Waters-Pierce stock under trustees, allow state oversight of pricing and sales, and avoid ouster while keeping the company in Missouri.
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Supreme Court
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Missouri
Sugar Creek
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Indiana Company
Missouri“corporation
Waters-Pierce Company
New Jersey
Missouri Company
Alfred D. Eddy
Frank Hagerman
Subpoenas Issued for Second Standard Oil Indiana Trial
Judge Landis orders fifty subpoenas for witnesses in the 29 240 000 dollar government case against the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. Trial before Judge Anderson of Indianapolis begins February 23. Subpoenas include I A Moffatt and officers G W Stahl J C McDonald Edgar Bogardus plus Inter State Commerce Commission clerks and railroad officials.
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Chicago
K. M. Landis
District Court For District
Sims
United States Marshal
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
A. B. Anderson
Indianapolis
I. A. Moffatt
Standard Oil
G. W. Stahl
John C. McDonald
Edgar Bogardus
George Robert
C. Crossland
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Kilpaick
Railroad and Warehouse Commission
F. S. Hollands
Chicago & Alton Railroad
J. S. Howard
Chicago& Alton Railroad
Bogardus, Hollands
Howard
California land bill aims to bar aliens from ownership
In Sacramento the Senate suspended rules to receive the Drew bill as amended, setting it as the first special order for Wednesday. Drew defends the amendment while criticizing Roosevelt’s letter on the Japanese question. Nevada lawmakers back a drastic anti Japanese resolution calling "parasites" a menace to civilization, to be voted on tomorrow.
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Sacramento
Cal
Senate
Drew
California
Judiciary Committee
Louis W. Juilliard
Assembly Democratic
Roosevelt
Gillett
A.M. Drew
Root
Carson
Nev
Pacific
Nevada
Fragmentary Florida train page hints at Palm Head line
A damaged OCR fragment from a Florida page references a Palm Head location and a train observation car. The text is incomplete, offering only scattered names and stray terms without clear events or dates.
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Florida
To &T
Palm Head
London Earthquake Fund Reaches 16 Million
The Mansion House fund for Italy earthquake relief has reached 16 million dollars, with 625 thousand sent to the sufferers. Officials doubt further subscriptions are needed, while cautioning that needs will continue for a long time. A false report of the Messina mayor’s arrest was denied by the Italian Embassy.
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London
Italy
Rome
Messina
Probing Tennessee Coal and Iron Deal in Steel Merger
Senate Judiciary Committee members discuss assets of Tennessee Coal and Iron Company as part of the U S Steel merger probe. Reports show about 700 million tons of ore valued at 1 dollar a ton, with the deal yielding a 670 million dollar profit in ore value.
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New York Times
Washington
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
United States Steel Corporation
Senate Committee On the Judiciary
Coal and Iron Company
Steel Corporation
Senate
Tennessee Company
Oesteet Corporation
Grant B. Schley
Moore & Schley
New York
Tennessee Coal and Iron
Bellevue Hospital Intrusive Visit by Eliot Flint's Wife
A first Mrs Eliot Flint and a companion arrived at Bellevue Hospital with a bear fur coat, seeking to see broker George Armes of 111 West Forty-second Street. Armes, admitted Thursday, is said to suffer alcoholism and attempted self harm. He had earlier been arrested January 27 for intoxication near his residence.
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Bellevue Hospital
Eliot Flint
Austin Flint
George Armes
West Forty-second Street
Armes
Glenn
City Hospital
Blackwell's Island
Bronxville
New York Athletic Club
West Forty-seventh Street
Roosevelt Hospital
Bellevue
Paulist Parish House Fire Damages Rooms and Sacristy
A fire originating from a defective flue damaged four rooms and the sacristy of the Paulist Fathers parish house at 415 West Fifty-ninth Street. Father Mark W. Lappen spotted smoke, Father John Burke aided, a class was disrupted, and a woman near a window attempted to jump. Firemen from Engine Company 23 contained the blaze after an hour. damage estimated at $2,500.
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The
Paulist Fathers
West Fifty-ninth Street
Mark W. Lappen
John Burke
Engine Company 23
West Fifty-eighth Street
Father Conway
House Gives Up War On Roosevelt
Report that supporters and constituents of Tawney oppose the revolt against President Roosevelt. Public sentiment appears to turn away from the attack as voices in the district protest the drive.
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House
Roosevelt
Olmsted committee ends wide probe on Secret Service
Washington reports the House accepted a minimal resolution from Olmsted that ends day to day scrutiny of Secret Service and other detectives. Tawney aims to measure this year's funding against last year while Bennet argues land fraud funding was cut. The panel plans a report before March 4.
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New York Times
Washington
House
Olmsted
Select Committee
Secret Service
Congress
Tawney
Special
Appropriations Committee
Mr. Tawney
Laud
Olmsted Committee
Bennet
New York
Compartment Sleeping Car Schedule Published
Effective February 24 a compartment sleeping car runs daily via the Pennsylvania Railroad and Southern Railway to Aiken. The service departs at 10:25 AM from the office located at 1,200 Broadway.
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Aiken
P. R. R. & Southern Ry. Ly
Second Hill Lincoln article in Times on Page Eight
Frederick Trevor Hill continues his life of Lincoln with the second installment in today’s New York Times. Contestants must read all pieces before submitting essays and readers are urged to place an order to ensure copies for the rest of the week.
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Frederick Trevor Hill
Lincoln
New York Times
Newsdealer
Gas firm loses bid on 12 million fund as US Supreme Court denial awaits mandate
The Supreme Court denied a rehearing on the 80 cent gas law, with New York City expected to save about 7 million annually in gas bills. The dispute centers on a 12 million dollar refund to consumers from Consolidated Gas and subsidiaries. Lawyers anticipate further actions, including potential injunctions and costs of litigation totaling around 50 thousand dollars, as the mandate is awaited.
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Supreme Court of the United States
Washington
William P. Burr
Burr
New York City
Consolidated
Supreme Court
Federal Supreme Court
Amsterdam
New York
New Amsterdam
Consolidated Gas Company
Charles F. Mathewson
The
Circuit Court
Engineers Approve Lock Canal System With six Year Completion
Taft and a board of engineers inspect Panama canal sections from Gatun to Colon and Culebra cut. They expect to report in favor of the lock canal, predicting completion in six years and naval use by 1915. Taft pacifies Panamanian leaders and discusses commissary issues with Secretary Root.
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New York Times
Panama
Board of Engineers
Taft
Gatun
Colon
Col. Goethals
Culebra
William H. Taft
Pacificator
Obaldia
Arias
Herbert G. Squiers
Amador
Secretary Root
Panama President Denies Rainey Charge Fallout
Panama February 1 President Obaldia and sixteen National Assembly members deny Henry T. Rainey charges linking them to a timber and railway deal. They say a meeting in the President's office discussed the Atlantic coast timber contract and no reference was made to Taft Cromwell or Farnham. Obaldia says Ehrman outsiders were not present and a railway proposal was rejected while timber contracts were also rejected. The Assembly debates foreign exploitation of the Atlantic coast from the River Concepcion to Costa Rica excluding the Chagres Valley.
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Panama
American Congress
Henry T. Rainey
Illinois
Domingo de Obaldia
National Assembly
Atlantic
Obaldia
Charles P. Taft
William Nelson Cromwell
Roger L. Farnham
Pablo Arosemona
Julio Febregar
Mr. Ehrman
Ward
Ehrman
Concepcion
Costa Rica
Chagres
Roosevelt
Local touring car collision injures chauffeur on Madison Avenue
Louis L. Stanton of 30 West Forty-ninth Street, vice president of Standard Safe Deposit Co, owned a touring car that struck a northbound Madison Avenue vehicle at Fifty-eighth Street. Chauffeur Thomas O'Hara was ejected and cut his arm. the car suffered minor damage with no other occupants. Police say the Stanton car crossed from east to west as the crash occurred.
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Louis L. Stanton
West Forty-ninth Street
Standard Safe Deposit Company
Madison Avenue
Fifty-eighth Street
Thomas ‘Hara
O’hara
President Roosevelt Not Involved in Rock Creek Riding Incident
The White House released a letter from Miss May Rhodes’s mother denying reports that the President struck her daughter’s horse in Rock Creek Park near Washington. Dated January 27 in Los Angeles, Elizabeth M. Rhodes questions why the president was not officially denying the story, noting its reference in Congress.
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Miss Rhodes
Roosevelt
Rock Creek
Washington
Rock Creek Park
White House
Los Angeles
Cal
Miss May Rhodes
Congress
Elizabeth M. Rhodes
Jersey Justice Found Dead in Newark Home
Frank Wilhelm a Justice of the Peace and broker in Newark was found dead with a bullet wound at his 448 High Street home. Police suspect murder and seek a contractor who had threatened him over unpaid money. Wilhelm had fled to New York City a week earlier and returned the day before. His wife discovered the body in the yard and reported the threats.
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Financial District
William H. Moore
Sidney C. Love
Love
Sidney C. Love & Co
Wall Street
Mr. Love
Judge Moore
James H. Moore
West
Moores
Frank Wilhelm
Newark
High Street
Wilhelm
New York City
Wireless by Compulsion in House Bills
Washington Feb 1 A sweeping wireless bill proposed by Representative McCall requires passenger ships sailing between US ports or from or to US ports to carry a wireless set if any leg of the voyage is 100 miles or more. Three bills on the topic will be heard by the Merchant Marine Committee soon plus a Greene motorboat bill for mufflers or subsurface exhausts.
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New York Times
Washington
House
Representative McCall
Massachusetts
United States
Merchant Marine Committee
Greene
Miss Keller to Relocate for Secluded Writing Life
Miss Helen Keller plans to move from Wrentham Massachusetts to Pennellville near Brunswick Maine with publisher John A. Macy and his wife. The move aims to provide quiet, leisure, and immersion for her writing projects and ongoing correspondence with supporters worldwide.
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New York Times
Pawtucket
R. I
Helen Keller
Wrentham
Mass
Boston
John A. Macy
Pennellville
Brunswick
Macy Miss Keller
Miss Keller
Europe
South America
Doctor Martyr to a Theory Fort Wayne Doctor Dies After Escape Operation
Dr Herman G Niermann a leading Northern Indiana physician died after an operation aimed at proving a medical theory about living without the digestive tract. He had studied digestion for years and requested Johns Hopkins Dr Binney to perform the procedure, which was ultimately done by Dr McOscar in Fort Wayne. Peritonitis followed the operation.
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New York Times
Fort Wayne
Ind
Herman G. Niermann
Indiana
Medical Society of
Allen County
Tuberculosis Congress
Washington
Binney
Medical Department of
Johns Hopkins
Supreme Court Undercuts Wall Paper Trust Power in Case
The Supreme Court rules Continental Wall Paper Company cannot force Voight & Sons to pay an $86,762 debt, striking down trust-imposed retail price controls. Justice Harlan calls the decision a blow to trust power, noting it weakens the ability to dictate market prices and restrain trade. Dissenting justices argue a lawful aim may be clouded by unlawful structure.
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New York Times
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Continental Wall Paper Company
Louis Voight & Sons’ Company
Ohio
Voight & Sons’ Company
Paper Company
United States
Voight& Sons’ Company
Circuit Court
Wall Paper Trust
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
Justice Harlan
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Harlan
Circuit Court of Appeals
Dec
Wallpaper
Justice Holmes
Brewer, White
Peckham
Roosevelt Refuses 10000 Legacy From Reclusive Benefactor
Boston February 1 President Roosevelt declines a $10000 legacy from the will of Benjamin Hadley East Somerville recluse who died December 16 1907. The will valued at 150000 provided the gift to the President.
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Roosevelt
Boston
Benjamin Hadley
East Somerville
United States
All Deerfeet Farms Products Spotlighted in Southboro Kitchen
All Deerfeet Farms items are produced at the farm in Southboro Massachusetts. The notes credit their success to quality materials and the neatness and cleanliness of their preparations.
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Southboro
Mass
Milburn Warns Credit Probes Could Impede Oil Firm
John G. Milburn of counsel for Standard Oil was asked to give an opinion on how the government probe might affect credit operations. He cautioned that the inquiry could interfere with business practices and financial dealings.
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John G. Milburn
Standard Oil Company
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California Senate
Feb
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Broker Armes
S. C. Love
Means
Rainey
Cromwell
C. P. Taft
Farnham
Deal
Jersey Justice
Maine
Keller
Jobber
J. &. Milburn
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