Taft Holds Talks With Harriman Line Chiefs on Merger
Washington January 10 Taft meets with R S Lovett Senator Spooner Maxwell Evans and government counsel Kellogg Wickersham to discuss the Union Pacific Southern Pacific and Oregon lines merger and the government’s anti trust suit. Officials say no agreement reached and future conferences possible.
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New York Times
Washington
Taft
Harriman
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
R.S. Lovett
Harrimanines
John C. Spooner
Maxwell Mvans
Wickersham
Franz PB. Kellogg
Pendins
Harrimannes
Wich
Oregon Short Line
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Marriman
Salt Lake City
Taft Railway Bill Introduced For Commerce Court
Representative Townsend introduced the Taft administration railway reform bill in Congress. It creates a Commerce Court with exclusive jurisdiction over Interstate Commerce Commission orders. The five judge panel serves five years with staggered terms to ensure experience. The bill sets strict injunction rules and outlines prosecution and defense of matters in the court by the Department of Justice.
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Washington
Townsend
Taft
Commerce Commission
Commerce Court
Department of
Savannah Line Delivers Health Rail Trip to South
Savannah Line offers new ships sailing Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at 3 00 PM from Pier 35 North River all outside staterooms. The service promises health and rest with tickets and reservations via telephone.
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Savannah
North River
Storrow Favored in Boston Mayor Vote Lines
In Boston on January 10 James J. Storrow led betting for the mayoral race ahead of Nathaniel H Taylor James J Storrow John F Fitzgerald and George Hibbard with odds around 210 to 1 for Storrow Rival Hibbard may still attract support. Hibbard filed a $50000 libel suit against Collier's Weekly over tammanoyizing Boston claims. Storrow’s car ride into a Fitzgerald torchlight procession sparked minor melee but no injuries reported.
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New York Times
Boston
Mass
James J. Storrow
Hibbard
Nathaniel H.taylor
John F. Fitzgerald
George Hibbard
Bibbard
Collier’s Weekly
Fitzgerald
Storrew
Dozen Hurt In Enfield Street and Jamaica Ave Collision
A trolley car collided head on with a coal wagon at Enfield Street and Jamaica Avenue Cypress Hills injuring about a dozen people. Miss Martha Shara nineteen was knocked unconscious and taken to Bradford Street Hospital. Samuel Schachter was seriously hurt and also taken to the hospital. Wagon driver Silvon Cunningham remained in his seat as wheels came off.
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Enfield Street
Jamaica Avenue
Cypress Hills
Martha Shara
Hegeman
Alabama
Rookiyn
Samuel Schachter
120
Second Street
Manhattan
Bradford Street Hospital
Silvon Cunningham
Furman Street
Brooklyn
Auto Hits Car Three Dead In Peach Tree Road Crash
Atlanta January 10. William W. Garner and Frank and Harold Is. George died in a collision between an automobile and a street car on Peach Tree Road. Two others were injured, one seriously. W. H. George an automobile dealer was slightly hurt and driver F S Gable was seriously injured. Garner was an inspector for the Western and Atlantic Railroad recently discharged from hospital after a railroad accident.
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Atlanta
William W. Garner
Frank
Harold George
Peach Tree Road
Weank George
Harold Is. George
W. H. George
F. S. Gable
Garner
Western & Atlantic Railroad
Man held in deadly grip in Connecticut trapping dispute
In North Granby Wred Messenger, a trapper, confessed to choking Al Filley to death after Filley pounced on him on Day Street. Medical examiner ruled death by strangulation. Messenger, jailed without bonds, waived examination and awaits March Superior Court trial. Authorities note prior liquor arrest and quarrels over trapping territory.
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New York Times
Winsted
Conn
North Granby
Marshall G. Hayes
Wred Messenger
al Filley
Filley
Hayes
Messenger
Charles Allhouse
A. J. Wood
Tonna Filley
W. M. Day
Stanley W. Edwards
Counterfeit Ring Busted After Yearlong Chase
United States Secret Service arraigned sixteen suspected counterfeiters who allegedly circulated more than $50,000 in bogus two and five dollar bills. Leaders Ignacio Lupo and Giuseppe Morello linked to past crimes including a barrel murder and the Black Hand.
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United States
Secret Service Department
Shields
Secret Service
Sing Sing
Ignacio Lupo
Giuseppe Morello
Italy
Jupo
Morello
Flynn
Secret Service Bureau
Philadelphia
East Ninety-seventh Street
Antonia Maloni
Antonio Cecalia
Cecalia
Maloni
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Highland
N. Y
Salvator Cina
Vincenzo Giglio
Poughkeepsie
Lupo
Bath Beach
Highland Farm
Iis
Ninety-seventh Street
Bothg
Olice
Palermo
Lupa
New York
Benedetto Catania
Catania
Bree
Joseph Petrosino
Bread pan fire sets pets ablaze in New Brunswick home
Mrs Joseph Castner lit stove bread rose over pan spilling kerosene lamp oil onto Giner the dog and Tabby the cat. They fled to the front room and rolled on a couch to douse flames, which set the couch on fire before railroad workers and later firemen extinguished it. The couch burned, rest of damage was minimal.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Joseph Castner
Jersey Avenue
Giner
Castner
Tabby
Maillard's Ladies' Restaurant Ad Opens In Midtown
A vintage advertisement touts Maillard's Ladies' Restaurant at 5th Avenue and 35th Street, promising convenient dining near shopping and a fashionable atmosphere for customers close to everywhere.
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Maillard’s Ladies
35Th St
Times Preview Reminder Encourages Early Subscriptions
A note urges readers to place orders with news dealers now to catch the many notable features planned for next Sunday's Times.
Paulhan in Airship Stuns Crowd at Aviation Park
Louis Paulhan wowed 1910 crowds with multiple daring flights at Aviation Park Los Angeles. He zigzagged above the grandstand in Farman and Curtis aircraft, reaching 400 feet and enduring long flights while dirigibles Beachey Knabenshue flew nearby.
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Los Angeles
Aviation Park
Louis Paulhan
Farman
Curtiss
Charles F. Willard
Willard
Lincoln Beachey
Roy Knabenshue
Paulhan
Richard Ferris
Knabenshue
Beachey
Air Ste
Baloon
Pauihan
Charles K. Hamilton
Rheims
Mme. Paulhan
France
Bernhardt to Open London Coliseum Engagement in September
The Daily Mail states Sarah Bernhardt will start a London Coliseum engagement on Monday September 15 despite a Paris paper report that she would not appear at a music hall. The cable from London notes definitive plans for the vaudeville act.
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NEW York Times
London
The
Daily Mail
Sarah Bernhardt
London Coliseum
Bernhardt
Paris
Woman Convicted of 35-Year Man Masquerade Revealed
Montreal authorities reveal a 65-year-old inmate, who for 35 years passed as a man named William Dubois while working as a deckhand on lumber barges. She now wears a skirt in the jail infirmary and admits the ruse.
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Montreal
William Dubois
Westinghouse firm files lien against Nassau Hotel for $590620
Westinghouse Church Kerr and Co with Desaultes and Gillespie, sub contractors, filed a lien in Nassau County for 590620 against Nassau Hotel Co at Long Beach. The suit seeks the balance of a 743619 contract for sixteen lots and the boardwalk. The hotel was completed last spring in record time.
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New York Times
Ula
IL. J
Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co
New York
Desaultes & Gillespie
Nassau County Clerk's Office
Nassau Hotel Company
Long Beach
Lloyd George to Visit United States Next Summer
London report says Chancellor Lloyd George will visit the United States next summer as the guest of the Welsh Society. He is expected to be accompanied by Sir Samuel Thomas Evans the Solicitor General and MPs William Abraham and William Jones from Glamorgan and Carnarvonshire.
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London
Lloyd- George
United States
Welsh Society
Samuel Thomas Evans
Willam Abraham
William Jones
Glamorganshire
Carnarvonshire
Prinz Joachim Still Fast On Reef Off Kingston
Hamburg American liner Prinz Joachim remains stuck on a reef after departing Kingston harbor yesterday. Rescue attempts by Prinz Estel and the German cruiser Hertha continue as weather holds calm. If a southwest wind arrives before release, the ship may be lost and passengers remain aboard.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Prinz Joachim
Prinz Estel
Hertha
Tail to Halley's Comet Observed by Harvard Yale
A slender straight tail approx ten minutes long and 69 degrees angle was seen behind Halley’s comet’s nucleus per Prof. E B Frost via Harvard Observatory. The tail is currently too faint for naked eye, detectable only on sensitive photographic plates as the object appears in the western sky.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Observatory
E. B. Frost
Yerkes Observatory
Yacht owners challenge new tonnage tax in U S suits
William K. Vanderbilt Jr and fellow yacht owners filed amended answers in federal court against the tonnage tax under the tariff act. They argue the $7 per gross ton tax before Sept 1 1910 is unconstitutional for nonuniform application and favors commercial vessels, alleging treaty and equal-treatment violations.
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William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Frederick M. Hoyt
Willis S. Kilmer
Lamon V. Harkness
Roy A. Rainey
United States Circuit Court
Great Britain
Riverside Stages Restart Sparked By New Park Commissioner
Park Commissioner Stover, sworn in by the Mayor, signed payrolls for per diem workers and welcomed ex-Commissioner Smith who aided the handover. He plans open-air playgrounds on the East Side and a new park site under the Queensboro Bridge. The Mayor urges immediate Riverside Drive stage service resumption from Seventy Second Street to the Viaduct.
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Stover
Arsenal
Central Park
Smith
Slover
East Side
Manhattan
Queensboro Bridge
Riverside Drive
Seventy-second Street
Seaboard Florida Limited Pullman Train Ad
The Seaboard Florida Limited claims to be the only club car train to Florida with electric lighting and all Pullmans. It runs via the Pennsylvanian Railroad and Seaboard Air Line, with offices at 1,183 Broadway.
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Seaboard
Florida Limited
Florida
P. R
Seaboard Air Line
Heiress and waiter seized in Chicago elopement case
Miss Roberta De Janon heiress to Philadelphia merchant Robert Buist and Frederick Cohen a waiter were arrested in a North Side boarding house. They traveled from Philadelphia to New York Montreal Halifax Boston and Chicago with their fox terrier Tootsie after fleeing to escape schooling and her grandfather.
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New York
Chicago
Roberta de Janon
Robert Buist
Philadelphia
Frederick Cohen
North Side
Cohen
Robert King
Canada
England
Tootsie
Cowen
Bryn Mawr
Bellevue- Stratford Hotel
Mr. Cohen
Grandfather
Montreal
St. John's
Halifax
Boston
Buffalo
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Ping Trust
Storrow Leads
Man
Trapper
Secret
Pect
White
Insurance Department
ery—White
Albany
Hotchkiss
Eral
People’s Mutual Life Association
League of Syracuse
Horace White
John Tevis
Louisville
Federal Life Company of Canada
Supt. Hotchkiss
People’s Mutual
Syracuse
Iram C. Reed
Society
E. E. de Barr
Willard H. Peck
E. O. Kinne
Gov. White
State Insurance Office
Charles F. Wayte
First National Bank of Syracuse
E. Ly. de Barr
Dr. Bw. O. Kinne
J. J. B. Santee
HH. H. Mondon
Slayte
Lavycox
Messrs. Peck
Reed & de Barr
Tevis
Messrs
Peck and
Reed
Mr. Tevis
Peck
First National Bank of
Great Bear
Lien ON Long Beach Hotel
Lloyd-George
Halley
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Roy Rainey
Riverside
de Janon
West Superior Street
Chicago Avenue
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