Submarine boat probe ends in tense House session
The House Committee on Naval Affairs wrapped a long session on the submarine boat scandal with key fights over the Holland Company and Rep. Lessler. Ernest W. Roberts of Massachusetts was pressed to show links to boat builders as the panel prepared a compromise report aiming to vindicate the Holland Company.
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New York Times
Washington
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Ernest W. Roberts
Massachusetts
Wheeler
Kentucky
Roberts
Holland Company
Illinois
Dayton
West Virginia
Taylor
Ohio
Meyer
Louisiana
Kitchen
North Carolina
Lessler
Philip Doblin
Lemuel E. Quigg
Holland
Lessiter
Doblin
Quigg
Tey
Mr. Lessler
New Yorker
Goodyear-Akron Rubber Bone Shoe Pads Featured
A note highlights The Goodyear-Akron Rubber Bone Shoe Pads made with leather for an “Easy Bar” pad. Includes index of paper sections and page references such as Commercial World and Court Calendars for navigation.
Electric Plant Sold in Pittsfield to Whitney Group
New York investors led by William C. Whitney gained controlling interest in the Stanley Electric Manufacturing Co. of Pittsfield from the Roeblings and others. The $125 a share sale ensures the business remains in Pittsfield with plans to invest up to ten to twenty million dollars as needed.
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New York Times
Pittsfield
Mass
William C. Whitney
Stanley Electric Manufacturing Company
Roeblings
Trenton
N. J
Yarn price hike approved by Southern spinners
At a large meeting in Charlotte North Carolina the Southern Cotton Spinners Association voted to raise yarn prices from 1k to 1 cent per pound. Southern mills say demand is strong with buyers from across the United States, and the boost aims to keep mills profitable amid high output. Representatives from every Southern state attended along with many cotton manufacturers and about fifteen major New York and Philadelphia commission men who accepted the decision.
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New York Times
Charlotte
N. C
Southern Cotton Spinners’ Association
United States
South
New York and
Philadelphia Commission
Carleton Arrested in Dayton on Fraud Charge
William B. Carleton former president of North American Realty Company was taken into custody by Dayton police on a Newark warrant for obtaining money under false pretenses. He vanished from Newark about four weeks ago after being indicted on a complaint by Dr. Richard Coe. Former officers Rowley and Ware were arrested January 6 and are held on $3,000 bail each.
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New York Times
Newark
N. J
Dayton
Ohio
William B. Carleton
North American Realty Company
Carleton
Richard Coe
Warren Street
Warren Street, Who Succeeded To the Position of Treasurer of the Realty Company
William O. Rowley
Concern
C. Gordon Ware
New mill planned for Fall River capacity over 15000 weekly
Rumors say M C D Borden will order a new mill in Fall River within weeks to produce no less than 15000 printing cloths weekly. The Anawan and Metacomet corporations may be absorbed into Fall River Iron Works. The American Printing Company now runs at full capacity producing 110000 to 125000 pieces weekly.
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New York Times
Fall River
Mass
M. C. D. Borden
Anawan
Metacomet
Fall River Iron Works Company
American Printing Company
Romance in the Klondike Wedding Ties
Lieutenant Edward McKay Hutchinson, a Cornell and Annapolis alumnus, wed Miss Edwards in Dawson City two weeks ago. Hutchinson, once librarian of Dawson City Public Library, is brother in law to John C. Phelps, linking him to the former American ambassador to Berlin. His bride, a Dawson kindergarten teacher and niece of a Canadian Parliament member, met him through library work.
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New York Times
Tacoma
Wash
Edward McKay Hutchinson
Dawson City
Ife
Miss Edwards
Dawson Public Schools
Mr. Hutchinson
Cornell University
Annapolis Naval Academy
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken
John C. Phelps
Berlin
New York
Klondike
Dawson
John Harvey Wilson 92 celebrated in Sullivan Indiana
John Harvey Wilson, a Sullivan County pioneer, marked his ninety second birthday. He helped plan Sullivan City, taught in the first county school, voted Democratic since 1832, served as sheriff, sat in the legislature in the forties, and belonged to Masonry and a Presbyterian church for fifty years. He was born in Greenville Tennessee where Andrew Johnson was once a poor tailor.
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New York Times
Sullivan
Ind
John Harvey Wilson
Jackson
Wilson
Presbyterian Church
Greenville
Tenn
Andrew Johnson
Miss Helen Gould Aids a Child
In Winsted Connecticut on January 27 Helen Gould learned of Julia McKee an eleven year old girl whose right eye has been sightless for two years. Gould arranged transport to New York and hospital care at Manhattan Hospital until the child is cured.
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New York Times
Winsted, Conn
Julia
Thomas McKee
Birdsall Street
Helen Gould
New York
Manhattan
Ex-Justice Divver Improves at Home Clinic
Report from 7 Madison Street states ex-Justice Divver, confined by pneumonia, was a little improved last night though the crisis has not yet occurred.
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Divver
Madison Street
Line of Least Resistance Across The Hudson To Chicago
The Line of Least Resistance runs along the Hudson River through the Mohawk Valley and along Lake Erie to Chicago with branches to Cincinnati and St Louis. It is called the New York Central.
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Hudson River
Mohawk Valley
Lake Erie
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Cincinnati
St Louis
New York Central
Patent Cure and Patent Liquor Advertisements
An advertisement page lists Piso's Cure for Consumption at 25 cents a bottle, promotes Dewar's Scotch and The Smart Set Nectar as imported beverages, and touts Burnett's Cocoaine for dandruff prevention and hair growth.
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Dewar’s
Museum Adds About 100 Rich Porcelains to Morgan Collection
J. Pierpont Morgan purchased the Garland collection and expanded the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s porcelain holdings with about 100 new pieces. Special vases, figurines, and rare specimens from the Ming and Ching eras, some valued in the thousands, will be catalogued in a planned comprehensive work by William M. Laffan.
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J. Pierpont- Morgan
Morgan
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Garland
James A. Garland
Mr. Garland
Henry J. Duveen
Duveen Brothers
Mr. Morgan
Europe
Shipping Trust
Gen
di Cesnola
William M. Laffan
Sane
Frank
British Museum
Sang de Boeuf Lang-Furness
London
Peking
Pane Dowager's Palace
Imperial Palace
Henry J. Duveen, Who Obtained Most of the Pieces For Mr. Garland
China
Ancestry of the Jews Debate Draws Stiff Comment
Chicago observers reject New York claims that Jews descend from Armenians. Dr. Emil G Hirsch calls Fishberg nonsense and argues there is no pure Hebrew race. Prof. Frederick Starr notes the Armenian type appears common among Jews.
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New York Times
Chicago
Emil G. Hirsch
New York
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Maurice Fishberg
Hirsch
Fishberg
Frederick Starr
University of Chicago
Record High Spot Cotton Prices in Memphis
Memphis on January 27 reports spot cotton rising by 1-16 cent per pound to a new season high for 1902-03. The gain equals nearly $5 per bale from a year earlier and $5.93 above the low since September 1, 1902. Market remains firm as exporters drive demand.
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New York Times
Memphis
Tenn
New York
New Orleans
Liverpool
Hotels on Wheels Run Daily to Chicago Route
The latest stock news travels on the Pennsylvania Special. Stenographers ride the train as markets close. Twenty hours to Chicago. Twenty hotels on wheels operate in service on the New York Central passenger line, continuing daily service across America.
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Pennsylvania
Chicago
New York Central
America
Adyv
Four Arrests in New York Tax Fraud Plot
Four men including a city official were arrested on a charge of conspiring to pervert property tax assessments. The ring impersonated taxpayers before the Tax Department to reduce or wipe out taxes, with District Attorney Jerome unveiling a wide scheme that allegedly cost the city millions. Bail set at 2000 for most, 1000 for Sawyer. investigations continue.
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Jerome
Philip Baer
City Hall
West One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Street
Nathan P. Springer
West One Hundred and Nineteenth Street
Moses R. Springer
Walter P. Sawyer
West Sixty-sixth Street
Nathan
Moses Springer
Maher
Becker
Sawyer
Robert McNaught
Criminal Courts
Schurman
Justice Olmsted
Court of Special Sessions
William Ek
Secord
Baer
Moses
Nathen Springer
Bryant
Farcourt
Hee
W. R. Spooner
Mr. Spooner
Mr. Baer
New York
Sergt. Brown
Max Griffenhagen
Tenth Avenue
MR. Jerome
Mr. Bryant
Willian Harcourt
Harcourt
Tax Department
District Attorney's Office
Spooner
Star Chamber
Joseph Scully
Wells
Tax Board
Commissioner Wells
Strasbourger
Scott
Mr. Wells
Jersey Central wreck kills twenty four in tragic New Jersey crash
A Royal Blue Line express crashed into a slower local near Graceland station Westfield New Jersey causing at least 24 deaths and many injuries. Fire followed the derailment trapping and torching cars as rescuers fought flames and aided survivors including a child saved from a pinned body.
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Westfield
N. J
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Graceland Station
Royal Blue Line
Jersey City
Bound Brook
Elizabeth
Plainfield
Royal Blue
Graceland
Dunellen
Muhlenberg
Durellen
John S. Davis
F. B. Hankinson
John Wanamaker
Philadelphia
J. Sinclair
New York
Dr Breck
Short Time Short Line to Chicago Train Schedule Ad
Daily Pennsylvania Special departs New York at 1 55 P M and reaches Chicago at 8 55 A M with faster service. Advertisement mentions blizzards travel to Washington and California on the Sunset Limited. Includes address 271 Broadway and rail-focused promotional copy.
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Chicago
New York
Washington -Line
California
Broadway
Seaboard Florida Limited Ad Short Route Times
Quickest daily service to Atlanta and Florida departs at 12 55 PM with weekday 2 10 PM and Sunday 12 55 PM departures. Listed address 1183 Broadway notes the service. The brief mentions Scotland origin as a famous brand.
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Seaboard Florida Limited
Atlanta
Florida
Adv
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Real Tate
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W. B. Carleton
North American Realty Co
Mr. Borden
Annapolis
J. P. Morgan
William Harcourt
Lambs and Players Clubs
Nathan Springer
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Cuming
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Thomas C. Platt
Watchung Avenue
Williams
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Mauch Chunk Avenue
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Charles
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Geddies
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H. R
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