Twain's Shakespeare Dead Sparks English Copyright Storm
Mark Twain rushed Harper & Brothers to publish Is Shakespeare Dead? in April, using a chapter from G. Greenwood without credit. Greenwood’s London publisher John Lane objects, calling it literary larceny and urging proper acknowledgment, while Harper defends the hurry as Twain’s demand.
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Mark Twain
Harper & Brothers
Pearl Street
Twain
George G. Greenwood
M. P
London
Mr. Greenwood
Greenwood
K. Greenwood
John Lane Company
West Thirty-second Street
England
Shakespeare
New York Times
Philadelphia
G. G. Greenwood
Mr. Clemens
Bill Sikes
Clemens
America
Europe
Grub Street
John Lane
Taft Confesses Confusion Over Tariff Bill Text
President Taft told Ohio woolen manufacturers he is bewildered by the tariff measure as Senate schedules face conflicting changes from seventh delegation in days. He recounted a Tennessee travel anecdote about spelling to illustrate how there is no single correct way to interpret the tariff.
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New York Times
Washington
Taft
Ohio
Nichols Dartmouth's Head
Prof. Ernest Fox Nichols, former Dartmouth physics head and current Columbia experimental physics professor, elected president of Dartmouth College to succeed Dr. William Tucker. He is 40, native of Leavenworth Kansas, educated at Kansas Agricultural College Cornell Colgate, with notable work in heat waves and planetary radiation. He holds Rumford Medal 1904 and DSc from Cornell 1897 and Dartmouth 1905.
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Concord
N. H
Ernest Fox Nichols
Dartmouth College
Columbia University
Dartmouth
William Tucker
Leavenworth
Kan
Kansas Agricultural College
Cornell
Cambridge
Berlin
Nichols
Colgate University
Columbia College
Jupiter
Saturn
American Society of Arts
Posed as Woman to Get Job in Chicago
John Robinson, a colored man, testified in Municipal Court that he posed as a woman for years to gain employment as a domestic. After detectives uncovered his disguise he was fined 85 dollars plus costs and ordered to wear conventional male attire.
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Chicago
John Robinson
Robinson
Jeanette Robinson
West Side
Outing Magazine Sold to Bloggett for 30000 in Auction
United States Judge George W. Ray approves the sale of Outing Magazine by the receivers of the bankrupt Outing Publishing Company to Thomas H. Bloggett, a Chicago advertising agent, for 30000. Bloggett will take possession July 1 and continue publication. The appraised value was 50000. The Knapp Brothers loans totaled 1006000, with 520000 to the Outing Publishing Company and the rest to family ventures.
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Binghamton, N. Y
United States
George W. Ray
Outing Publishing Company of Deposit
Outing
Thomas H. Bloggett
Chicago
Outing Publishing Company
Blodgett
Knapp Brothers
Knapp
Editorial shift at Cleveland Leader announced
The Cleveland Leader reports a new contract and states that the newspaper will be edited and published by Charles E. Kennedy Nathaniel C Wright and Harry S Thalheimer who will control editorial and business policies as publishers.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Cleveland Leader
Cleveland Leader Printing Company
Charles E. Kennedy
Nathaniel C. Wright
Harry S. Thalheimer
Fragmentary note at Maiden Lane hints at Peencer’s listing
Readable bits mention Peencer perhaps at 7 Will and Maiden Lane. Text is fragmentary with no clear action, date, or full names. Until more context appears, details remain uncertain.
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Peencer
Maiden Lane
Aldrich Seeks Taft Talk on Tariff Bill Tactics
Senator Aldrich met President Taft at the White House and held secret talks with lawmakers as he pressed for delaying or limiting the tariff bill. A plan discussed aims to postpone or scale the income tax and win insurgent support, with conferences to map strategy and avert a sweeping party split.
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New York Times
Washington
Aldrich
White House
Capitol
Senate
Mr. Aldrich
Taft
Rhode Island
Dixon, Jones
Dixon
Montana
House
Aldric
House Republicans
Middle West
Finance Committee
Warren
Clay
Georgia
Kean
Tax rate still near normal increase says Controller
Controller Metz announced the tax rate will not exceed the normal rise to about 1.67 this year. Last year’s rate was 1.61, with potential earlier hints of 1.74. He released the General Fund revenues for 1909 sent to the Board of Aldermen, showing $34,231,062 in receipts and a nearly $7,000,000 rise from last year while personal real estate and franchise valuations fell and the budget rose by $16,000,000. He added that an extra month to clear arrears could have reduced the rate further.
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Metz
Tax Commission
General Fund
Board of Aldermen
Massacre Tallies and Adana Massacre Fallout
Berlin reports twelve ringleaders executed including six Armenians linked to the Adana massacres. A new massacre near Alexandretta claimed about 100 lives as authorities clamp down. The Young Turk Committee seeks reinforcements while Istanbul confirms death sentences for twelve Muslims and five Armenians for Adana crimes.
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Berlin
Tageblatt
Aleppo
Adana
Alexandretta
Young Turk Committee
Hag
Constantinople
Loot at Suffrage HQ as Robbers Take All but Banners
The National Progressive Woman's Suffrage Union at 122 East Twenty third Street was burglarized yesterday. Treasurer Mrs. Sofia Lobiner and the Executive Committee found valuables missing, including a Turkish rug, totaling about 600 dollars, while banners inscribed with Votes for Women were left intact.
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National Progressive Woman’s Suffrage Union
Fast Twenty-third Street
Sofia Lobiner
Mrs. Lobinger
Government to abolish returns division saving $100000 yearly
Washington, June 8. The new Administration plans to abolish the division of returns in the Interior Department to save about $100,000 annually. The board, appointed by President Roosevelt, has recommended curtailing departments and dissolving bureaus. Congress must act to eliminate the division, with a request to be made at the start of the December session.
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New York Times
Washington
Department of the Interior
Departments of War, Navy
Interior
Roosevelt
Division of
Congress
Dustless Road Planned From Trenton to Seashore
Jersey to build a dustless highway from Trenton to the seashore after meetings in Freehold with Mercer Monmouth and Middlesex counties and State Road Commissioner Gilkyson. Freeholders to act Friday and bids to be invited next Tuesday for a sand and asphaltum dustless surface.
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New
Gilkyson
Torpedo boat contract bids awarded by Navy
The Navy awarded four torpedo boat destroyer contracts today with a fifth to follow. Bath Iron Works, Bath Me, $659 500. New York Shipbuilding, $648 000. William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, $637 000. New Oy Orgar Company at $600 000. The fifth likely to Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Mass, $644 000. Delivery within twenty four months, twenty months for New York Shipbuilding.
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New York Times
Washington
Navy Department
Bath Iron ‘Works
Bath
New York Shipbuilding Company
William Cramp & Sons
Philadelphia
Niew Otog
Fore River Shipbuilding Company
Quincy
Mass
New York Shipbuilding Co
Black Hand Leaders Trapped in Ohio Crimes
Secret Service arrests Samuel Lima Joe Batella and Sam Rizzio in Marion Ohio and six others in Dennison identifying Lima as the Black Hand head in the U S A They uncover hundreds of letters and money orders to Italy worth thousands and warn of possible uprising as authorities guard the jail and militia stands by.
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New York Times
Cincinnati
Samuel Lima
Joe Batella
Sam Rizzio
Marion
Ohio
Dennison
United States Secret Service
Black Hand Society
J. F. Oldfield
R. M. C. Hosford
E. F. Hutches
Post Office
Holmes
Lima
Charles Holmes
Italy
John Amicon
Columbus
Pittsburg
Amicon
Antonio Rizzo
Black Hand
Fred Cianciolo
Cianciolo
Joseph Amarino
Rizzio
Bateila
Black Hand members stand trial in Fairmont city court
In Fairmont West Virginia Judge Mason opens trial for nineteen Italian suspects linked to a Black Hand society. Principal witness Orazio Parabelli 19 testifies he was forced to join under threat of death and paid 25 dollars, identifying nine of the defendants as initiators.
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Fairmont
West Va
Mason
Orazio Parabelli
Ninteen
Black Hand Organization
Parabelli
Banker Tod's Tent Gone on Great Island
J Kennedy Tod of New York demanded a larceny warrant from Prosecuting Attorney H B White after his Great Island tent vanished. Tod had pitched the shelter on the Sound Beach island near Innis Arden as a fishermen and picnic haven, while E J Lucas of Mount Vernon claims ownership. The case rests with Greenwich authorities and Constable Palmer.
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New York Times
Sound Beach
Conn
J. Kennedy Tod
New York
Laird
Innis Arden
Greenwich
H. B. White
Mount Vernon
Palmer
Shipping News: Corfe Castle and Oceania Arrivals
Shipping updates show the Corfe Castle arriving at don on May 24 and the SS Oceania docking at Palermo at 3 26 with 83 from Maracaibo and La Guayta listed among cargo ports and origins.
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Corfe Castle
Don
Oceania
Palermo
Maracaibo
la Guayta
Severe Chile earthquake devastates Copiapo area
A strong quake struck Copiapo Chile damaging many buildings but causing no deaths. Reports from Valparaiso and Santiago describe widespread destruction and panic though low rise construction limited casualties. The Weather Bureau logged a defined quake about nine time zones away with moderate intensity lasting over an hour.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Copiapo
Copiapo Bay
Santiago
Washington
Here
Weather Bureau
Harriman Arrives in Paris From London
E. H. Harriman arrived in Paris today after traveling from London. He attempted to secure a special train at Cherbourg but, unable to, traveled on a regular boat train to the French capital.
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Cherbourg
Paris
E. H. Harriman
London
Four Autoists Drown in Sacramento River Crash
In Knight's Landing California a car plunged into the Sacramento River last night. Mrs. W. F. Dixon Mrs. J. H. Dungan Miss Merle Dungan and Miss Julia Dungan of Woodland drowned. The chauffeur swam to a boat and was saved.
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Knight’s Landing
Cal
W. F. Dixon
J. H. Dungan
Merle Dungan
Julia Dungan
Woodland
Sacramento River
Pastor Pays Alimony in Long Divorce Battle
In Pittsburg on June 8 the divorce case between Rev. Charles T. Russell now of Brooklyn N Y and his wife Maria F. Russell concluded as alimony and fees were paid. The settlement covers 6036 alimony through Sept 1 1913 plus 1600 for counsel and 60 costs after the clergy man moved property to Brooklyn prompting a writ of foreign attachment by his wife.
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Pittsburg
Charles T. Russell
Brooklyn
N. Y
Maria F. Russell
Russell
Dubrovin Libel Case Ties to Old Believers Law Flap
M Guchkoff, leader of the Octobrist Party in the Duma, files criminal libel against Dr Dubrovin editor of Znamya over an article alleging money was used to pass the Old Believers law. The Union of Russian People faces setbacks as authorities ban the Poltava July 8 Constitution demonstration.
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ST. Petersburg
Poltava
H. E. Dixey Takes a Bride
Actor Henry E. Dixey returns from Milwaukee with Marie Norstrum his longtime leading lady. Report says the marriage occurred in Milwaukee while Dixey’s Hotel Empire home hides the couple from inquirers. Norstrum, born 1886 in Fort Apache Arizona, has appeared with Dixey in vaudeville and on stage in multiple productions.
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Henry E. Dixey
Milwaukee
Marie Norstrum
Mary Jane
Widow disinherits daughter in will naming Quinby executor
Mrs Mary Gertrude Kraus who died in St Francis Hospital on June 5 leaves her estate valued at 14000 to Franklin Quinby executor with full discretion over remains and funeral expenses to be paid from the estate. She cuts off her daughter Adeline from any interest citing loyalty to Quinby amid her daughter's marriage to attorney O B Thomas.
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Adeline
O. B. Thomas
Mary Gertrude Kraus
St. Francis’s Hospital
Mrs. Thomas
Franklin Qiiby
Franklyn Street
East 142d Street
Franklyn Quinby
Dewey's Pure Grape Juice Ad Claims Strong Nourishing Effects
An old advertisement for Dewey & Sons Co. at 138 Fulton Street New York promotes Dewey's Pure Grape Juice as nourishing and blood boosting. The brief copy emphasizes health benefits and a brand name A & T.
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DEWEY
A & T. Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Settlement Ends Lengthy Sugar Trust Suit Over Philadelphia Plant
The American Sugar Refining Company agreed to pay 40.25 million dollars to settle with the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company under Sherman Anti-Trust act claims. The settlement includes 2 million in cash, 7 million par value of securities returned, and cancellation of a 1.25 million loan, ending a two week trial tied to alleged conspiracies involving Sugar Trust counsel and broker Kissell.
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American Sugar Refining Company
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company
Sugar Trust
John E. Parsons
Gustav Kissell
Pennsylvania Company
Holt
United States District Court
United States
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Adolph Segal
Real Estate Trust Company of
Frank Hipple
Real Estate Trust Company
Segal
Sugar Company
Kissell
George H. Earle
John W. Hutchinson
William de F. Junken
Frank 8. Black
H. Snowden Marshall
Samuel Untermy
John G. Johnson
John G. Milburn
Henry W. Taft
William D. Guthrie
H. B. Closeson
Kissel
M Kissel
Pennsylvania Sugar RD
Powar Capital
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Tod
Lucas
Great Island
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Machine
Sacramento
C. T. Russell
Dubrovin
Guchkoff
H. E. Dixey
Pennsylvania Sugar Co
Combine
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