Meadow Brook Polo Divides Society at Fashionable Show
Gov. Dix and Col. Roosevelt watched from boxes as 3,000 autos, electric trains, and a sea of society guests filled the Meadow Brook polo field. Attendees included Mrs. Dix, Mrs. Belmont, and Miss Ethel Roosevelt. crowds described as a panorama of outdoor brilliance under ideal weather.
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Meadow Brook
Hunt Club
Gov. Dix
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Dix
Egerton L. Winthrop, Jr
August Belmont, Jr
E. C. de Kay
Raynor
Monson Morris
Alfred R. Whitney
Frederick C. Brown
Col. Roosevelt
Ethel Roosevelt
Henry W. Bull
Nicholas Longworth
W. Bourke Cochran
Mackay
Clarence H. Mackay
Philip M. Lydig
Reginald Vanderbilt
George J. Gould
Pircy M. Pyne
George Crawford Clark
David Clark
Harry Payne Whitney
Payne Whitney
E. D. Morgan
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Eleanora Sears
J. M. Waterbury
WK. Vanderbilt
J. Henry Alexandre, Jr
Stanley Mortimer
West Stands
Arthur Scott Burden
Norman Whitehouse
James A. Burden, Jr
James D. Eustis
Elsie Ladew
E. Berry Wall
Hilda Holmes
Artemas Holmes
Oliver W. Bird
Claire Bird
Middleton S. Burrill
Frederic Bull
John Sanford
Albert Zabriskie Gray
Louis Haight
Henry C. Phipps
F. Egerton Webb
Laura Webb
Douglas Robinson
James L. Breese
Frederick Lewisohn
John Dyneley Prince
Tyler Morse
Philip Livermore
Eugene S. Reynal
Frederick O. Beach
Amos Tuck French
Franklin A. Plummer
Reginald Ronalds
Francis
Howard Crowninshield
Ogden L. Mills
Rene ‘la Montagne
Lloyd Warren
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
John Darragh
William Post
Leonard Jacob
Alfonso de Navarro
Thomas Hitchcock, Jr
Whitney .Warren
Autos Parade Through Hempstead Plains At Long Island Event
A vast auto gathering on Hempstead Plains drew over 3 500 cars to a polo field spectacle. The crowd arrived from all directions and clogged parking behind the grandstand as drivers raced to secure prime spots for the post game procession.
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Hunt Club
Westbury
Wheatley Hills
Hempstead
Garden City
Jamaica
Manhattan
Pennsylvania Station
Hempstead Plains
Long Island
Grand Stand
Bear hounds kill farmer's pet fawn named Jennie
In Pine Hill New York on May 29 two bear hounds owned by Shirley of Sullivan County chased Jacob Garrabrant's pet fawn into the woods after it approached the dogs. A farmer shot one hound. the other was wounded. The fawn died that night from broken legs. Garrabrant's children mourned the loss.
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New York Times
Pine Hill
N. Y
Jacob Garrabrant
Westkill Range
Shirley
Sullivan County
Garrabrant
Jennie
Mormon Leader to Be Summoned in Sugar Trust Probe
Washington June 9 The House special committees investigating the American Sugar Refining Company plan to subpoena Joseph Smith president of the Mormon Church to detail his knowledge of the sugar trust dealings with church controlled beet sugar interests. Subpoenas will also target leading West beet sugar men. Committee Chairman Harwick said hearings start Monday with Eastern sugar men testifying before Western witnesses.
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Washington
House
American Sugar Refining Company
Joseph Smith
Mormon Church
Sugar Trust
Harwick
Smith
R. V. Ndabury
Steel Corporation
Stanley
Mr. Roberts
America
Mr. Stanley
Legion
Roberts
United States Steel Corporation
Pennsylvania Railroad
Cambria
Pennsylvania Steel Companies
Pennsylvania
United States Steel
Clement C. Griscom
President McCrea
McCrea
Gary
Eee
Morgan Jis
Morgan
Harburger lauds Taft at activist meeting
Deputy State Controller Julius Harburger praises President Taft for ordering Col. Garrard reprimanded for anti Jewish remarks about a private soldier. He calls for court martial and cashiering and urges nationwide stance against discrimination. He also urges Russia to recognize all citizens with passports and to abolish the 1832 treaty if not done.
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Citizens’ Democratic Club
Second Avenue
Julius Harburger
Taft
Col
Joseph Garrard
America
Harburger
Russia
Luna Park bet on long horseback voyage to San Francisco
Fred Thompson of Luna Park posts a $5,000 wager with Col. Jack Abernathy that Louis and Temple the Abernathy Kids cannot ride from Coney Island to San Francisco in sixty days. The pair start June 19 and will have Oklahoma horses sent by fast freight. Last year they rode from Oklahoma to New York in forty three days and returned by a small motor.
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Fred Thompson
Luna Park
Coney Island
Col
Jack Abernathy
Louis
Temple
Abernathy
San Francisco
Oklahoma
New York
Morgan questioned as steel trust inquiry widens
Washington reports show the House committee probing the Steel Trust pressing Percival Roberts Jr. on power in finance and industry. Gayley testifies on Carnegie growth, rail price influence, and planned tube works amid pre merger competition. Morgan's potential summons looms as questions focus on influence and corporate ties.
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Stanley
Steel Inquiry
Percival Roberts, Jr
Banker
New York Times
Washington
J. P. Morgan
House
Steel Trust
Morgan
Pennsylvania Railroad
Roberts
James A. Gayley
Andrew Carnegie
United States Steel Corporation
Carnegie
Gayley
Carnegie Steel Company
The
Steel Corporation
Carnegie Company
Young
Mr. Gayley
Homestead
Conneaut
John W. Gates
Onneaut
Lake Erie
National Tube Company
Morgan Company
Carnegie Mills
Pittsburg
New York
Morgan Group
Braddock
Penn
Mr. Young
United States Efecel Corporation
Beall
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Morgan's Steel Profits and the 1901 Syndicate
The account details J P Morgan & Co and other financiers guiding the United States Steel Corporation formation in 1901. It notes stock values, cash contributions, and heavy expenses totaling about 28 million dollars, plus the syndicate’s extensive involvement and ultimate profitability praised on Wall Street.
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J. P. Morgan & Co
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
Stanley Committee
Washington
Steel Corporation
Europe
Morgan & Co
Sucess
Wall Street
Committee Favors Honduran Treaty Amid Senate Resistance
The Foreign Relations Committee voted to report favorably a $10 million loan to Honduras to settle its $125 million debt. The plan relies on customs revenue pledges and a U.S. appointed collector, with $7.5 million due immediately. Opposition in the Senate and among some Republicans threatens ratification.
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New York Times
Washington
South
Committee On Foreign Relations
Senate
Honduras
United States
Roosevelt
Dominican Republic
Nicaragua
Zacere
Bacon
Georgia
Shirley
Indiana
Wall Street
Pushing the Coke Inquiry in Pennsylvania
A May Federal Grand Jury in Pittsburg, Penn., reassembled to probe possible monopolistic activity in the coking industry after questioning six renowned coal officials. The investigation focuses on whether a cartel or abuse of market power affected coke production and supply.
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Pittsburg Coal Company
Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company
H. ©. Frick Coke Company
United States Steel Corporation
E. J. Taylor
William Miller
J. McPherson
F. J. Lemoyne
FF. M. Wallace
J. W. Barber
Monongahela River
Jordan
Pittsburg
Penn
May
Federal Grand Jury
Many Ignore West Point Appointments Shortage Noted
Washington reports the War Department faces a shortage of applicants for forty vacancies in Congressional and Senatorial districts for United States Military Academy entries. Nearly one hundred class vacancies for 1912 have no applicants. Examinations occur July 5 with districts named lacking candidates, including New York ninth nineteenth thirty fifth and Pennsylvania seventeenth.
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Washington
United States Military Academy
War Department
New York
Pennsylvania
Steel Trust Buys Basset-Presley Company
United States Steel Corporation has purchased the Basset-Presley Company, a major finished steel jobbing concern. Vice President E C Kollfrath says the deal was not less than 1 million dollars and the sale was announced in Cleveland on June 9.
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Cleveland
Ohio
United States Steel Corporation
Basset-Presley Company
E. C. Kollfrath
Eight Black workers killed in confrontation at La Branch
Hammond Louisiana reports say eight Black workers employed as section hands were fatally hurt at La Branch last night. They confronted Illinois Central bridge foreman Boutwell and conductor Green Storey of a work train. The foreman struck three. Storey and Boutwell killed five more in ensuing violence.
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Hammond
la Branch
Foreman Boutwell
Illinois Central
Green Storey
Boutwell
Storey
Republican urges higher tobacco tax attack on wool tariff plan
Washington June 9 Representative Warburton a new Republican insurgent in the House charges Congress wastes revenue by keeping high wool duties while taxing tobacco as England does could flood markets with woolens and sugar unless tobacco is taxed, urging relief in tobacco tax to free tax policy. Peters of Massachusetts argues revenue needs kept wool duties as low as possible to fund government.
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Washington
Warburton
House of Representatives
Congress
England
France
Peters
Massachusett
Ways Means Committee
Urges Observation of Flag Day
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution urges members nationwide to observe June 14 by displaying flags at residences and decorating buildings appropriately.
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Washington
Matthew T. Scott
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Mexico Politics and Military Moves Across Regions
The report notes Hina pressing Mexico to pay 40 million dollars while detailing Madero's presidential run and a contested vice presidential spot between Dr. Francisco Vasquez Gomez and Gustavo A. Madero. It also covers Ernesto Madero informing Francesco of solid federal revenues and the Army’s artillery withdrawal with Stimson and General Wood, plus planned naval withdrawals and troop dispersal in Texas.
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Madero
Francisco Vasquez Gomez
Gomez
Gustavo A. Madero
Francisco
Taft recalls more troops as withdrawal proceeds
President Taft approved a War Department order to return 4,000 soldiers from Galveston Texas and 1,500 from San Diego California to their posts. This follows the prior withdrawal of 2,000 marines from Guantanamo Cuba, signaling a staged pullback of U S forces from the Mexican vicinity.
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Washington
United States
Mexico
Taft
War Department
Galveston
Texas
San Diego
Cal
Guantanamo
Cuba
Madero Smelter Men Quit Strike Expands In Torreon
In Torreon Mexico June 9 workers at the Asarco smelter strike for a ten percent wage increase. Of 700 Torreon workers only twenty remain on duty with one furnace running. The Torreon smelter is controlled by Madero interests and other railway division workers have struck for April pay delayed by bridge burnings and the revolution.
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Torreon
Mex
Asarco
Madero
Mexican International Railway
Tension at Chihuahua as insurrectos press troops
In Juarez on June 9 the insurrecto officials claim control beyond the five thousand Federal troops in Chihuahua. Friction with the Federals drives nervous tension as Orozco vows to advance if withdrawal continues. American residents in El Paso warn relatives to stay away until the situation clears.
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Juarez
Mex
Chihuahua
Madero
Cretco
Orozco
el Paso
Huahua
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