Packers push for Wilson successor in meat inspection flap
Washington reports that the White House may press Secretary Wilson to resign and appoint Gifford Pinchot as Agriculture head. Packers fear forestry chief would shift focus, while probes into Chicago sanitation continue and new inspection rules loom.
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New York Times
Washington
Wilson
Gifford Pinchot
Salmon
Bureau of Animal Industry
Melvin
Chicago
Department of Agriculture
Forestry Administration
Mr. Pinchot
Department
Bureau of Forestry
Packing Regulation Bill Moves Through Congress
The House committee favors a broad packing regulation bill with heavy labeling and inspection powers. Farmers and small butchers are exempt, and the Secretary may hire an efficient inspector corps for one year. A conference likely to conclude by Saturday with an approved bill and a presidential statement to reassure the public on Chicago packing output.
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House Committee
Wilson
Chicago
Inspection bill advances with expanded Chicago inspectors
Secretary Wilson announces the planned overhaul of meat inspection, expanding Chicago packing-house inspectors from 185 to 310. New hires will come from veterinary colleges with three years of study and will serve a one year probation. Inspectors gain access to all plant areas and new live-animal expert staff is added. Regular weekly sanitary reports will document conditions.
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New York Times
Washington
Wilson
Bureau of Animal Industry
Inspection Service
Chicago
Commission
Preservatives in Meat Claims Question Pack House Practices
A report details facsimiles of orders for dyes and patent meat preservatives sent from leading Chicago packers to Heller Chemical and others. The materials include Carnaline Konservirungs Salz used by Armour, Cudahy, Schwarzschild & Sulzberger, and United Dressed Beef Co. No large packers have bought preservatives from Heller for over five years, using their own salts and borax instead.
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Chicago
Heller Chemical Company
Carnaline Konservirungs
Armour & CO
Cudahy
Wis
Barre
Meiers Carnaline Konservirungs
Salz
Cudahy Bros. CO
Stockyards Station
Kansas City
Kan
United Dressed Beef CO
Timms
Contention Over Food Preservatives Sparks Debate
A speaker defends common salt and saltpetre as harmless when used properly and notes that improper use of salt or sugar can be deadly. He argues preservation methods have long been practiced in China and in New York under Supreme Court oversight, while packers refuse to comment on a recent publication.
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China
New York
Supreme Court
National conference on infant mortality in England met in London
President John Burns of the Local Government Board led a London gathering addressing rising infant deaths. He claimed about 100000 lives yearly fall to neglect and ignorance and called drinking among women a serious tragedy increasing mortality of children under five.
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London
England
John Burns
Burns
Great Britain
Heiress May Be Put in Asylum in Connecticut
In New Canaan Connecticut Probate Judge Gregory weighs a petition to confine 36 year old Miss Giles Gamble McClenahan heiress to an asylum over neighbor complaints. Her father William McClenahan a New York shoemaker died recently leaving an estate reportedly worth a quarter million dollars. A conservator is to be appointed and the will may face contest from nephews and nieces.
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New York Times
New Canaan
Conn
Gregory
Norwalk
Giles Gamble McClenahan
William McClenahan
New York
McClenahan
Waldorf-Astoria
Drs. Scoville
Keeler
Miss McClenahan
William McCrenahan
Knickerbocker Trust Company
New Record in Divorces Set by Justice MacLean
Justice MacLean set a new Supreme Court record by disposing of twenty three undefended divorce cases in six and a half hours. The term closes with fifty five cases awaiting relief and no one to wait over vacation. He surpassed Justice Truax’s prior day record.
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Justice MacLean
Supreme Court
Justice Truax
Chelsea piers rate set at four percent construction cost
City settled pier rents in Chelsea district at four percent of construction cost plus maintenance after a meeting of Cunard American Red Star White Star and Wilson lines with a Sinking Fund Commission panel. Rate lower than planned to aid transport firms. If approved all major lines would dock at the new section, enabling city leases to railroads or tramp ships.
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Chelsea
Cunard
American
Red Star
White Star
Wilson Lines
Sinking Fund Commission
City to buy Crystal Lake Water Company on Staten Island
Staten Island independent water firms likely to be city owned after the Select Committee and representatives agree to acquire Crystal Lake Water Supply Company for 730000. If approved, the city will also take over the other Richmond firms. The deal follows a sworn company valuation of 530000 and a prior plan for a municipal plant blocked by New Jersey law.
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Staten Island
Board of Estimate
McGowan
Metz
Cromwell
Richmond
Nelson P. Lewis
Crystal Lake Water Supply Company
Crystal Lake
Tax Department
New Jersey
Equal Mortar Gun Record at Fort Adams
In Fort Adams mortar target practice the Seventy-ninth and Ninety-seventh Coast Artillery companies formed Battery Edgerton and scored 50 hits on day one and 75 percent on day two at a four to six mile range. Fort McKinley set a record last week with capped projectiles. Fort Adams matched it with twelve shots, caps weighing ten pounds affecting accuracy. Battery Edgerton members will dine with fort officers Saturday afternoon.
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New York Times
Newport
Fort Adams
Coast Artillery
Edgerton
J. T. Geary
Fort McKinley
Battery Edgerton
Fort
Bernhardt Receives Gold Loving Cup After Lyric Show
After a Lyric Theatre performance, Mme Sarah Bernhardt was honored at a banquet at the Café des Beaux-Arts. Hosts W F Connor and Lee Shubert, her managers, and her company presented a gold loving cup to the renowned actress.
Why Not Plan a Better Office System Before Vacation
An ad from Safety Systems Co. promotes planning a labor saving office system before a trip. The message highlights experienced salesmen ready to offer valuable suggestions and mentions the contact number 21 Franklin.
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Safety Systems CO
Franklin
Mystery surrounds murder of Mrs. Alice Kinnan at Stenton mansion
The Bronx detective team probes motive after Mrs. Kinnan is found on the Washington Avenue porch with a fractured skull. Neighbors report running figures and a voice from the piazza while investigators seek letters and clues among Mrs. Stenton's belongings.
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Alice Kinnan
Stenton
Washington Avenue
189Th Street
Price
Bronx
Charles Mangan
Pelham Avenue
Capt. Brennan
Hattie Watkins
Brennan
Clinchy
Connelly
Capt. Price
Louise Malcolm Stenton
Nellie
Belmar
Englishwoman Mrs Williams Threatened Morgan Official
Mrs Ellen B Williams, an Englishwoman linked to J Pierpont Morgan affairs, was arrested March 14 for threatening to shoot Charles Steele. She was examined, declared paranoiac, and discharged, with further exam sought by a referee and care at Breezehurst Sanitarium.
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Charles Steele
Ellen B. Williams
J. Pierpont Morgan
Dugro
Supreme Court
Wahle
Bellevue
Gregory
Greenbaum
James J. Nealis
Breezehurst
Whitestone
L. I
C. E. Williams
England
Franklin Bien
BE. A. Oakes
Cowle
Mr. Morgan
Europe
J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr
Baltimore
Steele, Semmes & Cary
Winans
Williams
Morgan
Eight Hurt In Auto Collision At Dead Man's Bend
Two touring cars collided at a dangerous curve on a Marlboro highway. Eight people were injured including J P Grady of New York City and three Norwalk Connecticut women bound for Readville and Norwalk. Mrs Hill and Mrs Fenley were hospitalized. The stretch is known as Dead Man's Bend.
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Marlboro
Mass
E. W. Chapin
Northboro
Readville
Northborough
Noah Wadsworth
C. A
Rogers
Westborough
T. Earle
Dedham
Hill
Fenley
South Norwalk
Cuils Company Offers Real Estate Management and Deposit Services
Cuils Company will handle rents taxes and insurance and other matters. It also offers a place of deposit with interest on daily balances for surplus income.
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Cuils Company
Burlington Guilty in Export Concessions Trial
Chicago, June 13. The Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railway was found guilty by a U.S. District Court jury on four counts of granting concessions to ship packing house products for export to Armour, Swift, Cudahy, and Nelson Morris. Fines range from 1000 to 2000 dollars per count with sentence deferred to June 22. verdict cites Elkins Act violations and contract rates as the issue.
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Kansas City, Mo
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Company
United States District Court
Armour Packing Company
Swift & Co
Cudahy & Co
Nelson Morris Packing Company
Smith McPherson
Burlington Railway
Kansas City
Liverpool
Mississippi River
New York
van Valkenberg
United States
O. M. Spencer
St. Joseph
Burlington Railroad
Or. M. Spencer
Clover Leaf
Lehigh Valley
Ces
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Burlington
A.S. van Valkenburg
Inter- State Commerce Commission
McPherson
Supreme Court of the United States
Able Legal
Yesterday's Fires Across City Reported Damages
A sequence of late night and afternoon fires details property damage across streets including 553 West 156th Street 200 dollars and 210 Centra Street 100 dollars with multiple addresses showing minor to major losses. Several owners are unnamed or listed as unknown. Larger blaze at 424 to 428 East 108th Street caused fifty thousand dollars in damage.
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156Th Street
William Seelingsberg
Centra Street
Morris Hecht
Twenty-fourth Street
Copie Gantiave
128A Street
Margaret Becker
109Th Street
Ee Damage
Second Avenue
Sixty-second Street
Lenox Avenue
Levy Brothers
East Eighty-eighth Street
Monroe Street
Abraham Pickle
Eee Avenue
East Eighth Street
L. Bluma
135Th Street
East 108Th Street
East Third Street
M. Faffrens
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THE
Aeolian CO
Aeolian Hall
5Th Ave. N.Y
Crystal Lake Company
Mrs. Kinnan
Police
Barrett
Old
Staten Island Wie
Dyeing Establishment
Madison Av
Brooklyn
J. P. Morgan
Justice Dugro
Ble Ex
Imperial
Miraenanette
Lord & Taylor
Twentieth St
Fifth Ave
Nineteenth St
Eben J. Hill, Jr
Equitable Trust Company OF
Nassau Street
Adele Ritche
LEO I. Meinhard CO
B’way
N. Y
Chicago Packers
Elkins
D. E. Hartwell
Safest Insurance
Manhattan
Telephone
Columbus
Wells
Sec. & Treas
Eet
Hersatd
Sixth Ave
15Th St
Cortlandt Street
Ehrlichk&dons
Broadway
Astor House
Sozudon
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