Senate Insurgents Aim to Replace Corporation Tax
Washington June 28 insurgent leaders plot to overthrow the proposed corporation tax and substitute an inheritance levy after a substitution vote. They seek to keep administration support while courting progressive senators to oppose the corporation tax and back a new inheritance tax plan.
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New York Times
Washington
Senate
Taft
Aldrich
Tillman
Congress
Heyburn
Smith
Michigan
McCumber
Senator Smith
South Carolina
Finance Committee
Cummins
Borah
Bristow
Brown
Crawford
Curtis
Dolliver
Gamble
la Follette
Nelson
McTenery
House
Gore
Bacon
Sea Island
Iif
Culberson
Flint
California
Root
New York
Tariff Talk Hurts Siegel Stores Family Leaves for Abroad
Frank E. Vogel vice president of Siegel Stores sails with Mrs. Vogel and children on the Kaiser Wilhelm Jr heading to Paris and Carlsbad for weeks. He blames tariff uncertainty for poor business and opposes corporation tax as discriminatory while preferring revenue needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank E. Vogel
Siegel Stores Corporation
Catching Island Speeders on Staten Island Ferries
Jersey motorists are arrested for speeding on ferry runs between Staten Island and Manhattan. Police use a stop watch and ferry-based phone calls to time cars and coordinate arrests, claiming this method catches several speeders each Sunday. A magistrate would not convict without witnessing speeding in the act.
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New Jersey
Staten Island
Manhattan
Tottenville Ferry
St. George Ferry
Ferry
Jersey
Hogan
Betwee
Rockefeller family to spend summer in Cleveland
John D. Rockefeller will leave Pocantico Hills with his wife and travel to New York then head to Cleveland for the summer. He played golf with Fred J. Hill this morning and attended church yesterday. Mrs Rockefeller has been ill and remains in New York under medical care but will accompany him as they travel tomorrow. He plans to return to Pocantico Hills around September 20.
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New York Times
Tarrytown
N. Y
John D. Rockefeller
Pocantico Hills
Wickersham withholds Perrin case files from Senate
Attorney General Wickersham refuses to send Justice Department files on the Perrin conspiracy case to the Senate as part of vetting for Robert T. Devlin’s nomination for U.S. Attorney in California. The Senate Judiciary Committee delays Devlin’s confirmation until next session. Perrin case remains on the docket with retrial possible. Several committee members criticize the withholding amid reports that prosecutors urged dismissal of Perrin proceedings.
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Washington
Wickersham
Senate
Department of Justice
E. B. Perrin
California
Robert T. Devlin
United States
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Devlin
Congress
Perrin
Judiciary Committee
Health Commission Seeks Public Dental Clinics for City Children
Health Commissioner Darlington released seven months of school dental data. Physicians examined 57,744 children and found 290,167 in need of dental treatment. He urged establishing adequate public dental clinics. current clinics handled extractions only. Five hundred thousand care-of-teeth circulars are being distributed in public schools.
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Darlington
Health Department
Taft Defeated in Golf Foursome With Edwards
President Taft and Gen. Edwards lost a golf foursome to Senator Bourne of Oregon and Capt. Butt by 2 up. The match took place on a Washington course with the President’s golfing party facing a narrow defeat.
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Washington
Taft
Gen. Edwards
Senator Bourne
Oregon
Capt
Butt
Court Examines To Aid Aged Woman In Gift Theft Case
Miss Mary V. McCusker, an elderly former schoolteacher, seeks $18,177 return and an accounting from second cousin Mrs. Margaret V. S. Ryan. McCusker testified of captivity and forged signs after a power of attorney, while Ryan claimed gifts totaling $13,837 and other transfers. The trial before Justice Dowling resumed with further questions about indorsed checks and distributions.
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Mary V. McCusker
Martha Washington Hotel
East Twenty-ninth Street
Supreme Court
Dowlings
Margaret V. S. Ryan
East 235Th Street
Ryan
Decatur Avenue
Charlotte
McCusker
Hudson County Bank
Hoboken
N. J
Miss McCusker
Kelley
West Forty-seventh Street
Calvary Cemetery
Devery Refuses to Pay Bill After Jury Verdict
In Jamaica Third District Court, Devery, owner of a Bayswater Rockaway estate, faced a $195 claim from William A. Duncan for corn hay coal fed to livestock and stove at his residence. Devery disputed the order, urged suit, and a six-man jury trial, held before Justice Rasquin, concluded with a verdict on his liability.
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Big Bill
Devery
Jamaica
Bayswater
Rockaway
William A. Duncan
New York
Duncan
Rasquin
Surgeon Haled To Court Over Assault Case Subpoena
Dr. Leroy B. Vail of Fordham Hospital was escorted to Morrisania Court by two policemen for evidence in an assault case involving a patient seen Saturday. He described patient load and three critical cases delaying his attendance. Magistrate Butts reprimanded him for neglecting court duties and released him after testimony. He planned to appeal the action through Dr. Brannan, president of the Board of Allied Hospitals.
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Morrisania Court
Leroy B. Vail
Fordham Hospital
Butts
Vail
Dr. Vail
John Burns
Dresser Testifies in Shipbuilding Company Case
Daniel LeRoy Dresser former president of the Trust Company of the Republic testified in Saratoga in the Charles H. Kavanaugh case against United States Shipbuilding Company directors. He described being asked to resign after returning from Europe in 1902, his firm’s loans to the shipbuilding venture and the Shelton Syndicate takeover plan, and his refusal to resign claiming the trust company’s interests were harmed.
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Saratoga
N. Y
Daniel Leroy Dresser
Trust Company of the Republic
United States Shipbuilding Company
Charles H. Kavanaugh
Europe
Shipbuilding Company
Sheldon Syndicate
Trust Company
Dresser
Herbert L. Satterlee
Mr. Satterlee
Mr. Dresser
Lewis Nixon
Nixon
Nmpany
Dresser U
William D. Baluwin
Perry Belmont
Belmont
Herrick
Stuyvesant Fish
Georgia Firemen Satisfied With Arbitration Award
Atlanta June 28 The Georgia Railway strike board award pleases both railroad and Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen No appeal will be made Vice President Ball says the pay equalization removes the seniority clause and should attract the most competent laborers The Negro firemen welcome a substantial pay increase they had not expected to demand
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Atlanta
Board of Arbitration
Georgia Railway
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Ball
Georgia Railroad
Droege Squares Accounts With Missing Mailed Check
The personal check of Oscar E. Droege, missing bookkeeper at the Raybrook State Sanitarium, totaling nearly $10,000, was mailed by Ray Brook Postmaster Merle L. Harder to Albany's State Controller. Droege left a letter instructing mailing after June 25. A grand larceny in the first degree warrant was issued.
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New York Times
Saranac Lake
N. Y
Oscar E. Droege
Raybrook
Droege
Albany
Merlel L. Harder
Harder
Baby Lawrence Makes Four Ocean Crossings by Eleven Months
Eleven month old James Lawrence, son of Mr and Mrs James A Lawrence of 120 Riverside Drive, arrived in New York aboard the Minnetonka after already traveling to Europe and back twice. His lineage traces to the famous Lawrence of Dont give up the ship fame and Capt Hull of the Constitution, marking him as a notably seafaring youngster.
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Atlantic Transport Line
Minnetonka
James Lawrence
James A. Lawrence
Riverside Drive
Europe
Lawrence
Baby Lawrence
Lawrence of
Hull
Constitution
Marchesa May Face Deportation Over Questioned Marriage
A 27 year old woman calling herself the Marchesa de Reymonde is detained at Ellis Island amid doubts over her claimed marriage to Edouard Reymonde who arrived weeks earlier. Officials question her identity and destination while her husband advocates for admission.
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Bilis Island
Marchesa de Reymonde
Paris
Themistocles
Marchesa
Edouard Reymonde
Baxter Street
Reymonde
Russia
West Twenty-seventh Street
Boards of Special Inquiry
Morristown Tragedy: One Dead as Cassese Kills Peacemaker
In Madison New Jersey on June 28 Antonio Mercendante was shot dead by Philip Cassese after attempting to stop a shooting spree. Ralph Gudege was wounded in the back during the same incident as Cassese fired at a rival said to have harmed his girlfriend. Cassese fled toward Park Avenue before being captured by Milburn police and jailed with two others.
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New York Times
Morristown
N. J
Antonio Mercendante
North Street
Madison
Mercendante
Philip Cassese
Cassese
All Souls’ Hospital
Ralph Gudege
Gudege
Hev
Park Avenue
Milburn
Divorce Granted to Navy Lieutenant Clarence Abele
Norfolk County Probate Court in Quincy grants divorce to Lieutenant Clarence Abele of the United States Navy from Elsie Manney Abele on grounds of gross and confirmed habits of intoxication. The couple married in 1902 and traveled widely aboard a vessel stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Elsie Manney Abele, daughter of Rear Admiral Manney, denies all allegations.
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New York Times
Boston
Nisina
Norfolk County
Clarence A. Abele
Ot Quincy
United States Navy
Elsie Manney Abele
Manney
Hotel St. George
New York
Abele
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Toto
Band Forms Charity Women of Faithful Aid
Supreme Court Justice Giegerich approved incorporation of the Faithful Women of Charity a voluntary group to aid poor women especially needy mothers and relieve their financial and other wants. The incorporators include Bertha Fliesler Rosie Levin Annie Suderow Annie Rappaort Anna Grossman Annie Rosenfield Fertha Gorodetsky Annie Daniels and Annie Zunser listing Forsyth Grand Chrystie and East Side addresses.
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Faithful Women of Charity
Supreme Court
Giegerich
Bertha Fliesler
Forsyth Street
Rosie Levin
Annie Suderow
Henry Street
Annie Rappaort
Anna Grossman
Annie Rosenfield
Fertha Gorodetsky
East Thirteenth Street
Annie Daniels
Grand Street
Annie Zunser
Chrystie Street
Commission disapproves wheelguard style on two Manhattan lines
Public Service Commission opinion by Commissioner Maltbie rejects the wheelguard used on the Second Avenue Railroad and Fifty-ninth Street line of the Central Park, North and East River Company. He recommends equipping cars with automatic trip wheel gun rags now in use on the Third Avenue system.
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Public Service Commission
Maltbie
Second Avenue Railroad
Fifty-ninth Street
Central Park
North and East River Company
Third Avenue
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Vanderbilt held on speeding charge in Madison Avenue
Cornelius Vanderbilt appeared in Yorkville Court on a speeding charge for driving 24 miles per hour in Madison Avenue between Fifty third and Fifty first Streets. Magistrate Finn paroled him to furnish a bond tomorrow morning as Policeman Faber reported the offense. Vanderbilt, of 667 Fifth Avenue, told the magistrate he would produce bonds and accepted the terms.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Yorkville Court
Madison Avenue
Finn
Vanderbilt
Fifth Avenue
Faber
Fifty-first Street
Fifty-first
Mr. Vanderbilt
McMullen Alimony Fight Upheld by Supreme Court Justice Seabury
Benjamin J. McMullen, White Automobile salesman, lost a bid to reduce his $12 weekly alimony to his wife Luella, while she failed to secure an increase to $75. McMullen alleged his wife received money from actor Charles Leonard Fletcher and Marcus Mayer. Emma Pepper testified that Mayer posed as Mrs McMullen’s uncle and that letters from the Lambs, signed with loving phrases, were shown to her.
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Supreme Court
Seabury
Benjamin J. McMullen
White Automobile Company
Luella McMullen
McMullen
Charles Leonard Fletcher
Fletcher
Marcus Mayer
Emma Pepper
West Ninetieth Street
Elk City Mayor Munroe Rescues Witness in Court
Jack Munroe, former world-class contender and mayor of Elk City Idaho, aided witness E H Rose after he fainted in Justice Greenbaum's court during a mining claims accounting case. Munroe rolled up his sleeves and helped revive Rose before a doctor arrived.
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Jack
Munroe
Jeffries
Justice Greenbaum
Supreme Court
Elk City
Idaho
William Stewart Mitchell
Eric Hamilton Roge
Cobalt
Rose
Iron Concern To Shut Down In Dover
Dover New Jersey June 28 The Morris County Machine and Iron Company will shut down its works after fulfilling current orders due to slack business conditions. Since the 1907 panic the firm has operated at a loss despite a February wage cut, with expenses exceeding income. Established fifty years ago it was the town’s largest industry employing hundreds. further wage reductions could have averted the closure.
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New York Times
Dover
N. J
Morris County Machine and Iron Company
Mahlon Ford
Blaze in 7 Story La Grande Apartment House
A seven story La Grande apartment building housing twenty four families caught fire on the fourth floor. Ephraim Greenspan the jeweler lived there. George Greenberg notified Police Headquarters and an alarm was raised. Elevators manned by Thomas Marion and Edward Hammersley helped evacuate all residents. Damage estimated at $2000.
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la Grande
Clinton and
Grand Streets
Ephraim Greenspan
George Greenberg
Thomas Marion
Edward Hammersley
Canary Diamond To Be Sold At Public Auction
A canary diamond three quarters of an inch by half an inch, reputed among the finest yellow gems, will be offered at public auction at 708 Third Avenue at noon tomorrow. The ownership is secret, the stone weighs 25 to 30 karats, and it sits in a cluster pin with fourteen blue white stones. The diamond is stored in the Hanover Safe Deposit Company vaults.
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Third Avenue
Hanover Safe Deposit Company
Henry Klinger
Borough of
Manhattan
New York City
Crocker & Wickes
Nassau St
George M Webb Returns From London Show
George M Webb sailed May 13 with his horse string to London to attend the International Horse Show. He traveled aboard the Minnetonka after ill health on May 13 delayed his return on the Minnemwaska. His prize entries Mary Glenor Lomo Laura G and Pearl Onward did not exhibit as the show ended before his horses returned.
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George M. Webb
London
Minnetonka
Mr. Webb
Minnewaska
England
Mary Glenor
Lomo
Laura G
Pearl
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2D Ave
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Blaze
Dusal Chemical CO
E. 29Th St
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Ehrlich
A. W. Brewster
Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital
Johnson
Marcum Kenyon
Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital
M. Linderoth
Ehrlich &Don
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Ann St
Astor House
15Th St
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