Race track agents swarm to Albany for anti betting push
Albany March 10 agents of race track interests and bookmakers fill hotel lobbies and Capitol corridors as lawmakers debate anti race track betting bills. Prominent figures including Wilbur F Crafts and H T Oxnard weigh compromise plans while regulators pledge to close poolrooms if betting continues. Local agricultural groups accuse dishonest delegation while police leader Bingham advocates strict enforcement and end to poolrooms.
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New York Times
Albany
Assembly Codes Committee
Senate
Capitol
Wilbur F. Crafts
International Reform Bureau
H. T. Oxnard
Jockey Club
Bingham
New York
Agnew
New York City
Louisiana
Kentucky
California
New York State
Stop Dance Hall Evils Bill Passes Assembly in New York
Albany March 10. A bill to regulate dance halls by police licensing set at 50 fee passed the Assembly with two Republican votes against. It requires strict supervision, bans liquor, bars admission of girls under 18 without guardians, and threatens license revocation for infractions.
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Ne York Times
Albany
New York
Graubard
Glore
Holbrook
Brooklyn
Session end dates debated by Albany leaders
Albany reporters note today that some legislators expect final adjournment on April 8, two days before the Republican Convention, while others predict the session could extend to May with a one week adjournment for the convention.
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New York Times
Albany
Railroad group postpones annual meeting awaiting financial plan
The adjourned annual meeting of the Mobile, Jackson, and Kansas City Railroad was indefinitely postponed. Officials said the meeting was delayed to await the completion of the railroad's financial plan, now in preparation.
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Mobile,Jackson, & Kansas City Railroad
Doctor's Gift Promises Health Through Grape Nuts
A Pennsylvanian doctor gives a patient Grape-Nuts to combat chronic indigestion and biliousness. The patient reports rapid improvement within weeks, noting clearer thinking, renewed vitality, and a renewed sense of youth. The testimonial, attributed to Battle Creek's Postbrand Co., ends with a prompt to read The Road to Wellville in the package.
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Penn
Tum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Williams to Keep Office in Bank Supervision Plan
Albany reports a bill creating the Third Deputy State Superintendent of Banks to oversee the New York office. Senator Grady notes NYC financial circles expect Clark Williams to resign after a deputy is named, though Williams rejects discussion of relinquishing his post. Committees vote to report eight Williams-backed bills expanding reserve requirements and tightening director and branch restrictions for banks and trust companies.
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Albany
New York
Senate
Grady
New York City
Clark Williams
Williams
Assembly
Supt. Williams
Grady Attacks McCarren In Hearst Bill Debate
In Albany on March 10 Senator Grady defended the Independence League and attacked Senator McCarren for bolting the Hearst ticket in 1906 during a debate on Casidy's bill setting new rules for state party management. The bill requires a state committee chairman to be an elected member, expulsion only for felony, and denies recognition to independent or incorporated parties. Grady argued the measure would favor a minority and praised the Independence League as cleaner than today’s parties.
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New York Times
Albany
N. Y
Grady
Independence League
McCarren
Hearst
Cassidy
Kings County
Chanler
Farm Aid Bill Aims to Bring Games to City Fairs
Albany March 10 Senator Gilchrist of Brooklyn introduces a 500000 appropriation bill to fund agricultural fairs. Half to county fair associations and half to city fairs for first and second class cities. Senate Finance hearing reveals letters from Bishop Potter and R W Bruere supporting the measure. Gilchrist says 3000 New York City schoolboys would work on farms during vacations if approved. Co W Larmon of the State Agricultural Department urges passage.
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New York Times
Albany
Gilchrist
Brooklyn
Senate Finance Committee
Bishop Potter
R. W. B. Bruere
Association For Improving
New York City
Bureau of Information and Statistics
State Agricultural Department
Mothers Supreme Says Roosevelt Call For Child Welfare
President Roosevelt spoke at the White House in the first International Congress on the Welfare of the Child. He urged practical training for boys and girls, better playgrounds, and abolition of child labor, stressing the mother as the nation’s supreme asset and calling for duties of both spouses in marriage.
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Washington
White House
National Mothers’ Congress
Roosevelt
Bills Introduced In Senate In Albany March 10
Senate bills include Harte plan to place telegraph and telephone firms under Public Service Commission supervision. Hasenflig proposes a 25 cent per thousand stamp tax on cigarette manufacturing. Cordts backs a State Department of Commerce with three commissioners and a $7500 chairman, $6000 members, to supervise canal transport. Gates seeks deduction from franchise taxes for water gas and electric service supplied to cities, calculated at rates charged private customers.
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New York Times
Albany
Senate
Harte
Public Service Commission
Hasenflig
Cordts
State Department of Commerce
Gates
Spee
Ruling Sustains Higher Duty on Vegetable Green and Carmine Red
The Board of United States General Appraisers, in a decision by W F Lunt, sustained Magnus and Lauer of New York in a dispute over duty on vegetable green and carmine red. Customs classified as colors at 30 percent. claimants argued for 20 percent ad valorem as unenunmerated manufactured articles. Collector's action set aside and revaluation ordered. Other claims upheld for Chelsea Fibre Mills, Tai Lung & Co, Tuck High, E De F Wilkinson Co. Provi dence. Protests by F B Vanderrift & Co, Mensel & Co, Ungerer & Co, Y Takakawa, and other Japanese importers at Honolulu were overruled.
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W. F. Lunt
Board of
United States General Appraisers
Magnus & Lauer
New York
Chelsea Fibre Mills
Tai Lung & Co
Tuck. High
E. de F. Wilkinson Company
Providence
F. B. Vanderrift & Co
Mensel & Co
Ungerer & Co
Y. Takakawa
Honolulu
Stock Exchange Nominees Named for May Election
The Stock Exchange announced the slate for its annual election to be held on the second Monday in May. President R F Thomas and Treasurer F W Gilley were renominated for re election. Ten governing committee members up for terms, along with retiring Trustees of the Guarantee Fund, were also renominated. The 1900 Nominating Committee includes John A Black Walter J Currie Stanley D McGraw Arthur Whitney and Robert D Wrenn.
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Stock Exchange
R. F. Thomas
F. W. Gilley
Gurantee Fund
John A. Black
Walter J. Currie
Stanley D. McGraw
Arthur Whitney
Robert D. Wrenn
Army transfers announced in Washington report
The United Service Washington dispatch notes First Lieut. S. Smith of the Sixteenth Infantry will report to the Army for Retiring Board examination. Transfers at officers’ request include First Lieut. F. B. Davis moving from the Fifth to the Twelfth Infantry and First Lieut. J. B. Barnes moving from the Twelfth to the Fifth Infantry.
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Washington
S. Smith
Sixteenth Infantry
Army
F. 3B. Davis
Twelfth Infantry
J. B. Barnes
Fifth Infantry
Lighthouse District Assignments Released for Navy
Commander J L Purcell takes charge of the Eighth Lighthouse District in New Orleans. Commander J J Khapp assumes duty in the Fifteenth Lighthouse District in Louis. Commander G W Brown to North Carolina. Ensign A C Pickens assigned to the Dolphin.
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J. L. Purcell
Eighth
New Orleans
J. J. Khapp
Fifteenth
Louis
G. W. Brown
North Carolina
A. C. Pickens
Dolphin
Movements of Naval Vessels Reported At Ports
Movements of several naval vessels are listed with arrivals and sailings. Fortunes arrive at San Diego and League Island while ships Nero, Chicago, Dubuque, Eagle and South Neg are at Guantanamo and Magdalena Bay. Sailed ships include Villalobos from Shanghai to Han Kow and Albany from Magdalena Bay to San Diego.
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Fortune
San Diego
Nero
League Island
Chicago
Rio de Janeiro
Dubuque
Eagle
Guantanamo
South Neg
Magdalena Bay
Wilmington
Avite
Villalobos
Shanghai
Han Kow
Albany
Bremerton
Hughes Bill Killed In New York Assembly
Albany March 10 The bill for permissive direct nominations at primaries supported by Gov Hughes was killed today in the Assembly Judiciary Committee led by Phillips of Allegheny It followed Hughes public accusations of duplicity against Phillips who sponsored the reform measure last year The committee action is seen as a rebuff to the governor and his reform agenda as an influential member taunted that further reform ideas would be ignored.
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New York Times
Albany
N. Y
Gov. Hughes
Assembly Judiciary Committee
Assemblyman Phillips
Allegheny
Committee
Assemblyman
Phillips
Assembly
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Race for Lipton Cup Set for July Fourth Regatta
The Brooklyn Yacht Club reports the Lipton Cup race to be sailed July 4 open to sailing yachts not over 100 feet LOA from Brooklyn to Fire Island and back. Entries due June 15 with a measurement certificate. Prizes also offered for second to fourth place.
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Brooklyn Yacht Club
Sir Thomas Lipton
Gravesend Bay
Spit
Ege Ie
Thomas Lipton
George Ade to Advocate Federal Auto Bill in Congress
George Ade the playwright and humorist will appear in Washington tomorrow as advocate for a Federal Automobile bill seeking a uniform national system of motor vehicle identification and registration. The Indiana delegate and Terra Haute Automobile Club member attended by a large Hoosier delegation and supported by the American Automobile Association and delegates from New Jersey and Philadelphia. The bill would exempt owners paying a $5 fee from state registration laws while remaining subject to the owner’s resident state's laws.
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George Ade
Hoosier
Halls of Congress
Ade
Terra Haute Automobile Club
Indiana Automobile Association
Judiciary Committee
House of Representatives
Washington
American Automobile Association
Congressman Cocks
Long Island
William H. Hotchkiss
Charles T. Terry
F. H. Elliott
A. G. Batchelder
Lewis R. Speare
Boston
L. Haynes
Springfield
Mass
New Jersey
Vonsiettig
J. H. Wood
W. G. Crosby
J. i. Edwards
Associated Clubs of
President Mason
Board of Trade of
Passaic
W. Barnell
Atlantic City
Philadelphia
Robert P. Hooper
S. B. Davis
Jacob D. Rider
Lancaster
15 000 000 Deal And No Cash Paid Ends In Court
The state suit to forfeit the New York City Railway charter and franchises concluded testimony before Justice Davis. Special counsel Limburg detailed a May 22 1907 adjustment among New York City Railway Metropolitan Securities Company and Metropolitan Street Railway. Exchanges of checks totaling 15 million, with no cash, were presented as the settlement of accounts and new money to be provided by Interborough Metropolitan Company for these entities.
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Jackson
New York City Railway
Justice Davis
Supreme Court
Herbert R. Limburg
Cravath
Metropolitan Street Railway
City Railway
Brown
Justice Seabury
Mr. Brown
Limburg
Securities Company
The
Morton Trust Company
Mr. Cravath
Metropolitan Securities and City Railway settlement details
Apparent balanceings show all payments offset. Metropolitan Securities pays City Railway 3,658,500.00 and 836,495.77 totaling 3,994,994.77. City Railway pays Metropolitan Securities 800,000.00 totaling 3,994,995.77. Limburg and Cravath dispute fixed values for stock transfers from May 22, no cash passed. Cancellation of 6,850,000 loans shown as bookkeeping exchange.
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Metropolitan Securities
City Railway
Metropolitan Street Railway
City Rail
Mr. Limburg
Exchange of Securities
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Metropolitan
Metropolitan Street Railwa
Metropolitan Securities Company
City Railway Pays Securities Company
Lavender
the Crown Perfumery CO. OF
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East 20Th Street
Jeunesse Doree
the Oriental Store
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Ghorevan Carpets
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Co. Broadway
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