Indictments Loom in Sugar and Tobacco Trade Frauds
Widespread federal probe into customs frauds tied to the Sugar Trust resurfaces with hints of large refunds and pending indictments. Henry S. Stimson and Dennison pursue refunds and criminal inquiries, while officials deny vast losses from weighings at sugar docks and push for grand jury action. Investigations into tobacco wrappers hint at collusion in appraisal practices and potential large-scale fraud.
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Henry S Stimson
Sugar Trust
Stimson
Dennison
Arbuckle Company
Mr. Dennison
AmiVe
Dea Dennison
Fry
American Es Refining Company
McEiied Sugar Trust
Havemeyer Us Kilder
Noaber
Fire panic at Olive Opera House in Ossining
A theater fire at Olive Opera House in Ossining New York caused a panic among about 500 spectators. Smoke filled the auditorium forcing a rush to exits and a ten foot drop to the sidewalk for some patrons. No injuries beyond bruises. films and movie projector damaged. coroner to investigate why fire appliances failed.
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Ossining
N. Y
Olive Opera House
George Vogelsberg
Squire
House razed after gift to heirs deemed estate detriment
The $200000 Deer Range Farm house once built by Neal Plumb is being torn down after executors of George C. Taylor of Great River decide the mansion is a burden on the estate. The property passed to Benjamin Raynor and William Jeffery with two conditions: remove the building and fill the cellar. Hand carved mantels and valuables are being disposed of. The 100 room structure was erected with funds from Plumb’s wife estate, causing family disputes and a trustee breach. Plumb died in jail from erysipelas before his murder trial.
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George C. Taylor
Great River
L. I
Deer Range Farm
Benjamin F. Raynor
William 8. Jeffrey
Neal Plumb
Plumb
Taylor
Read Collapses in Denver Trial for Extortion
Mrs Allen F Read on trial in Denver for allegedly extorting $10000 from Mrs Genevieve Chandler Phipps collapsed in court amid convulsions that began at 2:30 pm and may force a pause in proceedings. Prosecutor says the case remains about punishment for alleged threats using dynamite while Read alleged to have planned drugging and escape with the money.
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New York Times
Denver
Allen F. Read
Genevieve Chandler Phipps
Autos Crash In Broadway Narrow Escape For Driver
John Avalin chauffeur for A. J. Picard fainted with an epileptic fit as he began crossing Broadway at Forty-first Street yesterday noon. His car drifted east and struck a taxicab in front of the Hotel Albany. No injuries, both cars had front lights broken. Picard stopped the car and the patient was taken to New York Hospital, later returning home to 412 West Seventy-sixth Street.
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Broadway
Forty-first Street
John Avalin
A. J. Picard
Hotel
Albany
Avalin
Mr. Picard
Delaney
New York Hospital
West Seventy-sixth Street
Dewey's 19092 Vintage G5 Juice Finest in Years
Dewey's Co offers 19092 vintage G5 juice described as finest in years, bottled recently. Product listed under H T Dewey & Co with address 148 Aay.
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Dewey’s
H. T. Dewey S Co
Two Americans in Guildhall hunger strike tied to protest
Miss Alice Paul and Miss Lucy Burns, both American suffragists, attended the Guildhall banquet and protested to Winston Churchill. Paul faces a month at Holloway for window smashing while Burns was escorted out after a banner confrontation.
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London
Alice Paul
Philadelphia
Guildhall
Lucy Burns
Winston Churchill
Miss Paul
Miss Burns
Rabies scare as dog bites residents in Bronxville
A French bulldog owned by George W. Kneeling in Bronxville and Bronx Manor reportedly showed rabies symptoms. The dog bit Kneeling, about twenty other dogs, and several residents before being found dead in Lawrence Park. Kneeling seeks Pasteur Institute treatment while authorities fear spread of rabies.
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New York Times
White
Plains
N. Y
Bronxville
Bronx Manor
George W. Kneeling
Lawrence Park
Taxter
Kneeling
Pasteur Institute
New York
Flynn
Palmer Avenue
William Gray
William Legcett
Place orders with newsdealers for next Sunday's Times
Readers are urged to secure copies by ordering from newsdealers today to ensure they receive the upcoming Times edition. The notice emphasizes advance purchase to avoid missing features in the Sunday issue.
Hammerstein Seeks Guaranteed Pay for Philadelphia Shows
Oscar Hammerstein demanded a $7,500 guarantee per Metropolitan performance in Philadelphia next season, saying fair treatment required. He spoke after Herodiade at the Opera House, citing antipathy toward him and stating he might quit if guarantees aren’t provided, while boxholders pledged initial support.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Oscar Hammerstein
Philadelphia Opera House
Academy of Music Opera
Metropolitan Company
Hammerstein
Phiadelphians
Metropolit Sa
Academy
Metropolitan
Mr. Hammerstein
Isaac H. Clothier
E. T. Stotesbury
Academy of Music
Skeptical Of Cancer Cure Report From Columbia
London observers express skepticism about a Columbia University cancer cure report. The Imperial Cancer Research Fund notes the claim likely stems from misunderstood work by Dr. Woglom on tissue transplants that may boost immunity in mice, not a serum cure. The fund stresses the work marks progress and highlights ongoing global experiments.
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NEW York Times
London
Columbia University
New York
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Woglom
May Oust Big Company In Ohio and West Virginia
Prosecuting Attorney Tom O Crossan filed suit in ouster against the Sun day Creek Company a New Jersey corporation with four thousand dollars capital controlling 120000 acres of coal lands in Ohio and West Virginia The Sunday Creek Company produces four million tons annually three times its nearest Ohio competitor It is charged with forfeiting state rights by voting the Hocking Valley Railway to hold its money and by controlling stocks of kin and competitive coal firms.
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New Lexington
Ohio
Tom O. Crossan
Sunday Creek Company
New Jersey
West Virginia
Hocking Valley Railway
Vanderbilt Man Arrested in Garden
Charles H. Wilson, manager at Oakland Farm Newport Rhode Island, arrested at Madison Square Garden as he was to bring in hackney horses for Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. Mrs Elizabeth A. Wilson had obtained a divorce decree in Kings County and an alimony judgment of 125 a month with a 5000 bail to enforce payment. The order aimed to prevent his departure from New York to evade alimony. Wilson posted bail via United States Fidelity and Deposit Company and returned to Garden to oversee Vanderbilt’s horses while Vanderbilt declined to comment.
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Charles H. Wilson
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Oakland Farm
Newport
R. I
Madison Square Garden
Vanderbilt
Metzger
Justice Thomas
Brooklyn
Elizabeth A. Wilson
Wilson
Kings County
Milton S. Gutterman
Thomas
Supreme Court
Dion Boucicault
New York
London
Florence Schenck
Sich Perads
Sheriff's Office
Morris Cukor
Wilson That He Ought To Call On Mr. Vanderbilt
United States Fidelity Company
Lenses and books stolen from Fordham University
Private detectives mingled with pathology students to locate a thief after $2000 worth of books and three microscope lenses were stolen. Carl Beck, a second year medical student, was arrested after a lens was found in a pawnshop and traced to the suspect.
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Fordham University
Flynn and
Illich
Bronx
Corapure
Kingsbridge
J. J. Walsh
Medical School
Beck
New Mail Train To St Louis Announced By Rail Service
The Railway Mail Service announced a new exclusive mail train by Pennsylvania Railroad from New York to St Louis starting next Monday. The schedule shows departures from New York at 2 30 P M and 2 45 A M with a 24 hour journey, several intermediate calls, and connections at St Louis for Kansas City and onward to Los Angeles.
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Railway Mail Service
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Pittsburg
Columbus
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Cal
Pennsylvania
Train schedule snippet for Aiken to Florida Southern Ry
A brief railway timetable entry lists routes from Aiken South Carolina toward Florida Southern Railway with arrival and departure times. The fragment shows a 10 25 A M departure from Ly N and arrival at Aiken at 10 05 A M, indicating a concise point to point schedule.
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Florida-Southern
Aiken
S. C
Augusta
Choir Girls Join Search For Missing Bronx Girl
Twenty five choir girls from St Peter's German Lutheran Church on 219th Street and White Plains Road organize to search for Emily Selma Hoffman missing from 866 White Plains Road since Monday morning. Her father Eugene Hoffman appeals to police as mother is prostrated and the girl, 17, reportedly worked in a plume factory on 107th Street.
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St. Peter’s German Lutheran Church
219Th Street
White Plains Road
Emily Selma Hoffman
Bronx
Eugene Hoffman
107Th Street
Park Square Station Sold to Park Square Real Estate Trust
Boston November 11 The Park Square Real Estate Trust bought the old Park Square Station and land from the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad for 5.2 million dollars. Payment is 52 000 shares of the trust with nominal 100 value. Trustees plan to develop the tract, build streets, and later offer parcels for business and residential use while not selling land immediately.
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New York Times
Boston
Park Square Real Estate Trust
Akron Gas Shutoff Threat Looms Over City
Cleveland Nov 11 1908 Unless Akron City Council accepts demands from The Ohio Gas Company a Standard Oil unit gas supply will be cut off at noon Monday leaving about 11000 consumers without light or fuel The gas firm seeks a ten year contract with 30 cents per 1000 cubic feet for the first five years and 05 cents for the next five while customers pay for less than 1000 feet Litigation over an Oct 5 1908 ordinance fixing 20 cents per 1000 feet has led to a court injunction with money above the rate held in trust.
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New York Times
Cleveland
Akron
Ohio Gas Company
Standard Oil
City and Gas Company
Common Pleas Court
Train Robbers Guilty in Overland Limited Hold Up
Five men were found guilty on all counts for the May 22 night Union Pacific Overland Limited robbery five miles west of Omaha The gang boarded west of Omaha forced the engineer to stop the train seized registered mail from the mail car and fled Three robbers were captured three days later one man supplied police with information leading to the rest.
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Omaha
Neb
Union Pacific
Overland Limited
San Francisco
Chicago
Kingston Cut Off as Caribbean Telegraph Lines Fail
Haitien dispatches report Jamaica isolated after a recent storm. Heavy rains and high seas disrupt communications between Kingston and inland areas for seventeen days. Provisions run short and residents endure wretched conditions as floods hinder aid and news.
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Caph Haitien
Haiti
Caribbean
Jamaica
Typhoon Devastates Tacloban and Northern Leyte Towns
A War Department cablegram from the Governor General reports a recent typhoon that razed populous towns of Northern Leyte, passed through Capiz, and out to the China Sea. Dagami army post destroyed. Tacloban property damaged. Capiz government building and railroad offices unroofed. many light dwellings ruined.
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Washington
Tacloban
Philippine Islands
War Department
Islands
Leyte
Capiz
China Sea
Dagami
Cairo Mob Lynches Two Negroes After Sheriff Fights To Save Them
A Cairo crowd overran authorities and lynched Will James known as The Frog and Henry Salzner after a white man killed his wife. Sheriff Davis fled with the pair, but mobs seized them near Belknap and in Cairo, with reports of further lynching attempts and a burning at the crime scene amid thousands witnessing the mob’s vengeance.
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New York Times
Catro
Ill
Will James
the Frog
Anna Pelley
Frank Davis
James
Belknap
Ciy
Henry Salsnem
Rita
Davis
Murfreesboro
Dongola
Anna
Big Four
Karnak
Cairo
Tenth Street
Eighth
Arthur Alexander
Alexander
Salzner
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