Price Cutting and Bribery Tactics in Standard Oil Suit
Senate records reveal heightened oil industry hostilities as the government seeks to dissolve Standard Oil under the Sherman act. Witnesses testified that rival Red C Oil cut prices in Virginia and Clifton Forge, and bribed buyers to stop purchasing Standard Oil. Red C allegedly colored oil red and marketed it as superior for lamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard Oil Company
Standard of New Jersey
Frank B. Kellogg
J. W. Duling
Clifton Forge
Virginia
Mr. Duling
Kellogg
Standard Oil
J. Duling
Red C Oil Company
Standard
Metzel
Red C Company
Moritz ‘Rosenthal
Mr. Kellogg
Mr. Rosenthal
Daling
Red C
Duling
Howard E. Eitel
Standard Oi Company
Richmond
Mother Fights Custody In Brooklyn Supreme Court
A custody dispute erupted in Brooklyn Supreme Court as Mrs. Tda Slattery attempted to take four month old Edna from the courtroom. Justice ordered the child to remain with her father Walter E. Slattery of Manhattan until decision. Mrs Slattery rushed out with the infant and was pursued by court officers but she released the child and left in tears.
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Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Court House
Tda Slattery
Torough
Manhattan
Mr. Slattery
Hearst Club Reconsiders Endorsements in Independence League
John T. Cronin, secretary to the attorney general, said the Hearst Club of the Independence League in the Sixteenth Assembly District reconfirmed support for Bryan and Kern after previously endorsing Hisgen and Graves. The vote occurred at the club’s meeting on Full street location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. Cronin
Jackson
Independence Party
Bryan
Hearst Club
Independence League
Sixteenth Assembly District
Morosini Funeral Plans Private at Elmhurst Home
Final arrangements for banker Giovanni P Morosini, former Jay Gould partner, were not completed. The private funeral was to be held at the Morosini home in Elmhurst Riverdale Bronx, with burial in the Morosini vault at Woodlawn.
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Giovanni P. Morosini
Jay Gould
Elmhurst
Riverdale
Bronx
Morosini
Woodlawn
Hotchkiss Resigns Town and Country Editorship
Thomas W. Hotchkiss resigns after five years with Town and Country. He will join Edwin Wildman after October 1 to work with the M. A. P. News and Magazine service.
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Thomas W. Hotchkiss
Town and Country
Edwin Wildman
M. A. P. News and Magazine
Wisconsin Telephone President Resigns from City Trustees
H D Critchfield resigns as a Trustee of the Wisconsin Telephone Company of Milwaukee. Niagara Falls will be shown in a miniature at the Madison Square Garden Electrical Show October 3 to 14 with demonstrators giving talks twice daily. Woodmen of the World plan 5600 attendees at Zeitner's Park outing.
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H. D. Critchfield
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Miwaukee
Telephone Company
Niagara Falls
Madison Square Garden
Live Oak Camp
Woodmen of the World
170Th Street
Third Avenue
Christian Socialist Fellowship
Cooper Union
Troy Line
Dean Richmond
Bellevue
Anna Scheiner
Tenth Street
Troy
N. Y
Long Island City
Grand Republic of the Iron Steamboat Company
Uy the Hudson
West Point
Newburg
Pier 1
North River
West Twenty-second Street
West 129Th Street
Yonkers
Italy to be represented at tuberculosis congress
Dr. Antonio Stella announced by telegram from Manchester that Italy will be represented at the International Tuberculosis Congress opening in Washington on September 21. Italy’s commission includes Dr. Stella and Ernesto Fabbri with the Italian Ambassador as chairman.
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New York Times
Lake Mohione
Antonio Stella
Stella
Manchester
Mass
Italy
Washington, D. C
Ernesto Fabbri
Society For Italian Immigrants
Netherlands to Invite Hague Powers to 1909 Exchange Law Conference
The Netherlands plans to invite nations at the Hague Peace Conference to a likely 1909 meeting to discuss international laws regulating exchange. The Royal Commission of International Law may coordinate private person implications. Officials in Washington acknowledge the idea but cite numerous, perplexing obstacles due to gold premium variations.
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The
Hague
Germany
Italy
Holland
Netherlands
Royal Commission of International Law
Washington
United States
Woman Declared Dead Twice Then Dies at Last
Mrs John Barnum of Winsted Connecticut died at Falls village home after a week of suspended animation that fooled a doctor, an undertaker and relatives three times. Ill for six weeks with general debility the 76 year old repeatedly revived before final death.
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New York Times
Winsted, Conn
John Barnum
Lee Wickwire
Falls Village
Policeman Cordes Freed. Waltman Sentence Suspended
Benjamin Cordes of the Mercer Street Station admitted extorting funds from girls on Third Avenue near Fourteenth Street and testified against Patrolman William F. Waltman. Waltman, previously convicted on Cordes’s testimony, had faced five years to prison. Judge Malone suspended Cordes’s sentence after pleading for mercy, praising his disclosures as aiding the state and public interest.
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Benjamin Cordes
Mercer Street
Third Avenue
Fourteenth Street
William F. Waltman
Waltman
Cordes
Malone
Abraham Levy
Masone
Brooklyn Academy of Music Opens With Recitals and Band Concert
The Brooklyn Academy of Music hosts an organ recital by R Huntington Woodman in the afternoon and a Twenty third Regiment Band concert in the opera auditorium at night. The building cost 1 300 000 funded by subscriptions, seats 2200 in the opera house and 1400 in the music hall, with offices and banquet facilities.
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Brooklyn Academy of Music
Te .i.5
yEswr
R. Huntington Woodman
Twenty-third Regiment Band
Frothingham
Academy
Academy of Music, Tvith
Lafayette Avenue
Ashland Place
St. Felix Street
Metropolitan Opera House
Tach Academy
Priest Arturo Asencio Found Dead in Central Park
Santo Domingo priest Arturo Asencio died at Presbyterian Hospital after being found in Central Park with a back neck wound. Coroners' Physician Schultz said autopsy found a close range shot and Detective Jiminez noted the priest did not answer questions. Baggage contained numerous dolls and toys destined for Santo Domingo children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arturo Asencio
Santo Domingan
Central Park
Presbyterian Hospital
Jiminez
Schultz
J K Cooke Dies In Paterson Former Mill Superintendent
John K Cooke former Superintendent of the Passaic Rolling Mill died at his Paterson home of apoplexy. Friends say business troubles after the mill’s sale contributed to his decline. The company is in receivership. He leaves a wife and three children.
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Speci
New York Times
Paterson
N. J
John K. Cooke
Passaic
Watts Cooke
Cooke
Fatal shooting ties lovers feud to Manhattan addresses
Francesco Panza aged 26 living at 26 Thompson Street died at St. Vincent's Hospital after a hallway shooting at 481 Broome Street. Mrs Angelina Lebrescita of 21 Morton Street, enraged by Panza's engagement to a Brooklyn girl, was held without bail to await the inquest.
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Francesco Panza
Thompson Street
Broome Street
Angelina Lebrescita
Morton Street
Brooklyn
St. Vincent's Hospital
Lebrescia
Beauty business faces bankruptcy clash over assets and control
The Woodbury Dermatological Institute, linked to Andrew Jergens interests, fights a bankruptcy petition as directors split. Minority stockholders seek court protection while majority push for liquidation, claiming debts exceed assets.
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Woodbury Dermatological Institute
West Twentyoe Street
Robert Buggeln
Corona, L. I
Charles Geillus
Cincinnati
W. A. Woodbury
John H.woodbury
Institute
John H. Woodbury
Andrew Jergens Company
Jergens Company
Benjamin Patterson
Broadway
Jergens
Middle West
Patterson
Jergens People
Geilius
Buggeln
Adams
United States District Court
Watchman's Death in New York Vault Mystery
Florence Sullivan, 72, a night watchman for the Tidewater Building Company, was found dead at the foot of a ladder leading to the vault of the American Safe Deposit Company building. Investigators weighed murder against accidental fall as the cause, with injuries suggesting a fall through a skylight and a broken cane found near the vault fanlight. He leaves a widow and three grown children.
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Florence Sullivan
Tidewater Building Company
West Twenty-fifth Street
American Safe Deposit Company
Forty-second Street
Fifth Avenue
Com
James
Fes Rro
Keefe
West Thirtieth Street
Barnett
New York Hospital
Sullivan
Tarry C. Purn
Dr. Lebane
Sulivan
Adiong
Sheridan Home Injured After Olympic Contention
Martin Sheridan, noted American all round athlete, arrived aboard the Cunard liner Etruria with a left leg injury from a pole vault mishap at Ballina Ireland. The injury may stop him from defending the all round championship while he had set Irish records earlier, including a 145 feet 3 inch disk throw and an 11 feet 3 inch pole vault. The Etruria previously returned to this port after a collision with a deck hopper in the Mersey weeks earlier.
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Martin Sheridan
America
Etruria
Sheridan
Ballina
Ireland
Etruria’ss
Mersey
Redmond Party Arrives for Irish League Convention
John E Redmond Irish leader in the House of Commons Joseph Davlin M P for Belfast and John Fitzgibbon Roscommon council head travel to Boston for the United Irish League biennial convention. A welcome from 100 plus at the pier and a Hoffman House stay precede speeches on autonomy and education gains. The Oceanic carried many notable travelers including Robert Bruce and W Pugh to study U S mail handling.
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John E. Redmond
House of Commons
Joseph E. Davlin
Belfast
John Fitzgibbon
Roscommon
United Irish League
Boston
Breen
Patrick Egan
Chile
John J. Joyce
Stephan McFarland
Michael Kiely
John O'Callaghan
The
Irish League
John Fox
Oceanic
Hoffman House
Ireland
Mr. Redmonq
Redmond
William Allan
Col
Alexander Bacon
Henry A. Gildersleeve
Supreme Court
Louis F. Bishop
George H. Bisby
Eleanor le Roy
Herman Livingston
James C. McCoy
D. L. S. McLaren
Sylvestant F. Morris
George M. Newhall
James Raymond
Charles
S. W. Packard
P. W. Boardman
Cortlandt S. van Rensaelaer
Myles J. Tierney
Benjamin Thaw, Jr
Miles Vernon
Charles James
Robert Bruce
London Post Office
W. Pugh
United States
Mardi Gras crowds swell at Coney Island arrests rise
At Coney Island during the Mardi Gras third night an estimated 500000 flocked to the festivities and police report nearly fifty arrests. Officers say counterfeit money and confetti spiked with red pepper caused street scuffles as peddlers and revelers clashed along Surf Avenue and Sheridan Walk. Suspects named include James Plis and Joseph Marchetti.
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Coney Island
Gimbi
Surf Avenue
Sheridan
James Plis
Atlantic Avenue
Joseph Marchetti
Union Street
Hoir
Brooklyn
Cométti
Coney
MARKLE SIGHT RESTORED AFTER EUROPE TRIP
John Markle, a Pennsylvania coal operator, returns home from Europe where he consulted eye specialists after two years of blindness. He reports permanent loss in his right eye but improvement in his left, enabling him to walk unaided in uncrowded areas.
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John Markle
Pennsylvania Coal F
Europe
Koulier
Winetta
Rosse
Germany
Markie
Gecum
Lloyd "Reat Hopeken
Vienna
Leipsic
Fire destroys Washington Park picnic resort in Queens
Firefighters from two companies battled a blaze at Washington Park, a Woodside picnic resort at Eighth Street and Jackson Avenue. The park was destroyed with an estimated loss of about $10,000 after a hydrant dispute delayed efforts to save the building.
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White Park
Washington Park
Eighth Street
Jackson Avenue
Woodside
Queens
Hill Celebrates Seventieth Birthday With Great Northern
James J. Hill, chairman of the board of Great Northern Railway, marked his 70th birthday in St Paul. He greeted many former and current employees at a reception and later hosted a dinner at the Lafayette Club on Lake Minnetonka. A special train carried guests from Union Station aboard Minnesota’s first locomotive, now over four decades old. Al Smith, the engine service veteran, piloted today’s trip between St Paul and Breckenridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hill
Union Station
Minnesota
St. Paul Pacific Railroad
al Smith
Great Northern
St. Paul
Breckenridge
Man 76 Charged With Assault in Jersey City Quarrel
Edward C. Bates 76 appeared before Magistrate Queen in Jersey City on a charge of assaulting landlord Daniel Fennell at St Williams Street after a rent dispute. Bates claimed no weapon was used and joked he had eaten a loaf of bread if there was, and was discharged.
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Edward C. Bates
Queen
Daniel Fennell
St Williams Street
Jersey City
Mr. Fennell
Fennell
Bates
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