Cutting Prices of Oil in Standard Trust Case
Former California lubrication manager Hugo Weissman testifies in the government suit to dissolve Standard Oil. He recounts price cutting by rivals and says he was instructed to cut prices while with competitors, though claims he never received such orders while with Standard. The hearing adjourns to Monday for defense and prosecution to present papers and rebuttal, with deliberations continuing into February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard
Standard Oil Company
California
Eastern Corporation
Barassil
Frank B. Kellogg
United States Court of the &Th District of Missouri
Hugo Weissman
The
Southern
Puenta Oi
Hazing of Controller Metz at City Hall Overshadows Sea View Plan
Controllers Metz clash with Mayor amid criticism of municipal spending as he proposes 1 350 000 for a Staten Island sea view hospital. Borough President Coler and others roast him while a Brooklyn subway link and Manhattan Bridge access spark debate. A committee, including Metz and borough presidents, will study immediate action on the Brooklyn section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metz
Board of Estimate
Finance Department
Sea View
Staten Island
Coler
Brooklyn
Fourth Avenue
Manhattan Bridge
Fulton
Flatbush Avenues
Public Service Commission
McGowan
Celer and
Ahearn
Museum Has Enough Whale to Avert Sale
Amagansett Long Island December 11 Captain John Edwards and crew did not begin removing blubber of the %-foot whale today as the American Museum of Natural History did not buy the carcass. The crew awaits a future sale while the museum holds a larger whale. Estimates say the capture could yield more than twenty barrels of oil and 40 or 50 pounds of bone along with the skeleton for market. Lake Shore sells Lehigh Valley shares to a Philadelphia bank, completing disposal of 114000 Lehigh shares. Chicago Terminal accepts sixty thousand preferred shares in the block by January 1 1909, securing the deal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
Amagansett
Long Island
American Museum of Nature History
John Edwards
Edwards
Josh
Lake Shore
Lehigh
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Philadelphia
New York Stock Exchange
Lehigh Valley
Chicago Terminal
Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad Company
Sao Paulo Coffee Loan Oversubscribed Offer Date Set
Public offering of 10 000 dollars of a 75 million dollar Sao Paulo coffee loan underwritten by National City Bank First National Bank and J P Morgan & Co expected Monday or Tuesday next week. Loan anticipated to be largely oversubscribed in the US and Europe. The second part of Campbell MacCulloch's The Fourth Dimension explains a pipe that smoked itself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Sao Paulo
Brazil
National City Bank
First National Bank
J. P. Morgan & Co
Europe
Campbell MacCulloch
Tribune
Ex-Attorney Appears in Biddison Forgery Case at Tombs
Ex-Assistant District Attorney Train appeared yesterday for Samuel M. Biddison the broker held on forging bonds of Central Coal Lumber and Construction Company. Bail set at 6868. Halli refused to continue on bond. Meyers similarly charged. hearing postponed to next Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel M. Biddison
Central Coal, Lumber and Construction Company
Tombs
Biddison
Charles H. Halli
William Street
Hall
J. Montefiore Meyers
Cause and Effect Good Digestion Follows Eight Food
A New York woman shares how excessive fatty meals caused indigestion and poor appetite, then improved after using Grape-Nuts. She reports restored digestion and ability to eat freely, endorsing the product and mentioning Fortum Doc. Battle Creek, Michigan. She notes reading The Road to Wellville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y
Fostum Doc
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Morristown Streetcar War Sparks Public Outcry
Morristown residents denounce Robert H. Mc Curdy and Samuel W. Abell for seeking to halt the Morris County Traction Company trolley line in Speedwell avenue. Judge Parker issued a show cause order returnable January 19 to determine the franchise legality, signaling a stay while counsel argue the franchise is unconstitutional.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Morristown
Robert H. McCurdy
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Morris County Traction Company
Speedwell Avenue
McCurdy
Samuel W. Abell
Jurors Who Ate Fined by Supreme Court in Flushing
Eleven jurors who ate instead of upholding justice were fined ten dollars and sentenced to ten days in prison by Justice Crane in the Supreme Court Flushing. Their attorney George W Williams said one juror, with Hippodrome tickets, started the trouble and was the only absent man, later identified as C M Offrey. Offrey’s wife produced a physician’s certificate for illness, while the judge noted the jurors had convicted themselves of contempt of court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Crane
Supreme Court
Flushing
George W
Williams
Hippodrome
C. M Offrey
Offrey
Mr. Williams
Murdered Italian woman found in tenement room
The body of a about twenty five year old Italian woman with a severed head was found on the second floor of 337 East lith street. A jagged razor lay beside her. Coroner Harburger says she had been dead over ten days. A tall Italian man and a woman named Flora rented the apartment on October 10. Jewelry was present but not found. Detectives hope to arrest the missing man based on bloodstained prints and bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Lith Street
Reidy
Shearer
East Bth Street
Harburger
Gussie Smiler
Lice
California
Holtan and Hudson
East 5Th Street
Brown says meeting with manufacturers on rates possible before changes
W C Brown senior vice president of the New York Central said reports from Chicago were inaccurate. He noted tariff checking not yet complete to allow a full meeting with manufacturers before new rates are set, and that NY Central would arrange such a meeting. He added interstate notices show transcontinental increases apply west of Chicago only and denied imminent injunctions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Brown
New York Central Lines
Chicago
Upham
Il Mnois Manufacturers’ Association
New York Central
Interstate Commerce Commission
Brown
Financial District
Hammond resigns as district Republican leader
John Henry Hammond resigned as leader of the District Committee of the Republican Organization of the Twenty-ninth Assembly District. The resignation takes effect January 1. The committee unanimously commended Hammond and named William Chilvers as the new district leader, a member of the Chilvers Thompson law firm and former Deputy Attorney General of the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Henry Hammond
Twenty-ninth Assembly
Hammond
William Chilvers
Chilvers & Thompson
Nassau Street
Danton Backs Ellison for Mayor in 1909
F D Or Danton a secretary living at 17 East 93d Street Manhattan circulates a circular urging William B Ellison former Corporation Counsel for Mayor in 1909 He is pushed by Ellison supporters as a strong Democrat not machine aligned The circular quotes editorials praising Ellison for work as head of Water Supply Gas and Electricity and as Corporation Counsel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. D'Or Danton
East 93d Street
Manhattan
William B. Ellison
Ellison
Tammany
Danton
Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity
Bank liquidation order signed in U S circuit court
John McKinnon acting for National Bank of North America' shareholders is authorized to sign a liquidation agreement for a $52,189.09 claim against E R Thomas and Robert Maclay Co. and to enter into an accord with the trustees' committee. The bank had a judgment on the note but cannot collect and began attachment actions in Rhode Island against Thomas and wife property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McKinnon
National Bank of North America
Rhode Island
Thomas
Arizona Copper Sale Confirmed in Foreclosure Case
The foreclosure sale of Consolidated Arizona Copper Company to Edwin Hooley of Hooley Learnard & Co was confirmed by the court yesterday. No protest by stockholders was raised on grounds of underprice. A reorganization committee is expected to be announced soon, with representatives from Ladenburg Thalmann Co Muller Schall Co Vogelstein Co W P Bonbright Co and S H Pell Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Arizona Copper Company
Edwin
Hooley
Hooley, Learnard & Co
Ladenburg Thalmann & Co
Muller, Schall & Co
Vogelstein & Co
W. P. Bonbright & Co
8. H. P. Pell & Co
Bank can increase capital on New York bank
Albany December 11 An application by Union Exchange Bank of New York to raise its capital stock from 750000 to 1000000 has been granted by the State Banking Department per today's bulletin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Union Exchange Bank of New York
State Banking Department
Department
Naval Academy Examinations Announced for Boy Candidates
Representative Herbert Parsons of the 13th District announces preliminary examinations for boys seeking a vacant appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Applicants aged sixteen to twenty must send their applications to Mr Parsons before December 2, stating their qualifications.
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Herbert Parsons
13Th Congress
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Parson
Suffragists Barred From Lecture At Civic Education League
Miss Katherine Conway of Boston spoke on the wage earner viewpoint of the ballot at a National League for the Civic Education of Women lecture held in the MacDowell Club rooms at the Metropolitan Opera House. A policeman guarded the event. Conway challenged the need for votes, citing equal pay as economic, not political, and warned against excessive female individualism as a cause of divorce. She argued education will adjust schooling for teachers and dismissed the idea that women purify politics, declaring women must prove they can fire a bullet as well as a man before voting rights are earned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National League For the Civic Education of Women
MacDowell Club
Metropolitan Opera House
Katherine Conway
Boston
Gilbert Jones
League
Miss Conway
Boston Republic
Bazaar buys and sells jewels of Mrs Cowper at P W L event
At the Waldorf Astoria the Professional Woman's League reviews Mrs Eleanor Merron Cowper jewels, claiming her mother is the donor. Dr Ida Nahm backs the mother claim, with proceeds aiding St Johns Home and Crippled Children. A dachshund named Roy is the bazaar's popular raffled item.
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Professional
Woman's League
Eleanor Merron Cowper
Hotel
St. Regis
Waldorf-Astoria
Ida C. Nahm
Mrs. Cowper
League
Boy
Miss Jarbeau
Roy
St. John’s Home
Christmas Gifts to Suit Every Pocket and Taste
A 23d street shop showcases a mahogany miniature tree stump bookrack for 550 dollars and a compact round brass smoking stand at 625 dollars with ash tray holder and candle. An affordable dull steel ash receiver with pivoting bowl costs 125 dollars. Also on display is a dark wood English tea table with a Royal Doulton china tea set priced at 27 dollars and 44 dollars respectively, sold together or separately.
Rival Meetings Mark Suffrage Protest At Berkeley Lyceum
The College Equal Suffrage League leading four hundred supporters including Miss Caroline Lexow prepares opposition to anti suffrage speakers next Friday December 18 at the Berkeley Lyceum. The day features Ethel Arnold lecture on The Progress of Women in Europe and college girls as ushers while patrons include Mrs. Sage Mrs. Abbe and Rabbi Wise. Prominent backers expect Mark Twain or Howells as chairman and the group aims to advertise its event with an electric sign outside the theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Equal Suffrage League
Caroline Lexow
Clarence Lexow
National League For the Civic Education of Women
Richard Watson Gilder
A. J. George
College League
Ethel Arnold
Humphry Ward
Europe
John Brannan
Berkeley Lyceum
Clarence Mackay
Russell Sage
Robert Abbe
Brannan
Stephen S. Wise
Charles Aked
Mark Twain
William Dean Howells
M. Carey Thomas
Bryn Mawr
Lexow
League
Union Baptist Church Faces Mortgage Threat at Christmas
In a West 63rd Street neighborhood of about fifteen thousand Black residents the Union Baptist Church led by Rev. G H Sims faces foreclosure after years of low income. The church seeks toys food and funds to fund a Christmas tree and dinner for needy children and their families on Christmas Day. Donations may be sent to the church or to Rev. Sims or Miss Rosalie Jonas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Juan Hill
Santa Claus
West 63d Street
G. H. Sims
Union Baptist Church
Sims
Mr. Sims
West 63H Street
Rosalie M. Jonas
East 6Th Street
New York City
Political League Lectures Across City Venues
Under the League for Political Education Professor Charles Zueblin opens with Ruskin and the Ethics of Wealth at Hudson Theatre. Monday features Mrs Ru dolphine Scheffer Ely on The Drama in the league lecture room. Leslie Willis Sprague closes his George Eliot course with Daniel Deronda and the Relations of the Individual to Nation and Race. Dr Merle St. Croix Wright ends his Bernard Shaw course Tuesday at Berkeley Theatre with Critical Summary and Estimate. Miss Ethel Arnold presents Arnold of Rugby in the league Wednesday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League For Political Education
Charles Zueblin
Ruskin
Hudson Theatre
League
Rudolphine Scheffer Ely
Leslie Willis Sprague
George Eliot
Daniel Deronda
Berkeley Theatre
Merle St. Croix Wright
Bernard Shaw
Ethel Arnold
Arnold
News of the Markets in California produce prices
California asparagus and many vegetables appear in the markets ahead of schedule with prices listed per bunch, head, or pound. Fruits, canned goods, and seafood show wide ranges from 2 to 75 cents, with eggs and butter priced to reflect market shifts.
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Hothouse Mint
Cuba
California
Washington
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Siddison
Wcurdy Storm Centre
N. Y. Central
W. B. Ellison
Naval Academy Examinations
Antis
Militant Sisters
P. W. L. Bazaar
Political League
Maryland
FISH
Savoy Hotel
Naples
Wanamaker
New Building
New
Orient
Wanamaker’s
Chickering
Emerson Angelus
Schumacker
VOSE
Emerson
Kurtzmann
Angelus
J. C. Campbell
First Gallery
John Wanamaker
Eighth
Tenth Street
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