Cutting Prices of Oil in Government Suit Against Standard
Former independent oil salesman testifies to price cutting by rivals and the Standard Oil Company’s defense in the government suit to dissolve the trust. Lubricating division manager Hugo Weissman recounts roles with rival firms and alleged price cutting, while the case schedule spans through early January with rebuttals and anticipated April arguments before the U.S. Court of the 8th District of Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard
Standard Oil Company
California
Eastern Corporation
Frank B. Kellogg
United States Court of the 8Th District of Missouri
Hugo Weissman
The
Southern
Puenta
M Curdy storm center in Morristown streetcar row
Morristown residents denounce Robert H. McCurdy and Samuel W. Abell for seeking a judge’s order to show cause why the Morris County Traction Company trolley line in Speedwell avenue should not stand. The rule, returnable January 19, suspends operations while challengers argue the Hanover Township franchise is unconstitutional.
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Tribune
Morristown
Robert H. McCurdy
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Morris County Traction Company
Speedwell Avenue
McCurdy
Samuel W. Abell
Hazing of Controller Metz at Brooklyn Board meeting
Controller Metz faced ridicule from colleagues led by Mayor amid criticism of the Finance Department. He withdrew a proposed 1.35 million dollar appropriation for a Staten Island sea view hospital after the mayor’s rebuke. The session shifted to Brooklyn Fourth Avenue subway delays and a Brooklyn side linkage to the Manhattan Bridge. A committee including Metz and borough presidents was formed to decide on simultaneous sections.
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Metz
Board of Estimate
Finance Department
Sea View
Staten Island
Coler
Brooklyn
Fourth Avenue Subway
Manhattan Bridge
Fourth Avenue
Fulton
Fistbush Avenues
Public Service Commission
McGowan
Coler and
Ahearn
Museum and Whale Sale at Amagansett
Amagansett on Long Island report that Captain Josh Edwards and crew will remove baleen and oil from a 35 foot whale, aiming to sell to the American Museum of Natural History, though the museum did not buy it. A larger whale specimen exists, with an estimated yield of over twenty barrels of oil and significant bone and skeleton value. Lake Shore sells Lehigh Valley shares. a Chicago Terminal preferred stock offer is accepted by 60,000 shares holders.
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The
Tribune
Amagansett
Long Island
American Museum of Nature History
Josh
Edwards
Captain Edwards
Joss
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 Offer Expected Soon
The United States will publically offer 16000 of a 75000000 coffee loan for Sao Paulo Brazil, underwritten by National City Bank First National Bank and J P Morgan Co It is expected to be oversubscribed in the US and Europe The note also mentions Campbell MacCullochs The Fourth Dimension explaining a pipe that seemed to smoke itself with a teaser to see tomorrow’s Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Sao Paulo
Brazil
National City Bank
First National Bank
J. P. Morgan & Co
Europe
Campbell MacCulloch
Tribune
Biddison Held Without A Bondsman In Forgery Case
Hx Assistant District Attorney Train appeared for Samuel M Biddison the broker recently arrested on a charge of forging bonds of the Central Coal Lumber and Construction Company. He was held in 600 bail for the grand jury. Bondsman Charlies H Hall withdrew. Biddison remained in Tombs awaiting a new bondsman. Hearing for J Montefiore Meyers on the same charge postponed to next Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddison
Samuel M. Biddison
Central Coal, Lumber and Construction Company
Tombs
Grand Jury
Charlies H. Hall
William Street
Hall
J. Montefiore Meyers
Cause and Effect Good Digestion Follows Right Food
A New York woman shares how heavy greasy foods caused indigestion and how Grape-Nuts relieved her symptoms and rebuilt her digestion. The letter, signed by the Foster Farm doctor in Battle Creek, promotes Grape-Nuts with the slogan There’s a Reason and invites readers to send more testimonials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y
Fostum Doc
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Jurors Who Ate Fined in Flushing Supreme Court
Eleven jurors who ate instead of fulfilling justice were fined ten dollars and sentenced to ten days in jail by Justice Crane in the Supreme Court Flushing. Their attorney George V. S. Williams said one juror with Hippodrome tickets started the trouble and the absent man was C. M Offrey who went home on memorial night. Williams noted the men were convicted of contempt, but the judge said they had convicted themselves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Crane
Supreme Court
Flushing
George V. S. Williams
Hippodrome
C. M Offrey
Offrey
Murdered Italian Woman Found Dead in East Lith Street Tenement
Police discovered the body of Flora, a twenty five year old Italian woman, with a severed head in a second floor room at 337 East Lith Street. A jagged razor, believed to be the murder weapon, lay beside her. Coroner Harburger says she had been dead over ten days.
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East Lith Street
Reidy
Shearer
East 5Th Street
Harburger
Gussie Smiler
California
Holihan and Hudson
New York Central Eyes Meeting With Illinois Manufacturers
W C Brown senior vice president of the New York Central says reports from Chicago misrepresented his talks with Illinois Manufacturers Association president Upham. He notes tariff sheet checks not complete to meet manufacturers before new rates, and offers to arrange a meeting. Brown says interstate filings show transcontinental rate increases apply west of Chicago only. Rumors surface of injunctions to block railroad rate hikes.
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W. C. Brown
New York Central Lines
Chicago
Upham
Illinois 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 Twenty ninth Assembly District at a district committee meeting held last night with the resignation to take effect January 1. The committee unanimously commended his administration and elected William Chilvers, a partner at Chilvers and Thompson of 35 Nassau Street and former Deputy Attorney General, as the new leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Henry Hammond
Twenty-ninth
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 distributes a circular for William B Ellison former Corporation Counsel for Mayor in 1909 Some Ellison friends push for the Tammany nomination Ellison is a strong Democrat not machine aligned The circular quotes editorials praising Ellison from local papers on his work at Water 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 and Arizona Copper sale notices
John McKinnon acting for National Bank of North America signed a liquidation pact with respect to a 521,890.9 note against E. R. Thomas and Robert Maclay Co after court authorization. Rhode Island attachments followed. Arizona Copper sale to Edwin Hooley firm confirmed, with reorganization committee likely to include Ladenburg Thalmann Muller Schall Vogelstein Bonbright and Pell firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McKinnon
National Bank of North America
Rhode Island
Thomas
Arizona
Arizona Copper Company
Edwin 8. 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
Albany December 11 The Union Exchange Bank of New York received approval from the State Banking Department to raise its capital stock from 750000 to 1000000 dollars as stated in the department bulletin released today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Union Exchange Bank of New York
State Banking Department
Department
Naval Academy Examinations Open for Boy Candidates
Representative Herbert Parsons announces preliminary examinations for vacant United States Naval Academy appointment at Annapolis. Candidates must be 16 to 20 years old and send applications to Mr Parsons before December 2 to state their qualifications.
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Herbert Parsons
13Th Congress
United States Naval Academy
Eat
Annapolis
Mr. Parsofs
Suffragettes Barred From Civic Education League Talk
Miss Katherine Conway of Boston spoke at a second lecture of the National League for the Civic Education of Women held in the MacDowell Club rooms at the Metropolitan Opera House. A policeman stood guard to prevent disruption as Conway argued that equal pay is economic, not political, and that votes are not essential for women to gain income equality. She dismissed the idea that women are inherently more virtuous in politics, calling calls for purifying politics cant and hypocrisy, and said voting should come when women can shoot straight as well as men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National League For the Civic Education of Women
MacDowell Club
Metropolitan Opera House
Poiceman
Katherine Conway
Boston
Gilbert Jones
League
Miss Conway
Boston Republic
Bazaar at Waldorf Astoria Auctions Jewels of Mrs Cowper
Second day of the Professional Woman's League bazaar at the Waldorf Astoria features the sale of Mrs Eleanor Merron Cowper jewels to a bidder claiming to be her mother Dr Ida C Nahm asserts the person is her mother but the league will auction the items to aid St John’s Home or Crippled Children if unsold. A dachshund named Roy, two inches high, is the day’s popular item raffled by sealed bids.
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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 at 23d Street Shop Offer Rustic Bookrack
A mahogany miniature tree stump bookrack priced at 550 adorns the 23d street shop display. A round brass smoking stand with ash tray holder and candle costs 625, while steel ash receivers at 125 offer a compact, pivoting bowl design. An English Royal Doulton tea table and matching tea set are $27 and $44 respectively, sold separately or as a pair, with both items praised for their compatibility.
Rival Meetings Shape Suffrage Battle at Berkeley Lyceum
The College Equal Suffrage League led by Miss Caroline Lexow plans a high profile rally on Friday December 18 at the Berkeley Lyceum. A counter demonstration from the National League for the Civic Education of Women features Mrs. A J George arguing against the ballot for college women.
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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
Union Baptist Church seeks help for Christmas tree
In a West 63rd Street neighborhood, Union Baptist Church faces mortgage strain and may miss a Christmas tree for 15000 local residents. Rev G H Sims urges aid with money or gifts to fund a Christmas dinner and gifts for poor pickaninnies, outlining donation points at the church, the minister's home, or Miss Rosalie M Jonas's address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Juan Hill
Santa Claus
West 63d Street
G. H. Sims
Union Baptist Church
West 68d Street
Sims
S. H
Mr. Sims
Rosalie M. Jonas
East 56Th Street
New York City
Lectures By Political League Speakers At City Arenas
Under the League for Political Education scholars present a morning lecture by Professor Charles Zueblin on Ruskin and the Ethics of Wealth at Hudson Theatre. Monday features Mrs Dolphine Scheffer Ely on The Drama in the league lecture room. Sprague concludes his George Eliot course with Daniel Deronda and relation to nation and race. Wright finishes his Bernard Shaw course with Critical Summary and Estimate at Berkeley Theatre. Wednesday morning Miss Ethel Arnold speaks Arnold of Rugby in a third league lecture.
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
California markets list wide range of produce and meats
The California market page lists prices for asparagus celery cabbage lettuce okra chicory ginger and many fruits. Prices include Cuban tomatoes 20 cents per pound Washington Market hothouse tomatoes 65 cents per pound and strawberries 12 dollars per basket. Meat poultry and fish prices rise with lamb veal and shrimp noted.
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Hothouse
Cuba
Washington
Special Holiday Attractions at New Building Galleries
Six attractions showcase a quarter‑million dollar display of selected furniture and fine arts. Attraction 1 A features unique house palatial pieces from two dollars fifty cents upward, with Louis XVI influences in three vast galleries. Attraction 5 presents world marvels and master pieces in fine arts and antiquities, including etchings watercolors mirrors and artisanal pieces priced at two or three dollars. Location details note Fifth Sixth and Seventh Galleries and Second and Eighth Galleries in the New Building.
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New Building
Pairyland
Orient
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M’curdy Storm Centre
Mayor McClellan
N. Y. Central
W. B. Ellison
Naval Academy Examinations
P. W. L. Bazaar
Political League
Game and Poultry
Maryland
FISH
Savoy Hotel
Naples
Wanamaker
Wanamaker’s
Wanamaker's
Chickering
Emerson Angelus
Schumacker
VOSE
Emerson
Kurtzmann
Angelus
J. C. Campbell
First Gallery
John Wanamaker
Eighth
Tenth Stree
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