Court rules convertible bond issue beyond commission power
The New Haven Hartford Railroad must not issue 67.7 million dollars in convertible debentures as approved by the Public Service Commission. The Supreme Court unanimously held the commission lacked authority to approve such stock with future stock conversion and price guarantees, quashing the order.
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Boston
Public Service Ission
York
New Haven
Hartford Railroad Company
Supreme Court
Justce Rugs
MW Mathholders
Local News Briefs: Typhoid, Auto Victims, and Bond News
A condensed morning page reports typhoid concerns, auto accident victims, and bond issues amid varied local notes. Names and places are fragmented, but items include engineering service hours, contractor denials, and the Add Trust program.
Spooner Kin Kill Two In Madison School Shooting
John Spooner nephew of former U S Senator Spooner shot and killed Emily McConnell a 35 year old Madison school teacher then killed himself He was 40 married with two children and died in hospital The motive remains unknown with no conversation before the shooting at the hallway door of the school.
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Madison, Wes
Jan
John Spooner
John
Spooner
New York
Emily McConnell
Madison
Roger Spooner
Miss McConnell
Bunny Hug On Joy Ride In Glenville Winter Trolley
Motorman Patrick Powers reports rabbits riding the trolley by Finley J. Shepard woods in Glenville. A mother rabbit and three young hopped onto a car, then fled as brakes were applied, turning the scene into local winter sport chatter.
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Glenville
Patrick Powers
Tarrytown
White Plains
Powers
Finley J. Shepard
Mr. Powers
Girl Survives 850 Foot Fall In Aerial Life Preserver
In Los Angeles a girl, Miss Ping Broadwick, fell 75 feet from a Glenn Martin aircraft as a new aerial life preserver deployed. She landed safely, then demonstrated the parachute attachment that slowed her descent. Spectators watched as the aviator stepped from the six foot high craft before the demonstration began.
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Los Angeles
Jan
Glenn Martin
Martin
Ping Broadwick
Boys lobby with mayor for Battery Park field
A Battery Park plea to Mayor Mitchel during a luncheon at the Whitehall Club led boys to ask for a football and baseball field in the park. The mayor listened and promised to think it over, consistent with his habit of hearing youths requests and often drafting letters in response.
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Battery
Mitchel
Whitehall Club
Mayor
Battery Park
Gaynor
Rats Overrun Public School 4 Readin and Writin
Principal Mackey reports rats dominate Public School 4 Jersey City reading and arithmetic, with cats failing to deter them. Rats invade classrooms during sessions, disturbing recitations as the old school on Sth Street seeks action. The Board of Education plans to try a highly recommended rat poison.
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Jersey Rie
Women Spenders Chill Bachelors in Race Betterment Talk
Dr. Carolyn Geisel of Shorter College in Rome declares women’s colleges fail to prepare women for life or motherhood and train them as fashion-obsessed, physically wrecked graduates. Caroline Bartlett Crane of Kalamazoo discusses community hygiene and civic work methodologies. Other speakers include Booker T. Washington and health officials from Indiana and the U S Public Health Service.
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Battle Creek
Michdan W
Womn
Carolyn Geisel
Shorter College
Rome
Caroline Bartlett Crane
Kalamazoo
Whewkers
Booker T. Washington
J. N. Hurry
Indiana State Board of Health
J. W. Austin
United States Pubeic Health Service
Panera
Sir Horace Plunkett
Ernst Hoag
Leland Stanford University
Court Clerk Shot in Dead by Gunmen in Abing Hall Feud
A street battle outside Arlington Hall on St Mark's Place left Frederick Strauss, 55, a longtime court clerk, dead from gunshot wounds. Edward Morris, deputy sheriff, was arrested on a homicide charge after gunmen from rival gangs exchanged fire. Detectives searched the dance hall, arrested Lenny and Dike, and pursued a broader counterfeit ring tied to banknote fraud with a blonde suspect and a $20 bill fraud case.
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Frederick Strauss
Bill
Abingston Hall
St. Mark's Place
Vlerk
Supreme Court
Edward Morris
Arlington Hall
Morris
Strauss
The
Odd Fellows
St. Mark’s Place
Harry
Lenny
Tommy" Dyke
Himmy
Kelly
Benny
Arelington Hall
Duke
Jimmy” Kelly
Fat
Samuel Lipsig
No. 38
Cooper Union
Lipsig
Hennessy
Ramsberger
Feinberg
Longwood Avenue
Bronx
5Th Street
Murphy
Cooper
Buehner
Dike
New York
Guard child from father in Stamford crime watch
Detectives guard Olga Williams's two year old daughter Olga after the death of her father James Everard. The child lives with grandmother Mrs James Everard and a former chauffeur for Everard has shadowed her since July. Williams's divorce suit was tried in Brooklyn Supreme Court with a decision reserved.
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Stamford
Conn
Dames Everard
Olga Williams
Olga
James Everard
Williams
Atlantic City
Everard
Mrs. Williams
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Bank fingerprint forgery discredits bank security in court
Detroit police court case finds fault with fingerprint identification used by banks. Adam Melinsky cannot sign, so the German American Bank accepted a three-finger imprint, cashing 75 dollars after another forged impression was presented. Experts debate forgery feasibility and define imprint variance. Judgment awarded against the bank.
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Tribune
Detroit
Adam Melinsky
Lomebody
Anti-Trust Bills Seek Drastic Restraint on Interlocks
Washington reports an authoritative analysis of proposed anti trust measures by the House sub committee. Bills aim to end interlocking directorates across banks railroads and industrials and redefine monopoly to curb restraints on trade. The program follows President Wilson's push for rigorous treatment of trusts with broad divorcement aims.
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Teihune Bureau
Washington
House
Judiciary
The
Tribune
Ub-Committee
Supreme Court
Wilson
Directo
House Committee
Stanley
Clayton
Great Bank
J. P. Morgan & Co
House Trust
J. P. Morgan
Oswego Boy Linked to Jack London in Decoy Letter Case
A decoy letter with five dollars was used at the Newburgh post office to trap a carrier, Charles J. Wenzel, brother of the postmaster. Wenzel was held on $1,000 bond but released on cash bail. authorities pursue further inquiry. Oswego families connect the case to a local man once believed to be Jack London, Harry Sands, and seek confirmation of origins from Oswego relatives.
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Newburgh
Charles J. Wenzel
William Wenzel
H. B. Mayhew
R. J. Pollitt
Wenzel
Mayhew
Pollitt
Oswego
Jack Lonton
Walter Bassett
East Mohawk Street
W. V. Lund
East Oneida
Harry Sands
Massachusetts
Sands
London
Young Sands
Lake Ontario
Jack London
Madon
John Barleyworn
Bassett
Lund
Liberal peer Harold Harrsworth buys Daily Mirror to start new party organ
London reports Harold Harrsworth, a New Year peer, plans a Lib eral party newspaper in opposition to his elder brother Lord Northcliffe. He has acquired The Daily Mirror and will convert it into a Liberal party paper. The Manchester edition of The Daily Mirror reportedly closed yesterday with all staff discharged.
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London
Harold Harnsworth
Lord Northcliffe
Daily Mirror
Manchester
Wireless Telegraph Station Links Frisco To Europe
Sayville Long Island officials report Telefunken wireless telegraph station achieved a three thousand mile overland link. The system, said to be in contact with San Francisco, was more difficult to reach than Berlin and marked an unprecedented long distance transmission.
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Sayville
Long Isiana
Telefunken
Europe
San Francisco
Berlin
Double baby mystery on Sixth Avenue and Fourteenth Street
Mrs. Margaret Kennedy, starting with one infant, finds a second baby in her perambulator in a department store vestibule. After a note pinned to the intruder’s dress explains the mix up, the extra child is returned and taken to Bellevue Hospital by Patrolman Doelger of Mercer Street station.
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United States
Tribune
Sixth Avenue
Secret Service
O'Hara
John J. Henry
Jane B. Brown
Henry
West
Chicago
Cleveland
Horatio Street
Margaret Kennedy
S'e
14Th Street
House 1
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Henry D. Clayton
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