Packers Rep Defends Meat Standards Before Committee
Mr. Wilson defends sanitation and inspection of meat packing plants amid questions of odor, dead animals, and floor cleanliness. He criticizes Beveridge amendments while endorsing Neill Reynolds findings and urges safeguards against overreaching regulation. The Wadsworth substitute shifts cost to government and preserves commercial carrier duties, with committee adjournment until tomorrow.
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Wilson
Beveridge
Wadsworth
Secretary of Agriculture
Packers
Baltimore meat inspection called a farce
The State Board of Health and Alvin N. Bastable condemn Baltimore meat inspection as a farce. Only three inspectors cover the city while 199 packing houses and slaughterhouses remain unsupervised, with wagons used as ambulances and questionable slaughter practices exposed by officials.
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The
Tribune
Baltimore
State Board of Health
Alvin N. Bastable
Union Stock Yards Company
State Board
Union
Fulton
Stockyards Inspection Promises Remedies for Violations
Chicago building officials led by Commissioner Bartzen and twelve deputies inspected the stockyards for code violations. They found overcrowded stairways and fire escapes, filthy hog killing rooms, and dilapidated facilities. Officials ordered immediate fixes and planned a thorough four to five day survey of the packing plants.
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Chicago
Bartzen
Notable Passengers on Pacific Mail Line Voyage
The Pacific route to San Francisco gathers many dignitaries and diplomats aboard a single liner, more than Atlantic crossings. Notables on the Manchuria voyage included Arthur Von Rosthorn and Col José Sanchez, with recent arrivals Count Albert F Dearbee Baron Moritz Carstansen Baroness Carstansen and Count Guillaume de Canny. High Chinese officials also appear, their robes and grace contrasting with Western passengers on the line.
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Atlantic
Pacific
San Francisco
Manchuria
Arthur von Rosthorn
Col
José Sanchez
Railroad inquiry reveals kickback and stock gifts in coal cases
Testimony shows A W Gibbs lacked knowledge of chief clerk Boyer's acceptances from coal firms. Witnesses describe gifts of stock to railroad officials by Colonel Huff and others, and agreements over coal company favors. Berwind-White leases and car repair payments are questioned amid ongoing investigation by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
A. W. Gibbs
Motive Power
Boyer
Clements
Mr. Gibbs
Rohrer
Coal Company Books Sought in Railway Discrimination Case
Mrs. Kate Rogers of Brooklyn turned over tally books of Berwind-White Coal to Captain Henry Hoff man after a long search. Hoff man, tied to the coal firm for 30 years, seeks evidence of Pennsylvania Railroad favored treatment. He is to testify before the Interstate Commerce Commission at the request of Logan M. Bullitt. Berwind president F. J. Berwind has just returned from Europe aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and declined to discuss the company’s railroad ties.
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Kate Rogers
Dikeman Street
Brooklyn
Henry Hoffman
Bedford Avenue
Berwind-White Coal Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Coal Company
Logan M. Bullittt
Interstate Commerce Commission
Railroad Bride Sues for Absolute Divorce in White Plains
Mrs. Jennie Lardon Buckfin known as the New Haven Railroad bride sues Spencer Bucklin for divorce in the Supreme Court at White Plains. Bucklin reportedly will not defend. Mrs. Bucklin’s father, Edward G. Lardon, an inventor and linguist of New Rochelle, arranged the romance on New Haven trains. The couple wed after a secret ceremony at the Little Church Around the Corner and have not lived together for a year.
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Jennie Lardon Buckfin
Edward G. B. Lardon
New Rochelle
New Haven
Supreme Court
White Plains
Spencer Bucklin
Manhattan
Keogh
Bucklin
Park Place
Miss Lardon
New York
Mr. Lardon
Fire Panics Hit Brooklyn Lumber Yard and Homes
A massive blaze at Joseph Cohen’s lumber yard near Roeck and Dumont swept into three adjacent tenements and sparked additional fires on Watkins Street and Thatford Avenue. Six alarms were sounded as firefighters battled smoke and backdrafts. several were burned, and property damage neared $62,000.
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Joseph Cohen
Roeckaway
Dumont Avenues
Brownsville
East New York
Rockaway Avenue
Mary Quenn
Watkins Street
Flora Singer
Sally
Thatford Avenue
Dumont
Staten Island Girl Missing After Visit to Brooklyn
Miss May Rose nineteen of Port Richmond Staten Island disappeared after leaving home Sunday to visit Grace Herbert Brooklyn. She was last seen on the Port Richmond station platform and her parents fear foul play or drugging in the Navy Yard area en route to Brooklyn. Police issued a general alarm and she is employed as a stenographer in James Burke law office Port Richmond Bank Building.
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Miss May Rose
Johnstone D. Rose
Albion Place
Port Richmond
Staten Island
Miss Rose
Miss Grace Herbert
Oxford Street
Brooklyn
Mr. Rose
Miss Herbert
James Burke
Bank Building
Navy Yard
Fear Rabies Prompt Treatment For New York Family
Helen Washburn, daughter of William Washburn of New York, rushed to the Pasteur Institute for rabies treatment after being bitten by her own dog at Lakeville. The Washburns and their coachman's son were bitten. Dr. Corwin, a veterinary surgeon, also sought treatment after being bitten. The party departed for New York immediately for care.
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Tribune
New Haven
Helen Washburn
William Washburn
New York
Lakeville
Pasteur Institute
Corwin
Ely
M Washburn
Perjury Doubts in Reported Statements and Mutual Life Inquiry
A lengthy case notes that a year apart the two officials involved did not both sign each report, making perjury charges unlikely. The probe found limited theft of Mutual Life funds, with money used to influence state officials. Illustrative details include a governor’s retainer and a Western insurance superintendent’s seaside trips funded by public funds, plus an in-office vault inspection of $192,000,000 in securities.
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Mutual
Mutual Life
McKeen
the Mutual
Company sues Granniss in parallel with Guletta case
The service of the suit against Robert A. Granniss, former vice president, is to be accepted by Lord Day & Lord. The action mirrors the suit against Dr. Walter R Guletta, per Mr. McKeen speaking yesterday.
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Robert A. Granniss
Lord, Day & Lord
Mr. Granniss
Walter R Guletta
McKeen
Babcock Offers to Testify on Insurance Contributions
Washington June 6 Representative Babcock former chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee says he wrote District Attorney Jerome detailing his attendance possibilities for a New York grand jury inquiry. He has not been subpoenaed and will go as soon as duties here permit, offering to respond by wire or letter if needed.
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Washington
Babcock
Republican Congressional Committee
Jerome
New York
Babeools
Jim Hargis Indicted Again in Breathitt Killings
Jackson Breathitt County grand jury indicts former Breathitt County judge Jim Hargis on charges tied to the assassination of Dr B F Cox shot from behind in Jackson four years ago. Hargis and associates face ongoing indictments for other Breathitt County killings, including the Marcum case and Geemens related allegations, with Sheriff Edward Callahan also implicated.
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Tribuna
Lexington
Jackson
Breathitt County
Jim Hargis
Breathitt
B. F. Cox
Hargis
Alexander B
Fulton French
Edward Callahan
J. B. Marcum
Geemens
Jim Cockrill
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Neill and
Reynolds
Youentlemen
Messrs. Neill
Meiers Neill
Reynolas
Melvin
Bureau of Animal Industry
Stock Exchange
Neill-Reynolds
Wilg0n
Mr. Wadsworth
Neill
W1ilgon
Pr. Melvin
Oxford
Lorimer
Gurnhams Phillips
Hassau
Moderns Trust Company
Equitable Trust Company OF
Nassau Street
Keystone Coal and Coke Company
Keystone Company
Glasgow
Commission
H. C. Frick Coal and Coke Company
Gibbs
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio
Monongahela River Coal Company
Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad
Weaver Coal Company
Henry E. Weaver
Max Reibenack
Crawley Land Company
Virginia
J. T. Richards
Stephen Green
Philadelphia
New England
Boston Corporation
Southern Coal Lands
Reibenack
Harsimus
Berwind-White Company
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Berwind- White Company
Berwind-White
Mr. Glasgow
M. K. Reeves
Pugh
Colonel Huff
Coal
Howard
Greenwich
Cardiff
David E. Williams & Co
Cumbria Coal Company
Mr. Reeves
Salem
Claridge
Push
Gets Coal Co’s
Captain Hoffman
Besiag
Piu Putian
Bazard
Arnheim
Broadway
Ninth Street
Morgans
Club Soda
John Morgan
West 80Th Street
Bryant
G. H. Brown
E. 38Th St
Tel
Choate
Truesdale Committee
Gilletts and Granniss
MR. Babcock
the Apollinaris Co
Lik, Londag
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