Lodge report finds no material factor in cost of living rise
The special committee led by Mr. Lodge concludes the cost of living advance stems from factors beyond trusts. It cites surplus exports, higher land values, increased farm demand, banking in rural areas, distribution costs, and advertising. 257 commodities tracked show wholesale prices rising across food, lumber, clothing, metals, and more.
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Lodge
Timiber
United States
Vimes
Orien An Andaaiay
Britain
Germany
United Totem
United Kingdom
United Ot
W C Brown Explains High Cost of Living and Gold Link
In St Paul on June 23 President W C Brown of the New York Central told Minnesota Bankers that rising living costs stem from gold production and rapid farm output growth. He urged wage parity with purchasing power declines, warned of overproduction, and proposed shifting naval spending to advancing agriculture through regional demonstration farms. James J Hill's Minneapolis paper warned of terminal facility strain and freight distribution reforms.
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St. Paul
W. C. Brown
New York Central Lines
Minnesota Bankers’ Association
Mr. Brown
Brown
James J. Hill
Millers’ National Federation
Minneapolis
Hill
Three Injured by Autos On City Streets
James Turner six is struck while crossing St Nicholas avenue at 134th street and suffers bruises. Police arrest occupants of the automobile. One man George H Good of West 135th street charged with felonious assault and operating without license. Chauffeur James Bell charged with felonious assault. Manley White nine struck playing in the street. skull fracture reported at St Luke's Hospital. Architect owner Arthur Gross rushed victim to hospital. Dominick Gramonia injured in Zenox avenue. fractures to ankle and shoulder blade. No arrest made.
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James Turner
West 134Th Street
St. Nicholas Avenue
134Th Street
Prendergast
West 125Th Street
George H. Good
No. 112
West 135Th Street
James Bell
West 142d Street
Bell
Manley White
West Sth Street
Arthur Gross
St. Luke’s Hospital
Dominick Gramonia
129Th Street
Zenox Avenue
A. L.goldhorn
Mount Vernon
Gramonia
Husband Threats Key in Mrs King Divorce Suit
Boston June 23 Mrs Cornelia Peabody King testified about her husband Thomas White King of Greenfield during a divorce trial. She described his drinking habit drunken outbursts and threats to kill her including firing at a window and saying he would blow her brains out during a 1906 quarrel in Simsbury Connecticut and prior to attending the Vanderbilt Cup race.
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the Tribune
Boston
Cornelia’ Peabody King
Thomas White King
Greenfield
Richardson
Arthur D. Hill
Simsbury
Conn
Cambridge Boy Found Dead at Lyman School
Worcester June 2 Medical Examiner C S Knight Westboro rules death by own action hanging no criminal homicide in autopsy on John Newman Cambridge boy found dead at Lyman School for Boys Westboro June 7. Report filed with District Attorney Taft who ordered exhumation yesterday.
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Worcester
Mass
C. S. Knight
Westboro
John Newman
Cambridge
Lyman School For Boys
Taft
Hegeman Indictments Quashed by Supreme Court Justice
Two indictments charging perjury against President John R. Hegeman of Metropolitan Life Insurance were dismissed by Justice Davis in the Criminal Branch. They were the last of ten indictments from old grand jury findings. All alleged false statements to the State Insurance Department and sworn reports to the department were dropped.
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John R. Hegeman
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Justice Davis
Supreme Court
Grand Run
NEW 22D REGIMENT CAPTAIN NOMINATED
First Lieutenant W. S. Edwards of the 224 Engineers N G NY is nominated to be captain of company I to fill the vacancy caused by Captain McGrathy becoming major. Edwards joined the 22d Regiment in 1906 when it was a 40 Infantry unit. Major General Leonard Wood commended him last year for his work at the army maneuvers at Boston.
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W. 8. Edwards
224 Engineers
McGrathy
Edwards
22A
Leonard Wood
Bostony
Aged Women Dead In Delaware and New Jersey
Delmar Delaware June 23 Mrs Hester Cordrey aged 113 oldest Delaware resident dies at granddaughter s home Cordrey left fourteen siblings and was twice married with second husband dying in 1864 Also Paterson New Jersey June 2 percent Mrs Elizabeth Pope 99 widow of Samuel Pope former New Jersey legislator dies Bequest in her will leaves 10000 to Paterson Orphan Asylum and 10000 to Paterson General Hospital
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Delmar
Del
Hester Cordrey
Delaware
Ulysses G. Melson
Paterson
N. J
Elizabeth Pope
Broadway
Samuel Pope
New Jersey
Paterson Orphan Asylum
Paterson General Hospital
Big fee for W N Cohen in city franchise case
The Controller's office announced a $35 008 fee to William N Cohen former Supreme Court justice for serving as special counsel in certiorari reviews of Consolidated Gas and other lighting firms 1903 assessments. The companies agreed to pay $7 428054 8% of which yields Cohen's fee. Cohen had offered no fixed claim awaiting Finance Department calculation.
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William N. Cohen
Supreme Court
Consolidated Gas
Mr. Cohen
Finance Department
Heat Worse Eight Die Continues Alarm Response Orders
The article details an emergency order across all five boroughs directing careful handling of horses during warm weather. It urges calm, controlled responses to alarms and to avoid speeding horses after returns to headquarters. Central Park animals receive baths by Bill Snyder three times daily, with Dick the Siberian tiger enjoying the water the most, and elephants also receiving baths. Heavily coated animals have been sheared.
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Central Park
Bill” Snyder
Heat toll rises as Philadelphia endures brutal heat
Telegraph dispatches report a deadly heat wave across cities. Fifteen deaths in Philadelphia, many prostrations, and suicides tied to the heat. In Baltimore five fatalities and seventeen prostrations, with temperatures near 100. Pittsburg records twenty heat prostrations and eight deaths over five days as mills suspend operations.
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Pittsburg Mills
Tribune
Philadelphia
Herbert Harris
David B. Perkins
Upsal
Mercury
Nathan Crosby
Meta Leake
Camden
N. J
The
Pittsburg
Pitsburg
Staten Island Chamber Dinner Draws Big Attendance
The Staten Island Chamber of Commerce annual dinner at Terra Marine Inn Huguenot Beach drew about 150 guests. President William S. Van Cilef presided as toast master with toasts from Assemblyman William A. Short Park Commissioner Stover Fire Commissioner Waldo Public Service Commissioner McCarroll the Rev Pascal Harrower and Senator Howard S. Bayne.
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Staten Island Chamber of Commerce
Terra Marine Inn
Huguenot Beach
Staten Island
William S. van Cilef
William, A. Short
Stover
Waldo
McCarroll
Public Service Commission
Pascal Harrower
Howard S. Bayne
All Welcome Old Man Home From Hospital Visit
East New York residents greet Solomon Levy at 2267 Pitkin avenue after his return from the Jewish Hospital. The 10 year old had been injured June 6 when he fell from his home roof to the sidewalk. Doctors feared shock could kill him due to his age. Children from Brownsville and East New York enjoy his folklore tales and Russian songs.
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East New York
Solomon Levy
Pitkin Avenue
Levy
Brownsville
Pen and Ink Artist Carl Valles Reported Missing
Frederick Valles of Eucido apartments at 78 East 180th Street asked Tremont police to issue a general alarm for his brother Carl Valles a 25 year old pen and ink artist who lived with him and has been missing since Tuesday from Kensington England they arrived in the country last March and fear foul play.
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Frederick Valles
Eucidio Apartments
East 180Th Street
Tremont
Carl Valles
Walles
Waylord
Kensington
England
Woman Shot Herself in Liberty Cottage Tragedy
Mrs. Susan Murray, wife of N Francis Murray a Brooklyn druggist, shot herself three times in a Liberty New York cottage. After failing with chloroform she used a revolver twice to her left lung and abdomen, dying soon after despite medical efforts. A farewell note to her husband expressed fatigue and forgiveness.
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the Tribune
Liberty
N. Y
Susan Murray
N. Francis Murray
16Th Street
Brooklyn
Garrett Cottage
Murrays
Sullivan
Duty of Citizenship Speech by Judge Grosscup in Toledo
Judge Peter S. Grosscup of Chicago spoke to the Luther League of Ohio in Toledo on the duties of citizenship. He warned that wealth alone fails to inspire civic duty and called for renewed public service across city, state, and national levels. He cautioned that primaries and commissions cannot by themselves prevent capture by private interests without internal renewal.
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Toledo
Peter S. Grosscup
Chicago
Luther League
Ohio
Congress
Seidel seeks car licenses from Milwaukee company
Milwaukee Mayor Emil Seidel says the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company owes the city 72 000 in back car licenses and will pursue collection. He filed a warrant for company president John J Beggs claiming evasion. Beggs ridicules the action as a legal fight looms.
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Milwaukee
Emil Seidel
Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company
John J. Beggs
City of
Beggs
Seidel
Delaware Battleship Docked At Norfolk Yard
Norfolk, June 23 The new 20 000 ton battleship Delaware was docked for the first time at the Norfolk navy yard without difficulty. The Delaware will be scraped and painted before proceeding to New York for her wireless equipment and completion.
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Norfolk
Delaware
Norfolk Navy Yard
New York
Professor Hidalgo Held In San Francisco White Slave Probe
Senior José Hidalgo, professor of Spanish at the University of California and once a Guatemalan consul in Japan, was arrested at the Hotel Navarre. He faces grand jury inquiry over alleged ties to a white slave traffic involving Grace Carter, a 24 year old magazine writer, who claimed Hidalgo offered to send students to her in exchange for profits. Richard Barry, another writer, forwarded her story to police.
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the Tribune
San Francisco
José Hidalgo
University of California
Guatemala
Japan
University Aero Club
Pacific Aero Club
Navarre
Grace B. Ellifritz
Grace Carter
Hidalgo
Chicago
Richard Barry
Barry
Tener 4 Bashful Man
Washington June 23 Representative John K Tener Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania fooled colleagues planning a surprise welcome from the convention. Tener a six footer and former baseball player drew a warm House reception after slipping in another door unheralded. J M Reynolds lieutenant governor candidate also received a similar reception.
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Washington
John K. Tener
Pennsylvania
Tener
Burke
Moore
J. M. Reynolds
Dockstader Knocked Down on Broadway by Wagon
Minstrel Lew Dockstader residing at 244 Riverside Drive was struck by a delivery wagon on Broadway near 46th Street about 7 PM. Patrolman White assisted. Dockstader refused ambulance and did not sue the driver, who was not arrested.
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Riverside Drive
Broadway
46Th Street
White
West 47Th Street
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