Senator Attacks Sisal Trust Over Price Gouging
Kansas Senator Capper files Sherman anti trust complaint with Attorney General Dawes alleging a U S sisal monopoly controlled by the Sisal Sales Corporation and its New York agents Hanson and Orth and Commission Exportadora of Yuca Mexico. He says the arrangement forces high binding twine prices, harming farmers and American consumers as Yucatan sisal prices rise from 2 1/2 to 65 1/2 cents per pound.
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Washington
Sherman Antilaw
Daugherty
Rma
Capiz
Republican
Kansas
Senate
Sisal Sales Corporation
New York
Hanson & Orth
Commission Exportadora
Yuca
Mexico
Ipper
Senator Capper
Comaints
Allacé
Department of Agriture
Capper
State of
Yucatan
Rts
Wallace
Gaylord Marsh
Eresso
United Sates
Foreign monopoly in Yucatan linked to price of binding twine
Senator Capper cited a letter from Kansas Penitentiary board official F L Barrier describing American sisal operators as being held up by foreign producers under a quasi-government in Yucatan. Secretary Wallace's note said a fixed policy by a foreign government to restrict production to raise prices could justify Congress acting to protect U S consumers.
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Yucatan
Capper
F. L. Barrier
Board of Administration
The
Kansas Penitentiary
Wallace
Congress
Escaped Locked Together Handcuffed Prisoners Flee
In Atlantic City on July 25 prisoners Thomas Gibbs and John Armstrong who were handcuffed together and chained to two others leaped from a Pennsylvania electric train at Cardiff and escaped after peppering Constable Jesse Woodington and blinding him. State police pursued but the fugitives likely boarded a freight train and escaped the state.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Jesse Woodington
Thomas Gibbs
John Armstrong
Cardiff
Mass Landing
Egg Harbor
Sickler
State Poace
Furious battle with 300 pound stingaree caught near shore
Beach Haven July 25 eight fishermen under Captain Larson fought a near capsizing battle to net a 300 pound stingaree. The giant ray measured 15 feet long nine feet seven inches tail, seven feet wide with two eight inch barbs. The gunwale nearly dipped as the fish writhed, its head attacked with a boat hook, then released.
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Beach Haven
Larson
St. Albans
Charge Alcohol Tax Fraud Shocks Burlington Officials
Joseph Harrison of Philadelphia and G G M Large of Riverside were each held on 5000 bail and W R Hahn of Burlington on 2500 bail on Volstead act violations and attempts to defraud the government of alcohol tax. They pleaded not guilty before Judge Bodine in Newark district court. An indictment by the U S grand jury last week named all as Burlington Industrial Alcohol directors. The plant, seized last December for producing beverage alcohol, remains under government control. Also, Mrs Estella Stackhouse of East Main street Moorestown was hospitalized after bullets lodged in her dining room wall near where she sat, shot ten days earlier. neighbors heard three reports, but only two bullets entered the room.
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Joseph Harrison
Philadelphia
G. G. M. Large
Trenton
N. J
Riverside
W. R. Hahn
Burlington
Bodine
United States District Court
Burlington Industrial Alcohol Company
United States Grand Jury
Newark
Moorestown
Estella Stackhouse
East Main Street
Burlington County Hospital
Plain Folks Rally to See Train Pass at Railroad Shops
In Birmingham on July 25 police responded to a riot call at Louisville and Nashville railroad shops in Boyles. About 250 people mostly families carried sticks but no disorder occurred as they watched a work train pass by. A second item notes Scotland securing coal shipments to the United States amid wartime demand.
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Birmingham
Fila
Louisvile
Nashville
Boyles
Fred McDuff
Pinto
Scotch Coal Ford
London
Scotland
United States
America
Plaztkesykisky Earthquake Mention Sparks Witty Exchange
In the Pousten Post a joke references a town named Plaztkesykisky in Poland after an earthquake. The paper plays with the spelling and the idea of how a disaster could alter place names in a humorous exchange between Gadly and a husband reading the paper.
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Plaztkesykisky
Poland
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Sisal
Farm Bloc
Shalrman
James Yucatan Commission
Helen
Y Allman
Ee Cafe
the Potomac Public Service Co
North Market Si
Radhive
Cosden & Co
Cosden & Company
Askfor C .A
Ll, Winkelman &C
Consolidated Stock Exchange of
South Street
Calvert
Baltimore
Broad ST
Pearre
Prescription Store
Telephone
Helfenstein & Urner, Insurance
North Market Street
Dr. Fahrney
Gillette
Gillette Safety Razor CO
Boston
U.S
Quynn
Cman
Maluminum
Allen G. Quynn & CO
Frederick, Md
F. Meee
Hotel
Chambersburg
Pennsylvania
Cearteeus Attepes
Gulag
Wea Wal
Patrick
Bayleg
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