Senators Back Pensions for Cleveland Widow and Harrison Widow
The Senate pensions committee reported favorably on bills granting $5000 a year to Frances Cleveland widow of Grover Cleveland and Mary Harrison widow of Benjamin Harrison. It rejected a bill to place Theodore Roosevelt on the retired list with $20,000 a year for life, noting the measure targets former presidents generally and would affect Roosevelt only as of now.
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Senate
Weabington
Senate Committee On Pensions
Frances F. Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Mary Lord Harrison
Baxtevein Harrison
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Price range set for Johnson Jeffries fight seats
Tex Rickard announced official chair pricing for the Johnson Jeffries bout in San Francisco on March 22. Seats will range from 5 to 50 dollars, down from 19 to 100, with about 30 000 seats reserved and expected box office over 650 000 dollars. About 6000 of the low priced seats will be behind the ropes.
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Rickard
San Francisco
Cal
Tex Rickard
Jeffrees Johnson
Tyrre
Carmen Reject Peace Terms In Transit Strike Fallout
Philadelphia March 22. The deal arranged by International President William Mahon and the Rapid Transit company to end the strike was repudiated by the carmen union. Penrose pressed for a settlement, Mahon touted terms, and the union balked over exclusive recognition and exclusion of rival leaders. The conflict heads to further dispute with no clear conference in sight.
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Philadelphia
International
Willam CD. Mabon
Rapid Transit
Carmen
Benator Penrose
Rapid Transit Company
Mahon
Clarence Wolf
Senator Penrose
Washington
Clarence O. Pratt
John J. Murphy
Central Labor Union
Penrose
Occaia
Union Traction Company
Committee of Ten
Mx Mahon
Corn Meal for the Hair Promoted by Fifth Avenue Expert
The Bevauly Magazine reports a Fifth Avenue ball specialist sharing hair care secrets. A Frenchwoman describes a pompadour treatment using gasoline and cornmeal to add fullness, with warnings about fire risk and indoor use.
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Fifth Avenue
Bevauly
Charns
Ray
W-cent
Dollar Bellies
U S Takes Action to Break National Packing Trust
Chicago March 22 United States District Attorney Sims files a bill in equity to dissolve the National Packing Company and its affiliates over anti trust violations. The suit targets National Packing, Armour, Swift and Morris concerns and key figures, seeking to curb a meat industry trust centered on the National Packing company. The government views the firm as the instrument through which evasion and consolidation occurred, aiming to remedy alleged harms by breaking up the nucleus of the meat combination. The defendants named include National Packing, Hammond Holding, Hammond Packing, Omaha Packing, Anglo American Provision, and Fowler Packing companies.
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Chicago
National Packing Company
United States
Sims
Naonal Packing Company
Armour, Swift and Morris
Whckers
Department of Justice
Grand Jury
Landis
GHH
Hammond Company
Hammond Pack. Ine Company
Omaha Packing Company
Anglo-American Provision Company
Fowler Packing Company
Farmer Attacks Girl Sparks Serious Charges in Elwood
In Elwood New Jersey Samuel Jordan white was arrested and charged with assaulting Alice S. Dempater a fourteen year old colored girl at her father’s home. The attack left the girl in a serious condition and doctors fear possible death. Citizens threatened to harm Jordan before he was taken away. United States to Buy Land bill seeks 3 6 million to enlarge Capitol grounds adding a broad avenue to the peace monument and depot plaza.
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Eye Harbor City
N. J
Elwood
Samuel Jordan
Alice S. Dempater
Jordan
United States
Washington
Capitol
Depot Plaza
Peace Monument
Pennsylvania Avenue
Senate
Tragedy in Marion: Farmer Morris Kills Family Then Himself
Charles Morris a Marion area farmer killed his mother in law shot his two year old child wounded his wife and then turned the pistol on himself ending his wife authorities say Morris and his wife had a dispute prior to the tragedy. News Want Ads. bring requite.
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Marion
Charles Morris
Here
Tim
Morris
Pittsburg Graft Indictments Touch Forty Former and Present Councillors
Grand jury indicts forty former and current Pittsburg council members in a graft scandal. Captain Johnny Klein faces penitentiary for 1908 depository case as DA Blakeley reveals a yearspanning scheme and street vacation frauds. Several former councillors plead nolle contendere with suspended sentences. Dr W H Weber testifies about $10000 delivered for votes to vacate a street.
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Greater Pictaturg
Johnny Klein
Western ‘Penitentiary
Blakeley
Fraser and
Cohen
Publc
Klein
Geaftj
Connelle
Havealt Hin Books
Fraser
Seymour
W. H. Weber
Select Council
Insane Woman Leaps to Death at Franklin Park
In Boston on March 22 Miss Emma Hackerson an inmate of a private sanitarium leaped from a high rock into the Franklin Park duck pond and drowned. Her body was recovered.
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Boston
Emma Hackerson
Franklin Park
Wu Ting Fang to Be French Minister in Peking announc
Shanghai dispatch reports Wu Ting Fang to be appointed Chinese minister to France after recall from the United States. A jokey desert tale from a bailoo pilot and a Civil War era life-saving claim are also noted alongside an advertisement for a cough remedy and newspaper advertising.
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France
Shanghai
Peking
Wu Ting Fang
United States
Blacklist Conspiracy Case Heard in New York Court
Judge Rosalky declared the Building Trades Employers’ Association conspired with the Enterprise Steam Fitters’ to block hiring during a lengthy strike. He indicated indictments should be found as the alleged acts threaten public interests and the right to work.
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New York
Rosalsky
Court of General Sea
Newark
New Jersey
New York City
Publc
Building Trades Employers’ Association
Enterprise Steamficern’' Association
Taft Attends Yale Corporation Meeting in New Haven
President Taft attends Yale University March meeting in New Haven Connecticut. Allen Johnson of Bowdoin College elected professor of history. Anonymous gift of 25000 for university clinics endowment announced. J Barnett Collins death in Fort Worth adds 50000 to class of 1881 fund. Taft criticizes editorials in recent public remarks. He plans to continue speaking on the topic.
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Taft
Yale Corporation
New Haven
Conn
Allen Johnson
Bowdain College
Fort Worth
Tex
J. Barnett Collins
Chicago
New Phase of Steel Strike Expands Discharges
The Bethlehem Steel Saucon plant open hearth workers who demanded higher pay received wages and a blue discharge card. Strike leaders report 20 quit at the Shuton plant and about 400 more to walk out, with crucible workers said to be fed up. Weston arrives ten days ahead of schedule after a 26 mile walk. Union leather workers nationwide strike for eight hours and 15 percent wage gain. Kentucky adopts electrocution in death penalty replacing hanging.
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Bethlehem
Bethlehem Steelworks
Saucon
Shuton
Crucible Department
Why He Got Up and the Commuter’s Early Rise
A fragmented New York newspaper quips about a commuter who rises before dawn to catch a train. The man explains waking at six, while his wife urges him to sleep, joking that chickens crow earlier than he does.
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Abe
New York
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