Bell Co. Refuses Unlimited Service Faces Trade League Report
A Trades League report accuses Bell Telephone of refusing to install unlimited service, charging per call and pressuring subscribers. Keystone Telephone Co is praised for unlimited service and faster responses, with West Philadelphia projects slated this summer and fall despite sidewalk disruption criticisms.
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The
Trades League
Bell Telephone Company
Chicago
Trade League
Keystone Telephone Company
Bell Company
Bell People
Robert M. Green & Sons
Vine Street
Telephone and Electrical Committee
Seventeenth and Filbert Streets
Telephone and Electrical Committee of the Trades League
Keystone Company
Keystone
Keystone Arials
West Philadelphia
League Island Navy Yard
Germantown
Frankford
Chestnut Hill
Philadelphia
Board of Highway
Ingrantaa Dereeen
Lafayette College Class Day Attended by Alumni Week’s Peak
Lafayette College Easton June 16 senior class day drew large alumni crowds. Porter Allen hosted. Parke Richards delivered the satire. John R. Peale served as historian. awards went to Benjamin Hevans poet and Morris Readinger valedictorian. Inclement weather marred the evening promenade and lantern-lit campus stretch. Alumni day plans include Schwab and King speakers, with Frank G. Harris presiding. The new Brainerd Hall building nears completion and will house a trophy room on the first floor. Special to the Philadelphia Times.
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Pardee Hall
Arlo Pardee
Francis A. March
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
James Gayley
Frederick Starr
University of Chicago
Franklin Literary Hall
David Bennett King
New York
Washington Society
Frank G. Harris
General Alumni Association
Brainerd
James Renwick Hogg
Philadelphia
Powell Hall
Groom Mixes With Before and After
A man, Lambkin, visits a provincial newspaper demanding to see the editor after discovering his wedding was reported with his wife in the morning edition. He complains a printer mixed up portraits with a Birmingham barber ad and vows to find the culprit on the warpath.
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Lambkin
Mr. Lamblin
Birmingham
Billjan
Missing Persons Report Seeks Details on Several Individuals
Authorities seek information on multiple missing youths and adults including Dominick Calafists aged 13 of 831 Wieder Street since June 13 along with several others listed with addresses and ages. Public notice urges anyone with information to contact local police.
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Dominick
Wieder Street
Burton Street
I MN
Mrguume
Ih Sat Ee
Trade Board Seeks Action of Congress on Tariffs and Rates
The Philadelphia Board of Trade debated federal rail rate reform and the coal strike, opposing interference while urging Congress to pass a fair compromise railroad rate law. It supported a new municipal statistician office and rejected immediate adoption of the metric system. William V. McKean resigned from the executive council.
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Philadelphia Board of Trade
Committee On Inland Transportation
Congress
Board of Trade
Interstate Commerce Commission
John F. Lewis
Municipal Statistician
Philadelphia
William R. Tucker
Board of Jade
House of Representatives
Executive Council
William V. McKean
Notable deaths span era's figures and regions
Obituary notices report Mrs. Sarah Estee in Brooklyn a lonely death after a tumultuous California marriage to Morris M. Estee. Also, John Taylor Democrat of Frankford dies at 80s after long service. Mrs. G. M. Bobworth of Canada Pacific Railway family dies in Montreal. Robert J. Vance ex congressman and editor dies in Monterat North Carolina after months of ill health.
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Estee
Memphis
Sally Philips
Tennessee
Brooklyn
United States
Hawaii
California
John Taylor
Frankford
Orthodox Street
Aramwingo
Democratic City Committee
Twentythird Ward
Democratic Executive Committee
Twenty-third Ward
Democratic Club
G. M. Bobworth
Paecife Railway
Montreal
Rott
Robert J. Vance
New Britain Herald
New Britain, Conn
Monterat
N. C
Birds Feet and Legs Show Nature's Adaptations
William Beebe notes birds’ feet and legs reflect ancient reptilian ancestry with scales, varying to suit habits from swift ostriches to perching parrots. He describes toe arrangements, specialized uses in burrowing owls, parrots, woodpeckers, and hunting raptors, plus adaptations in snow and swimming birds.
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William Beebe
New York Zoological Society
Newport
R. I
New York Zoological Park
Alumni Day and Society Meetings Schedule
Alumni Day collation exercises at Dor mitory Triangle and a Municipal Band concert at Twelfth and Spring Garden. General Alumni Society meeting in Dormitory Triangle at 6 15 reading prize essay at Hall University of Pennsylvania 11 A M. Annual meeting and dinner of Alumni Society in Houston Halls. Dinner of Patrick at Dooner's Hotel. Dental Alumni Society meeting at Dental Hall. Commencement events at College of St. Thomas Villa Nova day fete at Wea hospital.
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Dormitory Triangle
Twelfth
Spring Garden Streets
General Alumni Society
Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Memal
Houston
Patrick
Dooner’s Hotel
Dental Alumni Society of
Pers An
Pennnsylvania
Dental
H ‘Ant
Cleveland
College of St. T Hom
Villa Nova
Weaospital
Avenue
Aft
Freedom With Despot's Aid and Moscow Labor Controls
A Moscow correspondent describes a new workingmen policy orchestrated by secret police with government approval. Police agents lectured workers, formed friendly societies, and backed strike threats to pressure factories. In one case, French mill Goujon faced coercive demands and police orders to admit two agents, leading to mass layoffs and a government-backed effort to stage a labor dispute.
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M. Zepyagin
M. Zoubatoff
Secret Police
Moscow
M. Trepoff
Associated Press
Ministry of the Interior
Kremlin
Grand Duke
Sergius
Daniloff
St. Petersburg
Krasivsky
Jilkin
Goujon
M. Prepoff
M. Goujon
Trepoff
Finance Ministry
Jumbo II Sneeze Triggers Panic at Exposition
At the Maryland Industrial Exposition in Baltimore on Pennsylvania and North avenues crowds fled in fear as Jumbo the elephant sneezed. The animal had been agitated before the sneeze, rolling in its cage, then released a loud sneeze that sparked a panic among visitors.
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Maryland Industrial Exposition
Pennsylvania
North Avenues
Mons
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Julia Murphy
Lou Secrist
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Institute
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Sara Pomeroy
Sunbury
Evalina McCrea
Ala
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McEwensville
Ruth Sharkley
M. P. Tustin
Litle Dell Wood
Philadelphia Club
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Evasive J. Stanton
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Lewisbare Club
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Philadelphia High School For Girls
Seventeenth
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Alma Bruner
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Ray Allen
Doris Durr
2D Ward
Republican Club
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Second Ward
Republican Club Association
I. J. Cooper
Morris Sussman
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Second Ward Hebrew Association
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Syen Ame Yaay Son Co
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Josiah White & Sons
Grand Central Hotel
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Cuisine Francaise
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Pitne
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W. J. Imel
NEW
Rudolf Seem
Charles R. Myr
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Victor Herbert
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Battles of Our Nation
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Timore Morning Herald
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Katie Schiedal
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