Asphalt Plan May Be Issued Today
The Asphalt Company of America plans a reorganizing trust proposal within days as bondholders consent to a plan expected to drop over forty of sixty-nine subsidiary firms. Judge Andrew Kirkpatrick will review the plan after bondholder approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asphalt Company of America
Henry W. Biddle
Andrew Kirkpatrick
United States Circuit Court of
New Jersey
Audit Company
New York
Trust
Biddle Committee
William C. Bullitt
John M. Mack
John Douglass Brown, Jr
Bullitt
Dugan Probes Cause of Fatal Fire at Second and Oxford
Coroner Dugan visited the Second and Oxford fire scene and said he has information on the origin. An inquest is expected Friday or Saturday, with no jury of experts planned. Officials seek a man named in Katie Schiedal’s dying statement, alleged to push her back into flames. Katie Schiedal to be buried today on North Mervine Street.
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Dugan
Second
Oxford
Katie Schiedal
North Mervine Street
Philadelphia Daily Schedule of Commencements and Meetings
Today in Philadelphia features the 146th University of Pennsylvania commencement at the Academy of Music at 11 a.m. St Joseph's College holds its annual elocution contest in College Hall. The Franklin Institute meets to vote on by law amendments at 8 p.m. La Salle College commencement takes place on Broad Street at 3 p.m. Alumni reunion at 7 p.m. Democratic State convention delegates gather at city headquarters to discuss plans at 1 p.m. A municipal band concert occurs at Fifty fourth street and Girard avenue. Judge W Archbald delivers the annual address at the Law Academy of Philadelphia in Horticultural Hall at 8 p.m. John Mitchell of Indianapolis, UMW president, attends a gathering of carpenters union locals at Harmonie Hall on Eleventh and Spring Garden streets in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Pennsylvania
Academy of Music
St. Joseph's College
College Hall
Franklin Institute
la Salle College
Broad Street
Mrard Avenue
Philadelphia
Tenth
Walnut Streets
Fifty-fourth Street
Girard Avenue
W. Archbald
Scranton
Law Academy of Philadelphia
Horticultural Hall
John Mitchell
Indianapolis
United Mine ‘Workers
Piehola
Sovantenoes
Disertet
Tof Brotherhood
Harmonie
Elevents
Spring Garden
Evenog
Libraries Purchase for U S Mail Order Sale
Leary's Book Store on Ninth Street below Market opposite Post advertises nationwide library purchases. Buyers seek large collections and mail-in lists, offering to buy smaller lots by perfected mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Railroad dispute ends with Delaware avenue track grant
A pending ordinance, to be favorably reported Thursday by the steam railroads committee, would grant the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company the right to lay a single track on Delaware avenue ending a two year dispute. The River Front Railroad and Belt Line had similar requests and objections argued traffic interference and shared use of riverfront wharves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On Steam Railroads
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company
Delaware Avenue
Philadelphia and Reading
River Front
River Front Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Philadelphia Belt Line Railroad Company
Delaware River
Bell Company to End Unlimited Telephone Service
The Bell Telephone Company will replace unlimited service with limited, billed calls in Philadelphia within two years. The move mirrors San Francisco and Chicago policy shifts aimed at reducing overcrowding and social calls in offices. Trades League official Thomas Martindale praised improved service and noted rumored talks of Bell taking control of Keystone to gain more business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell Telephone Company
Bell Company
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Telephone
Chicago
Bell
Thomas Martindale
Telephone and Electrical Committee
The
Trades League
Philadelphia Times
Keystone
Flogging of Russian Peasants Across Provinces Reported
The Contempor ary Review describes brutal flogging in Poltava and Kharkov Provinces with rifles used and peasants wounded or killed. Villagers resist by seizing landlord grain while troops confiscate then restore it. no pillaging but widespread coercion and unrest continue.
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Poltava
Kharkov
Kourlak
Voronezh
Poiltava
University of Pennsylvania Students Guard Luzerne Coal Region
The Philadelphia and Reading Railway sent eighty men including twenty university students to protect properties in Luzerne county amid coal mine unrest. In two weeks 500 more deputies were enlisted, totaling 3,000 guards armed with Winchester rifles. The students will be housed in Pullman quarters and serve six hours on, twelve off, with barracks amenities provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company
Luzerne County
Reading Terminal
Schuylkill Haven
Pottstown
University of Pennsylvania
Reading Company
John Anderson
913
Walnut Street
Philadelphia Times
Eboye
Broadway Cigar Firm Leases Ten Frontage For Twenty-One Years
The New York Press notes Broadway rents are extraordinary and a cigar company has leased ten thirty-one feet of frontage on Broadway at a yearly rate of 006 for twenty-one years. The report hints profits in cigars are immense to justify such rents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
New York Press
Bob Ragen
Coal Prices Expected To Hold In Philadelphia As Strike Continues
Local coal and railroad circles say prices for anthracite at 7.50 and soft coal at 5 will stay steady for ten days. Industry insiders foresee a break in the strike and a possible easing of price highs, noting ample anthracite supply despite rumors of a famine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Times
Chicago
Englewood
West Virginia
Mitchell
Pocahontas
New River
Bottler's License Transferred After Hearing
Judges Audecried and Ralston held a special License Court session to hear William J. Connor's request to transfer his bottler's license from 2706 to 2727 North Broad Street. The move was needed because his current location will be torn down and notice to vacate was received yesterday. The application lacked the required fifteen days on file and could not be heard at this session, but the transfer was granted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Audecried
Ralston
License Court
William J. Connor
North Broad Street
Connor
Woman seeks missing nieces Hannah Anne and Lizzie McDevitt in Philadelphia
Hannah McDevitt returns to Philadelphia after twenty years and stays at the Nazarene Home for the Aged. She searches for her three nieces who left the city for Denver and Europe, believing most relatives are now deceased. She recalls life in Philadelphia and hopes to reunite with her family.
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Hannah
Anne
Lizzie McDevitt
Hannah McDevitt
Philadelphia
The
Nazarene Home For
Columbia Avenue
Philadelphia Times
Old Country
Europe
Ireland
Colorado
Welsh coal ships may ease US anthracite shortage
Welsh coal from Cardiff could reach American markets within weeks if strikes in Pennsylvania persist. Dealers in New York and Boston expect landed costs near six dollars, below local prices of seven to eight dollars. Mine owners in Nova Scotia show little spare supply.
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Pennsylvania
Cardiff
New York
Wales
Boston
Nova Scotia
Board favors purchase of Horn lot for school site
The Board of Education sub committee backed buying the Horn property at 674 by 224 feet for 18 750, overturning calls to buy the Henry lot. Chairman Paul Kavanagh voted in favor as ex officio member with Adaire and Tilden opposing.
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Board of Education
Frankford Avenue
Erie Avenue
Paul Kavanagh
George L. Horn
Bayard Henry
Hubbert
Tilden
Henry
Horn
Wright
Pennsylvania Railroad
Horr
JM. Hubbert
Adaire
Cavanagh
Sport Indeed by Thomas Martindale Published
New publication touts Sport Indeed a humor filled nature book of hunting and fishing in Maine Canada and the West. Illustrated with photographs by the author the 354 page volume is priced at 1.60 in shops or 1.82 by mail from W Jacobs & Co 108 South Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Martindale
Maine
Canada
West
W. Jacobs &Co
South
Philadelphia
Exchange bars transit stock listing on Philadelphia Stock Exchange
Local financiers debate the Philadelphia Stock Exchange ruling on the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company 600000 share listing. Officials say the delay stems from improper signatures and missing status details, not a denial, with warrants already traded confusing the issue.
Smiles on War's Grim Face at Kennesaw Memory
Susan B. Aull recalls a Civil War tale of the First Arkansas Regiment, largely made up of St. John's College students. Two underage water runners drew fire from a Federal battery. an officer halted the bombardment, sparing them as comrades cheered and water flowed. The story links to a Kennesaw Mountain battle incident.
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Sun
Kennesaw Mountain
Georgia
W. H. Martin
First
Arkansas
Susan B. Aull
Cathedral Street
St. John's College
Little Rock
Magruder
Federal
Kennesaw
First Arkansas Regiment
Firing Line Photo Shows Pasig Engagement Clash
Army signal corps photographers captured a moment before discharge near Pasig FP in the Philippines. The scene shows U S infantry aiming into thickets where insurgents hid, the shot meant to record fire but fired early, illustrating risky field work and calm in officers and men.
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Signal Corps
Philippines
United States
Pasig
FP. I
Army
Navy
Boston Home Journal
Car prices in North Yukon Territory amid plague of rate and mice
Kansas City Journal reports car prices dropping in the North Yukon Territory caused by a rate surge and mice issues affecting the market. The piece notes shoppers seek bargains as dealers adjust pricing amid supply concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yukon Territory
Kansas City Journal
Ogden Charged With Selling Oleomargarine at Ridge Avenue
David Ogden a grocer at 2417 Ridge avenue was arraigned by Magistrate Stratton on selling oleomargarine and held in 400 bail. His brother William faced the same charge with 400 bail and an additional 800 bail on false representation. The Dairy and Food Commissioner led the arrests after an investigation into a well known brand butter substitute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Ogden
Ridge Avenue
Stratton
Ogden
William
Dairy and Food Commissioner
False Statement Marks Hearing In Equity Suit
The equity suit brought by receivers of the defunct State Insurance Co against former directors resumed in Common Pleas Court. Robert Anderson testified he sold ground rents totaling 28 000 to directors and later had 10 000 of canceled stock after directors bought stock from him. He denied personal gain and said his $5 000 cost to the company. Decision reserved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Insurance Company
Audenried
Common Pleas Court
Robert Anderson
Anderson
Harper
Insurance Commissioner
Maine Camp King Controls Vast North Maine Sporting Lands
A. B. Cook of Boston via the Boston Ranching Company, Limited, has gained control of about four hundred square miles across Franklin and Somerset counties in Maine. He owns or gains rights to multiple fishing and hunting camps from Holeb to Attean and Heald Pond plus Birch Island holdings, creating a network serving up to five hundred sportsmen with numerous lakes along Moose River.
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Cook
Boston
New England
Franklin County
Maine
Somerset
Boundary Mountain Range
Bald Mountain
Big Hressua Lake
Moosehead Lake
Boston Ranching Company, Limited
Rhode Island
New York
Birch Island
Holb
Bigwood Pond
Jackson
Moose River
Jackman
North America
Holeb
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Mr. Cook
L. P. Kline
Attean Township
Heald Pond
Fred Henderson
Long Pond
Big Churchill
Oppose Carriage Exposition Sparks Philadelphia Debate
Local carriage and wagon dealers unite to boycott a proposed finished carriage exhibition in Philadelphia from October 14 to 20 1902. The Carriage and Wagon Builders Association accuses promoters of profiting insiders while harming prices and industry welfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Carriage Dealers’ Protective Association
National Association
Carriage and Wagon Builders’ Association
Harry F. Kachline
Carriage and Wagoft Builders’ Association
W. T. van Fleet
Troy Carriage Dealers’ Journal
New York
Natonal Association
Carriage and Wagon Builders’ Association of
Philadelphia
Aps
Board of Trade
the Trades League
West Philadelphia
Bourse
Missing youths reported in Camden and city area
George Deasce aged 16 of 410 Cross Street has been missing since June 16 and Joseph Walters aged 20 of 1005 Seigel Street Camden has been missing since June 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Deasce
Cross Street
Joseph V. Walters
Seigel Street
Camden
Artist Gibson's Royal Audiences and a Witty Mishap
An anecdote recalls artist Gibson entertaining the royal family at Osborne. He recounts packing light, a last minute trousers rent, and urgent messages from the Prince of Wales as he hurries to the garden for an audience with Queen Victoria.
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Printer
Vandyke
T. Kittera VanDyke
Harrisburg
Equity
American Committee
Mr. van Dyke
William S. Elkins
George W. Elkins
P. A. B. Widener
Biddle and Bregg
Oxford Street
Reading
Obdurate
College
NEW Publications
Philadelphia Stock Exchange
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
H. H. Lee
Stock Exchange
Secretary of the Stock Exchange
Union Traction Company
Union Traction
Street
Philadelphia Rapid Transit
Exchange
War
Cate
the King OF Maine
Gibson
Osborne
Prince of Wales
Blackwood’s Magazine
Thomas Martindale & Co
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