Large Standard Oil fine marked record in U S history
Judge Kenesaw M. Landis in Chicago fined Standard Oil 29,240,000 dollars the maximum penalty for accepting rebates. He called for a special grand jury in August to pursue conspiracy charges involving Standard Oil and the Alton railroad and officials.
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Kenesaw M. Landis
United States District Court
Chicago
Standard Oil Company
Oil Trust
Standard Oil
Alton Road
Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry
W. M. J. Palmer
Colorado Springs
New York
Lucca Fontza
New Brighton
Staten Island
Antoinette Taluci
Pasquale Taluci
Norfolk Navy Yard
Harry W. Jones
Norfolk City
James M. Pyne
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Youngstown Iron and Steel
Fred Upright
Ulster Heights
Flora Wright
Miss Wright
William
Nicholas
Central Railroad Company of
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
J. W W. Howard
Port Huron
Mich
Mexico City
Ezra Thompson
Salt Lake City
Thompson
J. H. C. Dill
Illinois Grand Lodge of Masons
Bloomington
Blair Station
Philadelphia
Adam Laecach
Margaret Fowles
London
Eng
Grace Hospital
Detroit
Garrett
Jamestown Pier
Exposition Grounds
Greyhound
Abe Gordon
Anna Markowitz
Dayton
L. S. Taylor
Figin
Spain Far Behind Nations in Reading and Writing
The article notes Spain with a population of 20 090 000 shows only about 35 percent literate and 2.5 percent with reading only. It cites south Spain’s lack of literate servants and postmen, who are paid by recipients per letter and often misdeliver.
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Spain
New York Life President Outlines Plan of Administration
Kingsley of the New York Life Insurance Company addresses policyholders outlining four core points. He advocates strict economy, widest publicity, continued global status, and securing new business under law while ensuring policyholder interests remain paramount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingsley
New York Life Insurance Company
New York Life
The Advantage of Reading
A weary hobo asks to sleep in a farmhouse barn and is granted shelter. The farmer cites a magazine claim that open air sleeping strengthens the delicate and irritable, promising a ruddy complexion and renewed nerves. The farmer offers use of the potato patch and sky.
Too Much Exposure Elsie the Laundress
Elsie, a color laundress, Missed a patron visit and returned with a bad cold. She explains that during recent festivities her club held a ball and she attended in full evening dress, leaving off pieces, which led to her illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie
Postum Shifts Health by Quitting Coffee
A testimonial extols Postum Food Coffee as a cure for headaches nervousness biliousness and stomach and nervous trouble. The narrator notes family and neighbors improved after giving up coffee and adopting Postum and urges readers to look for The Road to Wellville in the package.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellville
Casablanca Shelling and Landing Fight Near Morocca Coast
Casablanca on the Moroccan coast was bombarded by French cruisers after landing parties from French and Spanish ships clashed with Moorish defenders. Six French wounded, no fatalities. European residents unharmed. The Galilee and Du Chayla shelled the native quarter while additional landings secured consulates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casablanca
Anatole
Don Alvaro de Bazan
Minister Gives Up His Life
In Atlantic City New Jersey Rev Edward McConnell of Absecon and Claude Friendship a Philadelphia real estate agent drowned off Doe s Island near Brigantine after a sailboat accident. Friendship could not swim and was pulled under as McConnell tried to rescue him. The other two men in the boat failed to reach the bodies. Friendship was the son of the Realty company president in Philadelphia.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Edward McConnell
Absecon
Claude Friendship
Philadelphia
Doe’s Island
Brigantine
Friendship
Mr. McConnell
the Realty Company of
Four Killed in Wreck Near Pittsburgh
Four people died and 25 were injured when the Titusville express on the Buffalo and Allegheny division of the Pennsylvania Railroad derailed at Kelly, about 35 miles from Pittsburgh, after a gondola coal car sideswiped the train at 11:30 AM. Victims include Mrs. Alonzo Huff and her infant from Johnstown, M. B. Irwin of Oakmont, the train engineer, and George Cochran of Rimesburg.
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Pittsburg
Buffalo and Allegheny
Pennsylvania Railroad
Kelly
Titusville
Alonzo Huff
Johnstown
M. B. Irwin
Oakmont
George Cochran
Rimesburg
Venezuela to Pay Belgium on Arbitration Plan
Venezuela advised Belgium on July 31 that it would pay $2,000,000 to Belgian creditors per The Hague tribunal decision. The move supports President Castro in not reopening the five American claims against Venezuela. The national congress adjourned after abolishing the cattle shipping monopoly.
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Venezuela
Belgium
Caracas
Willemstad
Curacao
Castro
Eggress
Megiopoly
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Richard Hierney
Racine
Wis
Christine Nenudal
Baltimore
George Young Salmon
Clinton
Alonzo Greene Smith
Indiana
Indianapolis
Los Angeles
California
Oregon
Thomas Myler
Santiago
Cuba
Arklow
Ireland
Herbert Knox Smith
Swift Tarbell
E. L. Woodson
William Catchings
Milwaukee
Angers
France
Loire
Southport
Conn
Peter Henderer
William Mallory
Augustus St. Gaudens
Cornish
N. H
Jacksonville
Fla
Armour Fertilizer Company
J. M. Scott
Helena
Ark
Robert Orr
Dwight, I
Here
Charles C. Smith
Aurora
Ill
Honolulu
United States
Thomas
Bonaparte
Philippines
A. Booth & Co
New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company
Nickel Plate
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
I. Arnold Baumann
New Braunfels
Texas
Sweet
Marion Heights
Belfast
Cochran
Fred Magill
Morocco
Toulon
Dixie
E. J. Schroeder
Auto Boat Club of America
Southampton Water
Couronne
Salins Roadstead
Department of Bridges and Roads
Rhone
Marseilles
Jackson
Olga Lundell
Sac City
Fountain House
Waukesha
FB. W. Stevens
Pere Marquette Railroad
Pere Marquette
Michigan
Boston
Tomahawk
United States Leather Company
Tremaine
Fort Wayne
Ind
Torreon
Mexico
Navy Department
Bremerton
Puget Sound
American Sugar Refining Company
Chancellor
Julia Sands Bryant
William Cullen Bryant
Mineola
L. I
Anne Rebecca Fairchild
Bryant
Des Plaines
Ottumwa
William M. Powell
Hallie
J. B. Stevens
Neusandee
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Midway
Hamilton
Seoul
Lodz
Russia
San Pedro
Cal
Pacific Wharf & Storage Company
United Mine
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