Telephone trust opens lines to rivals in federal reform push
Government officials call the move the era's most significant step toward curbing Big Business influence. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company plans a rapid dissolution of Western Union ties and to grant toll access to other firms. Attorney General and the Interstate Commerce Commission prepare to review the split, while lawmakers debate government ownership as stock reacts to the news.
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Wlwever
McRey- Wolds
Western
Cajon
Tele Tone Company
Western Union
Sool
Telephone Tela
Telec
Fuewe Tonebee
Hteratate Commerce Commission
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
Tfier Telephone Companies
Teephone Companiog
American Telephone and Telegraph
Interstate Commerce Commisatity
Department of Jisting
Jenet
Congress
Department of Justice
Lewis Maryland
House Post Office
Bell Company
Lewis
United States
Ane Octwens
Vail
Telephone Company
Gentral
Wall Street
Mackay Company
Receiver named for closed bank in Plainfield Illinois
Chicago Illinois December reports Superintendent Carpenter appointed a receiver for the private bank of John Everts of Plainfield Illinois which closed this week. Liabilities are about 100000 to 200000 with assets under 50000.
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Chicago
Carpenter
John Everts
Plainfield
U S Army Encourages Young Men Despite Market News
The United States army and navy promote enlistment as a valuable asset for young men with true purpose and trained, government-provided skills. Public institutions favor military graduates for employment, while market reports show stock activity and speculation on government ownership proposals affecting American Telegraph, Western Union, and Postal Telegraph amid dissolution rumors.
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United States Army and Navy
U. S
Navy
Weather forecast for Peck Island Davenport Moline area
Unsettled weather with likely snow flurries tonight. Sunday generally fair and colder with the low tonight around 15 to 20 degrees. Moderate to brisk northwest winds. Temperature at 7 am 35. High yesterday 44, low last night. Precipitation none. Relative humidity 78 at 7 pm and 89 at 7 am. Astronomical notes list Jupiter Saturn this evening and Mars Mercury Venus in the morning, Gemini low in the east around 8 pm.
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Jupiter
Saturn
Mars
Mercury
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Gemini
Missouri wins final victory on rail rate cases
The Missouri two cent railroad passenger and maximum freight rate laws were upheld by the federal courts. Judge Smith McPherson dismissed with prejudice the railroads lawsuits enjoining the laws after the Supreme Court mandate. The ruling ensures collection of excess charges, estimated at over ten million dollars, by shippers and travelers.
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Kansas City
Dee
Missouri
Smith McPherson
Red Oak
Iowa
Federal Supreme Court
McPherson
White House turkey purveyor dies in Chicago area asylum
Robert Stretch formerly head of Stretch Brothers Wine Co died in the state hospital for the insane in Kankakee Illinois. Causes listed as pneumonia and general paralysis. An inquest cited a bruise from a fight with another inmate. hospital officials said it had no connection to death. Stretch had worked around the clock and was committed last August. He was unmarried and known in Chicago as always at his business.
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Kankakee
Robert Stretch
Stretch Brothers Wine Company
Streich
Federal inquiry for Keokuk dam
Washington reports Representative Rainey introduces a resolution directing the House committee to investigate the Keokuk and Hamilton Water Power Company which built a dam across the Mississippi between Keokuk Iowa and Hamilton Missouri under congressional authority. The measure seeks possible repeal or amendment for government compensation and to regulate company charges for power. It claims the dam aids navigation poorly, delays by steamship lines, permits nighttime water storage that hinders navigation, cites an unauthorised bridge, and notes the company purchases electric light plants in Illinois Missouri and Iowa while charging high rates for inferior service.
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Washington
Rainey
Illinois
Ouse Committee
Keokuk
War Department
Mlineis
Missouri
Iowa
Morris Glazer Not Cruel To Father
In St Louis on December 20 a report claimed Morris Glazer a local butcher was arrested after police found his father Max Glazer chained to a floor post. Investigators found no ground for arrest after the son explained he restrained his father for welfare and alleged insanity. The hospital report supported restraint without cruelty, and no food or water deprivation was substantiated.
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St. Louis
Morris Glazer
Max Glazer
Morris Glaser
Fine record set by U S sailors in European waters
Washington December 20 men of the United States battleship fleet recently in European waters established a record for good behavior according to Fleet Admiral Hadger who was in command. Of Fifty thousand dollars granted shore leave only two are unaccounted for and a valid explanation for their absence may be forthcoming.
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Washington
United States
Dtead
Hadger
Huerta toppled as resistance collapses in the northwest
Deserters flood Guaymas as 11 officers surrender and hundreds of troops are disarmed. General Pedro Ojeda, long defying Carranza, loses control near Mayterna Sonora, signaling a death blow to Huerta in the region. Reports also state amnesty talks and a large international loan lined up in Paris.
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Sonora
Mex
Guaymas
Guyamas
Huerta
Pedro Ojeda
Carranza
Ojeda
Germany unions threaten bank crippling with withdrawals
German unions vow to withdraw about 5.09 million dollars in deposits from a leading Berlin bank after it discharged an employee for organizing a bank clerk's union. The bank refused reinstatement and guarantees for employee association, which unions say others have secured from rival banks.
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Berlin
Germany
Count Kills Wife and Nephew in German Castle
Graeta Germany December 20 Count Matthias Mislynzski a wealthy Polish nobleman and former imperial parliament member shot and killed his wife and his nephew in the count's castle near her. Believing thieves were present he seized a rifle and searched. He found them together in her room and without warning fired at both. The wife’s companion and witness was seriously wounded. The couple had been separated for years but had recently reconciled.
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Graeta
Germany
Matthias Mislynzski
Counts Castle
Eouatess
Holds Option Law Is Constitutional
Washington reports Attorney General Fellows from Michigan will urge the Supreme Court to uphold local option laws as constitutional. He argues the state has a duty to prohibit beer manufacture within its borders for both interstate and intrastate commerce, a ruling that could affect several states. Tinker deal stands with large player trades to follow, including a $10,000 bonus to Tinker from Brooklyn.
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Fellows
Michigan
Supreme Court
Tinker
Cincinnati
Ohio
Presidert Ebbetts
Brooklyn Club
Herrmann
Cincinnati Club
Joe Tinker
Prooklyn
Cincinna
Italian envoy named new ambassador to the United States
The Italian government designated Count Vincent Macchio de Cellere as the new ambassador to the United States. He previously served as charge d affaires at the embassy in Washington, succeeding Marquis Cusani Confalonieri, and took over from Baron Mayer des Planches seven years ago.
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Vincent Macchio de Cellere
Italy
United States
Count de Cellere
V Uington
Baron Mayer Des Planches
Marquis Cusani-Confalonieri
Armed Posse Pursues Robbers in Fairport Heist
In Muscatine Iowa on December 20 two masked robbers with blue handkerchiefs and .44 caliber Colt revolvers robbed Fred Beuble’s general store in Fairport of about 20 dollars in cash and a $40 Bronson check. A large posse chased them across hills and hollows. two suspects, James Buckly and Edward Rathburn, were arrested in Muscatine but later released after identification. The incident recalls the Hershey store murder two years ago nearby.
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Fred Beuble
Fairport
Cecil Bronson
Geneal
James Buckly
Edward Rathburn
Front Street
Beuble
Bronson
Baluff
Richard van Dresky
Hershey
Bert Hershey
Fred Beuchle
Minent Claim Hatchery
Dlam Hatcher
Owen currency bill to be signed next Monday
Washington date reports that the Owen currency measure, known as the Owen substitute, is set for final passage after conferees met to resolve differences with the Glass bill. The president plans to sign Monday night, aiming for a Christmas gift to the American people, with high confidence of support from administration officials.
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Senate
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Underwood
Conference Committee
Minister Fails to Make Good Charges in Peoria Case
In Peoria Illinois on December 26 Rev G Clarke charged Chief W W Rhoades with turning a young girl over to a tea procurer. An Association of Commerce investigation heard from Senator John Dailey and Corporation Counsel Ho TL Radley for the chief. The minister refused to submit evidence and the committee could not agree. Chief Rhoades detailed the girl’s movements while in police hands. Dan K Sheen disputed the charges saying the Law enforcement league had made no such claims.
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G. Clarke
First Congregational Church
W. W. Rhoades
Association of Commerce
John Dailey
Ho TL Radley
Dan R. Sheen
Clarke
Rhoades
Dan K. Sheen
Lawnforcement League
Committee of Five
Funk Appointed to Illinois Utilities Board
Springfield, Dec. 20. Frank Hy Funk of Bloomington, a progressive, was appointed by Governor Dunne as a member of the state railroad and warehouse commission after Willoughby’s resignation. Funk will later become the minority member of the new state public utility commission.
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Frank Hy Funk
Bloomington
Dunne
State Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Willoughby
Funk
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