Wreck of Frisco Widened by Syndicate Profits Revealed
At the interstate commerce hearing in St Louis, evidence shows the Frisco railroad profited through double syndicate dealings and stockholder- burdened extravagance. Officers and buyers sold small lines to Frisco for millions, with $7.9 million in profits cited and names of Felton Francis and others linked to syndicate schemes.
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St. Louis, Mo
St. Louis
Examiner Brown
Double Syndicate
B. FP. Yoakum
Interstate Commerce Board
San Francisco
5. M
A. T. Perkins
Clark
Texas
St. Louis, Mexico
Brownsville
Mr. Yoakum
Samuel W. Fordyce
Robert S. Brookings
Washington University
Thomas H. West
St Louis Union Trust Company
Frisco
Edward Whitaker
West Texas Abstract and Guaranty Company
Perkins
Little Railway
Weather Forecast for Rock Island Area Tomorrow
Cloudy and unsettled with warm temperatures. Tonight and Friday expect moderate southerly winds. 7 am temperature 62. Highest yesterday 67, lowest last night 57. Precipitation none. Humidity 83 at 7 pm and 89 at 7 am. Stage of water 3.2 with no change in 24 hours. Astronomical events include Mercury and Jupiter in the evening and Saturn Mars Venus in the morning. The Great Bear handle visible north around dusk.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Mercury
Jupiter
Saturn
Mars
Venus
Federation Is 10 Retain Its Chiefs
Seattle November reportage covers AFL convention where officers are expected to be reelected led by Gompers Morrison Lennon and Duncan. Jurisdictional disputes headline agenda with possible federal probe into Michigan copper land titles. Fort Worth Texas chosen for next meeting. AFL declines labor party push urging rising political activity.
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Seattle
Wash
Committee On Adjustment
American Federation of Labor
Michigan
Gompers
Morrison
Lennon
Duncan
Fort Worth
Texas
Tickets in hands of speculators at Metropolitan opens
New York, Nov 20. All but 56 of 1,200 opening night seats were sold to speculators. John Brown testified at a magistrate investigation into Tyson & Co. grand larceny case. The agency pledged the full allotment with Metropolitan Trust for a $100,000 loan.
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New York
Metropolitan Opera House
John Brown
Metropolitan Opera Company
Tyson & Co
Metropolitan Trust Company
Swiss cow at Michigan college sets milk and butter records
East Lansing reports the 9 year old Swiss cow College Bravura second owned by Michigan Agricultural College produced a yearly 19,304.6 pounds of milk and 1,000.5 pounds of butter as the breed world record while testing 4.102 percent. Chicago reports the annual land show opened with President Wilson turning on the exhibition lights at the White House backdrop.
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Michigan College
East Lansing
Mich
College
Michigan Agricultural College
Chicago
Ill
Wilson
Whitehouse
Eight land officials indicted for fraud in Everglades sales
Kansas City November 20 eight officials local agents of the Florida Fruit Land company were indicted for conspiracy to use the mails to defraud in the sale of land in the Everglades Florida to twelve thousand purchasers in various states.
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Kansas City
Florida Fruit Land Company
Jend
Everglades
Florida
Huerta Regime Faces Pressure Amid Tax Edict
Washington reports Huerta’s dictatorial rule weakening as congress debates concessions and U S pressure. Huerta doubles internal taxes including stamp duty and tobacco while awaiting congress’ action. Officials note a potential self elimination if foreign powers push, with Hale’s Nogales departure delaying decisions.
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Washington
Wilson
Mexico City
Huerta
O'Shaughnessy
D. C
Dey
Mexican Congress
Congress
United States
Hale
Nogales
Mexico
O’shaughnessy
Liocyds
London
Lloyds
Great Lakes
Tener Named Head of National League in City Agreement
Pittsburgh News confirms Tener would become National League president after a conference with league reps. Delegates Hempstead Ackerland Ebbets Baker signaled broad accord and a winter meeting in New York on Dec 9 to finalize the election. The piece also notes decorum at a recent formal dance and the tango ban by the floor committee.
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Pittsburgh
Noer
Pennia
Philadelphia
Tener
New York
Ebbets
Brooklyn
Tango barred at Knights affair at Hotel LaSalle
Chicago, Nov. 20. A small white card announced that the tango will not be danced at the Knights of Columbus annual formal at Hotel LaSalle. The floor committee issued the rule amid church disapproval and other concerns, and guests danced to teasy airs instead of tango or similar dances.
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Chicago
Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus
Hotel LaSalle
George E. Warren
Rich Gifts Come to White House Bride Elect Jessie Wilson
Miss Jessie Wilson, the White House bride elect, received a $2,000 pendant from the White House today carried by a jewelry firm representative. In San Francisco a $1,500 silver service for her wedding, purchased by Northern California women voters, was sent as a gift on the eve of her nuptials.
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Washington
Jessie Wilson
White House
San Francisco
Cal
California
Wire Sparks in La Crosse Elopement Linked Death
La Crosse Wisconsin Mrs Metta Grot hoff 17 daughter of Fred Schnell president of the board of public works committed death by her own hand by poisoning. A month earlier she eloped to Winona and married the foreman of a city water plant construction crew. After their return her father discharged her husband from the city's employ. Arch ie Lewis long time Washington employee dies in robe room of Supreme Court in Washington.
Retail prices at highest figures in 23 years
Washington marked a new peak in retail food prices as of Aug 15, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Eleven of fifteen staple items rose in 40 industrial cities since 1912, with potatoes bacon and eggs leading gains while sugar fell 7 percent from 1912 levels.
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Washington
Fed
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Body Collector Found in Woods in Media
Police say S. Lewis Pinkerton tax collector of Edgemont township was murdered. George Marsh and Roland Pennington farm hands confessed, led officers to woods where Pinkerton’s body was found riddled with shot and missing 300.
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Media
S. Lewis Pinkerton
Edgemont Township
George Marsh
Roland Pennington
Congressional probe sought into Michigan copper strike
A Michigan representative asked Congress to investigate the copper strike in Michigan. The inquiry would cover labor relations, possible interference with immigration and naturalization laws, and any price-raising combinations affecting copper buyers. President Wilson weighs Colorado coal strike questions for federal resolution. Pindell named as ambassador to Russia, with several consular transfers announced nationwide.
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Washington
Congressional
Michigan
McDonald
Postel Service
Wilson
Colorado
Pindell
Senate
Henry M. Pindell
Peoria
William Brown
Chicago
John M. Rapp
Ilinois
Baker
St. Johns
Quebec
Thompson
Illinois
Sheffield
Aix la Chappelle
Germany
J. White
Santos
Naples
Italy
Hard Up Slays Mother and Self in Chicago
Chicago report: Albert Zinkle, 44, shot and killed his mother then himself in a north side home. A note claimed they were "hard up, and better off dead." In Cumberland Wisconsin, 13-year-old George Ladd was killed by two schoolmates, 14-year-old Mike Ross and 15-year-old Lyman Monroe, who are charged.
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Chicago
Albert Zinkle
Zinkle
North Side
Cumberland
Wis
George Ladd
Ladd
Mike Ross
Lyman Monroe
Clairvoyants Ryan and Bertsche Found Guilty in Swindle Case
In Chicago on November 20 James Ryan and C P Bertsche leaders of a clairvoyant ring were found guilty of swindling Mrs Hope Me Eldowney of New Salem Wisconsin of 15500. The defendants alias was Professor Charles T Crane. The ring earned over a million in profits across several cities.
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Chicago
James Ryan
C. P. Bertsche
Hope MeEldowney
New Salem
Wis
Ryan
Charles T. Crane
Dr Elam seeks poison after Kansas City shooting
Chicago reports that Dr. Elam who killed W Putnam Cramer in Kansas City last Tuesday attempted to obtain a large quantity of poison last night. Judge Rousseau of Pekorla, cousin of Cramer, brought the body to Chicago for burial. Munich notes suffrage move for court elections. Ames named to Pontiac reformatory board in Springfield.
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Kansas City
Chicago
Elam
W. Putnam Cramer
Rousseau
Pexorla
Cramer
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the Road
Speyer Co
Hamilton
O. J. Nance
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Nance
Charles W. Hillard
Gulf Construction Company
Hillard
Bulle
Fister
Accord‘am
Amber Brown
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Pacific
Orieans
At - Piterd
Cole Foime
Speyer
B. L. Winchell
Road
Benkers
Federation
Florida Realty
Capital
Vera Cruz
Interstate Commerce
Marble
Ince
vilSon Nak
Steel Trust
Columbus Order
Archie Lewis
Justice of the Supreme Court
Los Angeles
Paul McCormick
Missouri Bank
Joplin
Joplin Trust Company
Gull
Springfield
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of
John E. Jennings
Sullivan
Rebekah
Lara B. Latham
Eldorado
Cora Neff Phillips
Grace Henry
Myrtle W. Tandy
Jacksonville
Emperor William
Berlin
German Ship Building Society
East
Donald
H. M. Pindell
DR. Elam
Bavaria
Munich
Diet
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