United States files third anti trust suit against United Shoe
In Trenton New Jersey on February 8 the government filed a civil suit charging United Shoe Machinery Company with monopolistic power and unfair trade practices to force the Keighley Company into exclusive leases for inseam trimming machines. The petition alleges misrepresentation threats rebates and unlawful leases to curb competition and expand control of the shoe machinery trade. It names United Shoe Machinery Company Boston Keighley Company Vineland Sidney W Winslow Orleans Edward P Hudd Newton Charlies Percy Keighley William Bottomley and Keighley and Charles Keighley as defendants. The suit seeks to determine the contract that gives exclusivity to lease inseam trimming machines and criticizes the company for acquiring patents and stifling rivals. Civil proceedings also exist in Boston for dissolution and indictments under Sherman law.
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Trenton
N. J
United Shoe Machinery Company
Keighley Company
United States District Court
United Company
New Jersey
Boston
Keighley Company, Inc
Vineland, N. J
Sidney W. Winslow
Orleans
Mass
Edward P. Hudd
Newton, Mass
Charlies Percy Keighley
William Bottomley
Keighley
Charles Keighley
Vineland
Trust
Unitegg Company
Shoe Machinery Company
United States Fupreme Court
Liquor Bill Considered After Dry State Debate
Washington action on the Webb bill to prohibit liquor shipments into dry states passed a special rule in the House by 211 to 60. The vote followed a fiery debate with Representative Fitzgerald and Republican Leader Mann criticizing Democratic leaders for allowing the rule. The rule set three hours for debate and for introducing amendments.
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Washington
House
Webb
Fitzgerald
New York
Appropriations Committee
Mann
Thirteen Killed in Mine Disaster at Bols Over Colliery
In Mansfield England on February 8 thirteen miners were killed and several injured when a chain snapped a bucket holding 800 gallons of water. The bucket fell down a 500 foot shaft where the men were working.
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Mansfield
England
Tirteen
Bolsover
Matthews' Cafeteria Adverts Chicken Pie at Losoya Street
A fragment announces chicken pie at Matthews' Cafeteria located on 222 Losoya Street. The brief placement invites patrons to try the dish, reflecting a simple local dining promo in a period newspaper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matthews
Losoya St
OU Sightless Men Escape From Fire
New York February 8 blind men from an institution on Thirty-fifth Street calmly guided by touch down from upper floors as a fire raged. About fifty sightless workers weaving baskets and making brooms left the building while sprinklers activated and smoke filled the halls. Firemen arrived minutes later, putting out a small blaze that caused little damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Thirty-fifth Street
Baptist meeting selects Chattanooga for next year
Chattanooga was chosen to host the Baptist State Mission Board Secretaries conference next year after a two day meeting in Chattanooga. The group endorsed funds totaling 5 million dollars for the Judson fund homeless churches foreign missions state missions and education with target dates by April for the latter two and within three years for the others.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Baptist State Mission Board
Judson
South
Return from Edna Good Roads Meeting Ends in Trials
D. E B Colp secretary of the highway division and Charles G Norton press agent of the Chamber of Commerce arrived in San Antonio after attending a good roads meeting in Edna. Heavy rains had damaged roads leaving them unable to continue by car. they abandoned a auto at Victoria and continued by train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. E B. Colp
Chamber of Commerce
Charles G. Norton
San Antonio
Edna
Victoria
Rio Grande Fire Insurance Company Authorized to Do Business in Texas
The Rio Grande Fire Insurance Company of San Antonio has fully complied with Texas laws as a condition of doing business in the state. The Department of Insurance and Banking confirms issuance of a certificate of authority valid through February 28, 1914, signed by Commissioner B. L. Gill in Austin on January 30, 1913.
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Austin
Texas
Rio Grande Fire Insurance Company
San Antonio
B. L. Gill
Senate
Gibson
New York Life Insurance Company
Gill
Defends New System In Treasury Letters To Glass
Secretary of the Treasury Mac Veagh, in a letter to Representative Carter Glass, criticizes treasury order No. 5. He says it would not markedly increase bank deposits and would not raise gold in New York banks beyond two or three million dollars, despite concerns over customs receipts.
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Washington, D. C
Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh
Carter Glass
House Banking and Currency Committee
Treasury
New York
Woman found dying in Memphis hotel after struggle
A woman likely Rosa Wells, actress from McAlester Oklahoma, was found dying in a Memphis hotel room with a crushed skull. She was taken to the city hospital in critical condition. Police seek a man who checked in as J K Martin claiming to be a cotton classer, a person not known locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
Rosa Wells
McAlester
Okla
City Hospital
J. K. Martin
Naval academy reports 39 midshipmen resignations
Announcement from Annapolis states 39 midshipmen resigned due to failure in the semi annual exams. Thirty four are from the fourth plebe class. Two unsatisfactory youths are first class men set to graduate in June. The remaining three belong to the third class.
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Annapolis
Naval Academy Today
Farewell Planned for Uncle Joe Cannon by Taft in Feb
President Taft will attend a farewell dinner for Uncle Joe Cannon on February 15. Friends of the veteran congressman, retired after forty years in Congress in last fall's landslide, plan a rousing sendoff to home with a celebratory gathering.
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Uncle Joe
Washington, D. C
Taft
Joe” Cannon
Congress
Aarewell
Day in Congress opens with noon session and eulogies
Senate convened at noon with eulogies for Senators Taylor of Tennessee and Nixon of Nevada and Representatives Madison and Mitchell of Kansas. Elections committee approved a report exonerating Senators Watson and Chilton of corruption charges in their election.
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Senate
Taylor Ofennessee
Nixon
Nevada
Madison
Mitchell
Kansas
Elections Committee
Watson
Chilton
House Convenes at 10:30 A.M. Debates Liquor Shipment Bill
After a lengthy and spirited debate the House adopted a special rule and began consideration of a liquor shipment bill. The session opened with the chamber convening at 10 30 a m and proceeding to debate on the measure.
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House
House Advances Suspended Sentence Bill and District Realignment
In Austin on February 8 the Texas House passed a suspended sentence measure and approved moving Culberson county into the El Paso judicial district. A resolution sought full clerk information to aid redistricting. other measures included a game preserve bill for A and M College grounds and a peddler eviction rule. The session paused after wrangling over civil case special-issues provisions and members asked for postponement pending better understanding.
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Culberson County
el Paso
Austin
Tex
A. and WM. College
Morris
Victoria
Ridgell
Townsend Bill Favored In Texas Senate Action
The Texas senate approved the Townsend wife abandonment statute with penalties of at least a $100 fine or six months to a year in prison. Road laws for Kauffmann and Gregg counties, Rankin and Bremond school districts, and a constitutional amendment on bonds were also advanced. A Westbrook measure on corporate public office bans and a campaign lies ban were set for special orders.
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Austin
Tex
Senate
Townsend
Kauffmann and
Gregg County
Rankin and Bremond Independent School District
Westbrook
Collins
Kauffman
State Treasury
Senate Judiciary Committee No. 2
Lattimore
House
Superintendent of
F. M. Brasley
Lane
W. P. Lane
Supreme Court
Comptroller
Georgia Assembly
United States
Georgia
Congress
Penitentiary relief bills and assorted legislative measures
A governor signed a bill providing 100000 for immediate penitentiary needs, with an emergency clause. Representative Hill cites the measure as bridging to bond action for system rehabilitation, while McAskill amendments reshape county salaries and deputy pay. Senate and House consider tax, insurance, and education reforms, including a constitutional amendment framework for state institutions and a separate UT and A and M governance plan.
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Representative Hill
Walker County
Senate
Weinert
Hill
Huntsville
Governor Colquitt backs liquor bill while approving Brath county law
Governor Colquitt today sent to the secretary of state without his signature the resolution of the legislature endorsing the Sheppard Kenyon liquor bill now pending in congress and designed to prevent shipments of intoxicants from one state into dry territory of another. He approved the Brath county law.
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Colquitt
Secretary of State
Congress
General Attack On Scutari Under Way
General attack by Montenegrin and Servian armies opened on the Turkish fortress of Scutari at 10 this morning. King Nicholas directs operations as allied artillery silences a Turkish battery on Muze lim Hill and infantry storm the hill. Two Ottoman ships are sunk on Lake Scutari. Emperor Nicholas kept secret the reply to Emperor Francis Joseph’s autograph letter to Prince Hohenlohe. Financiers see a favorable Balkan outlook.
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Nicholas
Podgoritza
Montenegro
Scutari
Muzelim Hill
Lake Scutari
ST. Petersburg
Francis Joseph of
Austria
Hohenlohe-Waldenburg- Schillingsfuerst
Vienna
Balkans
Dallas auditor hails anti fee bill and San Antonio prospect
Oliver Hughes city auditor and general accountant, visiting San Antonio, spoke in favor of the anti fee bill. He expects to visit Port Lavaca as guest of W G Sterrett and praised salary reforms for county officers while supporting commission government for San Antonio. He sent San Antonio booklets to Dallas officials.
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Oliver Hughes
Dallas
San Antonio
W. H. Alkin
Menger
Port Lavaca
W. G. Sterrett
Hughes
Austin
House
Oliver
Senate
Miss Eleanor Wise Weds Armand Duc de Richelieu in Baltimore
Miss Eleanor Douglas Wise married Armand Duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac in Baltimore with Cardinal Gibbons officiating. Wise was the daughter of the late Commander Frederick M. Wise. The Duc de Richelieu inherits the historic name and noble lineage of Cardinal Richelieu.
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Baltimore
Eleanor Douglas Wise
Armand Duc de Richelieu Et de Fronsac
Alice Heine
Michael Heine
New Orleans
Cardinal Gibbons
Wise
Frederick M. Wise
U. S&s
Duc de Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu
Merger Dissolution Plans Weighed by Rail Chiefs and Attorney General
Representatives of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railways conferred with Attorney General Wickersham and Paul D Cravath of Kuhn Loeb about dissolving the merger. No public announcement followed as the details were debated among rail executives and bankers.
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Washington, D. C
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific Railways
Wickersham
Mr. Wickersham
Paul D. Cravath
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Southern Pacific
Mineola Box Factory Fire Destroys Plant and Cars
A major blaze at the Mineola box factory destroyed the building and contents, with losses around 60000 dollars and about 20000 dollars insured. Nearby box cars were ignited, all but one burned. The factory, owned by John Butcher of Vassar Michigan, employed about a hundred workers and started from a stove blaze.
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Mineola Box Factory
Mineola
Tex
John Butcher
Vassar
Mich
Taft to hold final talks on immigration bill Monday
President Taft will meet with Senate and House conferees on the Burnett Dillingham immigration bill Monday. Representative Curley of Massachusetts told the president the bill violates the amity clause of treaties between the United States and European nations.
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Washington
Taft
Senate
House
Curley
Massachusetts
United States
Negro Guilty of Murder in Dallas Death Penalty Granted
Ed Long, a Negro, was found guilty of the murder of Henry Bennett, a special police officer killed in September 1910. The jury sentenced Long to death, though he admitted being present with the other killer but said he did not fire the shot.
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Dallas
Tex
Ed Long
Henry Bennett
Long
Bennett
Tumulty Inspects Offices Before Wilson Inauguration
President-elect Wilson's secretary Joseph P. Tumulty inspected the White House offices today. He delivered a personal greeting to Mr Taft and said he planned to retain the White House staff for several months at least.
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Tumulty
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Joseph P. Tumulty
White House
Taft
Memorial Addresses Delievered in Senate for Four Late Officials
Memorial addresses were delivered in Washington on February 8 for late Senator Robert L. Taylor of Tennessee Senator George S. Nixon of Nevada and Representatives Madison and Mitchell of Kansas.
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Washington, D. C
Robert L. Taylor
Tennessee
George S. Nixon
Nevada
Madison and
Mitchell
Kansas
Senate
Salvador President Araujo Recovering From Assassination Attempt
In San Salvador on February 8 1933 President Manuel Araujo is out of danger after wounds suffered on February 4 from a would be assassin. The attack followed reports Guatemala's President Cabrera planned action against El Salvador, though Guatemalan sources deny unrest. Araujo remains under careful observation as authorities pursue the investigation and potential accomplices.
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Virgilio Muratillo
Salvador
Araujo
Guatemala City
Senor Pena
Guatemala
Bulatillio
Cabrera
Pena
United States
Central American
San Salvador
Manuelis, Araujo
Militia units may be called out in Kanawha unrest
In Charleston W V February 8 state officials anxiously awaited word from Mucklow on Sheriff Bonner Hill and 25 deputies facing a mob of striking miners in Kanawha county. Sheriff Hill sought troops but action awaited overnight rioting details as six militia companies were ordered ready. Miners reportedly withdrew to the mountains as martial law remains in force and Governor Glasscock contemplates further steps.
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Charleston
W. Va
Mucklow
Bonner Hill
Kanawha County
Mountain Village
Sheriff Hill
Guy Levy
Kanawha
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Glasscock
Eskdale
Work and Wages sermon at Y M C A
Tomorrow at 3 30 p m the San Antonio pastors discussion series continues at the Y M C A with Rev T V Neal speaking on Work and Wages. An orchestra will provide music and C F Ketter will lead singing as an engaging discussion is promised.
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San Antonio
T. V. Neal
Prospect Hill Baptist Church
C. F. Ketter
Beaumont Street Car Strike Shuts Service Nationwide
A strike by street car workers in Beaumont began this morning with no cars leaving the barns. Vice President James F. Weed of the traction company told Mayor Fletcher that service might resume Tuesday or sooner, but neither side is willing to concede.
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Beaumont
Tex
James F. Weed
Traction Company
Fletcher
Fatal Shooting in Arkansas Town Marshal Shoots Two Men
WALNUT RIDGE Ark Feb 8 C Pinnel was shot and killed at Hoxie last night by Town Marshal Lon Fasley Marcus Dempsey was perhaps fatally wounded Eas ley was attempting to arrest the pair for drinking and disorderliness Pinnel leaves a wife and several children.
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Arkansas
Walnut Ridge
Ark
C. C. Pinnel
Hoxie
Lon Fasley
Marcus Dempsey
Easley
Pinnel
Diet dissolution likely before reconvening date
TOKIO February 8 The Diet probably will be dissolved before the date set for its re assembling The reconvening of the Diet which suspended its sittings after the vote of lack of confidence in Premier Katsura and his government last Wednesday has been set for Monday
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Tokio
Diet
Katsura
Mexican man stabbed and robbed near Alazan Creek
Francisco Castillo, a Mexican national, was stabbed in the abdomen and robbed while walking home near the Alazan creek last night. He was taken to City Hospital where doctors plan an operation after neglecting treatment overnight. His condition is listed as serious.
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Francisco Castillo
Alazan
Harbor City and Ingleside: Texas coastal development pitch
A persuasive prospectus promoting Harbor City Terminal Corporation with $500,000 capital, selling shares at $100 each, and offering free lots in Harbor City and Ingleside. The ad touts the Gulf Coast as premier growth land, invites visitors via rail and road, and mentions a 333 Alamo Plaza office with prospectors and hotel nearby.
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Canada
West
Texas
Gulf Coast
Harbor City
Ingleside
Harbor City Terminal Corporation
Block signal may become compulsory on railroads
The interstate commerce commission is urged by the block signal and train control board to mandate compulsory adoption of block signals. The report praises automatic train stop as a safety advance and calls for rapid development and enforcement of trespass laws. It urges state and federal cooperation with railroads for nationwide stability. M. E. Cooley of Michigan University chairs the board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
M. E. Cooley
Engineering Department
Michigan University
May Ask Reinstatement For Expelled San Antonio Boys
Several San Antonio businessmen and fathers of boys expelled from the Agricultural and Mechanical College have asked faculty members for a position on reinstating the students. A third parents meeting was held but no action decided. Another gathering will occur after a statement from college officials to determine if the boys may return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Cabinet Set to Convene Monday on Budget Message
President Taft calls a special cabinet meeting for next Monday to discuss the forthcoming budget system message. He will present a draft of the message to his advisors for review.
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Cabinet
Washington, D. C
Taft
Congress
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Lee
Grant
E. M. Viquinsey
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House Committee On Judicial Districts
McAskill
Davis
Committee On State Affairs
Senate Committee On Mining and Irrigation
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Hortense Ward
Darwin
Delta
University of Texas
A. and
Boards of Regents
Prairie View Normal School
Industrial College For
College of Industrial Arts For Women
Industrial College
Anthee
City Auditor of
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Men-O-Wah
J. E. Capnades
Court Block
Sed
Third National Bank
Sedalia
Rethods
Prudential Life
Crockett
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