Kew Court Opens in Bexar County Civil Jurisdiction
Bexar County's new Kew Court begins sessions in the Fourth Court of Civil Appeal building with Judge Huntress presiding. The court will handle all civil business, enforce strict rules, and dismiss cases after three terms if not tried to prevent live docket backlog. Clerk Dunnica and officials prepared dockets while deputies oversee criminal and probate matters.
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Fourth Court of Civil Appeal
Bexar County
Civil County Court
George Muntress
Phil Shook
Huntress
Porto
Dunnica
Frank Newton
Gus Schneider
Shook
Tobi
Joe Will
Newton
Romance Revealed in Detroit Family Will Controversy
In Detroit on March 4 a dispute opens over the will of spinster Sarah Finney. Brothers Jared W. and James H. Finney seek to invalidate her will revealing a long standing romance with Dr. Andrew W. Imrie. The Finneys inherit $300,000 from father Seymour Finney's estate, to be shared by his three children.
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Detroit
Mich
Jared W
James H. Finney
Sarah
Finneys
Seymour Finney
Andrew W. Imrie
Cardlane
Teeples
Herse Tean
Swanson
Rheumatic Cure Company
Lake Streaot
Chicago
Coroner rules unprev ented strangulation in boarding house death
Terre Haute Ind March 4 Coroner Padgett returns a verdict that Andrew Black found dead at the door of his boarding house in Shekburn died of strangulation in an unusual manner. The report says he stumbled and fell with his chin striking the doorstep causing a shock that knocked him unconscious.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Padgett
Andrew Black
Shekburn
Lamont muckraker? Morgan scheme to control American publicity
Thomas W. Lamont, named Morgan partner, is portrayed as spearheading a plan to unite leading magazines into a publishing trust Muckraking to be silenced and independence eroded as Wall Street finance seizes influence over Harper’s, American Magazine, and others in a push to dominate public discourse
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Thomas W. Lamont
J. Pierpont Morgan
Lamont
York State
Caverack
Phillips-Exeter Academy
Harvard
Hammond Lamont
Nation
Thomas
Whitelaw Reid
New York Tribune
Wall Street
Morgan's Grip in Historic American Magazines
A list of prominent American magazines and publishers including American Magazine, Woman's Home Companion, Farm and Fireside, Harper's, Iron Age, Collier, Curtis, McClure, Wanamaker, Pinchot, Spreckles. Highlights key figures such as Robert J. Collier and Cyrus Curtis associated with the era.
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Robert J. Collier
Cyrus Curtis
McClure
John Wanamaker
Gifford Pinchot
Rudolph Spreckles
Munsey
Morgan
Norman Hapgood
Collier's Weekly
George H. Lorimer
Edward Bok
Cyrus H. Curtis
Saturday Evening Post
Ladies’ Home Journal
Conde Nast
Collier
Vogue
the Homekeeper
Lamont rises through finance to publishing power
Lamont climbs from Wall Street circles to leadership roles at major banks and press firms. He gains presidency of Bankers' Trust after Davison leaves First National, then regains influence at First National. He acquires control of Crowell Publishing, funds Woman's Home Companion and Farm and Fireside, and buys into Iron Age and Duffield & Co. His circle includes J Pierpont Morgan and George W Perkins, with Associated Sunday Magazines and Harper Publications forming a broad media influence.
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Lamont
J. Pierpont Morgan
George W. Perkins
Morgan
Crowell Publishing Company
Woman's Home Companion
Farm
Fireside
Duffield & Co
D. Appleton & Co
Harper_publications
the Monthly
the Weekly
Press Club Entertainment Promises Startling Night
A probe of the press club event honors Lew Dockstader with a secret program and a stag audience. Members only gathering from 8:30 to 9:00 will feature Dockstader after the theater with a country language humdinger. Hans Debert Lobert signs with the Reds in a notable trade.
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Lew Dockstader
Dockstnger
Suicide Note Sparks Tragedy at Chesterton
Arthur E. Smith of Ridgeway Michigan reportedly wrote his name birth date and address in a memorandum book then flung himself before a fast train at Chesterton Indiana on March 4.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Arthur E. Smith
Ridgeway
Mich
Chesterton
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Bush
Bush & Gerts
Union
United States
Workingman
Wray Bros
Wray Bros. Piano Company
the House of Quality
V. Wray
Houston Street
George A. Lederer
East
Mr. Lederer
Broadway
T. W. Lamont
Muckraker!” Morgan’s Magazine
Trustifier At Work
Harper's Bazar
Harper & Bros
Morgan Group
Frank W. Munsey
Morgan’s
Grip
American Magazine
Woman's*Home Companion
Farm and Fireside
Associated Magazines
Harper’s Monthly
Harper's Weekly
Iron Age
Drugagists
Bexar Drug CO
Paris
Dame
Fashion
West
National Post People
Heney
American News Company
Hans de Bert
Phillies
Cincinnati Reds
Lobert
Uncle Sam
G. A. Duerler Mfc. CO
Meridian
D. E. B. Waggener
Moore
San Antie
Texas
San Antonio
PRU
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