Exoneration Of Carrington By Chamber Directors
The directors of the Chamber of Commerce and Publicity league unanimously exonerated J B Carrington secretary and B M Hammond president after a five hour hearing. William Buckey and Frank Neill had charged misconduct in advertising contracts but evidence showed Carrington had no voice in the matters and all actions were approved by the board. The hearing featured cross examinations and ended with a formal resolution declaring the charges unsubstantiated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League
Chamber of Commerce and Publicity League
William Buckey
J. B. Carrington
Publicity League
Bureau of Advertising
Carrington
J. Brooks
H. E. Hildebrand
H. E. Hilde
Frank K. Neill
Chamber of Commerce
B. M. Hammond
John B. Carrington
Pubes League
Brooks
Mr. Carrington
Neill
Jake Wolff
Fred Reutzel
The
N.S. Graham
Charles Armstrong
Claude Mills
T. N. Smith
M. B. Hutchins
August Briam Jr
Herman G. Staacke
Henry L. Halff
A. B. Stephens
J. H. Compton
T. H. Flannery
Frank G. Huntress Jr
J. L. Bingman
Fred W. Cook Jr
Harry L. Miller
A. P. Ford
H. C. King
Lloyd Spencer
B. M. Hammond W. IL. Stiles
H. BE. Hildebrand
H. M. Aubrey
Charles Graebner
Dr. Frederick J. Combe
George C. Sa
Civil service exams announced at San Antonio post office
The civil service commission lists examinations in September to hire eligibles for posts including a topographic draftsman, engineer in Fort H. G. Wright New York, trained nurses in Philippine and Canal zones, and other positions with salaries from 660 to 3000 dollars. Also notes a Democratic National Committee event at Beethoven hall.
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Civil Service Commission
San Antonio
Engineer Department
Fort H. G
Wright
N. Y
Isthmian Canal
Washington
Bureau of Science
Manila
P. I
Bureau of Mines
Bureau of Education
Department of the Interior
National Gallery Buys Adoration of the Kings Painting
London authorities announce the purchase of Jan Gossart's Adoration of the Kings from Rosalind, Countess of Carlisle. The national gallery paid $200,000 for the work.
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London
The
National Gallery
Jan. Gossart of
Mabuse
Rosalind
Carlisle
Ambassador Hill to present recall letter after Potsdam ceremony
Ambassador David Jayne Hill and wife return to Berlin. He will deliver his recall letter on Saturday following the unveiling of General Von Steuben’s statue at Potsdam, a gift from the United States Congress to the German emperor and people.
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Berlin
David Jayne Hill
Potsdam
General von Steuben
United States Congress
Cock fights banned in Canal Zone by Taft order
President Taft issues an executive order effective September 4 placing all bird, animal, dog and bull fights in the Canal Zone in the same class as prize fighting between men. Violators face fines up to 50 dollars or imprisonment. Labor Day is declared a holiday with canal work suspended. Bebles and Boelhauwe Architects listed.
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Washington, D. C
Panama Canal Zone
Taft
George Goethals
Canal Commission
Gift From Emperor Honors American Adviser Denison
In Tokio the emperor presents H. W. Denison, the American adviser to the Japanese foreign office, with a silver bowl to thank him for services related to the treaty revision.
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Tokio
H. W. Denison
Foreign Office
Mr. Denison
Mindanao Exploration Ends as Humphrey Leads March
Captain Chauncey B. Humphrey of the Twenty-first Infantry with twenty-two men completed a fortnight exploration march across Mindanao. The column travelled a week through unexplored country and met natives who had never before seen whites.
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Manila
Chauncey B. Humphrey
Twenty-first Infantry
Mindanao
Hammond to Build Road
The Standard reports that American promoter John Hammond offered to organize a syndicate to build a railway linking Castle Comer Plain coal area in Carlow Kilkenny with Northern Ireland industrial centers.
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Hammond
London
tThe Standard
John Hayes Hammond
Castle Comer Plain
Carlow
Kilkenny
Ireland
Threatened Strike Averted on Great Eastern Line
London labor tensions on the Great Eastern railway were defused after the company agreed to reinstate certain workers it had removed. The Board of Trade intervened, and a settlement was reached avoiding a renewed federal railway strike.
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London
Road
Board of Trade
Extension Granted to Casualty Companies in Texas
The Texas Commissioner of Insurance and Banking granted casualty insurers a one month extension from September 1 to October 1 to adjust their business and halt issuing accumulation policies. An earlier July 29 ruling required stopping accumulations on accident policies by September 1 due to anti rebate law concerns. Many companies said they could not comply in time, prompting the extension.
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Austin
Tex
Commissioner of Insurance and Banking
Texas
Attorney General's Department
Marriage Arrival for Servian Princess in Russia
In St Petersburg King Peter of Servia and his daughter Princess Helen with heir Prince Alexander arrive at Peterhof for the September 3 wedding of Princess Helen to Prince John Constantinovitch son of Grand Duke Constantinovitch.
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Russia
ST. Petersburg
Peter of Servia
Helen
Alexander
Peterhoff
John Constantinovitch
Constantinovitch
The Lax-Fos Way Advertises Gut Health Tonic
An advertisement touts Lax-Fos as a medicine that strengthens the liver stomach kidneys and bowels and acts as a systemic tonic. It promotes a money back plan offering a first bottle with the second from your druggist and claims the product keeps the insides right.
Balloon record set by Kansas City Aero Club ascent
In Kansas City the Aero Club balloon Kansas City piloted by Capt. S. E. Honeywell rose four times without re inflating gas, using the same natural gas supply for inflation and setting what is believed to be a new record.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Aero Club
S. E. Honeywell
Steamer Allianca Breaks Down at Sea
The Panama Railroad company steamer Allianca sailing for Colon reported breaking down off Cape Hatteras. The vessel was being towed by revenue cutter Yamacraw and would dock at Norfolk.
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New York
Panama Railroad Company
Allianca
Colon
Cape Hatteras
Alliance
Yamacraw
Norfolk
Fire destroys tobacco warehouse in East Dayton
A fire leveled the tobacco warehouse and contents owned by Julius Marquese in East Dayton after an explosion. Losses from the blaze are estimated at 200000 dollars.
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Dayton
Ohio
Julius Marquese
Photograph Shows Mars Canals Displayed by Lowell Professors
A photo exhibit in Flagstaff Arizona features a clear image of Mars canals by Lowell Observatory professors. The negative, captured last night, is described as one of the clearest ever taken.
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Mars
Flagstaff
Ariz
Lowell Oservatory
Senator Lodge's Son Marries Mary Connolly in Boston
John Ellerton Lodge, son of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, wed Miss Mary Catherine Connolly late yesterday at the rectory of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston Massachusetts.
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Marines
Boston
Mass
John Ellerton Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge
Mary Catherine Connolly
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Shipwrecked Sailors Arrive in New Orleans
In New Orleans on September 1 British sailors from the ill fated British steamer Alice arrived after a disaster at sea. They were rescued and brought to shore amid relief and official inquiries into the shipwreck.
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New Orleans
Alice
Replica of First Western Steamboat Launched in Pa
The replica of the New Orleans, the first steamboat to navigate the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, was launched at Elizabeth on the Monongahela River and will be completed by October 15. It is to be christened October 31 by Mrs Nicholas Longworth, near Roosevelt, who built the first New Orleans. President Taft is expected to attend the commemorative pageant, with plans for the replica to steam from Pittsburg to New Orleans as the original did.
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Associated Press
Pittsburg
New Orleans
Ohio
Mississippi
Elizabeth
Monongahela River
Nicholas Longworth
Nicholas J. Roosevelt
West
Taft
Survivors Reach Port After Four Days Adrift
Wrecked in a storm last Friday off Nicaragua’s coast, survivors arrived today aboard the Atlantic Fruit company steamer Burstad. They endured four days in an open boat with no food or water.
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Nicaragua
Atlantic Fruit Company
Burstad
Missouri Pacific shopmen walk out at Falls City
One hundred seventy five railroad workers walked out at Missouri Pacific yards in Falls City Nebraska citing as cause the hiring of two non union bosses by the company. The walkout affects yard operations and reflects labor tensions in the region.
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Falls City
Neb
Missouri Pacific
Pinchot and Poindexter Head to Alaska for Conservation Study
Gifford Pinchot and Senator Miles Poindexter of Washington arrived in Seattle and will sail for Cordova tonight to investigate conservation problems. The pair traveled here yesterday en route to Alaska for the inquiry.
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Associated Press
Seattle
Wash
Gifford Pinchot
Miles Poindexter
Washington
Alaska
Cordova
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M. D. Wells & Co
Chicago
Florsheim
MA. Carrington I
Horlick
Uncle Sam
Hon
R. M. Johnson
Beethoven Hall
Cable. News
Canal Zone
Bebles & Boelhauwe, Architects
West Commerce Street
First Western
Dr. Pierce
R. ¥. Pierce
Buffalo
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
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