Ontario Court Hears Bid to Take Depositions in Dea pon Dome Lease Case
affidavit links B Wall former secretary to United States Liberty bonds bought by Continental Trading Company Limited a Canadian firm. Bond profits were routed to Sinclair Oil interests and Dominion bonds used to reward stockholders in a complex oil deal tied to the Dea pon Dome lease dispute.
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United States
Osler
Continental Trading Company, Ltd
Humphreys Texas Company
Humphreys Mexico Company
Sinclair Purchasing Company
Prairiejou and Gas Company
Sign of Death Greets Jaywalker on Busy Fifth Avenue
A dramatic roadside display on Fifth Avenue at Forty Second Street depicts Death greeting jaywalkers. A four sided transparent lamp shows warnings as traffic flows, urging pedestrians to wait and save lives amid bustling cars and buses.
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New York
Jay
Fifth Avenue
Forty- Second Street
Jaywalker
Profit schemes tied to oil trading and Liberty bonds
The affidavit alleges profits from crude oil sold to Sinclair and Prairie concerns on December 28, 1921 were invested in Liberty bonds. It cites a contract with Western Oil Fields Company for 3000 barrels at $1.20, then resold at a 25 cent mark-up. Osler and associates face questions about stock warrants holders to identify Liberty bond recipients as the Continental company faded in February 1924.
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Continental Trading Company
Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
Liberty
New York
Dominion Bank of Canadese
Monumental Trading Company
H. 8. Osler
Sinclair and Prairie
Liberty Bonds
Western Oil Fields Company
Osler
Continental Company
Two Peeping Toms Stone Girl's Home
Two white men appeared at a window of Bessie May Spivey at 1219 Muncey Street at 1 a.m. Friday and demanded to talk to her. After she refused and called for help, they left the house and pelted it with stones as neighborhood residents shouted in pursuit.
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Bessie May Spivey
Muncey Street
Searel
Mace
Robert E Lee School Entered By Thieves
Police report the Robert E Lee school at Pine and Lamar streets was entered Thursday night. Tools and instruments were stolen from the manual training department after a window was broken to gain entry. No value estimate was made.
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Robert E. Lee
Pine and
Lamar Streets
Manual Training Department
Gaim
Chinese Chiefs Reinforce Armies West of Shanghai
Front lines west of Shanghai remained quiet as Khiangsa forces reinforced near Tai Lake for an assault on the Chekiang army. The Chinese foreign office protested to Russia over a reported pact with General Chang Tso Lin regarding the China Eastern railway and recognition while Chang is in open rebellion.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
Tai Lake
Foreign Office
Russia
Chang Tso-Lin
Peking
Chang
China
Generel Chang
Purse Found by E B Red Claimed at Headquarters
A purse containing bills and coins found by E B Red at 1202 West Mistletoe Street was turned over to detective headquarters. The owner may retrieve it by presenting identification at the detective bureau. Lumber prices firm on West Coast with 106 million board feet sold for week ending Sept 20, per West Coast Lumbermen's Association.
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E. B. Red
West Mistletoe Street
Detective Headquarters
Seattle
North Pacific Coast Lumber Mills
West Coast Lumbermen’s Association
Marihuana Smoker Assessed $40 Fine
Louis Cisneros of 709 West Travis Street was fined 25 for unlawful possession of marihuana and 15 for vagrancy after being arrested by Officer A Salinas who found him rolling four marihuana cigarettes late Thursday.
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Louis Cisneros
West Travis Street
A. Salinas
Cisneros
New Orleans Considers Radio Station as Public Utility
Public utilities commissioner Paul Maloney said the city will treat a recently closed radio station as a public utility if enough residents petition to reopen it. The station, owned by New Orleans Public Service Inc and run at a local amusement park, closed with winter. If petitions are received, he will pursue official action to declare it a public utility.
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New Orleans
Paul Maloney
Public Utilities
New Orleans Public Service Inc
Maloney
Messenger boys row ends at jail in ongoing feud
Judge Onion fined J Padilla of Western Union and Frank Pere off Postal two dollars each after a long dispute between rival Telegraph messenger boys. Both sides had spent the night in jail after a disturbance in front of adjacent Commerce Street offices. Officer Barnes helped arrest Perez and Padilia as a new flare up erupted.
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Commerce Street
F. H. Morris
Western Union
Tanlac credited with lasting health benefits for San Antonio woman
Mrs. W. R. Smith says seven years after taking Tanlac she gained 36 pounds and restores energy after nervous indigestion. She praises Tanlac for relief after years of medical expense and strict dieting. The ad notes Tanlac is sold by druggists and promoted by the manufacturers.
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Taniac
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Robert Lee School
Central
Messenger Boys
Tanlac
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