Packers Were Again In Court
National Packing company and ten subsidiaries challenged in federal court the indictments for violating antitrust laws. Defense argues statute of limitations bars action, claiming only the combination is illegal, not its acts. Judge Landis hears demurrer as Buckingham asserts three year immunity. government counters that illegal trusts entail ongoing violations and that the Sherman act applies.
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Chicago
National Packing Company
Landis
George T. Buckingham
Combine
Wilkerson
Buckingham
Standard Oil Gives Wage Rise to 70000 Workers
The Standard Oil company announced a voluntary wage increase retroactive to May 1 affecting about 70,000 men. The raise ranges from 6 to 10 percent and covers workers in company works and factories, not office staff, including most laborers across subsidiary companies in the United States. The move could raise annual payroll by $6 to $10 million.
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New York
Standard Oil Company
United States
Express rate on bonds cut by Topeka board
The board of railroad commissioners ordered a 12 percent cut on all express rates per 100 pounds above $1 and a 15 percent cut on general special rates per 100 pounds at 90 cents or more. An additional 5.3 percent cut applies to express shipments of agricultural implements, and an 8 percent cut on bonds for school districts townships cities boards of education counties and drainage.
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Topeka
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Board of Education
Lake Huron steamer collision leaves many dead
In dense fog two large steel freight steamers on Lake Huron north of Point Aux Barques collided. The Frank H. Goodyear of Cleveland sank in 47 fathoms. the James B. Wood of Cleveland reached Port Huron with a damaged bow and several survivors. The Goodyear carried 23 crew and passengers. four crew members were aboard.
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Port Huron
Mid
Lake Huron
Point Aux Barques
Frank H. Goodyear
Cleveland
James B. Wood
Goodyear
Miners Win Pay Hike After St Clair County Strike
Two thousand coal miners in St. Clair county resume work after a two month layoff. Agreements signed by United Miners representatives and independent operators grant the wage increase demanded.
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St. Louis
St. Clair County
United Miners
Chinese Loan Signed for Hankow Sze Chuen Railway
Paris reports the Hankow Sze Chuen railway loan agreement signed by representatives of U S France Britain and Germany. The Chinese government will receive a 30 million dollar loan for railroad construction.
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Paris
United States
France
Great Britain
Germany
NO MONEY FOR TARIFF PROBE
Washington Taft suffered a setback as James R Manh ruled the $250 000 appropriation for a tariff board study could not extend powers beyond the tariff law. Tawney proposed a new section to push the investigation, but the ruling stood. Fitzgerald and Mann opposed keeping the probe in the sundry civil bill.
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Washington
Taft
James R. Manh
House
James A. Tawney
Tariff Board
Mr. Tawney
Witzgerald
Mann
Onions Banned From Waterloo Barbershop Rules
Waterloo officials pass ordinance fining tensorial artists five dollars for onion use from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. The council also prohibits barbers from putting a thumb in a customer's mouth, gossiping, or chewing tobacco while on duty.
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Waterloo
Tenn
Lumber Prices Under Sherman Probe In U S
Washington reports the department of justice is examining lumber prices to determine if the so called lumber trust violates the Sherman Antitrust Act. The inquiry focuses on whether a combination in restraint of trade exists among major lumber interests.
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Department of Justice
Washington
United States
Garfield urges federal state cooperation for water power conservation
James R. Garfield told the Colorado conservation commission that all elements of a water trust exist and called for coordination between federal and state governments to conserve water power resources in Denver.
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Denver
Colordo
James R. Garfield
Colorado Conservation Commission
Hadley Hall at UNM Destroyed by Fire
Hadley Hall the University of New Mexico science building in Albuquerque burned down causing a loss estimated at more than 100000 dollars. Local fire crews battled the blaze as the structure suffered extensive damage.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Hadley
University of New Mexico
Ballinger Set to Return Home as Ballinger Resignation Expected
Washington reports Ballinger family packing to return to Seattle. Officials expect resignation once the investigating committee submits its report to Congress. The committee is seen divided along party lines and a floor fight over the majority report is anticipated. Ballinger reportedly will accept vindication from Republican majority members regardless of the outcome.
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Washington
Ballinger
Seattle
Congress
Supreme Court Upholds Oklahoma Usury Law
In Muskogee the court affirms the state usury law requiring a usurer to repay double the charged amount. Frank Lightner sued William P. Fields after borrowing 175 dollars at seven dollars a month for thirteen months, settling for 206 dollars and receiving a 220 dollar judgment. This marked the county’s first usury case.
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Muskogee
Supreme Court
Frank Lightner
William P. Fields
Lightner
Fields
An Appropriate Place at Last for Roosevelt Bust in Senate
Washington report notes a suggestion to place a Roosevelt bust in a niche above the senate press gallery. The idea pleases committee members who say he provided more newspaper copy than any president. Currently the bust sits on an improvised pedestal in the library committee room.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Library
Senate
Roosevelt
United States
Committee On Librariese
Taft tariff science investigation plan stalls in House
The House voted against the $250,000 appropriation for a scientific tariff inquiry. President Taft favored the study of commercial and industrial conditions at home and abroad to compare production costs. An added $100,000 to hire two experts to install modern systems was defeated.
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Washington
Taft
Ballinger-Pinchot Committee Won't Delay Report
Washington reports the joint Ballinger-Pinchot investigating committee will publish its findings before the November election, stating no intention to postpone the result of its work. The notice emphasizes timely release despite political timing.
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Washington
Ballinger-Pinchot Investigating Committee
French Submarine Pluviose Sunk After Dover Collision
The French submarine Pluviose, with twenty three crew aboard, was struck by an English mail steamship between Calais and Dover in the English Channel. The airtight craft flooded through a gaping bow hole and sank quickly leaving no chance for rescue.
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London
England
English Channel
Calais
Dover
Boundary realignments allowed for Missouri and Kansas
Washington reports Senator Warner presented a Booker resolution authorizing Missouri and Kansas to adjust boundary lines along the Missouri river changes. The states may form a compact to fix borders and ceded land, and agree on concurrent jurisdiction for river crimes within federal limits.
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Washington
Warner
Senate
Booker
Missouri
Kansas
House
Missouri River
United States
Cambridge Bestows Lt L D on Roosevelt Degree
Theodore Roosevelt received the honorary Lt L D title from Cambridge University in a quiet ceremony. About 3,700 students across seventeen colleges attended the reception, though King Edward’s death altered original plans.
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Cambridge
England
Theodore Roosevelt
Lt L. D
Cambridge University
King Keoward
Rooseveltt
Big Drop in Wheat Prices Shakes Market
A wheat market collapse followed Patten house sales of millions of bushels for September and July. May wheat saw few trades while July dropped 35 cents to 95.5 cents and September fell 33.4 cents to 93.5 cents, with May at $1.06.
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Chicago
Patten House
London Telegraph Eulogizes Roosevelt as World Statesman
The London Daily Telegraph publishes a long editorial praising Colonel Roosevelt, calling him the most powerful statesman in the English speaking world.
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London
Roosevelt
London Daily Telegraph
Colonel Roosevelt
Dr Lange Reveals Radical Silver Discov ery
In Acranton Pa the chemist F W Lange describes a process to produce from a silver matrix 100 percent more chlorides and nitrates of silver than ever before. He says the method will have great commercial value for photography, electrical work and plating industries.
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Acranton
F. W. Lange
Sanitary Mail Cars Pushed by Kansas City Clerks
The railway mail clerks convention in Kansas City received a report from the resolution committee urging more sanitary mail cars and the abolition of wooden cars to improve service.
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Kansas City
Railway Mail Clerks’ Convention
Willing to Pay for Rammer at Abu Klea
A British gunner at Abu Klea in the Nubian desert brained a dervish who struck at him while ramming a charge. The rammer head split on the soldier’s skull. The next day the gunner apologized and offered to pay for the rammer to settle the case.
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Abu Klea
The Man Invasion by a Moonlit Witch
A witch on a broom escapes a near miss with a moonlit aeroplane joy ride. She laments the invasion of a field long monopolized by women, overhearing the pilot mockingly call her a kid witch.
Senator Sorghum on Quoting Poetry in Speeches
The Quoter quotes Senator Sorghum who says quoting poetry is like sending an anonymous letter. He argues people use poetry to avoid taking responsibility for words.
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Senator Sorghum
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Scandia Journal
Scandia
McTaggart Bros., Publishers
Enaeee
Packers
Standard Oil
The
Kansas Board of Railroad Commissioners
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Recife
Dalzell
Fitzgerald
City Council of
Interior Department
Superior Court
Oklahoma
Senate Press Gallery
Col. Roosevelt
Patten
DR. Lange
United Shoe Machinery CO
Boston
Mass
Western Electropode Co
Dept. B
Los Angeles
Cal
Parker
Dolan
Wellville
Bostom Oberal Company, Ltd
Battle Creek
Mich
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