Window Glass Trust Fined After Massive 1910 Antitrust Boom
A historical look at the Imperial Window Glass Co and related firms, once controlling most U S glass factories, earning about a million dollars in ten months and raising prices 70 percent. The court fined the firm 2500 and each of 15 members 500, dissolving the trust, with warnings on antitrust enforcement.
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Imperial Window Glass Co
Imperial Company
Department of Justice
Gen
Wickersham
Pittsburg
Window Glass Trust
American Window Glass Co
The Strike That Struck The Brazilian Sailors
The text argues that the Brazilian sailors won their strike by force while seeking higher pay shorter hours and fewer punishments. It contrasts worker power with employer power blaming hunger and cold in an industrial system and predicts a future shift toward humanity and civilization.
Opportunity and advice for wealth in growing cities
An old man explains money comes from following the market: buy when others sell, sell when others buy. He notes cities swell and urges the young to farm the soil, work hard, and pursue knowledge to win as cities demand food daily. The message stresses opportunity in agriculture amid urban growth.
Observations on politics meals and theater from 1900s press
A collage item notes Christmas shopping caution and a proposed rail rate hike totaling about 100 million dollars. It mentions a Pennsylvania senator marrying a hospital nurse, a socialist congressman-elect named Berger, and a critique of Mary Garden’s Salome in Chicago. It recalls Octave Chanute of Chicago as the early aviation pioneer hailed posthumously.
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Rockefeller
Pennsylvania
Berger
Piero Morgan
Mary Garden
Salome
Chicago
Octave Chanute
This Man Started as a Stuttering Farmer Boy to Chief Owner
Seattle hosts W N Hartshorn chief owner of Youths Companion on a 12 000 mile tour promoting Sunday school work for boys. He credits church and Sunday schools as aids to right living and growth and notes his rise from modest beginnings through a family marriage into leadership.
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Seattle
Copanion
Washington Hotel
W. N. Hartshorn
Bowton
Perry Mason
Hartshorn
Hoxton
Senator Hughes to resign amid health reasons in Colorado
The item notes Senator Chas J Hughes Jr of Colorado plans to resign due to failing health and that Mayor Speer of Denver is favored to succeed him amid broader criticism of Denver and railroad interests. The piece also mentions Hartshorn, a Sunday School leader, describing his rise from stutterer to publisher and author, and his upcoming travels to be present at the International Sunday School Association convention in San Francisco.
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Chas. J. Hughes, JR
Hughes
Colorado
Speer
Denver
Pirates of
Pervilene
Supreme Incorporation
Senate
Wall Street
Guggenheim
Sifo
Mughes
Progressivelam
Bpeer
Cupid
Ford
W. N. Hartshorn
International Sunday School Association
Jone
San Francisco
Papes Cold Compound touted to cure grippe fast
An advertisement claims Pape's Cold Compound cures colds and grippe without quinine. It promises relief from neuralgia headaches feverish symptoms and nasal congestion after three initial doses and asserts quinine is ineffective for colds.
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Grippe
Star Dust An Ode To You And Wit On Recent Items
Humorous verses reference Yuletide feasts and charity calls for the hungry. Mentions Mike Cudamn y a pork packer dead and Horace Fletcher an oddologist living partly in Venice and largely in a New York hotel. Notes U S rail mileage versus Europe, Lodge nomination, Bible reading pace, and Manuel Diaz regime. Coda recalls John Gray, last survivor of the American Revolution, died in Noble County Ohio in 1868 at age 104 with a pension.
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John Gray
Noble County
Ohio
Stillwater
New York's commuting hero ends long daily journey
Frederick J. Schoch, 58, long time New York commuter from Philadelphia, plans to move to Newark to shorten his daily ride. After 26 years of nearly three hour trips, trains now cut the journey to under two hours. He rejects a subway monorail dream, preferring a private home life over Manhattan living. A new Girls' Friendly Lodge on East 54th St offers 40 lodgers, no strict rules, to housed working girls earning up to 17 a week with rates from 2.50 to 6 weekly.
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New York
Frederick J. Schoch
Philadelphia
Mr. Schoch
Newark
N. J
Mr. Echoch
East 54Th St. I
J. Pierpont Morgan
Cornelia E. Marshall
Then It Happened McHusk and O' Brown Plane Movers
Two workers McHusk and O Brown moved a piano by a staircase to a second floor. They carried the heavy load with no third man aiding and faced a difficult lift. The scene ends as the narrative closes.
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McHusk
O' Brown
Interesting Reading by Tubercular Invalids
A vintage ad style piece touts Eckmanns Alterative as a cure for tuberculosis and related ailments. It cites testimonials, a Ladiner pamphlet, and claims dramatic weight gain and symptom relief after use.
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Uo UN
Kansas City
O O
Europe
Fancy Apples
Jonathans
Baldwins
B. W. Alexander
Pike Place
Westlake
Singer Sewing Machines
Third Avenue
Corner Spring Street
Independent
Ses
Boss
Dr. Ford
Great Boy Paper
Perry Mason Company
W. N. Hartbhorn
Priscilla
Hooker Washington
Dentists
Pike St
Drug Co
Mike Cudamny
Pork Packer
Undertaker
Mike
Horace Fletcher
Chew
Ologiat
Venice
United States
England
France
Germany
Senator Lodge
United
Engla
Richard Tallinger
Portugal
Manuel
Mrs. Caller
Manhattan
Eckmann
Eeckman
Keksnan
Sam
Pickmer
Tee
Erkman
Sy Wright
Oseman
Dartell
Roscine
Ani
Silk
Cooper
Timeshoch Bros
Bosemen
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