Shipping board to press railroads on foreign contracts
Washington officials plan a December 1 conference with railroad representatives to urge abrogation of contracts with foreign operators. A. D. Lasker and Senator Wesley L. Jones frame the dispute as a test of American merchant marine rights and railroads’ duties to provide fair service, while lawmakers warn against subsidies and discrimination that threaten the U S fleet.
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J. F. Richardson
Congressional Select Committee On Shipping Board
Washington
A. D. Lasker
Shipping Board
Wesley L. Jones
United States
Lasker
House
Senate
Treasury
Legal Fight Over Estate of Inventor J Rupert Scott
The 90 year old inventor J Rupert Scott left his estate to his fourth wife with a life interest, while his second wife from Nyack New York contests the will claiming no divorce existed and that she is rightful widow. Bertha Boudreau of North Weymouth Massachusetts contests as a former wife who married Scott about fifteen years ago. The estate is valued around twenty thousand dollars and the case promises a complex legal battle over marital status and inheritance.
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New York
Evelyn Nesbit
Broadway
Stanford White
Harry Thaw
Thaw
Jack Clifford
Tagore
Miss Nesbit
North Weymouth
Mass
Navy
J. Rupert Scott
United Shoe Machinery Co
Nyack
N. Y
Scott
Bertha Boudreau
Scott No
Child in Pittsburg Inspires Mixed Reflections
A speaker recalls a child named Russell who lives with his grandmother in Pittsburg. The child is described as beautiful with a promising future in film, while the speaker contemplates life’s cyclical tragedy amid a rain shower.
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Russell
Pittsburg
Government clashes as prohibition chief mourns pamphlet
Roy Lyle the federal prohibition director lamented that the same government enforcing the Volstead act is publishing a pamphlet on oysters with recipes that hint at the lavish use of brandy and sherry. The Department of Commerce issued the pamphlet causing his outburst.
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Roy Lyle
Department of Commerce
Kitten Proves Fine Swimmer At East Otis Camp
Robert C. Loomis, a Westfield grocer, claims a common house cat will swim of its own accord. While at his East Otis summer home, a half grown black cat ran to him from the shore and dove in, swimming about a quarter of a mile to another island.
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Westfield
Mass
Robert C. Loomis
Would-Be Slayer Killed With Stone
In Tangier a Spanish soldier en route to an outpost paused to drink. A Moor grabbed the rifle and fired twice but missed. The soldier then used a stone to crush the Moor's skull. The incident involves Mrs Scott No 2 and her married daughter.
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Tangier
Line of truck airplanes planned for freight routes
In Manchester England Nov strong plans emerge for standardized truck aircraft to carry freight between cities including Chester and Lyons. Railways show growing interest in commercial airplanes.
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Manchester
Eng
Chester
Lyons
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