Supreme Court limits patent price control across goods
The Supreme Court ruled that patent owners may not dictate resale prices. The decision, five to four, holds that patent law gives the right to make or use a patented article but not to maintain its price. Justice Day announced the majority view as Justices McKenna Holmes Lurton and Vandeventer dissented.
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Associated Press
Washington
Supreme Court
Viking Machines
McKenna
Holmes
Lurton
Vandeventer
Justice Day
Department of Justice
Very Unusual Procedure in Court Ethics
Washington May 26. The district supreme court asked the U S Supreme Court to review a decision by the appeals court which affirmed the contempt convictions of Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison but reduced their sentences. The appeals court cut Gompers to thirty days and Mitchell and Morrison to a $500 fine each. Attorneys for the labor leaders seek reversal while the district court contends the appeals court had no authority to reduce sentences after affirming the conviction.
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Associated Press
Washington
District Supreme Court
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
Supreme Court of the United States Today
District Court of Appeals
High Court
Gompers
Mitchell
Morrison
Gombers
Tower Court
Bucks Store
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court of the
United States
Statue of Father Ryan Arrives in Mobile for Erection
Captain Pat J. Lyons of the Father Ryan Monument Commission announces the arrival of Father Abram J. Ryan, the poet of the Confederacy, in Mobile. Elmer Maddox handles the erection while the city engineer marks the statue site in Ryan Park for the foundation.
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Father Ryan
Mobile
Pat J. Lyons
Dance Hall Bar Backed by Expert Opinion in Senate Hearing
Chicago May 26 Prof Graham Taylor head of Chicago Common Social Settlement told the senate vice commission that economic conditions or low wages cause not more than 12 percent of cases of immorality among women and urged abolishing the public bar permit for dance halls. F C Jones of United States Broom and Brush Co said seven dollars fifty cents should be a fair minimum wage for women.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Graham Taylor
Chicago Common Social Settlement
Senate Vice Commission
Taylor
F. C. Jones
United States Broom and Brush Company
Commission
White man shoots and kills at Battle's Wharf
Cicero Nelson, a white resident two miles from Battle's Wharf in Baldwin County, shot and killed Henry Sanders, a Black man, after a Sunday confrontation. Sanders had threatened Nelson and fired twice. a struggle ensued during which Nelson’s revolver was taken, then returned, and three shots were fired by Nelson, killing Sanders instantly. Nelson surrendered in Bay Minette after returning to Mobile.
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Cicero Nelson
Battle’s Wharf
Baldwin County
Henry Sanders
Mobile
Sanders
Nelson
Battle's
Say
Bay Minette
Federal Grand Jury Convenes in May Term
The May term of the U S district court for the southern division Alabama opened with Judge Harry T Toulmin presiding. Twenty jurors were chosen from twenty three summoned as about a hundred witnesses were summoned to testify in investigations of post office revenue immigration and other federal law violations. Foreman James K Kyser and jurors including Estes D Baker and Maurice C Forchheimer were named.
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United States District Court For
Southern Division
Southern District of
Alabama
Harry T. Toulmin
Toulmin
United States
Post Office
Estes D. Baker
Maurice C. Forchheimer
Federal Grand Jury
James K. Kyser
Sq. C. Prine
Edward T. Fitzgerald
Morris Griffith
John J. Cain
Henry J. Dunn
William H. Coon
I. Wesley Weston
John A. Monidor
John A. Ashton
James M. Clements
Dave A. Chapman
John D. Pickens
William P. Beard
Julius Bradford
Kingsley fights for tax exemption for mutual insurance
Darwin P. Kingsley of New York Life urged the Senate Tax Committee to exempt insurance written for protection and mutual benefit from profits rules. He clashed with Senator Williams over Hughes era campaign contributions, insisting policy holders did participate in earnings and defending the company’s mutual basis with assets totaling 719 million dollars.
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Washington
Darwin P. Kingsley
New York Life Insurance Company
Senate Committee On
Willams
Hughes
Mr. Kingsley
Kingsley
Farmers must pay for water on western reclamation projects
Washington May 26. The Supreme Court ruled that more than ten thousand farmers on west reclamation projects must pay to the government the cost of maintaining and operating the projects during completion. The Baker suit on the Sunnyside unit of the Yakima project led to an injunction against water cuts to enforce charges from 1902. Nearly a million dollars has already been collected, with about half a million more due.
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Associated Press
Washington
West
Supreme Court
D. P. Baker
Sunnyside
Yakima, Wash
Reclamation Service
Secretary of the Treasury
Red Cross Funds For Refugees Authorized For Tampico
The American Red Cross authorized a $2,000 draw by Consul Miller in Tampico to aid maintenance and transport of American refugees to Galveston as conditions worsen for foreigners. Reports say farmers fled, others cannot, and several individuals are accounted for in Acapulco San Dimas Victoria and Matamoros.
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Associated Press
Washington
American Red Cross
Miller
Tampico
Mex
Galveston
State Department
William Lorraine Cook
Zihuatanejo
Acapulco
Side Saddle Order by Gen Hickman Sparks Parade Stir
Chattanooga May 26 The recent official order of General Hickman commander of the Tennessee division U C V and grand marshal of the veterans parade prohibiting women from riding astride during the reunion has provoked protest and commentary. Dr A A Lyon defends the move while others mock the policy as an intrusion on custom.
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Associated Press
Chattanooga
Hickman
Tennessee
A. A. Lyon
Nashville
Tenn
Army and
Helen Taft
Wilson
Washington
New York City
County board to sell bonds for road improvements
The board of revenue and road commissioners authorized issuing 150000 in bonds to fund highway improvements and maintenance. They report Dauphin Way work to finish in forty days and Marys Lane to receive permanent relief after inspection. Multiple pipe bids were read and referred to the engineer for tabulation.
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Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Mary's Lane
Dauphin Way
Catherine Street
Bauer
Whomas Dennis
S. E. Watkins
Dauphin
Florida Streets
Green
Gaillard
Jett
R. M. Weinacker
Weinacker Ite and Fuel Company
Fulton Road
Kay McClure
Monterey Place
Caluart
Southern Roofing and Steel Company
Cement Products Company
Turner Supply Company
Gatin Iron Works
Dixie Culvert Company
Southern Sewer Pipe Company
Mobile Coal Company
Toulmin and Son
Cement Products Company of Mobile
J. A. Mitchell
Charles R. Brannan
Alabama House of Refuge For Girls
Birmingham
Hagan
Finance Committee
Bascombe
Slavish Minister's Suicide Tied to Church Troubles
Scranton report says Rev. John Juree aged 39, pastor of Slavish Lutheran Church in Jessup, died by poison. The widow attributes his death to church troubles, noting the pastor's personal crisis last night.
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Scranton
John Juree
Jessup
Weather by mobile forecast for Alabama and Tuesday
Forecasts predict fair conditions tonight and Tuesday with variable winds mainly from the southeast. Local weather notes indicate pale skies tonight with continued fair weather through Tuesday.
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Mobile
Alabama
Mercian Cleared to Enter Mobile Channel at 25 Foot Draft
The Mobile Harbor Commission approved the British steamship Mercian loading cotton for Liverpool to visit the Mobile Bay channel at a 25 foot draft. If the voyage succeeds, general permission will be granted for future vessels to load to that depth. Meeting attendees included Mayor Laz Schwarz and chamber and industry leaders.
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Mobile Bay
Mobile Harbor Commission
Laz Schwarz
Mercian
Liverpool
Mobile Liners, Inc
Norville
Joseph H. Norville
Pilots’ Association
Shelton Hendrix
Chamber of Commerce
T. O. Sims
Commission
Schwarz
John T. Bauer
County Board
Harbormaster Norville
E. D. Ledyard
The
Cotton Exchange
John W. Scheible
Mobile Board of Fire Underwriters
J. H. Norville
Dr F A Cook Arctic Explorer Makes Brief Mobile Visit
Dr Frederick A Cook, who claims to have reached the North Pole in 1908, spent Sunday night at the Cawthon Hotel in Mobile en route to Pensacola to begin a lecture tour. He traveled with secretary James Noone and discussed his pole claim while planning lectures beyond a month in the South.
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F. A. Cook
Mobile
Frederick A. Cook
North Pole
Cawthon Hotel
Memphis
Tenn
Pensacola
Southern Chautauqua Association
Cook
James Noone
Copenhagen
Denmark
Pole
Rails Ready for M Laughlin Work Across Mobile Bay
Bay Minette reports ten rail cars received as Pensacola Mobile and New Orleans Railroad lines up new steel to extend service toward Mobil Bay within sixty days after rails are secured. Preparations underway to buy Solero Dare track and begin line across the bay.
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Mobile
Henry McLaughlin
Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans Railroad
Mobil Bay
Bay Minette
Solero Dare
Bay
Senate Finance Hearings Continue On Tariff Bill
In session at 2 p.m. finance sub committees heard testimony on the tariff bill with President King gley of New York Life Insurance Company testifying before Senator Williams' committee. A route toward Mobile is rapidly advancing, with Baldwin county reports suggesting two months to finish the road to the eastern shore. President McLaughlin, visiting Mobile, did not know when rails would arrive for use.
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Senate
Kinggley
The
New York Life Insurance Company
Williams
Mobile
Baldwin
McLaughlin
Wilson decries lobbyists at capitol over tariff bill
President Wilson told White House reporters that a massive, well funded lobby is at Washington to alter the tariff bill. He said many lobbyists misrepresent facts and warned that money without limit sustains them. He urged relief from this interference to restore calm debate.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
White House
Louisiana
New York Health Official Moves to Ban Friedmann Tuberculosis Cure
Dr Joseph O Connell health officer of the port of New York asks Health Commissioner Lederle to submit at the next board meeting a resolution prohibiting the Friedmann serum treatment for tuberculosis until its inocuous character is proven. He cites department reports showing dangers and accelerated disease in treated patients and calls the promotion a dangerous fraud.
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Peneciates Press
York
Joseph O'Connell
New York
Lederle
Board of Health
Health Department
Ana
L and N Passenger Rate Case Continued In Alabama
Special report from Montgomery Alabama notes the United States Circuit Judge De A Pardee will spare only one day next week for the hearing of the Louisvv and Nashville Railroad rate case. Arguments that were to be heard in Atlanta were postponed to June 3 as three federal judges prepare to present reasons for the issuance of an order against the Arab road Commission for a passenger rate.
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Montgomery
Ala
United States
de A. Pardee
Atlanta
The
Arab Road Commission
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RED Cross Fund For Refugees
Gen. Hickman
W. H. Armbrecht
Chamber of Commerce and Business League
Finley
Mobile and Ohio Road
Alabama Railroad Commission
Southern Fuel and Material Company
Finace Committee
Isabella Franchi Hammond
Frank E. Hammond
Hey
South America
Marietta Reed Knapp
Mobile Ship Channel
M’laughlin
House
Capitol
Athering
Hmit
DR. Friedmann
Port of New York
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