Gambling. By Frederick R. Toombs calls for stricter exchange regulation
Frederick R. Toombs argues that national and state governments must regulate stock and commodity exchanges to curb evils, noting wash sales corners and matched orders as gambling-like threats. He insists exchanges fail to enforce their own rules and that the state must protect public investors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assemblyman
Toombs
New York State
Wall Street
New York Stock Exchange
Mark Twain Dies. Nation Mourns Loss Of Humorist
The Pittsburg Dispatch reports the death of Mark Twain and reflects on his life works and influence. Twain's wit, popular novels like Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn and Life on the Mississippi shaped American humor and literature. His later years faced sorrow with wife and daughter deaths, yet his cheerfulness remained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Twain
Wilson
Mulberry Sellers
Mississippi
Harte
Far West
Arthur
Twain
Legion
Pittsburg Dispatch
The German City
Frederick C. Howe discusses German city planning in Scribner's Magazine. He argues Germany treats cities as an architect would a structure, restricting individual liberty when it harms the community and claims German solutions for light power heat and water transportation surpass American laxity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick C. Howe
Scribner’s Magazine
Germany
Germany’s land policy shapes cities of the future
The article surveys German city planning and municipal land ownership, noting Frankfort’s 16 600 acres for sale or lease and ambitious public works. It cites Cologne Breslau and Berlin as examples of extensive municipal landholding, building restrictions, and reports on tax-free towns yielding citizen dividends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
Frankfort
Cologne
Breslau
Cleveland
Berlin
Mr. Howe
Howe
Buergermeister
Raethe
Germany
America
Kirwin's 1910 Directory of Warren and Warren County
The fifth edition of Kirwin's Directory, compiled by William H. Kerwin, is a 300 plus page volume now cut and delivered. It includes Warren and county towns plus an alphabetical township resident list, praised as one of the most complete directories published.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirwin
Warren
Warren County
William H. Kerwin
Guilty of Adultery in Middletown Case
In Middletown New York on April 28 Mrs Minnie Bucher and William M Reilly were convicted of adultery after arrest by the husband William Bucher. Each received four months in the New York penitentiary. Mrs Bucher ran a boarding house at Atlantic Highlands New Jersey before selling it to run a hotel locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
N. Y
Minnie Bucher
William M. Reilly
William Bucher
New York Penitentiary
Bucher
Atlantic Highlands
N. J
Whiting Manufacturing Company
New York
Reilly
Gomez
The Evolution of Booster Bill
Booster Bill once called OLD BILL GROUCH by a grumbling town. He criticized stores climate and people, pushing his business toward ruin. He vowed the man who knocks gets his by being knocked again and changed his attitude, leading to wealth and new friendships as Booster Bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill
A Social Triumph
In a society tale Theodora Clemence, a plain country girl, charms the Rowland circle at a ball. Her charm and pluck win broad invitations, a London lord pursues her, and amid speculation she ends with engagement to George Herbert as oil wealth and social ascent shape her fate. Samuel Clemence sells land to Mammoth Oil for a million dollars. Theodora accepts a richer life and a promising match.
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John Rowland
Sarah
Theodora
John
Sam Clemence
Dora Clemence
Ida Rowland
Dora
Ida
Mme, Marier
Marier
Madame
George Herbert
Edward Dickinson
Herbert
Dickinson
Theodora Clemence
Mrs. Rowland
Ned Dickinson
George
Ortunes
Lord Shingelford
London
England
Sam
Uncle
Rowland
Samuel Clemence
Mammoth Oil Company
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Warren Mail
Home Folk
Mail Printing Company
J. A. Larson
S. M. Sloan
Penn’a
Frederick R. Toombs
Assembly
Caracas
Juan Vincent Gomnez
Booster
Bill Blue
Bill Grouch
F. A. Mitchel
American Press Association
Warren National Bank
Pennsylvania
Resources
U.S
U. S. Treas
Total
Liab
Ana Ana
Taypoksal Log
J. S
State of
Warren National
Warren PA
NEW Idea Publishing CO
Broadway
New York, N. Y
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