Roosevelt report on Standard Oil rebates shocks Congress
The anxiously awaited Roosevelt message accompanies part of the Standard Oil investigation report. It charges the company and officials with Rebates in defiance of the Elkins Act and calls for legislation to curb the Rockefeller combine. Garfield's report cites railroad rebates of 750000 dollars a year.
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Department of Commerce and Labor
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Standard
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Combine
Garfield
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Standard Oil
Day
Syracuse University
Standard Oil Company
Ohio
Ellis
Supreme Court of Ohio
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Court review amendment clears way for rate regulation bill passage
The Allison court review amendment to the rate regulation bill is accepted by the president and conservative senate leaders clearing the way for passage. Both sides claim victory. Senator Tillman condemned seven federal judges and urged curbing inferior courts from interfering with Interstate Commerce Commission orders. Speaker Cannon attended a birthday reception for his seventieth on May 7.
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Tillman
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cannon
House of Representatives
Miscellaneous News Briefs From Around The World
Judge Henry C. Hyde, noted Freeport lawyer, found dead at 70. Chess luminary Max Judd dies in St. Louis from angina. Barcelona police uncover anarchist plot with 16 arrests and eight bombs seized. A man killed in electoral disturbance near Nantes. Umpire Tim Hurst clashed with manager Griffith at Highlanders park. Continental Fire Insurance refuses to raise rates, leaves exchange trust. other firms may follow. Traders’ Fire Insurance failure leaves at least 1.5 million in unearned premiums, 50 percent payable under favorable conditions. Knoxville mayor Heiskell admits paying Reese Galyon 125 for honest election work. Henry H. Rogers confidant Charles L. Spler shot dead in New Brighton Staten Island. Labor movement loses momentum in major cities, with Paris troops remaining. Gen Greely warns of starving population in San Francisco, 191,637 at risk. Jesse Barden, 21, from Lebanon NH, possibly fatally shot. he accuses Ethel Sturtevant, 17.
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Nantes
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Griffith
New York
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Charles L. Spler
Henry H. Rogers
Standard Oil Company
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San Francisco
Lebanon
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Jesse Barden
Ethel Sturtevant
Roosevelt Urges Sherman Act Steps After Oil Inquiry
President Roosevelt sent Congress a message and Garfield report on Standard Oil and rail transportation. The bureau of corporations finds secret rates unlawfully benefited Standard Oil by at least three quarters of a million annually, with many rates corrected after exposure. The commission seeks expanded power to examine railways and ensure immediate effect of rulings.
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Department of Commerce and Labor
Commissioner of Corporations
Department of Justice
Standard Oil
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Theodore Roosevelt
New York
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Messrs
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John D. Archbald
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Rails hush tariffs hide road guilt in interstate filings
Government exposure reveals that roads admit guilt while railroads file tariffs with the interstate commerce commission. Only favored shippers may know of the secret existences, as roads confess their culpability through the filings.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Standard Oil Dominates Refined Oil, Rail Privileges Exposed
Garfield reports Standard Oil controls 88 percent of the nation's refined oil and petroleum products business. Officials say the trust earned profits via railroad agreements, denying prorating to independents while inter state rates were counted as state rates. Some railroads allegedly ended secret rates and discriminations after scrutiny.
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Garfield
Standard Oil Co
Trust
Federal Coal and Coke sues B&O and Fairmont in WV circuit court
In the northern district of West Virginia a writ is filed in a case brought Friday by the Federal Coal and Coke Co. of West Virginia against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. and the Fairmont Coal Co. The suit alleges discrimination in coal transportation and a conspiracy to wreck the plaintiff financially to force sale of its property.
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W. Va
United States Circuit Court of the
Northern District of West Virginia
Federal Coal and Coke Co. of
West Virginia
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co
Fairmont Coal Co
Rail collision near Springfield Junction kills seven
A westbound Chicago mail train and an eastbound Chicago and St Louis express on the Pennsylvania railroad collided near Springfield Furnace on the Petersburg cut off. Seven people died and about 20 were injured with wrecked locomotives and cars. Authorities cite possible operator misorders at Springfield Junction. Physicians were sent from Altoona.
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Trade Bulletin Highlights Labor Strife and Steel Output
New York R G Dun weekly review notes price declines do not reflect business. Labor disputes and tight money may be temporary. Iron and steel face a lakefront longshoremen strike risk, threatening pig iron production. US failures total 212, Canada 331, with week-to-week changes.
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Review of Trade
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United States
Canada
Train Derailment in Sodus Kills Engineer and Fireman
A cow and calf caused a train to derail at Sodus Louisiana on Friday. Most of the train left the track with only the chair and sleeping cars remaining intact. The engineer and fireman were killed, two passengers severely injured, and several others hurt.
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Sodus
Bank Cashier Walter Woodburn Dies in Bloomington
Walter E. Woodburn, longtime cashier of the First National Bank for 36 years and treasurer of Indiana University, died Friday in Bloomington, Ind. He held prominent roles in local finance and university affairs.
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Walter E. Woodburn
First National Bank
Indiana University
Oyster troubles and a Wardrobe of English accents
Captain William Ellinger warns Chesapeake Bay oyster supplies are dwindling due to bad planting and harvesting methods and urges government intervention. The article shares a humorous Banbury anecdote about pronunciation of the word am and a farmer’s quarrel over dialect.
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William Ellinger
Chesapeake Bay
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Worst Case of Eczema Cleared by Cuticura Remedies
Mrs R L Risley of Piermont New Hampshire recounts a severe eczema case in her four month old son that covered his body except the feet. After doctors failed she used Cuticura Remedies and saw improvement in two months and complete recovery in six months. The testimonial is dated October 24 1905.
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R. L. Risley
Piermont
N. H
Suitor is Well Recommended by Reputable Match
A buxom maid contemplates marriage after a brief courtship with a well recommended suitor. The mistress questions the fast pace while Martha defends the match noting the suitor's strong recommendations and past engagement with a different partner.
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Everybody’s Magazine
Martha
Well Able to Stand It. Doctor Bets on Another Operation
A Houston Post item notes a doctor insisting a patient can endure another operation despite doubt. Garfield mentions tea cures various ailments. The humor highlights a persistent, lively deadbeat.
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Houston Post
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