Banker Baker Warns on Money Trust Control
Washington January 11 George F Baker testifying before the house committee warned that concentration of money and credit in bad hands could harm the nation. He detailed bank relations with National City and J P Morgan & Co in bond issues and declined that a money trust existed.
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Puro Committee
Washington
George F. Beker
House
Baker
The
National of New York
J. Morgan & Company
Untermyer
Sails for the Land of Pharaoh Sails for the Land of Pharaoh
J P Morgan sails on the Adriatic bound for the Mediterranean and Levant and will visit Thebes where Metropolitan Museum of Art expedition is excavating. Albert M Lythgoe travels to oversee work at Amenhote III palace Temple of Darius and Kargeh oasis. In Ohio, Dr R C Alexander 63 dies from apoplexy found on a farm building.
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Thebes
New York
J. P. Morgan
Adriatic
Mediterranean
Levant
Egypt
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thever
Albert M. Lythgoe
Muzeum
Upper Sandusky
R. C. Alexander
A. F. Heil
Smith
Wagon Skids Injure Driver In icy Napoleon
Timothy Green, 74, fell from a wagon when it skidded on an icy pavement in Napoleon Ohio on January 11. He suffered internal injuries and a concussion of the brain.
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Napoleon, O
Timothy Green
Tim Sullivan of Bowery District Committed to Sanitarium
New York, Jan. 11. Tim Sullivan, known as Big Tim, longtime representative of the Thirteenth district, is committed to a Yonkers sanitarium after a court order. His illness, worsened by recent deaths in family, ends a career of charity to the East Side. Wealth estimated at $1,000,000 from moving picture theaters.
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New York
Thirteenth Congressional District
Timothy D. Sullivan
Congress
Big Tim
Bowery
Senate
Assembly
Albany
Supreme Court
Amend
Sullivan
Yonkers
Timothy P. Sullivan
Little Tim
East Side
Mulcted Fraternal Insurance Firms Involved Swindle Case
William Vokolek, confessing to swindles that defrauded fraternal insurance societies of $300,000, was bound over to federal court after a hearing before U.S. Commissioner Adler. Insurance officials identified Vokolek, and investigators seek two women tied to the case, including a wealthy widow who says he posed as a bachelor, and a foreign-looking young woman whose photographs inspectors have.
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Cincinnati
William Vokolek
United States
Adler
Vokolek
Post Office
Arson Trust Story Confirmed in New York Case
Confession by Sam Gold and arrest of George Grutz reveal an arson ring in New York that allegedly robbed fire insurance companies of hundreds of thousands yearly. Grutz, an insurance agent and adjuster, allegedly brokered fires for flats with Isidor Stein known as Izzy the Painter, while Gold described collaborations with German American Insurance figures to claim large settlements. The case follows suspicions voiced by Fire Marshal Prial and Assistant District Attorney Weller.
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New York
Weller
Prial
Sam Gold
East 134Th Street
George Grutz
East 102Nd Street
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company
Gold
Grutz
Isidor Stein
Izzy
Sing Sing
Gruts
Isador Steiz
Gratz
Stein
Johnson
Arent
Democrats Fail To Forge Bipartisan Appointment Deal
Washington Jan 11 Senator Pomerene of Ohio urged Taft fill a Dayton surveyor vacancy with a Democrat while Democrats balk at new Republican appointments. Republicans demand regular order and no discrimination against Taft nominees. A Democratic caucus will decide next move as talks on a joint committee collapsed.
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Washington
Pomerene
Ohio
Taft
Dayton
Edward L. McConnaughey
Wilson
Senate
Burton
Willam E. Halley
Greenville
Joseph R. Tabor
Canfield
Republian
Unusual recovery of lost ring at Bayonne butcher shop
Bayonne New Jersey January first George Crawford a fireman spent last summer on a Lake Hopatkong farm where he lost a diamond ring. The ring reappeared in a chicken from a crate sent from Hopatkong at a local butcher shop. The butcher returned the ring and chicken to Crawford.
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Bayonne
N. J
George Crawford
Lake Hopatkong
Crawford
Hopatkong
Pretty Girls Held as Shoplifters in Fur Coat Theft
Two young women Anita Martish and Kate Cullen were charged with shoplifting after a holiday job loss led them to strip a Sixth Avenue store of a $150 fur coat, then another valued at $140 sold to a pawnbroker for $14 and $12 respectively. They failed at a West 19th Street store where they were caught.
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New York
Anita Martish
Kate Cullen
Anita
Kate
Sixth Avenue
Indictments More Bribery Charges In Ohio Legislature
In Columbus Franklin County grand jury returns two secret indictments against a former state official and Toledo lobbyist for large sums given to Former Representative George B. Nye of Waverly. Indictments rely on information from Dr Nye and other witnesses. The cases await arrest. In Milwaukee a janitor warns tenants dogs barred in a building after notifying tenants about babies allowed.
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Nye
Columbus
Franklin County Grand Jury
Toledo
Legislative Hall
George B. Nye
Waverly
Milwaukee
Wis
Washaver
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American Press Association
Essex
Frederick Brett
George Baker
Morgan
Bowery District
Big Tim Sullivan
Mulcted Fraternal Insurance Companies
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Pomerone
Miss Manette Myers
New Mexico
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