Moody Attacks Paper Trust Seeks Injunction Across States
United States Attorney General Moody files a petition in federal court to restrain the General Paper company known as the paper trust and twenty five related firms from doing business through the trust as sales agents. The suit cites violations of the anti trust act and aims to curb output price and territorial limits. The defendants include Itasca Paper Grand Rapids Hennepin Wolf River Atas Riverside and many Wisconsin firms plus Michigan Petoskey and others.
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St. Paul
Moody
United States
Haupt
Frank WR. Kellogg
James M. Beck
United States District Court
General Paper Company
the Paper Trust
Itasca Paper Company
Grand Rapids
Minn
Hennepin Paper Company
Little Falls
Centralia
Wis
Combined Locks Paper Company
Combined Locks
Delis and Pulp Company
Paa Claire
Grand Rapids Paper and Pulp Company
Menasha Paper Company
Menasha
Nekoosa Paper Company
Nekoosa
the Falls Manufacturing Company
Oconto Falls
Flambeau Pauper Company
Park Falls
John Edwards Manufacturing Company
Port Edwards
Cw, Howard Company
Wisconsin River and Paper Company
Plover, Wis
Tomahawk Pulp and Paper Company
Northwest Paper Company
Cloquet, Minn
Consolidated Water Power and Paper Company
Manufacturers’ Paper Company
Petoskey Fibre Paper Company
Petoskey, Mich
Rhinelander Paper Company
Rhinelander, Wis
Principal One Is a Combine to Control Paper Sales
A Wisconsin corporation General Paper formed May 26 2000 with 100000 capital and 1000 shares allegedly coordinated price, output, and distribution among defendants. The petition claims the combine restricted competition West of the Mississippi, raised news print prices about 50 percent, and that General Paper became exclusive selling agent for all mills, seeking a court injunction to halt the alleged unlawful actions.
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General Paper Company
Wisconsin
Combine
Mississippi
St. Louis
Chicago
Anti-Saloon League appoints Palmer Wisconsin head
Rev Norman A Palmer of Miami City has been named superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin group aims to coordinate statewide prohibition efforts and broaden anti liquor campaigns.
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Wisconsin
Columbus
Norman A. Palmer
Miami City
Anti-Saloon League
Indicted Bachelor Tax Proposal Sought in Indiana
Toonville December 28 Henry Elza Agar Gibson county representative seeks an Indiana bill in January to tax bachelors over 25 earning at least 100 dollars. The plan levies ten cents per every 100 dollars of salary, with 10 percent to school funds and 90 percent to orphans asylums. The tax would be collected like other state taxes.
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Toonville
Ind
Ilenry Elza Agar
Leet
Gibson County
Did
Ile
Crockery Vendor In Manila Featured In Old City Streets
A Filipino crockery dealer moves through Manila slinging wares from a yoke and peddling door to door, capturing the charm of the old city as he hawks ceramic goods along crowded streets.
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Manila
Winter Storm Paralages Rail Lines Across Northwest
A December snowstorm cripples rail service from Bt. Paul to Wisconsin and Michigan. Telegraph wires down, trains delayed two to four and a half hours, and several lines abandoned or stalled. crews work to dig out a stalled Chicago to St. Paul train near Lake City. Temperature drops to 10 to 20 below zero as a cold wave follows.
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Bt. Paul
Trath
Stetter
Wisconsin
Chicago, St. Paul
Minneapolis and Otnatia
Chicago-St. Paul
Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul
Lake City
Kings Source
Wabasha
Local Notes Include Visits and Events Across Riverside
Father Jacobs Peter spent Monday in Riverside. G. Raguet of Davenport visited the city. Mrs Ott and daughter Hope returned from Mt Pleasant after Christmas. Harley Gallagher of Grinnell spent holidays in the city. Mr and Mrs Gain of El Paso Texas visiting the Swifts. Licenses to wed issued for Ed Lihe and Elsie Hotle and for J B Wallace and Grace A Fitsgerald Johnson remains active in bakery. Garnet Mason and Lloyd McCall left for Moline to work in a machine shop. Indoor baseball in the Commercial club gym Friday at 2:00 PM with welterweights vs heavyweights. admission 15 cents. Rev Father Sueppel of Newton expected for farewells this evening. Charley Babcock of Chicago visiting. Basketball at the Armory Thursday evening at 8:30 PM Oska loos W Y M A vs Burns. admission 25 cents. Welterweights challenged heavyweights to indoor baseball. Misses Beveridge Verner and Ralph Howison Floyd Kirkpatrick Arthur Smith of Sandwich Ill visiting T J McKihinney and George French homes. Warner’s White Wine of Tar Syrup touts La Grippe cure in 48 hours. prices 25 and 50 cents, sold by J A Stewart.
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Commercial Club
Tw Oclock
Father Sueppel
Newton
Iowa City
Jacobsmeier
Charley Abcock
Chicago
John Babcock
Oskaloos
YY. M
Burns
Margaret Beveridge
Verner
Ralph Howison
Floyd Kirkpatrick
Arthur Smith
Sandwich
Ill
Warner
J. A. Stewart
Ashbind Shooting Ends in Unknown Assailant Fortunes
Ashbind Wis December 28 A man named Louis Denton of Manica was shot as he alighted from a train at his home. He was mortally wounded by an unknown assailant. no weapon was found.
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Ashbind
Wis
Dee
Louis Denton
Manica
Doynen
Canal Zone Exemption From U S Patent Law
An Interior Department opinion by Assistant Attorney General Frank L. Campbell holds that United States law does not apply in the Panama Canal Zone as it is not an organized territory. The ruling centers on whether patent or trademark law extends to the zone.
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Washington
Frank L. Campbell
Interior Department
United States
Panama Canal Zone
Canal Zone
Civil War Vet Powell Dies In Belleville At 82
Belleville report says General William Henry Powell, Civil War veteran and Illinois Grand Army of the Republic commander, died at home at age 82 leaving a wife and two daughters. Born in Monmouthshire Wales he immigrated in 1830, lived in Virginia and Ohio, and was a schoolmate of the late President McKinley. He raised a company and rose to brevet major general. In Jackson Kentucky, Bud Strong killed instantly in a fight with Irvine Allen and Samuel Turner reported fatally wounded.
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Belleville
Dee
William Henry Powell
Ilinois Grand Army of the Republic
Powell
Monmouthshire
Wales
Virginia
Ohio
McKinley
Jackson, Ky
Bud Strong
Irvine Allen
Samuel Turner
Middle Park
Strong
Allen
Health officer dies after drinking carbolic acid in isolation case
Harvey Lentz, superintendent of the local isolation hospital in Springfield, drank what he thought was whisky from a bottle carried by him while investigating a smallpox report. He died in agony about an hour later. Several health officers were with him.
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Springfield
Harvey Lentz
Lentz
Tri Cities police contend with riot and sports row violence
Madison Illinois December 28 three men killed one seriously injured in a street car hold up and several petty offenses kept police from Madison Venice and Granite City busy A race riot sparked one killing while two others arose from Rouman fan trouble in the Tri Cities.
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Madison
Venice
Granite City
Tri-Cities
Rouman
Farm Implement Warehouse Burns in Council Bluffs
Fire destroyed the four story Fuller Johnson Shugart company warehouse and stock in Council Bluffs Iowa causing 50 000 damage to the building and about 100 000 to the stock with around 75 000 insured. The firm sells farm implements and related equipment.
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Council Bluffs
Fuller & Johnson-Shugart Company
St Croix Shoe Co Resigns for Creditors in Calais Maine
The St Croix Shoe company of Calais Maine has resigned for the benefit of creditors with liabilities of 150000 dollars. The schooner Bexonia carrying eight crew members is overdue three weeks at St Johns Ndi and posted as missing. Twelve hours of steady rain have alleviated drought conditions in New York after three weeks.
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St Croix
Calais Me
Bexonia
St. Johns
Ndi
New York
Severe Nebraska Iowa Blizzard Strands Eastern Plains
Omaha reports the worst blizzard in years as sleet and extreme cold sweep the region. A 60 degree temperature drop to minus 5, 40 mph winds, and blinding snow halt telegraph lines and rail traffic. No trains arrived on schedule and cross country services run up to twelve hours late. Street traffic nearly ceases under heavy conditions.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Lowa
Onimba
Watson forms stock company to publish magazine
Albany December 28 Thomas E Watson of Thomson Georgia presidential candidate last election has incorporated with the secretary of state a stock company called Tom Watsons Magazine company to publish and circulate a monthly literary periodical of that name.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Watson
Thomson, Ga
Peoople’s Party
Tom Watson's Magazine Company
Two Fatal Incidents Reported in Different States
In Montana a Mine accident in Butte kills Dewey Squires a Minneapolis arrival and University of Minnesota graduate who fainted while ascending a cage and was crushed by timbers. In Ohio Judge Francis J Wing resigns as United States district judge for the northern district citing personal reasons and pursuit of larger professional opportunities.
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Butte
Mont
Dewey Squires
Minneapolis
Belle
Squires
University of Minnesota
Cleveland
Francis J. Wing
United States
Ohio
Wingsu
Death of Vernon farmer found frozen in Fox River
The body of Michael Darmody, a wealthy Vernon township farmer in Waukesha county, was recovered from the Fox River in Waukesha. He carried a certificate for 660 dollars and seven dollars fifteen cents in cash, leading authorities to believe he wandered from the Christmas night homeward and fell into the river.
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Waukesha
Wis
Michael Darmody
Vernon
Waugesha County
Fox River
Efforts to Locate Crew Aboard Grounded Drumelzier
News from New York on December 28 reports attempts to learn if Captain Nicholson and 32 British crew members remain aboard the Drumelzier, a tramp steamer aground on the bar near the island. Ice savers on the beach watch for any sign of communication, but if they did not reach shore yesterday it is now too late to help them.
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New York
Captain Nicholson
Drumelzier
Tire Island
Chicago Congressman Mahoney Dies After Kidney Illness
Representative William F. Mahoney of the Eighth district die at his home from kidney trouble after years of illness. He was 53. Madison Wis Dec 28. The worst storm since 1885 rages in Chicago with downed wires, demoralized fire alarms, blackout citywide, drifting snow and freezing temps. Nose bleed kills 17 year old Edward Murray Brooklyn clerk. Rev John Mackenzie tacon lectur er scientist and aeronaut dies at Coldash Newbury G B of pleurisy aged 58.
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Chicago
Dee
William F. Mahoney
Eighth
Madison
Wis
ISSS
Edward Murray
Brooklyn
John Mackenzie Tacon
Coldash
Newbury
G. B
Thanks for Kindness After Our Loss
We express gratitude for the kindness shown during illness and death of our son and brother Freddie. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Libe and family. Also note an indoor baseball game Friday night at the Commercial club gymnasium heavy weights versus welterweights admission 15 cents. 70-26
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Freddie
Adam Libe
Familly
Commercial Club
Bitter Fight Promised Against Consumption Cure
Read what T. R. Beall of Beall, Mississippi says about Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. His wife showed symptoms last fall, used the remedy after other treatments failed, improved at once and was cured after four bottles. Trial bottles free, guaranteed by J. H. Stewart Drug-Kist.
Frisco and Southern Railway to Run Pullman Sleepers KC to Jacksonville
Beginning November 15 and daily through summer 1805 the Frisco System with Southern Railway will operate Pullman Sleepers between Kansas City Missouri and Jacksonville Florida as part of the Southeastern Limited. The train will feature electric lighting and an observation car with berths reservable via Frisco representatives or connecting lines Passenger Traffic Department Saint Louis.
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Frisco
Southern Railway
Kansas City
Jacksonville
Fla
Southeastern Limited
Saint Louis
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