Petition to dissolve American Telephone and Telegraph Company
A petition to dissolve AT&T for monopoly under the Sherman act is filed by George Lambert of Pelham New York. The filing accuses AT&T of dominating the telephone business via control of Western Union and eight subsidiaries, claiming acts resemble Standard Oil tactics and threaten independents. AT&T President Vail says acquisitions were approved or tolerated by authorities and not violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
United States
Wickersham
Washington
George Lambert
Pelham
N. Y
American Telephone and Telegraph Compay
Western Union Telegraph Company
Standard Oil and Tobacco Trusts
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Ohio
Kansas City
Salt Lake City
West
Independent Telephone E
Vail
Theodore N. Vail
American ‘Telephone and Telegraph Company
Standard Oil Fined $55 000 for Interstate Commerce Violations
Buffalo date line reports Standard Oil of New York fined 55000 by Judge Hazel in U S district court for 148 violations of the interstate commerce act. The penalties stem from rate concessions granted in 1904 and 1905 by the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads on oil shipments from Olean New York to Burlington Vermont.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Standard Oil Company of New York
Hazel
United States District Court
Pennsylvania and
New York Central
Olean
Burlington, Vt
Two More Aviators Fall In California Incident
In Los Angeles Rory Williams with Earl Williams aboard fell fifty feet near Dominguez Field but survived with minor injuries. Fellow aviator Page died at the field while Farnum Fish, touted as the world's youngest aviator, fell nearby. Both planes wrecked. Kansas City High School Agricultural Club forms to promote back to the farm idea with spring term plans and open membership for students in crops and flowers.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Rory Williams
California Aero Club
Earl Williams
Page
Dominguez Field
Farnum Fish
Kansas City
Agricultural Club
Kansas City High School
Chinese Reactionaries Take Control in Peking Crisis
London dispatch reports the Manchu reactionaries hold undisputed control of Peking as Yuan Shi Kai steps aside. Yin Tehang, credited with calls for a massacre, moves to resume hostilities while negotiations on abdication end abruptly. The empress dowager supports renewed conflict as the only solution.
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London
Peking
Yuan Shi Kai
Tien Tsin
Exchange Telegraph Company
Yin Tehang
China
Unionists to use Ulster Hall for February 7 demonstration
Belfast report says the city corporation agreed to let Ulster Hall to Unionists for a February 7 demonstration. The event precedes a House of Commons meeting where Winston Churchill and John Redmond are announced to speak in favor of home rule. The Unionist gathering is seen as a plan to control the hall.
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Belfast
Ireland
Corporation of the City
Ulster Hall
Winston Spencer Churchill
the Admiralty
John E. Redmond
House of Commons
Duke of Connaught Experiences Strenuous Day in New York
The Duke of Connaught and his party touring New York with Ambassador Heid and Mrs Reid enjoyed a packed day of sightseeing and events ending with a dinner dance. The duke called the day the most strenuous of his visit.
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New York
Duke of Connaught
Ambassador Heid
Baseball Players Must Pay to Play, Commission Rules
La Crosse Wisconsin January 24 192? A baseball player must take the ordinary chances of the game and unless he is in condition to play he cannot be compelled to be paid by club owners according to a decision of the national commission received here.
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la Crosse
Wis
National Commission
Dental Tutors Meet France's Navy Menaces Italy
Chicago reports the Institute of Dental Pedagogies gathering dignitaries from U S and Canada at the Hotel La Salle with lectures on comparative odontology and plans for a new Forsyth Dental infirmary in Boston. France warns Italy over Hanouba case and ships move in the Mediterranean amid diplomatic tension.
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France
Italy
Chicago
Hotel la Salle
Institute of Dental Pedagogies
United States
Canada
Harrison
Donald M. Gallie
University of Illinois
J. D. Patterson
Kansas City
A. W. Thornton
Toronto
W. Clyde Davis
Lincoln
Neb
William Blebb
Los Angeles
Forsyth Dental Infirmary
Boston
Edgar Quinet
Leon Gambetta
Ernest Renan
Toulon
Nice
Hyeres Islands
Mediterranean
Minister of Marine
Cherbourg
Gloire
Conde
la Marseillaise
Carthage
Tomaso Tittoni
Paris
Titton
Temps
Defeat of Detroit three cent fare ordinance ends traction lease
In Detroit on January 24 the proposed franchise to renew the Detroit United Railway lease failed by a large vote after a campaign for municipal ownership. The measure would have extended the three cent fare area and allowed city takeover on six months notice, ruled unlawful by the supreme court recently. Mayor William B. Thompson led the battle amid sharp exchanges with opponents.
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Detroit
Mich
Detroit United Railway
Supreme Court
William B. Thompson
Mute Cured in Runaway
Newark Ohio reports Harry Beard a young farmer who was deaf after a sunstroke and paralysis from a haying accident two years ago suddenly spoke and heard when his horse threw him and the colt ran away. Doctors are puzzled by the recovery. Ecuador's Revolution Ends with peace articles signed at Guayaquil by federal and revolutionary leaders.
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Newark
Harry Beard
Alexandria
Ecuador
Washington
Guayaquil
State Department
Funeral Rites Held for Rock Island Officers Victims
The funeral of W. Melcher Rock Island vice-president killed in the Kinmundy wreck was held at Winnetka Episcopal Church with active and honorary pallbearers named. Harahan and Peirce funerals followed as federal state and county authorities conduct a board of inquiry into the collision. Maj. E E Wright killed in a Mil noon Central wreck also honored in Memphis with condolences from President Taft.
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Chicago
W. ©. Melcher
Rock Island
Kinmundy
Winnetka
Bryant Avenue
Winnetka Episcopal Church
H. F. Webster
Charles Fuller
R. Floyd Clinch
George K. Owsley
W. P. Fidley
Hale Holden
John J
Dean Goss
University of Illinois
J. B. Berry
Rock Island Railroad
G. L. Pittinger
Centralia
Illinois Railway and Warehouse Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Memphis
Cooke Sues Ohio Official Over Embezzlement Losses
Edgar Street Cooke former Big Four clerk sues in Cincinnati seeking 305 315 dollars as result of indictments tied to embezzlement by treasurer Charles L Warriner. A separate suit for 100 000 dollars is included in the total.
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Cincinnati
Edgar Street Cooke
Big Four
Charles L. Warriner
Cooke
Warriner
Convicted Dr. Webster Enters Joliet Penitentiary
Dr. Harry Elgin Webster, labeled the slayer of his wife Bessie Kent Webster, is recorded as convict No. 2419 at Joliet. He is to begin a prison term making rattan chair bottoms in the penitentiary’s industrial program.
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Joliet
Harry Elgin Webster
Chicago
Bessie Kent Webster
Joliet Penitentiary
Doctor Webster
Oregon
Delaney
Ogle County
Webster
Divorces Woman From Want Ad Husband in Fairfield
Henry Clay King a 60 year old chief orchardist for Senator H. M. Dunlap at Savoy won sixty responses to a wife wanted ad last summer. He married Bessie Southard of Centertown Kentucky in September. She refused to return after visiting home.
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Pontiac, HW
Henry Clay King
Fairfield
King
H. M. Dunlap
Savoy
United States
Bessie Southard
Centertown
Earl Grey Receives Freedom of London City
Former Canada governor general Earl Grey is presented with the freedom of the city of London in a ceremony marked by historic observances. This is the first time a third member of the Grey family has earned the city’s freedom.
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London
Earl Grey
Canada
City of London
Bull fighting to resume in Tiajuana arena
Work has begun on rebuilding the big arena at Tiajuana in Lower California after insurgent destruction in the revolution. Bull fighting, Mexico's national sport, will be revived there.
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San Diego
Cal
Tiajuana
California
Mexico
President Denies Steel Trust Monopoly Claims Before Committee
Washington January 21 The head of United States Sheet Company, J J Farrell, testifies before the Stanley committee that the firm is not a world monopoly. He says the steel industry has attracted capital and many mills have been rebuilt and that the company does not aim to seize export markets from others. He explains employee stock subscriptions and a bonus dividend funded from profits, noting 1.4 million dollars allotted to staff last year and detailing how workers at different pay levels own shares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lith
Phatia
United States Sheet Corporation
Stanleynvestigating Committee of the House
J. J. Parrell
Rel
Germany
Belgium
United States
Farrell
Chuey
Ney Reed
Spanish cabinet to quit amid royal coolness and murders
Report says the cabinet plans to resign due to royal estrangement with the premier and Caialejas. The piece mentions a judge’s murder and the killing of several court officials in September as context for the crisis.
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Madrid
Caialejas
Lera
Frozen to Death in Wilds Near Lagland Oregon
Roy Crandall formerly of Kirkwood found the body of a man lost for three days in the foothills of the Blue mountains and carried it to a settlement on Points Creek. Reichstag convoked for February 7 with elections moving to a second ballot.
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Lagland
Ore
Hausing
Blue Mountains
Roy Crandall
Kirkwood
Points Creek
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York
Arthur M. Beaupre
Cuba
Standard
Empress Dowager
Churchhill
Institute
Emmanuel
Rome
Camille Barrere
Colt
Harahan
Melcher
Peirce and Wright
Days Steel Combine
Mme
Ali Kuli Khan
Tiajuana Arena
Canalejas
Illinois
Oregon Mountains
Reichstag
Bertin
Reichstag Ss
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