Rounding Up Tariff Frauds Exposes Sleeper Trunk Schemes
Washington reports criminal prosecutions target sleeper trunk customs frauds with national scope. Secretary MacVeagh says the Sugar Refining Company paid $2,000,000 as a settlement for underweighing frauds, while the government aims to recover more from importers using false bottoms to cheat duties.
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American Sugar Refining Company
Nowise
Polar Wave Ice Trust Declared Illegal by Court
In St Louis Judge George H Shields ruled the Polar Wave Ice and Fuel company an illegal restraint of trade. Seven constituent firms restricted competition before merging and lawfully raised ice price from 35 to 50 cents per hundred pounds. Appeals directed to Missouri Supreme Court. company formed in 193 by merging four retail and three wholesale ice firms with 1 800 000 capital.
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Coal Tariff Will Stand Inter State Commission Victory
The Interstate Commerce Commission won an important case upholding the coal tariff. The decision affects freight rates and confirms the commission’s authority over interstate shipments.
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Railroads Seek Stay on Tariff Order Enforcement
United States circuit court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania sustained the demurrer by the commission and dismissed the suit brought by the Baltimore and Ohio and other railroads to enjoin the commission from enforcing a tariff order on big vein coal from George creek and Elk river points. The railroads sought to halt rate reductions.
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Church Builder Is Dead Prominent Pastor Buried
The funeral of the Rev. Andrew Michael Brenner a former German Methodist minister in Charles City Ia occurred today. Brenner spent thirty three years in ministry at Tomas Wis Pearl City Dl Freeport Ill Girard Ia LaCrosse Wis Platteville Wis St Charles and Rudd Ia Klemme Ia and Reinbeck Ia He built the German Methodist church here and another at Freeport.
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Absentminded Mix Up At Local Hotel
Night clerk recalls a humorous incident where Brown, waking for a 4 o clock train, dresses in Jones's clothes by mistake. He discovers the mix at the depot and returns to bed, insisting the other man was awakened. The tale unfolds with a spectator joking about mistaken awakenings.
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Ile
Etiquette of Aztec audience dress before Montezuma
In ancient Mexican court custom nobles seeking audience with Montezuma wore a rough aloe leaf mantle, the manta grosera y pobre, covering ordinary robes to show subservience. Beggars and commoners made the mantas while royals were exempt, and visitors entered barefoot with downcast eyes to request audience.
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Montezuma
Toribio de Benevente
Comzuistador Cortes
Cat returns with rose bush after garden burial tale
A Springfield couple killed a cat with chloroform and buried it, only to find the same cat at the front door next morning, rose bush in its paw. John Burroughs and a young nature writer discuss animal intelligence with a dryly humorous exchange.
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New York
New School
Springfield
Curious Village Names in Dorset Preserve Puddle Heritage
A Dorset cluster of villages with eponymous Puddle streams keeps their names despite requests to change. Marcus Dimsdale notes villages like Puddle Hinton and Affpuddle were told by an official that Puddle must remain, an overbearing though humorous retainment of the toponym.
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Marcus Dimsdale
Cornhill Magazine
Llam
Cecil Raikes
Will Prosecute Fake Failures
Des Moines November 23 The Iowa bureau for investigation and prosecution of fraudulent failures has been organized by the Des Moines Credit Men's association. The state wide organization will be supported by mercantile interests and a fund of twelve thousand dollars will maintain its work.
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Iowa Bureau
Des Moines Credit Men's Association
Bank Robbery at Ben Arnold State Bank in Milan County
Three men blew the safe at the Ben Arnold State bank in Ben Arnold Milan County and stole $3,000. Citizens near the blast exchanged about a dozen shots as the burglars fled in an automobile.
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Tex
Ben Arnold State Bank
Ben Arnold
Milan County
Perry Davis Painkiller Promises Quick Relief
For sore throat cold and coughs no remedy equals Perry Davis Painkiller. A liniment it cures rheumatism neuralgia burns bruises and wounds of every description. It is the cheapest and best remedy offered to the public. Only 35c for a big bottle with smaller sizes 25c and 50c available.
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Auctioneer Promises One Percent Fee for Farm Sales
Notice announces D. F. Macon of Washington Iowa shifting to one percent pricing for all farm and stock sales starting the coming season. He invites customers to schedule sales, thanks patrons, and advertises his services with contact details.
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D. F. Macon
Washington
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