Rounding Up Tariff Frauds In Sleeper Trunk Scams
Washington reports criminal prosecutions against operators of sleeper trunk customs frauds with indictments to avert statutes of limitations. Secretary MacVeagh and others noted the $2 000 000 paid by American Lugar Refining Co as a settlement, while pledging further recoveries from underweighing and other frauds by importers.
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Treasury Department
Treasury
MacVeagh
Wickersham
Loeb
Port of
New York
United States District Attorney
Wise
American Lugar Refining Company
Nowise
Polar Wave Ice Trust Declared Illegal by Missouri Court
St Louis judge ruled the Polar Wave Ice and Fuel company an illegal restraint of trade. Seven constituent firms restricted competition before merging and raised ice prices from 35 to 50 cents per hundred pounds. An appeal to Missouri Supreme Court planned. The company formed in 1933 from four retail and three wholesale ice firms with $1,800,000 capital.
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Polar Wave Company
St. Louis
Polar Wave Ice and Fuel Company
George H. Shields
Shields
Supreme Court of Missouri
Interstate Commerce Commission Wins Coal Tariff Victory
Philadelphia November 23 The Interstate Commerce Commission secured a major win in establishing freight rates for coal shipments. The decision upholds proposed tariff levels and reinforces regulatory authority over coal transport costs.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Philadelphia
Court sustains demurrer in coal tariff case suit
The United States circuit court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania sustains the demurrer filed by the commission seeking dismissal of the Baltimore and Ohio and other railroads suit to enjoin the commission from enforcing a tariff order on vein coal from the George creek and Elk river points. The railroads sought to block the rate reduction.
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United States Circuit Court For
Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Commission
Baltimore and Ohio
George Creek
Elk River
Church Builder is Dead Prominent German Pastor Buried
The funeral of the Rev. Andrew Michael Brenner, a German Methodist minister, was held in Charles City Ia today. Brenner served 33 years in churches across Tomas Wis Pearl City Dl Freeport Hl Girard LaCrosse Platteville Wiss St Charles Rudd Ia Klemme Ia and Reinbeck Ia. He built the German Methodist church in Charles City and another at Freeport.
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Andrew Michael Brenner
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Pearl City
Freeport
Girard
LaCrosse
Platteville
Wiss
St. Charles
Rudd
Klemme
Reinbeck
Absurd Hotel Mixup Highlights Absentminded Case
Night clerk recalls a bizarre mixup where two boarders Jones and Brown shared a third floor room. Brown is dressed in Jones clothes, discovers the error at the depot, then returns to bed thinking he was awakened the right man. The tale ends with a quip about mistaken wakefulness.
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Brown
Ife
Humble Mantle Etiquette in Aztec Court Ceremonies
The article describes how Aztec nobles approaching Montezuma wore a coarse aloe leaf mantle to show subjection. Only royal blood spared this humiliation, while commoners, barefoot and poorly dressed, were led to the emperor with eyes down and a plea for audience.
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Mexico
Montezuma
Toribio de Benevente
Cortes
Oysters and a Cat Story Echo in Naturalist Dialogue
A New York magazine editor recalls a young nature writer claiming oysters are highly intelligent. Burroughs counters with a tale of a Springfield couple’s cat killed by chloroform, buried with a rosebush, and revived next morning at the door with the rose in its paw.
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Jobn Burroughs
New York
New School
Springfield
Curious Dorset Villages Named After the Puddle Stream
In Dorset a cluster of villages takes their names from the Puddle stream they lie beside, including Puddle Hinton Wuddle town Tulpuddie Affpuddle Turners Puddle and Bryans Puddle. Residents once asked to change names for euphony but the postmaster general replied that Puddle must remain.
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Puddle
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Tulpuddie
Affpuddle
Marcus Dimsdale
Cornhill Magazine
Cecil Raikes
Des Moines Group Forms Statewide Fraud Prosecution Bureau
The Des Moines Credit Men's association organized a statewide bureau to investigate and prosecute fraudulent failures. It will be supported by mercantile interests across the state with a $12,000 maintenance fund.
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Des Moines
Iown Bureau
Des Moines Credit Men's Association
Bank Robbers Blow Ben Arnold State Bank Safe
Three men blew the safe at Ben Arnold State Bank in Milan county Waco Texas on November 12 taking about $3000. Citizens fired at the burglars during their escape in an automobile.
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Waco
Tex
Ben Arnold State Bank
Ben Arnold
Milan County
Auctioneer Announces One Percent Price on Farm and Stock Sales
DD F Macon of Washington Iowa declares a shift to a single price of one percent on all farm and stock sales for the upcoming season. He invites clients to line up sales and praises past support while offering to handle all sizes fairly. Phone 317 listed at his expense.
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DD. F. Macon
Washington
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