Rail Hates His Topic Grosscup On Corporations
A Pittsburgh Traffic Club banquet hears Samuel Spencer of the Southern Railway and Judge Peter S. Grosscup condemn corporate fraud and lax control. The speakers call for strong supervision of corporations, stricter anti rebate laws, and legal remedies to curb misuses in interstate commerce.
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Pittsburg
Traffic Club
Schenley
Samuel Spencer
Southern Railway
Peter S Grosseup
United States Circuit Court
Chicago
No clear headline from fragmented text on rail regulations
Fragmentary passage discusses industrial tracks phantom railways and legal evasions. Mentions 140,000 railroad employees and wages. Lacks concrete events or dates to specify a news item.
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Merce
Elkins Pressed to Shorten Prolonged Rate Hearing
Senators on the Interstate Commerce Committee demand a speedy end to the rate regulation hearings led by Chairman Elkins. Rail presidents, including Esch-Townsend supporters, want decisive action with the ICC authorized to fix unreasonable rates while preserving quick court appeals.
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Interstate Commerce Committee
Elkins
Senate
Doliver
Town
Cullom
Illinois
Bilkins
Washington
Commerce Committee
Biu
Congress
Senator Cullom
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Gareissen Song Recital Delights Raleigh Hotel Audience
Oscar Gareissen performed a diverse Lenten song program at the Raleigh Hotel ballroom to a large audience. He displayed voice control and expressive diction in numbers by Schubert Brahms and Rubinstein among others, with Mrs Emma Prall Knorr providing piano accompaniment. a second recital is scheduled for the 20th.
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Oscar Gareissen
Raleigh Hotel
Gareissens
Allitson
Loch Lomond
Bray
Sylvia
the Wanderer
Schumann
Widmung
Brahms
Rubinsteins “Nacht
Freisinn Wagners Trau
Gareissen
Mandamus Writ Refused in District Case
Mr Justice Barnard of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia sustains the demurrer by Superintendent Drake to the Royal Benefit Society petition for a writ of mandamus. The court holds the society had no right to sue, dismissing the petition and discharging the show cause rule. An appeal to the Court of Appeals was noted by the Royal Benefit Society.
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Drake
Court of Appeals
Royal Benefit Society
Identified with Capitals Growth Isaac I Brout Leader and Pioneer
Isaac I Brout, president of the Washington Hebrew Congregation, born in Germany, educated in schools and music, arrived in America in 1853, taught music in the South, moved to this city in 1862 and started a confectionery business at 71 Seventh Street. He has led the congregation for eight years and United Hebrew Charities for twelve, holds Masonry offices, and leads several charitable groups.
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Isaac I. Brout
Washington Hebrew Congregation
Cagsel
Germany
America
Baltimore
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Florida
Isaac L. Blout
Mulgery
Seventh Street
Blout
United Hebrew Charities
Rebecca Lodge
National Lodge, No 12
Elijah Lodge No 5
TOBB
Comparison to French shows low sickness in Panama Canal Zone
Canal Zone sanitary chief Col Gorgas reports February sickness of 1.95 percent among 7,705 workers with nine deaths, compares favorably to French mortality data from Ancon Hospital. attributes lower death and disease to improved sanitation and knowledge of disease propagation.
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Canal Zone
Col Gorgas
Cape
Sanitary Department
Ancon
Ancon Hospital
Canal
Colon
Panama
Malara
Frange Remains Firm Consecrated by Agreement
Paris reports Foreign Minister Delcasse defending France policy in Morocco as aimed at securing order and protecting world interests without harming any nation. He cites awards of frontier protection, Moroccan reform, and respect for local customs as peaceful aims. In Tangier a German mission and talks about a Moroccan German treaty and the open door policy are noted, with British and French envoys weighing in.
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Morocco
Delcasse
Paris
Delecasse
Chamber of Deputies
France
Guyot de Villeneuve
Tangier
Count von Tattenbach-Ashold
Germany
Fez
Description of The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Bible
The Jefferson Bible is now housed at the United States National Museum in Washington after purchase in 189%. The original volume measures 8 1/4 by 4 16/16 inches with 11-4 inch back thickness and 15-8 inch edge points. Bound in full red leather with gilt tooling, it features a five panel back and a gold titled Morals of Jesus on the second panel from the top, with gold tooling along all margins and edges.
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Jesus of Nazareth
United States National Museum
Washington
Jesus
Reproductions Offered of Bible Souvenir by Washington Post
Readers may obtain limited reproductions printed by photo lithography from Congress plates. Bound in red leather with gilt tooling, exact reproduction. See Business Office for examination, price details, and further particulars by sending name and address to The Thomas Jefferson Department care of The Washington Post.
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Congress
Thomas Jefferson Department
Washington Post
Post
New Trial for Army Officer Richards Ordered
Lieut George S Richards, Twenty third Infantry, is to be tried again on financial irregularities not brought before the first court martial. He had escapes a conviction by claiming insanity and a special board later found him sane. Secretary Taft ordered a new court martial amid army and San Francisco attention. The charge alleges taking funds from an enlisted man in his command and not returning them.
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George S Raichards
Twenty-third Infantry
Lieut Richards
Richards
Army Surgeons
Taft
Army and Navy officer leave and transfers order record
Orders to army officers grant of leave of absence varying from one to three months to take effect from April to July with permission to travel beyond sea. Includes details on First Lieut Levy Hathaway Capt William Chamberlain Second Lieut Andrew Jackman Contract Surgeon Isaac Brewer Brig Gen Francis Moore Rear Admiral Francis Moore retired to home. Naval officers detached for treatment or duty including Lieut Commander Parker Scheil McAlpine and Chaplain Reuney to Columbia.
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Levy M Hathaway
Alerica
William
Pay Department
San Francisco
Department of California
Duy
J P Parker
Columbia
Naval Hospital
Pensacola
Fla Lient
J Scheil
Naval Hospial
Norfolk
McAlpine
Navy Yard
Warfare
Department of Steam Engineering
W H I Reuney
Hancock
Mirror Company Incorporation Signals Newspaper Venture
Articles filed show Mirror Company capitalized at 25000 to run a newspaper business in this city with 20000 mixed among founders Mane V Seigel Robert B Brown and Frank E Smith Another is Richmond Compressed Air Cleaning Corporation to clean rugs carpets and houses using compressed air with capital 7600 E Quincy Smith Jackson Ralston John Sleman Jr Lee D Latimer and Charles B Filly Wilson also Philippite Publishing Company to engage in general publishing with 2000 capital Herbert H Ellaworth Frank W McCoy and Frederick I Buck A store vacating at 122 HF Street NW triggers Goodyear Rain Coat Company sale offering hundreds of rain coats and mackintoshes as a bargain event ongoing for days ending tonight at 0 o'clock.
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Herbert H. Ellaworth
Frank W. McCoy
Frederick I. Buck
HF Street
Goodyear Rain Coat Company
Supreme Court to Decide Snow and Ice Regulation Case
Announcement states the Supreme Court will review the District Court of Appeals ruling that the snow and ice removal regulation is unconstitutional. John W Lee appeals a police court conviction. Leckie Fulton Cox represent him. The case parallels the Coughlin decision on regulatory authority and appeal timing.
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Supreme Court of the United States
District Court of Appeals
John W Lee
District of Columbia
Lee
Court of Appeals
Coughlin
Corporation
KK H Thomas
Supreme Court
Leckie, Fulton & Cox
Osburn Court Martial Sentences Lieutenant to Dismissal
War Department reports court martial findings in the case of First Lieutenant Albert C Osburn Twenty sixth Infantry charged with duplication of pay accounts absence without leave and embezzlement The trial occurred in the Department of Texas Osburn a New York resident served as an enlisted man from 1894 to 1899 before commissioning as second lieutenant The court martial sentence requires Presidential action.
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War Department
Albert C Osburn
Twenty-sixth Infantry
Department of Texas
Osburn
New York
Reguar
Marine Hospital Changes And Promotions At Army Medical Service
Numerous surgeon leaves of absence from April and March 1908 across the Marine Hospital and army medical service. Details include temporary duties and assignments in Cincinnati Port Townsend San Francisco Chicago and Washington with officers Godfrey Warren McCormac Bailey Walker Parker Billings Young Collins Robinson Stimpson Stevenson and Magruder. Col Alfred C Girard retired promoted to brigadier general and veteran of 1867 appointment and Spanish War service.
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John Godfrey
B S Warren
J T McCormac
C W Bailey
RT Walker
LB Parker
W C Billings
G B Young
Council On Medical Education
American Medical Association
Chicago
G L Collins
D . Robinson
Port Townsend
W G Stimpson
G. M Magiucer
Cincinnati
Ohio
San Francisco
Cal
W G. Stimpson
J W Stevenson
G M Magruder
Wash
D E Robinson
Alfred C. Girard
Alfred C Girard
Medical Department of the Army
Girard
Switzerland
European Tour Planned by Navy for North Atlantic Fleet
The Navy Department considers reorganizing the North Atlantic fleet to allow a division to traverse the Atlantic for a European waters tour later in the season. The plan envisions home fleets with subdivisions that could be diverted for distant visits or Southern waters as needed. Movements list vessels arriving at Cavite Labuan Mare Island and Pensacola assignments for Culebra Guantanamo Monte Cristi and related routes.
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Navy Department
Atlantic
Oregon
Harty
Cheuntey
Cavite
Fiuleigh
Labuan
Buffalo
Mare Island
Selied
Caesar
Pensacola
Culebra
Prairie
Guantenamo
Dixie
Guantanamo
Monte Cristi
Hicgao
Mad Gadski at the Baltimore Bar Delivers Valkyrie Cry
The Kansas City Star recaps Mad Gadski's concert at the Auditorium and a wild post performance scene. Jake the bartender overhears a French party seeking apricot brandies as Gadski and two assistants depart for the bar area. The episode ends with barroom theatrics and remarks on gender seating.
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Jake
Baltimore
Kansas City
Gadski
Efoprano
Benereue
Mad
Gadsk
Heidelberg
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University of Princeton
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National Banks and Trust Companies
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Airec
Iowa
Aes
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Spirit of Hevolt In Interstate Commerce Committee
Raleigh Balloo
Mandamus
Frange
M Jaures
M ‘Delcasse
W. B. Moses & Sons
F Street, Cor.th
Epalais Royal
Thomas Jefferson
Washington, DC
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Shanghai
Nankin
Chemgpo
Alexander
Hongkong
Snow Law
Palais Royal
Eleventh Streets
Bonaring
Millire
L Latimna
D . Milan
Tueeri
Rie
A. Lisner
Jnuan Russell
John Kendrick Bangs
Roderic C Penfield
A Baldwin Sloane
Celling
Primrose Big Minstrels
James H Decker
Academy
Nicht Shepard
Moving Pictures
Jogles
Thos J Campbell
Americas Leagle Park
Fla Ave
Nationals
Bostons
Boston
PBL
Arte Smith
Sanders & Stayman’ S
J. E. Quarles Co
Richmond
Ethel Barrymore
Lerence Charles Frohman
Wee
London
Edna May
Politf
Vaudfville
Herbert Keigey
Effie Shannoh
Ellen Terry
Reto
Charles F. Aldrich
Burton
Brooks Mildare
Wm Potter
EM Hartwell
Loney Haskell Burton
Carlotta
Marvel
Sam Eiton & Eve
Lafayette Opera House
Melville B Raymonds
Tex
Maisie Ruth Pefelds
Clark
Mogily
Ga Iver
Chickernan
Matinee Daily
Thor
St. K. W
US Treasury
New National Theater
Priday
Fritz Kreisler
Josef Hofmann
Kreltzer
Cesar France
Pitta
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