Coal Roads In Pools Offiers Testify On Rates
J G Searles traffic manager and W W Atterbury general manager of the Pennsylvania testify before Interstate Commerce Commission on coal rate fixing by traffic associations. They defend methods, noting tonnage shares, and discuss meetings of the Tidewater steam coal traffic association and impact of rate discipline on competition and car movements.
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J G. Searles
W .W. Atterbury
The
Pennsylvania
Interstate Commerce Commissioners
Philadelphia
Interstate Commerce Commission
Joseph G
Tdewer Bitwaiteys Steam Coal Traffic Association
Norfolk and Western Company
Chesapera
Tidewater
Rae
Searles
Starks
Us Caomam
Searies
Seth Ceak
New York
New Englang Ponts Wishia
Record Month for Pig Iron Production and Market Surge
New York April 11 reports a record March in pig iron production with charcoal iron output around 231,000 tons, steel firms increasing capacity and selling into a booming market. Purchases include 12,000 tons of Bessemer iron for Cleveland and Chicago, 30,000 tons of rails, and extensive orders from Cambria and Lake Superior.
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Enormons
Wit Sn
Qig Won
Eselusie
Phe
Ubs
Steel Corporation
Bessemer
Cleveland
Chicago
Cambria Company
Lake Superior Corporation
Grand Trunk Pacific
New Orleans
Power House of the
Hudson Company
Lehigh Valley
Cincinnati
Manhattan Bridge
Kansas
Pittsburg
United States Steel Corporation
Secretary Bonaparte to Name Ship Delaware
Secretary Bonaparte vows to name the battleship authorized by the naval appropriation bill after the state of Delaware unless Congress directs otherwise The promise followed a demand by Senator Alice strong sentiment in the naval committee favors Constitution America or Republic as possible names and a separate bill may be introduced after passage of the appropriation bill
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Bonaparte
Anee
Congress
Naval
Delaware
Aliee
the Union
North Dakota
Utah
America
Republic
Visit by French Naval Officers to Washington After Jones Interment
The Navy Department reported that French naval officers en route to Annapolis for John Paul Jones interment will visit Washington. The officers will be entertained by the President, with plans awaiting the officers’ will. The White House noted discussions between the President and Secretary Bonaparte on arrangements.
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Paul Jones
Navy Department
Annapolis
John Paul Jones
Washington
Bonaparte
White House
Naval Militia Gets Ship Miantonomoh at Annapolis
Annapolis Md April W Gov War field signed to day the formal acceptance of the United States steamship Miantonomoh for the Maryland Naval Militia use of the naval brigade. Commander W H Wagner and two divisions will leave Baltimore April 20 for Philadelphia to take possession. The vessel and crew will sail from Philadelphia to Annapolis to participate in the Paul Jones ceremonies and will be based at Sparrows Point.
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Annapolis
Gov Warfield
Maryland
United States
W H Wagner
Brgade
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Paul Jones
Sparrows Point
Ship Did Not Need Aid Off Charleston Cape Canaveral Signal
Naval report from the coast squadron commander arriving from Pensacola states the Texas sighted the Israeli ship Miguel de Larinaga of Liverpool fifty miles east of Cape Canaveral on April 9. The vessel showed the signal for not under control. Texas signaled for aid and the gig was hoisted.
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Charleston
Pensacola
Texas
Miguel de Larinaga
Cape Canaveral
Army Orders and Transfers Include Fort Wayne Duty
Military notices outline leave, transfers, and appointments across forts and barracks. Major Charles M Gandy is relieved. Maj Dickman and Brig Gen Bates are noted with movements and duties, while the Navy reports cruisers Galveston and Chattanooga sailing from Colombo to the Philippines.
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Colombo
Navy Deparment
Galveston
Chattanogga
Philippines
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla Ad Promotes Blood Health
An old advertisement quips about transforming bad blood to good using Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. It invites readers to ask their doctor how the remedy applies to them, touting fair claims and urging purchase in Lowell Massachusetts.
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Ayer
Lowell
Mast
Protests Over Morton Mutual Sues Fields in Suit for Money
George Zabrisid, counsel for Charles Morse, protests against the Equitable Life plans and costs in lawsuits over mutualization and minority control. Mutual Life files new action against former legislative agent Andrews Fields for accounting of unwisely used funds. Velter Fields appears for defense. Samuel Untermyer petitions state committee to curb proxy campaigns and require policyholder lists to be shared with legitimate holder associations.
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Washington Pos
New York
George Zabrisid
Charles W Morse
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Paul Morton
Equitables
James W Alexander
Morse
Munority
James Hazen Hyde
Decison
New York Life
John A McCall
Mir McCall
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Andrews Field
Henry P Velter Field
Equity
S Books Mutual
Samuel Untermyer
International Rails
Armstrong
Mutual
Untermyer
Sr Untermyer
Pneumonia Tops Weekly Death Toll in District Report
The district records 133 deaths and 117 births for the week, with pneumonia causing 29 deaths the leading killer. Diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid, and other diseases show shifts. 13 new diphtheria cases bring total to 27 in quarantine, while scarlet fever falls slightly. The Windthorst Club incorporates to promote St Marys Church welfare, naming Rev Frank A B Wunnenberg and others as incorporators.
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Iprovemeny Ayay
St Marys Roman Catholic Church
Windthorst Club
Frank A. B Wunnenberg
Carl J Mess
George and
John A Giebel
Frank Bosse
Frank J .Ruth
Alphonse Haimmer
Joseph Zegowits
Lawrence J Mills
August A. Specht
Want Tax Refunded and Church Fees Questioned
Article notes a heated session where trustees of Curley Memorial Presbyterian Church seek a refund from the District for about 200 dollars deemed unjustly paid. Senate action pending to authorize refunding amid broader naval vessel movements and orders touching various ports and officers.
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Yesteray
Curley Memorial Presbyteran Church
Senate
Church Seeks Debt Cancellation With Benefit Concert
Plymouth Congregational Church on Seventeenth and FP Streets northwest plans a fundraiser to wipe out its 5000 debt. If half is raised, the Congregational Society will add the remaining, then a musicale by the Washington Conservatory of Music faculty led by Miss Harriet A Gibbs features Miss Gibbs and Miss A Williams with Mr Gerald Tyler. Judson W. Lyons will open the program with an address.
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Washington Conservatory of Music
Plymouth Congregational Church
Seventeenth
Congregational Society
Washington Conservatory of Min
Will Dance for Charity by Ruth St Denis at Belasco
Ruth St Denis performs dances for charity at Belasco Theater on April 27 with the incense, cobra, and radha pieces. The tour will visit Washington and New York, then London where she meets aristocratic patrons. Proceeds aid the Home for Incurables and the Barney Neighborhood Social Settlement Club. Music composed for the scenes is noted as beautiful and strange.
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Ruth St. Denis
Dancea For Charity
Ruth St Denis
Belasco Theater
Washington
Newpors
Senis
Miss St Denis
London
Elsie de
Lane Granted Absolute Divorce in Bully Court No 1
Mary Lane was granted an absolute divorce from William Lane, with the decree signed by Chief Justice Trabaugh in Bully Court No 1. The court allowed her to resume her maiden name. Elizabeth Kramer was also granted a divorce from Emery Kramer, with custody of their three children awarded to the mother.
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MarysSitabeih Lane
William Lane
Trabaugh
Bully Court No
Mery E Tait
Clabaugh
Adivares
Elizabeth EH Kramer
Emery I Kramer
Winslow to Lay Wreath at Franklin Birthday Ceremony
The Navy Department announced Commander Winslow of the cruiser Charleston will lay a wreath on Benjamin Franklin’s grave in Philadelphia on April 17. Responding to a request from ceremony organizers, the President appointed him to represent the government at the 200th birth anniversary celebration. The Charleston, docked in New York for propeller work, will depart soon to Philadelphia to fire a salute.
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Navy Department
Winslow
Charleston
Benjamin Franklin
Philadelphia
Franklin
New York
Mrs Raymond Victim of Mental Hallucination in Los Angeles
Special to The Washington Post from Los Angeles on April 11 reports Mrs Kate B Raymond of Washington DC allegedly asphyxiated her 14-year-old son in her Hollywood home and then attempted suicide. Neighbors link her acts to long standing hallucinations and jealousy. Her husband Frank K Raymond, life insurer from Washington, learned both mother and son were dead or harmed, while investigators consider the case.
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Washington Post
Los Angeles
Cal
Kate B. Raymond
Washington, DC
Hollywood
Maintein
Katherine B Raymond
Frank K. Raymond
Kansas
Youn U Raymond
Frank Eli Raymond
Raymond
Raymonds
Pacific Coast
K Street
Oscar J Ricketts
Frank K . Raymond
Every Little Counts. A Bank Savings Message
A bank urges readers to start saving early and choose its resources and facilities for safety. The message emphasizes beginnings as key to ends, and claims the bank offers the safest place for savings with assurance of responsible handling and investigation of available resources and facilities.
Gannon family seeks mandamus to reinstate son at Georgetown
Frank S Gannon of New York pursues a mandamus against Georgetown College to reinstate Edward Gannon to the freshman class. Attorney Wilton J Lambert filed the petition after a prior suit. Justice Barnard declined to issue the writ on the petition’s hearing. A further effort to obtain the writ will be pursued by the father. Appraisal of property damages near Florida avenue due to Union Station work cited by special counsel A L Sinclair to the Comissioners.
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New York
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Edward Gannon
Frank & Gannon
Young Gannon
Wilton J Lambert
Sén
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Kiort
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L_ Sinclair
Florida Avenue
Second
Fifth Streets
Union Station
Conscience Fund Revival Records $120 Check by Sender
The United States Treasury revived the conscience fund with a new 120 dollar check sent to Secretary Shaw. The envelope bore a New York postmark and no sender identity is revealed.
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Conscience
Conscience Fund
United States Treasury
Shaw
New York
Academy of Sciences Reception Held for National Members
April 16 marks the men’s reception honoring National Academy of Sciences members. Cards issued by Charles D Walcott, with notes about destroying old documents. Treasury space limits prompt disposal of about two tons of obsolete records. Also listed are real estate loan rates and a Gasch Birgs address in New York Avenue NW.
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Treasury Department
Witte Resists Plage Assails Pending Loan Key in Parliament
St Petersburg April 11 The Strana Conservative Nationalist paper says Emperor declined to accept Witte resignation and warns of unfavorable action if loan terms are not debated before parliament convenes. Article notes new loan adds 185 per family yearly and could provoke government moves to disperse parliament. Caucus calls for action May 4 among constitutional Democrats amid party dissensions. Police arrest delegates as government seeks to block a Finland congress plan. Pension law grants widows and children of killed gendarmes the same rates as soldiers 1905 1906 deaths total 322.
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Strana
Conservative-Nberal
Themperor
Mving
Constitutional Democratic
Social Democrats
Social Revolutionists
Finland
Council of the Empire
Japan
Bigamy as a war consequence in Rughat prisoners
From St Petersburg April 11, Rughat prisoners arriving from Japan reveal many widows who remarried after being told their husbands were dead. A Perm province case shows a soldier’s wife bearing a child by another man. The village priest mediated a complex settlement with a $25 offered by the first husband, and the second husband’s inability to pay. It was decided the child be registered to the second husband and cared for by him since the second marriage was legal and official death documents existed.
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St Petersburg
Japan
Etaind
Perm
Lectures On Cooking At Wimodanghill Hall
A lecture by Miss Burbank, graduate of Teachers College New York, at Wimodanghill Hall, promoted by Mrs Clarkes cooking School. She argued cooked foods digest better and are more wholesome for housekeepers. Proceeds aid Olrke school for training young women. Next talk by Miss Jacobs April 8 on Foods and Delicacies.
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Clarkes
Wimodanghill Hall
Miss Burbank
Teachers College
New York
Sees Olrke
Wimodaughsis
Hall
Miss Jacobs
Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills Promised Quick Headache Relief
An advertisement claims Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills relieve headaches within minutes with safe, effective relief. The testimonial from Watrous Mahoning Pa asserts past failures with other remedies and promises a money back guarantee if the first package does not benefit.
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Dr. Miles
Watrous
Mahoning
President refuses pardon in Malchow case demands two more years
President declines clemency for Prot Malchow formerly of Hamline University after reading an objectionable book and says he wished to add two more years. Senators Clapp and Nelson of Minnesota and other figures urged pardon based on recommendations from Guy Johnson and others. A professor involved in writing and publishing the book was sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary. The President asked to see a copy and, after a brief look, rejected the plea with strong remarks.
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Prot
Malchow
Hamline University
Clapp and
Nelson
Minnesota
Guy Johnson
State
Tice
Appointment of Paul Noble Peck as assistant professor of mathematics
Paul Noble Peck long time mathematics instructor at George Washington University since 1905 has been named assistant professor of mathematics. He studied at Emerson Institute and Columbian College, earned MA from GWU in 1905, taught Greek and Latin earlier, and also ran Paducah Preparatory School. He is recognized for his strong teaching in mathematics and becomes a voting faculty member.
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Paul Noble Peck
Georges Washington University
Peck
Emerson Institute
Columbian College
George Washington University
Ormepal
Paducah Preparatory School
Paducah
Run
Gorky Seeks Health in America Amid Illness Rumor
New York report says writer M. Gorky is very ill with consumption and traveled to the United States to regain his health rather than seek help to free Russia. An interpreter quotes him saying he will go to Denver or California in weeks, plans to finish an autobigraphy for a publisher, and cautions on Russian prospects.
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Maz @orky
Amerca
Russia
Gorky
America
Denver
California
Mr Gorky
Chinese Entitled to Trial in Deportation Case
Federal Judge Maxey ruled that the Secretary of Commerce and Labor lacks authority to deport a Chinese immigrant who has entered the U S without a court order. The Chinaman must face a court trial. The case involves Chin Tun, arrested in El Paso, sent to Mexico, rearrested, and obtaining a writ of habeas corpus.
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el Paso
Tex
Juder Maxey
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
Chin Tun
Mexico
Tacoma to Have Steel Plant
Tacoma, Washington on April 11 reports a steel plant costing six million dollars to provide work for about five thousand four hundred men. Investors include Alfred E. Merritt of Duluth Dana founder of the Duluth Iron Works J Will Smith of Los Angeles and Henry Hewitt and other Tacoma capitalists.
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Wash
Alfred E. Merritt
Duluth
Dana
Duluth Iron Works
J Will Smith
Los Angeles
Henry Hewitt
Pittsburg
Carnegie Steel Company
Rankin
Brewers to Fight Liquor Law In Ohio Courts
Ohio Brewers' Association board meeting vows court challenge to Aten? law raising Dow tax to 1000 and Jones residence option by petition. Referral to executive committee for further action, with cross references to New York extradition case involving Howard E Rice.
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Ohio Association
Cleveland
Prisoner Best Dressed Man in Room in Abnnespéls
Thomas Wainwright alias multiple names appeared in Abnnespéls Minn facing grand larceny charges. He was granted a one week continuance after arraignment while described as jovial and prosperous. In Toledo a separate item notes metal manufacturers uniting seventeen plants to form a branch of the National Metal Trades Association and declare their shop open.
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Minn
Apri
Thomas
Wainwright
Fedoca
Toledo
National Metal Trades Association
Treasury Closes Cash Loophole for Disbursing Clerks
Secretary Shaw orders all disbursing clerks and agents in the executive branch to deposit any cash balances with the Treasurer on the 5th and 3rd of each month to curb irregularities. The rule, aimed at preventing borrower salaries and unreturned funds, places deposits to the clerk’s official credit until the next pay day.
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Shaw
Treasury Department
Washington
Tooney
United States
Portland land fraud indictment delays Williamson appeal
In Portland Oregon Judge Hunt extended the appeal hearing for Congressman John H Williamson due to the defense's inability to finish its bill of exceptions. A federal grand jury indicted several prominent men in Oregon California and eastern states in connection with the land fraud cases. Bench warrants were issued but the names of the indicted were not public.
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Portland
Oreg
Car crashes into crowd injuring and killing in Chicago
An Indiana Avenue streetcar operated by P Daley plowed into pedestrians crossing Wabash at Adams Street. Four were injured, two fatally. conductor W P Kelley and electrician D E Tamagna died. The motorman Daisy made no attempt to stop and was pursued and arrested after being forced to halt.
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Chicago
Nersons
P ¥ Daley
Sailor Dies of Suspected Bubonic Plague at Reedy Island
Philadelphia April 11 a sailor removed from the steamship Burrsfield now quarantined at Reedy Island died late in what is thought to be bubonic plague The death marks the third aboard the Burrsfield since it sailed from Bombay India and was put under quarantine at Reedy Island authorities report Stay tuned for further details as investigations continue into this outbreak response and maritime health precautions.
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Reedy Island
Philadelphia
Burrsfield
Bombay
India
Fire destroys Belleplain principal buildings in town
A blaze in Belleplain Kansas destroyed four principal buildings and damaged several others. The fire, which began last night, was not controlled until early today, causing an estimated loss of 200000 dollars and injuring one man. Dunne names Walter T Fisher as special counsel in Chicago. Fisher, formerly president of the Municipal Voters League, will be paid 10000 dollars annually. Electric Bitters advertised with medical claims.
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Belleplain
Cromwell
Dunne
Chicago
Walter T Fisher
Municipal Voters League
Fisher
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