Standard Oil Profits From Rail Rates Exposed in Garfield Report
The Garfield Bureau report details widespread railway discriminations in favor of Standard Oil, showing how open rate abuses sustained monopoly. It notes indictments totaling 9193 counts, praise for publicity in correcting corporate abuses, and calls for federal inspection of major interstate firms.
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Standard Oil Company
Standard O Company
Standard
Dus Cours
Bakers Object to Rate Increase on City Baked Goods
Local bakers protest Southern Express Company express rate hikes on bakery products shipped from the city to the South. The change lowers the prior rate by 20 percent, deemed almost prohibitive by Washington bakers. A bakery committee met company officials seeking restoration of the former rate, but the express firm refused, citing new rate law provisions making special baker rates illegal.
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Southern Express Company
Washington Bakers
Express Company
Commerce Hearing Friday on Townsend Bill
The House Interstate Commerce Committee will begin hearings Friday on the Townsend bill to authorize the President to appoint a commission to investigate controversies affecting interstate commerce. The bill, pending during investigation, appears among the President's recommendations in his recent message. Representatives of organized labor and the coal strike commission are invited. commissions may serve up to three months unless extended by the President.
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House Interstate Commerce Committee
New Soldier for Embassy Acting as Military Attache Candidate
The London Pall Mall Gazette reports Col Count Gleichen may be succeeded as military attache at the British Embassy in Washington by Maj B R James of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Maj James is described as eminently suited, with long service at the War Office and special duties fitting the role. No official decision has been made. Col Gleichen arrived at the embassy last winter.
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Pall Mall Gasette
Count Gletchen
Washington
R. James
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
James
James A
War Office
Count Gleichen
State Departments Needs System to Avoid Swamping
Secretary Root told House Appropriations committees that only a thorough system can run the State Department. He warned that without a proper clerical force the department will be swamped. Currency bill decisions and banking committee actions are upcoming. A fire in Montgomery Quebec caused extensive losses totaling about 400000 with multiple firms reporting sizable damages.
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House Committees On Appropriations
State Department
Forest Reserves Grow in United States
The 1903 report of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson shows U S forest reserves expanded from 85 008 422 to 106 099 188 acres as lumber sales boosted revenue to about 7 600 000, while timber standing tops 300 000 000 board feet. Reserves occupy western timber lands, not farmland, with fires monitored by patrols and few damages reported.
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United States
Wilson
Great West
Civil Service Faces Pay Fallout as Cost of Living Rises
President John C Black of the Civil Service Commission testifies before the House Appropriations Committee that higher living costs and better private sector pay shrink government job interest. He cites over 50 percent rejection rates after exams in some grades and notes private employment’s lure, especially in the South, with more men than women being appointed and salaries requested to rise to $4,000.
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House Appropriations Committee
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New York
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Livingston
Georgia
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Cooley
South
Cowley
Cabinet Offecr
Castro Illness Reported Serious In Venezuela
Reliable advices from Vent ezuela state President Castro was moved to Macuto near La Guaira last Monday and is described as very ill and likely unrecoverable. Posters in Caracas demand succession by a vice president. Gen Paredes, in exile, organizes a potential uprising with 15,000 rifles at his disposal.
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Maryland Jurist Bryan Dies After Fifteen Years on Bench
William Shepard Bryan sr longtime member of the Maryland Court of Appeals died at age seventy nine in Baltimore after general debility. He retired from the bench and practice. His son William Shepard Bryan Jr is the current attorney general of Maryland. Bryan was a prominent figure in Maryland legal circles with ties to notable families.
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Postmaster General Sees Deficit Not Hindering Postal Growth
Postmaster General Cortelyou reports the Post Office Department spent 178,449,778.89 this year versus 167,290,169.28 last year, with receipts at 167,983,782.95. He prioritizes efficiency over deficits, urges a permanent Deputy Postmaster General, and seeks Rural Carrier parcels, higher salaries, better accounting, and expanded service to meet public demand.
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Missing Southern Railway clerk Fridola Osborne mystery unsolved
Fridola Osborne, 32, a Southern Railway clerk, has been missing from his home at 706 Avenue since Saturday week 20. Friends and police search Benning and Pennsylvania Avenue areas. Osborne, a South Carolina native, lived briefly with E Bandera at the Carolina apartment and was described as a man of few words.
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Hadia
Probing Railroads for Rate Law Compliance Expected
The Interstate Commerce Commission plans sweeping inquiries into U S railroads to enforce the new rate law. It targets carriers including New York Central and lines linked to Harriman and Fish, aiming for comprehensive scrutiny of books and records to curb discrimination and ensure efficient administration.
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Harriman
Ful
New York Central
Knapp
Harriman Innes
Stuyvesant Fish
Ug Ha
Priest Falls Into Grave During Funeral Service
Special to The Washington Post Baltimore December 9 Father Joseph Houck of St John’s Catholic Church Long Green Baltimore County slipped into an open grave while delivering absolution at the burial of Sister Mary Victor of the Notre Dame order. A crowd watched as earth collapsed, fear spread, and workers freed the priest unharmed. The service then concluded.
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Baltimore
Attis
Father Hauck
Tragedy at Luncheon as Lover Shoots Sweetheart
In Baltimore at a luncheon Peter Baummer aged twenty pointed a pistol at Cynthia Ottereuther his sweetheart. The weapon discharged hitting her heart and she died with a smile on her face. Baummer dropped the pistol and covered her face with kisses before fleeing the scene. The incident occurred at James Horay's home 106 North Chapel where the couple had boarded. Local family members witnessed the drama as Baummer reportedly laughed before the shot.
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Cynthia Ottereuther
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James Horay
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Prisoner Weeps For Sons In Custody
Deputy sheriff Bryant of Mitchell County escorts David Garland to Upton station in Missouri in custody for the murder of Taasc Horrell. Garland, once Union County sheriff in Tennessee, recalls leaving behind his two young sons, aged ten and thirteen, with no caretaker.
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Mitchell County
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Taasc Horrell
Caroline-Pathossee
Garland
Union
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Pontiac
Arson? Arrests After Danville Wreck Case Blamed on Negligence
Southern Railway workers Clemmer Skinner and Mull faced murder warrants issued by Commonwealth Attorney Thomas Hamlin after a deadly Danville wreck. A coroner’s jury will reconvene Thursday as the injured three recover and the bodies of Kinney and King are identified, with investigators probing criminal negligence.
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Dee
Southern Railway
Clemmer
Skinnell
Wingman O ' Mull
Death
Thref
Commonwealth
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Cremmer
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George C Kinney
Spencer
Thomasville
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Army transport Kilpatrick overdue from Manila voyage
Special report from Newport News Virginia says the army transport Kilpatrick carrying passengers from Manila is four days overdue with no news. Friends of the passengers fear for their safety as inquiries at the depot rise and a prior storm near Gibraltar is linked to the silence.
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Newport News
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Manila
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Woman Burned to Death in Rockwood Home
Mrs David Pletcher aged sixty seven was burned to death at her Cumberland area home yesterday while sitting in front of a store. Her clothing caught fire and she was found dying on the floor by family members.
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David Pletcher
Rockwood
Pay Director Murray Dead
Pay Director James D Murray of U S Navy retired died at 11 tonight at his home Acton Annapolis Maryland. He was seventy seven. He was son of James Murray former Maryland secretary of state and congressman. Wife Ged died six months ago. Survived by children Mrs Murray of Baltimore Mr D Murray Jr of Pittsburg Mrs T F McComas Annapolis William Spencer New Haven Conn Charlotte F R Murray Annapolis. Murray Hill near Annapolis named for his family.
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Roosevelt Endorses Poe Monument Drive in Richmond
President Roosevelt backs a Richmond effort to build an Edgar Allan Poe memorial. In a letter to Charles Graves of the Times Dispatch, Roosevelt lauds Poe as among the nation’s greatest literary figures and expresses firm support for the monument project ongoing in Richmond.
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Roosevelt
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Times-Dispatch
Sevier to Accept Alexandria Pastorate January First
Rev Joseph R Sevier of Lynchburg announced tonight that he will accept the call to the Second Presbyterian Church in Alexandria with resignation effective January 1 He is noted for an earlier venture selling mountain laurel blooms to Cincinnati press reports crediting him with church projects and community effort in past years
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Third Presbyterian Church
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Norfolk police deny mistreatment of sailors by force
Norfolk police challenge Rear Admiral Berry’s claim that sailors at the Norfolk Navy Yard are mistreated by police. Berry sent a letter to the board of control listing several arrests for breaches of the peace that he says sailors did not commit. The board will investigate and Berry will testify.
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University of Virginia sends Dr Taylor to China as medical missionary
A farewell service in Cabell Hall marked the University of Virginia’s first Southern effort to support a native missionary. Dr Adrian S Taylor, class of 65, given the post with his wife Annie Cox, will depart for China early January, after speeches by Dr Kerr B Tupper and others.
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Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Advertised Cure
A Victorian style advertisement claims Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets digest food when the stomach won’t and promises a free trial package. It cites 40,000 physicians endorsing the tablets and urges readers to start treatment before cancer develops. The offer includes mail delivery from F A Stuart Co Marshall Michigan.
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