Railways Race With Cold as Northwest Coal Shortage Grows
Northwestern coal dealers push for formal state investigations as railroads race to move fuel amid blizzards. Minnesota North and South Dakota Montana consider legislative action. Interstate Commerce Commission opens car shortage probe in Minneapolis with officials pledging broader nationwide study. Weather worsens with subzero temps across St Paul and nearby towns. Cattle raisers urge Senate relief for car shortages and service failures.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Northwest
Indianapolis
Minnesota
South Dakota
Montana
Northwestern
Ife
Great Northern
Grand Yorks
Northern Pacific
K Lane
James Harlan
Interstate Commerce Commission
St Paul
Chicago Milwaukee St Paul increases stock to 2100 million
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad board votes to issue nearly 21.0 billion dollars of stock from the 150 million authorized last October. The move, combined with Northern Pacific and Great Northern issues, brings three Northwest railroads to about 253 million in new stock in seven days. Stock will be offered at par with equal division between preferred and common shares, payments stretched over time and 5 percent interest on early payments. Proceeds fund the Pacific Coast extension project authorized last year.
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Washington Port
New York
Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Northwest
Notice of Marriage and Death Insertions Across Newspapers
The Washington Post announces simultaneous, free insertions in multiple major papers including New York Times, Boston Globe, Buffalo Courier, Chicago Record Herald, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Pittsburgh Dispatch, Providence Journal, Rochester Herald, St Louis Republic, Syracuse Post Standard, 81 Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Cincinnati Enquirer. These notices cover marriage and death announcements and are offered without extra charge for telegraphing.
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Washington Post
NEW York Times
Boston Globe
Buffalo Couritr
Chicago Record Herald
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Pittsburg
Dispatch
Providence Journal
Rochester Herald
Louis Republic
Syracuse Post Standard
Paul Pioneer Press
Minneapolis
Tribung
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cincinnati Enquirer
Undertakers and Funeral Services in Washington D C
A list of local undertakers and funeral service providers includes W R Speare 940 F Street NW offering embalming and burial options, WM S&S Riley 209 10th Street NW with carriages and services, J William Lee funeral director and embalmer with crematorium, George Zurhorst undertaker and embalmer, Harvey's Sons funeral directors and embalmers at 19th Street NW, John M Mitchells Son as cremation specialists, and Comley Bros Florists offering funeral designs. Other providers include a general line of funeral designs by Gude at 1914 Fat Northwest and Shaffer Florist at 14th and H Streets Northwest.
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W. R. Speare
F Street
N. W
S&s. Riley
J. William Lee
Exibalmer
Conmeehen
Moreat
Pengeytvania
Ava
George Zurhorst
Comley Bros
Wis
Rhone Wert
GUDE
Northwest
M. St
Geo
Mann on trial in perjury case over libel testimony
Col Willam D Mann of Town Topics stands trial on perjury charges linked to his testimony in the Norman Hapgood libel case. A New York jury was struck as Justice Garvan opened for the prosecution while Mann, with wife and daughter present, faced questions about initials allegedly written on a Ward letter.
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Washington Post
New York
Willam D Mann
Gar
Col Mann
Norman Hapgood
Collier's Weekly
Justice Denel
Special Sessions
Reginald Ward
Moses Bis ‘Wooster
Charles Stoke Wayne
Garvan
Justice Deuei
Count Ward
Littleton
Jerome
Colliers
Wooster
Wayne
Fuir
Goff
Cotton Mills Boost Wages Across New England
About 30 000 cotton mill workers in New England were given a wage advance of 4 to 10 percent as of today with a larger rise promised soon. By January 1 roughly 17 000 operatives in various mills are expected to receive increases from 6 to 8 percent.
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Boston
New England
Fragmented Listings of Names and Ages in Aged Notice
A long, mangled OCR style roster presents numerous personal names with ages and scattered titles such as Rev and Rey, including Andrew Gaglinedi 31 Rosins Giordano 20 George H Jackson 38 Viola Lynch 38 Rev EL Hubbard 22 and many others. The text reads like a scattered genealogical record or notice with inconsistent punctuation and repeated abbreviations.
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Andrew Gaglinedi
Rosins Giordano
Rey Nichols Vaselli
Charles A. Duerr
New York
Fannie Ferry
Rev & M Mott
George H Jackson
Philadelphia
Viola Lynch
EL. Hubbard
Robert Lee Pains
Nella A Helfer
D J Stafford
Manley T Ruit
Nettie G Hough
Rey Reece Murray Reese
Mi Frank O Ruebsam
Dora White
Rey Lawrence L. Jenkins
Thearin
Amends Jolson
Shelton Miller
Robert Willams
Hattie Dorsey
W P Gibboss
Health Office Record Deaths Reported to December 17
District health office lists decedents with ages and addresses across multiple streets. Individuals include Edward A O'Brien aged 66 at 121 I Street NE and Lara Thames aged 35 at 1317 Street SE among many others with varied ages and local residences.
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Edward A O'Brien
Esafe Waters
Lara Thames
Amos Brown
Church St
Elsie P Resn
Sara i. ‘Tappohter
Witla Downigan
James
Wolfe
Charles D Simmons
St. Cw
Harvey W Worlard
Jackana
James Cantwell
Daley
Kenyon St
Alleen Hopkins
Henry Neat
K St
Monthaichard H Gaston
Brooks
Congres
Monthe
Trustees voting to be lively in New York Life elections
State Insurance Superintendent Otto Kelsey completed arrangements for the trustee election tomorrow in the New York Life and Mutual Life companies. He will supervise the election in person as polls open at 6:00 AM and close at 4:00 PM. Specified inspectors, tally clerks, and counters will oversee reception and counting. Lemuel Untermyer represents the International Policy Holders Committee opposing the administration ticket.
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Washington Post
New York
Otto Kelsey
Heige
Mutust Life
Kelsey
New York Life
International Policy Holders Committee
Lemuel Untermyer
The
Mutual Life
State Insurance Department
Robert H. Hunter
Louis Marshell
Untermyer
Balke
International Committee
Life Insurance
Financial Circle
New York and Mutual
Equitable, Mutual Reserve, and Security Mutual of
Binghamton
Beauguamus
George P. Dexter
Mutual
John C Mefall
Two Years for Burnham in Insurance Scandal Case
George Burnham Jr, vice president and counsel of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company, was sentenced to two years in state prison for grand larceny involving 97500 of policyholders funds. He becomes the first high official jailed amid a broader insurance probe affecting Mutual Reserve, New York Life, and related firms.
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the Mutual Reserve
George Burnham, Jr
Frederick A Burnham
George W. Eldridge
New York
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
Burnham
Sing Sing
Justice Greenbaum
The
Mutual Reserve
George Doldridge
Legislative Insurance
Greenbaum
Cape Cod Canal Assured by Belmont Firm in Three Years
August Belmont & Co plans a Cape Cod canal to connect Buzzards Bay and Sandwich Barnstable Bay, about eight miles long, 25 feet deep at low tide 30 feet at high tide, and width varying from 16 to 300 feet. Barclay Parsons leads the project with a hoped finish within three years. The canal would shorten New York to Boston routes by 70 miles inside and 120 miles outside.
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August Belmont
Washington Post
New York
Cape Cod
August Belmont & Co
Barclay Parsena
Buzzardy Bay
Sandwich
Barnstable Bay
Boston
Woman Denies Killing Husband in Beating Death
New York police remanded Mrs Catherine Nell to the Tombs without bail after arrest for her husband Neil’s death in Greenwich. She asserts he fell drunkenly and injured himself. she admits a prior marriage and reports brutal treatment by her husband Finley, then alleges no murder. Police await extradition papers before Wednesday court appearance.
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New York
Catherine Nell
Ina
Greenwich
Conn
Tombs
Breen
Neil
Joe
Nell
William Finley
Finley
Nef
Riverside Baptist Church
Ninety-second
Amsterdam Avenue
O’brien
Bellevue
Comstock Faces Fight Over Suppression of Vice
Anthony Comstock heads to Albany to defend the Society for the Suppression of Vice as the Art Students League campaigns to revoke his act. The Guardian of Morality seized catalogs August 2, prompting a legislative challenge to his powers. Comstock, who has pursued alleged vicious prints for 33 years, says he is not worried and will cross bridges when he comes to them, reporting 2,963 arrests and 198000 pounds seized.
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New York
Anthony Comstock
Albany
Art Students’ League
Guardian of Morality
Comstock
Ingersoll Widow Sues Over Will Contest Fees
Mrs Hya A Ingersoll widow of Col Robert G Ingersoll sued in the United States Supreme Court for 96000 dollars claiming the remaining balance on a 100000 contract for legal services aiding in breaking the will of Andrew Davis of Montana. The case traces a forged path through Montana and Boston courts, a mistrial, a compromise that favored heirs, and a Court of Appeals reversal on a Montana court bar, with certiorari now sought.
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Hya A Ingersoll
Robert G Ingersoll
United States Supreme Court
Andrew Davis
Montana
Davis
Tass
Ingersoll
Henry A. Root
Boston
Sait
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Yerkes Millions Released to Fund New Hospital Gallery
In the United States Circuit Court Judge Sanborn ruled in favor of the Yerkes estate against North Chicago City Railway, West Chicago City Railway, and related stockholders who challenged bonds issued by the Chicago Consolidated Traction Company. The decision cancels the bonds and vindicates the arrangements made by Mr Yerkes, noting the railways and stockholders had previously acquiesced. The ruling clears obstacles to using the Yerkes millions for a New York City hospital and for the Yerkes will's art gallery plan.
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United States
Yerkes
North Chicago City Railway Company
Westicago City Railway Company
Chicago Congolidsted Traction Company
Sanborn
Woman Prisoner Escapes From Michigan Jail
A woman prisoner identified as MoHy Maguire, arrested three weeks ago at Lanaing on a charge of hoplitting, escaped last night by cutting a two foot hole in a wall and sliding down a rope ladder from the jail’s second story. Local authorities search for the fugitive.
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Magon
Mich
Dee
Lanaing
MoHy Maguire
Steinhart to Stay as Consul General in Havana
Havana December 17 Frank Steinhart American consul general tendered resignation to Gov Magoon to take effect January 1 after accepting offer to represent a prominent American financial institution in Cuba. At Gov Magoon request he will remain in post while Gennerich firm reinstated in New York the Gennerich & Co was suspended for balances and repaired deficiencies within 24 hours and resumed business.
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Gov. Magoon
Havana
Frank Steinhart
Gov Magoon
Cuba
Steinhart
Gennerich
New York
Henry W
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Interstate Commete Commission
Benham
Jessica Rayph
Willams R
Jessica B. Benham Hilliary
Ellen Mgill Hilliary
Cecil
Homs
Homes Hilliary
Petersville
Frederick County
St Marks Cemetery
Johnston
Anderson Dowiphon Johnston
Kentucky
Lawton
William T Lawton
Tanner
Order OF the Loyal Legion OF the United States
District of Columbia
Lily
Washington
Zera Luther Tanner Tain
Navy
Thomas
Selfridge
W of Hueford
Recorder Witt
Garfield Hospital
Duluth
Moorhead
Bramarck
Devils Lake
Williston
N. D
Senate
Culberson
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Rairoad
Gol. Mann
Health Office Record
M.N. Hekimian & Co
St. H.W
Inington
New York and Mutual Life’ Companies
Security
Mutual Reserve Life Company
American Security and Trust Company
Goodyear Raincoat CO
Rathcosta
Armerica
Weet 15Th Street
New York City
Myea
Haincont Co
Ninth Street
N. W“a
Washington, D. C
Cravenette Rain— Coat
Mackintosh
American Security and Tevet Company
Roberts
Washington Stora
Ninth St. N. W
Cravenette
Sisin
Cravenette Raincoats
Cravenette Racoats
Priestley Cravenettes
Ninth Street N. W
F Streets
Leste
Mumm
Mms
To-Kalon Wine CO
4Th St.n. W
Colony Company
H Street
St. N. W
OLD Colony CO
Jardinieres
Lowestoft
Sevres
Andhong
Tadies
Curios
Chelsea
Gent
Chairea
Droop’s
Pa. Ave
Atlantic
Heurich Brewing Co
Jages
Maerzen
Phone West
WM. Knabe & CQ
Potomac Electric Power Co
4Th St. NW
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