Blocked by Harriman kept out of narrow canyon
Interstate Commerce Commission testimony details a North American rail struggle. J Ross Clark brother of Senator W A Clark testifies Harriman held half interest in the San Pedro Los Angeles and Salt Lake road, and that a 99 year agreement protected traffic rates and routes. A fence was built with the Oregon Short Line and other lines to keep rivals out of Salt Lake territory.
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Harriman
Los Angeles
Cal
Interstate Commerce
Franklin K. Lane
J. Ross Clark
W. .4. Clark
San Pedro, Los Angeles and
Salt Lake Road
Severance
Clark Road
Clark
W. A. Clark
R. C Kerens
St. Louis
Thomas Kearns
Salt Lake City
Nevada
California
Harriman Holdings
Herriman
Senator Clark
New York City
Salt Lake
Santa Fe
Riverside
Daggett
Southern Pacific
Colton
Oregon Short Line
Mr. Severance
Union Pacific
Notice on simultaneous marriage and death insertions
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Washington Post
Cincinnati Enquirer
NEW York Times
Boston’ Globe
Buffalo Courier
Chicago Record-Herald
Philadelphia Public Lodger
Pittsburg
Provinence Journal
Rochester Herald
ST Louis Republic
Syracuse Post Standard ST Pau Pioneer Press
Minneapolis Tribune
Clpvsland Plaln Dealer
Forced to Own Elevators in Kansas City Grain Trade
Kansas City hearing shows Interstate Commerce Commissioner E. Clark and Burlington Railway official George H. Crosby clash over railways' role in grain elevators. Clark laments a system forcing railways into elevator business and calls for action. Crosby says railways would exit if possible and blames confusion on ICC policies.
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Kansas City
George H. Crosby
Burlington Railway
HE. E. Clark
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Atchison Grain Elevator
Crosby
Interstate Commerce Commission
Clark
Kansas City Board of Trade
Girl Overdosed on Fire Rescue Turns Fatal
Annie Carpenter of Brooklyn panicked as her daughter Helen Ganfield aged twenty fainted from dress fire. In a bid to rescue, Carpenter tossed the unconscious girl into a bathtub and turned on cold water, drowning the girl and injuring the mother and sister. Helen later died at Kings County Hospital from burns and water immersion.
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St Mary's Church
Bryantown
New York
Baltimore
Gibbs
New Haven
Conn
Randolph Howard
Thomas Hayden
Helen Ashby Gibbs
Norfolk
Toom
Wit Church Street
Carl Gutherz
Olemphis
Tenn
St Paul, Mainn
Hallyday
Rebecca FT Hallyday
Easton
Mallory
Alice
St Stephens Church
Wisconsin Avenue
Washington, DC
Mary Louise
Mary J. Ritchie
Louis Ritchie
Otee
Baltimorr
Frederick
Hock Wood
John Gilbert Rock Wood
East Capitol Street
North Carolina Avenue Method
Roper
Aslpin Thirteenth
Harvard
Richmond
Warren
Mount Olver
Fultsbing Pa
Wheeler
George Washington University Hospital
Grace Billi
Wisewell Wheeler
Samuel H and
Sarah M Harmon Bell
Berwyn
Irs Katharine H Connolly
Seventeenth Street Northwest
Washington Post
Annie Carpenter
Nostrand Avenue
Brooklyn
Kings County Hospital
Heleny Ganfield
Manhattan
Mary
Henel
Helen
Suppression Hits Church Times Milwaukee Issue
Special from Milwaukee reports the February Church Times issue, official organ of the Episcopate diocese of Milwaukee, has been suppressed by Canon B. P. Wright. The blamed copy filler includes a race-track betting item a trifling wedding note and some risqué jokes, with uncertainty over whether the editor added the content intentionally or by error.
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Washington
Milwaukee
Wis
Church Times
Episcopes
Canon B. P. Wright
Licensed to Wed Disorderly List of Couples in OCR Text
A fragmented church record lists numerous marriage licenses with names ages and clergy but shows garbled formatting. The text cites Arthur Moore Goldie Wright Frances Mickem Mary Hunter Ernest Layton Annie Armstrong Jon Hills Mame Lewis Winston Sylvester Telliver Annie Davis James Shriver Aghs Hemsley Mamie Seville and other pairs with unclear dates or denominations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Moore
Goldie C. Wright
H Lama Loats E Columbus
Frances E Mickem
J C Mallon
William J Sullivan
Bridget M. Sheehey
Martin O'Donoghue
Michael C Brigga
Mary M Hunter
Thomas E McGuigan
Ernest Layton
Annie V Armstrong
Fredericksburg
J B McLaughlin
Jon Hills
Health Office Record Deaths in DC Area Listings
Health Office records list numerous deaths with ages and addresses across Washington DC regions including nw sw and mid city. Notable entries include James L Colbert seventy six? wait 46 years and John Connor at Soldiers Home aged 62 along with Julia Hall 22, Eliza DeHart 62 and many others.
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Joseph Piexanowski
Patrick Colwell
Ingine
James L. Colbert
Albert Payton
Ivy City
Julia Hall
Canal At
Hannah B. Tayior
St. Nw
Eliza F DeHart
N. Have
Anna Abbott 3d
Hatene
Joseph H Mefleal
St. Mw
James Pace
St Nw
Franz Nichaus
H St Nw
Ann D. Grandin
St Ave
Sophie Carroll
St Aw
Joshua T Young
st_nw
Emilie M. Halatead
Llisabeth M. Hinkle
Margeret Engelhardt
Sibley Hospital
S George Mosely
John Connor
U. S. Soldiers’ Home
D. C
Charles H Roes
Burden Dt
John F. Liddle
I. st_ se
Francis W. Holden
Edward F. H. Talbott
Simpson Is Acquitted in Horner Murder Trial
After nine days and a two hour jury deliberation in Riverhead New York, Dr James W. Simpson, a dentist, is found not guilty of murdering his father in law Bartley T Horner. Judge Kelley urged impartial verdicts and ruled the shooting could be excusable if accidental. Mrs Horner and others react with shock while Simpson’s sister supported him.
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Washington Post
Dr. Simpson
Northport
Riverhead
Kelley
Rockefeller Gift Strengthens Education Empire in Nation
The General Education Board controls 32 million dollars, vastly larger than prior funds, with trustees including university leaders and prominent philanthropists. Gifts to five colleges total 400,000, while the board continues active fundraising and distribution to promote a nationwide higher education system.
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General Education Board
Rhodes Fund
Peabody
Mr. Rockefeller
Alderman
University of Virginia
Andrew
University of Nebraska
Rissell
Hampton Institute
Gates
John D. Rockefeller
Daniel C. Gilman
Johns Hopkins University
Carnegie Institution
Washington
Henry
Jesup
Pratt
Univesity of
Chicago
Ogden
Southern Education Board
Page
Shaw
Review of Reviews
Beloit College
Beloit
Wis
Morningside College
Sioux City
Iowa
Lafayette Colllege
Easton
Wabasa College
Crawfordsville
Ind
University of Wooster
Wooster
Ohio
Waa
Congress
United States
Union
Rockefeller
Frederick T. Gates
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Louisiana
Missouri
Kansas
Wisconsin
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Equity battle over Equitable Life surplus distribution
New York court ruling requires the Equitable Life Assurance Society to answer J. Wilcox Brown’s bill alleging inequitable surplus distribution among policy holders. Brown, owning policies totaling $75,000, claims stockholders' dividends and officers’ mismanagement deprived him of his rightful share. The case, stemming from a demurrer sustained lower court, centers on capital limits and presumed equitable credit to policy holders.
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New York
Equitable Life Assurance Society
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
J. Wilcox Brown
Equitable
Brown
Death of Mrs Ida Binge Under Investigation
New York February 7 district attorney’s office continues to gather facts in the death of Mrs Ida Binge a wealthy widow at 68 East Eightieth Street. Autopsy by Dr Otto H Schultze finds arteries hardened and Bright’s disease but no poison detected yet. Chemical analysis by Dr Witthaus will take about a week to complete.
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Washington Post
New York
District Attorney's Office
Ida Binge
East Hightieth Street
Otto H. Schultze
Bright
Schultze
Witthaus
Life Sentence for Woman in Courthouse Murder Case
Gainesville Ga Feb 7 After deliberating since 3 pm yesterday jur y found Mrs Sue Brooks guilty as an accessory to the murder of Jack Collins former courthouse janitor last November The sentence of life imprisonment was imposed Her son Foster Brooks already convicted of the same crime about two weeks ago also received life terms.
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Gainesville
Sue Brooks
Jack Collins
Lfe
Foster Brooks
Preston H. Leslie Dead Former Kentucky Montana Governor
Preston H. Leslie, eighty eight, former governor of Kentucky and territorial governor of Montana, died at his Helena home on February 7. Born in 1819 in Kentucky, he served in the Kentucky legislature, briefly became governor after Stevenson's resignation, was named by the president as governor of Montana Territory in 1881, and later served as United States district attorney until 1898.
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Kentucky
Montana Territory
Helena
Mont
Preston H. Leslie
Mr. Leslie
Stevenson
Clew
Territory
Montana
Union
United States
Bailey Inquiry Adjourns No New Testimony
Austin Texas February 7 the legislative committee probing charges against United States Senator Joseph W Bailey adjourned awaiting more witnesses. Today's testimony offered no major developments and Representative Cocke faced objections while Chairman O Neill warned attorneys could be barred if criticisms continued. St Louis February 7 former Gov David R Francis left for Austin to attend the Bailey inquiry and be present in person after attempts to send a deposition were rejected by the committee.
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Austin
Tex
Legislative Committee
United States
Joseph W Bailey
Cocke
Bailey
O'Neill
St. Louis
David R Francis
Rhode Island Deadlock Holds After 17th Senate Ballot
Special to The Washington Post from Providence reports Rhode Island again addresses the junior Senate seat with a near identical deadlock. Goddard 40, Colt 38, Wetmore 30. three members absent. Hat follower Utter noted. Absentees included Goddard Wetmore. House convened at noon. motion to adjourn passed unanimously amid expectancy of a fruitless vote. Tomorrow’s ballot would close the fourth week of effort.
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Washington Post
Providence
R. L
Rhode Island
Goddard
Colt
Wetmore
House of Representatives
Changes Iowa districts to redraw counties and seats
Des Moines reports a redistricting bill planned for the Iowa legislature that would move Jackson County from the Second district to the Fifth, Cedar County from the Fifth to the Second, and transfer Conner’s county from the Tenth to the Ninth. The aim is to equalize district populations while affecting three incumbents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cousins
Dawson
Conner
Washington Post
Des Moines
Iowa
National House
Jackson County
Cedar County
Newark Murderer Hanged In New Jersey
Newark February 7 rank Banusik was hanged here today for the murder of Thomas Hoff of Montclair two years ago. Banusik confessed and expressed deep regret, saying he was resigned to his fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
Banusik
Thomas Hoff
Montclair
Harriman Returns to Office After Illness Break
E. N. Harriman, confined to his house for nearly a month due to a surgical operation, appeared at his New York office today for the first time since his illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriman
New York
E. Nf. Harriman
A& H
France Enacts Four Percent Tax Plan Readjusting Fiscal System
Paris February 7 government unveils a sweeping tax reform replacing direct taxes with a four percent income based system. Day laborers largely exempted while rich bear heavier burdens. foreign securities hit hard as many hold francs. The measure affects about 507,000 families with higher rates, and outlines property and salary taxes, foreign stock treatment, and inspection powers to curb fraud.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Yfrence
France
Onc
Clemenceau
M. Jaures
Alliaux
Petits Rentiers
American Banker Roth Faces Two Embezzlement Charges
Berlin reports a case of Harry Roth an American banker and broker tried on two embezzlement charges before a local court. He was imprisoned four months and a half before trial acquitted on one charge and the other to be heard in four weeks. His family faced destitution after German authorities seized his business and property. An American embassy member funded his defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Harry Roth
Roth
Heis
Guests of Italy's Queen at Rome drawing room
At a Rome drawing room hosted by Queen Helena on February 7, American attendees included Mrs. McCall wife of Massachusetts Congressman Samuel W. McCall and her daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt Allen and their daughter Gladys, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Honey of Newport, R. I.
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Rome
Helena
McCall
Samuel W. McCall
Massachusetts
Vanderbilt Allen
Gladys
Samuel R. Honey
Newport
Baltimore and Chicago figures linked in local academy scene
Mrs J S Gittings and daughters of Baltimore join Mrs Talmage Mangan and J B Carter of Princeton, director of the archeological school here, along with Mrs Carter and George W Breck of Chicago, director of the American academy here, and Mrs Breck.
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J.S. Gittings
Baltimore
Talmage Mangan
JB. Carter
Princeton
Archeological School
Carter
George W. Breck
Chicago
American Academy
Breck
Teachers Defy France Move to Unionize Schools
Paris reports a new phase in public employee organizing akin to trades unions. Schoolmasters in several districts formed associations led by Radical Socialists and joined the general labor federation. They promote anti militarism, internationalism, and solidarity with workers against capital, prompting the government to ban teachers' syndicates and signaling possible new legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
Pans
General Labor Federation
Herve
Jaures
American Ambassador Pushes Recognition of U S Schools
In Constantinople the American Ambassador Mr Leishman has pressed the Sultan directly for prompt settlement on recognizing American schools. Turkish ministers were bypassed and departments, rumored to act on palace orders, have begun negotiations with the embassy. The principle agreement was reached nearly three years ago but ratification was delayed by Porte obstructions.
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Constantinople
Iveb
Leishman
Meyer Receives Meyer in Rome Ahead of Cabinet Post
Rome February 7 George Von L Meyer returning to the United States to join the Cabinet as Postmaster General was received in private audience by King Victor Emmanuel The king was affable and discussed his experiences in St Petersburg and interest in his cabinet entry Henry White the current U S Ambassador and Mrs White hosted a dinner tonight in his honor
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Rome
George von L. Meyer
United States
Victor Emmanuel
St Petersburg
Meyer Fae
Henry White
Treasure trove unearthed in Crayford Kent discovery
Workmen digging in a sand pit at Crayford Kent uncovered eight solid gold armlets believed to be from an early British era, along with bones indicating a Briton burial site. The gold value is about 1500 dollars, but antiquity and associations render them priceless.
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Washington Post
London
Crayford
Kent
Money of Dead Soldiers at Day-ton fund dispute heads to court
Three suits filed in U S Judge Thompson's court hinge on who owns a national military home fund of over a half million dollars. The money, left by deceased inmates at the Dayton home, is contested between the U S government and Montgomery County scholars. In a separate note, Springfield reports the senate passed a bill banning smoking by youths under eighteen and by students in schools or universities in any public place.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
United States
Thompson
Montgomery County
National Military Home Treasury
Dayton
Springfield
Hughes' Man Arrested For Petit Larceny
Albany Feb 7 H H Martyn Utica consulting engineer hired by Gov Hughes for capitol examination was arrested on a petit larceny charge. Warrant from Utica served in Albany at the Public Buildings office. Bail set at 3500. he posted bond with Supt Cahill and will be examined in Utica Wednesday. complainants Maher Brothers allege Martyn pledged a box of tools and took a chattel mortgage on them after loan of 15 dollars. Martyn claims attempts to get even with him.
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Washington Post
Albany
H H. Martyn
Utica
Hughes
Capitol
Martyn
Public
Cahill
Maher Brothers
Oneida County
Bank Cashier Arrested in $410,000 Larceny Case
Howard M. Shaw, former secretary and cashier of the Jenkins Trust Company in Brooklyn, was brought from Virginia to New York and arrested for larceny of 35,000. Authorities say he vanished months ago leaving a note claiming he took 410,000 and set a sixty four hour time lock on the safe. The company later found several thousand dollars missing when the safe was opened. Shaw agreed to return to New York for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Howard M. Shaw
Jenkins Trust Company
Brooklyn
Virginia
Trust Company
Shaw
Cricket Hill
Tria
Baltimore sewerage stock sale sets price at 87 a share
Baltimore city officials rejected bids below 87 a share for the entire 1980s sewerage loan issue and accepted the 87 bid. The finance commissioners approved buying 400000 dollars worth for sinking funds at 87 a share to raise money for bills and fund needs.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
Oil of
New York
City Hall
Sewerage Commission
Gen Jose Gomez Arrives Panama En Route To Caracas
Gen Jose Miguel Gomez arrived in Panama city this afternoon from Havana via Costa Rica. He was greeted by a number of prominent Panamanians and Americans and is reported to be on his way to Caracas.
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Panama
Jose Miguel Gomez
Havana
Costa Rica
Gomez
Caracas
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George P. Zarhorst
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Against Equitable Life
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Ator
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Pa. Ave. Annex
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Orientel Coffee
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