Judge Landis Refuses Rockefeller Subpoena Demand
In Chicago on June 28 Judge Landis refused to withdraw the subpoena for John D Rockefeller to testify who, as president of Standard Oil of Indiana, may hold needed financial facts about the New Jersey company. He ordered subpoenas for Union Tank Line officers and signaled no mercy for those who refuse in court. Subpoenas also targeted Rockefeller and William Rockefeller amid a tense federal inquiry into Standard Oil affiliates.
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Standard Oil
New Jersey
Indiana
Icago
Landis
United States District Court
John D Rockefeller
John S. Miler
Standard Oil Company
Miler
Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company of
Union Tank Line
Miller
Wust
Milter
Rogers
K. M. Landis
Chicago
Local Funeral Directors Directory Listing Names and Contacts
A dated column lists numerous funeral directors and embalmers with street addresses, phone numbers, and notes on services and facilities. Names include John M. Mitchells Son, Thos. S. Serjeon, Costello, Franks Geier Sons, John R. Wright Co, J William Lee, WM. H. Sardo & Co, George P. Zurhorst, Hindle & Bayliss, Thos. R. Nalley & Son, R. F. Harveys Sons, W. R. Speare, Geo. C. Shaffer Florist, and Gude. The ad emphasizes open day and night service, modern chapels, and moderate prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Wright Co
Tenth St
J. William Lee
Dmbalmer
Pennsylvania
WM. H. Sardo & CO
George P. Zurhorst
Hindle & Bayliss
R. Nalley & Son
Hmbalmers
R. F. Harvey’s Sons
Fourteenth
ST NW
Commodious Chapel
W. R. Speare
F Street
N. W
Subpoenas Served On Standard Oil Officials
In Chicago court proceedings dated July 6, United States Marshal Henkel moved to serve subpoenas. Rogers and W H Tuford were unreachable in Europe, Rockefeller family members were out of town, and John D Archbold and several executives of Standard Oil entities were personally served.
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Standard Oil Company
ibliam_T
Rockefeller Aids Babies With Nurse Corps Plan
Special to The Washington Post New York June 23 John D Rockefeller plans to educate New York mothers on infant care by forming a corps of twenty trained nurses. The program targets East Side slum districts with ten nurses covering a fifty block area and supervision by Mrs Helen Ingram. Nurses funded by Rockefeller work with the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor.
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Washington Post
New York
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefellers
New York Association
Mr. Rockefeller
Thirty-ninth Street
Eighty-ninth Street
Fofth Avenue
East River
Hieien Ingram
Ohio Jury Disagrees in Standard Oil Case
The Findlay Ohio jury in the State of Ohio v Standard Oil Company failed to reach a verdict on anti trust charges. The jurors were discharged after reporting inability to agree with early reports showing mixed convictions. The case had been submitted the previous Wednesday.
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Standard Oil
Findlay
Ohio
State of
Standard Oil Company
Duncan
Licensed to Marry Names in Patchy OCR
A blotchy OCR list shows multiple marriage licenses with pairs including Willis Bowen and Emily Edwards, plus Rev Wallace Radclifte and Bessie G Ware among others. It reads like a registry of applicants and officiants with ages and locations, though many names are garbled.
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Willis Bowen
Rochester
Emily Edwards
Wallace Radclifte
Barl
VF Schmidt
John L. Sandford
Kate
Heynolds
EL Byna Norman B Jenkins
Iola G Walker
H Sam Waller Butler
Mary Shelton
Sylve
Er Carruthers
Clarence Mitchell
Annie Carter
Aquilla Sayles
Health Office Record and Death Sentence in Cuero Case
Health office report dated June 27 1907 lists names and ages of residents including Katie Mendith Martha Heigs Annie Vermillion and Annie Hackett among others with addresses in Washington. A Cuero Texas jury convicts Monk Gibson for complicity in the murder of Mrs A J Conditt and four children near Edna in October 1905, sentencing him to death.
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Katie Mendith
St Se
Margaret Bhaw
Newark St
William F Potts
Joseph Burneston
St Ne
Martha A. Heigs
Annie E Vermillion
Annie E Hackett
Sarah E. Williams
Houston
Tex
Monk Gibson
Felix Powell
A. J. Conditt
Edna
Cuero
Finger-Prints A Glew Arrest Soon Is Promised
A blood stained ribbon with clear thumb and finger imprints will guide Capt Walsh to arrest Viola Boylan's killer, as two Italian suspects vanish. The murdered child’s family and neighbors fear a similar fate may strike ten-year-old Clara Foercht, who disappeared June 19, while police pursue leads and intensify neighborhood scrutiny.
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Viola
New York
Walsh
Viola Boylan
Second, Avenue
Timothy Bolen
Clara’ Foecht
Viola Boy
Janae
Hotsch
Siamese twins by surgery at East New York hospital
A New York hospital conducted a controversial experiment in which two newborn puppies were split on their sides and sewn together to test producing Siamese twins by surgery. After four days of suffering, the morphologically failed attempt ended with the puppies euthanized. Doctors claimed it advanced science, despite protests and potential SPCA scrutiny.
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New York Hospital
Noty House
Society For Prevention of
Washington Post
New York
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Bradford Street Hospital
East New York
Brown
Society For the Prevention of
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Bradford Street
Fulton Street
East
Kings County Hospital
Bummer
Dr. Brown
Medi College
M. H. Laucheimer & Sons
New York City
Health department acts to end New York garbage strike
Mayor McClellan overruled the street cleaning chief Craven and assigned the strike to the health department. Health officials raced to restore sanitary conditions as 2,000 garbage workers remain off duty. Fireplaces were used in streets with little effect. some replacements were hired but faced hostility. The city plans to deploy hospital laborers and inmates from Otisville and Staten Island to resume waste removal.
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New York
McClellan
Craven
Health Department
Manhattan
Wagateey
Darlington
Otisville
N. Y
Staten Island
Jewel Robbery Mystery in Victoria's Royal Wedding Party
A sensational jewel theft is suspected after Mr and Mrs Victoria Alexander G Elliott arrived in Victoria from Windsor where they wed in the presence of royalty on May 6. The groom, son of the Windsor dean and queen godson, gave his wife Daisy Langley a large hoard of heirlooms worth about 10000 dollars including miniatures of Queen Victoria and hair locks. They departed England on June 14 aboard the Empress of Britain, and the jewels vanished from a locked dispatch box inside a secured trunk en route.
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Victoria
B. C
Victoria Alexander G. Elliott
Westminster
Windsor
Queen Victoria
Daisy Langley
England
Heard Orchard's vow did not inform on him
Boise June 28 Attorneys for William D. Haywood, charged in Steunenberg's murder, pressed to discredit Harry Orchard and push the claim the blast at the Vindicator mine was accidental. Witnesses linked Orchard to threats, a gun, and the Hercules mine loss, while others questioned a Scholz claim and noted Beemore’s deputy roles.
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Boise
Idaho
William D. Haywood
Guv Steunenberg
Harry Orchard
Orchard
Steunenberg
Hercules
Thomas Wood
Vindicator
McCormick
Foreman Be
Wood
Beck
William Easterly
B. C. Copley
Easterly
Copley
San Francisco
Bradley
Joseph Scholz
Cripple Creek
Scholz
Imo
C. A. Collins
Leadville
Colo
Independence
al Beemore
S.r F. Taylor
Western Federation of Miners
al Beamore
Belmore
Darrow
Beemore
Taylor
Explosion Case Testimony Shapes Beemore Presence
Attorney Hawkey pressed witness to place Beemore at the explosion scene and then at his home. Taylor testified Beemore was there early next morning, but could not confirm immediate post explosion presence. Harvard professor Munsterberg, studying Orchard and other principals for law psychology, met Orchard in prison and observed witnesses in court without sharing conclusions.
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Hawkey
Beemore
Taylor
Munsterberg
Orchard
Prof
Harvard University
Bispham Joins Nordica Colony at Harmon on the Hudson
The Washington Post reports baritone David Bispham will join Mme Nordica’s musical colony planned near Harmon on the Hudson. He bought land just south of the singer’s hoped for Baireuth style center, plans to judge the site’s scenery, and expects many writers and musicians to relocate there. He praised the location as superb and inspiring.
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David Bispham
Harmon-on-the-Hudson
Apecal
Washington Post
New York
Barytone
Mme. Nordica
Bispham
Ainger
Baireuth
Mme. Notchea
Harmon
Ewes
Mme Nordica
Walt
Smeech
Bing
Nord
Fire on docked steamer Madonna at Pier 33
Fire sweeps the Madonna of the Fabre line at Atlantic Basin Pier 33 in South Brooklyn. Two alarms called in help from the Seth Low and Hewitt fireboats. Ten crewmen escaping from the hold narrowly avoided death as flames roared through the hatchway, matching the blaze for an hour before being checked.
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Washington Post
New York
Madonna
Fabre Line
Atlantic Basin
Brooklyn
Poats Seth Low
New Yorker
Hewitt
Sally
Ves
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