Wall Street Names Sell as Assets in Transfer Book Access
A New York Times excerpt explains why lists of stockholders and investor names are highly valued in Wall Street. It notes the high risk of abuse if transfer books are exposed, cites cases of lists sold for thousands, and discusses how promoters, bucket shops, and mining schemes seek access to names for quick profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Wall Street
Chicago
Lst
United States Steel Corporations
United States Steel Common
No News of Kaliyuga Steamer Lost in Lake Huron Saga
Cleveland Ohio October 25 Officials of the Cleveland Cliff Iron Company owners of the steamer Kallyuga caught in the gale on Lake Huron Friday report no news of its fate. Seventeen crew members presumed lost by many mariners, though manager J H Sheadle reserves hope. The Centurion searches and a remote Georgian Bay wreck would threaten provisions for any survivors aboard.
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Georgian Bay Island
Cleveland
Ohio
Cleveland Cliff Iron Company
Lake Huron
J H Sheadle
Centurion
Georgian Bay
Chicago Physicians Club Plans $2 Million Home
Chicago physicians form Octo-Impetus movement to raise about 2 million dollars for a dedicated club home. The initial meeting targets funding from 160 medical society members at five thousand dollars each, to include club rooms lecture halls and facilities for physicians in a well-equipped institutional style home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Physicians’ Club
Medical Societies
All Well With Bowels Say Dr King's New Life Fills
A fragment announces that Dr King's New Life Fills keep bowels healthy, claiming relief from illness. The ad style notes the product is available at druggists and promises general wellness.
Hanna's Maggie Chef Rules Private Kitchen at Gotham
The New York World reports Maggie, known as Hanna's Maggie, runs a private kitchen for Mrs. Mark Hanna at the Gotham Hotel. A separate kitchen and carefully chosen utensils serve her exclusive meals for the senator’s widow, while many guests are barred from her dishes. Maggie’s hash gained renown with President Roosevelt and other public figures.
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Hanna
Gotham Hotel
New York
Maggie
Ohio
Eliiil
Mark Hanna
the Gotham
Gotham
Cook
Roosevelt
Ufe
Senator Polliver urged to apologize for Kansas speech
Special to The Washington Post Chicago Oct 2 Senator Jonathan JP Polliver of Iowa faced calls to apologize after claiming on a Sedan Kansas stage that the University of Chicago campus resembles a Kansas oil town The statement alleged pressure from Standard Oil and Rockefellar influence silencing professors He cited a supposed 1902 Wisconsin professor Meyer and a Chicago Meyer mix up to support his claim The faculty issued a statement demanding his accountability noting the confusion of professors and urging an apology from the senator
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Washington Post
Chicago
Jonathan JP Polliver
Iowa
Sedan
Kans
University of Chicago
Kansas
John D Rockefeller
Meyer
Department of Political Economy
University of Wisconsin
B H Meyer
Wisconsin University
H R Meyer
Chicago University
Harvard
United States
Monkey Attacks Woman at Brandywine Park Zoo
A Brandywine Park Zoo monkey escaped keeper Martin and leaped on Miss Rebecca Welles while she tried to photograph the animal. The gown was torn as the monkey screeched and wrestled, then was restrained. The Brazil-origin simian had previously caused trouble in Milford, frightening pedestrians.
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Simian
Washington Post
Wilmington
Del
Brandywine Park Zoo
Martin
Rebecca Welles
Jocke
Miss Welles
Skeener Martin
Brazil
Becarsa
Milford
Will Still Pound Keys
Miss Amma Herzel, a park department stenographer, inherits 200000 from her uncle but remains grounded in work. She values her typewriter and plans to keep writing 25 000 despite wealth, living with her mother and three brothers at 4151 Green Sea Place in Port Louis.
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Washington Port Louis
Amma Herzel
Park
Miss Herzel
Green Sea Place
Joseph Herzel
San Francisco
Barnes death in jail ends hunger strike in murder case
James F Barnes awaiting trial for Patrick Banley’s murder in Butte, Montana, died in county jail after starving himself for three days. He refused food or drink, feared another lynching attempt, and reportedly had a history of a previous suicide attempt tied to a weakened stomach from prior fasting.
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Mian Mansom
Butte Mont
James F Barnes
Patrick Banley
Warnes
Ium
Guleide
Negro Baptists Open 25th Annual National Convention in Chicago
The twenty fifth annual session of the national convention of negro Baptists opened in Chicago with about 3 000 delegates. Congressman Madden gave a welcoming address on behalf of Governor Denene and Mayor Dunne, praising a city striving to extend equal opportunity and fair play to all residents.
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Chicago
National Convention of Negro Baptists
Sax Ston
Martin B. Madden
Gev Deneen
Dunne
Seek Auto Club Views on Proposed Vehicle Regulations
Washington officials will submit proposed amendments to motor vehicle regulations to the Washington Automobile Club for its views before action. Commissioner West seeks practical input from club members, starting with a rule to curb unauthorized auto operation and curb curbside mischief.
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West
Washington Automobile Club
H C Hunter
Harvard Street
Commissioner West
New Jersey
The
Automobile Club
W S Dunvail
Duvall
Crowd sensationally threatens lynching after streetcar injury
Mrs Thomas Langhelm of Los Angeles suffers severe injuries when alighting from a street car. William R Ruess, auto dealer salesman, is mobbed as crowd misreads his act of mercy in taking the crippled woman home for medical care. He flees as cries of lynch him echo. The injured woman remains unconscious through the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Thomas Langhelm
William R Ruess
Ruess
Mracehelm
Prof March Honored on Eightieth Birthday at Lafayette College
Lafayette College honors Prof Francis A March on his eightieth birthday and fiftieth anniversary of joining the college. Trustees offer retirement on current salary as he elects. The class of 19? has donated 1000 for the Francis A March alcove. Degrees conferred include MA Rickard and Archibald Fussell. Lehigh and Princeton figures are noted with Dr Guyot Cameron delivering the annual address on France in Its Military Literature.
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Lafayette College
Easton
Francis A March
Lafayette
Warfield
March
H Rickard
Archibald Douglas Fussell
Princeton
Henry Drinker
Lehigh University
Guyot Cameron
France
Excursions to Historic Virginia and Washington Sites
The Old Point Comfort area offers Fort Monroe Hampton Institute and the Chamberlin hotel. The Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Co runs nightly trips at 6:30 pm to Norfolk, with ticket offices at the wharf, Sixth Street and Penn Avenue, and 76 Fourteenth Street. The Charles Macalester steamer goes weekdays from Seventh Street wharf at 9:00 am and 2:30 pm to Mount Vernon and Washington, returning at 2:15 and 6:15 pm, with an elegant cafe onboard.
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Army
Navy
Old Point Comfort
Fort Monroe
Hampton Institute
Chamberlin
Old Point
Etty
Norfolk
Seventh Street
Sixth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Colorado Building
Mount Vernon
Washington
Charles Macalester
Seventh Street Wharf
Potomac
Maryland
Chuck Connors Laments Wife Wellie in Moving Obit
Chuck Connors known as the mayor of Chinatown mourns wife Wellie, who died after a long illness at St Joseph's Hospital. He recalls her teaching him the ABCs in three days and says she kept him straight. Burial from 6 Deoyers Street on Saturday. friends will cover expenses.
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New York
Chuck
Qauck
ABC
Deoyers Street
Uncle Joseph's Visit and the Confidence Trick
The narrator recounts Uncle Joseph's visit to New York where a trusting temperament leads him to befriend Prof Lostowerl, a famed insect authority. A scheme to test Uncle Joseph’s caution ends with a ruse about a $100 loan, exposing the professor and exposing the narrator’s own deception in a light, humorous tale of misunderstandings and moral tone.
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William
Urude Joseph
New York
Joseph
Prof Lostowerl
Uncle Joseph
Natural History Museum
Wiliam
Tob
James
The Toast of the Town at National Theater Next Week
Viola Allen stars in Clyde Fitch's four act drama The Toast of the Town at the National Theater with Isabel Irving as Roxana and Fanny Addison Pitt as the Dowager Duchess. the production promises unusual magnificence and rich novelty in staging and cast.
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Viola Allen
Clyde Fitch
National Theater
Miss Allen
Betty Singleton
George II
Misa Allen
Mr Fitch
Allen
Fitch
Milliken Wins $2000 in Coal Land Commission Suit
In Circuit Court No 2 Chief Justice Clabaugh presided as a jury awarded William A Milliken $2000 against Napoleon B Dotson for failure to pay a $250 per acre commission on a 10000 acre coal land sale in Harlan KY The trial held Dotson responsible due to the railroad outlet not being built as promised by the Southern Railway Company The verdict covers the three year suit with no interest awarded and attorneys J J Darlington and W C Sullivan for Milliken
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Clabaugh
William A Milliken
Napoleon B Dotson
Milliken
Harlan County
Dotson
J J Darington
W C Sullivan
Milken
Want Marriages Annulled Co-respondents Named in Suits
Alice Perks through attorney William G Smith began proceedings for divorce from Vergill Parks They were married July 31 193 and have lived in the District since then A co respondent is named in the petition A similar plea for divorce was filed by Frederick J Sherrer seeking separation from Mary WH Sherrer Married April 24 1900 they have no children A co respondent is named in the petition filed by Malcolm Hufty executor Emil Holer appointed to sell privately a tract of land north of Soldiers Home grounds Ruplville for 15000 The executor was represented by attorney Leon Tobriner All are United In saying that for all Stomach Liver or Kidney diseases there is no remedy like Electric Bitters
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Alice Perks
William G Smith
Vergill Parks
Jefferson
Ind
Frederick J Sherrer
Mary WH Sherrer
Malcolm Hufty
Rupliville
Anderson
Emil Holer
John J. Ripli
Soldiers’ Home
Ruplville
Leon Tobriner
Supreme Court and Circuit Court Docket Retroactive to Oct 1905
The legal record lists Supreme Court proceedings with Justices in attendance and cases in error and adjourned calls, equity and circuit court dockets, and assigned dates for Thursday Oct 26 1905, including various demurrers, judgments, and probate actions across multiple districts. It notes specific cases such as Jennings-Reywood Oil Syndicate v. development firms, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, and Interstate Commerce Commission, with appointments of trustees, liab le claims, and court orders.
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United States Supreme Court
Justice Harlan
Justice Brewer
Justice Brown
Justice White
Justice Peckham
Jnstice McKenta
Justice Holmes
Justice Day Sidney Elberttze Clarke
Hartford
Cong
George Lewes ‘Couper
New York City
Neo
Valentine Huber
Jennings-Reywood Oil Syndicate
Et A
H Generex Dufour
Corkran
Laurent Aromudet
Gilbert L. Dupre
Mr & B du Buisson
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company Et
Assistent
McReynolds
Interstate Commerce Communion
Randolph Harrieon
Chesapeake and Ghia Hailway Company
Et al
Dar
Real estate transfers across Washington list of parcels
Real estate transfers across Washington include numerous parcels in North West and Southeast areas. Listings show buyers and sellers such as Wallace C Stratton and Jane Stratton, Amanda Adama and Kate Van Neas, John Schultz and George Bohannon, with lots, squares, and blocks cited and prices ranging from zero to several thousand dollars. Numerous trusts and associations are named as secured parties, with dates and lot references across multiple neighborhoods.
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T Street
Wallace C Stratton
Jane E. Stratton
South Brookland
Amanda Adama
Kate van “Pas
Third Street
John Schultz
George E Bohannon
Twelfth Street
Strets
George W Barkman
Joseph
HE Wood
Metropolis View
Henry A Parka
Donald McPherson Company
Tennessee Avenue
George P .Secwton
Robert L
Carrie V Tillett
Petworth
WiLliam Brodt
Emma M Jackson
WOS
Mccluoloh Street
Anton Eberly
Elizabeth H. Mueller
Maria T Dryden
Donald McPherson
Mount
siansaNr
Pleasant Plains
Washington Heights
Trinidad
Benjamin Devie
Benjamin T Brant
John R Haisup
Kalorama Heights
R. Golden Donaldson
Adolph A Hoehling Jr
Eightheath Street
Minnie C Heider Eb Vir
Charles W
James F. Craven
Benjamin Dath
Crancisl Mackey
Lota
Marshall
John P F White
Annie R Brooks Et Vir
John ‘T
PF White
Marla P Dare
John F F White
Beck
Washington Highlands
Charles G Taylor
John C Bunn
Half Street
Allens Court
Richard Ryan
Percy McGilne Trustes
Mary P
Daniel WM Hyan
Washington
Anna Kritksteine
Harry B Mason
Georgi
Roger T Mitchell
Perpetual Building Association
L& Droit Park—Humiund
Elmon Wolf
Myer Cohen
Jacob H. Schiff
Mary £ Eliot
Washington Loan and Trust Company
Equitable Co-operative Building Association
Imlly Briggs Et Vir
Herbert T
Watson J Newton
H R Howenstein
George P Newton
Robert L. Tillett Et al
Cliffbourne
Henry
Ridenouv
John T Arms
Samuel A Drury
Helor B Hibbe
James F Craven
Frank A Har~rikon
John P Ahern
Michael A. Ahern
John P F .White
Marion Dickett
T Howard Duckett
Mary
Sam
David
Briscoe
Abaie R Brooks
Elizebeth Overman
Samuel Cryes
William A Gordon
Watson Clark
Goundry W Bingham
A Harrison
Michael 4A
Ahern
Cary N Welaiger
Hormet H Gasch
Robert & Shepherd
James M Johnston
D—Ellis George
Albert Ruf
Jacob N Belt
Home Mutual Building and Loan Association
Samuel G Hunter
Willia A Hill
Charles W Simpson
Clifford M Stoy
Grammer
Takoma Park
Carl King
Washington Loan End Trust Company
Equitable Cooperative Building Association
Moore
Frank F. McDermott
Herbert A Gill
Richard E Palro
Christine W Blddie
Moore and
Barbour
H R Mowenstein
Mantel Spetcher
Emanuel Apelch
Edgar A Collec
Herbert A Gil
Richard M Palro
Lydia
Robinson
Moore and Barbour
Hor Howenstein
Emanuel Speicher
Manuel Speichr
Baum Sues for Damages Over Party Wall Construction
In Circuit Court No 1 Justice Barnard began trial in Baum against Hutchins. The plaintiff claims construction at 1231 33 Pennsylvania Ave NW damaged adjoining property during removal of a stud partition to build a new wall. Leon Tobriner represents the plaintiff. Brandenburg & Brandenburg defend.
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Leon Tobriner
Brandenburg & Brandenburg
Albert Locks Sentenced to Six Years in Penitentiary
Justice Gould imposed a six year term on Albert Locks after a July Goat Alley murder attempt against Alice Brown. The verdict followed testimony of threats and mortal injury, shocking the defendant who asked, Who, judge, me. The article also notes pension petitions against Samuel R Herbert for habitual drunkenness, a support-raise bid by Mra Paul ne Vogt, and William H Buchanan’s acquittal on false pretenses in a Philadelphia draft case.
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Criminal Court NO
Justice Gould
United States
William H Buchanan
J B Mo Laughlin
Pinkney Hawkins
English
Albert Locks
Bride
Henry Ward
George Morgan
Merving
J¢ Lerner
Gould
Locks
Alice Brown
Goat Alley
Certiorari cases moved to Justice Gould for trial
Justice Barnard of Circuit Court No 1 certifies justice of the peace certiorari appeals to Justice Gould of Criminal Court No 32 for trial. Gould will begin Wednesday November 1 by calling the first ten cases on the appeal docket.
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Justice Barnard
Justice of the Peace
Justice Gould
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Kaliyuga
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Silver
Lostowerl
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Joseph B Bowies
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Penn. Ave
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London
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Frank Wyatt
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Harry Qonor
Red Robe
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Charles Frohman
Qglirl
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Sidney Lee
J M Bullivan
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Sanders& Stayman's
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Boughton
Putman & Foe
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Matthews
Gwynn Gardiner
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R W Hughes
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Ea- Win
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Heinecke
L J. Mather
Corbin
Washington Mathway and Electric Company
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T PF Myere
John Ridout
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O Ro Wilton
Ww Milton
Circuil Court
Clabaugh Millen Ya Dodson
J J Darlington
W O Sullivan
G C. Hagerton
H J May
I Fewtikt
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Tuckerenyon
Strobel Va Gheshan
M J Colbert
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T Clinkecales
J_A Cobb
G McRoberts
Zem
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va_ McCauler
L. P. Loving—Birney & Wood
Rockwell Va Capital Traction Company
E Carnal & Sone
R Rosa Perry & Son
G T Dunlop
Justice Wright
William Gordon
Robert Corcoran
Annis M Wise
Donoghue
Isabel C Meade
Attormeya McGowan Servan
Equiy
Alice M Peck
Appelonia Whitehall
Justinian Mayberry
HG Kimball
Mary E Sherrer
Malcolm Hutty
Alice Parks
Vergil H Parka
W G Smith
Mary Sherman Mcwallum
Mary A Eis
EBC Wagenhurst
Baum
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Alfonzo A. Maxim
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Samuel R Herbert
Herbert
Maxim
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D W VU Donoghue
Frederick H Vogt
Justice Anderson
Paul Ne Vogt
Mr Vogt
Wiliam H Buchanan
Charles J Harley
Harley
Buchanan
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