Rumor and evidence of Equitable funds traced to trustees
Special to The Washington Post reports Paul Morton alleging substantial proof that payments to Equitable Life’s profits were not turned into its treasury and that trustee entries hid profits or losses. Morgan and Perkins romance dominates Wall Street with Perkins rumored to resign from New York Life and possibly J P Morgan & Co amid scrutiny.
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Beals
J. P Morgan
George W. Perkins
New York Life
Morgan & Co
Washington Port
Paul Morton
Equitable Life Assurance Scaciety
Equitable
Morton
Armstrong
Tritha
Equitteale
Syrdia
Ing Mercantile ‘Trust
Louis Ezgerald
Asests
EL Squire
Grobs
Tre T Meartnes
Ter
Marten
MSU
New York
Amd
Thomas
Perticall
Roth
Insurance
Wall Street
Health Office Record Deaths and Ages Across 20th Century
Health office ledger lists deaths with ages including centenarians and infants. Entries mention individuals such as Josephine Voie and Marger Cilag, with ages spanning from infancy to about 60 years, and various towns or wards. The document preserves scattered names, ages, and brief notes, typical of obituary-like death tallies from a historical record.
Notice on free cross-paper marriage and death notices
The Washington Post will, upon application, publish marriage and death notices simultaneously in several morning newspapers at no extra charge. The list includes New York Times, Boston Globe, Buffalo Courier, Cincinnati Enquirer, Chicago Record Herald, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Pittsburgh Post, and others.
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Washington Post
NEW York Times
Boston Globe
Buffalo Coirier
Cincinnati Enquirer
Chicago Record Herald
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Pitts S
Policy holders lose as Illinois inquiry targets Western Life
Chicago reports state examiner findings show Western Life Indemnity and 28 absorbed companies leave original policyholders uninsured while premiums continue. Assets drop from 917000 to 300000. judge Kohlsaat schedules continued hearings and restraining orders on ordinary business hidden behind mergers and claims of mismanagement. Attorneys Levinson and Mayer argue over the company’s finances and potential merger delays.
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Chicago
Western Life Indemnity
Lucius Fronts
Western Life
Kohlsaut
Levinson
Beimg
Tong
Banic
Rosenfeld
Gray
Wohlsaat
Kohlsaat
Rosenfelds Siluy
Isaac Mayer
Credit damaged by US life and cotton scandal abroad
Hamilton Mabie, editor from Outlook, says European critics mock American finances after New York Life and cotton leak exposures. He warns the scandals have harmed US credit abroad and sparked contempt in Germany for government incompetence in cotton speculation.
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Washington
Germany
Equitable Assurance Society
Europe
Komura Sees Mutual US Japan Interests. No Policy Change
Baron Komura, Japan’s peace plenipotentiary, praises President Roosevelt’s role in peace with Russia, stresses Japan’s continued peaceful expansion in commerce and industry, and reiterates identical US interests. He departs New York for Montreal and Vancouver, then sails home aboard the Empress of India.
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Japan
United States
New York
Baron Komura
Associated Press
Roosevelt
Russia
Far East
Barton Komura
Ins
New York Central
Montreal
Vancouver
Saskatchewan
Dissatisfaction in Japan reportedly grows over peace terms
In Seattle Kyahara editor of a Tokyo newspaper says most Japanese oppose the peace treaty and expect a cabinet resignation. He predicts ministerial collapse and imperial attention to throne memorials. In Victoria a live shihimi plant was sent to Baron Komura on August 31, with police seeking the sender.
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Seattle
Wash
Kentaro Kayahara
Japan
Baran Komura
May block Suez Canal due to Chatham wreck explosion
Port Said reports a serious traffic stoppage threat in the Suez Canal after the British steamer Chatham sank on September 6 and carried 80 tons of dynamite. Divers will place blasting gelatine in the hold connected to an electric battery to explode the dynamite, with experts warning of uncertain damage. The explosion could deepen or crater the canal, and the duration of blockage is expected to be only a few days according to the canal company.
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Port Said
Egypt
Suez Canal
Chatham
Nobel Company
Suez Canal Company
Britain and Japan alliance text outlined with Korea claims
The document details a ten year treaty between Great Britain and Japan, pledging mutual aid if either enters war over territorial rights, with Japan’s paramount interests in Korea recognized. It allows cooperation to safeguard Indian frontier security and emphasizes equal opportunities for commerce and industry among nations.
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Japan
Korea
Great Britain
Russia
St. Petersburg
St Petersburg
Charles Hardinge
Lord Lansdown
Far East
Lord Lansdowne
Asia
Lansdowne
Hts
Allance
Francis Bertie
Paris
Menace to Shipping in Kornili Bay Mines Dispute
Reports from St Petersburg state that during a September 18 meeting between Rear Admirals Jessen and Shimamura the Japanese refused to discuss floating mines. Without agreement on mine removal and locations, no steps could be taken to remove or account for the mines, leaving them a danger to neutral shipping amid recent naval operations.
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St Petersburg
Jessen
Shimamura
Kornili Bay
Key to the China Sea: Singapore a British naval stronghold
In an interview Admiral Fournier argues Singapore’s naval base blocks China Sea passages and can suppress China Europe commercial links, making Singapore Britain’s key to the China Sea. In Kovyno Russia, a bomb attack injures six including police guards and civilians near town gardens.
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Paris
Fournier
Singapore
China Sea
China
Europe
Great Britain
St Petersburg
Ivanoff
Kovyno
Russia
Horror of Baku Massacre Reveals Armenian Attack
English witnesses recount horrors at Baku starting September 2 with Armenian killings of Tartars, mass shootings, and arson. Two rescued Britons describe siege scenes, with 500 Tartars killed in Romani barracks and brutal massacres in the yard as Cossacks stood by. Reinforcements arrive. authorities vow to curb fires and wages arrears enforced.
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London
Baku
England
Williams
Balakhan
Zabrat
Naizan
Edward MacCallum
Romani
MacCallum
Tartar
Caucasia
Demand for National Assembly Moves Zemstvo Congress in Moscow
In Moscow on September 26 the zemstvo delegates led by Prince Dolgorouk outlined a political program calling for a national assembly with broad powers. The plan demands universal suffrage, village liberation from guardianship, abolition of the pansport system, and a representative body to oversee legislation and administration. Delegates from Siberia urged timely elections for the first imperial Douma.
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Moscow
Zemstvos
Dolgorouk
Tiflis
Empire
Zemski Natchalnik
Siberia
Students End Strike At St Petersburg University
After five hours of debate in a packed assembly hall, St Petersburg University students vote to resume studies on September 30. Speakers, mainly socialists, argue concessions are insufficient, with plans to reopen the university as a center of reform and anti-imperialist agitation.
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He Petersburg
St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Russia
National Assembly
Greenland expedition plans and historic return detailed
Copenhagen reports Mylius Ericksen preparing a Danish ship and sledge party for an expedition to the northeast coast of Greenland with approval from the American Geographical Society and the Royal Geographical Society. The first expedition under Encksen returned in November after two and a half years, living with Eskimos and surviving on eggs. The party faced near starvation, had one gun, abandoned gear, and was aided by whalers who supplied materials for a new boat before reaching West Greenland.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Mylius Ericksen
Greenland
Ericksens
American Geographical Society
Royal Geographical Society
London
Nansen
von Drygalski
Berlin
Mylius Encksen
Saunders Island
Melville Bay
West Greenland
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