Equitable Funds Questioned in Morton Disclosure
Washington Port reports Paul Morton alleges substantial proof that funds once credited to Equitable Life were not delivered to its treasury. The testimony ties trustee accounts and Mercantile Trust to undisclosed profits, with Morgan & Co. and New York Life scrutiny rising as Perkins may resign. Morgan reportedly displeased, Perkins possibly leaving NY Life or Morgan firm amid testimony and rumors.
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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 Listed
A health office record lists multiple deaths with ages, including individuals such as Josephine Voie aged about 4, Margie Cilag around 1, Viola aged 60, Ley and others with ages spanning infancy to elderly. The fragmentary OCR notes mention Infant and various names with dates or ages, indicating a local death registry entry.
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Josephine Voie
Rca
Margaer
Sears
John Sporer
Notice of Marriage and Death Announcements Across Major Papers
The Washington Post will, upon application, publish marriage and death notices simultaneously in multiple 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, Dispatch, New Orleans Journal, Herald, Journal, Minneapolis Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 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 in Illinois inquiry against Western Life Indemnity
Illinois investigation into Western Life Indemnity reveals likely drain of insureds as 28 small companies merged into Western Life, reducing assets from 917000 to 300000. Auditor Fronts notes policyholders remain paying premiums while effectively uninsured, court limits asset use to death claims and delays merger actions.
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Western Life Indemnity
Chicago
Lucius Fronts
Western Life
Kohlsaut
Levinson
Beimg
Tong
Banic
Rosenfeld
Gray
Wohlsaat
Kohlsaat
Rosenfelds Siluy
Isaac Mayer
Credit Shaken Abroad by U S Scandals
Hamilton W Mabie, editor of Outlook, warned in New York of lasting harm to American credit from life insurance and cotton report scandals. He argued European observers mock US finance and that Equitable Society fraud and cotton leak felonious attacks on national honor, hurting overseas trust and provoking heavy losses in German cotton speculation.
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Washington
Germany
Equitable Assurance Society
Europe
Komura Praises Roosevelt as Japan Sees Common Interests
Baron Komura, Japan peace plenipotentiary, tells the Associated Press there will be no change in Japan’s foreign policy. He emphasizes peaceful expansion in commerce and industry and says U.S. and Japan share identical interests in the Far East. He departs for Montreal to Vancouver and 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
William A. Hill
Hill
Japan Dissatisfied, Kaihara Claims Tokyo Peace Talks Flawed
Kentaro Kayahara editor of the Orodzu Choho in Tokyo says in Seattle that Japanese people largely disapprove of the peace treaty. He predicts the ministry will dissolve and the cabinet resignations are sought as the Emperor attends throne memorials. A live shihimi plant was sent to Baron Komura’s residence on August 31, with police seeking the sender.
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Seattle
Wash
Kentaro Kayahara
Japan
Baran Komura
May Block Suez Canal Threat Brings Sinking Ship Sparks Stop
Port Said Sept 26 A serious stoppage of traffic on the Suez Canal is threatened due to the need to blow up the British steamer Chatham sunk on Sept 6 after catching fire. The wreck, loaded with eighty tons of dynamite, may be exploded Thursday morning to clear the waterway possibly creating a crater. Experts say the outcome is unpredictable and could block the canal for days, with divers preparing to detonate the dynamite using gelatine and an onshore electric line.
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Port Said
Egypt
Suez Canal
Chatham
Nobel Company
Suez Canal Company
Great Britain Japan Alliance Terms and Implications
The article outlines the Anglo Japanese alliance with articles on mutual aid if war arises, Japan’s control in Korea, Britain’s frontier interests in India, and neutrality unless others join Russia. It notes the treaty’s ten year term, conditions for continuation, and diplomatic communications via Lord Lansdowne and ambassadorial dispatches to St Petersburg and Paris.
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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 Armistice Talks
In Kornili Bay on September 18 Rear Admiral Jessen and Rear Admiral Shimamura failed to agree on mine issues during armistice talks. The parties refused to discuss floating mines, preventing steps to locate remove or map their positions. Until mines are addressed neutral shipping remains at risk in the area of recent naval operations.
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St Petersburg
Jessen
Shimamura
Kornili Bay
Key to the China Sea by Singapore base
Paris reports Admiral Fournier says Singapore naval station provides a strategic base to block passage in the China Sea and suppress China Europe communications. Singapore becomes Great Britain's key to the door of the China Sea. In St Petersburg a bomb near Kovyno wounds six including police and women.
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Paris
Fournier
Singapore
China Sea
China
Europe
Great Britain
St Petersburg
Ivanoff
Kovyno
Russia
Horror of Baku massacre shocks oil workers in Balakhan
English survivors recount brutal Armenian mass killings at Baku starting September 2. Tartars and workers battered, looted, and held under siege as 500 Tartars killed, 14 in a single yard. Cossacks watched. 11,000 troops arrive. authorities forbid firing on consular houses. Wages arrears ordered settled.
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London
Baku
England
Williams
Balakhan
Zabrat
Naizan
Edward MacCallum
Romani
MacCallum
Tartar
Caucasia
Zemstvo Convention Urges National Assembly Powers
Moscow dispatch says zemstvo delegates led by Prince Dolgorouk demand a national assembly with broad powers. They call for universal direct suffrage, village liberation from guardianship, abolition of Zemski Natchalnik, guaranteed personal rights, freedom of conscience and press, and a democratic body spanning the empire with Zemstvo participation. Delegates urge Siberian elections to include its reps in the first imperial Douma.
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Moscow
Zemstvos
Dolgorouk
Tiflis
Empire
Zemski Natchalnik
Siberia
Students End Strike at St Petersburg University
After a lengthy debate the St Petersburg University students voted to resume studies, arguing an open university is more dangerous to imperialism than continuing the strike. About two thousand students packed the hall as speeches by socialists urged ongoing reform. the university will reopen on September 30.
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He Petersburg
St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Russia
National Assembly
Greenland expedition plans and history move forward
Copenhagen reports Mylius Ericksen preparing a Danish ship and a sledge party for a northeast Greenland expedition. The plan has approval from the American Geographical Society and the Royal Geographical Society, with past returns recounting two and a half years of field work and ethnological records. mentions of previous rescue aid by whalers and survival in Saunders Island.
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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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Arne Loaigabed
Kurtz
Mathews
Health Office Record
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Illinois Inquiry
Komura
Tokyo
Grosser Kurfurst
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Keiser
Wilhelm der Grosso
Liverpool
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Helena
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