New York Faces Reform Push and Transit Plans
The Hughes commission report on Wall Street calls for higher margins and a tax on undelivered securities while condemning bucket shops. Independence groups emerge to challenge Tammany with a broad anti-Tammany coalition, and private funding may back new subways in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx as transit needs loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Edgerton
New York
Hughes
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Bradley-Gaffney- Steers Company
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Bronx
Traction Trust
Ryan-Belmont Traction Trust
Bradley-Gaffney- Steers
Clergyman Matthews Tours Seattle Brewing Plant
Reverend M A Matthews of the First Presbyterian Church toured the Seattle Brewing and Malting plant with president Andrew Heinrich. He described the visit as a private, hours long see through from basement to garrets, noting no sermons or public lessons would follow and calling the plant a model of modern brewing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. A. Matthews
First Presbyterian Church
Seattle Brewing & Malting Company
Andrew Heinrich
Seattle Times
Georgetown
Rainier
Heinrich
Thaw Sanity Hearing Resumes Before Justice Mills
A large crowd packed the court room in White Plains as the sanity hearing for Harry K. Thaw resumed before Justice Mills. It is anticipated that multiple days of expert testimony will be required by both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Plains
N. Y
Harry K. Thaw
Justice Mills
RIAL OF FAMOUS BANK CASES ASHEVILLE OFFICIALS FACE LIFE TERMS
Three former officers of the defunct First National Bank of Asheville face possible life imprisonment if convicted on all counts of conspiracy embezzlement and fraud. Major W. E. Breese Joseph E. Dickerson and W. H. Penland stand trial in U S district court after a long appellate history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
N. C
First National Bank of
Newman
United States District Court
W. E. Breese
Joseph E. Dickerson
W. H. Penland
Court Upheld Seven Year Sentence In Embezzlement Case
The case was carried to the United States circuit court of appeals and dismissed for faulty Asheville indictment due to two grand jurors not paying taxes. Louis Wetsel of Wenatchee arrives with family to settle in the valley and seeks furniture transport from Pateros as he plans a freight job. He is brother of Allen Wetsel and a Little Wetsel company member. Local notes include hog shipments by Allen Wetsel, visitors from Montana, and Bitter Root Ditch company irrigation project.
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Gaynor
Tammany
Little Tim
Sullivan
William B. Ellison
Ellison
Assembly
Corporation
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Asheville
Grand Jury
Louis Wetsel
Wenatchee
Barnhart Place
Mr. Wetsel
Allen Wetsel
Little Wetsel Company
Pateros
James Dockery
Vernie Foley
Selt
Montana
Fred Yoder
Dockery
Bitter Root Ditch Company
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Greater
Turmer Traaimany
Crokeroid
Gillerau
Hearst
Jefferson Hall Society
Hoffman Lease
Good Old Times
Committee of One Hundred
Old Citizens’ Union
Independence League
anti-Tammany
Nathan Straus
Gould
Four Hundred
Henry Watterson
Mr. Ghim
Lusitania
Mauretania
George Washington
North German
Lloyd Line
New York Harbor
Connecticut
Greenwich
Burlington
N. J
Philadelphia
Cap
Horace White
Matthews
Seattle Presbyterian Pas
Tor
I Sam
Violet Berlin
Spokane
Morrison
Columbia
Percy Scheble
Mollie Morrison
F. T. Motteler
Leavenworth
Mrs. Carmack
Cashmere
Mrs. Evans
Rial
United States
North Carolina
Major Breese
Greensboro
Grand
Dickerson
Atlanta
Charlotte
Methow Valley News
Joe Johnson
Lakeside
Methow
Little Wetsel Meat Co
J. H. Auvil
Entiat
Wholesale Commission Merchants
G. William Ask
Chewawa Hotel
Seattle, Wash
Wenatchee Park
Joseph A. Murphy, Alfred L. Hill
Columbia Valley Bank Bldg
Fancy Charlies
H. L. Wiester
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