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Died. Joseph Kittridge Choate, 74, consulting engineer, president of the Morris County Traction Co., for 15 years vice president of the J. G. White Management Corp., nephew of the late famed Joseph H. Choate; of bronchial pneumonia; in San Francisco...
Light, power, gas and traction companies operating in 98 New York cities were affected by a business deal last week. But the people in those cities felt no throb in the even running of their utilities...
...view of this revelation it may fairly be asked, how much of the uninformed and unreliable propaganda last summer against the Mexican religious laws was inspired by those higher up. Such methods are more worthy of the Balkans than of a government which has supposedly stood for peaceful are traction of international disputes. If this government really has a case, which seems doubtful in view of the preceding facts, let it be taken to the World Court or the Hague Tribunal for settlement...
...that the greatest sum expended failed to obtain the election. In Illinois a somewhat different slant was given to the matter, since the expenses of the two opposing candidates came from the same source, that is, the so-called erection interests. In this way, whoever won the election, the traction interests, so to speak, came...
...wisely, impartial and aloof, but without much effect, as is the way with newspapers. Then occurred an episode unusual to modern journalism. Away from his piled-up desk in Union Street strode Editor Marshall Ballard of the New Orleans Item-Tribune. Like any able editor, he had followed the traction situation closely, knew it thoroughly. By telephone he had assembled the streetcar operators, the workers and the city's Commission Council. To them he now marched and with a few crisp words of common sense, a bit of gruff humor and some judicious ejaculations, soon brought concord...