Items of Interest

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The Keokuk & Hamilton Water Power Company, whose gigantic dam across the Mississippi river was recently completed, together with officials of the war department, are involved in an investigation by a committee of the House of Representatives, which the conservationists will try to have ordered as soon as Congress comes together.
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A suit for ten million dollars against the Quaker Oats Company, its directors, and the directors of the Great Western Cereal Company, has been filled in the United States district court at Chicago by receivers of the cereal company.
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The United States circuit court of appeals has decided that the Waltham Watch Company of Waltham, Mass.