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Tuesday, May 30, 1911

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The Headlines

TOBACCO TRUST FOUND GUILTY AND MUST DISSOLVE; COURT IS TO FIX LEGAL FORM OF BIG BUSINESS; Supreme Court Holds All the Defendants Guilty of Violating the Sherman Act. RULE OF REASON DEFENDED Under It, Says Justice White, Any Subterfuge of the Guilty Monopoly Fails. HARLAN AGAIN DISSENTS Repeats, as in Standard Oil Case, That These Decisions Are Judicial Legislation. UNITED CIGAR STORES IN Not to be Excluded from Findings, as in Lower Court's Decree -- English Companies In, Too. EIGHT MONTHS TO CHANGE Trust's Plans Must Then Be Approved by Circuit Court -- Sweeping Government Victory, Says Wickersham. Court Describes How the Tobacco Trust Killed Competition

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Irving Berlin

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

lousysnapshotmovies

Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1911

  • Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

Tech Check

Air Mail, Hydroplane & Electric Starter for Cars.

Cost of Living (1910)

Loaf of Bread

$0.06

Gallon of Gas

$0.15

Average Home

$3,600

New Car

$950

Time Elapsed

42,010 days ago

(115 years, 35 days)