Show I II I I I REAL BIRTHDAY OF ST STANDARD ANDARD 1 oft IS DISCOVERED AT LAST jj J rI i J S New Nev York Nov No n. j. Fhe real birthday birthday birth birth- day a or of the stan vas trust was fur tur the first time discovered today toda The Greatest of or monopolies Is really three years older than any of or Its HI many historians historians historians his his- and Investigators hn has over been able to prove I April s S. S 1879 nas CUI the date uto when tho the greatest and most secret oC or trusts W was 9 really formed Instead oC or 1882 the birthday date that has hIlS beon been ac ac- accepted 1 for tor years It means that hat a athe athe at atthe the last secret palt of or the oil octopus 29 9 candles were wera burned burnel instead of or 20 6 26 This fact was established tod today utter after a careful consideration consid consid- of or the documents an and exhibits ex ox- hibits presented into the records of or by John Jo n G. G IlI- IlI tho to pending suits sulU 1 1 I. t I burn bum l Rosenthal and John S. S Miller attorneys of or the tho trust and anti John D D. Rockefeller S For several elal years government go in investigators investigators In- In have suspected that the famous trust agreement of oC 1882 was not the real rea beginning of ot tho the Standard Standard Stand Stand- ard Oil trust They were absolutely unable to prove PIO It H. Not a single single- document document doc doe or trust agreement a before be Core that thai date 1 ate hall had been roun found fh The state nu- nu who ho have hav instituted actions against the trust in Ohio Missouri l and other states slates were quite as unable to trl huh proof that tho the Standard Oil trust was more than 26 years old The Tho first trust agreement was locked locked lock lock- ed up uI In ln th the Innermost secret vaults or of tho thu Standard Oil on company It ro- ro l there there until the Wednesday lust a when John Milburn resurrected It In a n quiet period of ot the Mr lr Milburn pa passed ed the famous first agreement to Mr lr Rockefeller and asked him to J Identify as man many of ot the signatures Las ras as ho could The agreement agreement agree agree- ment was not rend read and an although there were WE're 40 0 newspapermen In th the Iho court courtroom courtroom room at tho time Mr Rockefellers Rockefeller's perusal of or It did not flOt attract enough attention for tor any anyone one to examine the tho document It was vas formally put Into the record record rec rec- I ord and must stand from this on ou as the first in tho Iho history of or tho the Standard r Oil on trust As An n ii historical document it Is of ot unu unusual ual Importance Imp wl h the trust agreement of which was prepared b by Mr l Dodd former chief solicitor of or Standard Oil S tf J |