charlton

Porter Charlton an American bank clerk, was convicted of murdering his new wife Mary Scott during their honeymoon at Lake Como in 1910.

I added him to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Charlton

Apparently he is being hustled up the gangplank of a boat. Would it be the one taking him back to Italy for trial? Or is it the one returning him from Italy, after he served the laughable sentence of 29 days for murder? One of those dashing plainclothes carabinieri has a firm grip on Charlton's left elbow. 29 days probably would be an insufficient span of time for poor Charlton to read the two books he carries with him . . . . [Since the Bain agency has placed its copyright notice on the photo, we may assume that Bain's agent took the shot, at a dock in New York harbor.]

Harvey Washington Wiley (October 30, 1844 - June 30, 1930) was a noted chemist best known for his leadership in the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and his subsequent work at the Good Housekeeping Institute laboratories. He was the first commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration. ... In 1912, Wiley resigned and took over the laboratories of Good Housekeeping magazine, where he continued his work on behalf of the consuming public. His disapprobation of "drugged" products included as the caffeine in cola drinks, against which he warned as vehemently as he would have against the cocaine they had once contained. In a famous action brought against the Coca-Cola company in 1911, he contended that it was illegal to use the name Coca-Cola when there was no actual cocaine in the drink, and also that it was illegal for it to contain caffeine as an additive. Perversely, this was as much as to say that the product ought to have contained cocaine and not caffeine. Still, the case was a landmark in developing standards for truth in labelling. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_W._Wiley

Thanks for Wiley's fuller name. We'll add it to the description next time we update the recors.

Hazen J. Titus became Northern Pacific's superintendent of dining cars in 1908. He introduced " The Great Big Baked Potato " and other regional items, see www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/hazen-titus-fruit-cake-tin... and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_potato In 1913, he suppressed the fingerbowls in the dining cars because they were unsanitary (The Daily Missoulian., November 08, 1913, Morning, Page 5, column 1)

A. D. Charlton was assistant general passenger agent of the Northern Pacific Railways, see e.g. The ranch., August 01, 1911, Page 14 (advertisement) Pullman herald., March 16, 1917, Image 1, "OPENING OF NEW N. P. DEPOT ATTRACTS TREMENDOUS CROWD", where he is mentioned together with H.J. Titus East Oregonian, July 27, 1908, EVENING EDITION, Page 8, column 5, "PREDICTS BIG WHEAT CROP"

George Ainslie: According to www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6918704, this was George Ainslie (1868 - 1931), Mayor of Richmond, Virginia from 1912 to 1924 (at least there is this photo of him). But there are other photos of him in the newspapers, p.e. in The times dispatch., August 23, 1912, Image 1 or The times dispatch., April 29, 1914, Image 1 and I think it's another person. His wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ainslie_%28Virginia_politici... Another George Ainslie was Congressional delegate from Idaho Territory, which would make sense, if the photo was in connection with the Idaho baked potato, but this man would be to old (he died in 1913, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ainslie_%28delegate%29). The man on the photo could be a son of him, but that's only a guess.

In the right margin you can see in mirror view 6/20/28=June 20, 1928. Wonder if it is the date taken or published.

"Air Commodore Lionel Evelyn Oswald Charlton, CB, CMG, DSO (7 July 1879 – 18 April 1958) was a British infantry officer who served in the Second Boer War. During the First World War, Charlton held several command and staff posts in the Royal Flying Corps, finishing the war as a brigadier general. Transferring to the Royal Air Force on its creation, Charlton served in several air officer posts until his retirement from the air force in 1928." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Charlton "Thomas Tingey Craven (8 July 1873, Vallejo, California - 5 April 1950, St. Albans, New York) was a United States Naval Officer with service in World War I and World War II and rose to the rank of Vice Admiral" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tingey_Craven_(US_Navy_admiral)

In 1919, General Lionel Evelyn Oswald Charlton was air attaché to the British Embassy at Washington; Captain T. T. Craven was director of the United States Naval Air Service. The New-York tribune., July 05, 1919 Page 2, col. 1 reported that they were both at Mineola. Charlton was there to supervise the work of mooring the R-34 when she arrived. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1919-07-05/ed-... So this photo was certainly taken at that occasion. 1928 was the year of retirement of L. E. O. Charlton (April 1, 1928, according to www.lancs-fusiliers.co.uk/FamousLFS/Lionel%20Evely%20Oswa...).