Quaker Bank Fails Over Bad Real Estate Loans
The Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia, bank to the Presbyterian Church and city deposits, has closed after heavy loans by former president Frank K. Hipple to promoter Adolph Segal. Receiver George E. Earle Jr. plans a depositor plan as a remedy, while directors uncover securities gaps and a possible hypnotic influence over Hipple.
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Clearing House Association
George E. Earle, Jr
Finance Company of Pennsylvania
Hipple
Directory
Segal
International Rust Sparks Diamond Match Consolidation
Russell Hawkins of New York, vice president of Diamond Match Co, travels to Japan as talks advance on a cross border combine with Diamond Match and Bryant & May of England. The plan envisions a trust in form but separate national operations to sidestep domestic anti trust concerns, linking Diamond’s US interests with British empire and Japanese distribution in the Far East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diamond Match Company
Japan
England
Russell Hawkins
New York
Bryant & Mar
2 Combine
Diamond
Far East
Spokane Youth Confesses to Ax Murder of Father
Sidney Sloane, 17, confessed to killing his father James F. Sloane, a Spokane merchant, with an ax after midnight. The body was found behind racks in an alley. police said the motive appeared to be theft of $699.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
James F. Sloane
Wash
Sidney Sloane
Casudy
Prairie Gas and Oil Cuts Prices on Western Oils
Prairie Gas and Oil Co of Tuddpendence Kansas reduces prices by cents per barrel. High grade Urinigs now 24 cents and faci oll 20 cents. If drilling continues, officials warn prices may fall further.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiaisas OM
Prairie Gas and Oil Company
Tuddpendence
Kan
Friends Believe She Was Poisoned Victim Dies in Chicago
Miss Rena Jones, believed by relatives to have been poisoned, died in a Chicago hospital on August 15. Physicians announced post mortem findings showing death from heart failure with no evidence of poisoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rena Jones
Chicago
Sloax City Livestock Market Prices Noted
Tuesday notations at the Stowey Ave market show cattle and hog prices with quick figures: special bids for sellers at 9.25, 5.85, top lots around 80.00. The fragment records market activity and price levels for livestock trading.
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Sloax City
Stowey Ave
Deaths and Disastrous Camp Meeting Incident Report
Was Friend of Sheeta, Wells of Melisun Sau, a civil engineer for Burlington railway, and ally of Aurahany Lincott when both Myed in Sprinfield, is dead at his home aged 7d years. Butanly Shot at Camp Meeting, William Workman, son of a Physician, was faking siet about midnight sky a police ulcer at Bellevue camp meeting grounds, Wear Independence, spe.
Interstate rate law cuts railroad charge details end
A New York dispatch reports a new interstate rate law going into effect at midnight Monday. Railroads must file all tariffs with the commission showing total transportation cost and itemized components. Shippers will receive one final charge, ending the practice of separate incidental charges. Railroads lagged on filing schedules, with fines possible but extra time likely for sincere compliance.
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New York
Interstate Clmumerce Commission
Commission
Tmidvisht
Ti Wes
Not &Singit
Hes Beer
Stta
Interstate Commerce Commission
Potato Blight Fears Irelandwide Destruction
Potato blight has appeared in every Irish county with fields blackened in many districts. Government officials investigate as fears rise of a famine next winter. Past famines in 1845 46 showed starvation levels, with millions affected and relief from England and the United States proving insufficient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Connaught
America
England
United States
Woman Wipes Out Family Near Piggott Ark in Ax Killing
Mrs Frank Polsgrove wife of a well known farmer near Piggott Arkansas killed her husband and a 4 year old child with an axe on Saturday night and fatally wounded two other children a 13 year old boy and a 7 year old girl She then set fire to the building cremating the bodies of the man and the 4 year old The two injured children were found in a nearby field badly mutilated and not expected to survive Police report the mother confessed and begged to be killed
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Heroming
Frank Polsgrove
Piggott
Ark
Delayed Execution Reprieve Granted in Missouri Case
Gov Folk in Jefferson City issued a reprieve to Mrs Agnes Myers Anowitz until Oct 26 and a respite to Frank Hottman until Oct 4, delaying the planned Sept 2 hanging for the murder of her husband. The delay allows time for appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov. Folk
Myers Anowitz
Gov. Falk
Jefferson City
Agnes Myers
Liberty
Cov. Folk
Frank Hottman
Myers
United States Supreme Court
Shaw to Speak in Missouri Campaign Tour
Teale M Shaw secretary of the treasury has accepted an invitation from the Republican state speakers bureau to spend a week making campaign speeches in Missouri. He will speak first at Manubai September 7 then at Kansas City Moberly Carrollton Joplin and other cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaw
Missouri
Teale M. Shaw
Secretary of the Treasury
Missous
OO Madison
Bureau
Manubai
Kansas City
Moberly
Carrollton
Joplin
Thereties
South Carolina Lynching of William Spain in Dorchester County
A 27 year old Black man, William Spain, was shot to death by a white man at St George in Dorchester County on Thursday afternoon. This marks the third lynching in South Carolina within a short period, highlighting ongoing racial violence in the state.
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South Garolina
William Spain
St George
Dorchester County
South Carood
South Carolina
Budsoo Track Money Gone Verifiled Corpse Found
The verified corpse of Tdeon Lauglesy of Kukemo Indiana was found on the Pennsylvania tracks Sunday morning. Thirty one dollars he had when he left town Saturday night. Nearby Montana northern train derailed near Swift, Montana, Monday with several men identified as Prank BE Prewitt and Charter Schultz HW Ardivelen Mont, and Iyer Brew among those killed.
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Budsoo
Tdeon “ Lauglesy
Kukemo
Lnd
Pennsylvania
Veel
Montana
Swift
Monland
Prewitt
Charter Schultz
Ardivelen
Mont
Paskeigerd
Iyer
Brew
Cuba Nears War as Rebel Sentiment Grows
Rebel feeling tightens around Havana as President Talim seeks peaceful paths but opts to expand the army. A $2,000,000 defense fund and constant drafts signal escalating conflict. Labor shortages loom as workers eye volunteer life for higher pay. Regiments recruit, while authorities debate decrees and possible recalls. Numerous citizens gather at bulletin boards for volunteer calls amid mounting tension.
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Talim
Cuba
Treasury
Palma
Brush
Wife claims husband alive after insurance fraud scheme
Mrs. P. J. Kempler of Chicago reported her husband disappeared last April and later identified a fetid corpse as his. She collected $4,900 on one policy and a small fraternal policy, then said the man in Allegan, Michigan is alive after disguising herself and visiting him.
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P. J. Kempler
Chicago
Kempler
Lake Michigan
Alegan
Mich
Allegan
Battle at Crab Orchard Railway Camp Kills Two
In Crab Orchard Virginia near the Kentucky line a clash between an officers posse and a gang of black workers led by John Powers left Powers and Charles Smith dead. William Barker a posse member and several others were wounded including an unknown white woman and three unknown negroes. A fraudulent commissary order allowed a negro to secure goods before violence erupted. Posse numbers rose to seventy five as officers were driven off before the firefight resumed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard
Harlan County
Crab Orchard
Kentucky
John Powers
Powers
Charles Smith
William Barker
Sailway
Smith
Barker
Farmers Turn Timber Into Lumber As Prices Rise
Cedar Rapids crews work a portable sawmill in Franklin and Wright counties sawing trees into lumber for farmers. Dozens of farmers sell home milled timber to lumbermen, with larch and pine used for telephone poles. One Allison area farmer sold over 1000 large larch poles at 1415 dollars each. Nearby Grundy County farmer Paul C Akin builds a vast barn using timber from his own grove, the structure large enough for hay and cattle.
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Cedar Rapids
Don
Franklin
Wright
Allison
Grundy County
Edora
Paul C. Akin
Towa
Akin
Bad Man Is Captured In Minnesota Jail
A notorious farm robber known as J McElhaney who terrorized Cass township for two weeks and escaped a farmer posse was captured near Bancroft Iowa and is jailed in Blue Earth Minnesota. He robbed a farm house near Blue Earth taking 142 dollars. Sheriff Thompson identified him. he will not be sent to Iowa until completing Minnesota sentence. Cass farmers prefer a Minnesota penitentiary sentence and will not pursue further action.
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J. Mc
Lkaney
Cass Township
Thompson
Brown
Webster City
Blue Earth
Minn
Bancrotft
McElhaney
Iowa
Minnesota
Cass
McHlhaney
Anamosa
Arm Crushed In Dynamo At Des Moines Observatory
Fireman John Miller worked to direct a rescuer as an electric dynamo at the Des Moines observatory mangled his arm and shocked him. He was unconscious after being freed from the wheels, with serious injuries but no broken bones. Miller was adjusting the dynamo when his hand and arm were drawn into the brush and armature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
John Miller
Miller
Champion Comnuuskers Wed and Miss Iseminger Marries
Miss Alice Iseminger of Mamatin famed for husking 117 bushels in a day marries George Nelson of Oklahoma after he read stories about her. They will live near Ennon, Oklahoma, with twenty horses burned in a major fire at Clarence Hedges' livery barn. A rash of other local incidents include a police to curb drugists and a suicide attempt foiled by a wife in Lassly. Dubuque chosen for G A R encampment.
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Oklahoma
Alice Ixeminger
Mamatitn
George Nelson
Nelson
Misa Iseminger
Manila
Manilla
Ennon
Ota
Torses Barnes
Welock
Clarence Hedges
Car Atlantic
Miles to St Petersburg first secretary at embassy
President Roosevelt Saturday appointed Basil Miles of Pennsylvania as first secretary of the American embassy at St Petersburg. JF Miles was private secretary to Ambassador Mayer.
Electric Storm Sweeps Southwestern Michigan Cause Fatalities
An electric storm that swept over southwestern Michigan Sunday left one woman dead and five people shocked. Many houses were damaged and crops ruined across Detroit and surrounding areas. The weather event disrupted communities and prompted emergency crews to respond to the scene.
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Detroit
Michigan
Aged Hinolkan Found Dead in Maryland Woods
The body of W. Schmidt aged 0 years was found in the woods near Baltimore Maryland. He is believed to have died from fatigue and is connected to Pellville Illinois as his residence. The case remains a filed and unverified report with uncertain details.
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W. Schmidt
Ilve
Pellville
Baltmore
Western League Schedule At Sioux City This Week
Western League games are slated for Sioux City in the near future with matchups listed for dates including August 27 28 29 30 and September 1 2 Omaha visits for the series in Slows City Virginia as the host city appears in the schedule. The list notes game days and city alignment for the Western League events this period.
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Slows City
Sioux City
Taincoln
Omaha
Trainmen Killed in Saturday Ore Train Collision
Two trainmen Traimnien Kiet and another killed and three injured in a head on collision of heavy ore trains on Saturday near AMtown Po. The wreck occurred on the Bessetnur and Lake Erle route, causing multiple fatalities and injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Traimnien Kiet
Swear Amtown
Bessetnur
Lake Erle Ratroad
Collision on Tlectric Tine injures four on rail line west of Riverton HL
A special car on the Decatur Springfield and St. Louis railroad Sunday night dashed into a regular passenger car just west of Riverton HL, injuring four persons.
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Decatur, Springfield and
Witte Survey New Linn Compas Planning to Survey
A survey corps of eleven irveyors will begin Monday from Hoan to survey sections west of Boone. The route runs north to the draw, then northeast to Webster City, and then toward Stratford Stanhope and Webster City, with work on securing right of way starting soon.
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Wwehallas Cmg
Saeleatl
Ayay
Heemiston
Budd
Hoan
Timils
Furst
Hoone Dylining
County Lne
Seculi II Tate
Webster City
Athbing
Terys Wilkomd
Boohever
Stratford
Ts Toone
Case Taken To Court Over Farm Co-Operative Shortfall
Partners' Cooperative Association sues Dougherty farmer manager Wendt and his bondsmen Murphy and Comers for 1420 dollars claiming a 1908 payroll period and a concealment of 1800 dollars misappropriated from the firm. The suit states Wendt received 25 dollars monthly for a year and bonded for 2000 dollars.
Nomination of Charles F. Peterson in Clarion Harbors GOP Split
In Hag Grove on Thursday afternoon Charles F. Peterson of Clarion secured the Republican senatorial nomination for the Thirty seventh district after a first ballot surge. Peterson led with 30 votes to Chase's 21 as the convention, after four prior sessions and 3,695 ballots, shifted against Ward whom most opposed. Hardin county feared a Wright Hamilton alliance as Ward yielded support to Peterson.
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Charles F. Peterson
Clarion
Senter
Hag Grove
Charles P. Peterson
Hagic Grove
Hardin County
Candida Ward
Eltura
Peterson
D. UO. Chase
Webster City
Wright
Hamilton
Chase
Ward
Ex-Banker Soule Faces New Indictment in Hardin County
Edward O Soule formerly of Iowa Falls and ex banker is indicted by a Hardin County grand jury for embezzlement as change. He served eight months at Anamosa for pilfering 54000 from Iowa Savings Bank in 1904. Attorneys may seek venue change claiming he cannot obtain justice locally. He reportedly works as a Chicago broker bookkeeper and is on bond from Franklin County.
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Iowa Falls
Edward O. Soule
Anamosa Penitentiary
Iame Savings Bank
Towa Falls
Hardin County
Soule
I. P. Andres
Hampton
C. BE. Pickett
Waterloo
Chicago
Wranklin
Old settlers reunion draws thousands to Monroe event
H W Gleason of Oskaloosa served as speaker at Monroo old settlers reunion held Thursday. A crowd estimated between 900 and 1,900 attended the celebration. Key address delivered by W W Gleason of Oxka- Inosa. Welsh Cleve club from Monro county provided vocal music and a band from Rensnor supplied instrumental music. A letter was read from Fon John M Tool of M mand Oka, an original organizer from 1843.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dion. H.W. Gleason
Oskalooya
Monroo
W. W. Gleason
Oxka- Inosa
Welsh Clee Club
Monro County
Rensnor
Fon
John M. Tool
Mamand, Oka
Miles Humphrey Seeks Divorce After Seventh Matrimonial Venture
Miles Humphrey of Newton files for divorce from Mrs. M. Robinson Humphrey alleging desertion. He says their marriage failed after recent years, claiming she drove him from their home and refused him return. Humphrey, aged around sixty six, seeks separation citing breakdown of the union after repeated attempts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles Muomhyey
Miles Humphrey
Newton
M. d. Robinson
Humphrey
Nee
Melos Cause Bloodshot and Melon Theft Chaos
A chaotic report describes violent injuries including a man named Phipps with forty two wounds after a confrontation with Willem Cateman during a melon theft attempt by Webb of Fragler. The page also notes a coal miner killed by ball as Peter McDonald, a wood miner, is noted for a grave defiance, and reports widespread mosquito bites causing illness among children with lucwl blond polacnting diseases. An incident ends with Alri Dies of Loukjaw and Martha Hoekerar’s death from a threshing accident, all details conveyed in a grim, fragmentary style.
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Wright
Phipps
Webb
Fragler
Willem Cateman
Chicago bank cashion reveals massive impersonation fraud scheme
A long audited report details pervasive bank fraud at Steas land bank with dozens of checks signed by numbers rather than parties, forged numbers, and missing payees. Investigators estimate a loss to 22 000 depositors totaling about 4 200 000, with mortgages and misused cash sources listed and expected arrests.
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Cuiahier
Sandy
Jenry
Midi
Sita
Tilinois
People's
Henry
Spock
Vertaii
Stite
Toves
Typ
Steasland Bank
Estuerte
Cesee- Htonsland
Railways and public works dominate troubled times
Passenger officials predict an extraordinary recount of the national encampment at St. Paul. The Winola Central Railway carries most fruit in its own cars with 8 000 refrigerator cars in service. The Virginia Railway Commission voids a mileage act as unconstitutional. Indiana railroad decisions order a 33 1 4 percent freight rate cut from Indianapolis to the state line. Southern Pacific contemplates a new line, with Gould directing a labor recruitment drive in Utah Nevada and California. Wisconsin rate commission delay to set passenger fares. Efforts to obtain eastern trunk line cooperation and government stamped waybills to prove car loads for meat shipments.
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Pasenger
St. Paul
Winola Central Railroard
Virginia Corporation
Conemisal On
Yeaterday
United States
Indiana Railroad Consatlasifa
Wikehalia Railroad Company
Malen
Indianapolly
Hodana State Line
Motu
Georges J. Gould
Western Pacific
Utah
Nevada
California
Wisconsin Rate Commission
Onder
St. Pawl
New
Angela
Eastern Trunk Lines
Secretary of Agriculture
Railronda
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Quaker Bank
Wheck Real Estate Trust Company
Presbyterian Church
Bours Had
Father
Hawkey
Bad Man
Dynamo
Comnuuskers
Deng Stores
John B. Hammond
Centerville
Kpadal
State Temperance League
District ‘Court
Parmiteting Drugeists
Cemar Falla
Wudaun
la Porte
Atlantic
State Hospital
Independence
William George
Lassly
iDubuque Geis G. A
MONE
SUES
Ball
Peter McDonald
Jalan Fen Tha
Doora
Alri
Loukjaw
Martha Hoekerar
Sheldon
Tetorsus
Taren
Cassier Henry W. Hering
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