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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1907
Page
6
Government bulletin reports wholesale prices for 258 commodities rose in 1906, the highest in the 17 year span, with food up 3.6 percent and clothing up about 7.3 percent. December 1906 shows peak levels, while farm prices barely budged and several staples edged lower.
Philadelphia’s 1,800 public school children tend and learn in ten municipal gardens reflecting a unique program that blends outdoor exercise with scientific gardening. Each pupil registers plots, records planting and yield, and garden teachers juggle farming skills with classroom discipline to cultivate crops like cabbage beets lettuce spinach tomatoes and turnips. A separate public talk by Prof Adolf Harnack advised separating church from politics and fostering mutual respect between Catholics and Protestants to improve harmony.
Sipike of Shipa' Oibern led the American Association of Masters, Mates and Pilots to declare a general Strela for first, second and third officers on all coastwise vessels from New York. It would take effect May 1 with wage demands of 100, 50 and 50 dollars. The strike manifested as individual resignations as required notices to quit were filed. The Brunswick and Bull lines later called off the action after agreeing to pay the disputed wages.
May Day reports show peaceful labor conditions across the country. Chicago reports no major strikes as wage agreements in the building trades are renewed or advanced. New York, St Louis, Boston, and Philadelphia likewise show improving or stabilized labor markets with sporadic disputes and key wage talks ongoing.
A collage of remarks critiques prosperity and railroads adopting block systems while noting graft removals and San Francisco construction. It cites Japan’s battleship launch, office mortality, baseball obsession, a $10,000,000 man, Jamestown settlers paying upfront, Paris consuming horses, and Cuba’s drought.
A collage of witty lines from New York Press Philadelphia Ledger Washington Post and others lampooning war profits stock markets Harriman canal and political figures. The snippets mock graft behavior and public affairs, noting zeal for reform yet skepticism about prosperity and leadership.
The multimillionaire John W Gates quits business amid a Wall Street plunge. Charles G Gates & Co dissolution notice confirms the shift. reports cite losses up to 40 million. Charley Gates travels abroad for a year, while financiers reassess the Gates empire and the so called rich man's panic.
Pennsylvania House passes a 3 cent per ton tax on anthracite coal with claims that most burden falls on out of state consumers. Interstate Commerce Chairman Knapp seeks NY Circuit Court orders to require Harriman to answer questions about Union Pacific stock transfers. BF Yoakum accuses railroads of public trust duties amid alleged managerial culpability. Great Western offers grain haul relief against UP rates, reshaping Iowa Omaha markets. Pennsylvania rail fare bill faces court tests over constitutionality after governor’s veto threat.
A compact, fragmentary timeline lists major events from 1029 to 1906. It includes sieges, treaties, battles, political acts, royal successions, riots, inaugurations, disasters, and notable donations. Named places and figures include Orleans, Muhlberg, Wallenstein, Susa, Connecticut, London, Boston, Almanza, Parliament, guillotine, Canada, New Orleans, Russia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Whitebay, Washington, Mauritius, Athens, Japan, Mayflower, Coeur dAlene, McKinley, Tuskegee, Milan, and Carnegie.
Bellevue hospital in New York reports Tim Kane, a man three years after a head blow that caused brain lesion. He endures epilepsy, paralysis, motor aphasia and loss of speech, with declining intellect. Delicate surgeries removed skull sections and brain portions. Now recovering, he struggles to relearn speech through childlike training with blocks and picture books.
The Sundberg committee told the Minnesota Senate railways are valued at 215 million dollars in real terms, about 27 thousand per mile, but capitalized at 400 million or 50 thousand per mile. Last year net earnings averaged 18 percent by their valuation. They considered construction cost, equipment, improvements, and operating expenses at current rates.
Developments in commercial affairs disclose sustained confidence in the outlook. May payments through banks indicate soundness with heavier volume but low defaults. Rail and lake transportation show large freight tonnage, improving rail facilities, open waterways, and rising costs yet steady activity in mills, factories, and agricultural progress. Bank clearings rise 13.2 percent from 1906. Chicago district failures fall to 15 from prior weeks.
New York reports lingering cold hampers trade and crop development with April trade below last year though four month totals exceed 1905-06. Advances for fall orders look strong, while May 1 strikes are milder than past years. Business failures in US rise to 163 for the week ending May 2, with 25 in Canada. Wheat exports total 2,234,756 bushels. corn 1,817,695 bushels for the week. Bradstreet's Commercial Report.
Historical market snapshot shows Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo quotations for cattle hogs sheep and multiple grains. Prices span no 2 wheat 79c to 89c and corn around 47c to 58c with oats 41c to 49c and rye about 60c.
During a quarrel in a Youngstown liquor store Ohio William Price shot and killed Tom White. Price was captured. Gov Folk grants a sixty day respite to William Spaugh Jr for murder of Sheriff Polk Iron county Missouri. General conference of American Friends to be held in Richmond Indiana opening October with representation from Canada Cuba and Mexico.
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