Fall trade very active end of war enlarges demands
R G Dun & Co reports postwar trade remains strong despite war ending. Orders rushed during conflict have lifted prices and spurred demand, though profits are not always high. Clearing-house payments rose 26 percent in early September and 12 percent over two weeks, indicating more business than in best years. Wheat prices advanced two cents amid tight supply and strong demand, while corn yields reflect government forecasts rather than movement. Iron production fell as furnaces idle, with weekly output about 213 043 tons as of September 1.
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New York
R G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Irup
Minor News Flashes From Sept Fires and Trials
Earthquake shocks shake Deering Maine and Sioux City. Fire destroys White House business district in Ohio. Jasper Alabama bank closes with 65000 dollars in liabilities. Fred Douglass monument unveiled in Rochester New York. William James Hammond hanged in Bruce Bridge Ontario for wife murder. Joplin Missouri barber William Madden arrested over four wives. Riots burn American and French missions in Ho Chow China. Mount Vesuvius erupts violently for first time since 1872. Findlay Douglas wins American amateur golf title at Morristown New York. United Ireland dissolves in Dublin. James E. Jones nominated for Wisconsin district congress on ballot 140. Ernest Branford and John Marsh suffocated in Stafford Springs lockup fire. Sultan orders surrender of arms by Mohammedans at Candia Crete. Maximilian de Proskowetz falls from train in Chicago.
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White House
Jasper
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Tts
Fred Douglass
Rochester
N.Y
William James Hammond
Bruce Bridge
Ont
William H. Madden
Joplin
Ho Chow
China
Sioux City
Bloomfield
Neb
Elk Point
Hurley
Mount Vesuvius
Italy
Findlay Douglas
Greenwich
Conn
America
Morristown
N. Y
United Ireland
Dublin
Charles Stewart Parnell
Wisconsin
James E. Jones
Congress
Ernest Branford
John Marsh
Stafford Springs
Candia
Crete
Maximilian de Proskowetz
Austria-Iungary
Chicago
Pittsburgh Steel Output and U.S. Trade News Mixed
Bradstreet notes heavy structural work in Pittsburgh and strong railcar demand, with mills crowded by plate and sheet production for railways and overseas orders. American markets show mixed signals as crop reports improve and foreign demand rises, while failures trend down in the U S and Canada. Political and local notices include Wheeler's renomination in Alabama and several obituaries, with Scandals and casualties reported across the country.
Trade of Japan Shows U S Lead in 1897 Commerce
A British consular report notes Japan’s 1897 foreign trade, highlighting a sharp rise in United States imports and exports, with U S imports up 1,024,920 pounds and a broad shift in trade share. Britain remains ahead in total export value, but the American influx is just beginning, signaling future encroachment on British trade.
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Japan
Bureau of Statistics
Washington
A. S T. Law
Tokio
Great Britain
Germany
United States
British India
China
Tsong- Kong
France
Vanderbilt heir seeks consent to Elsie French marriage
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt sails for Europe to obtain parental approval for his engagement to Elsie French. The Vanderbilts split leadership to Reginald, 17, as business successor while Commodore Vanderbilt’s health faces another possible stroke. Alfred’s Newport ties and expected return with his parents anchor the family plans for July.
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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Elsie French
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Europe
Httle
Vanderbilts
Cornelius
William K
Frederick W
George W
Reginald
Vanderbilt
Commodore
William HH. Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Miss Wilson
Young
Miss French
Pension payments by city listed for quarter ending June 30
The quarterly pension disbursements show totals by city: Washington 400000. Topeka 250000. San Francisco 175000. Pittsburgh 1825000. Philadelphia 175000. New York City 125000. Milwaukee 1950000. Louisville 100000. Knoxville 200000. Indianapolis 150000. Detroit 200000. Des Moines 2200000. Concord 775000. Columbus 900000. Chicago 2350000. Buffalo 1700000. Boston 250000. Augusta 100000. A powerful electric light project off Cape Grisnez near Dover aims 2,000,000 candle power, visible 48 miles, piercing fog 16 miles, white flash. A note reports an estimated 13,000,000 deaths from earthquakes since historical times.
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Washington
D. C
Topeka
Kan
San Francisco
Cal
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
New York City
Milwaukee
Louisville
Knoxville
Detroit
Des Moines
Concord
N. It
Columbus
Chicago
Buffalo
Boston
Augusta
Cape Grisnez
Frenchy Coast
Dover
Bombardment Reporter Satire From San Juan Folly
A New York paper relays a San Juan chronicle praising the American fleet bombardment as a joke. Projectiles carried ads from U S shops, prompting locals to inspect shells for brand images from soap, bicycles, emulsion and hair dye. The piece notes curious dialogue about the funny shells and samples tossed into yards.
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San Juan
New York
Curious Italian cigars tell a strange New York story
A peculiar seven and a half inch cigar from New York's Italian quarter uses a straw mouthpiece and a broomsplint to keep the smoke open. Sold retail for one cent, these slim cigars, once common twenty years ago, have mostly vanished as the stogie rose in popularity. They are made in Austria, Switzerland and India.
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New York City
Austria
Switzerland
India
Painful of Gold At Ponpon Works Sparks Theft Tale
Two African American workers at Ponpon phosphate works near Augusta across the river in South Carolina found a chest claimed to hold thirty thousand dollars in gold. They planned to share it. one took the gold, while the other watched. The thief says he buried it in the river but cannot locate it. The partner doubted the tale and turned the chest over to Mr Heard. The man claimed the money was placed in a water pail and nearly filled it. the pail proved too heavy to lift. The thief was arrested.
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Ponpon Phosphate Works
Augusta
South Carolina
Heard
Descendant of a Prince Joins Cherbourg Voyage
Jerome Napoleon Bonnparte, a Harvard student, sailed from New York aboard the Fuerst Bismarck to Cherbourg. He is the third Jerome Bonaparte in America, part of the Bonaparte lineage led by his uncle Charles Jerome Bonaparte of Baltimore. He will head the American branch after visiting his sister, Countess de Moltke Il Lutinfeldt, nee Louise Bonaparte.
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Fuerst Bismarck
New York City
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte
Harvard
Jerome Bonaparte
Theate Jerome Bonaparte
Prince Jerome Bonaparte
Westphalia
Elizabeth Patterson
Mr. Bonaparte
Bonaparte
Charles Jerome Bonaparte
Laltimore
Countess de Moltke I Luitfeldt
Louise Ef, Bonaparte
Matrimonial Lottery in Smolensk Province a Curious Custom
A traveler reports a quarterly lottery where 5,000 rubles in cash plus a noblewoman are awarded to a male winner who must marry the chosen damsel. If already married, the man may transfer the prize to a friend. If the couple dislike each other, they share the cash and avoid matrimony.
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Smolensk
Russia
Origin of porcelain traced from Japan to Europe
The word porcelain arose from Japan in the thirteenth century, though Chinese potters pioneered the craft two centuries earlier. Portuguese traders on the Japanese coast first exposed Europe to fine ware in the sixteenth century, and they linked the term porcelain to porcellain meaning a sucking pig, inspired by the cowry shell's translucence.
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China
Japan
Frank H. Vizetelly
Woman's Home Companion
Europe
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