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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1908
Page
6
New York December 31 1907 a year of great financial strain and panic similar to 1857 1873 and 1893 but with banks and capitalists remaining steadier. Stock exchange activity fell from prior highs with 1907 shares traded at 195 169 192 far below 1906 and bond sales dropped to 561 651 500 dollars reflecting capital exhaustion and liquidity squeeze.
The article outlines global securities issuance averaging 3.4 billion dollars annually through 1906 and U S stock and bond issuance totaling 1.83 billion in the first eleven months of 1907. It describes the silent panic of March 14 and the October collapse of the market, bank failures, and the shift to clearing house certificates.
Two more bodies were recovered from the Monongah mines bringing the total recovered to 351. The death list is believed to total about 400, with many bodies unlikely to be found.
The Call publishes an interview claiming Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, former pastor of St. George's Hempstead, eloped with 17 year old heiress Floretta Whaley eight months ago. They and their child are said to be hidden at 1190 Green Street, while searches proceed. Cooke supports them by painting and doing manual labor.
Bishop Edward G. Andrews of the Methodist Episcopal Church has died at his Brooklyn home at age eighty two after a severe cold contracted during the church Bishops Conference in San Francisco last October. A general breakdown followed his illness.
New York reports 1907 annual casualty summary. Among 57,919 killed or injured in accidents, earthquakes and landslides caused 21,512 deaths and 3,092 injuries, mine disasters 3,086 dead and 2,721 injured, storms 4,291 deaths and 1,505 injured, railroad wrecks 811 dead and 2,689 injured, autos 228 dead and 704 injured, firearms 197 dead and 3,978 injured, vesels wrecks 2,269 dead and 492 drownings.
New York December 30 The United States will sue the American Sugar Refining Company to recover more than three million dollars. The government alleges the sugar trust evaded duties since the Dingley tariff act using fraudulent scales at refinery docks.
In a top floor room at 304 Manhattan Avenue Captain Evans found Phoebe Prince dying of starvation with four malnourished children aged four, three, two, and seven months. The family had eaten their last crust on Christmas Day and had no coal or proper shelter. An ambulance and Children’s Society aid were called. Mrs Prince died at Eastern District Hospital a few hours later.
A Grand Trunk passenger train struck a double ender freight in dense fog at forty mph, half a mile north of Lenox. Five trainmen died, four instantly, one after three hours. A baby passenger was lightly hurt among mostly uninjured riders. Dead: Engineer Bennett, Engineer Bohowski, Fireman Boughner, Switchman W. G. Taylor, Fireman Albert McCall.
London readers learned that the leaden coffin plot failed as Thomas Charlies Cruce’s grave yielded a body, contradicting hopes that a lead coffin would prove George Hollanby Pruce’s claim to the Portland dukedom. Subscriptions from many poor supporters faltered after the discovery.
An enormous explosion in the center of an Italian city struck the stock exchange area as a bomb caused liquidation fears. Eighteen people were wounded as screams echoed through the exchange amid reports of dynamite and a planned attack.
Illinois retail men unite to curb ped diers and mail order houses and oppose parcels post. The Affiliated Presidents and Secretaries of Dino's State Retail Commercial Organizations formed at a Great Northern hotel meeting to lead the campaign.
Cleveland factories edge toward reopening with up to 10 000 former workers returning in January. The American Shipbuilding Company anticipates resuming operations, targeting about 5 000 hires as steel mill shutdowns ease. Smaller plants also expect to restart, signaling a broad industrial rebound.
Onions seized by the customs house were auctioned off. 4 473 boxes of Spanish onions from the steamer Erika failed to pay 880 in duty. Bids ranged from 11 to 13 cents per bushel against typical 50 cents to 1 10. Total realized 199 70, barely over half the duty.
A Watertown, suburb of Boston, house of John Clark burned early today. All five family members perished in the blaze including John Clark, his wife, and their three children John eleven Philip nine and Doris two.
Thomas Worrall a noted political figure and whistleblower against the grain trust died by suicide in his Lincoln office. The body was found at his desk or office door in the late afternoon.
An eclipse of the sun will occur on January 3 and be partly visible in the southern United States and along the western coast of North America. Washington,
Mrs Joe King of Woodland Texas writes that four years of kidney trouble ended after trying a 30 days treatment of minules for one dollar. She says one bottle cured her and that money cannot buy its value. Guaranteed. Sold by A Gamble.
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