Trade review notes gradual business progress amid severe weather
R G Dun and Co Weekly Review of Trade reports overall improvement despite Northwest weather, rail problems, and freezing. Bank clearings rose 6.5 percent from last year. factory output and capacity increase across main industries. brisk demand for winter goods amid lower temperatures. Lake navigation closed for season. Chicago steam roads show strong gross gains. Failures in Chicago district total 20 with seven liabilities over $5,000.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Calumet District
South Chi- Cao
Lake Navigation
Chicago
Trade Shows Holiday Cooling Across Regions
New York reports colder weather and approaching holidays boosting general trade in the North and West and helping the South. Week shows signs the railroad strike is losing its deterrent effect. Wholesale activity quiets seasonally, while industrial output remains steady. Business failures in the United States for the week ending December show 259 filings, compared with 230 prior week and higher years. Canada reports 0 failures, down from last week and 60 in 1908.
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United States
Canada
Bradstreet’s
Regional Market Rates for Cattle Hogs and Grains
Market listings across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo Toledo Cincinnati New York show cattle and hog prices ranging roughly $1.95 to $8.70 per cwt with sheep $2.50 to $8.75. Grains include wheat No 2 about $1.19 to $1.31, corn No 2 around 58c to 72c, oats 41c to 50c, rye 75c to 77c, plus butter 3c to 35c and eggs 25c to 32c.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Detroit
Milwaukee
Toledo
Cincinnati
New York
Blocks of Five hero dead General Dudley dies in Washington
General W. W. Dudley former pensions commissioner aged death due to Brights disease in Washington after weeks of illness. A Civil War veteran he lost a leg at Gettysburg and later built a legal and political career including treasurer of the Republican national committee. Survived by his widow and four children.
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W. W. Dudley
Indiana
Washington
Bright
Dudley
United States
Benjamin Harrison
Republican National Committee
New England
Phillips Academies
Gettysburg
Congress
Thomas Bailey
Hillsboro
Fort Wayne
Jesse Grice
Michigan
Grice
Fire Ravages Cincinnati Tenement Killing At Least Seven
A four story tenement at 327 329 East Third Street Cincinnati housed fifty people. A kerosene lamp toppled in a second floor hall started the fire. Many escaped by jumping or were rescued by firefighters. At least seven died and many more were injured. victims were identified as too burned to confirm.
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East Third Street
Cincinnati
Frozen Missionary Found Dead in Minnesota Swamp
Rev. Ole O. Fugleskie of the United Lutheran Church, known as the Lumberjack Sky Pilot, was found frozen to death in a swampy area southeast of Spooner Minnesota. He had left Silver Creek at 2 pm to reach Clementson thirteen miles away for evening services and was discovered near a floating bog with his Bible open.
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Ole O. Fugleskie
United Lutheran Church
Frank Higgins
Sky Pilot
Spooner
Minn
Nels Rippes
Silver Creek
Clementson
Rippes’ Place
Lake Shore Trains Collision Kills Four in Pennsylvania
The east bound Twentieth Century Limited rear ended Lake Shore No 10 at North East Pa shortly before 11 pm. Four people on the slower Lake Shore train were killed and many injured while the Limited passengers were shaken but unhurt. One wheel failure on No 10 is blamed for the crash.
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Lake Shore
North East
Fire Traps Four Men at Pittsburg Roofing Plant
Four workers become trapped in a tar lake at the Me. Clintock Irvine Company roofing plant in Pittsburg. Three men die from burns while a fourth escapes by freeing himself and fleeing the blazing scene.
Indiana News Roundup Highlights Local Deaths and Developments
Indiana brief includes Charles Douthit 89 dead in Brownsville and Platt Sutton 65 killed by a train near Sweetser. Notes James M. Hemenway may head Evansville based Intermediate Life Assurance. American Seeding Machine expands Richmond branch to hire 1000. Also reports hospital work move, two double weddings in Muncie, a large pipeline project from Oakland City to Evansville, and various local incidents from Sugar Ridge to Bluffton.
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Charles Douthit
Brownsville
Platt Sutton
Pennsylvania
Sweetser
United States
James M. Hemenway
Boonville
Washington, D. C
Intermediate Life Assurance Company
Evansville
Savannah Brutal Double Murder Sparks City Dragnet
Savannah police and citizens launched a citywide dragnet after a brutal triple murder at the Gribble home. Mrs. Eliza Gribble and her daughter Mrs. Carrie Ohlander were slain with an axe, and Mrs. Maggie Hunter died later at Savannah Hospital. a missing African American woman is sought as investigators describe a single assailant. Police in Yamacrow detained about 150 suspects as the hunt broadens.
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Savannah
Eliza Gribble
Carrie Ohlander
Maggie Hunter
Ohlander
Gribble
Evidence Ties Negro Troops to Brownsville Shooting
The Twenty-fifth Infantry colored soldiers are alleged by a military court of inquiry to have fired in Brownsville Texas as comrades ran through the town. Officers report bullet holes in three houses across from the fort and bullets matching army design traced back to the barracks. The finding could fuel Southern calls to abolish colored troops and revive Roosevelt era clashes in Congress.
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Brownsville
Texas
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Congress
Roosevelt
Derailed Passenger Train No 7 Near Bayard Iowa
A westbound Sioux City and Des Moines local on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line derailed two miles east of Bayard Iowa injuring thirteen passengers. The tender trucks left the track first suggesting a broken wheel as a possible cause. the Overland Limited was delayed briefly. The line was cleared and service resumed.
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Bayard
Iowa
Sioux City
Des Moines
Chicago
Three Die In Mine Smoke Near Johnstown
Fire at Shoemaker Mining Company shaft fanhouse caused smoke to be drawn into the mine by operating fans. Three workers suffocated while twenty one others were overcome and rescued in a serious condition fifteen miles northeast of Johnstown Pennsylvania.
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Shoemaker Mining Company
Johnstown
Boys Seized as Murderers After Arrest in Robberies
Kansas City police arrest three youths aged 17 19 and 21 in a spree of robberies. Witness identifies Ralph Clyne and Louis Dye as the men who shot and killed M A Spangle on November 24. Harry Shay is named as an accomplice in several expeditions.
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Kansas City
Ralph Clyne
Louis Dye
M. A. Spangle
Spangler
Harry Shay
Dye
Clynt
Minyon's Vitalizer Promises Restored Vital Power
A 19th century patent remedy advertisement touts Much more vitality for men. It claims to wind up a weak man like a clock and promises noticeable effects after the first dose. The bottle contains 75 tablets and is sold for 1 dollar by Munyon at 58th and Jefferson, Philadelphia.
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Manyon
Regis
Jefferson
Phila
Sores Eyes Cured by Cuticura in Two Weeks
A 65 year old from Mouth of Wilson Virginia reports ocular inflammation affecting eyes and lids for two years. After failed home remedies and doctors he used Cuticura Ointment, improving in a week and nearly cured in two weeks. He praises Cuticura and states no further trouble. Potter Drug & Chem. Co. sponsors this testimonial.
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Ming
G. B. Halsey
Mouth
Wilson, Va
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Sola Props
Cuticura Remedies
Boston
Sun Cooking Advances Through History and Names
The article notes Baron Tehernhausen as the first sun cook beginning in 1687, achieving success in boiling eggs by 1688. It mentions Sir John Herschel Buffon and a continuous practice of sun cooking for about 300 years with sun stoves capable of roasting a sirloin or boiling soup, though used mainly by scientists.
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Baron Tehernhausen
John Herschel
Buffon
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Obscure Reminders Feature
A mixed catalog item and anecdote advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar reward, praises F J Cheney Co Toledo and endorsements. It is joined by a joke about a forgotten lamp reminder and a note on Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for digestion.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Polonius Quote on Present Duty and Duty
To-Day and To-Morrow. Happy men are full of the present for its bounty suffices them, and wise men also, for its duties engage them Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Eadward FitzGerald.
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Eadward FitzGerald
Polonius
Ringmaster Chatfield-Taylor Hosts Lake Forest Circus
H Cc Chatfield-Taylor, Chicago clubman and author, led a children’s circus at Lake Forest. His joke as ringmaster involved a clown and a cannibals joke about a poor man and twin boys in the side show.
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H. Cc. Chatfield-Taylor
Chicago
Lake Forest
Philopena
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Gulf Coast
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Margaret, Drown
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Roy Lashure
J. P. Chamness
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Ashboro
Ralph W. Moss
Forty-third
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Clay County
Center Point
Saline City
Shelbyville
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George Rogers
Elizabethtown
Rogers
Elizabeth Cox
State Board of Registration For
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Wayne County
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Louis W. Lory
Madison
Knowles Montgomery
Owensville
Montgomery
Lola
Levi Turner
Bedford
James Dushane
Indiana Lighting Company
Bluffton
Andrew Hall
Johnson
Lee Hudelson
Dunreith
Buck Creek
Tiall
William Bertrand
Morocco
Bertrand
Mercury
John Nichols
Franz Trump
Crown Point
Eph. Inman
Inman
J. W. Ogden
Henry Mauck
A. Metzer
Metzer
Richey Sammiens
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Elizabeth
Harrison County
Methodist Episcopal Church
St. Paul
George
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Perry Davis
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