Trade Review Notes Progressive Business Despite Weather Hurdles
TAL 4 TAL 4 R. G. Dun & Co. reports general business progress amid rough weather and rail delays in the Northwest. Bank clearings rise, money tight for commerce, factory outputs rise, and capacity expands in Chicago area. Demand remains brisk for seasonable goods as cold weather boosts sales of apparel and related items. Lake navigation ends season with satisfactory results for vessel owners. Chicago rail earnings show notable gains. Chicago district failures number 29 with liabilities over 5,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Dun & Co
Northwest
Chlume
Chicago
Lake Navigation
Chicago Steam Roads
Trade Quiets as Holidays Near With Mixed Signals
Colder weather and holidays boost general trade across the North and West while Southern trade also gains. The railroad strike appears to lessen its deterrent effect and wholesale activity shows seasonal quieting with no broad slowdown in industrial output. US failures for the week ending December show 259, Canada 6, against prior periods listed by Bradstreet's.
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United States
Canada
Bradstreet’s
Market quotations for cattle hogs and grains in multiple cities
The report lists live stock and grain prices across markets in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo Topeka Cincinnati New York and more. Highlights include cattle mostly $4.00 to $8.70, hogs $3.50 to $8.70, sheep $2.50 to $5.50, wheat $1.12 to $1.51, corn 58¢ to 72¢ and oats 41¢ to 50¢ with regional variations and dated pricing notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Detroit
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
New York
Blocks of Five hero dead General Dudley
General W. W. Dudley of Indiana former Commissioner of Pensions died in Washington after weeks of illness Bright's disease was the cause His rise included treasurer of the Republican national committee during the Harrison campaign and the notorious blocks of five incident He served in the Civil War losing a leg and was brevetted brigadier general He left behind a widow four children and his two daughters and two sons survive him
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W. W. Dudley
Indiana
Washington
Bright
Dudley
United States
Benjamin Harrison
Republican National Committee
New England
Phillips Academies
Gettysburg
Congress
Fatal Tenement Fire in Cincinnati Kills Several
A four story tenement at 327 and 329 East Third Street in Cincinnati burned after a kerosene lamp toppled. About fifty occupants faced collapse with seven dead and many injured as residents leaped from windows and firefighters pulled victims from the blaze.
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East Third Street
Cincinnati
Frozen to Death in Swamp Near Spooner Minn
Missionary Rev Ole O Fugleskie of the United Lutheran Church, linked to Rev Frank Higgins known as the Lumberjack Sky Pilot, was found frozen in a swampy edge near Spooner after hiking from Silver Creek toward Clementson. A 32‑man searching party located him 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
Trains Collision Kills Four on Eastbound Runs
The east bound Twentieth Century Limited collided with Lake Shore No 10 near North Hast Pa before 11 PM. Four fatalities occurred all on the slower Lake Shore train while passengers aboard the Limited were shaken but unharmed. One Lake Shore wheel reportedly failed leading to the crash.
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Lake Shore
North Hast
Four Men Trapped in Tar Lake Near Pittsburg Plant
Four workers at the Clintock Irvine roofing plant in Pittsburg became trapped in a lake of flowing tar. Three died from burns as flames crept closer, while a fourth man escaped with his life after escaping the inferno.
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Me.Clintock & Irvine Company
Pittsburg
Indiana News Roundup RevealsDeaths Movements and Local Events
Indiana headlines recount the death of Charles Douthit in Brownsville and the accidental death of Platt Sutton near Sweetser. Officials discuss Hemenway’s new presidency in Evansville, a factory expansion in Richmond, and a Texas land purchase by J H Cate. Two double weddings in Muncie, a major natural gas pipeline near Oakland City, and a Sugar Ridge war memorial fund drive are noted alongside clock malfunctions, a hunting accident near Elizabeth town, and a courthouse debate over railroad right of way. Local quirks include a bald eagle capture near Morocco and a dramatic cold rescue near Crown Point.
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J. H. Cate
National Military Home
Marion
Liverpool
Brazuro County
Texas
Cate
Houston
Gulf Coast
Muncie
Margaret Drown
Ellora Rowe
Nora Crown
Floyd A. Artip
W. A. Bartlett
Carl Forkner
Alma Powell
Eva Forkner
Roy Lashure
J. P. Chamness
John C. Moss
Ashboro
Ralph W. Moss
Forty-third
Indiana
Sugar Ridge Township
Clay County
Center Point
Saline City
Shelbyville
Columbus
Newcastle
Rushville
Fort Wayne
Savannah Slayings Trigger Citywide Dragnet
Savannah police and citizens hunted a described negro suspect after a brutal home murder and two more killings. Victims were Eliza Gribble and Carrie Ohlander found in the Gribble house while Maggie Hunter died at Savannah Hospital. A missing negro woman and a broad dragnet followed, with 150 suspects rounded up in Yamacrow as officers pursue the killer.
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Savannah
Eliza Gribble
Carrie Ohlander
Maggie Hunter
Ohlander
Gribble
Brownsville Brownsville Shooting Attributed to Twenty-fifth Infantry
A military court of inquiry in Brownsville Texas holds that colored Twenty-fifth Infantry members fired in the town while their comrades ran through streets. Evidence includes bullet holes in three houses and bullets matching regulation army design. The finding risks push for abolition of negro troops from Southern congressional delegations.
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Brownsville
Texas
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Military Court of Inquiry
Congress
Roosevelt
Railway Wreck in Iowa Injures Thirteen Passengers
Train No. 7 on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line derailed two miles east of Bayard Iowa. The engine tender and five cars left the track leaving thirteen passengers injured. Cause not known though broken tender wheels suspected. Sioux City and Des Moines local out of Chicago was involved and the Overland Limited was delayed briefly.
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Bayard
Iowa
Sioux City
Des Moines
Chicago
Three Die in Shoemaker Mine Fire and Smoke
A fire at the Shoemaker Mining Company shaft near Johnstown Pennsylvania cut air flow when smoke from the fanhouse was drawn into the mine. Three men suffocated while twenty-one others were overcome and rescued with difficulty as ventilation failed and workers struggled to escape.
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Shoemaker Mining Company
Johnstown
Boys Seized as Murderers in Kansas City Robberies
Three youths aged 17 19 and 21 were arrested by Kansas City police in a spree of holdups. Ralph Clyne and Louis Dye were identified by a witness as the men who shot and killed M A Spangle in his saloon on November 24, wounding his son Samuel Spangler in both arms. Harry Shay was identified as an accomplice on several expeditions.
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Kansas City
Ralph Clyne
Louis Dye
M. A. Spangle
Spangler
Samuel Spangler
Sho
Harry Shay
Dye
Clyne
Minyon's Vitalizer Promises Restored Vital Power
A vintage advertisement touts Minyon's Vitalizer as a cure for nervousness irritability and lack of confidence claiming it will wind up a weak man. It promotes 75 tablets per bottle and urges immediate use with a one dollar price from Munyon at 68th and Jefferson Philadelphia.
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Manyon
Jefferson
Phila
Cure for sore eyes with Cuthura ointment
G B Halsey of Mouth of Wilson VA reports two years of inflamed eyes improved after one week using Cuthura Ointment. He tried a physician and home remedies before success and is now 65 with no further trouble. Public notice: Cuticura remedies sold by Potter Drug & Chem Corp. Boston.
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Catiera
Cuticura
G. B. Halsey
Mouth
Wilson
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Cuticura Remedies
Boston
Sun Cooking: Early Sun Fueled Culinary Experiments
A 1687 start by Baron Tehernhausen marks the first sun cooking effort with water boiling and eggs boiling by 1688. Noted figures include Sir John Herschel and Buffon. Sun cooking roasts and boils by sunlight have persisted for about three hundred years, though sun stoves today mainly serve scientists.
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Baron Tehernhausen
John Herschel
Buffon
Notable 19th Century Cure Ads and Domestic Jokes
One hundred dollars reward offered for catarrh cure with Hall’s Catarrh Cure promoted by Cheney & Co. endorsements from Walding Kinnan Marvin. Also notes on Hall’s Pills and Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets with light domestic humor about a forgotten lamp and a finger tied to a pocketbook.
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PF. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Hall
Price
T.c
To-Day and To-Morrow Quote from Polonius
A compact quotation from Polonius via Edward FitzGerald stresses living in the present and focusing on clear duties. It frames happiness and wisdom as rooted in current obligations rather than distant aims.
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Edward FitzGerald
Polonius
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TAL
Twentieth Century Limited
Ingales
Pittsburgersy
Fhem
Review OF Indiana
Charles Douthit
Platt Sutton
Pennsylvania
Sweetser
James M. Hemenway
Boonville
Washington, D. C
Intermediate Life Assurance Company
Evansville
American Seeding Machine Co
Richmond
Oakland City
Louisville
George Rogers
Elizabethtown
Rogers
Elizabeth Cox
State Board of Registration For
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Wayne County
Samuel W. Lory
Louis W. Lory
Madison
Knowles Montgomery
Owensville
Montgomery
Lola
Levi Turner
Bedford
James Dushane
Indiana Lighting Company
Bluffton
Thomas Bailey
Hillsboro
Hlillsboro Lodge of Masons
Mary Rafferty
G. C. Crimmins
Marcelona
Mich
Jesse Grice
Michigan
Grice
Andrew Hall
Mrs. Johnson
Lee Huderson
Dunreith
Buck Creek
William Bertrand
Morocco
Bertrand
Mercury
John Nichols
Franz Trump
Crown Point
Eph. Inman
Inman
J. W. Ogden
Henry Mauck
A. Metzer
Ivansville
Metzer
Richey Summers
Rockefeller
Carnegie
David Seatrick
Elizabeth
Harrison County
Methodist Episcopal Church
St. Paul
George
Laura
Dr. Pierce
Perry Davis
H. CC. Chatfield-Taylor
Lake Forest
Philopena
Dodd
John I. Brown & Son
Mass
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