Michigan State News Ferniture City to Kalamazoo Link
Promoter W H Patterson and a Grand Rapids Kalamazoo Valley Electric Railroad Co director announce bond sales and project approval to connect Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids. Construction begins March 1 and should finish within a year, with a 50 mile route following the Grand Rapids and Indiana track through Pisawell Otsego Martin Bradley and Wayland. A million dollars is budgeted for build and equipment.
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Ferniture City
Kalamazoo
W. H. Patterson
Grand Rapids
Grant Rapids and Indiana Railroad
Pisinwell
Otsego
Martin, Bradley and
Wayland
Foreman at Albion Iron Plant Hit By Mysterious Accident
Marvin A. Richardson foreman at Albion Malleable Iron Company was found with a crushed skull while supervising a crew moving steel freight cars. A lone Italian boy describes a crowbar falling on his head near a car wheel. others offer no light, suggesting possible foul play or an unintentional act amid language barriers.
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Albion Iron Plant
Albion Malleable Iron Company
Marvin A. Richardson
Richardson
Fewer Labor Unions Reported in State Says McLeod
Commissioner Malcolm J McLeod reports a state canvass showing fewer labor unions, scarce strikes, and general satisfaction among workers. He notes good wages reasonable hours and better treatment by employers as factors reducing union activity.
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McLeod
Malcolm J. McLeod
Mr. McLeod
Father ignores physician and boy dies from hydrophobia
Bay City father Thomas Sztrzynpkowski refused Pasteur treatment after neighbors advised against it. A dog bite a month earlier led to the child's fatal rabies course, with neighbors' mockery of medical advice delaying care and the boy dying at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Sztrzynpkowski
Bay City
Ann Arbor
Sztrzapkowski
Local Navy Recruiter’s Aide Found Dead in Grand Rapids
Joseph H. Risk was discovered dead in his Hermitage room in Grand Rapids by friend Anna Boelens. The body lay beside a revolver, suggesting death overnight. Risk had been connected with the United States naval recruiting station but recently clashed with the commanding officer and was ordered away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph H. Risk
Hermitage
Grand Rapids
Anna Boelens
United States Naval
Flour Mill Destroyed in Fire at Chelsea
Fire gutted the Chelsea roller flour mills a loss near 12000 dollars with only 3000 dollars insured. The three story mill, filled with grain, faced losses to farmers. Fire began in the boiler room. Sheets Arctic Owl. George Galvins of Kingsley shot a pure white Arctic Owl, measuring five feet four inches tip to tip.
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Chelsea Roller
George Galvins
Kingsley
Well Known Miller Dies in Grand Rapids
Joseph Rowland, aged 76, longtime Grand Rapids miller, died recently after forty years of prominence in the industry. He had resided in Grand Rapids since 1867. Beet Sugar in Michigan projects an unprecedented year with high yields and expanded acreage, forecasting 200,000,000 pounds of production.
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Joseph Rowland
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Bottle Gives Up Secret Olive Temple Suicide Near Berrien Springs
Olive Templeton, a Wisconsin co ed at Adventist school in Berrien Springs, vanished in a February 1905 snowstorm. A slime covered bottle with a note ended the mystery, as her body later found in the St Joseph River in a badly decomposed state. Suspicions of a jealous lover circulated during months of searches.
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Olive Temple
Berrien Springs
Olive Thompson
Wisconsin
Adventist School
Miss Templeton
St. Joseph River
Oil Found Near Midland Sparks CountywideExcitement
Midland residents celebrate a new oil discovery near the city in Tib tawassee township Saginaw County A farmer Albert Porter reported oil gushing from a pipe The substance tested by Chemist Heim of Saginaw proved to be petroleum The find prompts plans to develop the oil fields and share for local farmers in Midland County.
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Midland
Tibtawassee
Saginaw County
Albert Porter
Heim
Saginaw
Midland County
Hollanders to establish Northern Michigan colony near Chatham
A group of about 100 Hollanders plans a new settlement near Chatham in Alger County. John Vanderlinden of DePere Wisconsin and three associates inspected lands owned by Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. and reported them favorable. The committee noted several Holland groups have inspected the land and spoken positively.
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Michigan
Chatham
Alger County
John Vanderlinden
DePere
Wis
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co
Car Kills Former Judge in California Visit
Former Michigan circuit judge A. E. Cowles, aged 70, was struck and killed by a street car in Los Angeles while crossing a street. The Lansing resident arrived two months ago to visit his daughter Mrs J H Goodhouse.
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A. E. Cowles
California
Michigan
Lansing
Los Angeles
Cal
Cowles
Tie
J. H. Goodhouse
State Happenings in Brief Across Michigan
A wide snapshot of early 20th century Michigan notes an epidemic of grip in Flint, a new Bijou Theater opening in Adrian, 231 members at Monroe Yacht Club, 40 diphtheria cases in Grand Rapids, and blight hurting potato crops. Reports cover public campaigns, local meetings, factory hopes, weddings, fires, accidents, legal notices, and evolving farm prosperity with 1906 farm values peaking at 6.794 billion dollars and crops surging in value led by corn wheat cotton and sugar beets.
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Flint
Bijou
Adrian
Monroe Yacht Club
Grand Rapids
Wilson
Nature
Jewish Home Colony Plans Suburban Long Island Village
A movement forms among New York Hebrews to build an inexpensive Long Island colony for 1,685 families. A large land tract is laid out as a model suburban village with space for a market, city hall, and temple. Advertisements urged in this paper.
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New York City
Long Island
Labor unions push for shorter hours and higher pay
The article surveys unions across the United States and Europe seeking shorter workdays, wage gains, and better conditions. It notes 8,000,000 wage workers in unions, 2,000,000 in the U S, and concrete gains like eight-hour days for New York engineers and Seattle ink workers’ wage bumps. it highlights plans from Boston plumbers, San Francisco sheet metal workers, and Montreal unionists to build a grand labor temple.
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New Hampshire
Brotherhood of
New York City
Chicago
Ill
Toledo
National Union of Clerks of England
San Francisco
Cal
United Textile Workers of America
New York
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Organized Labor Movement
United States
Central Labor Union
Washington, D. C
Railway Surgeons of America
England
Amalgamated Society of Engineers
Steam Engine Makers
United Machine Workers’ Society
Montreal
Canada
North America
Dust Shortens Life Says London Physician Sir Lander Brunson
Lon don physician Sir Lander Brunson argues in a recent article that men and women should retain life activities for 90 to 100 years. He cites dust as a frequent cause of colds and respiratory diseases shortening life.
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Lander Brunson
London
Treasury full of gold reports booming prosperity
Secretary Shaw's report highlights record gold in U S treasury and large customs receipts. It notes rising public debt, high bank insolvency resolutions, and strong per capita money in circulation while detailing government safeguards against financial panics and a revised spelling form per Roosevelt.
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Shaw
United States
Panama
Europe
Roosevelt
Railroad and union tensions loom in early 1900s earnings notes
The Barlincton line warns clerks and technicians against unionizing on pain of dismissal while a Pennsylvania power plant and dam near Harrisburg aims to electrify rail routes between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Reading trains reject a two hour day, and St Panmads plan a cut off to shorten travel to the northern peninsula. A grid of wage increases, ten hour days, and dividend boosts shape rail labor and investors as NY Central gains higher pay and Prrsylvanian stock hits a 7 percent base with 45,000 shareholders.
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Barlincton
Pennnsylvania Railroad
Harrisourg
Sasonehanna
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia
Pictsbers
Reading Railway
Tice
Earling
St. Pan Mad
Valleys
Star Lake
Interstate Commerce Commission
Monon
McDwel
New York Central
Doterview
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Trade gains signal broader business expansion
Dun's Review of Trade reports week and month aggregate bank exchanges show substantial gains over last year. Heavy orders from leading industries for distant delivery underscore continued expansion, with consumption at a new high despite supply cost and labor pressures and railroad transport constraints. Thanksgiving and holiday demand rise, wholesale demand for spring textiles furniture and floors remains solid, while railroad and equipment orders bolster iron and steel and car building. Chicago district failures fall to 22 from 26 last week and 22 a year ago.
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Chicago
Dun
Trade Hits Peak as Rail Congestion Slows Movement
New York reports widespread holiday observance and mild weather yet records unusual rail congestion. Grain, coal, cotton to market, and manufacturing across iron, steel, textiles, and lumber face delays while retailers and spot trades brace for spring demand. Railroads push on amid a looming winter season.
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Bradstreet
Market prices by city show mixed grain and livestock quotes
The listing details bids for cattle hogs and sheep across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo. It also provides grain prices for wheat corn oats rye and barley with varying quality grades and ranges.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louie
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Toledo
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