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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
11
The report notes 338 national bank failures and 1 961 consolidations since inception, with deposits totaling 343 651 GIS for individuals and 1 624 for banks. It covers capital, liabilities, new bank charters in 1905, and currency per capita figures alongside notes on government securities and monetary policy context.
In Odessa, Jews report a planned massacre as unrest spreads through the army. A Kiev dispatch notes a troop company marching to persuade others to join an organized plot against the throne. The situation shows growing danger and urgency.
Winter wheat in principal states is entering the season in excellent condition. The middle Atlantic states report variable germination but promising overall prospects. Hessian fly activity appears in scattered pockets from Missouri to Pennsylvania and Michigan, mainly in early sowings. Northern coast areas enjoy favorable conditions for seeding though germination remains uneven. Cotton prospects are good east of the Mississippi, with minor issues in Mississippi and Alabama.
Census data show a surge in fraternal organization affiliation since the first general enumeration. In 1894 total membership of principal fraternals in the United States and Canada was about 2,600,000 rising to 3,273,738 last year, a gain of roughly 673,738 or about 26 percent.
Washington dispatch reports the 59th Congress opening with Vice President Fairbanks in the Senate and Clerk RicDowell in the House. Attendance runs full, prayers offered, and committees begin filing hundreds of public bills on a wide range of issues from insurance policy protection to immigration and canal construction.
The annual Interior Department report notes vigorous prosecutions of land fraud on the Pacific coast, indictments and trials pending, and criticism of land act provisions as aiding crime. It lists 301 timber depredations valued at $183,783 and totals $7,017,811.88 in receipts for the year ending June 30, 1905, with 66 civil suits and 87 criminal prosecutions noted.
An article outlines the growing expense of the U S Navy noting past year spending on prebuilt ships and listing costs of ships like Kearsarge Maine Missouri and Wisconsin. It cites annual operating, supply and hospital costs and argues that maintaining ships afloat is a costly burden.
The report details army distribution by branch, noting a total regular army decrease of 369 and increases in Porto Rico and Philippine scouts. Secretary Taft pushes a 5,000 man coast artillery expansion at a $3 million annual cost, with Alaska telegraph progress and calls for a Panama cable linking to the United States at about $1 million. He requests $70,170,719 for the War Department for the coming year.
Senate and House appropriations committees issue estimates for fiscal year 1907 totaling 801,296,415 dollars, about 19 million more than current year. Navy and Post Office lead increases while War Department drops slightly. river and harbor funding is omitted.
A garbled list of historical milestones from 1087 to early modern times mentions Swift born in 1097, Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London, 1700 Charles XII, 1765 Fort Johnson captured, 1776 British rule on Ellis Island, 1783 Paris church closures, 1794 US Oneida treaty, postal reforms by Rowland Hill, Napoleon crowned, 1805 Austerlitz, 1807 Lisbon, 1808 French victories, 1819 unions admitions, telegraph progress, and Washington monuments, all jumbled in a fragmented OCR extract.
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