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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
6
Diverse reports from Indiana Idaho and Pennsylvania mention political nominations and disasters. A grand army leader is named while fires claim dozens of buildings and notable deaths are noted across Texas New York and Arkansas.
A wide array of reports details storms and drownings in Vermont and Philadelphia, balloon ascents from Fort Meyer to Maryland, and diverse criminal cases including embezzlement in Kentucky. Also noted are naval accidents in Denmark, a two headed newborn in New Orleans, major fires in Atlanta and New Orleans, flood relief efforts in Augusta Georgia, and a transatlantic air and balloon race near Columbus Ohio.
Returns from Vermont show Republican George E. Prouty elected governor by about a 28 000 plurality over James Burke with Independence party candidate and combined Prohibition Socialist nominees in the race. Wisconsin Nebraska Michigan also report significant primaries and contests with La Follette forces in flux and Bradley for Michigan Governor led by early returns.
A group of Lexington Kentucky business and professional men volunteer to organize a cavalry company to confront night riders in the tobacco belt, aiming to restore order and safety in the area.
Robert Hunter, a wealthy New York Socialist author, has been nominated for the Assembly by the Sixth District. North Dakota and northern Minnesota call for thousands of harvest bands with wages from 175 to 3 per day and board. Elevator men north of Thief River Falls promise to deliver 1,500,000 bushels of wheat to the Twin Cities and other wheat centers this season.
The report notes improving confidence and rising outputs in key sectors. Iron and steel orders advance while wholesale staples show notable operations. freight-car and rail orders rise, with early deliveries enabling machinery hiring increases. Building activity grows, distributive demand expands, and external buyers boost dry goods and food product bookings. BankClearings total 201,649,490, down 49 percent from 1907.
Buyers grow more visible as western and Pacific coast centers expand business while southern merchants hedge fall and winter goods. Chicago reports new stocks, yet overall trade remains dull countrywide with production below expectations and weekly U S business failures rising to 232, versus 230 prior week. Canadian failures total 27, down from last week.
Detailed price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo. Includes wheat corn oats rye and butter eggs and clover seed with varied No 2 and mixed classifications and monthly or October terms. Different markets show broad spreads in cut and quality categories.
Trade and industry notes state Alaska will ship a minimum of eight million dollars in gold to the United States mint during the year. The Upper Mississippi River Improvement Association plans a three day meeting in Clinton Iowa from September 22 to 24 to prepare demands for the next Congress session. Eau Claire Gas Light Company protests a reassessment raising its property value from eighty eight thousand to two hundred fifty thousand dollars.
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