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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1907
Page
6
Mary Deer G Eddy head of the Chircian Science church reveals a 1 million dollar project in Boston to aid the poor. J Frank Carpenter of Carpenter Paper Co in Omaha commits suicide at home.
A Texas pecan export boom is valued at about a million dollars with estimates of 500 carloads in sight in this region and 200 more from elsewhere. Prices range from 5 to 12 cents a pound, depending on grade, and groves are being planted widely with returns of 3 to 400 dollars per acre as trees mature. The United States leads in pecan production, mainly from southwest Texas, with strong demand in New York and Chicago.
A commentary on immigration trends shows old world economies strained by returning migrants. Italy faces the worst hardship with penniless arrivals. Germany and Sweden and Norway also struggle as industrial conditions in the United States worsen. The influx promises severe distress in the northern winter.
A survey lists unions across continents with wage increases in Calgary, Boston, and Vienna. growth of the Iron Molders union to over 100 five hundred members. widespread female and clerical union membership. and upcoming conventions in Louisville and London noting consolidation plans among patternmakers.
A London rent roll valued at 2.5 million and other estates worth 5 million are at stake in a sensational case over whether the fifth Duke of Portland had a double life as T C Druce. Claimants allege Druce was the duke, while the present duke’s cousin would then hold the Portland rights. The case hinges on exhuming Druce coffin to test for lead or human remains, a move courts refuse to permit, leaving the dispute unresolved.
Countess of Warwick, returning to London, declares America’s only hope lies in socialism.
A report to the New York Academy of Medicine notes a serum discovered by Dr. Simon Flexner at the Rockefeller Institute achieving 72.8 percent cures in meningitis cases. The illness often terminated within forty eight hours after serum injection, with cases treated nationwide.
Chief Shippy of Chicago grants 22 year old Dorothy Stewart a special police permit to wear the star and exercise full authority of a patrolman. She will supervise women and children in uniform at the Auditorium Theater. Brazil is described as having only two classes the rich and the poor.
The Senate introduced resolutions on interstate commerce and finance and debated liquor traffic control. A joint resolution proposes a six year presidential term. The House proceeded with committee appointments while adjournment set for Jan 6 after a short session marred by a Gaines protest. Senate bills include mine disaster investigation and a vice admiral rank in the navy.
The President sent Frederick T. Maedeburg’s name to the Senate for Milwaukee pension agent. Ansberry bills a Toledo to Chicago ship canal survey. DeArmond drafts a felony for bank officers trading bank lands. Indian affairs urge broader native self rule. Metcalf rebukes a judge over a boy’s naval enlistment. Ohlson-Mahoney bids on lumber for canal work. Perkins reintroduces inheritance tax with split state and federal shares. Senator Mallory ill and will retire. Owen and Gore sworn in as Oklahoma’s new senators. Discovery Day bill proposal and banking commission hearings discussed. Land grant college funding proposed. Cotton crop estimate questioned. Transportation bureau created in Commerce and Labor. Blaine bill aimed at free trade with American hemisphere for qualifying nations.
New York reports center stage on holiday shopping with purchases below last year and a cautious trade outlook. Financial conditions improve slowly toward normal, export growth rises in grain, and weekly business failures show a mixed pattern with 208 U S failures and 40 Canadian failures for the latest period.
Pittsburg suffered a S100 fire damaging or destroying several key firms including Graft & Co stove makers, John Vleckler & Co rope dealers, Seeley & Leard wholesale hat dealers, and Hl W. Johns railway supplies dealer, among the principal losses.
A man about 40 with a striking appearance was found in a San Francisco street. Cards in his pockets bore the name and title Lieutenant Baron von Uabericht, military attaché of the consolidated powers of Europe.
An improving tone appears in business circles though full recovery in activity awaits normalization of banking conditions. Seasonable weather boosts retail demand for necessities and Christmas goods, with wholesale orders steady for spring merchandise. Money and credit conditions show cautious optimism, with no major defaults and improved Western collections.
Commodity quotes from multiple cities show cattle hogs and sheep price ranges in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo. Wheat corn oats rye barley and butter and eggs also listed with varied grade classifications and unit prices.
Thomas W. Lawson was chosen as president of the Bay State Gas Company of Delaware. The army chief of staff recommended building officers quarters at the army war college in Washington at a cost of $100 000. Heinrich Conreid of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York plans to retire at season’s end after disagreements with directors.
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