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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1907
Page
6
A garbled week in the presses reports a murder by a former wife amid a quarrel over a fee. It mentions various names, places, and events with partial details, including an explosion and other incidents, but the text is largely unreadable.
A collage of short notices and rumors including alleged church polemics, travel plans for a battleship practice cruise, a royal pardon for Col Arthur Laneh, a Nebraska town storm damage, a possible marriage of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a near murder attempt in Ohio, alleged monopoly moves in New York, and various sensational personal tales from London to Moscow.
Judge Landis hears testimony on Standard Oil secrets as Rockefeller arrives amid a riotous crowd. Stock details show major holdings and 40 percent dividends, with witnesses and guards crowded around the sixth floor court.
Admiral Dewey stated that transferring battleships to the Atlantic weakens balance of sea power and could invite misfortune. He urged keeping a strong Pacific fleet to deter rivals and protect national interests, arguing peace depends on readiness and equal strength across oceans.
Francisco grafting mayor Schmitz is sentenced to five years in penitentiary. Judge Dunne denounces the defendant as the crowd cheers a political turning point in the city’s fight to overthrow the corrupt machine. Schmitz remains defiant and vows to run again in the fall.
The transcripted interview portrays Japanese officials condemning American crews as lacking patriotism and warning of strained relations with the United States. Admiral Sakamoto’s career and a shifting naval posture before Port Arthur are noted. Australian Premier Carruthers backs pensions for invalids and subsidies to aid annuities for the poor.
Dun's Review of Trade notes commerce at unprecedented volume with payments through banks averaging 850 million daily. Production runs near capacity as weather boosts demand for seasonal goods. Raw materials remain tight with higher prices, while leather and brook show cost declines and heavy mill output absorption.
Favorable weather spurs crop development and expansion in retail trade for light summer goods. Market outlook rises as improved case sections attract attention. Business failures for the week ending July 4 total 135, down from 154 last week and well below past years.
The market report lists livestock and grain quotes for Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo. Cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye and hay prices are given in varying grades and city markets with ranges and unit terms.
Director W J Wolland of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg reports bones from a cave near Tolsdaysburg Pa show an immense prehistoric bear about 20 000 years old. Mammoth’s young bones found alongside imply the bear preyed on mammoths. other extinct animals and squirrels also appeared in the cave. A similar site near Greensburg is planned to be dynamited.
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