Currency Bill Prompts Manufacturers to Back Reforms
New York reports show presidents and chief officers of over 100 leading firms with plants valued between $500,000 and $2,000,000 urging swift currency legislation. Most letters call for passage to boost business, despite some criticism of possible improvements. They warn that tinkering by lawmakers undermines confidence and harms prosperity across steel, lumber, clothing, and other industries.
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New York
Mat
Surrey
Aslo Industries
Wisconsin
Michigan
South
Canada
Cqun
Ip F& Bottle
Market Report: New York and Buffalo Provision Markets
New York closing wheat May futures, oats and butter prices, creamery and state butter, potatoes on Long Island and White potatoes. Buffalo market shows No.1 Northern wheat, No.4 yellow corn, No.4 white oats, blended patent and creamery butter prices. livestock in Buffalo market notes cattle, shipping steers, choice cows, export bulls, veals, lambs, and lamb prices.
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New York
Long Island
Buffalo
Wlater
Batent
East Buffalo
Casket Found Empty in Cardinal Tampella Case
Rome reports an ebony casket once said to hold the late Cardinal Tampella s will and a large sum of money was found empty. Police probe secrecy with Vatican tacit approval. Princess Altieri, widow of the Duke of Campobello and aunt to the cardinal s successor, is under suspicion. her husband has not yet been arrested.
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Rome
Tampella
Vatican
de Bisogno
Justife
St. Peter's
Noticy
Hugation
Altieri
Duke of
Lost in Sewer for 36 Hours in Steubenville
Steubenville Ohio December 26 Steve Hobolo 23 an employee at the Carnegie steel plant wandered 36 hours in a large sewer under the city unable to cry for help. Passersby heard faint noises from a manhole and pulled Hobolo out nearly starved and raving. Police report he was found insane and possibly crawled into sewer entrances near the river bank seeking a way out.
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Steubenville
Steve Hobolo
Carnegie Steel
Hobolo
Hobola
Mill Employees Get Three Per Cent Christmas Dividend
Fall River, Mass. December 26 The Bourne mills paid a semiannual profit sharing dividend of 3 percent to the employees. About 85 percent of 800 operatives will receive it. Total payout about 4000 dollars. Dividends based on wages from June 2 to November 29, 1918. The dividend acts as extra pay, originated by George A. Chace in 1899.
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Mass
Bourne Mills
Eee
George A. Chace
Christmas personal crisis reports in Philadelphia
In West Philadelphia William Murphy aged 40 was shot and killed in front of his home by Catherine Witman aged 85. Witman then shot herself just as police prepared to enter her rooms a block away. Witman was a friend of Murphy’s separated wife. A few days earlier Murphy and the woman had been arrested on a peace-keeping charge.
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Philadelpus
William Murphy
Philadelphia
Catherine Witman
Yoman
Miss Witman
Murphy
Ballah
Gas tragedy in Brookline home ends in suicide
In Brookline Massachusetts at 45 St Paul Street a man identified as Alton Parker connected a gas line in a bedroom while a child slept nearby. Prosecutors say Parker, seeking to end his life after a failed effort to provide for his five children, suffocated himself in a room on the upper floor. The incident followed a Christmas greeting in the house at 181 West Tide Street where neighbors reported a gas smell.
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New York
Yee
Wet Tid Street
John J. Crawford
George Varunem Mloyid
Mw Oram
Alton B. Parker
Atthe
Parker
St. Paul Street
Brookline
Mass
Baseball at Expo aims for supplementary world series cup
New York officials plan a post season seven game series on the Panama Pacific grounds at San Francisco to decide a supplementary world's championship cup. Junior E Sullivan in charge of Panga Pate exposition sports intends to seek talks with NL president John Tener and AL president Ban Johnson after New Year's. The Pennant winners would be invited to coast if promoters cover expenses and gate receipts.
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New York
E. Sullivan
San Francisco
Sulivan
John J. Tener
Ban Johnson
Sullivan
Exposition Grounds
Oil graft probe widens in New York investigation
Dec 6 New York rumor says James W. Oseborn subpoenaed John A. Hennessy who left for Albany to testify in a graft inquiry that Hennessy began. It is unclear what Oseborne seeks, but reports suggest possible overcharges on oil used in state road repairs and an asphalt graft may be examined.
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New York
John A. Hennessy
Albany
James W. Oseborne
Hennessy
Jin
Mr. Oseborne
Hin
I Waa
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