Farmers Form $54 Million National Co-Operative Exchange
Circular report notes Pierre South Dakota special on filing articles of incorporation for a Farmers National Co-Operative Exchange with capital of $54,000,000. Its aims include buying selling and dealing in grain provisions livestock and produce and to construct elevators warehouses and stock yards. One fourth of capital to build facilities another fourth as cash fund for cash grain trading and the remainder placed with farmers in banks to finance crops for better markets.
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Board of Trade
Elks Lodge Street Fairs Banned Nationwide
Grand Lodge at Salt Lake City votes to prohibit street fairs and carnivals held by Elks lodges. Opposition had grown, with rules committee recommendation adopted overwhelmingly. Law effective January 1. many forges across the country already planned fairs before that date.
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Elks Lodges
Grand Lodge
Salt Lake
Utah
Committee On Rules
London Times Blames Cadogan and Balfour for Ireland Troubles
The London Times editorially blames Earl Cadogan the retiring Lord lieutenant of Ireland and Gerald W Balfour former chief secretary for Ireland 1895 to 1900 for Ireland s disturbed condition. It says Cadogan cannot be praised as a successful ruler and Balfour s weak administration was a disappointment after his brother s strong record.
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The
London Times
Earl Cadogan
Ireland
Gerald W. Balfour
Mr. Balfour
Woman dies after alcohol lamp explodes in Minn home
Mrs. Vincent Markel perishes in a fire triggered by tipping an alcohol lamp while heating milk for her six week old baby. The blaze burns a room as her husband died recently and the infant was born after his death leaving three young children orphaned.
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Vincent Markel
St. Paul
Minn
Americans Die In Car Crash Near Evreux France
A dispatch from Evreux reports Mr and Mrs Charles Fair Americans linked to Mrs Virginia Fair Vanderbilts Jr returning to Paris from Trouville their car swerved struck a tree fifteen miles from Evreux Both were killed the chauffeur went insane from the shock.
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Evreux
France
Charles Fair
W. KK. Vanderbilt, Jr
Paris
Trouville
Fireman Dies of Heart Disease Near Akron Lake
J. W. Miller a fireman on the Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad died of heart disease at Silven Lake Akron Ohio. Tugboat Jacob Kuper boiler exploded near Staten Island New York. Four crew killed or drowned, two rescued by Castleton ferry. Tug sank immediately.
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J. W. Miller
Pittsburg
Fort Wayne & Chicago
Silven Lake
Akron
Ohio
New York
Jacob Kuper
St. George's
Staten Island
Castleton
Strike of Iron Workers Settled
The nationwide general strike of structural iron workers is called off as the American Bridge Company grants the Philadelphia strikers' demands.
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Comany
Millionaire is stabbed to death in Chicago office
Walter A. Scott president of the Tili pois Wire Company is fatally stabbed in his Monadnock building private office. Civil engineer Walter L. Stebbings used a paper knife after a quarrel over a $3000 claim. Miss Myrtle Shumate witnessed the struggle before Stebbings was arrested. Scott died within a half hour.
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Chicago
Walter A. Scott
Tilipois Wire Company
Monadnock
Walter L. Stebbings
Stebbings
Scott
Slinvis Wire Company
Myrtle Shumate
Ofice
Miss Shumate
Lady Curzon to Visit America for Health Recovery
India's first lady Lady Curzon formerly Mary Lester of Chicago plans to return to the United States this month to recuperate from illness. She will reside mainly at Bar Harbor Maine and continues her philanthropic work while awaiting better health.
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Lady Curzon
India
America
Mary Lester
Chicago
Calcutta
Lord George
Curzon
Bar Harbor
Ten Die In Fire At Landon Hotel Texas
A blaze at the Landon Hotel in San Auscio Texas killed ten people. The fire also destroyed three stables and several stores with estimated damages of £100000. Firefighters and residents battled the flames as victims on a balcony failed to jump to safety. The clerk tried to alert guests as flames engulfed the dining room.
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Texas
Landon
San Auscio
Head of Sunday Schools Re elected Leader of International Body
Rev. Benjamin B. Tyler, pastor of South Broadway Christian Church in Denver, was elected president of the international Sunday school convention for a three year term. A Illinois native aged 62, he has long served on the Sunday school lesson committee and led various churches in major cities.
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Denver
Benjamin B. Tyler
Lyler
South Broadway Christian Church
Tyler
Illinois
Big Year for Crops Promises Banner Harvest Across Nation
The harvest of wheat, corn, and oats is anticipated as a record, aided by favorable rains in parts and drought in others. Prices are high and the Department of Agriculture cites corn condition at 86.5 on Aug 1, with regional gains in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Wisconsin, while declines occur in fourteen Southern States. Winter wheat is estimated at about 880,400,000 bushels with 13.8 bushels per acre, subject to revision as wheat thrashing progresses.
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Nature
Department of Agriculture
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Wisconsin
Ohio
Illinois
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Chicago
Northwest
West
Uns
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Soo
Rev Walter Calley Named Secretay of Baptist Union
The Rev Walter B Calley of Boston has been chosen general secretary of the Baptist Young People's Union of America and will set up headquarters in Chicago. He is pastor of a Boston tabernacle, born in Dover Delaware in 1858 to Quaker parents. He studied at Crozer Seminary, began ministry after a New York service by Rev Isaac M Haldeman, and his first pastorate was in Bethlehem Pennsylvania.
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Walter B. Calley
Boston
Baptist Young People’s Union of America
Chicago
Boston Tabernacle
Tie
Dover
Del
Bundsy
New York
Isaac M. Haldeman
Crozier Seminary
Bethlehem
Wheat Yields and Conditions Report From Anthracite Districts
Snapshot of wheat yields by state with figures for Kansas Illinois Missouri Minnesota Nebraska Wisconsin Ohio North Dakota South Dakota and others. It notes a higher than expected crop and lists average condition figures August 1 with declines in Minnesota North Dakota Nebraska and Iowa but improved outlook in South Dakota. It also mentions Richard Croker negotiating for a London house and later work in Cambridge and Boston churches.
Startling Chicago murder case linked to missing son
The body of Mrs Annie Bartholin, found beneath her Calumet avenue home with a head wound and possible smothering, raises theories that her son William Bartholin killed her for mortgage equity. He is also suspected in the death of Miss Minnie Mitchell found at Seventy-fourth and State. Police press on with multiple leads and motives.
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Annie Bartholin
Calumet Avenue
Chicago
William Bartholin
Minnie Mitchell
Seventy-fourth
State Streets
Bartholin
Mitchell
Bartholim
Pythian Knights Hold Biennial Convention in San Francisco
The Knights of Pythias biennial meeting opened at the Palace Hotel San Francisco with about 150 supreme representatives. Gov. Henry T. Gage sent regrets and a welcome message read by Myron Wolfe. Reports show 1901 totals: initiations 55 202 reinstatements 7 733 card admissions 1 677 with a net gain of 23 194. subordinate lodges reached 7 002. uniform rank reports 858 companies in 99 regiments and 24 brigades.
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Supreme Lodge
San Francisco
The
Knights of Pythias
Palace Hotel
Supreme
Ogden H. Fethers
Walker C. Graves
California
Charles L. Patton
Knights
Henry T. Gage
Myron Wolfe
Fethers
R. W. L. White
Great Tabernacle
Mormon Church
Salt Lake City
Grand Lodge of
Ilks
G. W. Powers
Salt Lake
Guv. Wells
Utah
EXTRA SESSION LIKELY TO ACT ON CUBA RECIPROCITY
Rumors say President Roosevelt may call an extraordinary Senate session in November to ratify a Cuban reciprocity treaty after the elections. A treaty with Cuba is nearly ready, needing only final touches and signatures from Minister Quesada and Secretary Hay. Officials expect a November session rather than September, aiming to clear reciprocity before the regular Congress meets.
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Roosevelt
Senate
Cuba
Congress
Washington
Quesada
Hay
Miss Hay to Wed James W. Wadsworth Jr at The Fells
Miss Alice Hay will wed James W. Wadsworth Jr son of Representative Wadsworth of New York on September 30 at the Fells Newbury New Hampshire. Only relatives and intimate friends attend. After a brief wedding trip the couple will reside in Geneseo for autumn.
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Alice Flay
James W. Wadsworth, Jr
Representative Wadsworth
New York
the Fells
Newbury
N. H
Mr. Hay
International Harvester forms big harvesting trust in New Jersey
A new International Harvester Company charter in Trenton with 120 million dollars in stock aims to consolidate major American agricultural machine works including the McCormicks of Chicago. The Milwaukee Harvester Company has been sold for five million dollars. Industry data show 10.2 million dollars invested in collars and cuffs with 54 of 57 factories in New York and about 17 thousand workers. Diplomatic circles in Constantinople worry over unrest in Macedonia and Albania amid evolving committee activity.
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Harvester Trust
Trenton
N. J
International Harvester Company
McCormicks of
Chicago
Milwaukee Harvester Company
Milwaukee
Wis
Eastern Syndicate
State of
New York
Constantinople
Macedonia
Albania
Bright prospects in agricultural trade outpace labor disputes
R G Dun and Co Weekly Review notes New York trade remains confident with heavy fall expectations, distant deliveries extended beyond typical dates, and strong activity in lumber and fish packing. Railways show gains, iron and steel remain favorable, and foreign commerce lags with export declines and import rises.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Connellsville
Tim Plate
United States
Canada
Market headlines show mixed U S grain and live stock quotes
Regional market summaries from Chicago to Buffalo list cattle hogs sheep and prices for each city. Quotes cover wheat corn oats rye and farm products with ranges and per bushel or head values across multiple markets.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Toledo
New York
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