Goulds Big Combine a Wall Street Forecasted Shakeup in Railroads
Wall Street discusses George Gould's plan to form a Transcontinental Securities Company to consolidate 30,000 miles of rail lines including Missouri Pacific, Wabash, Western Maryland, and St Louis and Southwestern. Rumors link Morgan and Morgan interests against Gould with a competing strategy to control rail securities and thwart Reading access to New York. The St Louis and Southwestern system, led by Gould allies, owns 1258 miles of track and substantial stock capital.
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Gould
Thunderbilt
Morgan
Reading Laer
Transcontineutal Scccaritien Company
George Gould
Wall Street
New York
St Lous
Soutwestern
Weil Saint
St Louis and Southwestern Hawai Company
Transcontinental Securities Company
Northern Securities Company
Shich
Mr. Morgan
Swiich
Greatt Worthern
Northern Pacific
Baterington
Hues
Missouri Pacific
Wabash
John D
William Rochefeter
Warruain
Trea Fle Seliiff
United States
Seminur
Clark
Thoiry
Prick
Moore Brothers
Hock Tstand
Wallin Ebenry South
John Stoekeroller
St. Paul Stock
Has
Diplomatic Crisis Signals Venezuela Britain Vexed
Reports from London describe a growing diplomatic crisis between Venezuela and Great Britain amid threat of rupture. The dispatch notes tensions over island ownership and potential military or political actions impacting residents and regional stability.
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Venezuela
Great Britain
London
Ram
Sardenddy
Seanntie Preys
Abel Petos
Patos Island
Voliaues
Trinidad
Airp
Iran
Aelind Bence
Innocent Father Defends Son in High Profile Murder Case
John W. Young proclaims his son William Hooper Young innocent of the Anna Nefisen Pulitzer murder in New York. He argues the clothes found with the victim point to the real killer and notes his son’s estrangement from the Mormon church for 15 years. Developments in St. Louis involve subpoenas tied to the Woodie investigation and checks to Ed Butler. Haiti blockade responses, a work train wreck in Washington Indiana, and plans to entertain Chicagoans are also reported along with political turmoil and estate litigation in St John.
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William Hooper Young
Paris
John W. Young
New York
Anna Nefisen Pulitzer
Mormon Church
St. Louis
Woodie
Folk
James Campbell
William Reed
Ed Butler
Campbell
House of Delegates
Hroker Campbell
Reed
East
Nothing to Wear in a Nineteenth Century Satire
The piece revisits William Allen Butler's 1837 Harper's Weekly poem Nothing to Wear, a mock chronicle of Flora MacFlimney of Madison Square whose extravagant shopping spree exposes New York society’s pretensions. It details Miss Flora McFlimsey and her friend Mia Harris under endless outfits and fashion pressures, culminating in the famous ball where she claims she has nothing to wear.
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William Allen Sailer
Mccellin
Flora MacFlimney
William Allen Butler
Harper's Weekly
New York Society
Great Britain
Miss McIlinsey
Flora McFirmsey
Madison Square
Paris
Mia Harris
Broadway
Sle
Fes
Sophronia
Operators Blamed in Philadelphia Mine Labor Crisis
Philadelphia reports cite United Mine Workers President John Mitchell accusing operators of lawlessness, using criminals as coal police, and paying residents to vote to resume work. Secretive talks in Pittsburg with W. B. Wilson show no settlement. Nichols in Scranton claims Grimes heads a bribery plot offering 2500 dollars per vote.
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Issucea m
Mine Workers Ie
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Third Regiment Armory
South
Mitchell
Tuer
Pennsylvania
Indianapolis
W. B. Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Scranton
Nichols
Michael Grimes
Grimes
Kilbourne Warns of Labor War and Socialism
Minneapolis September 25 Colonel James Kilbourne of Columbus Ohio warned at the employers and employes convention that wage disparities and fortunes from speculation and trusts fuel socialism. He said labor versus monopoly sparks inevitable conflict, citing the anthracite strike as a flashpoint.
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Minneapolis
Employers and Employes
James Kilbourne
Columbus
Kilbourne
Miscellaneous Briefs From The Nation And World
Small cyclone damages crops in Wyandot county Ohio. Isaac A. Singer of the Singer Manufacturing Company dies in Atlantic City New Jersey. Minnie Brouckman a Chicago girl killed by a car driven by Vernon Cassard broker. Bank failures total 207 in the United States 32 in Canada. Earthquake in eastern Turkestan reports say 600 killed and 1 000 injured. Norman Barratt president of the defunct Atchison National Bank Atchison Kansas commits suicide. Burglars blow safe at Peechwood Improvement Company South Sharon Pennsylvania escaping after tying and binding several people. Paster Hastd Brewer of the United States Supreme Court burned at his home in Champlain.
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Wyandot County
Norman Barratt
Atchison National Bank
Atchison, Kan
Guiuaree
Thompson's Point
Champlain
Regulators Beat Two Women in Whitecap Attacks
Edna Colgan and Elizabeth Rush were badly beaten near Bloomington at Maple Heights by a gang calling itself regulators. Twenty four people have been whitecapped in Brown and Monroe counties in the past year. The victims are in danger and level charges are made against the attackers. Governor Durbin vows immediate action.
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Nashville
Ind
Edna Colgan
Elizabeth Rush
Maple Heights
Bloomington
Brown
Monroe
Durbin
Unclear historic notice from OCR fragment
Fragmentary OCR text lacks coherent events or identifiable entities to summarize into a fact-based card. No names, dates, organizations, or places are reliably present for a valid T or S.
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Robert Wolliems
Serbia
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Poerdes
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D. John Foster
Chicago
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William P. Love
Youngstown
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Denny Glass
Simon Burns
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Turner Hall
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War Department
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Manilla
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Canada
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