Elgin Echo World News Summary Sunday and Monday
The issue rumbles with a Toledo conference prompting a coal strike, a Chicago girl boycott, and a hoax about Mrs Guntess. It notes Taft and Wilson moves on living costs, price drops in foodstuffs, and strikes. Disorders across Paris and Nicaragua intervention fears loom amid global concerns.
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Toledo
University of Chicago
Guntess Near
Gohl
Minn
S “Tin Star
Wyoming
Gomez
Cuba
French flood toll tops 240 million. Paris relief planned
France faces nationwide inundation with Paris split into five military zones to coordinate relief. Officials estimate damages exceeding 240 million dollars, as the Seine rises and epidemics fears grow. The flood stalls transport, isolates towns, and threatens famine in parts of the country. Government sets aside 400 thousand dollars for immediate needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Briand
Cociery
Arts
France
Paris
Seine
Risa
Million Dollar Copper Trust Formed Under Scrutiny
The $1,000,000,000 copper combination launched with John D. Ryan of Amalgamated Copper announcing details. Anaconda Company named nucleus, to take over securities from Cole Ryan Amalgamated Copper and Guggenheim firms, amid government interference concerns.
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Wall Street
John D. Ryan
Amalgamated Copper Company
Anaconda Company
Cole Ryan Amalgamated Copper Company
Guggenheim Companies
Paris Floods Hit Several Areas as Water Rises
The article notes numerous places in Paris swept by floods while a separate financial item reports a capital increase plan. Anaconda Copper Mining Company calls a special stockholders meeting in Anaconda on March 29 to consider raising authorized shares from 1,206,000 to 4,000,000 at par value $250 to acquire properties in the Butte district.
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Anaconda
Butte District
Red Cross Organizes Aid for Suffering Homeless
Relief efforts spread as colder rain tests shelter conditions. The Red Cross Society mobilizes aid for victims, many of whom endure tents and exposure in widespread hardship.
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The
Red Cross Society
American Chulinieta to Loan Germany 120 Million
Washington officials note Germany seeks a 120 million dollar loan from American sources as a gesture of goodwill. The loan, planned for early this year, was delayed due to anticipated complications in the Far East. A Morgan syndicate is expected to take a major share of the issue, likely at around 102.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Washington
Morgan
TRAIN HITS BOBSLED ON NORTH MAIN STREET
A bobsled with twenty school children was struck by a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern train on North Main Street. The cart traveled about 200 feet along the locomotive pilot before being brushed off by a nearby engine. All children survived with no serious injuries.
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Lake Shore
Michigan Southern
North Main Street
Gunness Farm Sold to Join Boys' School Adjacency
The fifty acre Gunness farm near Laporte Indiana, tied to the 1908 Bella Gunness arson deaths, was sold to the superintendent of a nearby boys' school and will become part of that institution.
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Bella Gunness
Laporte
Ind
Gunness
Canadian Wheat Crop Value and Output in 1909
Canada produced 166,744,000 bushels of wheat last year, averaging 21.6 bushels per acre with a market value of 84.8 cents per bushel. The total crop value was $141,320,000, exceeding 1908 by 64,310,000 bushels, per United States Consul Paul Lang of Brierbrooke, Quebec.
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Canada
United States
Paul Lang
Brierbrooke
Que
Rear Admiral Dyer Dead and WMOore Promoted for Meritorious Conduct
Rear Admiral Nehemiah Mayo Dyer died at his Mahoge Massachusetts home after an indigestion attack. He earned rapid Civil War advancement for meritorious conduct and rose seven ranks for valor at Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War. He was 71. Dyer had traveled to Washington to learn the outcome of a Melrose tax suit on his bank account, which the court ruled against him.
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Wmeer
Nehemiah Mayo Dyer
Mahoge
Mass
Admiral Dewey
Manila Bay
Washington
Melrose
Chicago Harbor Plan Aims Five Million Dollar Project
Major Thomas H. Rees announced a comprehensive report by the corps of engineers on Chicago harbor development. The plan foresees a cement breakwater stretching about a mile and a half offshore and substantial dredging, with total costs expected to reach six million dollars.
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Major Rees
Chicago
Corps of Government Engineers
Thomas H. Rees
Federal Engineering Department
Merchant Bound And Slain At New York Shop
Six year old Ferdinand Derosa entered his grandfather's wine shop at 331 East One Hundred and Sixth Street and fled to a patrolman after a sudden disturbance. Police found the elderly owner chained with a gas tube, slain, in a bedroom behind the shop, with chloroform and a handkerchief nearby.
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Ferdinand Derosa
East One Hundred and Sixth Street
New York
Sweansy
Polar dirigible mission eyed by Prince Henry of Germany
Prince Henry of Germany plans an Arctic expedition in spring using a dirigible to reach the North Pole. The note highlights American leather supply aiding German shoe factories. Sweden debates wheat and rye duties amid high bread costs fueling unrest. Russia seeks protectionist aid for industrial goods with free tariff terms under current laws. Dominion representatives back Roosevelt's call for an international resource conservation body.
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Prince Henry
Germany
North Pole
United States
Sweden
Russia
Roosevelt
Canada
Food boycott spreads as price strikes hit meat markets
The food boycott expands from city to city with thousands signing to abstain from meat. In Cleveland over 26 000 families vow for 30 days, triggering closures and lower meat prices. Omaha unions join, Pittsburg trades council urges 60 day abstention. butter boycotts in Connecticut. Officials dispute scarcity claims with rising cattle slaughter and stock trends. The movement grows daily with uncertain ultimate outcome.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Akron
Toledo
Omaha
Pittsburg
Iron City Trades Council
Naugatuck
Phoenix
Conn
A. D. Melvin
Bureau of Animal Industry
Washington
Chicago
St. Louis
Stand or Fall Together at UMWA Convention
United Mineworkers of America closed its Indianapolis talks on a possible bituminous coal strike. Officials say miners demand at least a 14 percent wage rise and oppose district-by-district agreements. if any district strikes, all districts will strike. Francis Feehan of Western Pennsylvania warned an April 1 universal strike if over 10 percent raise is not granted by then.
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New York
Louvre
Wilson
United States
United Mine Workers of America
Kimball
Labrador
Sel
New York World
Panama Canal
the United Mineworkers of America
Indianapolis
Francis Feehan
Pennsylvania
Two Bandits Caught After Rail Hold Up Near St Louis
Missouri Pacific secret service chief C Dames says the robbers’ identities are established. A sweetheart’s tips and a witness who watched from behind a bush betrayed the desperadoes. The 18 year old girl was in the mountains near Dure Ka in the county. Night police received word two men were in a box car. Separate report: three men arrested in Binghamton N C for grand larceny in stealing an Erie Railroad bridge later replaced by a heavier structure.
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CG. C. Dames
Missouri Pacific Railway
Secret Service
St. Louia
Wes
Dure- Ka
Gillespie
Mdison
Railroad Brune
Binghamton
N. C
Erie Railroad
Tarvin War May Be Averted
Berlin officials say the United States insisting on freer admission of American meats would aid tariff talks and remove a primary embarrassment. Germany asserts it cannot yield on allowing American meat imports.
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United States
Germany
Berlin
Woman Whips Highwayman in Cleveland Snowbank Incident
Miss Lulu Van Fleet, a Lincoln High School teacher in Cleveland, confronted a highwayman who held up her companion Miss Lulu Van Meet. She whipped the robber, threw him into a snowbank, and escaped, leaving her purse behind which the thief seized before fleeing.
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Man Hoebber
Lulu van Meet
Lincoln High School
Cleveland
Altman Acquitted in Chicago Telephone Bomb Case
Vincent Altman was found not guilty by a jury in Chicago after a trial over a bomb that partially destroyed the central exchange of the Chicago Telephone Company on June 27. The verdict concludes the case against Altman with no conviction.
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Altman
Vincent Altman
Chicago
Central Exchange
Chicago Telephone Company
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Ad Copy and Anecdotes
A compilation of testimonials touts Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for female troubles with claims of restored health and confidential correspondence with Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. The piece also includes miscellaneous quotes about a watchdog and a humorous misfit scene, reflecting a general ad and anecdote mix.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Pinkham
Twana
Lydia E. Pinkham
Jorn G. Moldan
Second St
North
Inn
Saving the Situation at New York Diocesan Meeting
Dr Hilary Little Laycock of Wheeling criticized a resolution as unintelligible comparing it to a Wheeling man's prayer. A brother at the meeting prayed for a very ill sibling asking not to interfere with the Lord’s perquisites while a deacon shouted Hallelujah the Lord knows what he means.
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Hilary Little Laycock
Wheeling
New York
Drop Coffee, Try Postum: A Family’s Insomnia Story
A California wife recounts quitting coffee for Postum after headaches and insomnia. Since starting Postum five months ago she and her husband have slept better, gained weight, and feel calmer. They warn coffee as a foe and praise Postum as a healthier alternative. The letter is presented as a genuine reader testimonial.
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Columbua and
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Congress
Alaska
John E. Ballatue
Karl Jorn
William
Paul Reiteske
M. H. McGovern
Portsmouth
N. H
Countess of Warwick
Louis R. Grevis
Congressional Investigating Committee
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Paria
Mankato, Minn
Cyrus D. Foss
Thomas Swope
Bureau of Lavor
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Gunness Farm
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U. S
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Cofee
Postum
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