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Newspaper

Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 17, 1907

Page

8

Iowa Soldiers With FelIy On Southern Battlefields Memorialized

An Iowa official party toured Vicksburg Andersonville and Chattanooga to dedicate State memorials honoring Iowa soldiers. The 200-member delegation, led by Gov. Cummins and Gen. Weaver, spent a fortnight in the South with all expenses paid, unveiling monuments at Vicksburg and Shiloh and commemorating Iowa regiments at Missionary Ridge Lookout Mountain and other sites.

Vicksburg Chattanooga T of Latte Toya Glynt Wah Wuiou Andersonville Shiloh Southland Albert B. Cummins James B. Weaver S. H. M. Byers Henry H. Kitson Boston Mississippi Col. Clark Maj. Byers Iowa Wil Terles Champion Hills Bicksburg Lown Grant Joe Johnston Tle Vickslillaois Aadreda United States Illinois Massachusetts New Hampshire Ohio Pennsylvania Vicksburg Battlefeld Vicksburg National Miliary Park Congress T. C. Catchings Stephen D. Lee William T. Rigby Towa James G. Everest Lilinois A. B. Cumming Andergongia 6Th Infantry Andergonville Cunmiing Clattanooga Mellarinis Inwa Missionary Ridge Lookout Mountain Gov. Cummins Sth Weaver N. C. Kemal Towa Buall

Town Richest in Union Wealth Study Says Cedar Rapids Gazette

The Census Bureau labels Town the seventh richest state in the union with Iowa claiming 4 048 516 070 total wealth and 1901 per capita. The report notes Town leads per capita wealth among leading states and highlights Iowa’s farm economy and vast railroad mileage as wealth drivers while many states hold large portions of national wealth.

Censua Bureau Ter Caplin Dows Union J. C. Woolliver Cedar Rapids Iowa Massachusetts Pennsylvania Ilinois Ohio Missouri St. Louis Kansans City St. Joseph Hawkeyedom New York Illinois California Towa Minnesota Michigan Toiwa Iown Commonwealth of the Union

Discovery of Mammoth Cave Reveals Saltpeter Quest

The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky was discovered amid efforts to secure dirt for saltpetre to make gunpowder as Congress pressed an embargo and looming war. Dr Samuel Brown demonstrated cave earth’s potential, and miners sought limestone caverns like Minestone to yield the nitrate crucial to national defense.

Mammoth Cave Kentucky Savas Democrat Chronicle Congress Europe Yoly Spain Samuel Brown Lexington

Lynx Parents Free Cub After Trapping Incident

A New York World correspondent at Chambord Junction, Que describes a trapper named Henry Jiate who used a wolf trap baited with a chicken to catch a fox. He watched a lynx mother cut the cub’s foothold with her teeth and free it, then carry off the leg before the pair escaped. The trapper noted the unusual rescue and recounted an owl scavenging story linked to a similar trap.

Lyx Ernie Mennure Prap Henry Jiate Tracs Walker Gray Fox Saya New York World Chambord Junction Que Tate Nate Jong

Notions of Race In A Malaria Tale From San Francisco Argonaut

A San Francisco Argonaut fragment recounts a restaurant encounter where a waiter misreads a light skinned man as colored. The man explains he is Malay, sparking a quick chain of questions about origins and race as the story plays on misperceptions and linguistic twists.

Manny Athintr San Francisco

Fragmentary note on royal comparisons and battle context

Fragmented text references Katharina and Katharine, noting comparisons to wine and kings. Mentions why, bad or good, and a vague battle context. Little coherent detail, but preserves named individuals and general theme of conflict.

Kinges Katharina Katharine

Labor federations expand across towns and states

Dairy farmers form a union in Middletown North Carolina while unions grow nationwide from Santa Rosa California to Chicago Illinois. The International Lathers Union boasts 204 towns with labor temples, and the Sevater Operator Union forms a new national body. Wages for San Francisco marine painters rise stably and Manitoba workers plan a labor party.

Middletown N. C Inbor Witown Santa Rosa Cal Ctxt Systar Colorado State Federation of Labor Springfield Ohio Trades and Labor Gooks' Protective Association Chicago Federation of Labor Cleveland Denver Colo Pai Custumg House Toronto Canada Tobacco Workers’ International Union New England Amalgamated Leather Workers’ Union of America San Trancisco Cali Manitoba Chunnada Cornelius Ward New Jersey F Federation of Tabor Supreme Court of Colorado District Court St. Paul Stratford Mungor Rio Grande Woolen Mills Albuquerque N. M Paterson N. J

Chicago Trade Review Sees Favorable Output and Rising Demand

Dan's Review of Trade notes favorable developments in Chicago with increased currency reform and high production activity. Steel and iron show strong forward work, textiles and boots rise, lumber prices hold, and rail bottlenecks hinder early spring shipments. Interior sales improve and retailers await colder weather for January clearances.

Chicago Lasures Dan

New York Trade Mixed As Holiday Slump Eases

Quiet distributive trade contrasts with active industrial sectors. Post holiday and weather dampen wholesale and retail demand for heavy wear, while clearance sales purge stocks. Bradstreet reports weekly U.S. and Canadian business failures and grain exports with year comparisons. wheat and corn exports show sizable totals for digits across years, reflecting slower activity yet ongoing trade shifts.

New York Iatter Inc Demnd United States Canada Bradstreet

Chicago Cattle and other grain prices across markets

Market report lists price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York Toledo and more. Includes commodity prices for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and clover seed with various quality grades and No 2 classifications.

Chicago Cholea Indianapolis St. Louis Cincinnati Detroit New York Toledo

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