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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1903
Page
6
A Pennsylvania town reports a female preacher in a conservative German community. A bashful stranger asked to marry her but fled after learning she has a husband already. The incident reflects tradition yet shows evolving roles for women in church and home.
Panicked customers crowded three St Louis banks, pulling funds after rumors spread by Chicago stock brokers. Officials assured solvency, waived sixty-day withdrawal rules, and paid deposits rapidly while trustees planned measures to end further withdrawals and restore stability.
Receiver James Smith Jr. accuses J. P. Morgan Charles M. Schwab and others in the United States Shipbuilding Company affair. The report claims Morgan and Schwab received $20 million in stock and bonds with no equivalent, outlines a secret Morgan Schwab Harris Gatea deal, and questions the Bethlehem plant purchase and control by the steel trust.
A would be assassin fires five shots at President Diaz in Guanajuato while he rode in a streetcar with dignitaries. Hans Toscano is seized by Fabio Brancafon and imprisoned. motive unclear, possible drink or premeditation. Separate notes report Diaz’s earlier 1897 assassination attempt, a New York double death by suffocation, Danial Boone’s death, and corporate stock movements at Nic National Steel and Wire and Vulcan Detailing Company.
A study cited by Molin's Magazine shows German Americans own homes at higher rates than native Americans in many large U.S. cities. Milwaukee, where Germans predominate, leads in ownership, with St. Louis Cincinnati and Cleveland also showing strong German ownership. The piece argues Germans as a group are prosperous citizens, contrasting urban ownership with national averages and noting exceptions like New York and Newark.
The department cites Universal Postal Union rules requiring green for the lowest value, red for domestic mail, and blue for foreign mail. The restrictions prevent issuing a mourning stamp, and officials say printing such a stamp is not advisable. Liberia supplies arrowroot coffee ivory and hides.
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