Reprieve for Hoch in last hour on murder case
In Chicago a last hour reprieve stayed Johannes Hoch’s execution for poisoning a wife. Governor Deneen granted a stay to August 25 after $500 for an appeal was raised by a friend of Hoch’s counsel. Attorneys, a physician, and supporters pressured to delay the hanging as Hoch hoped for clemency.
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Johann Hoch
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Hoch
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Whitman
Healy
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Market News Roundup From New York and Other Cities
Financial notes mention call money around 4 1 2 percent, mercantile paper at 4 3 4 percent, and sterling at 4 36 60 for demand. Grain, provisions, and live stock values vary. wheat No 2 red around 93 to 94 cents, corn No 2 yellow near 64 to 66 cents, oats around 38 to 41 cents. Regional quotes from Cleveland, Chicago, Toledo, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh show mixed farm prices, with wheat, corn, oats, hogs, cattle, sheep, and lambs listed in ranges and futures notes.
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New York
Prime Mercantile
Lambs Stoops
Caleago
Trade Review Signals Growing Confidence In Industry
The July 29 review notes improved commercial tendencies despite textile and footwear material price inflation. Crop security boosts grain supplies and dampens rumor impact while weather aids retail distribution and pushes wholesale demand. First half 1905 shows better performance than last year, boosting second half optimism amid reduced dealer stocks.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
United States
Canada
A Spell in the City For the Women of the Furion
A nostalgic fragment urges city visitors to give rural wives a vacation from household toil. The piece contrasts urban heat with rural calm, praising summer boarders and holiday respite for farm families and isolated spouses alike. It cites National Magazine and notes about rural hospitality and the appeal of simple leisure.
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Play Bay
Sim
Patriotic flag industry growth and Hemlock market shifts
The piece notes a surge in American patriotism fueling a fourfold rise in flag production with over 3,000,000 silk and bunting banners made annually. It also covers hemlock bark and timber price changes, from $6 per cord to higher timber values, and cites a New York Tribune summary of shifts in lumber demand alongside a New York Post report on class-based market access requests in Warttemberg.
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Pearson’s
New York Tribune
Historic Chapel Bridge and Lucerne Sites Described
An overview of Lucerne Switzerland highlighting the Kapellbrücke chapel bridge, Mühlenbrücke, and the city’s scenic junction of the Reuss River and Lake Lucerne. The piece notes the bridge’s wooden figures, the Dance of Death carvings, and its historic role as trade hub and prison, reflecting Swiss history.
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Reuss
Lake
William
Toray
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Riga
Ha Toy
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New York Tribune
Fragmented essay on sugar whiteness and humanity in prisons
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Washington Star
The Turkish Postman and Rural Letter Delivery Tales
A fragmented excerpt reflecting on Turkish postal practices and rural delivery in a patriarchal era. It notes how letters are distributed in villages by postmen, with most reaching their destinations, alongside scattered humor and social vignette about Mabel visiting the countryside and a man sherring sheep. It also includes vintage jokes about expensive gifts and Bible belief.
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