Trade review notes gradual progress despite harsh weather
R G Dun & Co reports general business progress despite rough Northwest weather and railroad difficulties. Bank clearings rise 6.5 percent from last year, factory outputs top previous aggregates, and forward work continues in rail mills and forges. Calumet and South Chicago show higher capacity and more workers. Snow hindered markets but demand for winter goods stays brisk. Lake navigation ends season with satisfactory results for vessel owners. Failures in Chicago district total 20 this week, with seven liabilities over 5,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Dun & Co
Calumet District
Chicago
Lake Navigation
Trade Trends Amid Holidays Bring Cautious Gain Across Regions
Colder weather and holiday approach lift trade in the North and West, with Southern activity aided. The week shows a fading railroad strike impact on commerce and a quieting in wholesale lines, while individual industries show no slowdowns. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Dec 9 total 259, compared with 230 last week and prior years. Canada reports 20 failures, down from 29 last week and 60 in the 1908 week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
Bradstreet’s
Market price listings for livestock and grains across multiple cities
The page shows regional price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep, plus grains and dairy. Items include Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo Toledo Cincinnati New York with varied No. 2 grades for wheat corn and oats, butter eggs and hay prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Detroit
Milwaukee
Toledo
Cincinnati
New York
Postal savings banks worldwide show rapid growth and wide gaps
Comptroller of the Currency report details 34 countries with postal savings banks. Over the decade depositors rose from 20,152,887 to 40,320,303 and deposits from $1,138,411,944 to $1,989,299,815. United Kingdom leads. Canada shows unique high average deposit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comptroller of the Currency
Lawrence O. Murray
United States
Postal Savings Banks
Postal
United Kingdom
Japan
Italy
France
Belgium
Austria
Russia
Netherlands
British India
Postal Savings
Negro Soldiers Said to Have Fired in Brownsville
A military court of Inquiry into the Brownsville incident reportedly has conclusive evidence that Twenty-fifth Infantry colored troops fired in Brownsville Texas while comrades ran through town firing. Investigators found bullet holes near the fort and shell casings bearing the regulation army design, traced to barracks.
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Brownsville
Texas
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Military Court of Inquiry
Congress
Roosevelt
Seven Die In Cincinnati Tenement Fire At East Third Street
A four story tenement at 327 and 329 East Third street Cincinnati burned after a kerosene lamp toppled. Fifty residents were inside. at least seven died and many injured as stairways failed and some jumped to escape. Firefighters rescued others and recovered badly burned bodies.
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East Third Street
Cincinnati
Boys Seized As Murderers Identified In Slaying
Kansas City police in a three-youth arrest case say Ralph Clyne 17 Louis Dye 19 and Harry Shay 21 are linked to multiple holdups. A witness identified Clyne and Dye as the men who shot and killed M A Spangler at his saloon on November 24. Spangler's son Samuel Spangler was wounded in the arms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Ralph Clyne
Louis Dye
M. A. Spangler
Spangler
Samuel Spangler
Harry Shay
Dye
Clyne
Indiana News Roundup Shares Deaths and Developments
A broad Indiana items digest reports Charles Douthit 89 of Brownsville dead, Platt Sutton 65 killed by a Pennsylvania train at Sweetser, and James M. Hemenway likely to lead Intermediate Life Assurance in Evansville. American Seeding Machine Co expands Richmond branch to 1000 workers. J H Cate moves to Texas land. Two double weddings at Muncie. pipeline for natural gas from Oakland City to Evansville to begin soon. Monument fund for Sugar Ridge Township veterans proposed. clocks fail in multiple towns due to a mysterious disease. Accidents include George Rogers badly injured in Elizabeth town woods. several other local incidents, rail disputes, and a 102-year-old minister David Seatwick near Elizabeth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Douthit
Brownsville
Platt Sutton
Pennsylvania
Sweetser
United States
James M. Hemenway
Boonville
Washington, D. C
Intermediate Life Assurance Company
Evansville
Indiana
Shelbyville
Columbus
Newcastle
Rushville
Fort Wayne
George Rogers
Elizabethtown
Rogers
Elizabeth Cox
State Board of Registration For
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Richmond
Wayne County
Blocks of Five Hero Dead General Dudley Dies in Washington
General W. W. Dudley of Indiana, once Pension Commissioner and treasurer of the Republican national committee, died in Washington after a weeks long illness from Brights disease. He fought at Gettysburg losing a leg, later served as U S marshal and helped expand the pension system. Survived by his widow and four children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Dudley
Indiana
Washington
Bright
Dudley
United States
Benjamin Harrison
Republican National Committee
Savannah Murders Spark Police Dragnet in Negro District
A brutal triple killing in a Savannah home ends with Mrs Eliza Gribble and daughter Mrs Carrie Ohlander dead and Mrs Maggie Hunter dying. A pursuing mob and 150 arrests fill Yamacrow as authorities seek a black suspect described by witnesses.
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Savannah
Eliza Gribble
Carrie Ohlander
Maggie Hunter
Ohlander
Gribble
Three Die In Mine Smoke At Shoemaker Mine
Fire in the fanhouse at the Shoemaker Mining Company shaft mouth trapped twenty four men inside as smoke from the blaze was blown into the mine by active fans. Three workers suffocated and died while twenty-one others were overcome and rescued in the incident fifteen miles northeast of Johnstown Pennsylvania.
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Shoemaker Mining Company
Johnstown
Five drown sledding through ice on Cuyahoga River
Five members of the Cormanie family perished in a Kent Ohio accident when a hole opened in the river ice. Frank Cormanie and his four children Florence Helen Mabel Russell, aged 3 to 9, disappeared beneath the ice while sledding. a mother and her baby survived.
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Cuyahoga
Kent
Frank Cormanie
Florence
Helen
Mabel
Russell
Sores Eyes Cured by Cuti cura Ointment
A 65 year old man from Mouth of Wilson Virginia reports severe eye inflammation unresponsive to doctors and home remedies. After one week of using Cuticura Ointment his eyes improved and by two weeks were nearly well. He praises Cuticura and notes no trouble since.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuticura
G. B. Halsey
Wilson
Totter Drug & Chem. Corp
Cuticura Remedies
Boston
First sun cook Baron Tehernhausen pioneers solar cooking
A historical note credits Baron Tehernhausen as the first sun cook starting in 1687 with boiling water and later excelling in boiling eggs. It links Sir John Herschel and Buffon to solar cooking, describing sun roasters and sun stoves used for roasting and boiling by sunlight, mainly in scientific contexts for about three centuries.
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Baron Tehernhausen
John Herschel
Buffon
Catarrh Cure Endorsements and Erratic Advert Claims
A mixed clipping presents an offer of one hundred dollars for catarrh cure via Hall's Catarrh Cure and signatures attesting to F J Cheney's honesty. It also advertises Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and mentions a lamp purchase, a memory anecdote about tying a string, and a quoted misattributed literary line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Perry Pravis Painkiller Market Hatred Warning
In a garbled note a claim warns against accepting a substitute for Perry Pravis Painkiller, touting its past use by Goths for rheumatism nerves and similar troubles over years of constant use.
Tragedy of Twins at Lake Forest Circus
Chicago clubman H C Chatfield Taylor acted lingmaster at a Lake Forest children's circus. His joke featured a ringmaster recounting a side show accident with a clown, a twinned tragedy, and cannibals eating philopena with them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. CC. Chatfield-Taylor
Chicago
Lake Forest
Ringmonster
Philopena
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Postal Banks
Jacob Bell
O. E. Boley
Massillon Hospital
Shreve
Ohio
Review OF Indiana
American Seeding Machine Co
J. H. Cate
National Military Home
Marion
Liverpool
Brazuro County
Cate
Houston
Gulf Coast
Muncie
Margaret Drown
Ellora Rowe
Nora Crown
Floyd A. Artip
W. A. Bartlett
Carl Forkner
Alma Powell
Eva Forkner
Roy Lashure
J. P. Chamness
Oakland City
Louisville
John C. Moss
Ashboro
Ralph W. Moss
Forty-third Indiana
Sugar Ridge Township
Clay County
cCenter Roims
Asheboro
Saline City
Samuel W. Lory
Louis W. Lory
Madison
Knowles Montgomery
Owensville
Montgomery
Lola
Levi Turner
Bedford
James Dushane
E Indiana Lighting Company
Wayne
Bluffton
Linzey Chitwood
Omas Bailey
Hillsboro
Jesse Grice
Michigan
Grice
Andrew Hall
Johnson
Lee Hudelson
Dunreith
Buck Creek
M Hall
William Bertrand
Morocco
Bertrand
John Nichols
Franz Trump
Ilving
Crown Point
Inman
J. W. Ogden
Henry Manuck
Hvingworth
A. Metzer
Metzer
Richey Summers
Rockefeller
Carnegie
David Seatwick
Elizabeth
Harrison County
Methodist Episcopal Church
Indiaz
Kone
Manyon
Trice
Voet-Pat Mopyon
83Rd
Jefferson
Phila
Lida
Cutiura
George
Laura
Dr. Pierce
Edward F’zttereld
Polonius
Dodds
Guarest
WN & Son
Bosten
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