Goreville Record Briefs Roundup of National and Local News
Russian government peasant land distribution aims to quell revolts while repression persists. A fatal rail crash near St Thomas Ontario kills a CP engineer with injuries to a fireman and a baggage master. Canadian Vigilant nets dispute prompts cross border talks. Postal service discipline shifts to efficiency records and merit based promotions. A Duluth North Western Pacific hold up ends with one capture. A judge in Denver sentences Charles Pennington to one day for wife’s death. Last, Kansas rainfall floods Lowland districts causing extensive damage and evacuations in Little Italy and surrounding areas.
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Canadian Pacific
Toronto
St. Thomas
Ont
McKay
Patterson
Alex Wiley
Ross
Revenue Cutter Service
Treasury Department
Lake Erie
Northern Pacific
Duluth
Brainerd
O'Brien
John S. Mullins
Denver
Charles Pennington
Anastasia Pennington
Pennington
Kansas
Kansas City
Little Italy
Explosion destroys Marion plant injuring five workers
In Marion Ohio a boiler explosion at the Marion Railway and Light Company wrecked the plant and injured five people. Other items note a unionist group forming in San Salvador to back a Central American republic and statistics naming Illinois as the wealthiest state by agricultural output.
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Marion
Ohio
Marion Railway and Light Company
San Salvador
Illinois
Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Missouri
Indiana
San Francisco Relief Corporation
Dublin
Ifavana
Talmira
Mid- Wis
Plague of Locusts Ravages Hungarian Harvests
Myriads of locusts devastate Debrecen and surrounding areas in Hungary. 60,000 acres stripped of crops as flames and steam rollers fail to halt the swarm. Storms spread the insects beyond the Theiss, threatening widespread ruin for farmers already struggling from last year’s outbreak.
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Hungary
Debreczin
Need Twenty Thousand Men for Manitoba Harvest Aid
Wheat growers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan plead for 20 000 additional harvest workers as yield volumes rise. The Manitoba government estimates the province must recruit this number from older provinces, with agents in major cities directing men to Winnipeg for distribution to grain centers. Strong economy and labor demand drive this seasonal shortage.
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Canadian Northwest
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Dominion
Winnipeg
Canada
Noncontiguous Trade Totals Hit 119 Million in FY 1906
A Commerce and Labor bulletin reports U S trade with noncontiguous territories for the just-ended fiscal year at 119 804 511 dollars. Shipments to these areas rose to 51 666 666 67 dollars, led by Alaska Hawaii and Porto Rico, while Philippine trade fell about 750 000 dollars.
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United States
Department of Commerce and Labor
Contiguous Territories
Alaska
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Philippine Islands
Canadian
Fourth of July deaths rise as tetanus cited in medical survey
The Journal of the American Medical Association reports 158 U.S. deaths from July Fourth accidents with tetanus listed as the cause in 75 cases and 5,308 total injuries, the highest in four years. Giant firecrackers caused many minor injuries and some severe losses of sight or limbs. Secretary of State Root spoke at Rio de Janeiro to praise Latin American progress and urged mutual aid while rejecting territorial aims. He highlighted the upcoming Hague congress as a milestone in noncolonization across the American continent.
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Medical Journal
United States
Journal of the American Medical Association
Root
Pan-American Congress
Rio de Janeiro
Latin America
Ile
The
Hague
Wilson
U. S
Secretary of Agriculture
Cuban Revolution Begins As Insurgents Rally In Cuba
Reports from Cuba describe a spreading revolt with clashes near Hoyo Colorado where Lieut Roque of the rurales was killed and eight rurales captured. President Palma increases the rural guard by 2000, while Guerra and Gomez mobilize forces toward Pinar del Rio. Disturbances extend through Sanctus Spiritus, Cardenas, and Havana amid cabinet tensions and fears of U S intervention.
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Cuba
Hoyo Colorado
Gomez
Cardenas
Senor O’farrill
Jose Miguel Gomez
Palma
Cienfuegos
Santiago
Havana
Pinar del Rio
Reczlis Gomez
United States
Northwest Labor Famine Spurs Calls for Aid
The Northwest faces a severe labor famine from the head of the lakes to the Dakotas. Agriculture and industrial sectors plead for help as demand hits a crisis, with workers offering 2.50 to 3 dollars per day with board and only half the needed labor. Railroads contractors and miners report similar shortages. The situation is described as the worst in regional history.
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Tabor
Northwest
Dakotas
Fragmented Nation in Turbulent Times
The piece surveys global turmoil from U S and European events to Russian strikes and economic worries. It notes bank failures in Chicago and Zion City seeking aid while a Syrian reper is dismissed as a balloon. It mentions Rio’s hall named for the Monroe doctrine and aging hotel legal limits in New York.
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Chicago
Zion
Rio
New York
Russia
Longworths
Russell Sage
Chicago Trade Has Broad Strength Across Industries
The Chicago market reports sustained demand in iron, construction, transportation, and staples with strong activity in fall and winter goods. Increased visitors on State Street boost commerce as money circulates freely and bank deposits rise. Grain, provisions, and rolling stock demand show growth, while rail traffic faces a block as shipments move forward. Bank clearings rise 11.2 percent from 1905. overall year over year gains reflect continued prosperity and abundant foreign trade, with August earnings up 11.7 percent.
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Chicago
State Street
Dun’s Review of
Grain and Livestock Prices Across Major Markets
Market prices in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit show cattle ranging from 4.00 to 6.60, hogs 4.00 to 6.85, sheep 2.00 to 5.50, wheat No 2 about 69c to 73c, corn No 2 white 49c to 52c, oats around 30c to 57c, with regional variations and multipliers across week.
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W. L. Ww. L. Ctieazo
Cincinnati
New York
Brooklyn
Pittsburg
St. Louis
Boston
Io Phildelphia
W. L. Ww
Chicago
Hildelphia
Indianapolis
Ste. St. Louis
Detroit
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