Indiana progress and industrial notes in 1932
A 1932 Indiana Progress roundup reports a Hartford Connecticut plant seeking a New Haven location with a $6 million capital, planning 2 000 to 3 000 workers. It also notes Betts Machine Co wage cuts, Lancashire spinning district rumors, a French village fire, Asiatic cholera cases in Hamburg, and Tennyson’s estate value. Additional briefs cover an Ensign Bickford fuse factory explosion with no deaths, a White Plains lamp accident, Lenexa rail collision injuries, U S troop movements on the Mexican border, Monterey trial engines, Chilean settlement funds, Harrison lecturing at Stanford, and US gold reserves.
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Washington
Schofield
United States
Garza
Navy Department
Monterey
San Francisco
Baltimore
Valparaiso
New York
Harrison
Btanford University
California
Indianapolis
Harrison S
Washington News Hits and Missing Schools Proposals
Representative Antony of Texas introduces a bill to repeal the June 27 1896 act granting pensions to soldiers sailors widows minor children and dependent parents while pensions under the act would be discontinued. Navy bids open for sea pumping ships Town and Brooklyn with Cramps as lowest bidders at about 3 million each. House Ways and Means panel creates a subcommittee to probe Treasury finances. Indian Commissioner Morgan urges government school attendance by force for many Indian children.
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Washingen News
Antony
Texas
Navy Department
Town
Brooklyn
House Committee On Ways and Means
Treasury
Morgan
Interior Department
Kelizhoever
Pennsylvania
House Committee On Appropriations
Country Fairly Abounds in Productive Oil Fountains
The Journal Saint Petersburg notes a crisis in Kitawa’s oil industry as 77 mephth extraction companies operate with 6000 workers. 2090 yields show 46 million pounds more naptha than 1890, an 18 to 25 percent rise, not from new wells but from fissures and spouts. Fountains shrink yearly, 42 percent in 1887 to 21 percent in 1891.
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Jowrnsdf
St. Petersburg
Kitawa
Hich
Ai Baku 77
Texpense
Founteine
Seerly Four Hundred Thousand Vonce More Than Harrison
The New York Evening Post prints a fake presidential tally. It lists Ceve and Harrison Weaver and Bidwell with party figures, Cleveland's plurality at 391,379. In Louisiana a fusion ticket is noted with Martison and Weaver electors. The Sun hints at annexation plans.
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Seerly
Harrison
New York “Evening Pos
Ceve
Weaver
Bidwell
Cleveland
Louisiana
Republicane and
People's Party
Martison
Barrison
Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever Outbreak Strains Alamogs Immigrants
The mill operated here and at Spring City, Pa. Diphtheria and scarlet fever have broken out among the colonists at Alamogs. Three deaths occurred in three days and fifteen children suffer scarlet fever while over 200 residents are crowded into two small frame buildings in severe winter conditions. Citizens pledge better quarters and medical care.
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Spring City
Alemiosa
Col
Alamogs
Cholera tolls and global unrest reported abroad
Final official Russia cholera statistics show 130 417 European and 135 343 Asiatic deaths totaling 265 760. Samoa halts most salaries for three months except chief justice and council president amid widespread destitution. Germany to punish military secrets leaks. Russian Jewish artisan residency decree expands misery. Hamburg reports new cholera cases. Valparaiso officers sentenced for treason. Archbishop Michao burns writings of Vas Polopica. Brussels Monetary Conference adjourns to May. RG Dun reveals robust year end trade with large gold movement and healthy domestic activity despite Western famine signals and evolving commodity prices.
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Russia
Samoa
Teichstag
RG. Dun & Co
Review of
Europe
Austria
United States
America
Canada
Freight Disaster Kills Eight at Nelson Station Minnesota
A Great Northern freight wreck at Nelson station leaves eight men dead and five seriously injured. The caboose, struck by an eastbound freight after a recent derailment cleanup, burst into flames with occupants asleep inside. Names of the dead and the seriously hurt are listed among the railway workers and nearby residents.
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Great Northern Railroad
Nelson Station
Minn
Nelson
Nels O. Dokken
Christ Martenson
Oscakis
Ole Martenson
Osakis
John Engstrand
Spruce Hill
John Akerson
Engstrand
Don Brummer
Yankton
A. M. Broseau
St Paul
Thomas Welch
Boston
Patrick Hannon
David Reid
Henry Ro
Trotters Sell Well At New York Pedigreed Auction
An auction in New York City featured the sale of Stamboul the famous stallion starting at 30,000 and climbing to 39,000 before a final bid of 41,000. Purchaser was D. M. Harriman of New York. Other notable horses sold included Nancy Lee, Arthone, Bessie Yepper, Myersdale, Silverton, Silverheal, Aita Belle, Beilect, Metz Rose, Tasman and Trinket with prices ranging from 2,100 to 6,000 in a tightly contested thoroughbred sale.
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New York City
Stamboul
D. M. Harriman
Boston
Silverheal
B.c
Stambou
Silverone
D. B. Johns
New York
Aita Belle
Br. m
Electioneer-Beautiful Beils
William Simpson
Beilelecta
B. m
Piedmont-Alta Belle
A, Fp, Dutcher, New York
Metz Rose
B.f
Stasboulitty Wilkes
Tasmanew York
Trinket
B.m
Princeps Ouida
Chas. Robinson
Poughkeep
Cholera Cases Reported in Hamburg City
Hamburg cholera commission reports two hospital patients found with Asiatic cholera after Monday admissions. Last week thirty five cases and two deaths were recorded in the city.
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Hamburg
Birthday Exercises Honor Whittier At Amesbury
Amesbury Massachusetts held birthday exercises for John Greenleaf Whittier with crowded Opera House attendance. Orations and life sketches preceded poems by Prof. J W Churchill from Dover, praising Whittier as a noble, unpretending man and citizen spirits. Letters of sympathy were read as part of the observance.
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Amesbury
John Greenleaf Whittier
Masa
Opera House
J. W. Churchill
Andover
John Greenleaf Whittiep
Labor federation adopts reforms and elects officers
At the American Federation of Labor session in Philadelphia resolutions favor patent law changes granting direct rewards to inventors while condemning the Baron Hirech fund. It backs civil service reform, education, woman suffrage, and immigration limits. Gompers salary rises to 1800, Evans to 1500, Lennon to 100 with expenses. Mor gan sues telegraph control. socialists lose 1628 to 527. Officers re elected. Chicago to host next year’s meeting.
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American Federation of Labor
Philadelphia
Baron Hirech
Gomper
Chicago
Neebe
Fielding
Schwab
Morgan
Gompers
Chris Evans
John B. Lennon
P. J. Maguire
William A. Carney
Pitts Org
Adjutant General Greenland Seeks Guard Upgrades
Gov Pattison receives Greenland's first annual report on Pennsylvania National Guard. Year marked by Homestead mobilization with 8 863 total and 6 307 qualified marksmen. Army drill changes, engineer and signal corps proposal, armory interest rising, and calls for $90,600 in overcoats plus other equipment. Churchill? No.
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Adjt
Greenland
Pattison
National Guard of Pennsylvania
Homestead
Mt. Gretna
Pennsylvania
Adjutant-General
United States Army
Greenlend
Signal Corps
Oil City
Philadelphia
McKeever
Pittsburg
Erie
National Grand
Govrs
Chicago
Great National Guard
Convict Labor Poisoning Toll on Helena Roadbed Work
About 100 convicts were put to work on a roadbed project near Helena Arkansas when several became ill from arsenic poisoning. One man died Monday, two more Tuesday, with two additional deaths anticipated. Local laborers protest convict labor and accuse opponents of poisoning. Authorities could not intervene.
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Iron Mountain
Helena
Ark
Woo
Three Firemen Die in Albany Wall Fall at Fire Scene
A Fort Orange mill blaze in Albany caused seven workers to be buried when an east wall 60 feet high toppled during evacuation. Fireman Charles KE Marshall, John Bridgeford, and Fred Amthor died. James Shattuck Jr Bernard Bamer Fred Bamer John Whitnell were rescued or injured as others suffered critical harm. Bernard Bamer died soon after. Whitnell survived.
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Fort Orange
Steamer Company No. 4
James Shattuck, Jr
Bernard Bamer
Fred Bamer
John Whitnell
Whitnell
Whitwell
Shattuck
Charles KE
Marshall
John Bridgeford
Fred Amthor
Bill to halt immigration for a year and expand quarantine
Congressman Brosius of Pennsylvania introduces a bill in Congress to improve the Federal quarantine service and suspend immigration for one year. It authorizes Treasury to set quarantine stations at Portland Boston New York Philadelphia and Baltimore and allocates seven hundred thousand dollars for the plan. Remains of Hon. B. L. Gibson arrive in Lexington escorted by state troops and family. requiem mass and eulogy held at St Pauls Cathedral before burial in Lexington cemetery.
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Brosius
Pennsylvania
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Portland
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
United States
B. L. Gibson
Lexington
Hart Gibson
St. Paul's Cathedral
Father Barry
Four-Story Fire Causes Major Property Loss in St Louis
A four story Udell Woodenware building in St Louis burned, with flames also gutting the upper Scarrett Furniture and damaging Crane Furniture, Tyler Desk, and express company properties. Losses include Udell 125000, Scarrett 150000, Crane 21000, Tyler 54900, and building 45000. Secretary Foster sees no pending panic amid gold outflow, expects return with interest. Western Kansas harsh winter endangers settlers with snow, fuel shortages, and grazing losses for cattle.
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Udell Woodenware Company
St. Louis
Scarrett Furniture Company
Crane Furniture Company
Tyler Desk Company
United States and
Pacific Express
All Killed In a Fight at Hyattsville Wyoming
Two deputy marshal James Huff and William H Nucker tried to arrest Ira Walker Ace Admira and another horse thief in Hyattsville Wy A desperate fight left five dead including the five horse thieves The flag flies over Jackson Park Chicago signifying federal possession of the World’s Fair grounds and buildings Dedication day saw Vice President Morton accept the property and Director General Davis take possession with the flag raised
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United States
Hyattsville
Wyo
James Huff
William H. Nucker
Ira Walker
Ace Admira
Jackson Park
Chicago
Morton
Davis
Fifty Second Cowbress Fifty Day Debates Amid Holidays
The Senate closed three day speeches on the Anti-Option bill with no vote likely until after recess. House calendars show holiday recess from Christmas to New Year with committee allocations. Senate adjourned after resolutions on Senator Gibson’s death and pension raises for Mexican War veterans. House proceedings were sparse as holidays neared, with minor bills discussed and adjournments to return after the break.
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Senate
George
Wasnburne
House
Committee On Appropriations
Duluth Minn
Horst
Terry
Arkansas
Florida
Gibson
Lomiana House
Durburrow
Ellinois
Whittier Estate and Probate Items
Whittier estate filed in probate court shows total value 193729 dollars with real estate 880 and personal property including stocks bonds and household goods. Copyrights totaling 5000 and works such as Child Life in Prose and Songs of Three Centuries noted. Thomas K Cree reports protest over Sunday entrance fee to Wolf's Fair and congressional appropriation of 2500000 for air. Outlaws killed and captured at Fort Smith Arkansas as Deputy Brun and posse engage Stax Rowe gang. Joe Raven dead and Ned Downing wounded.
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Mass
Joh. Whittier
Houshold
Thomas K. Cree
New York City
Cartes Foster
Congret
Fier
Fort Smith
United States
Brun
Norcous Stax Rowe
Joe Raven
Ned Downing Tured
World of Labor Grim in Berlin and Nationwide Struggles
A London press summary notes widespread labor activity and social unrest. In Berlin about 30 000 employed in iron trade improving across seven cries, with union growth and productive measures in Philadelphia and Lancashire. The International Typographical Union gains 2200 new members. Knights of Labor press organizing drives in major cities. Germany faces a harsher expanse of misery amid the European crisis. Louisville transport workers confront fare collection duties. French workers protest dismissals of a municipal council candidate. Railroad veteran Thomas in Pennsylvania nears fiftieth year of service as the network expands in early days of the railroad era.
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Berlin
Homestxap
International Typographical Union
Philadelphia
Lancashire
Knights of Labor
Louisville
Charift
France
Irania
Thomas
Pennsylvania
General Gilson: Louisiana statesman and Civil War officer
General Gilson of New Orleans was born in Kentucky and educated in Lexington Yale Tulane. He served in the Confederate Army and later held roles as administrator of the Howard Memorial Library Tulane University treasurer of the Peabody Fund and regent of the Smithsonian He was elected to Congress and later to the U S Senate, but faced electoral defeat and waning strength before 1895.
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Gibson
New Orleans
Spring Hill
Lexington
Terre Bonne Parish
Yale Collage
Law
Tulane University of Louisiana
Isigns
Howard Memoral Library
Tulane University
Peabody Education Fund
Smithsonian Instiation
Gilson
Louis A
Louisiana Democrats
Unite Senate
Election vote tallies across states show party splits
In Oregon the electors tally shows Republican 32, Democr 243, Populist 68, Prohibition 35 with a Democrat backed Populist receiving 35 votes. Montana canvass records Hartson elector leading by 1 276 over Cleveland elector, Hartman elected to Congress by 172 plurality. chief justice race Pemberton (Dem) over Blake (Reg) by 6 470 votes.
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Prohibition
Pierce
Montana
OFLU
Thote
Hartson
Cleveland
Harrison
Weaver
Hartman
Supreme
Pemberton
Teating Blake
Four Men Burned In West End Meet Railway Stables
Four motormen died when the West End Meet Railway Co stables in Boston burned. Luke Glenon John Clark George Wallis and John Magui nness were inside a repair pit for electric cars. The blaze razed the building in about 30 minutes with losses over 125 600. Clark's body identified. second body badly burned to decide whether Wallis or Magui nness. Also reports of extreme cold in the Northwest and other brief items.
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West
Clark
Scotch journeys of Queen Victoria cost her private site
An OCR fragment mentions Queen Victoria’s travels costing private funds, Prince of Wales planning a new racing yacht, and charity figures including Mrs Stasx of Kansas and the Salvation Army. It also references German art circles, the will of a New York millionaire, and various European political figures with scattered details.
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Queen Victoria
Prince of Wales
Stasx
Kansas
Grexerst
Salvation Arm
Germany
Georg Bleibtren
Wilson <S Hunt
New York
Vooper Justinte
Stevenon
Ergats-Toree Yi
Kentucky
M. Carn
Hen Villara
Prince Bismarcs
Milwaukee
Ezra KE ™ DaLt
Massachusetts
Sterling
Wiliam Warson
Jennyson
Wasa
Byr@s
Pobus
Jay Good
Bup
Western Union Leegrapa
Unites States Senate
James W. Bradbur
Maine
Fence
Michigan
W. Jones
Jaws
Sm Joax Sranamp
UltetKi
Hang
Fort Thsie
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Indiana Progress
LABGR
Ixdsteial
S Ste
New Haven
Conn
Joseph R. Hawley
Hartford
Col. Litchfield
C. 8
A. H
E. Bunt
Reading
Theodore Allen
N.Y
Betts Machine Company
Wilming.ton. de
Forbes
London
Berson
Gironde
Tennyson
Ensign Bickford
Barford
White Plains
B. Hinckley
Souerland
Lenexa
Kan
Louisiana Supreme Court
B. B. Pierce
J. W. Garret
Altoonala
Ireland
Canton
Hough F. Dempey
Robert Beatty
Patrick Gallagher
North American Endowment Association
J. W. Doane
Waynesboro
Charles N. McMorrill
W. L. McMorrill
W. P. Jones
South Creek
N.C
Robert Rogers
William Hammond
Tom Moore
Rogers
Whitewater
Joseph Mandel
Nelson F. Evans
Spring Garden National Bank
R. Jones
Jesse Jones
Licester
N. C
Robert J. Beatty
William E. Griffiths
Carnegie Steel Company
Beatty
N. Y
Columbus
Hugh F. Dempsey
Picancial and Commercial
National Fire Insurance Company
Commercial Union Assurance Company of
National
Newton Nations
Newton
Guthrie
White Water
Nova Scotia
Inter-Colonial
M. J. Fleischman
Mattie H. Alexander Brown
Carthage
Buffalo
Falk Manufacturing Company
Buffalo Wheel Company
Jennie Bechims
St. Paul
Katherine Donahue
Delia Barry
Jas. G. Blaine
Washington, D. C
W. Gouldsmith
Fort Benton
Heyman Rosenberg
Temple Beth Jacob
Williamsburg
State Bank of
Cuba
Lisbiuties
American Woodpulp Paper Company
Foor
Michaelo
Servia
Vasa Polapica
Brussels
Budden
Nancy Hanks
Choleera
Whittier
Hamnter Prescott Sporrazo
Lect Lancom
Mts. Ilok
Pravis
John Seeen
Leaf Whittier
Louise Chaspiem Moutron
Eympathy
Federation
Evana
Lennon
Carney
THE
Pennsylvania Guard
Albany
Senator Gibson
Foster
Treasury Department
Catte
Western
North Western Counties
Terady
Whittier’s
Phillips County
Little Ro Ark
Dhe
Loe Rustran
Australia
John Burns
Sle
Randall Lee
United Ter
Randall Lee Gibson
Pitts Flower House
Quifpetle
Swift Corret
Winnipeg
Ft. Buford
Moorhead
Bismarck
Ishigh Valley Railroad
Accuraton
Jon L.gerry
Serry
A. W. Landetrick
Hotels
Ots
A. Lea
ClAwson House
Capital
Masupaciurer
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