Stock Market Opens With Broad Declines In New York
The market opened with general declines as large selling orders pushed prices lower across many rails and industrials. Union Pacific, Anaconda, and Amalgamated led losses while Interborough rose 4 percent amid the broad selling and talk of Equitable Life liquidation.
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New York
Canadian Pacific
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
St. Paul
Atchison
Union Pacific
Reading
Railway Steel Springs
Amalgamated
Pennsylvania
Southern Pacific and
Steel Preferred
Interborough
Anaconda
Soo
Equitable Life Liquidation
Local Securities Show Mixed Market Activity and Policy Change
The local stock market shows strength with Capital National up 1 point to 167 a new high. Traction Terminal rises to 216 the best in months while Union Traction weakens with a bid of 34 14. Vandalia Coal issues advance. Terre Haute Water common opens at 974 bid 99 asked. No trades recorded. Indianapolis Fire Insurance annual meeting set for this afternoon signaling policy and directorate changes.
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Capital National
Traction &Terminal
Marion Trust
Union Traction Common
Vandalia
Terre Haute Water Company
Exchense
Indianapolis Fire Insurance Company
Hog prices slip as Indianapolis market softens in February
Hog receipts near 5000 with bids hovering around seven dollars though unable to hold that level. Buyers failed to push the market to 7.00, prices averaging 6.90 to 7.00 while contract hog movement is expected heavy toward March first. Cattle and calves show steady to firm demand with good selling on fat cows and heifers. Sheep offerings light with prices steady and prime stock in demand.
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Indianapolis
Commission
Agricultural Commodity Prices Report
Shelled oats priced at 42 cents per bushel with a 48e figure noted. Sheaf oats at 13.00 to 14.50 dollars. Straw listed at 87.90 and 9.00. Timothy hay at 17.00, clover 15.00 and 17.00, mixed hay at 17.00 and 19.00. Miller line shows 312.00 and 14.00 indicating quantities or totals.
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Hay
Timothy
Clover
Grain and hay market notes with mixed bids and inspections
The report lists prices for Wheat Corn Vats Haug Rye and various grades with through billing figures. Inspections show totals across Wheat Corn Oats Hay with car counts and some rejections.
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Haug—Firm
Choice Timothy
Timothy
Fight Clover
Hay
Clover
Prairie
Change of Firm Name Petition in Circuit Court
The Star Hat and Novelly petitioned the circuit court to permit changing their firm name to the Star Millinery company. The filing notes a possible collision with a similarly named business.
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the Star Hat and Novelly Company
Circuit Court
Star Millinery Company
Chicago grain advances and declines on daily field notes
Wheat opened mixed with May at 88 1 2 cents and July at 84 7 8 cents as hog products rose. May pork at 15.80 to 16.82, May lard at 9.65 to 9.77, May ribs at 9.27 to 9.45. Liverpool wheat steady with larger American offerings. corn weaker locally with May at 46 1 2 to 46 5 8 cents. Local receipts listed for wheat corn oats.
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Scripps-McRae Press Association
Chicago
Liverpool
Fear Hiss Drowned Likely Missing Cincinnati Reporter
Hanson Iliss once with a Cincinnati morning paper is missing from his Dunvington Kentucky home after his hat floated on the river. He had recent nervous trouble and hospitalizaton. Iliss previously worked in Munice and Indianapolis newspapers and served as an officer in a Pennsylvania unit during the Spanish American War.
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Sun
Cincinnati
Hanson Iliss
Dunvington
Hiss
Muncie
Indianapolis
Pennsylvania
Struck by Engine Fatal Injury Toll for 70-Year-Old Man
Michael Dugan 70, of Agnes and New York streets, was struck by a switch engine at Mileyave crossing near noon Tuesday while heading to visit a friend. He suffered a broken collar bone and internal injuries and was taken to City hospital. Dr Reeves led ambulance transport.
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Michael Dugan
Mileyave
Agnes and
New York Sts
Reeves
Veteran William H. Watkins Takes Charge in Indianapolis
Watkins arrives from Michigan to assume leadership of the Hoosiers. He meets with attorney at Grand hotel, opens headquarters at Washington Park, and states he will install experienced players in every position. He vows to stay, shape the team, and challenge Charley Carr and Knight.
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William H. Watkins
Michigan
Grand Hotel
Washington Park
Wattie
Indianapolis
Charley Carr
Hoosiers
Mr. Carr
Knight
Connie Mack
Mack
Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit Drama Recalls Theater Testimony
Mrs Caine testifies that Thaw urged Nesbit and her husband to help him win Evelyn Nesbit by promising a future settlement. She recalls Thaw’s pale, wild look after Stanford White’s late arrival at Daley's Theater and Florence Nesbit threatening to leave if he stared at White.
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White
Thaw Case Proceeds As Insanity Evidence Is Used
Testimony and cross examination unfold with Dr Evans questioned on Thaw’s insanity. The Will in Evidence shows Evelyn Thaw receiving 95000 and a 500 annual income, with a 50000 trust for investigation if death not natural. Delmas and Jerome clash over testimony and potential asylum outcomes.
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Britton D. Evens
Jerome
Harry ‘Haw
Matteawan Asylum
Taillionaire
Thaw
Delmas
Evelyn Tnaw
Howard Nesbit
Evans
Deimas
Smoot Defended Self in Senate
The article reports on Utah Senator Smoot’s defense in the Senate regarding endowment ceremonies of the Mormon church. It notes he argued the ceremonies are purely religious and loyal to the United States, praising Utah’s wartime patriotism. A Senate poll shows a likely 2 percent majority for Smoot’s unseating, with a decisive vote the next day.
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Mormon Church
United States
Utah
Mexico
Philippines
McKinley
Utah Light Artillery
Smoot
Depew
Foreign Wars banquet held by Indiana Commandery
Tuesday night at 7 30 a banquet will be spread in the Grand hotel for the annual meeting of the Indiana Commandery Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States. The commandery includes many veterans from Spanish American and Philippine wars. M Drape Jr secretary Maj Gen W J McKee Col Russell Harrison Maj Harold Magrew and Capt W E English will take part.
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United States
Grand Hotel
Indiana
M. Drape, Jr
W. J. McKee
Russell. Harrison
Harold Magrew
W. E. English
Suit over Texas colony and land losses reaches trial
P. H. Fitzgerald sues the American Tribune Colony company for 20000 alleging failure of the Texas colony formed by veterans and families. The case traces transfers from Luke Wilson, land valued by acre purchases, and the creation of a Georgia colony after the Texas failure. Fitzgerald pleaded guilty to mail fraud and was fined 1000.
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P. H. Fitzgerald
American Tribune Colony Company
James Baker
Wilson
Marion County
Texas Colony
Fitzgerald
American Tribune
Georgia
Georgia Colony
Federal
Social notes and engagements in Indianapolis area
Society items from Indianapolis include engagements and weddings, visits by local residents, and forthcoming social events. engagements announced for Ruby Mae McMillen and Knowles D White. Violet L Banks and Virgil E Kelley wed. Mrs. M J Hobson and son William Hobson visit. Several families travel to Mexico and Frankfort, Cam bridge City, and Chicago. Musicales and dinners planned by multiple hosts. notables include Mrs. Lee Pearson hosting a bride elect Alberta Mahan and Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond to perform. Monday Conversation Club hosts guest day.
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Lee Pearson
N. Capitolave
Alberta Mahan
Pearson
Frank Reilly
Herman Pearce
8. M. Wright
James Matlock Ogden
William Christena
Pearl Stalcup
Bloomfield
Hulda Wheeler
Noblesville
Mahan
Bess Ogle
Zelda Throop
John Reagan
Bertha Graves
Susan Lilly
PICTURED THE SOUTH Col Ham Delights Caleb Mills Hall
Col H W J Ham, noted orator and raconteur, spoke at Caleb Mills hall Monday night on the south and southern people. His vivid, sympathetic tales drew laughter and tears, with renditions of plantation era melodies. He praised the Civil War outcome as inevitable.
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Col. H. W. J. Ham
Caleb Mills Hall
Col. Ham
Public Meeting Set on Cox 60-Cent Gas Bill
A statehouse public meeting is announced for Tuesday night by the committee overseeing the Cox 60-cent gas bill. The session starts at 7:30 and is likely in room 51 where any interested party may speak on the measure.
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Statehouse
Cox
Bill to allow parole suspensions dies in House
Senator William A. Kittinger’s measure to permit circuit and criminal courts to suspend sentences and parole convicts in certain cases was killed by the House on Tuesday.
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William A. Kittinger
Civil Service Examinations Announced for Spring 1907
The Civil Service Commission announces spring 1907 exams for railway mail clerks across many states and territories. Special focus on stenographers and typists for the Philippines and canal service. Vacancies include marine engineer at Key West 780 a year, blacksmiths helper at Presidio San Francisco 600 a year, topographic and cartographic draughtsmen at 1000 a year, and draftsman surveyor at Honolulu 150 a month.
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Honolulu
Moral View Taken By House Passes Indiana University Claim
The Indiana House voted 71 to 18 to approve a $120 448 claim by Vincennes University against the state. The land sale, later given to the university by the United States, created the obligation, with interest waived. Introduced by Rep James Garrard of Vincennes, it faces a tough Senate path.
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United States
James Garrard
Vincennes
Senate
City Record Includes Births Marriages and Deaths Listing
Day by day city record shows births at multiple addresses including Hathaway Smith Murphy Ellzroth Hendricks Lock Jarvis Schurdel Huber Hockersmith Culbertson Leamman Simmons Schmitz Edwards Rodewalde McConnell Gilbrecht Dobbins Bagott Gowdy and more. Deaths include Deborah Dobbins bronchial pneumonia and Heporah Bagott by suicide and heart disease for Elizabeth Gowdy. Marriages listed include Stearns Maupin Condon Miles Haymer Sigman Helms. Property updates show several additions and valuations by Tiona Refining J Lensmann Anheuser Busch Klee Coleman Williams Flanner and Manzer.
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Maud Hathaway
Maryland
Louis F
Edna Smith
Twenty-first-st
Michael and
Mary Murphy
E. Washington
Warner
Lena Ellzroth
E. Maryseland
Jessie and
Pancy Hendricks
Cockst
Louis and
Mary Lock
Town-st
Oscar and
Ira Jarvis
E. Washingston
Theo
Mary Schurdel
Laurelet
Joseph and
Kate Huber
Henry and
Ada Hockersmith
E. Twenty-third-st
James N
Lottie D. Culbertson
College Ave
Daniel R
Bula Leamman
Brookside-ave
Edward and
Mabel Simmons
New York
Fred and
Grace Schmitz
Madison Ave
Chas
Stella Edwards
Katherine St
Herman and
Alma Rodewalde
N. Temple-ave
Edw
Ida McConnell
Dailey-st
Wm. F
Josie Gilbrecht
S. West-st
Bor
Deborah Dobbins
Wayneave
Heporah Bagott
Patterson-st
Elizabeth Susan Gowdy
W. N. Warrenberg
Tiona Refining Company
Cruse
Washington
J. H. Lensmann
Shelby
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company
S. Meridian
Klee & Coleman
S. Delaware
O. Williams
Dearborn
Thomas Flanner
Temple
Manzer
Naomi
Everson
Special Legislation Aims to Wreck Indiana Gas Industry
An Indiana editorial denounces a 60 cent gas bill as targeted to the Indianapolis Gas Company. The piece argues the measure is unconstitutional special legislation, designed to harass the company and benefit a Chicago owner, with the city of Indianapolis forced to defend the suit. It urges support for the Citizens' Gas Company to prove cheaper gas is feasible.
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Indianapolis
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