Grain Speculation Is Not All Chance By Ary Means
A study of corn and cotton corner schemes shows how a simple deduction, market lore, and timely buying can yield huge profits. The piece cites South travels, seed crop expectations, and government reports, noting speculators use reports, weather data, and brokers insights to time large trades. It recounts Joseph Letter and Jadwin schemes, Armour’s Duluth to Chicago tactic, and Norris’s notes on market manipulation in the grain pits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boards of Trade
Joseph
Chicago
Duluth
Philip Armour
Armour
Dutch Harbor
Tem
Frank Norris
Curts Jadwin
Jadwin
Europe
Statistical ‘Bureaus
Soft drinks and politics mix in Indianapolis campaign
James L. Keach, Democratic city chairman, faces a beer ban stance as he plans to rely on soft drinks for ward workers. He says no beer will be served, and Republicans question brewery backing in this election, noting the absence of a brewery attachment for the first time in years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James L. Keach
St J. Keach
Indianapolis
Astonishing salary cut by New York pastor at St. Pauls
The Rev. Benjamin Akerley of St. Paul's Episcopal Church Fort George persuaded the vestry to cut his salary from 600 to 100 a year as he received a rectory saving 200 yearly on expenses. The vestry raised the amount to include rent free. The local historian links the church’s jubilee to the ivy lineage from Melrose Abbey to Washington Irving via Burns and Scott connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Benjamin Akerley
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Fort George
Walter Scott
Melrose Abbey
Robert Burns
Burns
Washington Irving
Tarrytown House
Howard van Amringe
Columbia College
Comfort
St. Paul's
Prominent Citizens Accused in Jewish Massacre Plot
A dispatch from Vienna reports a near murderous assault on Jews in Bialystok and Grodno in Russian Poland was barely averted. Leading figures in the alleged plot are described as prominent citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Bialystok
Groffo
Russian
Poland
West Point gets Boston firm for army academy changes
The Boston firm Cram Goodhue Ferguson won the commission to redesign United States Military Academy at West Point. A jury including Gen John Schertzer Col Albert Mills and architects from New York chose the plan, with Congress appropriating 3.5 million to fund all work after final plans were approved by the secretary of war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Point
Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson
Architectu
Boston
United States Mintary Academy
John At
Scherteta
Albert L. Mills
George B. Fost
Cass Gilbert
Walter Cook
New York City
Llongress
Root
Meaars, Cram
Good+hue & Ferguson
Academy
Corps of Cadets
Another Route Into The Coal Fields Monon Railroad
Chicago railroad men report the Monon line from Indianapolis to the coal fields survey complete and work to start at once. The route will join the existing Monon at Quincy or Cloverdale Indiana and extend westward with all supplies shipped west from Cloverdale. Construction aims to reach the western end with early progress and coordinated westward supply lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monon
Indianapolis
Felda
Chicago
Rox
Quincy
Cloverdaie
Ind
Cloverdale
Fie Webiel Anto Giue
Girl in Hurry Wins a Husband In Brooklyn Mishap
Florence Barker of South Brooklyn hurried to catch a train last winter and was hospitalized after a mishap at the Brooklyn end of the bridge. She later married Henry Cargill of St Louis, a stenographer in a wholesale house in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Florence Barker
The American Man Of The Glacial Age
The article argues strong scientific support that humans existed in America during the Glacial Age and belonged to a race distinct from Indians with no modern descendants among Aborigines. It extols Dr Burkhart's Vegetable Compound as a cure for rheumatism cataracts constipation and related ailments through a new treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burkhart
Platform Romance and a City Rain Charm
A late office worker narrowly escapes with help from Henry Carrill of St Louis when a fall at the platform could have proven fatal. The incident sparks a brief romance as she faints in his arms. Also noted are verse snippets, applejack trade lines, and ads for Dean's Ointment and Mormon Bishop's Pile, plus a real estate listing column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mien Harker
Henry Carrill
St Louis
Strawberry King Writes A Pome In New Jersey Belt
In Newark New Jersey a farmer Monty Jetolemon near the Hilton strawberry belt writes a poem about the struggles of rain to help strawberries. The poem reflects on the length farmers go to protect crops and the quality of berries described as large and sweet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
Hilton
Here
Monty Jetolemon
Baldwinh
Also Mentioned on This Page
Castoria
Bours
Uncle Sam
D. Sommers
Cooh Stove
Brussels
Pu. S
Suite Watz
Toone
Steel Range
East Washington Street
Stevenson Building
Lyte
Eth
New Jersey
Seth Boyden
Dean
Sloan Drug Co
Washington St
Strawberry King
Penny Royat
W. H. Betts
Til Adare
East Market Street
Massa Mamrmant
Salim
Sloan Daug
Wean
Washington
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!