Democratic state convention endorses Kansas City platform
The platform reaffirms opposition to imperialism and trusts and calls for equalized taxation of railroads and public services. It demands sworn public reports from public service corporations and favors home rule in Ohio. Tom Johnson influence shown in tax plank while Herbert Bigelow is nominated secretary of state.
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Johnson
Convention
Fiery
State Central Committee
McLean
Herbert Bigelow
Cincinnati
Allan Fletcher Wins Vermont Legislature Seat
Allan Fletcher, a New York banker with Indianapolis ties, was elected to the Vermont legislature from Ludlow on a Tuesday. Attorney General Taylor, returning from New York, revealed Fletcher’s candidacy and the secret to reporters, noting Fletcher urged secrecy before the election.
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Indianapolis
Allan Fletcher
New York
Taylor
Fletcher
Ludlow
Five-Legged Dog Recovered by Chicago Pound
A full grown fox terrier with a remarkable fifth leg was found at Twenty sixth street and Princeton avenue. The dog catchers brought it to the city pound where the owner could reclaim it by paying charges. The fifth leg extends from the middle joint of the right hind leg.
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Chicago
Twenty-sixth-st
Princeton Ave
Florida’s orange crop to be half the usual yield
Reports from Florida fruit sections indicate the next orange crop will reach only about 500000 to 600000 boxes. Trees lose fruit and others drop fruit, while produce buyers offer 1.25 dollars per tree for oranges but growers expect higher prices with the small harvest.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Florida
Union Castle liner Scot reaches Cape Town after terrible gale
The Scot arrived in Cape Town from Port Elizabeth amid fears for safety after a fierce Delagoa Bay gale. 250 native deck passengers were panicked and driven below under guard during the storm.
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Cape Town
Union Castle
Port Elizabeth
Delagoa Bay
Bargains in Upright Pianos at Baldwins
Advertisement notes bargains on slightly used upright pianos at Baldwins and mentions other ledger products. It cites prominent ad copy from a local brand and lists WM. B. Burford of Tadiancrolis Indiana and claims 90,000 readers daily for The Sun.
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Baldwin's
Roosevelt to Visit Indianapolis for Spanish American War Veterans Meet
President Roosevelt will be in Indianapolis from 11 20 a m to 3 p m on September 223 per a letter from G B Cortelyou private secretary to Russell B Harrison the convention arrangements chair.
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Roosevelt
Indianapolis
G. B. Cor
Telyou
Russell
B. Harrison
Rumor Claims Portugal Pawned Crown Jewels for Cash
A Lisbon dispatch reports that Portugal's government may have pawned the crown jewels to raise funds. The collection reportedly includes the famed 5 million dollar Don Juan IV diamond, with the Bank of Portugal pressing the government amid such claims.
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Portugal
Don Juan IV
Bank of Portugal
Pocahontas Mine Fire Quiet After Shooting in W V Flats
In the Flat Top coal field Pocahontas mine near W V is burning since Tuesday. Authorities report no violence since the shooting. Fire may take a week or more to subdue with great damage and unconfirmed reports of guards wounding several men.
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Flat Top
Terrific Battle Between Police and Rioters in Vienna
The anti-Servian movement in Agram Hungary sparks nonstop rioting. Fires burn, shots rattle through Servian homes, and a siege atmosphere grips the town. Half the police and over 1,000 rioters are injured as peasants and students loot and erect barricades. Captain Witas and wife flee by garden wall.
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Vienna
Agram
Hungary
Witas
Volcano eruptions at Martinique mount to deadly toll
The Fort de France telegram reports Mount Pelee re erupting with intense activity. It says Morne Rouge Ajoupa Bouillon Morne Bellevue and surrounding villages were destroyed August 30th into 31st with about a thousand victims, around 800 dead.
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Bellevue
Bookwalter Enjoys Northern Fishing Victory of Work?
Mayor Bookwalter so enjoyed his fishing trip up north that he stayed away longer than planned. An official notice announced he would return home Wednesday night from his office.
Merchants Give Generous Contributions to Fall Festival
The fall Festival funds grew by 1000 dollars on Wednesday with gifts from J A Rink 200 Sam Rubens 200 Indianapolis Light and Power 100 Denison Hotel 100 J C Sipe 100 John D Brosnan 100 Starr Piano 100 Wulschner Music 100 J L Keach chairs the finance committee and leads collections. Preparations for the show grounds start next week as contracts are nearly all let.
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J. A. Rink
Sam Rubens
Indianapolis Light and Power Company
Denison Hotel Company
J. C. Sipe
John D. Brosnan
Starr Piano Company
Wulschner Music Company
J. L. Keach
Indianapolis
Poland recovering after suicide attempt and leg injury
Fred Poland who attempted suicide by shooting is rapidly recovering at City hospital. J. M. Simpson, hurt at Mooresville last week, is also recovering. Dr. Manker says amputation will not be necessary for the injured leg.
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Fred Poland
J. M. Simpson
Mooresville
No Immediate Gas Meter Action Expected This Fall
Local politicians say the gas meter ordinance will not be passed immediately and will be taken up in early October when John P. Frenzel is expected home from Europe. President Hastings plans to visit Indianapolis after Frenzel’s arrival, with the hope a meter ordinance will be approved. An administration official says meters likely won’t be installed before year’s end, but gas will be supplied by both companies until meters arrive and are installed.
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John P. Frenzel
Europe
Hastings
Indianapolis
Mr. Frenzel
Typhoid Fever Cases in Indianapolis Rise in August 1902
Indianapolis reported 110 typhoid fever cases in August 1902 versus 46 in August 1901. Health officials attribute the surge to heavy rains washing surface water into wells, a major factor for the month.
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Indianapolis
Cleveland boy cured of stutter after oven incident
Four years after a bakery worker locked a six year old in a hot oven to frighten him the Cleveland boy regained speech under Dr Rosenberg after years of muteness. The story ends with a plug for Hood's Sarsaparilla claiming it cured pimples and bad complexion.
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Cleveland
Cleveland School
Lorainst
Rosenberg
Markets Show Mixed Activity Across Commodities and Stocks
Cattle sales mixed with receipts near 800 head and hogs at 600. New York stocks opened active with gains in Reading, Amalgamated Copper, and several rail firms. Government bonds steady as market weighs anticipated coal developments and Roosevelt’s status.
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New York
Reading Common
Missouri Pacific
Manhattan
Southern Pacific
Baltimore & Ohio
Norfolk & Western
Rock Island, Erie
Denver and Rio Grande
Mexican National
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Detroit Union Railroad
Roosevelt
Gates
Europe
Colorado
Reading
Vanderbilt
St. Paul
Erie
Amalgamated Copper
Atchison
U. S. S. Preferred
Union Pacific
Prices for meat and dairy products published in New York
New York market prices for pork 18.25 to 19.25 per unit, lard 10.70, butter 18 to 21 cents, creamery butter 19 cents, Elgin 21 1 2 cents, dairy 18 to 19 1 4 cents, cheese 7 to 10 1 2 cents, eggs 19 1 2 cents, tallow 64 to 65 cents, dressed poultry prices for turkeys 8 to 15 cents, chicks 11 to 20 cents, fowls 9 to 13 cents, ducks 9 to 12 cents, geese 15 cents, springs 20 to 22 cents.
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New York
Elgin
Indiana
California
Cincinnati Live Stock Prices and Movements
Cincinnati Ohio reports cattle receipts 1070 with slow demand and prices down 10 to 15 cents. Hogs receipts 2370 steady to 15 cents lower with heavy shippers at 7.50 and packers 6.90 to 7.10. Sheep receipts 1965 with dull demand. best fat sheep steady and lambs slow and 15 to 25 cents lower.
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Cincinnati
Cattle and Hogs Market Prices Report from East Liberty Pennsylvania
Cattle supply night with market steady. Prices range for cattle from 4.00 to 7.50 for various grades, including best cows at 40 to 50 and veal calves 7.25 to 7.75. Hog market slow and lower with prime heavy hogs at 7.80 to 7.85 and pigs 7.00 to 7.15. Sheep and lambs show slow demand with best wethers 3.70 to 3.85 and lambs 2.50 to 5.50.
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T Wai
East Liberty
Cattle and Hogs Prices Dull at Union Stock Yards
At Union Stock Yards Illinois on Sept 3, cattle receipts reached 18 000 with prices down 10 cents. Prime beeves ranged 8 00 to 8 85, cows and heifers 2 70 to 6 30, stockers 2 60 to 5 35. Hogs receipts 23 000 with a weak tone. from 6 95 to 7 85. Sheep receipts 22 000 with lambs 3 0 6 6 and natives 2 50 to 2 80.
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Union Stock Yards
Ill
Chicago Produce Market prices in early September
Chicago market listing shows butter creameries at 19 cents, dairies 15 █ eggs at 15 cents, cheese varieties 10 to 14 cents, and live poultry prices with chickens at 13 to 14 cents, turkeys up to 2 dollars, geese around 4 to 6 dollars, and ducks near 7 to 9 cents per unit.
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Chicago
Chicago Grain Notes Market Shifts and Price Ranges
Chicago Sept 3 Wheat rises with September at 70 71 3, December 67 63. Corn gains. September 58 58 5, December 43 43. Oats up 1 4, September 4 34 all. Provisions inch higher with pork and rice at 9 9.78, ribs around 9.70 to 9.78.
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Chicago
Inc
Americans in London face pressure. several sectors mix signals
London dispatch notes irregular American influence and strong political pressure to settle the strike. It reports a tentative appointment of a receiver for American Bike, favorable crop conditions, and mixed signals on B&O stock, Canadian Pacific potential entry into New York, and a volatile Wall Street session with Reading shares drawing attention amid a coal-road earnings backdrop.
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New York
London
M. P
Wall Street Daily News
Stock Exchange
Reading
Pennsylvania
Vanderbilt
Morgan
Baltimore & Ohio
Vanderbilts
Co. & CO
Indianapolis Securities and Street Railways Listing
A compact snapshot shows several Indianapolis securities and utilities with percent yields and values including Indianapolis street railway at 56% 88, Citizens' street railway 10934 110, Union Traction Co. 58 99, Wy eore.d Rippie 53.00005 89, Indiana cold storage 100, and new telephone series prices 94 96 with interest noted. The items reflect a market snapshot of local investments and public utilities.
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Indianapolis Street Railway
Indianapolis Gas Co
Citizens’ Street Railway
Union Traction Co
Rippie
Ind
Indiana
Indianapolis
American National Bank
Capital National Bank
Columbia National Bank Eenese
Merchants’ National Bank
Indiana National Bank
Wee Weewee
Central Trust Company
Marion Trust Company
Union Trust Company
Security Trust Company
Indiana Trust Company
Home Brewing Company
Weer Eesenne
Atlas Engine Works
Market quotes for Wheat Corn and Oats with grain inspections
Wheat prices steady with No 2 red and No 3 red values and milling freight notes. Corn shows steady No 1 white through No 4 white and mixed varieties with several figures. Oats dull with No 2 white and No 3 white prices. Hay holds at new timothy ranks. inspections list car counts by grade and condition for wheat corn and oats with rejected lots noted.
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Timothy
Prices paid by shippers on farm products
Springs ten cents. Fowls nine cents. Old turkey hens one cent per pound, toms none. Choice turkeys nine cents, ducks seven cents, geese fully feathered. Eggs fresh fifteen cents. Butter choice one cent. Cheese New York full cream twelve to thirteen cents, domestic Swiss sixteen cents. Hides and tallow noted. Hides No. 1 cured zero cents.
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Iiver Ib
New York
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W. J. Bryan
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Ation
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Allen Fletcher
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Tadiancrolis
SUN
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Lisbon
Daily Express
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MS. Pelee
Paris
Wednes
Fort de France
Mount Pelee
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Morne
den and
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Bookwalter
Poland
Indianesolls Union Stockyarde
East Liberty Live
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Cecilian
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the Starr Piano Company
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Wall-St
Meyer & Kiser
Valencia
Baltimore
Java
Rio
Bourbon Santos
Arlosa
Lion
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Caracas
Dilsworth’s
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Idney
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Ecorice
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Éin
Castile
Indianapolis Securities
City Grain Market
Court House
Uneeda Biscuit
Can
Eagle Brand
Stewart
Hulman & Co
Hong Ko
Indiana State
Gur Sik
Goat House Grocery CO
M. J. Stewart
S. Mer.-St
Virginia Ave
Mass.-Ave
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N. Alast
Stout
Alliance
Stevenson Building
Irvington Cottage
Washington
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Uhing
Brazil Block
Green County
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Slack
Jackson
Pittsburg
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Connellsville
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