European producers undercut U S iron export by currency drop
A long analysis notes Manchurian pig iron sold in Philadelphia at 11.00 per ton versus 12.00 U S price, driven by depreciated currencies. It links Asia production growth in Shanghai and silver driven taels to global price shifts, arguing renewed wage cuts and tax reductions may be needed to sustain U S steel. It compares gold based markets, debt levels, and currency policies affecting trade, with historical context from 1890s to 1920s.
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United States
Philadelphia
Manchuria
American Porte
Europe
Carnegie Steel Company
England
Europa
Atlantic Ocean
American
Yast
Asia
Shanghai
India
Sky Avenue
China
South America
Backward look spans mine water drops and local notes
The column surveys events from Ashland and Ironwood areas, noting the Ashland mine water level drop with the Worthington pump to quicken drainage, local business moves like Skud Bros taking Lieberthal block, a child exhibition plan, a Polish doctor arrest, theft arrests, a false fire alarm, weddings, mine accidents in Cary and Wakefield, Cuban mining departures, and town election results plus ongoing town tidings.
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Ashland Mine
Worthington
Edison Sees Bell as Not an Inventor in Bell Gespräch
Edison calls Bell’s telephone no invention but a discovery born from lab mischief. He credits Marconi with the true invention of the wireless, noting the hard work and ingenuity behind it. Rosanoff quotes Harper's Magazine on these views.
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Edison
Bell
Thomas A. Edison
Marconi
M. A. Rosanoff
Harper's Magazine
Monster bottle-nosed shark lands after village battle
A 600 pound, 11 foot bottle-nosed shark was captured off Curbridge England after a clash with ten men who used a wire clothesline and clubs to land the visitor. It barked defiantly twice before dying. Local resident Mrs Lucy Bone heard a blowing sound that alerted the village.
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England
Curbridge
Mra
Lucy Bone
First Day of School Dress Prompt Keeps Upward Look
On the first day of school Eliza beth, nine, wears her best dress. Daddy asks why she chose it. She explains the ritual is to make the new teacher think she is better than she is.
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Elizabeth
Daddy
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