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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1907
Page
10
In Elk Tart county Isaiah Volderman binds his 42 year old son to Irvin A. Long until age 21. The record sets farming instruction and a $204 end payoff. The boy must obey Long, abstain from tobacco and intoxicants, and avoid gambles. The arrangement includes feeding, clothing, and education.
Mrs. Albert Smutzer wife of the La Porte sheriff was attacked by Arthur Cummings and John Edwards as they fled from a jail cell corridor. She dragged herself to lock the door preventing escape of eleven other prisoners and raised the alarm. Officers pursued, but capture was unlikely as the fugitives escaped into Lake Shore railroad yards.
The government sues to dissolve Standard Oil with Special Federal Referee Ferriss in New York. Kellogg presented figures showing seven year profits of 400 million dollars for Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, plus 308 million in dividends. Evidence covers profits by parent and subsidiaries, including Indiana operations earning over ten million in 1906. The case proceeds toward the Circuit Court in St Louis.
Mrs. John Weisler of Columbus risked life to save her daughter and home after a casoling stove ignited from excessive gasoline. She grabbed the flaming stove and hurled it into the yard, burning her arms, hands, face, and neck, but her condition is listed as not serious.
Reports detail the death of Larry Kreiincer from a carbuncle on his chest, a fatal fall when Mrs Andrew Hulster Duff was thrown by a runaway horse in Evansville, and a construction accident in Fort Wayne where ironworker Gila Schultz died as a wall collapsed. The South Bend Public Safety Board opens a life saving station on the Mississippi River with patrol launch and gear, while Hammond high school student Zolton Balanyi forms a 75 pupil English school for Tg Hungarian plant workers near Standard Steel Car.
Expects over 10 000 corn entries for the National Corn Exposition in Chicago Coliseum with 16 000 dollars in cash prizes and 25 000 in special premiums. Early response from farmers in the corn belt tops 1 500 applications in days after classifications were announced. Exposition emphasizes educational value and strong show features with lavish decorations and 330 es of decorative schemes already completed.
The Lakes to the Gulf Waterway advocates gather in Memphis for a second convention led by Special President Roosevelt and 25 state governors. Edwin S. Conway says a canal from New York to New Orleans could cut travel times, cost around 200 million dollars, and save years of railroad usage by linking Erie, Lake Michigan, and Detroit paths.
In Chicago the fall activity in leading industries remains defined and encouraging. Production holds steady though money tension and higher supplies cost ease would help. Transportation via rail and lake is strained by rising freight and crop marketing, while factory material orders stay robust and distant buyers visit with large, confident orders.
The article outlines a proposed deep water canal system linking New York to New Orleans via Lake Erie and Lake Michigan with a $200,000,000 Michigan canal. It envisions warship access and Midwest river port benefits, naming J H W Davidson of Oshkosh as a possible river and harbors leader. Chicago delegates advocate progress while urging Congress to improve the Mississippi and Illinois rivers and finish the Chicago sanitary district canal extension.
The report cites rising freight and passenger totals for U.S. railroads in 1906 with gross earnings at 1 124 500 390 and 815 771 118 passengers carried. SP plans electric operations in California while Erie introduces an all steel passenger coach designed to resist heat and shocks.
Five members of the Parhamite sect in Zion City are charged with manslaughter in the death of Letitia Greenhaulgh, 64, after a ritual to exorcise what they believed to be possession. The group included her son Walter and daughter Jennie Greenhaulgh, Harold Mitchell and Mrs. Harold Mitchell, and Mrs. Smith. The affair followed weeks of alleged abuse during exorcism practices that left the invalid bedridden and unable to move before she died.
Improvement in overall finances and favorable weather boost crop development and sentiment. Retail trade remains uneven as warm weather failed to spur substantial fall buying, while jobbing trade shows mostly favorable signals though cautious undertones persist. US business failures for the week ending Sept 19 total 179, up from 172 last week and higher than past years. Canadian failures for forty weeks show a similar uptick versus a year ago.
A sweeping list shows live cattle hogs sheep and grain prices in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Detroit region prices for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and hay across multiple markets including Buffalo New York and Milwaukee with ranges for quality grades and shipping categories.
Notes of Current Events report a Hindoo prince seeking a place on Cornell's football team while Letty Green's son becomes lead oil operator in Texas and will be known as BE. U. Rh. Green. Also noting William J. Bryan's New York speaking tour for the Progressive Democratic League and the Morning Sun of Cambridge Ohio suspending fire in Parker block causing a $60,000 loss due to rats entering matches.
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Thirty four balloons contested the race in Brussels on September 15 drawing over 100000 spectators. The English Zephyr and Swiss Cognac posted the best distances, landing in France about 550 miles from the start.
President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor plans a nationwide campaign, sending 20,000 circulars to labor unions asking for contributions to support the commercial telegraph strike.
The strike committee of San Francisco labor unions has ended the boycott forbidding union men to ride street cars after months of rain battles with United Railroads, though the strike remains in force.
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