Bulls Talk Twenty Cent Cotton Hereafter
A local farmer discussion centers on Brown declaring that twenty cent cotton will be common hereafter. The exchange emphasizes price stability for growers and potential market impacts on the farming community.
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1910
Page
1
Cotton market mania shifts to twenty cent forecasts
New York report collates claims by Hayne Brown and Scales on the cotton boom. They deny sensational profits while predicting sustained high prices and a looming cotton famine, citing a 1909-1910 short crop, dwindling world supply, and stronger market position for planters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayne, Brown and
Scales
New York
W. P. Brown
Seales
United States
Hayne
Carpenter, Baggott & Co
O'Neill Bros
London
Neat Scheme Defrauding Company In Railroad Car Repairs
Fred C. Bartett, Osterman Manufacturing yard inspector, testified in Chicago that Osterman officers dismantled Illinois Central railroad cars after hours. Water was applied to stripped parts to rust them, making removals appear as old wear while the missing equipment was stored for repairs, enabling fraud against the railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Fred C. Bartett
Osterman Manufacturing Company
Mlindg Central Railroad
Bartett
Illinois Central
Osterman
Henry C. Osterman
Osterman Company
Barbett
Unique political maneuvers loom in Louisiana 1912 race
Governor Sanders, Senator Foster, and Congressman Ransdell are poised as likely candidates for upcoming U.S. Senate terms. Sanders may appoint Judge Thornton to fill the McEnery vacancy, triggering multiple concurrent elections in 1912 for unexpired and new six year terms beginning in 1915. The anticipated contest promises a lively statewide struggle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanders
Foster
Ransdell
Baton Rouge
J. R. Thornton
Alexandria
United States
Louisiana
McEnery
General Assembly
Judge Thornton
Thornton
Senator Foster
United States Senate
Roosevelt War Looms in New York Republican Camp
Lloyd C. Griscom leads a New York faction opposing Roosevelt’s temporary chairmanship bid at the state convention. A conference with Erie and Brooklyn leaders, plus state officials, signals at least 650 of 1,015 delegates ready to back Roosevelt and push a pro Roosevelt nominations plank. Ex president Roosevelt to speak in Kansas City tomorrow after arriving at 9:35 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Republican Party
New York State
Roosevelt
State Committee
Lloyd C. Griscom
Griscom
Frederick Greiner
Erie County
Port
William Loeb, Jr
F. J. H. Kracke
Brooklyn
Frederick M. Davenport
Oneida County
D. R. James
Brooklyn Young Men's Republican Club
Cutler
Rochester
Mr. Roosevelt
Kansas City
City
Omaha
Cost of Living Cited by Santa Fe Chief on Higher Rates
President E P Ripley of the Santa Fe system testified before ICC Special Examiner G M Brown that wage increases and higher operating costs justify steeper freight rates, and he warned next year may bring lower earnings not enough to cover dividends. He and colleagues Bailey and Peabody backed the road's expense and earning exhibits, while questions probed the distribution of earnings between wages and operating costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
E. P. Ripley
Santa Fe System of Railways
G. M. Brown
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ripley
W. E. Bailey
James Peabody
Santa Fe Statistician
Frank Lyon
Hart Delivers Key Address at ABA Legal Education Session
Chattanooga Tenn August 31 One of the principal features of today's session of the American Bar Association was the meeting of the section of Legal Education with an address by W O Hart of the Louisiana bar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. O. Hart
Chattanooga
Tenn
American Bar Association
Section of
Louisiana Bar
Illinois Central Officials Linked to Osterman Shop Yard Visits
Bar tett testified that Illinois Central car inspectors were paid by Osterman Company and that Illinois Central officials including former general manager Frank B. Harriman visited Osterman's office in the shop yards, noting the repeated payments for car equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bartett
Illinoig Central
Osterman Company
Frank B. Harriman
Osterman
Bitter Fight in New York Announces Formal Challenge
A formal challenge is issued to the anti Roosevelt crowd amid bitter exchanges in New York. The confrontation signals rising tensions over political agendas and public support for policy directions.
Young Boy Killed While Out Hunting in Austin Pasture
Marshall Baumgartner 15, son of L. W. Baumgartner foreman of the Iron Mountain wrecking crew, died after tripping on vines and falling on a sharpened oak stick in Ruffin pasture east of the cotton mill. The stick penetrated his left side near the heart. aid arrived too late. Funeral set for tomorrow. community mourns sudden loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baumgartner
South Sixth Street
Plea for High Rates by President Ripley
President Ripley of Santa Fe calls for higher railroad rates to fund maintenance and improvements. He argues railroads require more money to cover operating costs and to invest in national infrastructure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ripley
Santa FE
Plans to raise the wreck of the Maine may go forward
Beverly Mass Aug 31 President Taft shows interest in plans to raise the battleship Maine sunk in Havana harbor twelve years ago The plan calls for pneumatic caissons steel cables and government aid of 300000 Congress may fund the effort A commission will study the plan before Taft and engineer O Rourke in Washington decide on bids and final steps to recover the vessel
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly
Mass
Taft
Maine
Havana Harbor
O'Rourke
Engineering Company of
New York
O’rourke
Congress
Washington
Plans for Lifting the Maine With Caisson Cradle
The plan envisions two parallel piles and a line of caissons creating a cradle under the Maine. Cables run along caissons on both sides, secured by jackscrews on platforms above, to lift the ship from mud. Caissons have extra sustaining capacity and pneumatic devices to improve efficiency. About 1,000 workers would operate the system with possible government manpower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Smuggled Jewels Tangle New York Woman in Customs Case
New York August 31. Mrs S Reynolds Adriance of Poughkeepsie faces smuggling charges over a pearl necklace a gold purse and a lace mantle valued at 8000. Authorities seized jewels totaling 115000 found with her daughter Marian and traveling companion Mr M H Doughtry. Adriance posted 7500 bail and must prove where the rest were bought, with allegations tying some pieces to foreign purchase. A missing piece, a Miss Adriance necklace, was altered abroad and found on her waist after the Baltic docked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
S. Reynolds Adriance
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Loeb
Marian
M. H. Doughtry
Adriance
Miss Adriance
Adriance Avers
Roosevelt Attends Dedication of John Brown Park
Osawatomie Kansas August 31 Theodore Roosevelt arrived this morning to take the leading part in dedicating a park honoring abolitionist John Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osawatomie
Kan
Theodore Roosevelt
John Brown
Pope denounces Sollon Society as false democracy
In Rome on August 31 Pope Pius the Tenth issues a letter to the French Episcopate ordering the dissolution and reorganization of the Sollon Society a strong youth Catholic group. He condemns it for propagating a false dream of democracy and the equality of man calling it contrary to nature and a generator of jealousy and subversive disorder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sollon Society
Rome
Pius
Writer Fails in New York Hotel Suicide Attempt
Vera Futch of Oakland California, about 20, shot herself in the heart at the Hotel Astor last night leaving a handbag with three dated letters to family. Dejection over literary failure is cited. she was conscious en route to a hospital but offered only I did it myself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hotel Astor
Vera Futch
Oakland
Cal
Dearest Blanch
Nora
James Forgan predicts smooth business and limited crop worry
Chicago Aug. 31 James B Forgan president of the First National Bank says the general business of the country will sail along smoothly from now and that danger of a serious money stringency for crop movement has passed He notes crops are not as poor as foretold and expects normal conditions through the fall with typical crop moving finance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
James B. Forgan
First National Bank
Forgan
United States
Gener
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Teddy and
Sunny Jim
Marshall Baumgartner
Austin
L. W. Baumgartner
Iron Mountain
Ruffin
Cotton Mill
Baltic
Pope
News-Star
James Forgan
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