Sugar Stock Frenzy Drives Sands and Partners to Profit
The narrative follows Beulah Sands and Jim Randoloph as sugar stock surges on the New York Exchange. Bob announces plans to buy 20 000 shares for Sands and 70 000 for himself, leveraging Beulah’s 400 000 balance and Jim’s 50 000 share cushion to fuel a high stakes run.
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Bob
Randolph & Randolph
Beulah Sands
Miss Sands
Kate
Jim
Washington
Senate
House
O. K
Broadway
Judge Sands
Masters
Katherine Randolph
Struggling Author Notes Career Shift To Clam Selling
A dialogue mocks a writer's career, with De Poesy denying poetry, novels, and plays while a character reveals a drastic change. The exchange ends revealing the artist has abandoned literature and now sells clams for a living.
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the Royal Road
de Posey
N. Y
Life Insurance A Sacred Trust Emphasized by NY Life President
President Kingsley of New York Life Insurance stresses that life insurance trustees are public servants with duties to policyholders and the public. He notes his two-decade involvement with the company informs the need for high standards of efficiency faith and integrity in trustees and officers. He adds that performance, not words, satisfies the public.
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Kingsley
New York Life Insurance Company
Board of Trustees
New York
One Point of View on Education and Rastus
A teacher in a negro school extols Tuskegee and other feats of learning, citing Booker T. Washington as a standard. She asks a boy for the greatest negro, and he responds with Joe Gans, named as the top figure.
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Tuskegee
Booker T. Washington
Rastus
Joe Gans
Swapping Off His Old Woman at the Exchange
A verdant old man visits a downtown Woman's Exchange and asks to swap his wife for any available woman. The exchange keeper confirms the place, and the man makes an awkward, humorous request illustrating the era’s stereotypes.
Careful Public Guardian Polices Banana Peel Hazard
A city traffic policeman at Fourth Avenue and Twenty third Street zealously enforces cleanliness. He punishes offenders by forcing them to pick up banana peels and carry waste to sidewalk receptacles.
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Fourth Avenue
Twenty-third Street
New York Herald
Grape-Nuts lauded as easy nourishing food
An advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as scientifically made and instantly served. It claims pre digestion through natural grape sugar exuding from granules and asserts the product suits even the weakest stomach. Made at Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan with a health classic recommended in packages.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Wisconsin Bakery Inspectors Report Shows Growth in Inspections
The Wisconsin bakery inspector surveyed 839 bakeries and confectioneries last year up from 271 two years prior, with unsanitary conditions found in about 18 percent. Milwaukee level higher than other areas. 14 prosecutions occurred for noncompliance while 892 orders addressed sanitation actions like whitening and painting.
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Madison
Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics
Milwaukee
Six Loyal youths held on brutal assault charge
Six youths from Loyal, including Peter Joseph and Anthony Christman and George Henry and Matthew Vogel, were arrested on a charge from 17 year old Annie Engerson. She alleges she was seized near a barn dance on June 29 and dragged to nearby woods where the others awaited. Christman brothers were released on $1,000 bail. Vogel brothers remain jailed pending a July 12 hearing.
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Neillsville
Loyal
Annie Engerson
Peter
Joseph
Anthony Christman
George
Henry
Matthew Vogel
Engerson
Christman
Vogel
Railway right to condemn land through Kenosha outlined
Judge Belden of the circuit court grants the Chicago Kenosha and Milwaukee Railway the right to condemn property now used by the Kenosha Electric Railway for railway purposes. The decision details the rights of railways and notes limits on local companies when building through lines.
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Kenosha
Belden
Circuit Court
Chicago, Kenosha & Milwaukee Railway Company
Kenosha Electric Railway Company
Storm damages Mauston with barn fire and outages
A severe electric and wind storm hit Mauston causing major damage. Frank McCollum’s barn was struck by lightning and burned with four horses killed. E H Grote’s drug store was struck, its chimney toppled, and the town’s light and telephone service were knocked out.
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Mauston
Crivitz Town Clerk Arrested Over Forged $50 Order
Marinette Edward Behnke the Crivitz town clerk was arrested for forging Frank Kersten’s name on a town order for $50 and cashing it. Behnke admits signing the order saying his salary was due and Kersten was absent.
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Marinette
Edward Behnke
Crivitz
Frank Kersten
Behnke
Kersten
Roof Scaffold Collapse Kills One in Cylon
While shingling a roof in Cylon twelve miles east of here a scaffolding gave way sending workers to the ground. William Carval aged 41 years unmarried was killed instantly and Richard Rudd was seriously injured.
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New Richmond
Cylon
Here
William Carval
Richard Rudd
Milwaukee official Hill dies of heart disease at work
Milwaukee official and longtime Milwaukee county clerk of courts, Henry Hill, who also served as local agent for the Milwaukee Highland Zinc Mining Company, died suddenly of heart disease in his office at the Loan and Trust building.
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Milwaukee
Alexander W. Hill
Milwaukee County
Milwaukee-Highland Zinc Mining Company
Loan and Trust
New State Bank Organized in Marinette County
The State Bank of Coleman in Marinette county was organized with a capital of $25,000. Frank Hammis was elected president, A. B. Van Vonaerin vice president, and Joseph Duquaine cashier.
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New State Bank
Marinette
State Bank of
Coleman
Marinette County
Frank Hammis
A. B. van Vonaerin
Joseph Duquaine
Explosion Will Prove Fatal In Appleton Factory
Warren W. Root of Kurz & Root electrical firm was found unconscious at his plant with both hands blown off and face badly lacerated after an explosion during a chemical experiment started days earlier. His wife found him when he failed to return for meals. he likely did not survive.
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Appleton
Warren W. Root
Kurz & Root
Root
Knight Tricks Shoemaker With Fashionable Gown Cut
In a London P. s Weekly tale of Henry VIII era Sir Philip Calthrop punishes Norwich shoemaker John Drakes for chasing fashion. A tailor copies the knight’s gown cloth and cuts, provoking Drakes to vow never again to wear gentlemen’s fashions.
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Ofa Camden
Philip Calthrop
John Drakes
Norwich
Henry VIII
John Drakey
London
P.’s Weekly
Weighing Patent Medicines Against Doctor’s Fees
The Medical Times argues against patent medicines noting 62 million dollars spent in a year, enough to fund 2 thousand dollars per physician. It contrasts this with doctor incomes and a 40 million dollar medicine business, suggesting per capita home medication costs and overall physician earnings.
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Medical Times
United States
Privileges of a Gentleman
A Baltimore American brief notes a witty exchange where a young boy, son of a notable lawyer, declares plans to grow up smoking chewing gambling swearing and drinking corn whisky, claiming all southern gentlemen do them.
Soap Bubble Metaphor of Life by Amiel
A quotation likens life to a soap bubble on a reed. It shines with prism colors, briefly escapes gravity, then bursts leaving only turbid water. The reflection frames life as appearance, brightness, disappearance, birth, suffering, and death for all beings.
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Henry Frederic Amiel
Edin burgh election tale ends with cipher remark
The report recounts an Edinburgh contest in which Lord Wolmer was initially said to win by three votes. A correction later fixed the majority at 300 and named two lords of session who backed the winner. Lord Young quipped that the correction explains the two ciphers.
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Lord Young
Edinburgh
Lord Wolmer
Proving the Point on Equal Rationale
A brief humorous dialogue notes gender equality in logic with a witty exchange. A woman argues she is just as logical and ready to give a reason as a man, and his puzzled response prompts her affirmative punchline.
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Emery A. Odell
Thomas W. Lawson
Doubleday, Page & Co
Beulah
Virginia
Exchange
Wall Street
Standard Oil
Life Insurance
Lippincott’s Magazine
News OF Wisconsin
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