Munroe brothers build Wall Street run before collapse
Bankruptcy filings reveal two Montreal haberdashers turned mining stock promoters who went from $1,600 capital to financing a vast curb market scheme. They underwrote Montreal & Boston Consolidated shares, washed millions of stock, and used daily bank loans to sustain appearances, before Loomis and others faced scrutiny as the scheme unraveled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wall Street
Gotham
Munroe Brothers
Metrop
McHugh
Munroe & Munroe
Joseph McHugh
National City Bank
Montreal
McHugh & Co
York
Broad Street
Financial District
Marconi Wireless Telegraphy Company
Canada
Munroes
Montreal & Boston Consolidated Copper Company
Marconi
Montreal & Boston
Stock Exchange
Exchange
Olig
James Stillman
Monttreal & Boston Consolidated Mining
Archibald G. Loomis
Boston
Loomis
George
Mr. Loomis
Leach
George Munroe
Hast Fifty-seventh Street
Southampton
S. 1
Waldorf-Astoria
Efe
Munroe
British Columbia
Selkirks
Alexander
Emile Gaboriau
Gaborian
Londoners to Invest in Sea Water Gold Extraction
A London syndicate led by Sir William Ramsey claims gold can be profitably drawn from sea water at about £10 per £100 extracted. The Industrial and Engineering Trust Limited backs H J Snell as inventor with £3,000 capital and notable shareholders including Lord Brassey Lord Tweedale and Albert Sandeman. Ramsey reports experiments show large scale viability despite treatment costs.
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London
William Ramsey
The
Industrial and Engineering Trust (Limited
Lord Brassey
Lord Tweedale
Alban Gibbs
Albert Sandeman
Bank ofEngland
H. J Snell
Snell
Sunday closing law enforced in Corinth Mississippi
Corinth Mississippi kept the lid down on Sunday enforcing the law to include cigars soda water and other sales. Drug stores were closed and even bootblacks stopped work as newspaper sales were allowed to proceed.
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Corinth
Miss
Tiana
Trusts Eye Session in Des Moines Meet on Rates and Reforms
Des Moines is the venue as the Corn Belt Meat Producers' association holds a heated annual meeting with big packers and rail interests watching. The group endorses Roosevelt on rates, calls for immediate rate authority, opposes rebates and passes, and reelected officers. The article notes heavy snowfall in Des Moines with 45.5 inches this winter and 9 months remaining.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association
Nebraska
William Bryan
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Goy
Cummins
van Sant
la Vollette
Padding the Census Sparks Statewide Caution
Secretary Davison of the executive council bans census padding by town officials. He says municipalities inflate figures by counting students in their college towns and home towns. The policy aims to curb misrepresentation, though Des Moines risks losing credit due to its many state college students.
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Davison
Executive Council
Des Moines
Iowa College Prosperous Under President Bradley
The Iowa college board met in Grinnell for their mid winter session reporting strong prosperity. Under President Bradley three new departments expanded the staff while tuition revenue rose to over 26000 last year. Gifts totaling 176000 included a 50000 library from Andrew Carnegie. Endowment drive since May 1 1904 has brought in 47580 so far.
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Iowa College
Grinnell
Bradley
Andrew Carnegie
Des Moines Describes Mixed Marriage as Social Blight
A Humane Society official denounces interracial marriage in Des Moines as causing poverty and crime. Mrs. Elizabeth Jones cites numerous cases of white women with mulatto children, urging Iowa to restrict mixed marriages as Nebraska and Missouri have done, warning of rising crime and pauper lists.
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Iowa
Elizabeth Jones
The
Humane Society
Des Moines
Nebraska
Missouri
Bank Examiner Resigns for Chicago Banking Post
F. W. Thompson, a leading Des Moines banker, resigns as Iowa bank examiner to become manager of the farm loan department at Merchants' Loan & Trust in Chicago. Leland Windsor of Des Moines will fill the vacancy. Thompson’s career is described as meteoric and notable for the new post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Thompson
Des Moines
Iowa Bank Examiner
Merchants’ Loan & Trust Company
Chicago
Leland Windsor
Thompson
New Method Aims at Tuberculosis Cure via Open Air Plan
The Methodist church introduces a course on tuberculosis treatment using open air methods and periodic bodily measurements. Participants will weigh and report results to headquarters, with pamphlet data distributed to correspondents to gauge impact on the state and beyond.
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Methodist Church
Shiloh Case Up Again Over Iowa Monuments and Coal Mine
The piece notes renewed debate over an incomplete Iowa regiments inscription on a Shiloh monument and Gen Weaver’s threat to push the issue to Congress. It also reports Des Moines park board consideration of a municipal coal mine as a revenue solution, with Treasurer Goss proposing it as a self funding Workhouse style program for criminals.
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Iowa
Shiloh
Weaver
Congress
Con. Weaver
Union Park Hive
Board of Park Commissioners of
Des Moines
Park Board
Goss
T Bey
Unusual Ocean Wave Heights Reported at Engineering Congress
At the international engineering congress in St Louis, findings show tides and waves defy simple harbor limits. Dover harbor reports waves under 16 feet while Tyne and Peterhead observed 30 to 40 feet. Deep water movement and wave traps prove more extensive action, with heavy blocks displaced in storms and sand reaching distant depths.
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St. Louis
Dover Harbor
Scientific American
Dover-Calais
Tyne
Peterhead
Bishop Rock
Iowa Protest Over Census Factory Count Sparks State Debate
A Washington census official proposes a shortcut in Iowa’s 1905 manufacturing census estimating 7500 establishments. Iowa leaders call it unjust as the state has about 16000 factories and rural districts would be undercounted. The Labor Bureau vows further investigation while results remain unpublished.
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Tireetor N. DD. North
Bureau of the Census Department
Washington, DD
J. D. Brigham
Towa
Jowansan
State House
Iowa
Kansas
Washington
North
Lawa
Brigham
Census Bureau
Iowa Labor Bureau
Woodard
Richards Sentenced to Eighteen Years in Hold-up Case
Iowa supreme court upholds lower court ruling sending ex US Marshal W A Richards to the penitentiary for 18 years for complicity in the Sullivan hold-up at Hamilton two years ago. Richards will be moved to Fort Madison immediately.
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Des Moines
Iowa Supreme Court
United States
W. A. Richards
Peter Sullivan
Hamilton
Richards
Fort Madison
Put A Kink In The Ashman
Commuters note a young bride who fears household details and tradespeople. Aashman visits, calling out for ashes. she responds firmly that she does not want any today. This humorous slice captures daily life and social anxiety.
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New York
Deaf People Not Prone to Seasickness, Says Surgeon
An old surgeon for a trans Atlantic line told the Philadelphia Press that deaf people rarely suffer seasickness. He cited a past voyage where deaf mutes endured rough seas with little complaint and noted that ear controlled nerves influence nausea. He mentions cocaine dampening hearing for seasick relief but endorses simply “feed the fishes” as the final cure.
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Philadelphia
Queen of the Harem Shapes Afghan Power Scene
Mrs K Daly, medical officer to the Afghan government and physician to the queen, says the royal wife of the late ameer dominates politics after the ameer. Aged about 40, she is highly intelligent, British-leaning, and nearly a prisoner in a palace kept under strict surveillance. The ameer’s wives live restrainedly, not the stereotyped harem.
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K. Daly
Ameer
Detroit Free Press
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Zasily
Mapcom Wireless
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America
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Dover
Andrew Lynch
Board of Local Improvements
Codie
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Tyan
Lynch
Elorks
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