Vast Great Lakes Trade Shoots Record This Season
The July Summary of Commerce reports immense Great Lakes activity with 5,383 vessels at 37 ports in July and 15,941 since navigation began. Chicago led July arrivals with 1,108 vessels. Milwaukee and Buffalo followed for the season, while Cleveland trailed. Duluth and Milwaukee top flour shipments. Duluth ships most wheat. Corn and barley patterns show Milwaukee leading barley, and iron and steel trade dominates the year as iron receipts reach record tonnage.
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Great Lakes
Chicago
Cleveland
Milwaukee
Buffalo
Detroit
Duluth
Minn
West Superior
Wis
Lakes
du Vath
Chisago
Barlley and
Owls Milwaukee
Mulan Wihh
Taunt Leads to Death and Letter From Despair
A George Oliver James Palmer, a U S Army transport employee, killed himself in a Navy building in Washington. A note to his wife pleads love for their two daughters Ella and Sallie and laments being a failure. The article also cites oddities from current events including the origin of the Chinese queue and Sweden’s warship Dristigheten, with a remark on Norway’s death rate.
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George Oliver James Palmer
Transport Department
United States Army
Navy Building
Washington
Weel Chee Hundred and Sixty-sixth
G. O. J. Palmer
Mrs. Palmer
Ella
Sallie
Tom
Ald Pet
Peso Recoinage Progress In Porto Rico Commerce
Arrival of 179000 Porto Rican pesos in New York aboard the transport McClellan under Capt William Weigel signals ongoing recoinage. The shipment to Philadelphia mint follows a six man detail, with about 500000 in unredeemed silver still in circulation on the island. Prices and commerce adjust as San Juan issues paper currency, while interior towns see slower adoption of the new medium.
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McClellan
New York
Porto Rico
William Weigel
United States Infantry
Philadelphia
San Juan
Ponce
Mayaguete
A Common Tramp De Brueys Claims 27000 Miles Traveled
Henry A. de Brueys, grand nephew of Admiral de Hrueys, reports he has tramp ed about 27000 miles in four years since age 17. He rests at Trenton New Jersey in a reform institution for “knights of the road” run by Princeton theological students as an experiment to solve the tramp problem. He travels weekly to Newark to receive eye and ear treatment at a free dispensary, returning to Trenton by freight train each Tuesday afternoon.
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Henry A. de Brueys
de Hrueys
the Nile
Trenton
N. J
Knights of the Road
Princeton Theological Students
de Brueys
Haven
Newark
New York
Confederate Dead Reburial Plan Moves Forward
The Confederate Memorial Association, based in New Orleans, will reclaim southern dead buried in northern cemeteries and reinter them in state churchyards or a National Cemetery plot at Arlington. Lists will be published to aid families. Removal is scheduled for October, with Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond offered for unclaimed bodies.
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Confederate Southern Memorial Association
New Orleans
National Cemetery
Arlington
Washington
Confederate Veterans
United Daughters of the Confederacy
South
Congress
Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond
The
Association For
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Henin
Hin
China
Celestial Empire
Sweden
Chicago Times-Herald
United States
Norway
England
Pamadelphia
Admiral de Arnesn
Nile
Britain
Jesse James
Gabriel Maz
Charusso
Actin
Lion Coffee
Daisy
Buckleham
Ladies’ Scissors
Youf Bemrest
Fruit Picture
Dorothy
Ump
Naval
Lion Copfee
Lion
Emiums
Ist
Razor
Game
India
ES Woolson Spice CO
Toledo
Ohio
S.S
Sarah M. Keesting
Windsor Ave
Bristol
Tenn
SWIFT
Anta
Lanpher
Teane Moun
Goryhauts &c
Parente
Kent Free
Munn
Scientific American
Montocomery Ward & CO
MicMigne
Madiown HL
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