July dividends and interest payments top 190 million in week
Wall Street reports July and January dividends totaling 190 331 849 with railroads and banks driving gains. Notable increases include Van derbilt rail lines and United States Steel with quarterly outlays, while several banks lift rates substantially.
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Wall Street
New York
Aly
Pry Traction
Bank and Trust Companies
Vanderbile Lines
Chicago & Northwestern
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Cost of crime tops one billion in a year report
A 1907 U S cost study tallies crime expenses across New York City state and nation. Losses from fire customs fraud wages of prisoners and government costs push the total to about 1 076 billion dollars, far outweighing religious and humanitarian outlays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Greater
New York
Greater New York
Young Women's” Christian Association
Apa
Dearth of Farm Laborers in New York State
The article reports 53,000 needed farm workers in New York while 15,000 fewer farms exist. It notes New York advertises in 11 foreign papers to attract agricultural laborers and cites studies by Representative Bennett on immigration. Bolton Wall links farm loss to urban land value and large estates. 50,000 farm laborers could be employed today.
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Saxe'n
Russell “Sage
New York City Hospital
City Home
Blackwell's Island
Alek
Drs
T.O. Janeway
Hale
Thonety
Anti
New York State
New York
Dot
Bennett
Congress
Europe
Immigration Commission
United States
Res
Bolton Wall
Long Island
New York City
Holmes Defends Himself in Crop Reports Trial
Edwin H. Holmes, former assistant statistician in the Agricultural Department, testified in his own defense after the motion to acquit was overruled. He contradicted Broker Van Riper on signals tied to confederates by the height of Holmes office curtain and said he had no relations with Theodore Price beyond an attempt to interest him privately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin 8. Holmes
Agricultural Department
Holmes
Broker van Riper
Theodore Price
War on Sparrows to Protect Cotton Industry
Government urges citizens across the country to exterminate English sparrows and build bird houses while encouraging swallows under barn eaves to aid farms. The boll weevil threat grows at about fifty miles per year, risking infestation of the entire cotton belt and endangering the Southern plantations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emt
Sovernment
Cotiuine
United States
Falcon Flight and Sparrow War Highlight 1900s Notes
A historical note explains Northward nesting and sparrow predation on swallows, urging aid from northern states for protection. It also describes a Paris event where a Sentex-Dumont balloon and two aeroplanes failed as the craft collapsed after takeoff due to wing interference and a ground impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taris
Treves Forecasts Fewer Medicines and New Health Era
Sir Frederick Treves speaks at a London hospital opening predicting doctors’ shelves will hold few remedies as people turn to simple living, diet, sun, and fresh air. He foresees death from infectious diseases becoming as rare as a wolf’s bite in England due to bacteriological advances.
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Frederick Treves
England
London
Union movement and wage talks across cities and countries
Reports show union activity in Cleveland barbershops Egypt and Canada. Cairo printers strike for better terms. Chicago elevator workers seek a ten dollar monthly rise. Anastasia O Meara becomes first woman officer in Cambridge Retail Clerks. T. V. Powderly heads new immigration bureau post. Oregon forms first branch of the National Farmers Education and Co operation Union. Canadian cigarmakers unsettled by disputes. Non union miners push for union in South Yorkshire. Dutch sick insurance proposal discussed in Holland. Boston coopers seek daily wage rise. Phoenix waitresses threaten strike to shorten workday. Redway Trainmen elect Morrisey as head for two years.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Germany
Egypt
Cairo
Chicago
Anastasia O'Meara
Cambrides
Mass
Las
T. V. Powderly
Knights of Yebor
Bureau of Information
Bureau of Immigration
National Farmers’ Education and Co-operation Union
Oregon
Hudson Bay Country
South Yorkshire
England
Flotland
States General
Boston
Coopers
China Gratitude Acknowledged Amid Pearl Harbor Era Debate
The piece notes Empress Dowager favoring US leniency in a 1941 exhibition of consideration, with China agreeing to punish offenders and pay indemnities. It recounts unrest in China, foreign legations besieged, and Allied troops securing Pekin, then discusses proposed reparations totaling 7.5 million for Russia and 66 million for Germany.
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Sam
Amy Smlithoos
Phawagh
Washington
China
United States
Ching
Roosevelf
Toot
Uncle Sam
Foy
Cornell Defeats Columbia In Desperate Intercollegiate Rowing Duel
The Cornell crew won a famed intercollegiate race on the Hudson River by three feet over Columbia, after a dramatic finish in heavy seas. Syracuse failed to finish, several crews struggled with swamped shells, and darkness added spectacle as a searchlight lit the scene.
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Cornell
Columbia
Cornell Cnversity
Poughkeepsie
Huison River
Colimahia University
Bro
United States
Arkan
Global debt talk and unrest ripple through 1900s headlines
Reports detail a proposed China settlement reducing claims by nearly 27 million while Uncle Sam’s share nears 41 million. Other items note a massive European sum, strikes in Butte, quake shocks in Anglesey, Mayhem in France’s wine provinces, and college rowing results with Wisconsin and Syracuse winning key events.
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Uncle Sam
China
Roosevelt
Root
Judge Loving Free After Virginia Murder Trial
In Houston Virginia former judge William G Loving of Nelson was acquitted of murder in the April 22 killing of Theodore Estes son of Sheriff M K Estes. Jurors favored insanity as the basis for the acquittal citing stress from the judge’s daughter Miss Elisabeth Loring.
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Houston
William G. Loving
Nelson
Theodore Estes
M. KR. Estes
Loving
Young Estes
Estes
Elisabeth Loring
Barksdale
Apex Court
Foreman McCraw
Fudge Loving
Ronny Esten
Need of the Times: Cardinal Gibbons Commencement Address
Cardinal Gibbons, at Holy Cross College Worcester, says the times need men with courage of convictions. He notes soldiers who rush to danger but fear public prejudice show greater courage than leaders who capture cities. Delegates in Chicago and elsewhere discuss nominating Joseph Folk and John Johnson for president and vice president.
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National Congress of Charities and Corrections
Minneapolis
Burris R. Cooler
Division of Charities and Corrections
Cleveland
Ohio
Ife
Fom Joleson
Johnson
House of Correction
Cooley
Cleveland Honse
Cardinal Gibbons
Holy Cross College
Worcester
Mass
Chicago
West
William J. Bryan
Joseph W. Folk
Missouri
John A. Johnson
Minnesota
Cardinal Gibbons on French church state separation
Cardinal Gibbons argues that regardless of French episcopate opinion, France would benefit from true separation of church and state as it presently exists in the United States.
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Cardinal Gibbons
Fragmented chronicle of global events and notable births
A garbled list of historical dates and names highlights events from kings born at Greenwich to battles, royal actions, legislative acts, scientific milestones, and notable deaths. Names include Henry, Charles, Meade, Victoria, Stowe, and Rockefeller among others, with places like Cropredy Bridge, Greenwich, and Milwaukee.
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Charles
Victor
Cropredy Bridge
Charles Iii.of
Sweden
Eidel Ac Vrederiksbald
Avis
International Peace Proposals At The Hague Conference
The American delegation led by Gen Horace Porter urged prohibiting bombardment of unfortified towns unless tied to military necessity while allowing damages to military or naval targets and ransom cases. Other powers proposed rules on hospital ships prizes at sea and inquiry commissions. various casualty and production reports follow.
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Horace Porter
International Court of Appeals
France
Publc Cnle
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Wall Street Melon
Semin-Aupiil
New York Central
United States Steel
Avacowin
American Telephone &Telegraph
General Electric
Western Union
Fifth Avenue Bank
Celamink Tani
New York ‘Trust Company
New York Life Insurance & ‘Trust
Bankers’ Trust
Knickerbocker Ice
Alemon
YALE
Harvard Garsmen
Aachineless
Mayer
Rice
Hoppin
Taft
Howe
Gae
Boulton
Barklaw
Harvard
Fappin
Fish
Falkner
Bacon
Severence
Glass
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Parney
Blagden
Rey Nousin
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Kan
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William Larner
di. O. T
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Fort Worth
Texas
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
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Kaw
D. Coburn
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
New York State Agricultural Society
Halloon
P. HL. Morrisey
Redway
Russia
Great Britain
Austria
Spain
Helland
Belgiua
Butte
Mont
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Henry M. Walker
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Edward H. Blarkman
Portland
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Kil
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Mies
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Ory Itp
Judge Loving
Jack Cade
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Pera
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Plenket
Robert Ennet
Dind
Thibie
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Mauch Chunk
Louis of Holland
Siddens
Florida
Maharajah Srunjeet Singh
Lahore
Robert Eel
Hyde Park
Trenton
Isas
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Gen. Hooker
Charney Toss
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Sofia
Tarrison
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Queen Victoria
City of
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Irish
Cork
South Carolina
Altgeld
Irgis
Haymarket
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Casimir Perler
R. W. Buchanan
Sing Sing
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Milwaukee
Bane
el Caner
Oltton Tlouge
Niagara Falls
Shamrock
Thames
Chefoo
Breamer Norge
John D. Rockefeller
Yale University
Waersay
Poland
Walter Price
Mangum
QO. T
Cotton Exchange
Knob
Babe
Stillwater
O. T
Tincoln Center
Raw
Teate Mississippi Commercial Congress
Muskogee
I. T
Census Bureau
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