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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1911
Page
3
A compact news item notes the Matrimony syndicate operates on Wall Street with Street and Smith backing. The blurb frames the venture as a familiar business tie in with entertainment news.
Barr’s celebrated Wall Street exploits include the “corner in matrimony” tied to a Palm Beach branch of Willis Barr & Co. Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of Morton Rogers of United Trust, joins widow and mother for the winter as her father plans a visit. John Marshall, Barr’s protégé, heads to Florida amid family and finance tensions.
John and Elizabeth Rogers scheme with Barr to buy Suburban Trolley for eight million, use urban finance to drive prices down, then rally via a Rogers led pool to seize control. Barr caps the deal by selling to Urban and securing the Bingham avenue franchise.
A Manila Times report describes a Yokohama aboard theft aboard the ship Man churia from San Francisco. An old pantryman and a steerage boy confessed after third degree questioning. $1,250 was recovered from an ice box lining in Nagasaki and the rest was traced before trial in Yokohama.
A chatty exchange at the opera reveals rumors about engagements a quarrel over marriage plans a baby named Peter Garibaldi versus Primus and a baron title. The speaker admits forgetting the actual program title while recalling scattered gossip from the audience.
A burly man, who overtook the rector's wife, explains a family in dire distress. The father is old, the mother bedridden, the baby with whooping cough, and ten children cry for food. They owe $20 rent and risk eviction. the landlord then reveals his identity.
Fragmentary dialogue recalls a figure named Titewadd who never missed a chance to hug himself. The exchange questions what he has accomplished and mentions a thief tied to his provisions in a pork barrel.
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