Market rises on Wall Street ahead of US Steel dividend decision
Financial and political leaders hailed a sustained market boom as United States Steel prepared to announce its preferred stock dividend after the close. Anticipation lifted both common and preferred steel shares, with many preferred up 3 to 6 points and First National Bank stock jumping. The rally, the strongest since July and linked to prior market surges last autumn, reflected broad optimism despite scant declines.
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United Press
Wall Street
United States Steel Corporation
First National
Rally in Stocks and Economic Measures Boost Confidence
February saw a 20 percent rally after the Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation formed in January, with a 24 percent rise earlier and a 15 percent jump in December. The moratorium last year brought a 30 percent rise, followed by price reactions. Increases in agricultural prices and evidence of factories resuming operations fuel optimism, along with the RFC functioning more effectively and liberal currency issues under the Glass-Borah act. Railroad merger plans promise cost savings but threaten job losses. Government loans floated easily, challenging fears of national policy paralysis. Traders anticipate fall business and short-covering pushes, driving prices to levels last seen in May.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Rec
Wall Street
Hailstones Damage Farms and Taft Politics Highlight 1907 Note
Hailstones as large as hens eggs struck the Lorain County southern area with Urafton worst hit. Glass windows shattered and corn stalks torn leaves. Wellington residents filled ice boxes with hailstones. A & Garford urged Taft endorsement by the State Central Committee in Columbus. Lorain pledged support for Taft. Also notes Elyria Iron and Steel imported over forty immigrant workers due to labor shortages.
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Evening Telegram
Lorain County
Urafton
Wellington
Silyria
A. &. Garford
County Republican Committee
State Central Committee
Republican Executive Committee
Taft
Columbus
Peru city boosts municipal plant to cut electric rates
The Peru Indiana electric light and water departments are praised for a new pumping plant and planned turbine to lower rates. Floyd L. Kerns, manager, has rebuilt facilities in twenty months, cutting taxpayer costs and financing the project from department earnings. A July dedication will host officials from various cities to inspect the plant.
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Peru
Indiana
Carl Curtis
Wm. G. Smith
Elyria
Floyd L. Kerns
City Electric Lighland Water Departments
Kerns
Logansport
Ed. Millhouse
Wm. Burke
John Unger
Charles Beck
Edward Monahan
Electric Light Department
Flaus
Hiyria Legion unit places in state parade amid pink lamb display
The drum and bugle corps of the Hiyria American Legion took third at the Ohio state convention in Canton while a lamb dyed pink drew attention in the parade. The Hiyria 40 and 8 earned a silver loving cup for the most new members. County commissioners reviewed bids on a 2.5 mile Huntington township road project and postponed final award until July 28 after conferring with Sandusky firm reps.
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Hiyria American Legion
American Legion Convention of
Ohio
Canton
Bill Sudro
Hiyria 40
Huntington Township
New London-LaFayette Road
Construction Company of
Sandusky
Jail record raises questions over four months' confinement
Leonard Strukites of Shamokin spent four months in Northumberland County jail without court records showing why he was jailed or the intended length. Officials reviewed records and found no transcripts, and neither the court nor the district attorney acknowledged his detention. He was sent home, later learned to have been committed by a justice of the peace in March.
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Sunbury
Leonard Strukites
Shamokin
Northumberland County
Strukites
Justice of the Peace
Doctor Composes Symphonic Tone Poem Influenza In Toronto
Dr Forde E MacLoghlin blends medicine and music in a set of eight manuscripts titled A Symphonic Tone Poem Influenza. The four movements trace Preliminary symptoms onset disease and convalescence with instrumental motifs. A separate report describes a family clash in a hayfield at Chambannes, five men and a woman armed with scythes. three killed one critical and two jailed with money as alleged motive.
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Toronto
Chabawnnes
Bouches-du- Rhone
Real estate transfers listed for Lorain County towns and townsships
A long list of property transfers is recorded with buyers and sellers across Elyria Oberlin Amherst Lorain and surrounding townships including Spring Valley Black River Sheffield Lake Village Avon Lake La Grange Elwina Eaton Ridgeville Lorain and Lorain Realty Company transfers. The passage ends with a literary aside about John L. Sullivan noting his confident air helped him win battles before fights.
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Ludwig Hermann
Alma Hunter
Black River
Elyria Savings and Trust Company
Forest
Mary Ohmes
Elyria
Lorain Realty Company
C. B. Kent
Lorain
Pedro Attie
John Chihay
Amherst Township
Silas
Margaret Bucks
Eva Twyla Weidman
Oberlin
E. V. Reiner
James F. Baker
Brownhelm
Walter and
Clara Woodcock
William
Lydia Piper
Hastern Heights Land Company
W. E. Reichard
Cleveland Trust Co
William McIntosh
Sheffield Lake Village
Norman P. Mills
J. W. Fulton
Avon Lake Village
Peter Yourkevitch
Susie
Paul Murray
la Grange Township
Susan Murray
Peter and
Catherine Yourkevitch
Lula
Benjamin Moss
John Strinka
Elwina
George Elisasser
Matilda Weir
George
Annie Elisasser
Eliadell Corlett
Eaton
Ridgeville
Reuben and
Louise Dite
Louis
Anna Kramer
Harry Nicklin
First German Woman Appointed Radio Announcer in Berlin
The Berlin Broadcasting System named Gertrud von Eyseres as a full broadcasting announcer. She will host programs including bedtime stories for children, marking the first time a woman has achieved full announcer status in Germany.
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Germany
Berlin
Tates
Gertrud
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United States
Elyria Iron and Steel Company
New York City
Coats
Broad Street
Voice OF
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Vermilion
Louis Englebry
Under and Seely
Lake Snare
Marshall Cross
Toledo
Buffalo
N. Y
D. W. Seward
Atlee Pomerene
West Park
Green
Westenhaver
Lewis Mercantile Co
Doctor
Midland Bank
A. B. Sauer
Spring Valley Subdivision
John L. Sullivan
Children’s Apparel Shop
Second Street
T.J. Hutchings
Lerschs
Kleinharts
Thjohn Lersche
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