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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1906
Page
2
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Congress adjourned for Christmas holidays and will meet again January 3. Roosevelt praised Panama canal work and urged declarations to protect Japanese in San Francisco. Senators pressed land reform and reform of naval command eligibility while labor and immigration issues sparked debate.
Fort Reno Oklahoma sees Cap Edgar Macklin shot and punched in a clash linked to Brownsville riot allegations. Chicago judge shot at by Frederick Elerbrock. Annapolis mob lynches a confessed attacker of a white woman. Milwaukee divorce suit by Clara Heyl. Jacob Heyl tied to Schandein will case. Newark birth figure Mrs Day, revolutionary era daughter, dies aged six. Houston execution bungled. rope break injures John Hamilton. St Louis robbery at Muss Milling. one captured. Lincoln dies, famed educator Blanche Boardman Lincoln. Minneapolis coal shortage warns of winter distress. Morgan gifts 600000 mansion to son. St Stanislaus Chicago school burns. 100 teachers escape. Western Ice gains control of Knickerbocker Ice via Edward R. Thomas.
The column tallies a wide range of events from a will disowning children and a missing liner passenger to shootings and fires. It notes political moves in the United States and abroad, arrests, trials, and industry shifts, with disasters in cities from Salt Lake City to Columbus and Chicago suburbs.
Lindsay B. Hicks of Bakersfield was released after 15 days entombed in a caved-in tunnel near the Edison Power Co. He survived on tobacco and a pipe plug, communicated via a 70 foot pipe, and crawled to safety as rescuers dug through rock and earth with scores of workers assisting.
Ten people die and many more are injured after an eastbound Minneapolis St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie passenger train collides with a switch engine near Enderlin North Dakota. Fire and wreckage trap passengers in the smoking car and first coach.
Capt. Edgar Macklin of the Twenty fifth Infantry improved Sunday after being shot by a negro at his Fort Reno residence Friday night. The assailant remains unidentified with detectives unsure of his whereabouts. Bloodhounds traced a train at Darlington, and a Twenty-fifth Infantry hat found near the porch suggests the suspect may have handled the area, though it does not prove he is a soldier.
Two youths in Youngstown discuss a sign offering a five thousand dollar reward for the outlaw Jim Bradley. They joke about capturing him by cutting a chunk from a moving picture, imagining a clever but foolish plan.
Young Joseph Choate, then starting in law, defuses an irate shopkeeper with a sharp reply after a plaintiff’s loss. The defendant’s bluster about sons becoming lawyers meets Choate’s cool counter at the courtroom door.
The bank directors, after drawing fees, are told by the cashier that the bank failed three days earlier for seven million. They reply with detachment, insisting it is of no concern to them, and depart with their remaining gold and cars.
The article notes reindeer with broad hooves and about 400 pounds weight pulling sleds with 600 pounds, covering 30 to 90 miles daily. They haul mail from Kotzebue to Point Barrow, Alaska a 650 mile northern post route. No food is carried for the deer and they forage on white moss at stops.
Markets report steady and mixed prices for grains, livestock, and dairy. In New York trading on December 24 1906 flour prices ranged around 4.10 to 4.30 per barrel while wheat and oats held firm and hogs eased. in Cleveland similar levels appeared with spring patent flour about 4.15 to 4.30, wheat 77c, and hogs around 6.30 to 6.35 per hundredweight.
Chicago and Toledo market notes show December wheat at 74 and 4 cents for corn, with cash bids for wheat at about 74 1/2 cents, corn around 43 cents, oats at 37 cents, and cloverseed near 8 dollars and 35 cents per bushel.
East Buffalo market note of December 24 shows cattle Best steers $5.20 to $6.00, Weds $8.00 to $8.50. sheep Wethers $5.25 to $5.50, spring lambs $5.50 to $7.30. hogs Yorkers $6.35 to $6.40.
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