Second Lieutenancies Open in U S Army With Civilian Appointments
War Department outlines exams for civilian applicants to West Point class of 1903 and promotions from enlisted men to fill about 70 second lieutenant slots. Examinations set for Sept 1 at posts including Presidio San Francisco Vancouver Barracks Fort Leavenworth Fort Logan Fort Snelling Fort Sam Houston Jefferson Barracks Fort Sheridan Fort McPherson Fort Monroe Columbus Barracks Fort Columbus San Juan Puerto Rico. Seventy seven candidates designated. success judged by a supervisory board in Washington.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Military Academy
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Presidio
San Francisco
Cal
Vancouver Barracks
Kansas
Fort Logan
Colorado
Fort Snelling
Minnesota
Fort Sam
Herston
Texas
Jefferson Barracks
Missouri
Fort Sheridan
Illnois
Fort McPherson
Georgia
Fort Monroe
Virginia
Columbus Barracks
Ohio
Fort Columbus
New York
San Juan
Porto Rico
Secretary of War
Roosevelt
West Point
Lewis Scott
Hugh T. Scott
Seventh Cavalry
Her- Huen
B Hayden
United States Navy
Wis C. Rockwell
Charles H. Rockwell
Sixth Cavalry
Paul der Larned
Charles W. West Point
Fred T. Cruse
Thomas Cruse
Mapila
Maxwell Murray
Arthur Murray
Artillery Corps
George A. Mattie
L. A. Mattie
Th Infantry
George Middleton
Passmore Middleton
Medical Department
Craig Harris
Senator Harris
John L. Clem, Jr
John T. Clem
S Department
Throop M. Wilder
W. E. Wilder
S. A
Walter R. Weaver
BE. M. Weaver
D. Patch
A. M. Patch
John W.est
W. F. Biauvelt
Fifteenth Infantry
Clyde L. Eastman
Showers Forecast Across Indiana and Nearby States
Washington reports a forecast for Sunday and Monday with widespread showers across Indiana Illinois and Ohio and fresh east winds. Local observations show cloudy conditions with light precipitation on Saturday and a maximum temperature of 73 and a minimum around 0. The bulletin notes deviations from normal temps and precipitation with Blythe as Section Director.
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Washington
Indiana
Illinois
Ohiio
R.H
Sveast
W. T. Blythe
Movements of Steamers and Arrivals
Maritime notices from multiple ports list arrivals and sailings. Vessels include La Tour from Havre La Tour, St Paul from South map, Mesaba to Lomion, and Bremen, St Louis with departures for New York, Liverpool, and Glasgow. Other entries show ships like Lucania arriving from New York and Cymote sailing to New York.
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New York
La_Tour
Havre
St. Paul
Southmeg
Rotterdam
Horleaux
Saited
Struma
Pottsdam
Aller
Geb
Naples
Mesaba
Lomion
Friesland
Antwerp
Furnes- Hla
Glasgow
Liverpool
Lucania
Umbria
Southampton
Army Medical Officers Assigned to Forts and Philippines
First Lieut. John L. Shepard assistant surgeon at Fort Logan is ordered to Fort Apache. First Lieut. George H. Richardson assistant surgeon is ordered to Fort n. Maj. Edwin F. Gardner surgeon arrives in San Francisco and is assigned to Fortotten New York to relieve Maj. W. F. Carter ordered to the Philippines.
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Washington
Wallace de Witt
Philippines
San Francisco
James Prentice
Artillery Corps
Field Artillery
Coast Artilly
Edward Canfield, Jr
Bat
Secretary Root cites reasons for Miss Taylor’s removal
Secretary Root’s answer to Miss Rebecca J. Taylor’s mandamus petition says a published letter was sent to her for explanation, she admitted authorship, and her response harmed Army War Department efficiency. Root states removal was not Based on politics or religion and was consistent with civil service rules. he argues a department head’s action isn’t reviewable by court.
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Washington
Root
Rebecca J. Taylor
War Department
Miss Taylor
Secretary of War
Hoot
Ss Taylor
Manamus
Carriage and Wagon Industry Output Reported for Census Year
The Census Bureau reports 7,632 establishments in the United States with $118,187,338 invested in land buildings machinery tools and live capital for carriages and wagons for the year ending May 21 190. Product value is $121,507.37 with salaries $4,073,902 wages $29,814,911 miscellaneous $6,261.4 and material $6,676,073. Values show increases from prior years.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
Evans squadron reaches Chemulpo Korea after voyage
Washington August 5 Rear Admiral Evans squadron comprising the Kentucky New Orleans Helena and Vicksburg has arrived at Chemulpo Korea.
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Washington
Evans
Kentucky
New Orleans
Helena
Vicksburg
Chemulpo
Korea
B&O to divert freight to Cumberland Valley line
Baltimore officials confirm plans to divert Baltimore & Ohio freight traffic from Western Maryland to the Cumberland Valley starting September 1. General Manager Potter inspected Cumberland Valley facilities with Cumberland Valley and Pennsylvania Railroad officials and said strengthening bridges and sidings will enable more trains to pass by Sept. 1.
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Baltimore
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Western Maryland
Cumberland Valley
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Hilin Station
Potter
Baltimore & Ohio
Record Run Sets Fast Pace Between Granite City and Decatur
The Wa bash Continental limited achieved a 105 mile run in 103 minutes from Granite City to Decatur. Delays included the St. Louis Union Station departure twenty minutes late and a minor half minute late arrival at Decatur after a stop at Litchfield crossing. The train used a combination car day coach and two Pullman sleepers, hauled by Engine 7, a high wheel Atlantic type. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind.—R. R. Sutherland, superintendent of a division of the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, is to be named superintendent of the Cincinnati Richmond & Muncie Railroad with headquarters here. the office is newly created as the general manager had handled duties previously.
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Springfield
Wabash Continental Limited
Granite City
Decatur
San Francisco
Union Station
St. Louis
Litchfield Crossing
Indianapolis Journal
Richmond
Ind
R. R. Sutherland
Chicago, Rock Island & Paclfe Railroad
Cincinnati, Richmond & Muncie Railroad
Cloudburst and Storm Ravage Illinois and Minnesota
A cloud burst in McLean county Illinois dumps about two inches of rain in an hour, flooding tracks near Padua and halting the Lake Erie Western Railroad. Peoria Illinois reports torrents and submerged basements with streetcars stopped. A tornado hits Stearns county Minnesota damaging farms and crops with no known deaths. The Lyndon German settlement suffers grain loss.
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Bloomington
McLean County
Lake Erie & Western Railroad
Here
Padua
Peoria
ST. Paul, Minn
Stearns County
Lyndon
Cold Springs
Mob Reaches Leonardtown Prisoner Sent Away for Safety
Walter Hammett twenty seven of St. Marys county faced an enraged mob in Leonardtown last night after arrest for assaulting a fourteen year old girl. Sheriff Mattingly smuggled him from the jail in a bogey thirty two miles to a Popes Creek railway station and on to Baltimore, where Hammett was placed in the Baltimore jail for safety.
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Baltimore
Walter Hammett
St. Mary's County
Leonardtown
Mattingly
Popes Creek
American working classes study voyage remark from Liverpool
A visitor from Liverpool stated he came to this country to study the condition of the American working classes, framing his purpose as an inquiry into social and labor conditions affecting workers.
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Liverpool
Collision of Motor Cars Near Elyria Injuries Reported
An accident on the Cleveland Elyria and Western line three miles east of Elyria at noon today left several injured. Names include T B Stroup and A King with serious injuries, and two motormen Wallace and Wherry among the injured. Cars met on a sharp curve while traveling at high speed.
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Cleveland, CO
Cleveland, Elyria & Western
Elyria
T. B. Stroup
Cleveland
A. King
T. Blase
Amanda S. Townsend
H. 8. Smith
Nora Smith
Wallace
Wherry
Old Ivory City to Shine at Louisiana Purchase Exposition
St Louis Aug 9 The stock certificates for the exposition company are being engraved and will be issued to full payors next week. Of 25000 subscribers over 4 percent now qualify for certificates. Past expositions were named for colors White City Rainbow City Ivory City. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition will feature old ivory tones in main building depictions with color mainly on inner walls and shaded areas.
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ST. Louis
Exposition Company
White City
Rainbow City
Ivory City
New Kind of Injunction In Wisconsin Case
John B. Gallup a Milton carpenter obtained an injunction from a court commissioner prohibiting Thomas Beckel from having any relation with Gallups wife. It is described as the second such case in the history of the legal profession.
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Janesville
Wis
John B. Gallup
Milton
Thomas Beckel
Old game of bowls praised as timeless pastime revival
The New Orleans Times-Democrat reflects on bowls as an ancient hobby revived, tracing its mention by Sir Walter Raleigh and contrasting it with modern sports. It suggests bowls suits older generations while evoking period fashions and social rituals, imagining a future where youth adopt its slow, graceful pace.
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New Orleans
Haymakers Elect Leaders At Elmira Convention
The national Haymakers convention in Elmira New York elected officers with Rosswell D Tompkins of New York as past national president and Charles A Willetts of Pennsylvania as national chief hay maker. J C Meier Indiana became national vice president Marion Trumbaur Pennsylvania national collector of straws John W Miller Pennsylvania national keeper of bun ches. National stewards named were Joseph Noury New Jersey Lewis E Shaw Pennsylvania and J F Smith Indiana Indianapolis chosen as 148th meeting site.
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Elmira
N. Y
Rosswell D. Tompkins
New York
Charles A. Willetts
Pennsylvania
J. C. Meier
Indiana
Marion Trumbaur
John W. Miller
Joseph Noury
New Jersey
Lewis E. Shaw
J. F. Smith
Indianapolis
Shooting near voting precinct in Sneedville leaves one dead
Sneedville Tennessee reports a fatal ambush on Wiley and William Brewer driving to a voting precinct. William Brewer died instantly while Wiley Brewer was wounded but alive. Wiley named six suspected assassins.
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Sneedville
Tenn
Wiley
William Brewer
English store manager cites tastings fueling shoplifting wave
In London a Caledonian Club gathering heard a London supplier recount how customers and especially women bring children to sample expensive fruits and nuts without paying. He warns tastings amount to years of losses, claiming thefts exceed purchases by large multiples and provoke serious debate among West End traders.
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England
Calumet Club
London
Phineas Brumby
New York
West End
Packing House Fire in Pittsburgh Incendiary Suspected
Fire swept Schwarzschild & Sulzberger packing house on Twelfth street and Liberty avenue, six stories tall, burning until 2 15 a m. Losses include building 150000 dollars stock 25000 dollars De Noon Bros stock 40000 dollars and Bernard Gloecker stock 25000 dollars. Incendiary theory favored after a similar blaze last week. Fire limited to one building but will take hours to subdue due to oil paint and varnish. Also reports timber and farm land fires near Oregon City and a major forest blaze in Fishbank country Montana threatening a government timber reserve.
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Pittsburg
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Packing House
Twelfth Street
Liberty Avenue
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger
de Noon Brothers’ Paint and Varnish Company
Bernard Gloecker
de Neon Company
Kalispell
Mont
Fishbank
Montana
Fire destroys National Storage warehouse on Black Tom Island
A National Storage Company warehouse on Black Tom Island near Communipaw New Jersey burned today. The fire, difficult to reach, was contained to protect nearby large warehouses. The structure stored jute and glucose and the loss is estimated at 200000 dollars.
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New York
National Storage Company
Black Tom Island
Communipaw, N. J
Brodie cyanide mill destroyed by fire at Cripple Creek
Fire swept the Brodie cyanide mill at Cripple Creek today destroying the plant. The structure, valued at about $20,000, was consumed in the blaze with officers estimating full loss. No injuries were reported.
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Cripple Creek
Col
Threaten to Strike for Demands on Chicago Company
Chicago utility workers threaten a weeklong strike across all lines unless wage increases and grievances are addressed. A unanimous street car men vote backed action as international officers failed to deter the move. In Yonkers New York, all employees walked out for three hours over the threatened firing of a popular assistant superintendent and wage terms.
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Chicago
Chicago City Railway Company
Yonkers
N. Y
Yonkers Street Railway
Board of Directors
Private Brodie's Fatal Fall at Fort Niagara
Private Louis G. Brodie of Company G Ninth United States Infantry was found dead at Fort Niagara base of a verandah. His skull was fractured, suspected sleepwalking incident from a second floor bed. He served in China and the Philippines, age thirty five, from Kansas City.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Louis G. Brodie
Ninth United States Infantry
Fort Niagara
Brodie
China
Philippines
Kansas City
Jumped Through Window Police Nab Gambling Ring
Saturday night a police raid at 405 North Senate avenue disrupted a craps game. Moses Gaddey was charged with keeping a gambling house while David Simpson Emmet Williams and Thomas McFadden were charged with visiting. Police recovered money dice and several coats as most gamblers escaped.
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Senate Avenue
Schroeder
Tomlinson
Bolen
Milam
Smith
Senate
Indiana Avenues
Vermont Street
Moses Gaddey
David Simpson
Emmet Williams
Thomas McFadden
Ola Hayden Seeks Police Protection After Husband Harassment
Ola Hayden, singer at Fair Bank last week, told Desk Sergeant Corrigan she fears her husband Frank Martin Hayden. He has been traveling the country to obtain her salary and appeared at her Marion Hotel rooms with their two year old child, prompting her request for police protection for the night.
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Ola Hayden
Fair Bank
Corrigan
Frank Martin Hayden
Marion Hotel
North Meridian Street
Woman Armed With Knife Terrifies North Geisendorff Street
Mrs. Ella Fierce drunkenly terrorized North Geisendorff residents last night at 9. She retrieved a large knife from her home and screamed, forcing neighbors indoors. Several young women were chased for blocks before bicycle policemen Losh and Duncan arrested her.
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Ella Fierce
Geisendorff Street
Losh
Duncan
Des Moines Woman Attacks Suspect in Gambling Crusader Murder
Anna Davidson, sister-in-law of Isaac Finkelstein the anti gambling crusader, struck Harry Levich with an umbrella on a Des Moines street. Levich is charged with the murder and under bond. Davidson fainted and was returned home where she recovered.
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Des Moines
Anna Davidson
Isaac Finkelstein
Harry Levcih
Levcih
Miss Davidson
Trolley Strike Ends. Traffic to Resume in New Haven
New Haven Conn Aug 9 The trolley strike was declared off tonight as the company yielded to the workers demands. Traffic will be resumed.
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New Haven, Conn
West Indianapolis theft trial ends in acquittal for two chemists
John B. McCoy and Aaron Howe, West Georgia street manufacturing chemists, were acquitted in Police Court after a statement by Mrs. Durand that she sold corn silk stolen from a farmer in West Indianapolis. Mrs. Durand faced $200 fine and costs plus three months in the workhouse. two girls with her were released. The corn silk destroyed was valued at about $150.
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John B. McCoy
Aaron Howe
West Georgia Street
Navy avoids cholera through distilled water on ships
The Navy Department reports no alarm over the cholera in the Philippines. Navy sailors are kept from infection by strict sanitary rules aboard ships, including drinking only distilled water and careful food oversight. Soldiers in the army have spread cholera by eating native food or drinking unboiled water, while sailors remain under officers' supervision to prevent exposure in cholera infected ports.
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Navy Department
Philippines
Navy
Gibbons Jubilee Postponed for Cathedral Centennial
Cardinal Gibbons delays the twenty fifth anniversary jubilee of his archbishopric from October to coincide with the Baltimore Cathedral cornerstone centennial in July 146. The ceremonies will occur four years hence.
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Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore Cathedral
Johnson's Council restrained by Ohio Supreme Court order
In Findlay today Judge Burkett granted a restraining order against Cleveland City Council prohibiting any act beyond necessary sessions. Attorney Hoar and Judge Boynton’s counsel prepared the injunction request, with hearings set before the full bench next Friday at 1 30.
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Cleveland
Findlay
Burkett
State Supreme Court
Hoar
Boynton
Okies
Body found near Union Pacific track in Echo Utah area
A man identified as John McDonald of Sandstone Minnesota was found along the Union Pacific Railroad track one mile from Echo Utah. The body shows a head wound and bruising, with police suspect murder by tramps to rob him.
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Echo
Utah
John McDonald
Sandstone
Minn
Union Pacific
McDowall
Death notices for Sloan and Tissot published
Baltimore reports the death of David Tu. Sloan, former Fourth Judicial District associate judge and Western Maryland Republican leader, aged 52, a Princeton graduate and active in Knights Templar and Elks. Paris obituary notes James Joseph Jacques Tissot, famed illustrator of the Life of Christ, born 1836, died at age 80.
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Baltimore
David TU. Sloan
Fourth Judicial Etrent
Maryland
Cumberland
Princeton
Kneight Templar
Order of Elks
Paris
James Joseph Jaques Tissot
Christ
Drunken trio breaks sign at Sommers furniture on East Washington
Three intoxicated men walked along Washington street at 1 am and smashed a large glass sign at Sommers furniture store with an umbrella. They fled east toward the alley near the New York Store and vanished.
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Washington Street
Sommers
East Washington Street
New York
Grosvenor Nominated by Eleventh District Republicans
Gen Charles H Grosvenor was unanimously chosen for Congress at Lancaster Ohio by the Eleventh district Republican convention. The nomination followed a reassembly after district bounds were altered by the Legislature and a new convention was convened.
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Lancaster
Charles H. Grosvenor
Gas Tragedy Fatal In West Hamilton Well Work
John Graves and his brother-in-law Thomas Saylor were overcome by gas while working on a farm well five miles west of East Hamilton. Both men were pulled from the well with grappling hooks and pronounced dead.
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Hamilton, D
John Graves
East Hamilton
Here
Thomas Saylor
Assignment of a Brewer in Newark
J Herbert Ballentine of Peter Ballentine Son & Co Brewing Co assigns assets for creditors total liabilities 1 188 000 due to unprofitable investments. The brewing company remains unaffected.
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Newark
N. J
J. Herbert Ballentine
Peter Ballentine Son & Co. Brewing Company
Lord Kitchener Chooses Shatter as Hero Model
The Washington Post notes Lord Kitchener has evidently adopted General Shatter as his exemplar of heroism and has declined all offers from English magazine publishers.
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Washington Post
Lord Kitchener
General Shatter
Arrival of English correspondent on Steamer Compania
John Foster Frazer, special correspondent for the Yorkshire Post and Glasgow Herald among other English papers, was aboard the Steamer Compania which arrived today in New York from overseas with media staff on board.
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New York
John Foster Frazer
Yorkshire Post
Glasgow Herald
Compania
New York Commercial Habits Promoting Provincial Profits
A fragment from a New York Commercial piece notes shopkeepers in provincial towns understand how sampling or tasting by customers boosts profits, highlighting a retail practice in early 20th century trade.
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New York
A New Insect Powder Discovered by Julius A Haag
A new powder named In sectare claims to kill bed bugs roaches ants seas plant and chicken ice water bugs quickly while being harmless to humans or animals. Inventor Julius A Haag of Haag's Liver Pills markets it bulk or in small 2 cent boxes from his new store on orth Pennsylvania street opposite the Grand Opera House.
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Julius A. Haag
Haag
Orth Pennsylvania Street
Grand Opera House
Learned Motorman Aboard A Broadway Car
A Yale graduate who studied law and briefly practiced explains he took a New York cable car job to avoid starvation. He keeps a Greek verse book in his hip pocket and wonders if Greek knowledge makes one a better motorman. The anecdote highlights educated men facing employment mismatches.
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New York Evening Sun
Germany
Broadway
Fiftieth Street
Yale
Ory
Lincoln friendship with Minois farmer noted in letter
Readable fragment recalls Abraham Lincoln and a Illinois farmer who befriended him and exchanged letters describing everyday life and earth and home. The incomplete text hints at a long-standing connection between Lincoln and a Midwestern farmer.
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Philadelphia
Abraham Lincoln
Pean
Illinois
The Passing of Reuben in the Chicago Evening Post
The piece laments Reuben’s disappearance from rural life as he visits the city for shopping or entertainment. It contrasts the rustic image with urban signs of modernity, noting his transformed appearance and language now seen only in comics or vaudeville.
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Chicago Evening Post
Reuben
Chicago
Long
Timothy
Sign of the Corn Sparks Bank Money Talk in Eldorado
Farmers and stockmen from across the county converge on local banks to arrange funds for buying cattle and hogs to turn the new corn crop into beef and pork, signaling rising agricultural commerce and a cash-driven rural economy.
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Eldorado
Kan
Kansas
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