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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1901
Page
6
The page advertises Union Transfer and Storage at East Whit Street and Bee Dine 5 offering first class storage and freight rates to the Pacific coast, along with multiple job and business notices from painters to pressmen, barbers, and college ads seeking staff and students. It also lists dentistry and other professional services with contact details.
The article reports a broad drop in loaded car movement due to a car shortage and locomotives in shops. Eastern unloading slows while Western lines restrict outbound cars. Westbound demand remains high for coal, lumber, livestock, and refrigerator cars as delayed freights surge at every station. Indianapolis handles 27 440 cars week to Dec 14, 1901 with 21 413 loaded, more than prior years. Also notes Michigan Central employees vote down pension plan after extensive deliberation.
The official report shows Belt Road tonnage for the week ending Dec 14 at 19 048 cars, 214 fewer than prior week. Officials note changes at Lake Erie Western and Missouri Pacific, with dividends declared, appointments made, and plans for line improvements affecting traffic and earnings. industry leaders discuss rate conditions and upcoming projects.
Utica New York press reports Rev. Dr W A Bartlett praising the President’s message to Congress. Bartlett calls the document thoughtful, clear, and forward looking on issues from immigration to arbitration, irrigation and publicity for capital. He lauds its unity of purpose and human sympathy while noting references to the deaths of European sovereigns.
In Panama a bandit revolutionists boarded a train and forced payment of car fare. A private, money in hand, boards with the crowd while officers fume. A street confrontation ends with the private paying and the train proceeding as revolutionists gripe at the cost. An editorial aside adds that a calendar promo from N W Ayer & Son follows.
On North Capitol avenue a sleigh racing scene drew Driving Club owners and fast-horse enthusiasts out between Ohio and St. Clair streets. Sleighs dominated the street as cold but keen spectators watched from frosty windows while families gathered to enjoy the first sleighing of the winter.
A dense list of commodity prices and wholesale terms appears, listing slack coal coke lump coke per bushel per ton, various chemical and drug goods with per unit costs, and an extensive catalog of groceries. It includes flour, coffee, sugars, spices, salt, and oils with quoted prices, plus farm produce like Malaga grapes, oranges, lemons, apples, cabbage, and meats with per unit or per pound values, reflecting a late 19th to early 20th century trading page.
Local market activity shows steady to higher prices on grains and produce amid two rainy days and a weekend snowstorm. Poultry supplies are ample, eggs and fresh fruit slow, while wheat corn and oats hold firm. wagon market reports light sales with unchanged quotations. traders expect improved weather to lift demand.
The city council meets to consider an appropriation ordinance for part of the bonded debt for hospital and fire department improvements. The finance committee favors the ordinance. An annexation proposal for Irvington and Tuxedo faces delaying votes until suburban wishes are known. Maj Megrew ill, Logsdon in Kentucky, Maguire covering. Mayor Bookwalter travels on Knights of Pythias business. The Post notes publishers favor authors who concede profits for advertising.
Reports from around the world fill the page: famine in a Chinese province claims 2.5 million lives, Thompson’s death in Portland marks a political obituary, Salem burns as wire service ends coverage, and Argentina-Chile tensions threaten war. Also noted are Queen Wilhelmina’s return to The Hague, probe on Schley, Marconi wireless trials, deep freezes and storm fatalities, Rosebery’s Chesterfield speech hinting at a new party, Perryville train wreck with fatalities, D W Minshall’s death, Arlington fire losses, and Indiana university football celebrations along with a Dunkirk independent telephone venture. Special venue for Rathbun murder trial set by Clark County Commissioners.
Superior and circuit courts record divorces for Henry Byrd Elizabeth Paterson and Mary Byrd custody awards for Rolland and Clair Weimer. Foreclosure dismissed. Damages awarded against The National Glue Company. Criminal cases include L J Isenhour pure food law appeal and Sim Williams petit larceny. New suits filed include Marion Brick Works versus Medical College and partition actions.
A 1912 Decatur and various county court minutes listing petitions and briefs for rehearing dismissals and returns to certiorari. Entries name Caroline C. Allen William M. Hamilton Henry Adams Patrick Leary Hiram Orabelle Botkins Samuel Ve e Catherine Hale Smelser James Peele and others with several county courts noted including Cass Grant Blackford Marion Rush and Adams counties.
A summary of a Northeastern Reporter extract discusses a statute labeled a blackboard law requiring visible boards in rail stations and penalties limited to report failures rather than board maintenance. It also covers an elections case upholding penalties for selling votes and confirming immunity and protection concerns. Another note states patent rights end for using the word patent in product names after expiration.
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