Pen and ink artists sought for Journal want column
The Journal seeks an appropriate illustration or cartoon to accompany its want column advertisements. A suitable pen and ink design should grab attention, fit the period tone, and complement brief notices.
Prize Drawings For Advertisers Offered Weekly
A period prize of two dollars will be awarded weekly for the best drawing showing business benefits for advertisers. Entries must be 10 inches high by 8 inches wide on Bristol board with ink, name and address on the back. Drawings to be delivered or mailed to the counting room at the Indianapolis Sourmal. postpaid returns for unaccepted drawings.
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Bristol
Counting Room
Indianapolis
Kessee
Famine Riots Rise as Peasants Loot Noble Estates in Russia
S J Petersburg desk reports from Moscow that famine driven unrest spans Poltava and Kharkoff with 12 to 15 villages touched. Peasants seized pantry and barn contents, burned estates, and clashed with Cossacks and troops, while noble estates and Cossack districts suffer. An iron works cuts payroll from 12 000 20 000 to 5 000 workers.
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London
S J. Petersburg
Associated Press
Russia
Moscow
Poltava
Kharkoff
Duke of Mecklinburg
Kharlofska
Prince Obelenski
Pas Tieclar
Eugene Michaelovich-Doukohski
Mechek
Indiana and Michigan Railroads Annual Meetings Report
Stockholders in the Indianapolis and Vincennes Railroad re-elected directors James McCrea Joseph Wood J J Turner E B Taylor H Darlington John F Miller and H H Hanna. The annual report shows the road burdens the Pennsylvania Company, with gross earnings $123240 below fixed charges yet rails ties bridges and reballasting projects progress. Senior notes carry 7 percent interest and some bonds remain outstanding.
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Indianapolis & Vincennes Railroad
James McCrea
Joseph Wood
J. J. Turner
E. B. Taylor
H. Darlington
John F. Miller
H. H. Hanna
Pennsylvania Company
Pennsylvania
Michigan Central Railroad Company
Detroit
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E. W. Worcester, Jr
D. W. Pardee
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Jackson
Niles
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Hocking
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C. B. Ryan
Western
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Samuel B. Sweet
Joseph Ramsey
Cleveland
Wheeling & Lake Erie
EE. A. Ford
Pennsylvania Iines
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Cal
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Pennsylvania Lines
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B. Kramer
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Kramer
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W. B. Calloway
Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton
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Fletcher
H. Jimbey
Fritch
Indiana
Baltimore & Ohio
New York Mosquito Control Plan Shifts to Laboratory Studies
Dr. A H Doty health officer for the port of New York outlines a new approach for Staten Island mosquito control. Rather than spraying ponds with oil and hose methods, he proposes experiments at the quarantine laboratory to test various agents. The effort includes propagation of the mosquito in the lab to study larval destruction.
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New York
A. H. Doty
Port of
Staten Island
Former Buffalo Treasurer Pleads Guilty in Defalcation Case
Former Buffalo city treasurer Philip Gerst pleaded today and was fined 81 000 after indictment for complicity in defalcations that forced bondsmen to cover about 40 000. He paid the fine and was released.
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Buffalo
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Philip Gerst
The Queen. God of hope beyond all hope in prayer
Fragmentary verse from an London Chronicle listing a devotional line about God, mercy, and the altar, with garbled name Maartens and place Lond ons Chronicle appearing as the source.
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Goa
Sea of
Tates
Maartes Maartens
London Chronicle
Declining prices at local produce market signal cautious trade
Home grown vegetables sell at lower prices as grain arrivals stay light. Irish potatoes drop to $1 to $1.05 a bushel with some as low as half a cent. Cabbage onions and greens ease. seed potatoes and cranberries off market. Trade remains moderate with grocers holding steady aside from sugars.
Dry Goods Prices and Trade Goods List Mixed with Mail Notice
A dense late 19th or early 20th century advertisement and notices page lists dry goods and groceries with numerous brand names, prices, and fabrics, followed by a long postal mail matterers section. The item reads like a marketplace catalog and a letter-list, mentioning sheetings, prints, sugar, coffee, molasses, fruits and vegetables, nautical and hardware terms, and a long roster of names for unclaimed letters.
Prices paid by shippers for assorted poultry and goods
Prices paid by shippers list rates for turkeys 19 to 12 pounds at 10 cents per pound, turkeys, roosters, and ducks priced in various cents per unit. Beeswax and feathers are noted with values per pound, while wool prices are given for merchantable grades. The fragment ends with brownish bargain figures for other commodities.
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New York
Albany Judge Rules New York Franchise Tax Law Constitutional
Judge Earle of Albany, serving as referee, rules the New York State franchise tax law constitutional on all points. The decision awaits review by the appellate division and the Court of Appeals. The act, passed in 159, treats corporate franchises as taxable property with valuations fixed by the State tax commissioners. The case involves a $137,000 assessment, part of a larger property valuation of forty million under the old regime.
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New York Central
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Lake Shore
Big Four
Wabash
Ingalls
Transcontinetal Passenger Association
Jessup
Folkston
Charleston
Savannah
Jacksonville
St. Louis Post Dispatch
St. Louis
United States
Albany, May
Earle
New York
Waa
State Tax Review Finds for the State on Franchise Value
Judge Earle analyzes four legal questions in a statewide tax case. He outlines home rule and federal constitution conflicts, contract impairment, comparability with other statutes, and methods of valuing franchises. He dissents on some points but ultimately upholds the State's assessment of a $236,000,000 total property valuation, noting real estate exceeds $100,000,000.
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Earle
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