Cotton Price Inquiries Spark North Carolina Market Talk
A Charlotte dispatch reports Theodore H Price sent telegrams to several prominent cotton dealers seeking immediate delivery quotations for New York. The note says Price has queried major southern markets and farmers largely refuse current prices. He aims to secure cotton for urgent New York mill demand, with his profits tied to short positions if farmers hold back.
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Charlotte
Theodore H. Price
New York
Mr Price
South
New England
Yorkville Enquirer
Grow Scuppernong Grapes Opens Missouri Market Inquiry
Commissioner of Immigration Watson has urged a Missouri wine firm to buy Scuppernong grapes from the state. The company will take all they can get and Watson reports arrangements for a profitable market. This could revive grape wine growing, which stalled under the dispensary law, according to the Columbia Record.
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Watson
Missouri
Culumbia
Three Men Arrested in Cloth Room Theft
Greenville March 8. Charlie Crane Ton Rigdon and a mill worker named Duncan were arrested yesterday morning by Sheriff Gilreath and jailed on charges of breaking into the cloth room at Monaghan Mills on the suburbs. Nearly $1,000 worth of cloth was destroyed and eight pistols plus several pieces of cloth were stolen. The prisoners protest their innocence.
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Greenville
Charlie Crane
Rigdon
Duncan
Gilreath
Monaghan Mills
Terrific Rain in Texas Rains Damages Bridges and Floods
Terrific rain covered Northeast and East Texas causing bridge and fence washouts and heavy road delays. Five inches fell in under three hours. Cotton mills face an $18,000 franchise tax bill while railroads pay about three times that amount. In Anderson county, 87 farmers with around 100 acres each agree to reduce cotton plantings by over 1,000 acres for 1905.
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Houston
Texas
Farmore
Anderson County
Japs reach Hun River near Mukden in bold advance
Russian forces hold at noon as Japanese bombard Hun river point twelve miles east of Mukden. Wind storm rips through the area while Japanese press advance, threatening Russian retreat routes along the rail line. Official updates scarce as Japanese forces push toward Tie Pass and Hero Bar.
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Mukden
Fo Pass
Hun River
Kuropatkin
St Petere
Associated Press
Muakden
South Carolina Negro Kills Panamanian Officer
John Wells, a South Carolina man, fired a revolver after being refused entry to a dance in Panama. He killed a Panamanian police officer and wounded two others. Wells was arrested and likely to receive imprisonment in Chiriqui jail as Panama has no capital punishment.
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Colon
John Wells
South Carolina
Chiriqui
Panama
Japanese Forces Encircle Russians At Tie Pass
March 9 report from Tientan notes Te Pass under Japanese investment. Gen Kuropatkin reportedly lacks options and may surrender within a week. Gen Nogi and Oku push a pincer, marching 25 miles daily to trap about 80,000 Russians, severing supply lines while surrounding them on multiple fronts.
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Newehwang
Tientan
Te Pass
Kuropatkin
Nogi
Ten
Oku
Tie Pass
Over a Billion More Appropriations Reported
Washington March 8 A statement by Hemenway chair of the house appropriations committee and by Levingston ranking minority member shows total appropriations for the just closed session at 818 474 914 for the fiscal year ending June 30 1906 against 781 172 875 the previous year. Levingston compares four year spans 1893 1896 and 1903 1906 noting 2 016 843 758 versus 3 153 834 299.
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Washington
Hemenway
House Committee
Levingston
Leyingston
Senator Bates Dies in Washington City
United States Senator William Bremage Bate of Tennessee who served as governor, a Confederate War veteran rising to major general, and 18 years in the Senate, died in a Washington hotel today at age 78 from pneumonia and heart weakness after attending the March 4 inauguration. death attributed to exposure.
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Washington
United States
William Bremage Bate
Tennessee
Congress
Bate
Fearful Death Toll From Plague Surges Worldwide
Calcutta reports 14000 plague deaths last week as bubonic outbreaks in India push toward three million deaths in years. The note cites 1903 India mortality and describes rapid spread to Burma, aided by seasonal conditions. Wilmington Star and Birmingham News comment on civic and political reactions to fear and crime.
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India
Lodia
Winter clearance sale by The Heathzones Pompany
The Heathzones Pompany announces a one month trade sale to clear Winter wear. Stock includes suits pants overcoats capes jackets furs blankets comforts lap robes and knit skirts. 150 pairs of shoes offered at low prices for spot cash only with emphasis on bargains and immediate purchase.
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Thurlow S. Carter
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LE Wark
Hua River
Fu Pass
Muokden
Gem Linovitch
Aun
Rennenkampff
Fushun
Tiepass
Barbie
Cleveland
Senator Bates
Washington City
Calcutta
United States Senate
Birmingham News
Pompany
Ascot
International
United
ST ST SS BK BK
Wenin-Jones Cowpam
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