Week of Stock Activity Sees Near Year Highs
Trading across four full sessions reached near yearly peaks with 1 to 1.3 million shares per day. United States Steel Inspirations Copper Mercantile Machines and Atlantic Gulf and West Indies hit new records as rails held firm, Reading at top price. metals and munition stocks rose amid favorable earnings and import demand.
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New York
United States Steel
Inspiration Copper
Mercantile Machines
Atlantic
Gulf and West Indies
Reading
New Cotton Compress at Decatur Begins Operations
New Decatur Alabama plant replaces the burned Decatur Cotton Compress Company facility destroyed by fire months ago. The new compress will handle more than 50 000 bales annually and marks a million dollar investment in local cotton handling capacity.
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New Decatur
Ala
Decature Cotton Compress Company
Insurance policy revenue discontinued reports
Mr. Jack I. Ross of the Factors and Traders Insurance Company reports that revenue stamps on insurance policies have been discontinued. The tax cancellation aligns with a law enacted by President Wilson. The information came from the National Board of Underwriters.
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Jack I. Ross
Factors and Traders’ Insurance Company
Wilson
Ross
National Board of Underwriters
Hughes Leaves Bangor to Campaign in Augusta Speech Day
AP reports Republican candidate Hughes left Bangor for a final campaigning swing in Maine. He planned to spend every minute outlining his platform to voters and urging support for himself and other GOP House and Senate nominees, starting with Augusta the state capital.
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Associated Press
Bangor
Pthavion BR. Hughes
Mainé
House
Senate
Augusta
Kaiser to Decorate War Generals for Triumph
London dispatch reports Emperor William intends to travel to Bulgaria to confer the Pour le Merite on Bulgarian and German commanders who captured the Romanian fortress of Turtukai, per Exchange Telegraph Amsterdam correspondent.
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Associated Press
London
William
Bulgaria
Turtukai
Exchange
Amsterdam
Rider Survives After Bucking Horse Flings Him Onto Engine Pilot
Frank Phillips, 18, rode a fractious horse that bolted as a train approached. The horse threw him onto the engine pilot at twenty miles an hour. Phillips clung to the pilot until the locomotive stopped and he was rescued with minor injuries. He later found his horse and went to hospital for treatment.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Frank Phillips
Phillips
Justice Gropes for Issue in Senate Debate
Assistant Chief Justice cites Rivers and Harbors frictions as he recalls Burton’s long chairmanship and the pork within the bills. The candidate rebukes civil service records, recalling Boise Penrose and a choice between Aldrich era policy and broader Senate control.
Republican orators criticize Democrats in campaign rhetoric
The passage claims Democrats lack clear policies while Republicans seek to regain control. It notes satisfaction with trade conditions, business growth, and remedial legislation as achievements. It also accuses opponents of using insinuations about the president’s health to equate Americanism with Republicanism.
Two Grades of Citizens Defined in Presidential Speech
The speaker declares American citizenship has two grades: those who serve the country and those who seek benefits from it. He praises the president’s neutrality and peace efforts, noting disillusionment of critics who opposed his stance and alliances across races and faiths.
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United States
America
Interstate Commerce Commission lowers southwest freight rates
Washington Sept 9 The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered reductions before February 1 on freight rates from Memphis St Louis and Kansas City to Shreveport Alexandria and points in southern Arkansas and Louisiana. Two orders set the new rates as reasonable good for two years, following complaints by Memphis freight bureau and Shreveport Alexandria chambers of commerce against major trunk lines.
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Washington
Memphis
St. Louis
Kansas City
Shreveport
Alexandria
Arkansas
Louisiana
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Memphis Freight Bureau
Shreveport Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce of
Mother Denies Child Killed by Auto Was Playing in Roadway
A letter to The Item from Bruce Patterson’s mother disputes the claim that the child was in the roadway when struck by Miss Mabel Alvarez. She says the boy sat in a wagon near the sidewalk in front of a store, and the car swerved to pass an ox cart causing the collision.
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Bruce Patterson
Mabel Alvarez
Little Bruce Patterson
Struma Front Battles Near Halicz Reports Artillery Silence
Our Struma front engaged the Slav forces around Halicz on Thursday evening. Our artillery silenced an enemy battery shelling Orkjak bridge and dispersed several enemy parties.
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Struma
Orkjak Bridge
Russian Attacks in Carpathians Reported by Austria
Berlin reports renewed violent Russian efforts in the Carpathians as of September 6 with small local gains by Russia yet overall thwarted. German aviation targets Riga area bases and Baltic targets with bombings on September 6 including Arensburg Oesel Runeo and a forced down Russian plane near Zevel.
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Russia
Italy
Canada
Associated Press
Berlin
Sayville
Carpathians
Riga
London
Admiralty
Arensburg
Oesel Island
Gulf of Riga
Zevel
Runeo
Dr. von Ezdorf Dies in Lincolnton After Malaria Work
Dr. von Ezdorf formerly of Mobile died in Lincolnton after a long career as a malarial expert and public health official. He served as assistant surgeon and later surgeon in the public health service, headed quarantine stations in Savannah Havana and Quarantine and led the Maine Hospital Service. He aided sanitation in Vera Cruz during the U S occupation and supervised Rockefeller Foundation malaria work in Arkansas. He is survived by his wife Mary Thompson and daughter Olga von Ezdorf.
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U. S
von Ezdorf
Government Public Health Service
Savannah
Havana
Cuba
Daniels
Rockefeller Foundation
Arkansas
Mary Thompson
North Carolina
Olga von Ezdorf
Sympathy Saves Girl Who Stole Stamps for Fine Clothes
A 16 year old Kansas bank clerk stole $8 in stamps after seeing a mail order catalog from New York. Fred Robertson and the girl’s employers settled the matter out of court, allowing her to keep her job to support her younger siblings.
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Kansas City
Kan
Kansas
Fred Robertson
United States
National Cloak and Suit Company
New York City
Robertson
Republican Campaign Book Describes Hughes and Tariff Contrast
The 1916 Republican campaign book runs 446 pages. It opens with Charles E Hughes acceptance speech and ends with a tariff comparison of Payne era duties and early Underwood era duties. Hughes proclaims America first and America efficient.
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Associated Press
New York
Republic
Charles E. Hughes
Payne
Underwood
Hughes
America First
America Efficient
Government to create wireless monopoly in Argentina
Buenos Aires reports the government has submitted to congress a bill establishing a state run wireless telegraphy monopoly. A second bill aims to foster development of the Argentine merchant marine.
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Buenos Ayres
Congress
Future mayor of London aids poor and war relief work
Sir Henry William Dunn will become lord mayor of London with residence at the Mansion House in November. A longtime philanthropist, he helped Sir William Treloar’s work for London’s poor cripples and serves as treasurer and trustee of the Alton Cripple Home. He leads Belgian prisoner relief efforts, is an honorary colonel, and chairs the Royal Botanic Society, holding several continental orders.
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Mansion House
Henry William Dunn
Henry
William Treloar
Alton Cripple
Hie
Germany
Corps of Citizens
Stuart Knill
Iee Knill
Royal Botanic Society
Legion of Honor
St. Olaf
Norway
Germans Invite Greeks to Quit Florina Railway Center
A Havas Agency dispatch from Athens reports the German commandant has invited Greek authorities to quit Florina where the Greek administration will be suppressed. Florina lies on the railway in northeastern Greece about fifteen miles southeast of Monastir, Serbia.
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Associated Press
Paris
Havas
Athens
Florina
Greece
Monastir
Serbia
Captain of Slain Zeppelin Named Schramm
Esbjerg Denmark Sept 9 The Courier of Hanover reports the commander of the airship brought down in England during the raid a week ago was Captain Schramm a Hameln Prussia native. He held the iron cross first class for raids over Nancy Dunkirk and England.
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Esbjerg
Denmark
London
Hanover
Germany
England
Schramm
Hameln
Prussia
Nancy
Dunkirk
Russ General Breaks Austrian Jail and Flees to Bucharest
General Korniloff, once commander of the 48th Russian division, escaped a Austrian prison camp after capture in Galicia in 1915 and reached Bucharest via Hungary. He traveled for a month largely on foot, often without food, and survived a hostile forest encounter as Hungarian gendarmes killed a companion.
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Associated Press
Petrograd
London
Korniloff
Galicia
Austria
Bucharest
Romania
Hungary
Boy Severely Wounded by Buzz Saw in Langdon Accident
Paul Koonodle, 16, suffered a ten inch gash under the left arm with six ribs severed and the heart exposed after a buzz saw cut. he received 300 stitches and first aid from the sawmill employer who treated him before transfer to a local hospital.
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Memphis
Paul Koonodle
Langdon
Lightning Kills Two in New York Storm
A severe wind and rain storm lashed Greater New York with 60 mph gusts. Two boys were killed by a bolt while playing in a tent in Long Island City. Several others were stunned as temperatures reached 90 degrees before the storm cooled.
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New York
Long Island City
Weather Bureau
Dysentery Remedy Praised by Alabama Parent
A Carbon Hill Alabama man credits Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarroea Remedy with saving his four year old son's life after a severe dysentery attack. The ad states the product is obtainable everywhere.
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Alabama
Chamberlain
Wm. H. Stribling
Carbon Hill
Ala
British Take German Trench in High Wood During Somme Fight
British forces captured a German trench in High Wood on the Somme after night fighting. The action yielded two German officers and nineteen Bavarians as prisoners, with heavy enemy casualties and several successful operations near Arras and the Hohenzollern redoubt.
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High Wood
Somme
Porier
Mouy Farm
Courcelette
Arras
Hohenzollern
Neuveure
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