Boats Back On The Mississippi Promised Fleet
April 16 1916 saw the launch from St. Louis of the Inco No 1 the first of 35 modern watercraft for the Inland Navigation Company with 9 million in capital plans to revive Mississippi river commerce. The vessel blends river and sea engineering aims to move vast tonnage across the valley linking New Orleans Chicago and Kansas City with new terminals and through bills of lading to Europe and the Pacific.
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New Orleans
St. Louis
Inland Navigation Company
Mississippi
John H. Barnhard
Holdander
Amsterdam
D. A. Thomas
Lord Ithondda
Wales
London
The
Mississippi Valley Transportation Company
Missisnippi
Mississippi Valley
Panama Canal
Atlantic Seaboard
James J. Hill
America
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Pittsburgh
Kansas City
Chicago
Fort Benton
Chicago Association of Commerce
Illinois
Lake Michigan
Amazon
Congo
John J. Bernhard
Alabama and
New Orleans Transportation Company
Warrior River
Alabama
Paul
Bernhard
New York
New England
Hernhard
John H Bernhard
Lord Rhondda
L. A. Thomas
John H. Bernhard
New Orlean
St Louis
Memphis
Cairo
Greenville
Co-operative Association
Kansas City and Missouri River Navigation Company
Tsland Navigation Company
Orleans
Europe
South America
Pacific
United States
Asia
Alaska
Interstate Commerce Commission
Tmland
Robert B. Lee
Farragut
Porter
Ineo
Consolidation Coal declares quarterly dividend and posts tonnage gain
Directors of Consolidation Coal Company in Baltimore declare a 1.5 percent dividend payable April 29 to shareholders of record April 22. President Jere H. Wheelwright reports January 1 to April 7 tonnage up 27,000 tons versus last year, total 2,857,000 tons, with plans for a new tonnage record. Output contracts extend to 1917. Elk Horn properties show about 200 percent gain in early 1916. miner housing is being added at Elk Hart. Helen's Run mines near Fairmont will ship after Western Maryland Railway finishes new branches, with initial 6,000 tons daily expected.
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Baltimore
Consolidation Coal Company
Continental
Jere H. Wheelwright
Elk Horn
Valley of
Kentucky
Elk Hart
Helen's Run
Western Maryland Railway Company
Fairmont
Helen's Run Braheh
Hatchet Buried Between Navy Marines Aboard Ship
On April 15 in Guantanamo the marine detachment of the steamship New York toasted better relations with naval gunners. Speakers praised the new harmony between enlisted Marines and bluejackets, noting improved cooperation since Woodly philing days and joint Vera Cruz and Haïti operations.
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Guantanamo
Cuba
Uncle Sam
Navy
Marine Corps
Charles E. Hills
Robert Cdnroy
Marine Detachment
United States Steamship
New Yorky
Woodly
Bluejackets
Vera Crux
Hayt
Road bond issue ratified by W Voters
Barker district of Barbour county adjoining Taylor county approved a $120,000 road improvement bond by a slim twenty nine vote margin, linking with county highways. Other items include YMCA growth, Hazel Atlas plant expansion, and a new high school building accepted in Grafton.
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Barker
Barbour County
Jobafton
Taylor County
Das
Grafton
Board of Education
Gold Import Decline Impacts Bombay Rupee Circulation
A fragment from Bombay reports a drop in gold imports over eighteen months, shrinking the circulating medium. Estimates suggest a need to compensate by year end through increased rupiah coinage. The figures indicate imports fell from 20,000 to 125,000 units, affecting monetary stability.
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Bombay
Soverelkun
Matrimonial Bureau Aims To Aid Working Girls In Marriage
Mrs. Le Brackett Bishop announces plans to open a matrimonial bureau in Chicago Beach hotel life for working girls. She will pay marriage costs including church wedding and minister’s fee, live a week as a working girl on thirty three cents a day, and asserts happiness comes from love and marriage not wealth. She invites applications and argues marriage is economically possible with humility and devotion.
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Chicago
Mra
le Brackett Bishop
Bishop
Swedenborgian Church
Woodlawn Avenue
Forty-sixth Street
Plea of Pastor Touches a Burglar
Chicago April 15 Peter Johnson a mission worker at 869 East Sixty third Street helps the weary Eight years ago he aided a frowsy man at a Clark Street mission who afterward stole his overcoat and hawked it for 50 cents Recently Johnson aided a hungry homeless man on State Street and was fined 100 dollars and given a jail sentence for liquor possession though he said it was for a friend at Fairmont
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Peter Jonnson
East Sixty-third Street
Clark Street
van Buren
Harrison Streets
Peter Johnson
Mr. Johnson
State Street
Fairmont
Denominational Lines to Be Abolished in Porto Rico
A Porto Rico regional conference plans to abolish denominational lines among Protestant missions and form an evangelical union to oversee all work. Representatives from Presbyterian, Congregational, Baptist, Methodist, Christian, Lutheran, Episcopal and Disciples of Christ attended, with boards’ formal action needed. The move aims to consolidate mission effort, allow withdrawal of some missionaries, and unify English church presence in larger cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Juan
Porto Rico
Panama
Central
South America
Cuba
United States
Evangelical Union
Morrow
Sixty-third Street
Mr. Johnson
West Indies
Presbyterian
Congregational
Methodist
Protestant Episcopal
Disciples of Christ
L. C. Barnes
New York
Baptist Home Mission Board
Theater ticket tax proposed in French chamber
Paris reports a bill in the chamber of deputies proposing a tax equal to the ticket price on all theater admissions. The tax would be levied as stamps placed on admission tickets and would apply to all performances except charitable receipts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
German iron works declares 100 percent dividend in Nieder Schoenewelde
EWRLIN April 15 The German iron works at Nieder Schoenewelde has declared a dividend of 100 percent on its entire capital. The dividend last year was sixteen percent. The plant produces metals from scrap material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ewrlin
Niederschoenewelde
Materi
Primacura Miracle Cure Ad From Barboursville
A testimonial advert claims Prima Cura cured rheumatism in feet and ankles after Christmas with a single application. The notice from Barboursville, West Virginia, offers trial bottles for 25 cents postpaid by West Virginia Distributing Co from Parkersburg, describing Prima Cura as a powerful antiseptic and household remedy.
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Chrlatmage
R. M. Cadeldy
Barboursville
W. WI
Parcel Post
West Virginia
Prima Cura Company
Parkersburg
W. Va
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Worthington Shinnston
Clarksburg
Mt. Clare Lost Creek
Jane Lew Jackson's Mills
Weston Riveside
Grant Town
Fairview
Barracksville
Farmington Downs
Mannington
Srassells
Monongahela Valley Traction CO
Clarksburg, W. VA
Consol
Hatchet
Marines
Young ‘Men's Christian Association of
Thin City
Hazel-Atlaslass Company
First Ward
Court House
Wheeling
Milla
John C. Bond
Charleston
John Gates
Pittsburg & West Virginia Gas Company
Charles Haddix
Model Bakery
R. F. Moore
C. B. Rector
Whistler
Wy. C. Whistler
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Philadelphia
A. Tl. Freygang
Baltimore and Ohio
Phillip Grimes
Alexander “Maxwell
Hicks
H. C. Hicks
S. K. White
Aurora
Louisa Bainbridge
William Morgan
Merchants and Mechanica Bank
Powell
Robertson
Goveheidess Stair
Steinway & Sons
Steinway Hall
East 14Th Street
Subway
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