Disbanding of the Roslyn racing firm in Saratoga
The Roslyn racing partnership of Harry Payne Whitney and Mrs. Duryea plans to dissolve after five days, selling three horses and gear. Trainer Madden bought three horses to undermine Irish Lad, a Whitney-Duryea horse, amid publicity about the new stable.
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Saratoga
N. Y
Roslyn
Harry Payne Whitney
Gertrude Vanderbilt
HU. Duryea
Whitney
Harry Payne WhirNby Y
John BE. Madden
Madden
Rostyn
Destrey
Whitney and Duryea
Los Fon
William C. Whitney
Journal of Commerce Assesses Panama Canal Freight Clash
The Journal of Commerce warns that Panama and Colon could become domestic ports if a six mile coastwise zone is used to favor United States ships. It notes cement, granite, lumber and machinery will drive a million dollar plus material flow and that foreign owners may exploit low rates. It also details fears over US vessel competitiveness against Norwegian fruit carriers and the need for possible regulatory action. Also, Mrs. Marie Welsh sues for legal separation from Anthony Welsh after decades of abandonment and multiple alleged marriages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Panama Canal
Journal of Commerce
Tanama
Colon
Oregon
Tahe
Atlantic Ocean
Washington
United States
Panama
Colombia
Carrie Nation Hatchet Sale Draws Crowds in Grand Rapids
Carrie Nation touring Ramona theater in Grand Rapids urges crowds to join in reform then conducts a hatchet sale of pin hats at ten cents or a quarter. She explains proceeds will pay her Kansas fines and fund a home for the wives and children of drunkards.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Carrie Nation
Ramona Theater
Reed
Willie
Carrie
Kansas
Boy injured by enraged cow near Houghton
George Anderson, four miles south of Houghton, Mich., suffered severe chest and head bruises after a cow charged him while he and friends teased the stock. Local men with clubs drove off the animal and saved the boy from likely death.
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Houghton, Mich
Belief Marian Island fits ideal naval training site
At Traverse City Michigan on August 23 residents express that Marian Island would be the ideal location for a naval training station amid local discussion and speculation.
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Traverse City
Mich
Marian Island
Naval Training Station
Market Report from Chicago and St Louis Hogs Cattle Sheep
Chicago and St Louis markets show mixed receipts and price ranges across hogs cattle and sheep. Hog values hover around 7.20 to 7.40 for most weights while cattle quotations span from around 4.55 up to 9.00 for various classes and western steers. East Buffalo reports list live stock prices including calves veals and lambs with several price points for quality grades. Wheat corn oats and rye futures are cited with Notable figures from Chicago St Louis and Milwaukee exchanges.
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Chicago
Texas
East Buffalo
Dunning & Stevens
N. Y
Risna
Train Brakeman Shot After Clash on Freight Car
A brakeman on a local freight train was shot by a man named Bishop near Milltown after attempting to recover his clothes. The assailant, previously jailed in Kentucky, fled as police arrested him. In other dispatches a Frisco line derailment near Katwands Junction injures crew. storms near Christian county devastate corn and hay. and a man killed on tracks is believed murdered, with $1800 cash missing.
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Tnd
Wesley Sherber
Vrakeman Mehep i Mikiowo
Ere
Diehep
Aie
Winn
John T. Lieckett Cod Sberty Jota Gilam
Jilltown
Bishop
Bishop Athen Piel
Milltown
Hin
Melegy Hee
Mt Sterling
Frankfort
Eau Claire
Wis
Fr. L. Brady
Cuceage
Art Kobler
Eau Choire
Altee
Brady
Kohler
Duluth
Chicago
Koller
Kentucky
Wallace Bishop
Thornhill
Lillard
C. B. Bishop
Hammond
Lad
William D. Schultz
Fuel scarcity worsens strike pressure on coal industry
New York Aug. 7 K G Dun & Co Weekly Review of Trade reports fuel scarcity remains a serious industrial handicap. Prolonged idleness at anthracite mines increases pressure for soft coal and coke, and despite new output records deliveries are utterly inadequate.
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New York
K. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Market and conference notes from August headlines
Weather and commodity briefs report mixed signals with cotton, leather, and staple prices rising while footwear clearance continues. A Western conference for women opens at Lake Geneva Indiana with 590 attendees as part of four national meetings by the American committee spanning Ohio to Colorado.
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William Hay
Lake Geneva
Indevento
Ohio
Colorado
American Committee
Capitola
Cal
Resolutions From Trans Mississippi Congress Adopted
The Resolutions of the Trans Mississippi Congress approved a broad program including irrigation of arid western lands, a nine foot Mississippi channel to the Ohio, a strengthened merchant marine, good roads, and a cabinet level department of commerce. An antitrust resolution urged destroying big trusts. other items praised Duluth as a Great Lakes port site and urged foreign service improvements. Olive Broad found dead near Cornish Maine with a crushed skull.
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St. Paul
Committee On
West
Mississipppi
Missouri River
Ohio
United States
Good Roads
Indore Duluth
Willing
Rome
Great Lakes
Department of
Conmorce
Foreign Consular Service
Congress
King’s Evil and Blood Purifying Truth in 19th Century Ads
Curio of royal touch for scrofula called King’s Evil fades as medical adverts claim blood purification cures. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is praised as a radical, permanent remedy cleansing scrofula from blood, aiding skin eruptions and lung disease. Testimonials cite long-term cures and health benefits, urging use over substitutes. Free medical adviser offer completes the period promotional appeal.
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England
Whitehall
Joseph Fike
Lost Springs
Marion Co
Kansas
Rusland
Dr. Pierce
Orient
Golden Medical Discovery
Pierce
Common Sense
R. V. Pierce
Tafalo
Terrifying Incline Crash Kills Gripman and Wounds Dozens
A crowded streetcar on a 45 degree incline at Pom and Ninth in Kanene City plunged down after the gripman lost control. W. J. Taylor was killed. at least twenty injured, six seriously, as cars toppled onto the platform and debris filled the trestle. The wreck sent panicked passengers sprawling amid shattered rail cars.
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Kanene City
Mo. Ang. S
Ninth Street
Union Station
Theron
Raiaway
W. J. Taylor
Pom
Ninth
Tly
Shipman Taylor
Saff
President Roosevelt Addresses Hartford Workers Crowd
President Roosevelt spoke to a Hartford audience at the Coliseum, introduced by Col. Jacob J. Green. He thanked Hartford officials and the wage workers who presented a horseshoe gift, urging fairness and justice for all workers and stressing service to the people through united effort.
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Hoowevelt
Colleeum
Jacob J. Green
Sullivan
Ely
Hartford
Pope Perk
United States
Michel Sullivan
Loie
Ultmately
Stock Exchange to Probe Power Case
The Evening Post reports the governing committee will review Peter Power’s suit against the Northern Pacific Railroad over alleged exchange member connections. Sections 8 and 6 allow suspension for up to a year or expulsion for conduct harming the exchange or violating its constitution or resolutions.
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New York
the Evening Post
The
Stock Exchange
Peter Power
Northern Pacific Railroad
Poverning Committee
Thomas denies Power merger ties and Lamb links
News wires report Edwards R. Thomas denying any involvement with Attorney Lamb in the Northern Securities case and the Peter Power suit. He says the allegations are wholly false and he never met Lamb. The dispatches cover other unrelated items from Kentucky to Brussels.
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New York
Edwards R. Thomas
Saratoga
Lamb
Peter Power
Thomas
Northern Securities
Giant combine plans to merge midwest coal mines
In Sioux City Iowa on August 24 Morris of Des Moines and Brohman of Chicago discussed purchasing the Peterson coal mine at Jackson Nebraska. They said a gigantic mine merger would pool all coal mines of Iowa Illinois Missouri and Nebraska and a eastern soft coal combine was being formed. Peter son of Peterson Coal Co refused to sell. Edward Boyce ex president of the Western Federation of Miners will run as Socialist for Colorado governor after party convention.
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Sioux City
Morris
Des Moines
Marquette Coal Company
Brohman
Chicago
Lackawanna Coal Company
Peterson
Jackson
Neb
Iowa
Ilinois
Missouri
Nebraska
BW. CO
Peterson Coal Company
Denver
Edward Boyce
Western Federation of Miners
Socialist Party
Colorado
Colorado Springs
Gcnet
Howard Boyce
J.C. Provost
B. I. Morris
Doyce
New York Clubman Stuyvesant Faces Fast Driving Charge
London magistrate hears case against the New York clubman Stuyvesant and the Countess Warranter widow of a Dutch count after a car tour near Kingston. Police testify the car covered a leased quarter mile in thirty seconds, while Stuyvesant claims not more than ten mph. The magistrate recalls a near collision as he witnessed the pace en route to court.
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London
Rutherford Stuyvesant
New York
Warranter
Kingston On Thames
Stuyvesant
Carnegie offers 25000 for free library in Dawson Alaska
News notes Andrew Carnegie bids 25000 to Dawson Alaska to supply a free public library. Walter Bailey, a Black man, was hanged in Selma Alabama for murder after trial. Orlando M Harper, a New York dry goods commission merchant, failed with liabilities 878220 and assets 830044. The body of Nellie Hughes of Chicago, missing since August 10, was found in a lake.
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Andrew Carnegie
Dawson
Alaska
Walter Bailey
Selma
Ala
Sherif
Orlando M. Harper
Dry Goods Commission
New York
Nellie Hughes
Chicago
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Hou Ie Alte Misting
Ann Arbor
Ane
Pittsfield Junction
Arthur Brooks
Liv. Brooks
Brooks
Harvey
Hogers
Minneapolis
Thomas Kane
Winonaassery
Gothem
St. Louis
Carlinville
Lls
Henry Turner
Colored Kaptist
St. Daal
Paris
Cherbourg
Charles L. Farr
Mia Farr
Panama Ditch
Breen
Munele
Ind
Marie Welsh
Anthony Welsh
Twer Qy
Eenseon
Her
Melief
St. Louisa Grain
Milwaukee
Miwaukee
Chicago Grain and Produce
Fort Southan
Aue
Frisco Evetem
South Bend
Katwands Junction
Freman
Poua
Ang
Storma
Christian County
Vana
Congregational Church
Ketter
Neen
Herenstow
Cotton Foods
Theewet
Dacker
Canada
the Congress
Missieippi
T. Barnes
Niagara Falls
Mise Olive Broad
Cornish
Uripman
Alston
Hlarriaburg, DL
Saline County
Mingi
James Mitchell
Mount Vernon
Tb, Jr. Berrett
Eldorado
Mitchell
Carmi
Ench
Talika
Hertford
Tee
Thetford
Conn
Roosevelt
Workingen
Dutcult
Compe Probhetine
Cohen Cooee
Teaeh
Eneh
Taeke
Washington,owa
Owaath Keon
M. Krew
Phankek Bade
Onahlor
Citizens National Bank
Agbhington
Dow
Fhaw, Jonkine & Co
Wmiv Jonking & Co
Washington Ranch
Plate Hank of Lowa
Virst National Bank
Firet National Bank
Oltiven's National Bag
P. J. Manley
Pangeions
Ashington County Savings Haak
Schuyler W. Livingston
Ashington
Towa
Oppoate
G. A. Dewey
Attorney-at-Law
Ore
Huilding
Marsh W. Bailey
Dewis Stairs
Ianged
W. HM. Butterfield
Orall's
Washington, la
Eicher
Wilson
L. E. Latta
Joseph Pollard Jr
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New Order
Court House
Washington, Lowa
New Set Abstract Books
J. L. Brookhart
Opera Home
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National Bank
Sean JT. Anderson
A. Anderson
Washington County
Capital
Henry Knecht
Akes Auits
Nat’! Bank
Casey
Co Ee
Allen
Madison Medicine Co
Madison
Cali
Hate
Les Ve
Frank Rogers
Cartios
Columbus Junction
California
Paetie Northwest
Pullman
Botano
M. RY
Ithe Kowte, Nboe Junction
Hedar Kay
Outh
Iowa Central
Brighton
Weer and Forth
Paul
Os Sun
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Peorta Express
Peorta Mall
East
Tia
Treerewone
Barry Trafile
Pata
Marshalltown
Lowa
Wabash
Grane
A. Palmer
A. Adama St
T. J. Dempsey
W. E. Lawhead
Tame Block
Burlington
Instown
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