Trade Review ex for the Week
Colder weather and holiday demand boost retail trade while rain and snow slow country transport. Western markets show more optimism than the east, cotton prices curb output and buyer enthusiasm, iron and steel stay strong in finished goods but raw pig iron weakens. Industrial activity at record highs with large output. 211 failures. weekly wheat exports 4,347,438 bushels and corn exports 254,551 bushels.
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New York
Bradstreet’s
Seaboard
How to Make Mince Pie
A traditional method for mince pie with two weeks prep. Mix boiled beef, apples, cider, currant jelly, citrus rinds and juices, sugar, spices, dried fruits, suet, candied peel, and optional peach juice or boiled vinegar syrup for a rich spicy pie. Liurper's Bazar.
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Liurper
Rail Strike Pressures St Paul Police Guard Night Shift
St Paul officials report the switchmen strike causing major disruption. Chief John J. O Connor orders day personnel to stay on duty at the central station until 10:50 p m to prevent clashes. Railroad managers claim progress and capacity to replace workers, while strike leaders say they are stronger.
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St. Paul
John J. O'Connor
Police Department
Central Station
Chicago
Minneapolis
Duluth
Union
Brotherhood of
Great Western Railroad
The Hookworm Wreck Becomes a Healed Runner
A mournful patient nicknamed Lazybones suffers from hookworm but a doctor vows to free him with medicine. After treatment the man bursts into a fast flight across the plain, burning a school and robbing a train as he speeds away in triumph.
Strike Riot Hurts Three in Chicago Tailoring Shop
Three people were seriously injured in a clash between union and nonunion workers at William Bain's women’s tailoring shop in Chicago. Injured include William Bain, his wife Mrs. Jennie Bain, and tailoress Helen Malinosky.
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Chicago
Union
Nounion
Woman's Tailoring
William Bain
Jennie Bain
Helen Malinosky
Grain and Provisions Market Moves on Switchmen Strike Threat
Chicago grain and provisions advance as threats of a switchmen strike fuel a rally. Wheat tops show gains with December at 106 k? May 105 1 05, July 97. Corn ends steady to firm, oats and pork and rib futures rise. Livestock in Chicago and South Omaha show active bidding, with prize cattle selling near Armour at 15 per hundred and hogs around 8.1 to 8.4.
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Chicago
Armour
Karembeck
Maine
South Omaha
Shot By Her Stepson Fatally Wounded
Logan Iowa December 3 Guy Marley shot and fatally wounded his stepmother Mrs J Marley at their home four miles northeast of Missouri Valley He is under arrest after an argument between them and he allegedly fired a shotgun wounding her arm which was lacerated and shattered and later amputated It is believed she will die
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Logan
Guy Marley
J. Marley
Missouri Valley
Marley
Lawyer elevated to bench amid justice mission
A Chicago Record-Herald note lauds a lawyer's extraordinary ability to safeguard justice and reports his elevation to the bench to continue delivering fair rulings to the public.
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Chicago
Heradl
Te Kepy
Quaker Oats Offers Best Value For Laborers
The article promotes Quaker Oats as the least expensive food that supplies nourishment and vigor without taxing digestion. It claims laborers and farm hands fed on Quaker Oats work better with less fatigue, citing 1908 research by Professor Fisher of Yale University regarding human foods.
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Fisher
Yale University
Song Power and Range Across Every Walk of Life
A reflection on songs shaping history as they lure men from homes to fields and console those left behind. The piece notes songs cover countless imagined topics, leaving out nothing about writing or reading articles.
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Vert
Hughes
Morgan Buys Equitable in Major Financial Reversal
New York reports control of the Equitable Life Assurance society has moved to J Pierpont Morgan with 4720000 of assets, reversing the historic balance of power where insurers influenced banks and trusts. The purchase follows the last company statement and is bound by a trust agreement with three trustees voting the stock.
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New York
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Thomas F. Ryan
J. Pierpont Morgan
Floods Wash Out Sixty Miles of Washington Rail Line
Floods in northwestern Washington cut telegraph service for days. Sixty miles of track destroyed. cities like Laconer submerged under seven feet of water. Grain warehouses collapsed. 1,000 cattle drowned. 400000 sacks of oats and 8000 tons of hay lost.
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Bellingham
Wash
Washington
Burlington
Laconer
Taft Names Committee to Endow Red Cross Funds
President Taft establishes an endowment fund for the American Red Cross relief work appointing Secretary MacVeagh and Charles D Norton as chair and vice chair. A New York subcommittee includes Robert Bagot Charles Hallam Keep Lloyd C Griscom H P Davison and Felix Warburg. Subcommittees in other cities to follow.
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Taft
Washington
Red Cross Society
Treasury
MacVeagh
Hik
Charles D. Norton
The
Red Cross
New York
Robert Bagoo
Charles Hallam Keep
Lloyd C. Griscom
H. P. Davison
Felix Warburg
Cure a Cold in One Day Laxative Bromine Quinine Tablets
Druggists guarantee refunds if the cold cure fails. Box shows ER. W. Grove’s signature and costs 25 cents. Owl eyed claims of sudden sight recovery in England and ear canal remedies, plus promotion of Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 guarantee and Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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ER. W. Grove
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Darkness Returned as Gas Lamps Go Out at Night
Citizens in Strathaine Ireland report evening street lamps extinguished by unknown hands. After efforts to stop local children from turning off lamps, the issue spread to roads around the town. The gas works clerk says he has solved the matter by addressing the darkness problem.
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Strathaine
Ireland
Tee Releh
A Common Insinuation About Debts and Cars
A reflection on men without automobiles who claim they could have one if they did not owe money. It frames this as a common self justification and social trope rather than a factual account.
How One Doctor Successfully Treats Pneumonia
In treating pneumonia the remedy I use for lungs in berlain's Cough Remedy. I have used it many times in my own practice and have yet to find a case where it has not helped. I have used it for coughs and recommend it as a cough remedy. For sale by FL Le and Lemmon's Pharmacy.
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W. J. Smith
Sanders
Ala
Berlain
FL le
Lemmon
Ambiguous Ambergris Confusion Across History
A fragment discusses ambergris and amber, noting no relation between them and describing myths of ambergris origins. The text mentions ancient ideas of the substance flowing from the sea and a springlike origin, with garbled phrases implying extraction or transformation.
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Ambergris
Amber
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