Trust Company Merger Forms Largest U S Bank Union
New York January 4 Pierpont Morgan Thomas F Ryan and Levi P Morton unite Guaranty Trust Morton Trust and Fifth Avenue Trust into the Guaranty Trust company in a triple combination with deposits totaling about 150 million. Morton to chair the merged group with no president yet named.
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Guaranty
Fifth Avenue
Morton Trust
United States
Levi P. Morton
New York
Pierpont Morgan
Thomas F. Ryan
L. P. Morton
United Resources
Guaranty Trust Company
Morton Trust Company
Fifth Avenue Trust Company
Morton-Ryan Concerns
Bliss, Morton & Co
Denver Man Sentenced for Fake Foot Race Fraud
Ernest L. Powers a former Denver University student was found guilty of defrauding a Denver man of 13700 via a fake foot race at Council Bluffs Iowa. He was sentenced to two to seven years in the penitentiary.
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Denver
Ernest L. Powers
Denver University
Council Bluffs
Roosevelt Kills Bull Elephant on Uganda Expedition
Hoima Uganda Jan 4 The American naturalist expedition reports all well at Kisingo camp Colonel Roosevelt killed a bull elephant with tusks weighing 119 pounds The encounter marks a notable achievement for the expedition and Roosevelt personally dispatched the animal.
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Roosevelt
Hoima
Uganda
American Naturalist
Kisingo
Higher Prices for Grains on Strong Cash Demand
Chicago trading opened with light offerings and strong cash demand as wheat led gains across grains and provisions. Closing quotes show Wheat May 1.13 3/4, July 1.02 1/2. Corn May 66 1/2 and July 66 3/4. Oats May 45 1/4 and July 43 1/4. Pork 21.45 to 21.80. Lard 12.25 to 11.92. Ribs 11.40 to 11.42. Cash No 2 hard Wheat 1.15–1.16, No 3 corn 61 1/2, No 2 white oats 45 45 1/4.
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Chicago
Chicago Live Stock Prices and Receipts Summary
Cattle receipts 20 000 up 10 cents with a top $8.00 and most between 5 25 and 6 75. Cows 4 50 to 5 25. Mid to good killing grades 3 40 to 4 25. Stockers and feeders 3 00 to 5 25. Hogs receipts 25 000 up 10 to 15 cents, top $8 65, bulk sold. Sheep receipts 18 000 lambs to 8 85, ewes 4 75 to 5 25.
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Chicago
South Omaha
South Omaha Stock Market Report Highlights Jan 3
South Omaha live stock numbers show cattle receipts at 3000 with gains up to 10 cents and hogs at 3509 with prices from 8.20 to 8.35. Sheep and lambs total 7800 with yearlings 5.90 to 7.25 and lambs 7.25 to 8.25, reflecting steady to higher retail ranges.
Negroes Face Trial for Violation Case in Kansas City
In Kansas City on January 4, George Reynolls and John Wild, both black, were brought before Judge R. Latshaw in the criminal court on charges of attacking violinist Mrs. W. F. Jackson on December 23. Apparent mob fears led to tight precautions and jurors were seated near Mrs. Jackson who testified in a low voice. The defendants sought guilty pleas but would face the death penalty if they did so. they pled not guilty. Mrs. Jackson identified them as her attackers.
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Kansas City
George Reynolls
John Wild
R. Latshaw
W. F Jackson
Latshaw
Jackson
Black Hand Plot Fails in New York Tenement
A dynamite blast under the first floor stairway of a Christie street tenement alarms 140 tenants. The building was badly damaged but no serious injuries reported. The Giuseppe Gerisco & Co. grocery firm on the ground floor had recently received threats demanding $8,000.
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New York
Christie Street
Giuseppe Gerisco & Co
Suing Clinton Doctor Over Death of Girl
The father of Alice Cramer sues Dr. J D Hullinger for 10000 in damages. Hullinger faced arrest over a criminal operation linked to Alice Cramer’s death, but was not indicted by the grand jury. suit filed at January term in Clinton Iowa.
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Clinton
J. D. Hullinger
Cramer
Alice Cramer
Hullinger
Iowa University Champion A. Ely Dies in New York
Asher Ely, center on Iowa University’s 1900 championship football team, died suddenly in New York. He was chief clerk of the commissary department at Governor's Island, U. S. A. His body was brought to Iowa City for burial.
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A. Ely
New York
Iowa City
Asher Ely
Iowa University
Governor's Island
Wilson
No suit to dissolve Morgan purchase of Ohio telephone stock
Columbus Ohio January 4 unofficially announced that Attorney General Denman will not sue to dissolve the sale of stock of independent telephone companies to J P Morgan Co of New York. He says additional evidence is needed and that the Bell interests are not the purchasers according to Morgan Co and others involved.
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Ohio
Columbus
Denman
J. P. Morgan & Co
New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell
Morgan & Co
KNOWS WHERE DR COOK IS
William L. Cook, brother of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, says Mrs. Cook has joined her husband and that he is in contact with them. Mrs. Cook is believed to possess the explorer's original records from his North Pole quest. He insists he has not abandoned plans to prove he reached the Pole despite Copenhagen University verdict.
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New York
William L. Cook
Frederick A. Cook
Huston Indicted in National Trust Stock Guaranty Scheme
Former U S Treasurer J N Huston and associates Samuel Graham Harvey M Lewis and Everett Dufour were indicted on conspiracy and mail fraud charges following a September raid on the National Trust company offices in Washington. The scheme tied to the Delaware affiliate used a 1 percent stock guaranty. inspectors found no material funds to back the guaranties.
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Washington
United States
J. N. Huston
New York City
Samuel Graham
Montreal
Can
Harvey M. Lewis
Everett Dufour
National Trust Company
Post Office
National Trust Company of Delaware
Washington Concern
Lewis
Congress Quiet as Session Opens with Limited Action
Washington notes a listless opening after holidays as Champ Clark predicts only appropriation bills and ship subsidies. Vardaman’s fate seen tied to Gordon’s Mississippi seat. Taft plans multiple special messages including on Alaska and conservation.
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Champ Clark
Colonel Gordon
Mississippi
Tast
Anagram Puzzle Warns Against Alcohol Consumption
The article notes repeated demonstrations that a modest amount of intoxicating liquor leads to habitual intoxication and sometimes death. It urges the safe rule to avoid touching tasting or handling liquor entirely.
Riddle and verses in a coastal crime refrain
The excerpt features a playful yet perilous scene with a wedding party and street bustle, a birthday on a pier, and a cryptic riddle from Youths Companion about a sea robber. It blends domestic chatter with hints of danger and a puzzle about a notorious pirate.
Word square riddle from Saint Nicholas page
A brief note describes a word square puzzle where objects of equal word length spell a diagonal word from top left to bottom right. The clue invites guessing, with the diagonal forming a commonly used term. The origin cites Saint Nicholas.
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St. Nicholas
Palindrome Plot Delays Surprise Plan
Grandmother West questions Tom about informing his sister Edith. Tom denies telling anyone, fearing Edith would learn of the surprise and spoil the plan.
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Tom
Grandmother West
Edith
Impossible trio of locomotion explains its limits
The riddle-like verse presents ONE and THREE as means of movement and TWO as a combined method for land and sea travel. It notes that TWO alone needs the WHOLE to advance, while THREE cannot guide progress, suggesting a metaphor about interdependent forces or tools.
Wordplay Beheading Riddles on Timepieces and Allies
A puzzle riddle set asks to behead words to reveal new clues. Each line shifts the base word by removing the first letter to produce a related term, linking timepiece, fastenings, senses, wood, dairy, paper, earth at shore, and a conjunction.
Nothing Beats Love According To Reader Riddle
An English newspaper posed a riddle asking what two men love more than Ife hate more than death or strife. The riddle’s answer given by readers was Nothing, with contented men desiring nothing and the poor having nothing while the rich require nothing.
Key to Puzzledom and Hidden Word Puzzles
Puzzle items list several word games and solutions including Charades and Concealed Birds with examples such as Eagle Nightingale Heron Swan Hawk Hen Lark Flamino Ostrich. Anagrams of countries feature Great Britain Denmark Patagonia United States Russia Persia Germany Ireland Armenia Ecuador Scotland Belgium Austria Prussia Norway.
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Great Britain
Denmark
Patagonia
United States
Russia
Persia
Germany
Ireland
Armenia
Ecuador
Scotland
Belgium
Austria
Prussia
Norway
Box Supper at Glen Dale School House Friday
Glen Dale school house hosts a box supper on Friday evening January 7 1910 A literary program will be presented Ladies bring boxes and companions with money to bid for the cake awarded to the most popular young lady signed 7414 Irma M Wilbur Teacher
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Glendale School House
Irma M. Wilbur
Senator Sorghum on adopting opinions for success
In a sharp exchange the senator says he does not adopt opinions but seeks to identify opinions likely to bring success and then persuades them to adopt him. The quip frames political craft as shaping beliefs through persuasion rather than personal belief.
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Senator Sorghum
Night Watchman’s Revival with Dr King’s Discovery
W J Atkins, night watchman at Banner Springs Tennessee, endured cold and lung trouble from damp sawmill drafts. After trying various remedies he credits Dr King’s New Discovery with his recovery, praising its relief for severe colds and coughs. Trial bottle free, guaranteed by J E Lemmon, 50 cents or 1 dollar.
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W. J. Atkins
Banner Springs
Dr. King
J. E. Lemmon
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