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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1908
Page
4
Rock Island Frisco lines boss says 400000 idle rail employees fear wage cuts cost the economy millions daily. He urges restoration of confidence, warns that reduced payrolls and halted construction depresses demand, votes will hinge on who restores jobs and steady income.
Fragmentary obituary and public notice items from the St Louis Republic and St Paul Pioneer Press mention warnings about charges for memorials and preservation notices. The garbled OCR indicates a mix of death notices and legal notices with references to post and telegraph service firms and newspaper practice.
A listing of multiple funeral homes and embalmers in Washington DC with addresses on F Street NW, 7th Street NW, and other avenues. Names include RF Harvey's Sons, W R Speare, Frate Spear t Mier, Sardo & Co, Thos S Sergeon, Thos A Costello, Frank Geier's Sons, Zurhorst, William Lee, John R Wright Co, and others. Services feature modern chapels, embalming, and reasonable prices with 24 hour service.
Special to The Washington ramp Dover Del Aug 16 Nellie Nickerson and Clarence Dutton of Chester were swept out by a powerful current at Bowers Beach late this evening and drowned. They donned bathing suits at 430 o clock and entered midstream when a sudden deep water and the immense current carried them away.
The Washington Post special from New York reports a week of broad stock weakness after brief strength. Large holders resisted lending shares, aiding a late decline as weak speculators sold to limit losses. Grain and rail traffic showed mixed signals amid cautious earnings, while Northern Pacific and Great Northern rose on distribution rumors.
Special to The Washington Post. Mrs Elizabeth Moore fatally burned in her home at 81 Fast Jersey street. Her husband Thomas and a ten ant John J Hughes suffered serious burns while trying to save her as flames from a gas stove caught her wrapper and rear skirt.
Special cable reports a mixed week for European markets with improved conditions and stronger securities in London and Berlin. The German and Prussian stocks rose after monarchs Kronenberg and Isemberg talks, while Paris frets over Turkish events and Turkish political concerns weigh on the Paris Bourse.
The Durer Union reports 12.5 million dollars spent yearly by Germans on pernicious literature. It says 800 booksellers and 300 peddlers push sensational serials and low quality tales, with 750 million copies sold in a single year.
Berlin reports Count von Posadow sky-Welner, ousted as Plenipotentiary of the Interior for stubborn administrative views, may be proposed by the Sepeyer Ludwigshafen liberals for the Reichstag. At 63 he attends Grenoble lectures on political economy and state administration and plans a U S visit to study American institutions.
The American battleship fleet bound for Sydney passed Cape Maria Van Diement at 445 o'clock. Weather was clear with night winds. Reports say two negro firemen aboard one ship quarreled and one slashed the other with a razor, causing death. The assailant will be taken to the United States for trial.
Thomas W. Lawson asks investors to hold orders and keep prices controlled as his mass mail campaign for National Stock explodes. He reports millions of pamphlets requested, 800,000 shares traded in Boston and New York, and outlines steps to prevent a runaway market while awaiting pamphlets and receipts. He claims enormous buying power and promises to intervene in Wall Street to stabilize System stocks.
A New York report from two American Bar Association special committees urges that appeal rulings rest on case merits rather than technical grounds. They call for limiting writs of error in criminal cases to cases with probable cause of unjust conviction and favor civil reforms tried in England, with drafts for federal procedures.
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