Primary trade lags and WWII in pig iron buying
R G Dan & Co reviews show advance orders for spring cotton goods exceed recent four years while pig iron demand grows. steel mail delays curb finished goods, woolens rise, leather strong, hides fall, and country hides drop. US business failures total 238 this week, up from 498 last week.
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Bradstreet
Bank Clearings Decline in December Figures Across Banks
New York reports December bank clearings totaling 1.0975 billion dollars, down from 1.3748 billion the previous week and 2.3011 billion year earlier. A 48 item list follows detailing the period's figures and related data.
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Fradstreecs Bank Elearinas
NEW CABINET FOR ITALY SONSINO Succeeds Giolitti
Baron Sidney Sonnino has formed a new Italian cabinet succeeding the retiring premier Giovanni Giolitti. The ministry includes Signor Sonnino as premier and minister of the exterior, Count Guicciardini as justice, Signor Scialoja as finances, Signor Ariotta as interior, Signor Sakendra as marine, Signor Diaz as war, Signor Spingardi as executive, Signor Luzgatti as public works, Signor Danco as posts and telegraphs, Signor Kubilu as instruction, and others.
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Fuer
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War
Cen
Spingardi
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Stanur Danco
Wur Posts and Telegraphs
National Banks Increase Lending Power and Deposits Rise
The Comptroller reports a 274 percent surge in paid-in capital of U S banks including islands, with over 2 million deposit accounts and $144, '12,165 in deposits on April 2. Savings deposits total $5,678,735 from 14,604,696 depositors, while average interest rates vary by account type. District DC notes 11 national banks and 12 savings banks, with district building and loan associations under comptroller supervision and new reporting powers.
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Murray
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Honors for Naval Hero Lieut Comdr Flusser
Special to The Washington Post from Annapolis Maryland December 10 ceremonies honored Lieut Comdr Charles W Flusser aboard the torpedo boat destroyer named for him. A loving cup was presented to the ship’s company by his brother officers. The grave was decorated at the naval cemetery. Flusser died while serving aboard the Miami in battle against the Confederate ironclad Albemarle off Plymouth North Carolina. He was a native of Annapolis and a Naval Academy graduate in 1864.
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Charles W. Plusser
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Naval War Records
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Plymouth
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Warships Quit Manila in Far East Fleet Movements
United States Pacific Fleet shifts ships from Manila with Tennessee and Washington bound for Shanghai Pennsylvania and West Virginia to Hong Kong Maryland and Colorado to Kobe California and South Dakota to Yokohama Admiral Sebree receives farewell from Army and Navy Club officers and men in Manila.
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Yokohama
Army and Navy Club
Southern Banks Show Remarkable Deposit Surge
Banks in the South report a strong rise in deposits with six individual deposits of 400 158 32 each and total resources of 34 718 46. Loans and discounts reached 5 146 787 54 while deposits and disbursements totaled 35 10 510 989. The legal reserve to deposits stood at 3121 percent on November 16, higher than a year ago, despite funds typically drawn for crop-moving expenses.
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Practice fleet in roads near Fort Monroe
Atlantic battlefleet headed by Rear Admiral Netroeder’s flagship Connecticut arrived off Hampton Roads for weekend drills after maneuvers on the Southern drill grounds. The ships will coal take stores and return to the drill grounds early Monday.
Army Orders From Absence at Academy and Assignments
Military orders list officers relieved from duty and reassigned including Capt George W. Kirkpatrick from West Point to the Philippines via San Francisco, Capt Clyde D Hunt moving from New Orleans to Fort St Philip, and Maj Lorenzo P Davin remaining as professor at Carlisle. Recruiting and medical appointments altered, with several captains’ recruiting duties revoked and various officers detailed to Fort Slocum and other posts. Also notes a resignation of First Lieutenant Clarence Kress from the Medical Reserve Corps effective February 10, 1910.
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Cattle Disease Sparks Legislation Effort in D C
Three cows were killed by inspectors as disease tracing continued in the District. Virginia and West Virginia reps discuss a bill to compensate owners. Red Cross and Milk Conference join to stamp out infection with funds needed for dairy losses. Inspectors still survey Anacostia with 27 more infected cows found and slated for destruction.
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Washington Country Club Opens New Clubhouse With Awaited Housewarming Deferred
The Washington Country Club unveils a two story concrete and stucco clubhouse 59 by 81 feet featuring a kitchen, dining rooms, lounges, card rooms, a billiard area, and a bowling alley. Heating is hot water and lighting gas electric. Opening ceremonies are postponed until next spring. club organized in 1908 with an 18 hole golf course on 75 acres.
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Frank Upman
Pope Manuscripts Auction Fetches Large Sums
An auction of the Louis Haber collection in New York realized 3499 dollars yesterday afternoon. Pieces include a Pope poem to Lady Winchelsea sold to G. H. Richmond for 145 dollars and letters by Percy Bysshe Shelley and B. A. Poe to various buyers, including 105 dollars for a Shelley letter and 3 dollars and some cents for the Poe item.
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Movements of Naval Vessels and Officer Assignments
Orders issued to naval officers list assignments at Norfolk and Sewall Point Virginia. Vessels Sterling Navajo Justin Maro Fluseer Armapolla Marcellus Newport News Veulal Lambert Point Eagle Bocaga del Toro Caesar Singapore failed Sterling Lewn Feint Smith Charleston Yorktown Albans Acapulco Colina Marcellus Newport News Tennessee Washington Manila Woosang Yokohama Kobe Aviator Perratos injured in France during a fall at Juvisy sur Orge.
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Queen's Gift Brings Five Thousand Two Hundred Fifty Pounds At Christie's
German rivals outbid English for Marie Antoinette furniture in London auction. A Louis XVI carved settee, two fauteuils, and six smaller pieces in gobelin tapestry fetched £5250, gifted by Marie Antoinette to Mr Stores, secretary to the British regency, with related Chinese vases and Ming porcelain mentioned in the sale.
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East Washington Man Seeks Board Representation
Citizens Association pressuring for a Washington representative on the board of city commissioners. Hven H Tucker and W J Frizzell presented the group view to the White House secretary noting lack of East Washington representation since the city’s government reform. A delegation of 20 000 church members urged William I Richardson for commissioner amid a petition by many Black pastors led by Rev W J Howard and colleagues.
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James EH. Pod
Plans New Opium Statute Tightens Interstate Regulation
The State Department drafts a bill broadening federal control of opium traffic in the United States and strengthens import laws. Dr. Hamilton Wright, opium expert, prepares a measure to put opium and all derivatives under interstate regulation and Internal Revenue Service oversight. The aim is not revenue but tracability from customs to the final consumer.
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Toys Helped Kidnappers In Louisville Mystery
Louisville police probe ongoing into the disappearance of Alma Kellner a year old kidnapped while returning from church. F L Kellner father and Frank Feb uncle speak while 500 reward circulars circulate and rumors of ransom and a staged meeting surround the case.
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Five Years for Broker Embezzlement Case
Harry E. Hayes Jr of the W. J. Hayes & Son brokerage was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary after being convicted of embezzling 298000 in Cincinnati Bluffton and Chicago Tra ilroad bonds. He posted 22000 bond. His father W. J. Hayes faces indictment and immediate trial.
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Red Cloud Dies at 38 Longtime Sioux Leader
Red Cloud, famed Sioux chief noted for fierce clashes with U S forces during railroad debates, died at Pine Ridge after a life of resistance. Superintendent Brennan in Washington confirms the death as news reaches Omaha. Red Cloud led Brule and allied bands against Bozeman Trail pressures and helped shape Sioux stance on the Union Pacific route.
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Gompers Leads Labor Support For Northwest Switchmen Strike
Cincinnati December 10 The American Federation of Labor will back railroad switchmen on strike in the Northwest after a long talk between Samuel Gompers and Frank Hawley president of the Switchmen's Union of North Azertes The move signals potential wider trouble if railroads refuse concessions The telegraphers of the Big Four Union report a large majority in favor of a strike with unanimity in Cincinnati Toledo and Dayton The demand calls for a wage increase of per cent.
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Man Slayers Sheriff Bell Shot Down Near Shreve
Shreve, Ohio, Dec 1 A deranged patient from Massillon State Hospital fatally shot Sheriff Jacob Bell of Holmes County after a daylong chase. Boley fought pursuers until overpowered, died hours later on a train en route to Wooster. Meantime a writ of certiorari was filed in a separate case.
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