Wall Street Week of Turbulent Price Moves and Money Relief
New York December 16 The stock market showed strong features but also sharp declines and rapid rallies that muddled trends. Treasury relief plans of 20 million in banks plus 12 million due December 15 sparked a Tuesday rally, while anticipated issues by Great Northern and Northern Pacific unsettled prices and driven by Union Pacific selling.
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Washington Post
New York
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury Department
Shaw
Wall Streets
Wall Street
Great Northen Railway Company
St. Paul
Treasury
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Coropanion
Union Pacific Company
Northwest
Pressing need for railroad expansion across the country
The article notes a strong demand for railroad facilities, including a new St. Pauls extension, with experts claiming at least 110000 new miles of rail, and widespread talk on funding to avoid throttling business growth. It emphasizes the overarching boom in business and the challenge of financing rapid expansion.
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St. Paula
Mr. Hill
Mself
Daniel Ee
Nordica
Rosenthal
Echumann-Heine
Peppercorn
Phons Matz
Bristol
Washington
Os ‘Phona
Northwest Studio
L. Cali
Ninth At
Spencetan Penman
Electric Plant to Serve Davison and Turner Farms
An association in Davison and Turner counties plans a central electric station to furnish power for plowing threshing and lighting. Copper wires will run from the station to farms enabling motor plows, cream separators, churns, sewing machines, and water pumps, with wind or river power as backup.
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Dakota
Mitchell
Davison
Turner
James
Dakotas
Dead Letters Hold Prizes At Ninth Street Letter Sale
A sale of 8,263 mixed packages at 426 Ninth Street NW offers clothing, jewelry, currency, cigars, furs, books, and oddities from the Dead Letter Office. Packages range from one to five items, with items including Confederate currency, prayers, rosaries, toys, and a BPOE emblem. The auction aims to reveal value for individuals despite diverse, curious contents.
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Ninth Street
Brks
Tunnel Section Complete for Laying Rails Between Manhattan and Long Island
Long Island City reports section of the Pennsylvania tunnel finished ready for rail laying. Four tubes under the river end at Enat avenue and rise to the surface, with thick concrete linings and complete conduits. Tunneling from Long Island City to Manhattan described as among the dirent parts of the project. Also notices a Bischoff concert at the First College National Church with Baltimore talent on December 19.
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Manhattan
Long Island
Washington Post
New York
Long Island City
Pennsylvania
Long Island Railroad
Enat Avenue
Cathedral to overlook city largest US denomination church
Plans for a monumental Protestant Episcopal Cathedral at St. Albans moved forward after architects Bodley and Vaughn returned from site studies. The cross shaped Gothic edifice would top five hundred feet, cost over 2 million dollars, and be supported by wealthy backers including J Pierpont Morgan. The project envisions a procathedral role for the Church of the Ascension and long construction spanning several years. A distinctive sundial cross motif is planned for the cathedral close, with inscriptions from scripture around its edge.
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Protestant Episcopal Church
St. Albans
George F. Bodiey
R. A
Henry Vaughan
Boston
United States
Liverpool
Bodley
England
Peter and Paul
J. Pierpont Morgan
Washington
Satterles
Mit
Thia
Church of the Ascension
SS. Peter and St. Paul
Sath Terles
Massachusetts Avenue
Cathedral
Imitating American Shoes in French Factory Scene
Special Consular Agent Arthur B. Butman reports French manufacturers imitate American high grade footwear. A shoe and sole leather were polished to resemble an American product, with numerous designs from both nations found in the factory. Import values show swings in 1904 1905 1906, tied to exports from England. Butman believes no American product could better fit foreign markets than American shoes.
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Arthur B. Butman
Butman
Shoa
France
United States
Engin
Lafayette Statue in Dust Ends a Bronze Promise
Paris authorities remove the Lafayette equestrian statue after observers reveal the statue is plaster and the bronze gift never existed. The base still reads erected by pupils of schools in the United States in recognition of Lafayette, while French papers hope the true statue will soon arrive.
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United States
Lotvee
Washington Post
Paris
Paul Cornoyer
New York
Louvre
Lafayette
France
Harvard led Andes ethnological expedition departs
Cambridge Massachusetts December 16 Harvard University to send an important ethnological expedition to South America to study Andes Indian tribes led by Dr W C Faradee Mrs Faradee J L DeMithau and J W Hastinegs from the Peabody Museum Prof F W Putnam oversees the project with Roosevelt and Root letters in hand an undisclosed donor funds the trip. The same dispatch notes the armored cruiser Tennessee leaving Norfolk for an unknown destination and battleships Kentucky and Kearsarge heading to New York for docking.
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Mags
Harvard University
W. C. Farades
South America
Andes Mountains
Faradee
Roosevelt
Root
F. W. Putnam
Harvard
Washington Post
Norfolk, Va
Tennessee
Capes
Kentucky
Kearsarge
New York
Pension column answers on soldiers and widows pensions
Reader questions on civil and Spanish American war pensions are answered. The Pension Editor explains postmasters cannot execute affidavits, outlines eligibility for widows and orphans, and details acts from 1887 to 1903. Several letters from veterans seek guidance on rates, service effects, and continuance for dependents.
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C. H. Jones
Petersburg
I. W
Seventh Cavalry
Cuba
War Department
Board of Examining Surgeons
Seattle
Wanh
United States Revenue Cutter Service
Navy
Adjust Land Differences in Porto Rico Amicably Settled
San Juan reports the dispute between the Federal and insular governments over public land division in Porto Rico is amicably adjusted pending Navy Secretary approval. Capt. Samuel C. Lemly, retired U S M, who represented the Navy, sailed for New York on December 12 aboard the Philadelphia.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
Secretary of the Navy
Samuel C. Lemly
Navy
New York
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