Wall Street Weekly Notes A Return Near Six Percent
The Washington Post reports irregular stock prices last week with declines most days except Saturday. A Pennsylvan ia Railroad capitalization rise triggered a brief recovery while bank reserves and Treasury actions shape money markets. Strong copper demand and industrial stock profits buoy optimism despite cautious sentiment about future rates. DANIEL F. KHILLOGG.
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Washington Post
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Harriman
National Bank
Banka
Daniel F. Khllogg
Saapee Uhi E
Need Cars to Carry Iron in Pittsburg District
Special to The Washington Post from Pittsburg shows a crippling car shortage hitting iron and steel shipments. West lines face the worst gaps as 612 Pennsylvania cars are requested from Chicago Burlington and Quincy, which is already using them. 200 cars are reportedly stuck near San Francisco. Tracers will seek 500 more cars in ten days as the Baltimore and Ohio reports congestion and inability to move cars on routes.
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Washington Post
Pittsburg
Iron and Steel
Pennsylvania
Nee West
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Pennsylvania Company
Pennsylvania Lines West
Burlington
San Francisco
Baltimore and Ohio
Mrs Morse’s Sanity Third Time Probed in Capitol Begging Case
Mrs Ida M Morse, once again held at the Washington Asylum Hospital, faces a third mental inquiry by a Washington jury amid disputes over her sanity. Arrested for begging from Congressmen, she previously created a Supreme Court scene and later eluded confinement. she claims wealth and past fame while relatives and officials question her condition. The report also notes Swift & Company beef sales in Washington for the week ending January 12, 1907.
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Capitol
Barnard and
Weber
Hamlet
Washington
Morse
Washington Asylum
Law
District Supreme Court
Government Hospital
Thomas Hagen
Mra
Marge
H. W. Fortney
Dewey Hotel
Roosevelt
Chicago
St. Louis
Percy Hickling
Mrs. Morse
Pennifil
First Precinct
Swift & Company
Oliver Will Command to Use Southern Negro Labor on Panama Project
The Oliver Bangs partnership bids to build the Panama Canal for 6.75 percent of total cost and plans to ship in 5000 Negro workers from the South, with white superintendents and foremen to manage the labor force. They may also utilize available Chinese labor bids if desired, while aiming for swift construction within sixty days of contract execution. The Isthmian Canal Commission is expected to award the contract soon, with T. P. Shonts and Richard Hogers reviewing the proposal.
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Treasury
William J. Oliver
Anson M. Bangs
Panama Canal
Isthmian Canal Commission
Canal Commission
Oliver-Bangs
T. P Shonts
Richard FR. Hogers
Oliver
Bangs
Panarea
Panama
United States
Commission
Mr. Oliver
Olver
Mr. Bangs
Shonts
Canal Commmission
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Roosevelt
Government cost keeping urged to boost efficiency
Secretary Shaw endorses a government wide cost keeping plan to improve efficiency and spur healthy rivalry among bureaus. The Roosevelt administration publicized the committee on department methods report, noting it could help heads price products, forecast costs, and identify economies. Public Printer advances a comprehensive cost keeping system for implementation across agencies.
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Keep
Shaw
Treasury Department
Committee
Marine Hospital Service
L. M. Shaw
Government Printing Office and Mint Bureau system in effect
A new system governs appropriations for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the Government Printing Office. Specific head appropriations are favored over lump-sum methods, a change seen as advantageous for cost discipline and harmony with the cost-keeping system. The truce in the Cleveland trolley fight prompts Johnson and Andrews to head to New York to discuss a potential purchase price, amid claims of railroad ownership ties.
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Mint Bureau
Bureau of
Mator
Cleveland
Epectatia
Washington Ives
New York
Tom L. Johnson
Imayor
Ohio
Horace Andrews
Cleveland Electric Railway Company
Johnson
Andrews
Trotley Company
A Trip Up the Nile lecture by Burton Holmes at Columbia Theater
Burton Holmes presented The Nile at the Columbia Theater detailing Egypts pyramids temples and ruins. The talk emphasized time over people and offered vivid scenes of the old irrigation and life along the ancient stream. It was both instructive and entertaining praised as the series best yet.
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Burton Holmes
Columbia Theater
Egypt
Nile
Holmes
Fearful man shaves himself in barber chair
In a humorous exchange from the Catholic Standard and Times a man admits he shaves himself because he is too nervous to let a barber near him for fear the barber might slit his throat. The barber and others react with mock astonishment as they discuss the absurd scenario.
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Catholic Standard and Times
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