Wall Street Weeks Notes Gold Demand and Copper Surge
The week in New York stocks showed irregular, mainly down markets with a Friday rebound after a Pennsylvan ia Railroad capitalization move. Short term notes offering near six percent return boosted time money expectations while gold demand and copper’s 12 month rise point to strong industrial profits and continued liquidity, with bank reserves near minimum and Treasury actions shaping sentiment. DANIEL F. KHLLOGG.
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Washington Post
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Harriman
National Bank
Banka
Daniel F. Khllogg
Sappp Ruhive
Shortage of Cars Slows Pittsburg Iron Shipments
Special to The Washington Post reports a severe car shortage in the Pittsburg district hindering iron and steel shipments. West lines lack cars, with 612 Pennsylvania cars requested from Chicago Burlington and Quincy and 200 cars reportedly lost near San Francisco. Tracers seek 500 more cars in ten days as congestion worsens on the Baltimore and Ohio and other roads.
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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 In Washington Inquiry
Mrs Ida M Morsy the woman who begged from Congressmen in the Capitol was taken into custody by detectives and held at the Washington Asylum Hospital for a third sanity inquiry. Earlier juries failed to agree and she faced questions about her mental state amid conflicting testimonies and varying appearances. She had been arrested June 26 at the Dewey Hotel and claimed ties to wealth and theatre roles. The case reflects a recurring pattern of mental health questions and public suspicion in the capital. The note ends with Swift & Company's beef sales data for the week ending January 12 1907 in Washington.
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Ida M. Morsy
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
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Canital Traction Company
Oliver Will Comman Use Southern Negro Labor for Canal
Contractors Oliver and Bangs expected to win the Isthmian Canal Commission contract to build the Panama Canal at 6.75 percent of total cost. Oliver plans extensive use of Southern Black labor, bringing 5,000 Negroes initially and potentially Chinese workers if bids allow, with Oliver supervising on site and Bangs holding one-third stake.
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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
Oliver-Banks Convern
Roosevelt
Government Cost Keeping Approved by Secretary Shaw
Secretary Shaw endorses a government cost keeping system to improve efficiency and promote healthy rivalry across bureaus. The report from the committee on department methods argues cost data enable better economies, pricing, and future planning, with adoption planned in several bureaus including mint and navy yard operations.
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Roosevelt
Keep
Shaw
Treasury Department
Committee On
Marine Hospital Service
L. M. Shaw
Government Printing Office and Mint Bureau System Change
Government Printing Office and the Mint Bureau implement a new system with three appropriation heads for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and a lump sum for the Government Printing Office. The report favors earmarked main heads over the lump-sum approach, suggesting better cost control through targeted appropriations. The piece also reports on Cleveland trolley dispute where Mayor Tom L. Johnson's push for a universal 1-cent fare leads to a 30 day truce as Johnson and Cleveland Electric Railway Company head Horace Andrews travel to New York to negotiate potential purchase in what analysts deem railroad-linked.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Government Printing Office
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
Nile lecture by Burton Holmes at Columbia Theater
Burton Holmes presented The Nile at Columbia Theater last evening, using pictures of Egypt’s pyramids temples and ruins to reveal an ancient world in a thoughtful, sometimes amusing talk. The emphasis fell on things rather than people, illustrating time’s vast reach and the insignificance of man in history.
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Burton Holmes
Columbia Theater
Egypt
Nile
Holmes
Barber fears barber shave due to nerves
In a humorous exchange from the Catholic Standard and Times, a man in a barber chair admits he shaves himself because he is too nervous to trust a barber, joking that no razor could deliver such a fatal cut. The barber and patron play off the absurd idea with quick quips.
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Catholic Standard and Times
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Washington Stock Exchange
Continental (Fire) Insurance Co
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Nota
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Fourteenth St
E. Quincy St
Alvin M. Lothrop
W. Res
John Boleman, Jr
G. C Watson
Jackson Ho Relston
T. G. Kimba
Jenkins & GO
F Street
Cella Commission Co
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Grain Cotton
Lewis & CO
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