Trade Volume Irregular as Iron and Steel Outlook Brightens
R G Dun weekly trade review notes better sentiment and brighter iron and steel trade despite unsatisfactory pig iron demand. Woolen goods improve while cotton production remains curtailed and footwear orders stay below normal. Copper and wire demand shows strength. mercantile distribution remains uneven with weather effects.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Wil Bay
Tia
Tme
Divorce Granted Over Wife’s Cold Feet Habit
Margaret Owens sued Robert Owens for divorce in Logansport Indiana. Judge John S. Larry found grounds in the husband’s refusal to allow his wife to place her cold feet on his cheek. The wife complained of three years without a kiss. The husband testified she treated him as hired help after a quarrel, and he refused further liberties.
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Washington Post
Logansport
Ind
Margaret Owens
Robert Owens
John S. Larry
Marriage and Title Transfers in European Nobility
The article notes Antoine Marquis de Jumbilac’s marriage to Simplicie de Vignerot in 1818, transferring noble titles to him, and describes the wealth and properties of the current duke including Chateau du Haut Brieson in Sarthe. It also covers Frank J Gardner’s marriage to May Yerby, Gardner’s divorce decree and alimony, and his political ties. Additional items discuss French hat box shipping costs, Mrs. Mabel Wellington Stimson’s charity work, and a trend of cigarette smoking among Chicago society women with a looming vice crusade.
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Comte Gabriel de la Rochefoucquld
Dean de V Vignerot
Ergat Cardinal de Richelieu
Antoine Marquis de Jumbilac
Simplicie
Arts
Chateau du Haut Brieson
Department of
Sarthe
France
Weymouth Shortage Estimated At One Hundred Thousand
New Bedford Oct 7 official accounting places the Weymouth shortage at about 100000 though estimates ranged to 103000 before Atlas Tack Company's lawyers said the loss is far smaller. The firm controlled by H H Rogers estate denies financial distress from the defalcation. In a separate note, a moving picture theater operator pair were fined for employing a 11 year old dancer and singer Edith Brown with parental consent.
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New Bedford
Mass
George W. Weymouth
Atlas Tack Company
Fair Haven
Bingham
Crape, Clifford & Prescott
Jorge de Lacy
Joseph D. Coblent
Edward Oliver
Moving Picture Theater
Edith Brown
Jymma L. Brown
Divorces Granted in Equity Court No 2
Justice Gould grants divorces in equity court number two. Kingsley B Huff divorces Frances Clark Huff. Vartis M Riley divorces Francis R Riley. Emma E Buehler divorces Ernest Buehler. Otto A Ruth ordered to pay 310 a month and wife custody of three children.
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Justice Gould
Equity Court No
Kingsley B. Huff
Frances Clark Huff
Vartis M. Riley
Francis R. Riley
Emma E. Buehler
Ernest Buehler
Otto A. Ruth
Equity Court Orders Receiver for Vegetarian Meat Co
On the petition of J Thomas Evans James D McCoy and Belle Coleman filed in the Equity Court yesterday the Vegetarian Meat Company Incorporated was ordered to show cause on October 14 why a receiver should not be appointed.
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J. Thomas Evans
James D. McCoy
Belle Coleman
Vegetarian Meat Company, Incorporated
Mrs Booth to Fill Pulpit at New York Avenue Church
Mrs Maud Ballington Booth who is attending the International Prison Congress will speak tomorrow evening in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
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Booth
Maud Ballington Booth
International Prison Congress
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Criminologists to Meet in London for 1915 Congress
Delegates at the International Prison Congress complete deliberations with the next meeting set for London in 1915. Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise is expected to be president, with Henderson of Chicago as president elect. Delegates toured Occoquan Workhouse and District playgrounds, while Joshua L. Batly of the Pennsylvania Prison Society is noted as a venerable penologist. The Boston national conference on charities and correction was scheduled for June 1912 with nine general sessions and multiple concurrent meetings.
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Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise
Occoquan
International Prison Congress
London
Evelyn Ruggles-Brise
Charlies R. Henderson
Chicago
Bureau of American Republics
James Kest
Joshua L. Batly
Pennsylvania Prison Society
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
Mgr. Baily
American Prison Association
National Conference of Charities and Correction
New Willard
Homer Folks
New York
Boston
National Conference On
National Conference of Jewish Charities
National Probation Officers’ Association
National Housing Association
Florence Crittenden Nations
Natonal Federation of Remedial Loan Associations
American Red Cross
Progress Report on Ottawa Talks and Commerce Court Nomination
Beverly Mass Oct 1 Henry M Hoyt and Charles M Pepper from Valley Forge report to President Taft on progress toward Canadian reciprocity and possible Ottawa meetings. Knox to present further results. Whitman and Turner also in attendance. Edward Whitson urged for new commerce court seat. Yale's Fisher backs national health bureau. Essegner burgomaster Muellberger pays respects.
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Beverly
Mass
Henry M. Hoyt
State Department
Charles M. Pepper
Valley Forge
Knox
Ottawa
Fielding
Albany
Washington
Newfoundland
William Whitman
National Wool Association
Taft
George Turner
Edward Whitson
Court of Commerce
Whitson
United
New ferry planned between Alexandria and Washington city
Arrangements have been made for use of slips by the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company to operate a ferry between Alexandria and Washington. A steamer will touch at the Firth Stirling plant on Potomac’s District side on certain trips for company employees. The issue of 5 percent bonds totaling 10 000 dollars was fully purchased by local Alexandria businessmen. A single boat will start, with hopes for a second as business grows and a half hour schedule may be implemented.
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Washington Fost Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Washington
Firth- Stirling Steel
Potomac
Alexandria Chamber of Commerce
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company
New York
Jersey City
Metropolis
Tsai Suun Thanks Taft After U S Visit
Prince Tsai Suun uncle of the Chinese emperor sends a telegram from Beverly Massachusetts praising President Taft for hospitality shown during the imperial naval mission visit. He recalls the stay fondly and wishes health prosperity and peace for Taft and the United States. George Fong, accused of an assassination attempt, is to be turned over to Oakland police as no federal statute covers the case. Alameda county authorities plan to charge him with carrying a concealed weapon. Chinese minister Chung Ying Tang arrives with Tsai Suun and will stay several days.
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Beverly
Tait
Tsai Suun
San Francisco
Cal
Taft
Mass
Imperial Naval Mission
China
United States of America
George Fong
Oakland
Prince Tsai Suun
Alameda County
Fong
Chung Ying Tang
Washington
Not Barred by Sherman Columbus Day Banquet Row
Vice President James Sherman and United States Senator William Lorimer will sit together at the Columbus Day banquet on October 12 in Chicago. The event, hosted by local Knights of Columbus, will be in the gold room of the Congress Hotel where Theodore Roosevelt had declined a prior invitation to attend without Lorimer’s invitation. Sherman accepted yesterday and Lorimer said he would attend today. both are to sit at the speakers' table.
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Chicago
James
Sherman
United States
William Lorimer
Knights of Columbus
Gold
Congress Hotel
Hamilton Club
Theodore Roosevelt
Lorimer
PIGSKIN IN ALEXANDRIA THIS AFTERNOON
The Alexandria Cardinal Athletic Club hosts the Raylén Athletic Club of Washington at 4 PM on North Alfred street. Expected lineup for the Cardinals includes Snowden and Cockrell with McDermott and Sutherland at ends. Also notes Masonic support for a Washington temple memorial and a brief court case involving John Britt. A Christmas Aeroplane Co. charter is filed in Rosslyn for aircraft manufacturing. Harry R Thomas plans to run for Alexandria clerk against George H. Rucker.
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Alexandria
North Alfred Street
Cardinal Athletic Club
Raylén Athletic Club
Washington
Sutherland
Douglas
Steelman
Cooke
Ale
Dienelt
Astryke
Hamilton
Raylews
Parsons
Crump
Cardinals
Charles H. Callahan
Alexandria-Washington Lodge of Masons
Wilmington
Del
Grand Lodge of Masons of Delaware
George Washington
Alexandria-Washington
Callahan
Delaware Masons
Harry R. Thomas
Alexandria County
Mny
George H.rucker
Twin Birth Epidemic Hits Chicago in 1909-10
Chicago reports a startling rise in twins with two hundred twin births this year, eclipsing the 140 twins recorded for all of 1909. Officials from the registry of births say the surge is citywide and not limited to any single neighborhood.
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Chicago
Office of the Registry of Births
Washington Man Sacrifices Self in Fort Fire Fight
Albert Thorpe Ryan of Wallace Idaho died in 1898 from blood poisoning after aiding in forest fire relief and property saving. An officer in mining firms and lawyer for others, he aided Wallace’s commercial and social welfare. His widow and daughter accompanied the body to Portland and will visit Washington at Mrs. Briggs residence in D C.
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Washington
Fort
Albert Thorpe Ryan
Felty
Wallace
Idaho
Ryan
Het
Couer d'Atene
Armour for Hall of Fame in Illinois
Springfield Illinois October 7 the commission in charge of the Illinois Hall of Fame at Champaign has decided that the late Philip D Armour is entitled to recognition for promoting the livestock industry in the United States admission date to be fixed later and likely in 1913
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Springfield
Illinois Hall of Fame
Champaign
Philp D. Armour
United States
Armour
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