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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1914
Page
4
Steel Dividend Cut Touches U S Steel Exports Rise
The United States Steel Corporation cut its quarterly dividend from 1 1/2 to 1/8 of a cent, signaling cautious finance amid wartime demand. News notes show exports to Europe continuing, with cotton shipments more than doubling any day since war began. Copper movement rose, while bond offerings and banking actions reflect a fragile recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
U. S
United Sates Steel Corporation
August Busiese
Treasury daily receipts and disbursements October 1914 report
Treasury figures show receipts and disbursements for October 1914, with detailed breakdowns by gold and silver holdings, notes, and fractional currency. The report lists totals for general fund assets, liabilities, and cash, plus redemption notes received that day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Itional
Treasury
Philippines
New York Produce Prices and Market Update May Mon
New York reports show varied commodity prices with creamery and poultry steady to firm. Exports and domestic demand influence grains and flour while cornmeal and hog products remain stable amid cautious market sentiment and potential crop concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ickens
New York Money Market Briefs Mixed Sterling Rates
New York money market notes show Sterling exchange firm for 60 day bills at 43601, cattle at 4906, demand at 499, and bar silver at 48 1 2 percent with minor fluctuations across securities and commodities.
Local Produce Market Prices Sparse and Falling
Market reports wholesale prices for poultry and vegetables across New York and Virginia regions. Prices show unusual dullness across all fruit and vegetable classes with overall declines versus prior years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poeltry Allya
New York State
Virginia
West Virgina
Tielaware
Concord
Niagara
Washington Cattle Market and Local News Digest
Injury report details an automobile wreck on Kenyon Street NW injuring Joseph A Turner and George King Jr. Turner expected to return home soon. Diplomacy note reports State Department inquiry into German prisoners in France at German embassy request. Damages sought in DC case over a 1912 sidewalk hole injuring Emma Jackson. Supreme Court dismisses Atlantic Coast Lumber appeal over South Carolina timber land forfeiture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph A Turner
Baden
George King
Clifton Street
Kenyon Street
Kilbourne Irvine Fighteenth
Mount Pleasant
Prince von Hatzfeldt Trachenberg
State Department
France
District of Columbia
District Supreme Court
Manchy Cor
Emma Jackson
L Street
Tackie Cox & Kratz
Holland writes of opportunity for U. S. funds
Percival Farquhar, once an observer in New York finance circles, promoted a vast Bolivian railway and oil venture. He secured Bolivian concessions for a coast to interior rail link and for tapping northern oil and eastern coffee lands, financed by European capital. The scheme faltered as Balkan war and continental conflict constrained credit, leaving Bolivia awaiting renewed capital once conditions normalize.
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Percival Farquhar
Europe
New York
United States
Farquhars
South America
Cecil Rhoades
South Africa
Iis
Rhodes
Cape Town
Cairo
Africa
Henry Melgy
Melggs
Chile
Peru
Andes
Bolivia
Farquhar
Boluja
Pacific Coast
Nothern
Nitral
Bolivin
F.o
Argentina
Kilway
Lanquhar
Balivia
London
Bolivian Neutrality and U S Trade Amid War
The United States and the Intimationa anticipate that American capital will exploit Bolivia’s opportunities, expanding our commercial and financial ties until they rival those with other South American nations. The Bolivian case underscores war’s impact on neutral, distant states in Europe’s conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Bolivia
Holland
Off to Synod Convention Washington Pastors Attend Woodsboro Meeting
A large delegation of Lutheran pastors from Washington travels to Woodsboro Maryland for the ninety second annual Lutheran Synod of Maryland convention in session this week. The gathering runs through Thursday with presidents and clergy from churches across Maryland the District of Columbia Virginia and West Virginia attending.
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Washington
Woodsboro
Lutheran Churches of Washington
Lutheran Synod of
Safety First Motto Promotes Street Safety Association
The Street Safety Association meets Monday night at the Saxny apartments on Fourteenth Street NW to push safety. The group aims to prevent accidents with a nationwide talk by Lilbett of New York and plans an active membership drive. A committee drafted by laws and officers including Peabody Hilatt Driscoll Woodfield and Gibbs will present.
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Saxny Apartments
Fourteenth Street
Washington Cafet
Safety First
Fae
Wille Jain F. Peabody
Clinton Hilatt
J Driscoll Frank A Woodfield
Benjamin S Gibbs
Lilbett
Safety First Association
New York City
Ogden Milly
Eliott
Chicago
District Commissionera
Woodfield
West End Citizens Association reaffirms leadership at meeting
G W Evans was re elected president and Judge H Randall Webb first vice president at Kidder's Hall. Officers include H T Harvey second vice president and H M Saxon recording secretary. The association voted to urge the public utilities commission to study extending creastown railway to Potomac Park linking with the existing system due to west side growth. New members James Reason, William B Daw, Frank B Bloom, and Charles Jacobsen were welcomed.
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G W Evans
H Randall Webb
West End Citizens Association
Kidder’s Hall
Twentieth Street Northwest
H T Harvey
H M Saxon
Ianthe
Wo Lankin
Schwarz
Maurice Hahn
Hamilton J Rothrock
George E. Russell
Creastown Railway
Potomac Park
Ci Ctrie
Imo
Association
James
William B Daw
Frank B Bloom
Charles Jacobsen
Changes Approved for Virginia Rail Stations near Aqueduct Bridge
Secretary of War approves track and station moves for electric railways on the Virginia side of the Aqueduct bridge at Hosslyn and widening the approach roadway. Changes aim to ease traffic congestion by relocating the Washington Citylines station downstream and the Old Dominion Railway station upstream, and widening the bridge approach from 24 to a broader main highway width.
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Electric
Virginia
Aqueduct Bridge
Hosslyn
Harrison
Washington Ct Tvities Company
Old Dominion Railway
Water Purity Standard Set by Treasury Commission
A Treasury appointee commission has defined bacteriologic safety for public water. A standard will guide common carriers and interstate quarantine enforcement. The exact purity level was not disclosed, but the department will adopt it and use it for regulatory enforcement. The panel will now proceed to establish a chemical purity standard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Department
Two Accused of Auto Theft to Face Grand Jury
Coleman Davis and Thomas Collins aliases arraigned in police court on taking an automobile belonging to Carrie Foretens of 618 Eighteenth Street Northwest without consent. Judge Mulloway set bail at 300 dollars each for grand jury action. Ray Hogeset charged with stealing a horse and buggy from Ernest Burgdorf held for grand jury bail.
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Coleman Davis
Thomas Collins
Carrie Foretens
Eighteenth Street
Northwe
Mulloway
Ray Hogeset
Ernest Burgdorf
Supreme Court recalls coal screen ruling transfer to docket
The Supreme Court recalled its announcement and moved the case back to the summary docket for brief oral argument on November 3 after affirming the Northern Ohio district court ruling upholding the Ohio coal screen law. Euchre event at the Washington Saengerbund featured a Ladies Club social and a prize competition.
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Supreme Court
Federal District Court For
Ohio
Washington Saengerbund
Ladies’ Club
C Street
K Barthel
Ladies
S Linzbach
Eva Lingbach
Alma Ae
H Ditz
Jennel
Ohio mine run coal screen law case on Supreme Court docket
The article reports the Supreme Court advancing the Ohio coal operators mine run or coal screen law to the summary docket for November 30. It notes Chief Justice White announced affirming a lower court ruling that the law is constitutional, with briefs stressing the law’s impact on Ohio coal operators, mines, and workers amid idle mines and wage losses.
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Supreme Court
Jeffres
Oslo
White Arst
Federal District Court
Ohio
Aoea
White
Iittle
Cour
Plate
Ria
Excise Decisions Delayed As Saloons Subject to Licenses
Saturday the excise board began the fourth phase of license reviews for District saloons in anticipation of new November 1 liquor business rules under the Jones Works excise law. The process will close many venues after license grants are announced, following interviews with proprietors on Pennsylvania Avenue and other streets.
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Weeghington
Excise Board
Ite
Jones-Works
Fourteenth Seventh
Pennsylvania Avenue
Robert G Smith Henry S Baker
Cotter
Priu
Red Cross Sends $65,000 to War Relief Fund
The American Red Cross via the State Department telegraphed relief funds to Europe. Amounts allotted include gifts to ambulances in Paris and London, American hospitals in Munich and Berlin, and hospital duties through ambassadors and ministers in Vienna and other posts.
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RED Cross
Amerstein
Imer
Divorce Actions in District of Columbia Supreme Court
Legal notices announce divorce actions and probate matters in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. Cases include claims by Gloan A. Amath against Lyle Smith with George Beach as co defendant, and other petitions for absolute divorce. Publications require orders for appearance dates and default warnings in Washington Reporter and Washington Post.
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R. Hitt
Scpreme Court OF the
District of Intumbia
Gloan A. Amath Stauntif
Lyle Smith
Georg Beach
Equity
George Beach
Legal Halides Marine
Warkington Law Reporter
Wash Agtor Post
HANDF
Tun Mingham
Padgett
Notice to creditors in estate of shares party late of the Gistri
Frank Stetson attorney for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia provides a probate notice from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia for the estate of shares party late of the District. Creditors are warned to exhibit claims with vouchers authenticated before the 1st day of December 1914 or be barred from any share of the estate. The notice is signed by the officer of the trust company and the clerk of the Probate Court.
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Slpreme Court OF
Jumbia
NY Ofis
Pdeomatwe
Hm Ina
Dietree
Ars Burs
National Savings and Trust
Supreme Court
Onlumbia
District of
Coumbia
Columbia
Fhares
OS Slings Ante Trust Company
Waliam Chofer
AMS
Auction of South Washington real estate fronting Anacostia
Trustees offer property in Washington District of Columbia finally described as lots four and five in square seven hundred and eight with 30 by 60 feet frontage to the Anacostia River. Buildings and water privileges pass with the land. Sale set for November 4 1914 at 430 PM with a deposit of 100. Terms include one third cash and balance in installments at 6 percent interest.
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Child Street
Southfast
Luckett
Luckett Et
Beachbad Rea
Wash ‘Ington
Columbia
Anaaustia
Lemure Fcgitt
Trumee
Stewart Building
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