GENERAL MARKETS REPORT FROM LAMSON BROS CO
Estimated receipts today show hogs 24000 cattle 18500 sheep 715000. Hog market opened five cents higher and closed 14 to 20 cents above yesterday. Cash oats and assorted wheat and corn values listed across Chicago New York St Louis Minneapolis and cash markets with varied contract quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Beaves
New York
Stock Exchange
Canadian Pacific
Pennsylvania
Reading
Wee
Rock Island
Chicago Great Western
Northwestern
Atchison
American ‘Smelter
Amalgamated Copper
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
St. Paul
New York Central
Waterloo
Wellington
Bologna
Rae
Tge
Werner
Revival and murder trial dominate Sioux City meeting notes
A revival campaign spurred talks of a lasting personal workers league as Adams faces a second degree murder indictment after striking Phillips with a board. The courtroom drew crowds and even reporters tracked the verdict by phone. A meeting of the XL M G C A discussed forming a permanent workers’ league, with J. W. Arbuckle named to form a committee. Messages from Youngstown outline results from 600 members and 564 conversions. Leaders urged continued outreach to new converts and planned future meetings, including January union revival efforts in Nashua, Iowa. Social and fraternal notices closed the report with K of P and Social Band events scheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams
Phillips
Sioux City
Heavenung
XL M. GC
J. W. Arbuckle
Personal Workers’ Organization of Men
Youngstown
Personal Workers’ League
G. W. Fowler
F. C. Sage
C. R. Rohde
A.W. Peterson
Moore
L. E. Park
J. S. Tuthill
Austin Burt
W. H. Rollins
W. B. Sandford
Frank Cole
J. R. Vaughan
F. M. Devendorf
Sunday
Cole
Nashua
Evangelist Forsythe
Devendorf
Burt
Adams Acquitted of Murder Charge in Sioux City
Sioux City Ta December 21 Evening Press reports the jury finding George B. Adams not guilty. Foreman M L Page states the verdict was returned at 2 30 PM. The April 14 1909 stage incident at the Auditorium involved Adams and Milea Phillips briefly separated by onlookers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Evening Press
George B. Adams
M. L. Page
Adams
Milea Phillips
Little Child Gives Five Dollar Bill for Shoes
J F Klingaman superintendent of charities received a five dollar bill enclosed with a note asking to buy shoes for poor children so they can go to school. The Cedar Falls postmark suggests an anonymous local donor. Frank and Charles Thompson, Waterloo Business College students, plan to go to Horton Kansas with relatives for the holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Klingaman
Frank and
Charles Thompson
Waterloo Business College
Horton
Kan
Parcel post debate stalls or speeds rural delivery reform
Washington reports a contested push for a rural parcels post system with proposed rate cuts to 12 cents per pound for under four pounds and up to eleven pounds on rural routes. Despite 25,000 petitions against parcels post, lawmakers weigh hearings and Taft pressure to advance the bill this session. Other brief items note Elks dancing party, word on grey vs gray spelling, and local social notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imittee
Congress
Washington
Spitte
Taft
House Committee On Post Offices
Representative Weeks
Massachusetts
House
Also Mentioned on This Page
THE
W. H. Hartman Company
Lamson Bros. & Co
Chicago Board of Trade
Marsh-Place Building
ST. Louis Close
Minneapolis
H. W
Ada
N. S
Personal Workers’ Club
Sune
Waterloo Lodge
K. of P
D. J. Manning
Jefferson Street
Kentucky Co
Shores Fuel & Transfer Co
Parcels Post
Elks’ Dancing Club
Elks’ Hall
Kentucky
Shorea Fuel & Transfer Co
London
Great Britain
Johnson
New York Press
J. C. Murtagh
Waverly
Mrs. C. M. Dumond
Barclay Street
New Hampton
Mrs. Dumond
Mr. Dumond
Ripon
Wis
West Fourth Street
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!