Effect of Company Store on Miners Debts and Strikes
Hazleton Pa December article by Jessie M Partson investigates how company stores keep miners in debt and dependent. A miner’s wife shops for groceries. prices at company stores are higher than independent markets, with notable gaps in butter bacon flour and coffee. The piece cites a Hazleton store operated by Pardee & company and a nearby independent grocer, showing higher costs at the company store and the impact on families, especially during strikes. It includes a vignette of a Hungarian worker and a harsh rebuke from a mine superintendent toward spending outside company stores, illustrating the grip of the system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie M. Partson
Hazleton
Company
Independent Stoes
Pardee & Company
A. W. Wear
Lattimer
Shelby
John
Game laws reprinted for New Mexico Arizona and Texas
Reprint of state game laws for New Mexico Arizona and Texas outlining open seasons, limits, and protected species for deer elk antelope wild turkey quail dove pheasant grouse and other game. Includes license fees for non residents and miscellaneous notes. Notes mention two unnamed entities and a clothing store ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico
Arizona
Texas
Simon Stern
Railroad Avenue Plothier
Official Matters Postoffice Established at Cava Blanca
A postoffice is established at Cava Blanca Valencia county served from Laguna and Cubero five miles away. William Paisano named postmaster. W H Andrews recommends Pratt post office with O M Zeigler as postmaster. He also recommends J L Gray as postmaster at Alellen Chaves county succeeding Rebecca V Hortenstein and Edward J Davis as postmaster at Zuni succeeding Arthur Vanderwagen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cava Blanca
Valencia County
Laguna
Cubero
William Paisano
Postoffice
W. H. Andrews
Pratt
O. M. Zeigler
JL. W. Gray
Alellen
Chaves County
Rebecca V. Hortenstein
Edward J. Davis
Zuni
Arthur Vanderwagen
Wireless stock sale eyed for Las Vegas station plans
F Lamountaine of Albuquerque is in Las Vegas to sell gold bonds for the American De Forest Wireless Telegraph company and locate a wireless telegraph station. A station is said to be built within sixty days. The company operates stations in Albuquerque Colorado Springs Denver Penasbio Boulder Cripple Creek Fort Collins Greeley Pike's Peak Fort Worth Galveston and many other U S locations. He plans to convene a meeting of business men to discuss the proposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas
F. Lamountaine
Albuquerque
American de Forest Wireless Telegraph Company
Albuquer Five
Colorado Springs
Denver
Punabio
Boulder
Cripple Creek
Fort Colline
Greeley
Pike's Peak
Fort Worth
Galveston
Slightly Scrambled Sermons on Virtue and Vices
A dated, misspelled collection of aphoristic lines about virtue, charity, and self restraint. It riffs on kindness fidelity prayer money and moderation, with jumbled phrases and typographic quirks suggesting a rough OCR pass from a devotional or sermon anthology.
Candidates vie in fraught New York mayoral race
Voters face a crowded field as Domini and others seek the mayoralty. Campaigns feature Tam many factions, a mix of reformers and entrenched interests, with McClellan seeking reelection and rivals like Odell and Hearst challenging the familiar power structure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Domimi
Harfim
Tammoany
McClellan
Little Mac
Ani
Grodly Panier
Ore Tellery
Lean Iartine
Ite
Mainapring
Chas Hiuvehen
Iving
Neane
Benj. B. Odell
Fingers of Contractor Smashed Driving Stake
Manville, a contractor, badly crushed two fingers of his right hand last Saturday while guiding a stake for a cement sidewalk near the Broadway hotel block. A witness says the mallet descended on his hand as he warned the worker to wait, leaving a painful but non fatal wound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Manville
Broadway
Silver City Enterprise
Manville
OTERO GETS ASSURANCES OF BEING REAPPOINTED
A Santa Fe dispatch notes Governor Otero left Washington for Denver to visit Roy and then return to Santa Fe. The report says assurances suggest he will be reappointed as governor of New Mexico when his current term ends in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prof. Kosky
Silver City
John Kosky
J. G. Harshaw
Victoria Stelnecker
Chicago
Southern
Otero
Santa
Denver Republican
M. A
Washington
D. C
Denver
Roy
Santa Fe
Opening of a Detroit music studio by Kremer and Sullberk
Misa Viola Kremer and Miss Agnes Sullberk announce the opening of a studio in Barner street Detroit Michigan at the Michigan Conservatory of Music. The studio offers voice and piano instruction with Mine Stuarn recently arriving from New York providing drawing and water color lessons. Limited pupil slots available with teaching hours listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Misa Viola Kremer
Agnes Sullberk
Barner Black
Mite Kremer
Michigan Conservatory of Music
Detroit
Mich
Mine Stuarn
New York
New Tailor Shop Opens in North Me aircet
A. J. Morelli, a renowned tailor, reopens a shop on North Me Aircet offering cleaning pressing and repairs for ladies and gent’s clothing. Weekend specials include five pairs of hose for 2 60 and two palra for 260 with Saturday only deals. Simon Stern promotes opera goats sale and a big Saturday bargain at his window display. Saratoga chips noted fresh daily at Maloy’s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Morelli
North Me Aircet
Fonte
Ordy Palspoeee
Sallatt
Simon Stern
Ballromd Avenue Clothier
Golden Rule Dry Gools Company
Bat Lurday
Lee
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Yokoyama
Togo
Saikishima
Wee Randulph Hearet
Murphy
Arensy Carmel
Initicove
Wheich
Warp Center Ring
Tammany Av
Beth Low
Tammany
Mat
New York City
Ivins
Grace
Elty Chartherlall
Bet Voled Fay
Chevejwad Ag
Ieat
Sonia
Mirrosf
Emuanaine
Hiwist Baye
Wire
Dutae
Amd al- Jemed
Jerome
Andolph Harbt
B. McCle
WM. M. Ivins, Repintionn
Frank Hayes
Brooklyn
Snodgrass
Bisbee
Aris
Benson
Ariz
Ngineer
Tonto Basin Dam
Con- Natal
Interior Department
Roosevelt
Mall
Hill
Hui
Indian Bureau
Southwest
Tonto J Basin
Laguna Dam
Yuma
Grant Bros
Wicklenburg
Saratoga
Zeiger
Maloy's
N. Peach & CO
West Gold Avenue
Third Street Meat Market
Emil Kleinwort
Masonic Building
North Third Street
A. Gleyster
Notary Public
Cromwell Block
Joe Richards
Railroad Avenue
Pioneer Bakery
Simon Balling
Bailing Bros
S. First Street
F. Keleher
West Railroad Avenue
Lap Pal
G. Pratt & Co
Jas, Hopkin & Co
Boden
Granite
Hillsboro
South Second Street
Rankin & CO
N. T. Armijo
Clarkville Produce Co Hay
J. B. Macmanus
Met
South First Street
A. E. Walker
Fire Insurance
Mutual Building
J. Baldridge
Samer Yard
TOY & Gradi
Fuehr Undertaking Company
B. F. Copp
D. D
N. T. Armijo Building
Eta
W. Abbott
North Second St
W. L. Trimble & CO
Second Street
Brekke
California
Callifornia
J.J, Byrne
Los Angeles
Cal
Gross, Kelly & Co., Inc
Wool, Hide and Pelt Dealers
Hendrie & Bolthoff Mfgani
Sud
the Pioneer Machinery House of the
West
American Radiator Co
Seventeenth Street
Colorado
Rosenfield
St. Elmo
N. M
Melini & Eakin
Yellowstone
Moet & Chandon
St. Louis A. B.C
Bohemian
Jos
Schlitz
the Williams Drug Co
G. B. Williams and
F. W. Schmalmarck
Albuquerque, N. M
Savoy Hotel
C. E. Suntagg
Imperial Laundry CO “Red Wagons
VIA
el Paso and Southwestern System
Rock Island System
St. Louis
Kansas City
Great Lakes
Mineissippi Valley
Pacific Coast
Garnett Ea. Gen
Apt
Paso
Vv. R. Stiles
Ruppe
Bank OF Commerce
Railroad Ave
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