Sugar Brokers Work Through the Night in Wall Street
In a bustling day at Matthison & Co. sugar brokers, Thomas Blake rushes between desks and telephones as sugar prices surge. He relays a message to a wife awaiting a 2 o’clock matinee, then drives the firm’s pace into the evening with contracting slips, amid the chorus of clerks, messengers, and ticking typewriters.
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Pellmell
Kate
Ellen
Mrs. Blake
Thomas Blake
Matthison & Co
Wall Street
Matthison
Starbuckle
Blake
Bine Posthaste
Hippodrome
Brooks & Hoss
Kansas City
Holmen & Wilson
Duluth
Reed & Nicol's
Milwaukee
Tom
Cousin Margaret
Gerka
Mercer & Swift's
Wail Street
Pola
Starbuck
Watthieon
Aito
Candy or a Husband at Busy Bee Thimble Club
At a Busy Bee Thimble club meeting in Macon Missouri Dr J J Bridgeford offered a five pound candy box to the young woman who artistically darned his socks. Miss Leal Wright, club secretary, won the prize but declined the bonbons after a public gaze into the box. The event ended with Dr Bridgeford sharing the candy amid laughter and no marriage.
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Ant
J. J. Bridgeford
Macon
Leal Wright
Busy Bee Thimble Club Jr
Bridgeford
Miss Wright
Wellman finds the pole provokes bold forecast from Munson editor
Johkn Walton of the Munson Democrat sends a flurry of satirical prophecies to the Chicago Record-Herald concerning Walter Wellman’s pole search. He envisions Sage as a spendthrift and Hetty Green living grandly, predicts perpetual motion and a sea bridge, and foresees radical social and political upheavals tied to Wellman’s quest.
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Wellman
Johkn Walton
Munson
Democrat
Chicago Record-Herald
Walter Wellman
Russell Sage
Hetty Green
Old Ireland
John D
Prizes Offered for Grain Growing by Colorado Youth
A Colorado citizen offers 2600 in prizes to school boys and girls under eighteen for growing an acre of grain from select seed, judged by quantity and quality. The Journal of Education notes it as the first such offer, marking the start of a broader inspirational prize program.
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Essex
South Weald
Brentwood
Colorado
Journal of Education
Herame Campen Befere Lane
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