Trade currents show spring activity and demand rise in RB weekly review
RB G Dun & Co notes improved trade currents with spring activity and growing confidence. Demand for raw materials and finished goods rises while general merchandise, grain, hides, lumber shipments, and railroad tonnage increase. Bank clearings up 14.9 percent. failures in Chicago weigh on sentiment.
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Weekly Review of
Chicago
Chicago Trade
Rb, G. Dun & Co
Hatasuy
Bradstreet
New York
Mooney
Northwest
United States
Canada
Prices for regional farm goods and grains across Detroit Milwaukee and Chicago
Regional market notes show cattle hogs and sheep price ranges in Chicago Detroit and Milwaukee. Grain prices include wheat No 2 at 1.00 to 1.19 dollars, corn No 2 around 46 to 47 cents, oats No 3 white 32 to 84 cents, rye No 1 around 78 cents to 87. Cattle and hay vary with Timothy 5.50 to 13.50 dollars and prairie 6.00 to 10.50 dollars.
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Detroit
Milwaukee
New Russian Commander Linevitch Succeeds Kuropatkin in Manchuria
General Linevitch, age 67, appointed to head the Manchurian army after Kuropatkin’s resignation. He has served in the Caucasus, the Russo Turkish War, the Boxer Rebellion, and commanded forces in Assyria and Siberia. Russian losses at Mukden were heavy. Japanese victory remains decisive. Russia mobilizes up to 450,000 for Manchuria as Linevitch prepares to delay or check Japanese advances.
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Linevitch
Kuropatkin
Caucasus
China
Linewitch
Assyria
Korea
First
Siberian Army Corps
Linovitch
Far East
Russia
Manchuria
Mukden
the Pass
Yoropatkin
Kuropathin
Pie Pasa
Linoviteh
Servines
Lorestven
Intrigue in Far East Ties Russia to Tax Increase Plan
St Petersburg papers push peace campaign and publish details of Far East intrigues tied to private interests. They highlight Gen Kurepatkin memo warning war if Russian interests reach Korea. Finance minister proposes new taxes including beer matches and a 1 percent levy on salaries over 300 to raise about 11 million dollars, plus a general income tax.
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Far East
St. Petersburg
M. Bezobrazoff
Yala
Kurepatkin
Korea
Council of the Empire
Chadwick Wife Sentenced to Ten Years in Ohio Penitentiary
Mrs Cassie L Chadwick convicted on seven counts of conspiracy to defraud the government through deals with Oberlin National Bank. Judge Robert W Taylor sentenced her in Cleveland to ten years with two year terms on four counts and one year vaca on two, with no penalty on the seventh.
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Cassie L. Chadwick
Oberlin National Bank
Robert W. Taylor
Cleveland
Columbus
Chadwick
New York Beauty Expert Warns Sleep Affects Flesh
Miss Elizabeth A O White, noted beauty expert in New York, reports sleeping on the face may reduce flesh. In Minnesota near Mine Center, John Frayland was killed by a train. authorities suspect murder due to possible drugging and robbery.
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Elizabeth A. O. White
New York
John Frayland
Mine Center
Minn
Balser's Home Harvest Sets Corn Yield Records
Balser's corn crop across multiple states achieved impressive yields per acre. In Indiana, 157 bu, Ohio 160 bu, Tennessee 108 bu, and Michigan 220 bu per acre are noted. The note suggests aiming to beat this record in 1909.
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Balser
Ito
Salzer
Ind
Ohio
Tenn
Mich
Salzer Seed Co promotes high yield seeds for 1903 crops
The notice touts extraordinary per acre yields for barley oats potatoes and fodder crops with claims of beardless barley 310 bu per acre and 1000 bu for potatoes. It invites readers to request a Salzer catalog and free samples by sending 100 lbs to John A Salzer Seed Co La Crosse Wisconsin.
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Salzer
Victoria
John A. Salzer Seed Co
la Rosse
Wis
OC. N
Scribbler and Dribbles Debate Shakespeare’s Fame
Dialogue shows Scribbler arguing he would be dead to keep pace with Shakespeare while Dribbles nods that fame endures. The exchange frames concerns about legacy and literary immortality through playful banter.
Great Activity Syrup Pepsin Advertisement Claim
Dr Caldwell’s laxative Syrup Pepsin is touted as relieving constipation biliousness headaches indigestion and dizziness by cleansing poisons and bracing internal organs. The ad urges use with guarantees and states price 50c and 1.00 with money back if it fails.
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Caldwell
Vital Question Gray-l It's So Long Since We Met
A brief social exchange notes a delayed marriage announcement and the speaker questions whether to offer congratulations or sympathy. The dialogue hints at distant acquaintances reconnecting after a long separation.
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Gray
lIt
Smith
You Have No Friends Medicine Claim
Advertisement claims Vernal Palmettona cures for dyspepsia constipation headache catarrh and diseases of liver kidneys and bladder with one daily dose. Invites readers to write to Vernal Remedy Company Le Roy New York to receive a free trial bottle and promises widespread druggist availability.
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Wrile
Vernal Remedy Company
le Roy
N. Y
Parlor Light vs Love Match Might Not Guard Home
A quip contrasts the power of a parlor match to ward off a wolf with the futility of a love match in guarding the home. The saying implies practical protection beats romantic illusion.
Hall's Catarrh Cure ad and political verse snippet
An advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for catarrh cures via Hall's Catarrh Cure sold by Toledo druggists. The notice cites endorsements from West Triax Walling Kinnan Marvin, claiming trustworthiness and firm financial ability. Also mentions price and internal remedy action. A separate Yonkers Statesman verse notes a suffrage era ballot emblem.
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Hall
F.d. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
J. Cheney
West & Triax
C. Walling, Kinnan & Marvin
Ohio
Multiple Patent Medicine Advertisements in One Page
A collage of old time ads features Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children promising relief from various child ailments and worms with 30 000 testimonials. Also included are cures for consumption asthma and piles, laundry notes, pancake flour, and baby soothing syrup with customer testimonials and prices.
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Gray
New York
Olmsted
LeRoy
Eczema Cured by Cathurs Soap and Ointment
A New South Wales mother reports two years of severe head and face eczema in her baby girl. After trials with several doctors, one cake of Cutiurn Soap and two boxes of Cuticura Ointment cured the condition with no marks. Signed W. J. Morgan Orchard Town New Lambton.
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Cathurs
W. J. Morgan
Orchard Town
New Lambton
New South Wales
Australia
Irishman with Box Claims It Contains Nothin
A policeman questions an Irishman carrying a small box. The man insists the box is full of nothing. When asked what nothing looks like he replies that nothing is white and if you shut your eyes you will see it, delivering the punchline with a grin.
Who Owns tha F Railroad as
H T Newcomb cites statistics showing 5 174 718 depositors in six Eastern States and 442 354 086 of steam railroad securities owned by banks insurers and educational institutions. He notes life and fire policyholders and bank depositors hold major railroad investments totaling over 1 5 billion dollars.
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Tha
H. T. Newcomb
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
Very Low One Way Colonist Rates West and Northwest
Advertises low one way colonist rates to the west and northwest via the Nickel Plate Road from March 1 to May 15 with child discounts. For details contact agent C. Asterlin T. P. A. Fort Wayne Indiana. (626)
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Nickel Plate Road
C. A. Asterlin
Fort Wayne
Ind
Prominent Cincinnati Woman Praises Lydia E Pinkham's Compound
A Cincinnati woman reports that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her womb trouble after nine months of seizures pain and nervous distress. The letter extols the remedy as a uterine tonic that regularizes menstruation and aids digestion and general female weakness.
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Cincinnati
Lydia HB. Pinkham
Pinkham
Prova
Lydia EK. Pinkham
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Sara Wilson
East 3d Street
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkhoom
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