Trade review notes brisk Easter retail and firm prices
The R. G. Dun weekly review cites favorable weather boosting Easter apparel trade and broad merchandise distribution, with bank exchanges down 21.4 percent but stock totals down only a third year over year. It highlights iron and steel demand for eight hour workday talks, steady bar and foundry iron prices, and robust building materials, lumber, hardware, and meat trade, plus early lake navigation and grain movements shaping stocks and railroads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Stock Exchange
R. G. Dun
Pittsburg
Chicago
Southern
United States
Canada
Great Lakes
Southwestern
Historic Midwestern Market Price Snapshot
A dense compilation of regional commodity quotes across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee and more. Cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye hay butter ergs potatoes and pork values shown with varied grade descriptors and per bushel or per hundredweight ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
Story of Gold From Recent Book Extracts
Interesting extracts discuss gold forms and mining. It notes gold often occurs alloyed with silver, found in veins and placers, and produced worldwide at about 800 million dollars yearly. The United States led earlier, with South Africa overtaking in 1598, and most mining concentrated in Western states and Alaska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cyrus O. Adams
Appletons
United States
South African Republic
Alaska
Arts
France
United Kingdom
Free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease advertised
An advertisement invites readers to obtain a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease from Allen S. Olmsted of Le Roy New York. The powder promises to cure tired sweaty damp and swollen feet and to ease new or tight shoes. It claims to help with corns and bunions and notes that all druggists and shoe stores carry the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Woes of the Weather Man's Wife
A Baltimore American humorous snippet shows the weather man's wife lamenting his forecasts. She complains that his cold predictions spoil her spring dress plans while the thermometer reads 40 degrees below. Her mother asks why she calls him a brute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Baltimore American
Coughing Leads to Consumption Kemp’s Balsam Advertised
An old time drugstore pitch promises Kemp's Balsam stops coughing immediately and claims it can prevent consumption. The ad urges readers to visit their druggist for a sample bottle free and notes the product is sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles with a warning against delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kemp
Mystery Deaths Prompt Dramatic Husband Claim
A wife recalls a tense exchange about a mysterious death as an unknown man plunges from a cliff. The husband, eager to misdirect, bets the wife was responsible at the cliff edge, while insisting the tragedy was not suicide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles
Collier’s Weekly
Jankins on a lynching and a critic's vacation
Dramatic critic Jankins spent vacation down South and attended a lynching. He disliked the affair, saying it lacked action and incident. Also notes generic advertisements about laundry dyes, a 72,000 bushel Great Lakes steel barge, and consumer claims on pore counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes
More Factories Needed in Western Towns
Unionville Missouri shows how one factory transforms a town. Putnam Fadeless Dye Company operates a dye factory producing three million packages yearly and sustains many jobs. The thriving mail, express, telegraph, and railroad businesses boost the local economy and public services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unionville
North
Missouri
Putnam Fadeless Dye Company
Equally to Blame Phrase from 1901 note in Tribune
A fragment from a Chicago Tribune piece shows dialogue about manners and privacy. It includes an advertisement claim for Piso's Cure for Consumption with Mrs Borden's Washington address and a dated May 1901 notice entry.
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Chicago Tribune
Borden
Street
Washington
Not Too Brave Warlike Person Weighs Rally Feasibility
A wartime dialogue pits a timid speaker against a warlike figure. The timid one concedes he might rally if a white hag proved herself, revealing a tense exchange about collective courage and perceived allegiance.
Lane's Family Medicine Promises Health Benefits
An OCR fragment touts Lane's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movement health, liver and kidney aid, and headache relief. It also lists prices and ads for railroad passes, excursions, an Austrated pamphlet, and Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product with broad regional references to Chicago Dayton Nebraska and New England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California, Oregon and
Washington
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Chicago
New England
S. A. Hutchison
Clark Street
Vege table Compound testimonial and job ad promote
A man endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for menstrual and general health, claiming renewal and relief after eight months of suppression and inviting young women to write for advice. Also a banker brokerage firm seeks a representative in New York City offering a liberal salary or commission.
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Janus Manufacturing CO
Auburn
New York
Prinham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Elizabeth Caine
Fond du Lac
Wis
Lerga Banking
New York City
T.S. Meyer , CO
Broadway
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Ayer
J. W. Fiala
Hadlyme, Ct
Mayer
J.C. Ayer Co
Lowall, Maas
Douglas
W.L. Douglas
Feira
Tieasons
I Peane
Aide
W. L. Douglas
Strockton
Maas
Gad
G &J
CG &J Tire CO
Indianapolia
Alan
G&j
A.d. Tower CO
Boston
Mass
ELY
Nabal
Catatrh
Mly Bros
Warrer St
Ree Markets
Story OF
Putnam
Lane
Dayton
Ohio
Nebraska
State
Demiting Grocers
Young People’s Christian Temperance Association
Elizabeth Aine
Fond du Lac, Wis
Joe Ditcbs
Wiispee
Alabastine Company
Grand Rapids, Mich
Bears
FP. W. N. UL
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