Economic notes from the Weekly Trade Review
The Weekly Trade Review discusses favorable industrial progress despite labor, fuel, and money pressures. Rail and coke supply, steel billets, and locomotive demand shape earnings, with money markets showing mixed western strength and looming railcar shortages. A Boer vows not to cut his hair until British leave South Africa, provoking curiosity postwar.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Dun
South Africa
Market price snapshot for regional grains livestock and staples
Market report lists Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee prices for cattle hogs sheep and grains. Highlights include cattle 3.00 to 7.50 across cities, wheat No 2 around 68c to 74c, corn No 2 about 50c to 59c, oats 26c to 32c, rye 40c to 52c, butter 20c to 23c, eggs 18c to 21c, and pork mess near 16.90.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Youth's Companion Promises Condensed Trustworthy News
The Youth's Companion offers a weekly summary of important news, editorial nonpartisanship, and practical domestic insight for busy readers. A new volume for 1903 costs $1.75 with 1902 issues and bonus Calendar lithographed in color, to be sent to subscribers.
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Berkeley Street
Boston
Mass
Ick
Little Boy Picks Path To Detectiveship
Parson asks what future pursuit the boy will follow and the boy answers he will become a detective and must pursue pickpockets to catch them.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Adverts for Internal Use
An assorted newspaper snippet notes Hall's Catarrh Cure priced at 75 cents. It mentions extensive public land and a steam laundry for sale in Indiana due to owner illness. Also references a hair anecdote and a self taking dating stamp offer with a Fort Wayne box address.
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Indiana
Edward D. Dreibelbias
Fort Wayne
Fort Wayn
Evidently Used Up and Early Morning Visit
A New York Weekly excerpt describes Mrs Meadowland and Farmer Meadowland discussing a city gentleman who arrived yesterday exhausted and still asleep at four o'clock. The piece mentions Burdock Blood Bitters as a remedy for stomach and bowel regulation.
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Meadowland
Farmer Meadowland
Orchard Grafting Mystery Baffles Alderman During Vacation
A fragmented dialogue from a local exchange describes an orchard owner explaining how two kinds of apples are grown on one tree through grafting. The Alderman, on vacation, and others react with confusion as terms like dongy and terrupted appear garbled.
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Tribune
Free Rheumatises Cure Mail Order Offer
A box of a claimed safe remedy called alizpia will be mailed free to rheumatism sufferers after other remedies failed. The ad directs interested parties to send their address to John A. Smith at 79 Germanis Building, Milwaukee Wisconsin.
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John A. Smith
Germanis Building
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Old Kentucky obituary fragment hints Basil-Did Stiller leave heir
In Old Kentucky the fragment mentions Basil-Did Stiller and asks if he left his family anything when he died. Zeke-Yeas answer suggests a mort gage and two feuds. The piece also references Putnam Faceless Dyss product notes and Astoria Oregon historical naming by John Jacob Astor.
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Old Kentucky
Basil
Old Stiller
Zeke
Yeas
Sah
Memoir Promotion for Railroad in Education Book
The Wabash issues a free distribution of the book Railroad in Education with chapters on Fast Runs and The St Louis Union Station. To obtain, send 66 cents postage to Co S Crane General Passenger and Ticket Agent Wabash St Louis Missouri. Insist on Eagle Linen Paper for letter paper.
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St. Louis Union Station
Wabash
Co. S. Crane
Gen'l Pass
R and
Tkt. Agi
Wabashi, R
St, Louis
Sunday Excursions to Chicago Sale Begins This Summer
Nickel Plate Road offers summer Sunday round trips Fort Wayne to Chicago for 2.00 using trains 5 and 6 with same day return. Ticket agent C A Asterlin in Fort Wayne Indiana handles inquiries. Also includes unrelated ad lines about women’s products and a cheeky moral note.
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Chicago
Nickel Plate Road
Fort Wayne
C. A. Asterlin
I. P.A
Ind
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Tial
West
Auboreia
San Francisco
Cal
Louisville
N. Y
Hall
United States
Beauty
Astoria, Orc
John Jacob Astor
The
Pacific Fur Company
Jay Gould
Mra. Austin
Mra. Winslow
Caldwell
Jon Inte
Pepsin Syrup Company
Monticello, UL
Banat Sone
Iran
A.J. Tower CO
Linotype School
Linotype
World Building
FW. N. Y
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