Ostrich Plumes Scarce in London Trade
London dispatch notes a sharp drop in ostrich plume supply due to the South African War, predicting a deficiency of about 270000 in feather value at the six annual sales in Mincing Lane. Over 4 million dollars of feathers are sold yearly, with Barbary imports rising as Khartoum fell. Prices range 7.50 to 75 or 80 per pound, best wings 110 to 120 per pound, yet even at peak this yields under 75 cents per feather. Middlemen and milliners reap profits from clean, dyed, curled plumes and boas use smaller tail and body feathers.
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London
Mincing Lane
America
Khartoum
We Spring from Mad A fragment on evolution and a preacher’s event
The text notes debate on human descent from apes and the idea of shared protoplasmic origins. It also reports an upcoming Fort Dodge Presbytery meeting at the local church to install Rev. W Edward McLeod as pastor, with sermons by Rev Newman Burdick and addresses by Rev McDonald and Rev Evans. A public service and invitation are mentioned.
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London
Fort Dodge
Reform era notes mingle with town items and notes
A collage of local items from the paper includes a marriage of Henry J. Rust and Misa Susie Hansen, a Storm Lake speech cite about whiskey shops, a Bingham and Son poultry strike with wage cut, a Terrill Tribune illustrated edition, plans for a new Bahs N. depot, Flanagan Sisters leasing space for millinery, liquor case testimony, a thank you card from Oscar Myhre, and the Gerberich Music Co selling mandolins amid local commerce chatter.
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Storm Lake
Abrams
Estherville
Bingham & Son
Terrill Tribune
Haynen& Hayden
New Ulm
Cedar Rapids Republican
B.ahs N
Republican
Flanagan
Gerberich Musk Co
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Olson’s Jewelry Store
Olson, the Jeweler
Ther
Esa & Great Depresae
J. W. Lough’s Cash
Rogeries
Toum
Henry J. Rust
Misa Susie Hansen
Prescott
Oscar Myhre
Hunky-Dory Ia
Gerberich Music Co
Gerberich Music Store
Cambros
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