Tricks Of All Trades In Fire Sale Shortages
A shopper recounts being trapped on a top floor of an out of town store by crowds in the elevator and witnessing a firm member watering shirt waists to drum up a fire sale. The next day the shopper finds the cheap waists again offered at 49 cents, drawing many buyers in.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Eure Enoph
R. Seeley
Klopp S Drug Store
Dr. Bulla
Free Baptist Parsonage
North Sth Street
Fixception Wanted and Heat Record Banter
An eclectic trimmed page captures quips from era newspapers in playful chatter. It notes heat records, social banter, sharp wit, and marriage jokes, featuring lines from Washington Star Philadelphia Times Chicago Tribune and Baltimore American.
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Washington Star
Dolliver Builds New Two Story School House
Enterprising Dolliver citizens plan a two story four room school building designed by Jas Cox architect. The 24 by 40 foot structure will have the two lower rooms finished immediately with the upper rooms added as needed. Site and building costs total about 38,000 dollars. Hitaffer is the contractor.
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Dolliver
Jas. Cox
Credit Fon
Hitaffer
Why He Declined the Job and the $600 Offer
A Washington report recounts a Atlanta bookkeeper who declined a treasury department post at $600 yearly due to a lucrative business, then later accepted a higher salary offer elsewhere. It notes the case as highly unique and compares department salaries, with treasury employing more staff at lower averages than interior.
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Treasury Department
Civil Service Commission
Atlanta
Washington
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
The
Times
Federal
Interior Department
Treasury Service
Health Hints From A Past Era On Body Care And Rest
The article offers old time advice on breakfast trust, flooring, bathing, breathing, and relaxation. It urges careful massage to avoid facial lines, notes blue lips after surf bathing, and recommends five minutes a day lying flat with eyes closed. It also warns women to rest and avoid fidgeting while entertaining, reflecting period norms.
Passing interests and oddities from world notes
A collage of curiosities and statistics cites silk output, Oxford plan on Sunday sermons, Britain railway compensation, European power ranks, Paris hairpin nests, a Fort Worth report on a Rock Island conductor’s mishap, Siphon population, and Japan’s main island population with 87 million on 42 000 square miles.
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Oxford University
Great Britain
Russia
Austria
Germany
France
United Kingdom
Italy
Paris
Luxembourg
Fort Worth
Chicago, Rock Island & Texas Railroad
el Reno
Tor
Siphon
Japan
Ihe
Great Beltain
Burlington and Cedar Rapids North South Train Times Esthurville
Train schedule changes effective November 19 list going north and leaving times for passenger and freight trains at Esthurville. Includes passenger numbers 708 32 and local freight numbers 1 62 with daily and daily except Sunday designations and station agents names GRO W NICHOLSON and KE Winn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Gedar Rapids&Northern
Esthurville
Pauger
Bora Freight
M. KE. Winn
LE Rop
tDaily Exc Gro
W. Nicholson
Burlington railroad extends 140 miles in Minnesota towns
The Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway nears completing 140 miles of new extensions in southwestern Minnesota. Six new towns Reading Wilmont Lismore Kenneth Walters and Conger become commercial centers. No sanction sale of Jota or boom. growth reflects demand for convenient markets. Thirty day sale limits apply to Indiana Ohio Kentucky on select September October days from all town points.
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Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Company
Minnesota
Reading
Wilmont
Lismore
Kenneth
Walters
Conger
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
Burlington, Cedar, Rapids & Northern Ry
MO. G. Farmer
Cedar Rapids
Town
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M. J. Groves
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E. J. Breen
E. E. Hartung
L. R. Woods
Montgomery
F. P. Woods
C. M. Brown
Vincent
Peek
J, KP. Kirby
W. A. Streater
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IODA
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Old Palace
Howard and
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A. O. Peterson
Estherville, Iowa
Oscar Robins
Lew
Manner Promaill
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Philadelphia Times
James
Iarcourt
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Chicago Tribune
Baltimore American
Mr. Meekton
Henrietta
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Bengal Bay
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Lexae
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Chicago Daily News
Ted
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Sargent Bryan
Myerly & Bevan
J.awyers
Masonic Block
Eatherville, Ia
Adams & Stover, Lawyers
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Boper
Allen D. J. Alexander
JOPER
Allen & Alexander
Emmet
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Iowa
J. W. Crim
Crial & Ven
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Seventh
B.A. Orling
Allen Morling & Allen
Lawyers
Albro Bloth
Agman
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First Baptist Church
Lice Stlason
Uftice
Sweet Home Bakery
Alexander Ivey
Odd Fellows Hall
Fort Defance
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Odd Fellow Mall
Woodman Circle
K.P. Hall
Emmet Homestead
Woodman
Repblir
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