Bradstreets Reports Holiday Quiet Yet Firm Prices
Bradstreet quotes a holiday quiet and stock-taking dullness in general distributive trade. Reorders to replenish depletions show activity, dry goods appear steady, and industry keeps up with orders. Prices show firmness in cotton hog products copper tin and cereals. iron and steel demand remains strong with little holiday shutdowns. Weekly business failures total 220, down from prior weeks and years, and annual failures reach a seven year low.
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Bradstreets
New York
Bradstreet
Pew
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Notable Deaths Prompt News From Wisconsin and Minnesota
Ex Representative Michael Griffin head of the state tax commission died suddenly in his office of apoplexy in Hall Claire Wisconsin. Eugene Y Smalley editor publisher of the Northwest Magazine is critically ill in St Paul Minnesota. Helen Smith receives a Christmas gift containing the stolen opera glasses. Loggers benefit from cold weather with pineriles frozen and swamps solidifying in Chippewa Falls Wisconsin. Boutelle praised as recovering at McLean asylum though mental prognosis uncertain. Winfield Randleman express messenger killed in Union Pacific collision at Brighton with seven passengers and seven train men injured.
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State Tax Commission
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Tie
St. Paul
Eugene Y. Smialley
the Northwest Magazine
Denver
Winfield Randleman
Union Pacific
Brighton
Fr. & Hooker
Olin, Jr
Chicago Markets Roundup From Dec 2 Grain and Produce Quoted
Chicago Board of Trade quotes show December wheat at 66 66, July 69 56, corn December 80 85, oats December around 22. Produce notes list butter 22c, poultry meats with prices, apples 1.50 to 3.00 per barrel, cranberries 6.00 to 6.75, livestock receipts and price ranges for cattle and hogs. Milwaukee Grain reports Wheat No 1 northern 66 4, No 2 northern 64, rye 53 54, barley 45 46, oats 25.
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Texas
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Milwaukee
Alkali Trouble in Western Irrigated Lands Warns of Damages
The Department of Agriculture reports alkali and seepage as major irrigation risks in the arid West. Excess salts, canal leakage, and high evapotranspiration cause surface salt buildup, threatening crops and land values. Remedies include gypsum applications, drainage, and preventing overirrigation with possible congressional funding. A separate note outlines a simple method to measure tree height using two stakes and a sight line.
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Wilson
Congress
None So Popular Morrow's Kid-ne-oids Gain Favor in Illinois
W R Beebe of Centralia shares his five year kidney illness story and rapid relief after taking Morrow's Kid-ne-oids. The product, described as Yellow Tablets, is sold for fifty cents per two week box and ships from John Morrow & Co. Springfield Ohio with a descriptive booklet on request.
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Illinois
W. R. Beebe
Centralia
Illinois Central
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John Morrow & Co
Springfield
Ohio
Humorous quotes and medical ads in old papers
A collage of jokes, quips, and ad blurbs from Chicago papers includes a child’s question about drawing, a poke at paper collars, remarks on acoustic quality on a telephone, and tidbits about indigestion, whiskey ads, and patent remedies. Also notes census, rabbit meals, and a Dean’s Ointment testimonial from Bowling Green Ohio.
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Chicago Post
Chicago Record
McTawk
Chicago Tribune
Hardacre
Crawfoot
Bilkins
No Trouble for Her on Christmas Shopping
An outspoken shopper praises managing crowds with help from her two sons, a former college football tackle and a champion wrestler. The piece mingles into a product ad for Dr Thomas Helectric Oil and local services by Emmert & Burrell and Dr W J Rideout, then shifts to a winter travel pitch touting the Gulf Coast as a mild destination served by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad with through Florida connections.
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Mobile
New Orleans
Florida
J. K. Ridgely
N. W
Grain-O touted as coffee substitute for children
An ad extols Grain-O as a nourishing coffee substitute for kids, claiming it tastes like coffee and costs little. It references general grocer availability at 25e and 26e and notes a Stuttgart area concern about homes with only one or two heated rooms.
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Does It Pay to Buy Cheap Lung Remedy
An advertisement touts Boschee's German Syrup as a universal cure for severe lung troubles. It claims the remedy heals tissues, destroys germ disease, eases inflammation, aids expectoration, and improves sleep. Sample bottles are Emmert & Burrell.
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Emmert & Burrell
Cheap Rates South for Homeseekers and Settlers
On the first and third Tuesdays through October the Southern Railway offers cheap one way and round trip tickets to Tennessee Mississippi Alabama Georgia North Carolina South Carolina Virginia and Florida. Homeseekers pay one fare plus 2.00 for the round trip, tickets valid twenty one days from sale. For illustrated matter rates and details write Ww H Taytosz Louisville A G P A J C Beam Jn N W P A 80 Adams St Chicago Ills.
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Adams St
Chicago
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