Florida lumber boom and diverse fruit promise rise
The Florida settler extols timber as the state’s leading industry with vast pine forests and strong demand, citing $30 per foot yellow pine flooring, big capital interest, and future growth. It then shifts to fruit potential, listing oranges, lemons, limes, grapes, figs, peaches, pineapples, and more, arguing patience and industry can yield substantial long term wealth for settlers and investors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lunber
Florida
Alberto
North
South
North Carolina
New York Mercantile Journal
South Carolina
Europe
Union
H. L. Hart
Palatka
Arthur Ginn
Mellonville
de Barry
New York
Enterprise
Charles. S. Brown
General Sanford
Conn
H. 8S. Deforest
Florida Blackberries And Market Prospects
Florida blackberries grow abundantly in northern and middle counties along water courses and roadsides. For six weeks yearly the yield is prodigious, with thousands of bushels available at low cost. Opportunities exist to profit by wine making or drying the fruit for sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
West Indies
Florida
Clear Water Harbor
Cedar Keys
Cuba
New Orleans
Deaf Editor and a Hilarious Book Purchase Request
An excerpt from the Santa Clara Echo recounts a deaf editor and staff denying a book seller who tries to bargain for a book. The piece includes a crude exchange, a shouted demand to sell a book, and blunt remarks about marriage and cooking, followed by a stray boast about a horse market and a long price list for famous horses and stud fees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Clara
Cal
Echo
Blood stock holds market value beyond intrinsic worth
The piece argues blood stock is valued by market demand and utility, not a fixed intrinsic value. It highlights profitable uses of thoroughbreds and trotting stock in stud services, brood mares, and crossbreeding, noting high prices like the Duchess of Geneva and her calf, and observes horses’ greater usefulness and enduring demand across farming, travel, and labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Centaur Liniment Promises Pain Relief Across Ailments
advertising copy touts Centaur Liniment as all conquering for human and animal ailments. It claims cures for rheumatism neuralgia lockjaw palsy sprains and more with over 1000 certificates and a free circular offer. Sold by J B Ross & Co at 53 Broadway New York priced 50 cents to 1 dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Ross & Co
Broadway
New York
BROWN
Curtis & Brown
Fulton Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Freeport Journal
Antetell
South Florida
Dade
Brevard
Monroe
United States
Horder
Kentucky
Norfolk
Lexington
Kingfisher
Glenelg
Extra
Blackwood
Jay Gould
Dexter
Jim Irving
Goldsmith Maid
Startle
Prospero
Rosalind
Lulu
Happy Medium
Clara G
Pocahontas
Auburn Horse
Edward Everett
Mambrino Bertie
Socrates
Baywood
Asteroid
Woodford Mambrino
Thorndale
M. M. Mawer’s
Stephenson Street
Illinois
M. M. Mayer
BROAD
Broad's
Centaur Liniment
Hamilton
Swarts & Stocking
Mrs. Winslow
Curtis & Perkins
All Medicine
Broad’s
Broad's Book Store
Photons
A. B. Landis
Penn
Mount Joy
Call
Seeme
Chicago
S. F. Taylor
Freeport, Ill
Chicago & North Western
Railway
Detroit
Cleveland
Buffalo
Suspension Bridge
Pittsburg
Baltimore
Washington
Philadelphia
Boston
New England
Canadas
Cincinnati
Louisville
St. Louis
Westinghouse
Chicago & North
Western Railway
M. Hugaitt
W. HE. Stennet
Liniment
Chab
P. Marshall
Swan St
N.Y
OLD Reliable
Chas. Bodman
WH. Hoffman
Bodmann
Seed Leae
Bodman WN & CO
R . Ticra
L. D. Line
Rose
L. D
Wilson
Price
Vienna
Austria
W.G. Wilson
Miele
Wilson Sewing Machine
Dress A. Frey
Loran, I
Stephenson Co
Freeport
Pennsylvania House
Freeport, Ilinois
Lehman
Ly Freeport Il
Michigan
Wisconsin
Brewster House
Freeport, IL
Banford, Rowely & CO Freeport
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