Summary of Chicago Markets and Winter Trade Trends
Dun's Review notes strong raw material markets and improving wholesale demand despite storms. Transportation, outdoor work rebound, fuel demand up, and retail trade improving in seasonal lines. Agricultural reports favorable, food provisions active, prices mostly firmer with small changes. Bank clearings rise 13.3 percent. commercial paper improves. Business failures in Chicago district 36 this week, Dow Jones and Bradstreet report mild winter effects on New York trade and ongoing building boom with high lumber prices.
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Goth House
Chicago
Dun’s Review of Trade
New York
United States
Bradstreet
Midwest Market Bids Across Cities Show Variations
Cattle and hog values listed for Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit and Milwaukee markets with ranges in prices for cattle hogs and sheep. Grain quotes include Wheat No 2 Corn and Oats with varying cents per bushel and farm staples like hay and butter noted.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Mons
Swift & Company Year 1005 Sales And Operations
Swift & Company reports 1905 distributive sales led by fresh meats provisions produce and by products with margins under two cents per dollar. It describes wholesale only sales, livestock sourcing in Chicago and other markets, and the network of 20 000 employees across seven packing plants. It highlights sanitation visitor access and brand products including Swift's Premium Hams Bacon and Silver Leaf Lard.
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Swift & Co
United States
Swift & Company
Swift
Sequoyah a Genius and Alphabet Inventor
Muskogee correspondent lauds Sequoyah as the genius behind the Cherokee American alphabet. Born about 1763, he created eighty six characters, enabled Cherokee literacy since 1820, and helped spread Christianity via Cherokee Bible translation. He died in 1844 while seeking a Cherokee band in Mexico.
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Sequoyah
Muskogee
I. T
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Bequoyah
George Guess Ghiest
Cherokee Nation
Georgia
Indiana
Mexico
Indian Territory
Tahlequah
Loati
Value of a Hen's Egg as Nutritious Food
A reading notes egg size and composition with averages for length diameter and weight. It breaks down shell yolk and white percentages and cites nutrition from protein and fat while noting palatability drives value beyond chemistry.
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Success Magazine
Teainting the Boy in a Tangle of Words
A puzzling passage shows a conversation about truth and punishment in a playful, garbled exchange. It hints at misheard phrases and comic misunderstandings, reflecting a lighthearted note on discipline and honesty.
Migratory habits of animals mirror human patterns across nature
A column compares migrations of mice rats reindeer and lemmings with human travel. It cites farmers in Perthshire noting mice swarms at harvest and describes rats and reindeer moving seasonally. Lemmings are said to migrate from northern Scandinavia to the south with death as a constant hazard.
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Perthshire
London
Scandinavia
Lottery scheme aims to curb conductor theft in City of Mexico
A Mexico City streetcar system tests a monthly lottery using duplicate conductor tickets to deter cash skimming. Prizes range from 2.50 to 100 dollars, with 200 prizes overall. Passengers receive tickets free and must keep them for the draw supervised by authorities, hoping for higher patronage as a side effect.
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Sehemeo
Mexico
George W. Hibbard
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railroad
National Noes of Mexico
City of
Losa
Chicago Chronicle
Hibbard
Cara
Tramways
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