Barometer of the Year for Railroads 1886
The chart tracks railroad stock fluctuations on the New York Stock Exchange through 1886. It shows an overall upward trend with earlier low prices gaining the most, such as Reading rising from 18 in January to 54 in November and Canada Southern from 38 to 78. Strikes, management changes, and pooling actions influenced railroad business, as observed by analysts.
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New York Stock Exchange
Reading
Canada Southern
Gould
Wall Street
Manhattan Elevated Railroad
Commercial price chart tracks yearly petroleum and food costs
The article notes petroleum as a volatile gambling stock with monthly high and low prices from January to August and describes a long running chart of wholesale food prices over sixteen years. It cites butter tea sugar coffee flour pork peaches and explains factors behind price movements and consumer costs in 1886.
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Petroleum
Cey
Grady's New South Speech Shines at New England Dinner
Henry W. Grady of Atlanta spoke at the New England society banquet on Forefather's Day. The young Southern journalist, born in Athens, Georgia, traced the rise of the New South and praised cross sectional goodwill between North and South.
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New York
Henry W. Grady
Atlanta Constitution
New England Society
Chauncey M. Depew
Horace Russell
William T. Sherman
Schofield
William Waller Phelps
T. de Witt Talmage
New South
Atlanta
Gen. Sherman
Mr. Grady
South
Congress
New England
Henry
W. Grady
Grady
Athens
University of Georgia
Rome
Heroic
Herald
Constitution
Republic
Mason and Dixon
Food Prices Fall as Sugar and Rice Drop
Sugar has declined one cent per pound and rice has also fallen, signaling relief in the food supply. The note appears amid broader discussions on inventory and pricing trends.
Rustic Ontario settler builds log home in dense forest
A Toronto Globe retells a 60 year old Ops township tale of a settler and his wife with two children who carved a log house roof from hollow basswood and dug a wife buried husband in a snowbound clearing eight miles from neighbors. The wife, left alone by illness and wolves, buried her husband by rolling a log aside with a hand spike and digging a grave under the cabin, then fled with her children to safety.
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Toronto
Ontario
Globe
Ops
Hepmate
How to Eat Wisely and Three Great Food Habits
Practical health guidance from Hall's Journal of Health on eating slower and smaller, chewing thoroughly, and timing meals. It advises five hour digestion, avoids late heavy meals, and favors light suppers for sleep and recovery. Includes a brief advert for Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment sold by J. F. Fezer.
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Hall
Chamberlain
J. F. Fezer
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