Commercial column notes trade gains and price shifts
R. G. Dun & Co. reports autumn retail trade enlarging amid favorable weather and better collections. While retail distribution remains solid, money rates cause caution in future prep. Western and Southern wholesale orders stay strong as new spring lines are well received. Copper weakens. textiles see price cuts by a Chicago house but cotton goods hold. New England producers are sold ahead, yet overall industry tone stays unsettled.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Chicago
New England
Five Months in Hospital Patient Praises Kidney Pills
Levi P. Brockway of Anoka Minnesota reports five months in a hospital ending with a diagnosis of incureable and six months to live. He suffered heart issues smothering spells fainting and impaired vision before taking Dean's Kidney Pills. He claims the pills addressed the cause and left him well. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Levi P. Brockway
Second Ave
Anoka
Minn
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Highland Park co ed almost starts fire with hidden light
A Highland Park student brought an electric light globe into her room and, unable to extinguish it, hid it in a stand. The glow and burning odor scorched her clothing until the roommate returned and revealed the danger. College authorities now place hanging electric lights with concealed switches in all rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highland Park
Des Moines
Grain and poultry prices mixed in Baltimore New York and Philadelphia markets
Baltimore futures show wheat and corn prices mixed with bids for various bin and stock grades and dampened Wester n demand. Spot values for No 2 red Western wheat around 109 percent with futures around 110 percent while corn edges lower. New York reports wheat and corn prices mostly steady to higher with No 2 red at 110 111 percent and oats weaker. Philadelphia lists modest reductions in wheat and corn with steady butter and eggs, live poultry steady, and slight declines in No 2 white oats and corn.
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Baltimore
Western
Red Western
New York
Duluth
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
The Census Taker and the Name Game
A humorous exchange quoted by the Chicago Tribune shows a woman navigating census rules. She lists multiple names tied to different states as she explains her marital status, stating she is married in some states and divorced in others, with varied records across eight more. Her trunk in a neighboring state indicates ongoing divorce proceedings.
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Mrs. Jones
Miss Smith
Mrs. Brown
Texas
New York
Massachusetts
South Dakota
Missouri
Alaska
Oklahoma
California
Chicago Tribune
Misalliance overboard and litiga tion humor
A brief jokey note from the Chicago News about a man marrying his landlady to avoid debt and litigation, claiming the marriage was to settle three months board yet yielding no payment in the end.
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Chicago News
Live Stock Markets Report from Chicago and Kansas City
Cattle prices in Chicago show steady to mixed moves with steers 5.25 to 7.45, cows 3.30 to 5, heifers 3 to 5.75, bulls 2.60 to 5, calves 3 to 8.50, stockers 2.40 to 4.45. Hogs rise with choice heavy shipping 6.55 to 6.65 and packing 6 to 6.60. Sheep and lamb values also firm from 3.50 to 6.75. Kansas City quotes follow with mixed gains and steady demand across cattle types, including export steers 5.75 to 6.80 and cows 2.30 to 4.25.
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Chicago
Kansas City
Stockholders Open Annual Meeting Amid Odd Customs
The secretary suggests proceeding to cut the melon while the president agrees after pulling a turnip. The exchange includes checking the watch to time the meeting start as the X Y and Z Railway stockholders prepare for their annual gathering.
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Chicago Tribune
Home Time Question From Chicago News
A wife asks when her husband will be home as he heads downtown. He replies he will come when ready and tells her not to wait up beyond that time.
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G. W
Chicago News
Various World Notes on Science and Society Across Nations
A compilation of brief items: Vera Cruz bicycle craze and a local motorcycle. Yokohama gas works extension costing 313000 gold. a 71 year old woman charged with intoxication in Feltham claiming to celebrate her mother’s 98th birthday. mare’s tails and mackerel sky cloud types with up to 10 miles height. Vancouver consuls on fish offal used for guano in British Columbia. Europe’s doctoring trend with men leaving medicine for women. France has over 8 million freeholds versus 300000 in Britain. a Frenchman’s view on land. New York County grand jury averages 64 indictments daily. four peers, 11 baronets, 35 knights named on the king’s birthday. Lyons and Milan as ancient silk centers with Lyons population around 500000 versus Milan.
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Boston
Meyer
Congress
United States
O" Meyer
T. J
Postal Savings Bank
Postal
Rome
N. Y
Jacob W. Boody
Boody
Oneida County
Lake
Oneida
Harding
Washi Prin
Lincoln
Grant
Cleveland
Harrison
Garfield
Susan B. Anthony
Sigsbee
Dewey
Hobson
Williams
Thea
Benjamin Franklin
John Howard
John Wesley
Isaac Washington
Vera Cruz
Yokohama
Miller
Feltham
England
L. E. Dudley
Vancouver
British Columbia
Europe
France
Great Britain
Grand Jury
New York County
Lyons
Milan
Indus
Four-leaf clover luck joke tied to dog’s death
Barker jokes about luck from a four-leaf clover and a pug dog’s death after a wife’s pet. The piece notes the Danish flag as the oldest present national emblem with unchanged design since the 13th century and mentions an Austrian jubilee coinage planned next year featuring silver five crown pieces and gold hundred crown pieces.
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Barker
Chicago News
Coffee Cause of Health Trouble Sparks Postum Praise
A Huntsville Alabama woman who drank coffee for about forty years suffered chronic stomach issues for two decades. After trying tea and milk with no relief she switched to Postum and four months later reports dramatic health improvement and better sleep. She credits coffee as the cause and endorses Postum as a remedy.
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Huntsville
Ala
Ingomola
Eloquent lecturer cites body as gear and sun baths praised
The speaker argues mechanics mirror the body with cogwheel knuckles and weight lifting. Boys test the claim at home and find it false, while Evan Roberts from Cincinnati extols sun baths after Berlin doctors prescribe more air and sunlight for health.
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Chicago Tribune
Evan T. Roberts
Cincinnati
Tulane
Germany
Berlin
Nashville
Tennessean
Found It Excerpt Sparks Quiet Church Moment
A dramatic line from the Rev. Dr. Fourthly asks where the weary will rest while a Deacon Hardesty in the pew snores softly, a brief audible pause noted in the Chicago News.
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Fourthly
Hardesty
Chicago News
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Promises Reward and Testimonials
The ad offers a one hundred dollar reward for an incurable case of catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure. It quotes F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo and Walpine Kinnan Manvin as endorsers. Claims the remedy acts on blood and mucous surfaces with testimonials available. Also advertises Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Tlow
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Walpine, Kinnan & Manvin
O. Hall
Will you pass the butter Mr Diggs
A new boarder asks Diggs for butter and the landlady notes the humor in his response. The column then digresses into a note on keeping milk pall clean with Borax and water and a remark about honesty versus money.
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W. H. Willa
Notary Public
Will
Indiana Avenue
Washington, DC
Weminston
Toohsioner
Hall Bts
Cure at Last After Eight Years of Skin Trouble
Fritz Hirschlaff of 24 Columbus Ave New York says after eight years of rough sore skin between limbs and toes under arms he spent about three hundred dollars with no relief. One week of Cuticura Remedies cost a dollar fifty and healed him allowing him to return to business. dates March 29 and April 6 1906.
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Fritz Hirschlaff
Columbus Ave
New York
N. Y
Rare and costly drugs described in Wissenauer Alle
A writer notes saffron costs 13 dollars a pound until revealing it is the central trio of flowers used per pound. Attar of roses, aconitine, musk, ambergris, and venom of the rattlesnake are cited with prices and strong effects. Cockroach powder is mentioned as a possibly beneficial remedy for dropsy.
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Philadelphia Record
The Stingiest Man in Glasses Story
A local oculist recalls a stingy old man who refused a minor eye operation to save one extra lens. He preferred leaving one eye impaired rather than pay for treatment and new glasses.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
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