Behalf of Beefs Inquiry Shows Packers’ Profits Questioned
A 1904 report to President Roosevelt by Commissioner Garfield analyzes beef industry profits. It concludes Western packers do not control half the U S beef supply and average profits per head are modest, based on thorough, official data from packers. The study explains high beef prices stem from cattle shortages rather than excessive packer profits.
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Garneldrae
House of
Armour & Co
Swift & Co
Nelson Morris & Co
Roosevelt
Garfield
United States
Money Lending Vices Plague Western Union Workers
The Western Union Company in New York seeks to curb employee borrowing and curb usurious lenders known as Shylocks. Payday cash orders and salary loans fuel the problem, with creditors preying on wage earners and trapping them in debt. The piece argues stopping such borrowing would improve corporate integrity and public service honesty.
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Western Union Company
New York
Meet
Avid Ky
Industry in His Calling
A dialogue highlights a suitor named Mr Brown who calls nearly every night for a month. The daughter questions his industry in courting while her father presses for marriage. The tone sketches social expectations of matching suitability and propriety.
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Pather
Mr. Brown
Che
Daupehter
Sure of It New York Herald Excerpt Card
The fragment notes a dialogue questioning love and marriage involving Jay Sauitter with a humorous claim that the speaker would give up a bicycle for the beloved, reflecting social attitudes of the period.
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Jay Sauitter
New York Herald
When Love Sparks at Lady Follet's Garden Party
Elva and Monty music mayhem while debating love and age gaps. Monty confesses a yesterday awakening to Mollie Richards, while Elva misreads and probes motives, ending with tears and a comic chorus of grinning blue cats.
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Lady Follet
Elva
Mollie "Richards
Monty
Miss Richards
Bollie Richards
Lcense
Eva
Elya
Srhen
Jewes
Lee
China
Women's honesty debated by eminent physician and Mrs Pinkham ads
An eminent physician argues women lie to doctors while noting they may reveal symptoms to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham. The piece cites letters praising Pinkham's remedies, promoting Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female ills and urging sick women to seek her advice. It also mentions a Tulip Mania anecdote and Dutch stock-market excess in 1684.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Origin of Washington Phrase at Lee Oration
The Springfield Republican notes that the line first in war first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen comes from Major Henry Lee's 1799 oration. The reader asks for its source and history.
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Washington
Henry Lee
Congress
Springfield Republican
Trackman Saves Passengers By Removing Hidden Rail Hazard
At Ninety-sixth Street a rail explosion scorched track overseer Michael Kennedy while tightening bolts on the north bound express. He used a rubber glove to pull free a cold chisel wedged on the third rail, ending the blaze and preventing further danger as passengers watched in fear. Kennedy was rushed to J Hood Wright hospital with burns but survived.
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Babyray
Cooineas
Ninety-sixth Street
Michael Kennedy
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Kennedy
Dropsy Specialists H H Greens of Atlanta Advertise
H H GREENs Sons of Atlanta Ga claim to be the world’s only successful dropsy specialists. They offer a liberal price in an advertisement in another column of this paper.
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Catarra
Hall
J. Corner & Co
Toledo
Dru Tae
H. H. Green’s Sons
Atlants
Seathet Liberal
Cuticura Cures Eczema After Eight Years of Suffering
Miss Mary M. Fay of Westboro Mass reports a dramatic improvement from eczema after using Cuticura. She describes severe symptoms including scabs on the scalp and facial skin, hair loss, and intense itching, with relief beginning the first day and full recovery in a short time.
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Mary M. Fay
West Main St
Westboro
Mass
Squirrels in Early America Placed Under Bounties
The piece notes squirrels live fifteen to twenty years, breed quickly when undisturbed, and in early United States history were so abundant in some localities that bounty was paid for scalps. Western hunts were organized to control their numbers.
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United States
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