Farmers items show varied notices and market notes
A collage of farm notices reports two Jersey cows for sale, a mare injured by a bridge collapse and death, wheat and oats yields on local farms, land sales in Des Moines and Burlington, shipments of oats and livestock, and local politics critiquing Attorney General Hadley. Also includes beeves, poultry, eggs, and hay prices with regional market updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Sandifer
W P Young
Marion County
JB Gray
Fire devastates Armour grain elevators in Chicago yards
Chicago firemen battled a blaze at the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy yards on Sixteenth Street destroying the dock freight transfer house and grain elevators E and F owned by Armour and Co. Within an hour the loss was estimated at 2 million dollars as about a thousand cars sat in flames or threatened, origin of the fire unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Sixteenth Street
Armour and Co
Advertising and town trade boost from shared merchants
An editorial urges merchants to advertise as a citywide benefit, arguing that drawing shoppers to town increases sales for all stores. The piece cites Spokane reporting on British Columbia fire losses nearing ten million dollars and notes city events including the primary election, whisky shipments, and chautauqua enthusiasm, with local social mentions.
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Carthage Democrat
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J. J. Dimmitt
Monroe City, Mo
WB Arnold
Fred Rickman
Theo D Doemeland
Burlington
Iowa
Mr Berlin
Missouri
William Rickman
Des Moines
W Fields
Henry Behne
Kendrick
Dawson
Henry Green
Jno Lowen
Beeves
Hannibal
Joe Hardesty
Jno Worind
Thomas Findley
Spalding Realty Co
Dr. L. W. Dallas
Hunnewell
S M Reid
Jay, NL
Market” Report
Felten Bai
Umitria Vis Cepscenisan St Cenenapenar
Bar‘ger and McClintic
C Underhill
T N Fessenden
Kendrick and
Pond Poultry Co
Henderson and Son
Grandstander
Hadley
New London
Aprae
Peneeres
Spokane
Wash
British Columbia
San Francisco
Sparwood
Hosmer
Fernie
Michel
Monroe
Queen of the Prairies
Joe Depot
Billy Sunady
Bart Rosell
St. Louis
Mesdames
Thomas Suter
Lees Saffarans
Palmyra
Carson
B, G
Tan
Nit
Petic
J. E. Christian’s
Monroe City Fair
John Knott
Alma Palmer
Capitol of
Marion
aMtlernd Te Ie
Darttin
Dr. Thomas
J .M. Proctor
Bartles
Balmyra National
Charles Glitch
Laddonia
Wah
Athy
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