Chicago Markets Special Dispatch Prices for Homegrown Beers and Staples
A market listing from Chicago notes current prices as of March 29. It lists Homegrown Beers at 20 cents per peck, Lemons at 25 to 30 cents per dozen, Fancy Messina Lemons boxed at 5 to 6 dollars, Bananas per bunch 1.25 to 2.00 dollars, with various hardware nails, barbed wire, meats, lard, and dried beef prices. Lumber prices cover finishing boards, flooring, siding, ceiling beaded, joists, boards, shingles, lath, pickets, and posts with multiple per-unit figures.
Livestock market mixed receipts and price ranges by region
Hogs receipts around 4 000 with rig and heavy packing lots selling 4.50 to 5.40. Cattle receipts about 11 500 with steers and heifers selling between 2.25 and 5.70 in varied grades. Sheep receipts about 12 000 with western and native lambs and ewes trading near 5.50 to 7.70. East Buffalo reports steady cattle and higher hogs with multiple price points. St. Louis and Milwaukee grain markets show mixed wheat corn and oats values.
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Cove
Bert. Sacke Weeeee
Poet Sic Cue
Vans City
Omaha
Forthwestern
Inneapolis
Liverpool
Texas
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
St. Louis
Muscatine Markets Report Poor Weather Pressures Prices
Muscatine Iowa market day notes prices across commodities. Wood pine and coal costs listed alongside grain produce and flour rates. Live stock dairy and mixed goods show market weakness with limited demand and range prices for hogs sheep cattle and poultry.
Famine Relief Appeal Seeks Community Help for India Cargo
R G Hobbs in Springfield Illinois appeals to readers to raise funds for a shipload of corn for famine relief in India. He notes 50 000 bushels pledged with plans to raise more and urges mass meetings church drives and personal outreach to raise 40 dollars per person in great corn states. He promises receipts and local coordinators.
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India
Lord Curzon
Illnois
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
New York
Ex-Alderman Chas Moore Found After Year Away
Sioux City, March 27. Ex alderman and former hardware merchant Charles Moore, long estranged from his wife, has been located in Waterville Washington with a brother in law. Mrs Moore pursued him and after a dispute she was jailed for resisting his wishes. Moore plans divorce proceedings while Mrs Moore stays in Washington to contest the case.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Chas. Moore
Charles Moore
Moore
Waterville
Wash
Pioneer Rheumatism Cure Claim At Beverly Ohio
J. Wagner of Beverly Ohio says he suffered rheumatism for five years with no relief from doctors or patent medicines until Mull's Pioneer Rheumatism Cure cured him. The testimonial highlights a single user experience and dates back to the era's patent medicine ads.
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Mull
Tillman praises Moe Kinley as patriotic and noble
The New York Mail and Express quotes Tillman defending Moe Kinley, calling him patriotic and noble. The rhetoric suggests a bracing realism about Kinley, while also hinting at a need for additional flair to dazzle.
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New York Mail and Express
Real Estate For Sale and Exchange Listings Near Annondale
80 acres near Annondale California for exchange for Muscatine city property or nearby farm land. 60 acres as above. Many houses on Eighth street near Mulberry with 7 to 9 rooms priced 2300 to 3500. Additional houses on East Sixth, West streets, and Oak Street with 4 to 10 rooms. Lots across city offered, plus two acres on Lucas Grove Road and one acre on East Hill. Call or write for full particulars.
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Annondale
Cal
Muscatine City
Eighth Street
Mulberry
East Sixth Street
West Sixth Street
West Seventh Street
West Eighth Street
West Fourth Street
West Third Street
Newell Street
Lucas Grove Road
East Hill
Park Place
Monroe Street
New House
Oak Street
Woodlawn
Cedar Street
Fifth Street
Pearl Button Factory Effort Moves Toward Ottumwa Plant
A. Butcher of Muscatine, seeking to open a pearl button factory in Ottumwa using Des Moines River mussel shells, met with local business leaders yesterday. While no definite action occurred, the subscription list nears the required amount and a renewed fundraising tour is planned to secure capital and faith in the venture.
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Ottumwa
A. Butcher
Muscatine
Des Moines
Program at A M E Church A M E Seventh Street
Evening program at the A M E church on Seventh street by the D Y W Y K Club dated March 29 1900 features Doxology instrumental solos selections duets and solos by Miss Cora Phoenix Miss Florence White Miss Bertha Huston Miss Dollie White Miss Daisy Lee and others with a debate on temperance and free admission including journal ice cream cake and candy remarks.
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A. M. E. Church
Seventh Street
Doxology—Club
Cora Phoenix
Florence White
Lee
Bertha Huston
Samuel Barnes
Gertrude
Daisy
Dollie White
Daisy Lee
Wm. Shackleford
Gertrude Lee
Brooks
Gordon
Johnson
Barnes
Grape-Nuts and Postum Aid Patient’s Recovery
A physician reports using Grape-Nuts food and Postum Cereal Coffee to nourish a starving patient with a delicate stomach. He notes rapid improvement, rapid gain, and expects bed recovery within a week as the products are predigested and easily assimilated. Grocers offer both items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Leutwein
Jocker in the Subsidy Pack at Sea Ports
A Buffalo Express report notes a subsidy bill provision requiring one third of subsidized tonnage in a vessel combination before treasury can suspend payments. The rule could enable competing lines to form tight trusts for certain ports while still drawing government bounties.
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Jocker
Buffalo Express
Secretary of the Treasury
To Cr-2 Cold While You Sleep Tabs
An advertisement for Weeks Break-Up-A-Cold Tabs by J. J. Havercamp as sole agent. Claims no cure no pay and price 25 cents for relief during sleep.
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J. J. Havercamp
Advertising values from a New York writer Edgar J Arnold outlines fair policy
Edgar John Arnold, an advertising writer from New York City, argues for straightforward exchange in ad space with honest circulation data. He calls for a clean publication free of objectionable content, firm rate cards, sworn circulation affidavits, and careful copy typography.
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Edgar John Arnold
New York City
Mr. Arnold
Hale
Arnold
Hunting accident claim ends life of Tama man John Croskry
Tama Iowa March 28 A hunting accident at noon yesterday claimed the life of 29 year old John Croskry son of a local resident. The incident occurred during a rural hunt near Tama with authorities launching an investigation.
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Tama
Iowa
John Croskry
Settler Wesley Croskry Fatally Injured In Iowa River Bottom Hunt
Tama county resident Wesley Croskry, three miles southwest of town, was severely wounded when a shell from a Winchester shotgun exploded while Eugene Sherman attempted to load it. Croskry and Sherman were duck hunting on the Thomas Everett farm near Tama.
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Wesley Croskry
Tama County
Iowa River
Croskry
Eugene Sherman
Thomas Everett
Tama
Crosbey
Sherman
Yukon fortunes born from slow methods and quick panics
Ainslee's Magazine profiles Alexander McDonald, a rough Scotchman from Nova Scotia who rose from day laborer to a millionaire on the Klondike rush. He bought Hunt's claim for three hundred dollars on Bonanza Creek and, through patient development and aggressive expansion, amassed millions in a few years. Other miners also found sudden wealth on Bonanza Creek and El Dorado Creek with large daily returns.
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Alexander McDonald
Yukon Valley
Nova Scotia
Klondike
Northwest
Dawson
Hunt
Bonanza Creek
McDonald
el Dorado Creek
Ainslee
Tar Syrup Guarantee Promises Full Refunds
A group listing G A Reinicke, W B Barkalow, Nesper & Co., Jno J Havercamp and J Theo Keuchmann guarantees refunds on Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar. A 50 cent bottle is offered with cure or money back, and a 25 cent bottle proves satisfactory or refunds.
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Greene
G. A. Reinicke
W. B. Barkalow
Nesper & Co
Jno
J. Havercamp
J. Theo. Keuchmann
A Fleeting Opportunity Be Gay Friends Rejoice
Poem urges friends to enjoy spring sunshine before heat sets in as Dame Nature’s changing season passes quickly. The verse highlights the brief delight of spring and the approaching hot weather.
Elegant spring dresses and court notes in town life
Elegant spring dresses at Mrs. Knopp s. District Court convenes Judge Waterman presiding Tuesday April 8. The M E society to erect a chapel on Park Place. Go skating tonight at the rink. Sale of three acre lot near Mulberry to E A Cook for 1050. Wolf hunt and high school programs feature community life with numerous locals named.
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District Court
Waterman
The
M. E. Society
Park Place
J. M. Kemble
John Stone
Mulberry
E. A. Cook
Private Dance Series Concludes At Armory Hall
Prof Clendenin arrives to lead the final private dance of the series at the K P Armory tonight. The successful run may extend to two more dances at Armory Hall biweekly and a Post Lent event is rumored. The piece notes grooming at a barber shop as a segue.
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Clendenin
K. P. Armory
Armory Hall
Wonderful Remedy Tonic Tablets Cure Grippe Sides
A historical advertisement proclaims Dr. Dix Tonic Tablets cure grippe related illnesses. It claims to restore strength and health, citing cures for paralysis nervous disorders kidney trouble and heart issues, urging readers to buy at drug stores or mail order from Hayes and Coon Detroit.
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C. M. Boyd
Tuskegee
Ala
Wm. Simpson
Dix
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Cedar Rapids
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Bertha Cannon Reston
Ies
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Senings
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Daisy Washburn
Will Kincaid
Grippe
Stein’s Opera House
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King and Queen of
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