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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1908
Page
11
The market report lists iron at 1675 per unit, cotton middling at 16 7 4, coffee No 7 Rio, steel rails 2800, sugar granulated, lake copper ingots around 67 percent, beef and pork terms, hogs dressed around 160, lard prime, and various prime tallow and beef ham figures. exchange reads as observed, with assorted commodities noted.
New York August 14 1908 market report covers coffee with closes little changed, cotton rising on August contracts amid short covering and rumors of supply shifts, grain including wheat corn and oats with sharp early moves then recoveries, linen and metals pricing with London influences, and oil and molasses markets steady to firm. Multiple exchanges cite port receipts, exports, stock levels, and weekly movement figures.
Help wanted notice seeks alesmen for celebrated automatic adjustable dustpan promising big earnings. Also listed is a bankbook theft report: Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank book stopped. return to 51 Chambers St. Bank for New York book 740.600. frost-Fe. Savings 280 4th Ave. Please report details.
A collage of short employment notices lists drivers chauffeurs and tradesmen with references. Includes 16 year old seeking office work, 24 year old sober driver, and several chauffeurs and a welder or mechan ic tradesman, all asking for best references and location cues across New York area.
Various short employment ads placed by individuals in New York area. Listings include a private secretary with admin experience at 464 West 26th Street, a handy man for engine room duties, a painter carpenter and sign worker at 139 East 50th Street, a 26-year-old engineer with license and machine shop experience, two young men seeking Brooklyn positions, a 19-year-old eager to learn gardening near New York, and a 34th Avenue address for a 19-year-old in tailoring.
Temas editors and publishers seek editorial position. H offers mis reader skills in natural history children stories. J G K seeks confidential secretary role with literary, business and social correspondence. Mile Barrie advertises perfect French lessons for advance pupils via visiting governess at 28 West 16th Street.
Domestic help notices list a Protestant coachman with four years last employer, a German gardener with two children seeking private estate work, a gardener with greenhouse and landscaping skills, a useful man for a gentleman's place with horses, all offering strong references and addresses in Englewood Pelham Manor and Tribune Office area.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announces every other hour on the even hour Royal Blue Line service to Baltimore and Washington with direct connections at New Union Station. Through daily trains west to Chicago, Pittsburgh, St Louis and Louisville plus Cin City and Columbus offerings. Sleeping car reservations and full information available at the Bureau of Information, 234 Broadway and other offices.
A companion for the elderly or invalid seeks a refined Christian woman for a pleasant pensionable home with small salary. Various ads seek chambermaids, housework, cooks, waitresses, and housekeepers with references, many offering furnished rooms. positions require neat, reliable, or American widow profiles and strong references. Local bureaus list multiple positions with city and country options and specific addresses in New York area.
Chicago hog receipts reach 21,000 with 14,000 more expected Saturday, Western totals 63,000 including Kansas City and Omaha. Pork steady to firm with mixed quotes for mess and family cuts. dressed hogs easy. beef quiet with varied price ranges. Rice and sugar markets show steady to active tones, refined sugar in demand, and London beet sugar higher.
Receipts totaled 3 cars of beeves with 1 652 head. steer activity steady to 15c higher, bulls firm, cows dull. Native cattle top $6 50 per 100 lb. veals $5 to $6.50 per 100 lb. Sheep and lambs weak with 15 car unsold. lambs cut 15 25c. Hogs 2 136 head, weak, late prices around $6.90 per 100 lb for heavy state hogs. Shipments to London and Armour Co. totals for week include 653 cattle and 6 600 beef quarters from this port.
Liverpool August 14 closing notes show spot quiet wheat prices with No 2 red Western at 7s 7d and No 1 California at 7s 10 1/2d, while corn futures firm. Winter flour patents steady at 29 8d. Hops in London hold steady. beef and pork values rise with strong prime pork Western and various bacon cuts gaining. Lard and American refined prices steady, cheese firmer in Canada.
The notice lists NJ Central trains to Philadelphia every hour with varied departures from W 23d Street, Liberty Street, and Atlantic City routes. It details times to Baltimore, Washington, Atlantic City, Long Branch, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, and Sandy Hook routes, plus pier timetables and offices for timetable procurement.
New England Navigation Company lists multiple steamer routes from New York to Boston Fall River Providence Norwich New Bedford and more with pier numbers timetables and ship names including Priscilla Commonwealth Providence and Plymouth Maine and New Hampshire and Naugatuck Bridgeport and Richard Peck and Naugatuck. Details cover daily and Sunday departures from Pier 19 18 40 28 46 70 and contact info for schedules.
The Hudson River Day Line promotes fast riverboats including Hendrick Hudson New York Albany and Mary Powell. Through trains connect Cornwall and West Point for packages to Catskill Mt resorts and Saratoga with through tickets and baggage checked. Day trips to West Point Newburgh or Poughkeepsie depart on down day boats with meals and music during the voyage.
The page lists boarding and rooming options near Broadway and the Park or Riverside areas, with prices and private family arrangements. It also includes lost passbooks and bankbooks from Union Dime Savings and German Savings Bank with ten day claim periods, plus a used goods catalog alert for Victor Visible catalog offers.
The City of New York seeks three disinterested freeholders to act as Commissioners of Appraisal under Chapter 724 of the Laws of 1905 as amended. The NYS Supreme Court in Westchester County will hear the case on September 26, 1908, at 9:30 AM at Judges' Chambers New Rochelle. The targeted real estate lies in Orange and Putnam counties including Montgomery Newburgh Cornwall and Phillipstown and involves construction of the Catskill Aqueduct with maps filed June 1908 in Orange Dutchess and Putnam counties.
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