Price Range Shifts for Various Qualities
A catalog snippet shows price variation from $1.85 to $10.75, previously $2.75 to $21.50. Other figures list 25c, 37 4c and 50c, with regular rates at 37 12c, 50c and 75c for different quality tiers.
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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1908
Page
6
A catalog snippet shows price variation from $1.85 to $10.75, previously $2.75 to $21.50. Other figures list 25c, 37 4c and 50c, with regular rates at 37 12c, 50c and 75c for different quality tiers.
George M. Coffin a New York banker and former Deputy Controller testifies at the Walsh case about national banks making loans above legal limits. He says such loans were common in a reserve district and in about thirty cities including New York and Chicago, with banks receiving printed statutory warnings rather than formal criticism.
Listing offers girls low neck dresses with kimono sleeves in chambray and gingham, polka dots stripes and solid colors, embroidery trims for ages 6 to 14, and two gingham guimpes with cluster tucking or embroidery in white lawn, cambric and nainsook, priced at 1.95 1.85 and 1.75 notes.
The witness, linked to the Controller's office 1886 to 1898, describes formal letters to banks about reducing excessive loans, signed with autograph stamps. He notes memoranda are common, but admits never seeing bank notes signed by another name without authority. He says loan limits relate to deposits, cites Chestnut Street National Bank as an instance of failure, and the inquiry adjourns amid defense objections.
Albany report says a proposed bill by local interests would extend State Labour Department enforcement of mercantile labor laws to large department stores in New York City. It follows Governor Hughes’s call and would not fix sixty hour weekly limits for women and children. The plan envisions a new bureau if enacted.
The report notes trains expected to reach Seattle early in 1908 with lines opened to Bowman North Carolina 163 miles west of the Missouri River. Grading near Harlowton Montana is practically finished and rails are laid at about four miles daily.
Cleveland trades will restart with about 10,000 workers returning Monday. J Kerr Tanner, president of the Manufacturers' Information Bureau, says around 25,600 to 30,000 statewide will resume, injecting about $150,000 in wages next week and predicting full operation in Cleveland within a fortnight.
San Francisco January 4 official closing quotations for mining stocks show Alpha Consolidated five cents, Hale and Norcross twelve and a half cents, Andes sixteen, Mexican Belcher twenty nine, Occidental, Best and Belcher sixty eight and Ophir Caledonia twenty seven, Overman and others. Potosi Chollar fourteen, Savage Confidence sixty, Sierra Consolidated California and Virginia sixty three, Canton Consolidated Imperial two, Utah Consolidated Crown Point twenty seven, fellow Jacket Gould and Curry thirteen.
Troy N Y Jan 4 strong opposition is expected at the Albany public service commission hearing on the proposed Buffalo Rochester and Eastern Railroad line between Troy and Buffalo. The New York Central Railway opposes the project as the new line would parallel its route.
Chicago officials announce that before April 1 the Pacific Coast extension of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railroad will reach Butte Montana and establish through train service almost immediately. Construction will then continue west of Butte to complete the line.
The report lists tidal times and celestial data for Sandy Fook Gov. Island Hell Gate and Sandy Hook, including high water at morning and evening hours and the moon phase age. It notes ships Vaderland and Furnessia near Sable Island with expected dock times on Monday based on noon reports.
Antwerp dispatches list mail sailings and vessel calls with dates from January 1 to January 31. Ships include Red Star of Galveston, Oceanic, White Star Cearense Para, and Kronprinz W. Plans show close times in New York for Transpacific and Pacific mails, with multiple routes via Seattle, Vancouver, and San Francisco.
Shipping news lists arrivals from December 24 to 31 including Morro Castle from Vera Cruz, Cienfuegos from Santiago, Patricia from Hamburg, Mipnehaha from London, Elise Marie from Shields, and Hamilton from Newport News. Varying passenger counts, mails and noise noted, with Bar times and quarantine statuses included.
A diary of January ship sailings and routes lists numerous vessels traveling to and from New York and various European and Caribbean ports. Entries include Genoa Naples Havre Southampton Cherbourg Boulogne Rotterdam Kingston Barbados and Liverpool with ships such as La Lorraine Barbern Italia and Carmania among others, noting dates mainly Jan 3 4 and 5 and destinations including New York.
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