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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
3
Daily market notes cover coffee sugar rice and cotton futures with grain and livestock insights. Key prices and sentiment span cotton futures oats corn wheat and wheat margins along with dairy and produce quotations and shipping reports across New York Havre Hamburg and Gulf ports.
Receipts today include beans marrow and pea varieties with imported lots from Antwerp Copenhagen London Marseilles Naples and more. Butter creamery is plentiful with moderate demand and no price cuts. cheese full cream and skim markets steady with good demand for finer grades. Eggs total 21 284 cases with stock easing and prices mostly steady to firm across states and regions. Fruits show mixed movement apples pears peaches currants and berries with demand shifting and prices adjusting.
A jumbled notice lists several lost or stolen bankbooks from New York banks. It asks owners to present claims within ten days or risk a sale cancellation and new issue. Names, numbers, and addresses appear with payment stops and return demands.
By virtue of two mortgages I will sell at 10 o'clock this forenoon at 3654 West 125th Street the chattels and fixtures of a first class restaurant. By order of R Lax attorney for mortgagee M Levison auctioneer.
Telegraph notes cattle receipts around 23 000 head in Chicago with price ranges from 4 to 6 80 for steers and calves 2 50 to 5 00. Hogs show mixed but generally lower tones with packing buyers bidding 4 75 to 5 50 and lambs steady to higher in various markets. East Buffalo and Pittsburgh report similar slow to steady trends with prime steers near 7 25 to 7 75 and hogs around 5 80.
Tall list of job seekers seeks positions from cabinet work and chauffeur duties to stenography teaching and clerical tasks. Candidates include an assistant designer, Italian and English speaking chauffeurs, a Packard expert, a Spanish American language specialist, a secretary, a sexton, and several general laborers with references and old New York addresses.
A dense set of early 20th century want ads lists various house jobs and positions. Applicants seek assistant cook or houseman, attendants, butlers, valets, coachmen, and coachman gardeners with notes on English French language skills travel experience and references.
Liverpool market round up on June 17 shows spot wheat and corn listings with various grades and futures steady across July September and December. Also notes HOPS Beefs Pork Bacon and Cheese prices with Pacific Coast and Linseed Oil and Turpentine spirits and other commodities steady or firm in London and Liverpool trading.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt shows Harold responding to his father's question about work after college with a gloomy line about spending the rest of his life correcting the family's English. The exchange highlights humor about family speech norms.
A collection of notices seeking tutors assistants and tradesmen. Listings include a young man seeking tutoring or companionship with multilingual abilities. clerical or steady office work offered by a German American with language skills. an assistant bookkeeper with references. a married bookkeeper with moderate starting pay. a six year experienced bookkeeper seeking position with references. a cabinetmaker and French polisher available for hotel city or country work. a first class cabinet designer wood carver seeking modest wages. Locations include Manhattan and Brooklyn addresses.
The Board of Estimate and Apportionment received a petition from the Third Avenue Railroad Company on June 5 1908 seeking consent for a double track extension on Amsterdam Avenue with a branch via Fort George Avenue St Nicholas Avenue and 180th to 190th Streets. A public hearing is set for June 26 1908 at 10:30 in City Hall Room 16 Manhattan with publication in two daily papers and City Record.
A dense listing of domestic helpers including farmers, cooks, maids, garder ners, valets, and a butler sought in New York area. Many entries specify nationalities, temperance, references, wages, and contact points such as Tribun e Office, Carpenter's Bureau, Jussila Bureau, and Osterberg's Bureau.
New York City Corporation Counsel seeks court appointment of commissioners under Chapter 726 for the Kensico Reservoir project. In Westchester County the City of New York plans to take fee title to multiple parcels in Mount Pleasant and White Plains to build an aqueduct and related works, with map No. 1792 filed May 4, 1908.
Public notices detail the Union Railway Company of New York seeking consent to extend its Bronx line by 756 feet to connect Bailey and Broadway streets using an overhead electric system. The filing includes prior council consent, proposed route on Fordham Bailey and Broadway, and hearings set for June 26, 1908. The notice also covers the Public Service Commission’s plan to appoint three commissioners to assess modified Lexington Avenue routes for rapid transit between Manhattan and the Bronx.
Very fine North of Ireland girl seeks nanny or infant care position with strong references for city or country work. Fla herty's Office 485 Columbus Ave. Telestr River. Nursery governess available for one or two children with mother’s helper duties and excellent references. B Fitzgerald's Bureau 33 Stu Ave cor 422 St. Parlormaid and comparable positions sought by Lady. visit West 75th St. Restaurant work offered by German woman for washing or dishwashing at 400 East 11th St. Waitress seeks private family position for July August September. call 25 East 10th St.
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