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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1908
Page
12
The market notes varied demand across products with butter and cheese prices firmer on quality. Potatoes and onions weaken while apples, berries, and eggs hold steady or rise modestly. Live poultry markets remain quiet with dressed poultry firm, and vegetables show large supplies and uneven pricing across items like tomatoes, lettuce, and cabbage.
Classified ad fragment seeks male cashier with executive ability for cement manufacturing firm in the southeast area offering $40. Also seeks young man 17 or 18 for general office work and a first class patent office draftsman with deskroom. address and salary info requested. Tribune Office New York City.
A jagged list of hiring notes and job seeker ads appears with various tradesmen and positions. Names and addresses like 222 West 14th st 1492 Amster 14 East 14th st 337 East 113th st appear, plus roles such as bookkeeper, responsible apprentice, carpenter, millwright, and chauffeur, all seeking work or offering services with scattered references.
Varied help wanted notices show multiple positions including CHAUFFEUR roles with references, a CLUB STEWARD, COMPANION, COMPOSITOR, DRAUGHTSMAN, ENGINEER, EXECUTIVE MAN, PERSONAL and office staff, plus a range of trades. Names and addresses across Newark, Brooklyn, Passaic, Jersey City, and Manhattan reflect 19th century urban job ads seeking reliable, skilled workers.
A dense listing of job seekers and placements across Manhattan and nearby areas. Applicants include a stenographer and typewriter expert, a steward-manager with club hotel experience, a stock clerk, a supervising engineer, toolmakers and machinists, shipping clerks, clerks and bookkeepers, companions and nurses, stenographers and proofreaders, switchboard operators, and several office staff aspirants. Addresses span Munster to White Plains and New York City streets, with ages, references, and salary notes as provided.
Domestic situations wanted advertisement listing male applicants for roles such as coachmen chauffeurs gardeners butlers valets and farmers. Includes Mathewson's Bureau 47th Street contact Bryant at Morrrow's Bureau 721 Lexington Ave corner South Street and Plaza phone numbers for references and referrals.
Classified aid listing offers butlers and valets including French, German, Swedish workers with English skills. maids cooks laundresses caretakers and coachmen. Addresses include Morrow's Bureau 72 Lexington Ave corner 58th St and Mathewson's Bureau 6th Ave 47th St and others. references requested. various positions city or country households. several single and married applicants seek work.
A historical classifieds page lists numerous domestic service postings for coachmen, cooks, butlers, and gardeners. Multiple bilingual and international entries emphasize experience, references, and willingness to work city or country homes, with addresses in New York and surrounding areas.
A dense listing of domestic workers seeks private households in New York area. It includes gardeners, janitors, cooks, chambermaids, valets, butlers, waitresses, housekeepers, assistants, and handymen with long local references. Various nationalities noted. positions City or Country. wages vary. many with bureau contact details.
A dense classified listing offers Swedish Finnish and Irish cooks housekeepers and nurses from Osterberg Jussila Mathewson Flaherty and Lang agencies. Wages range $20 to $40 weekly with country or city placements. many emphasize excellent references, bureau contact details at Lexington Avenue or West 33rd Street. Includes maids seamstresses nurses governesses and waitstaff with various nationalities and specializations.
Market notes from Toledo dated March 30 show prices for radishes and tomatoes by various lots. Hothouse radishes sold per 100 bunches at 2 dollars and 275 dollars for large consignments, Western and Jersey lots priced at 275 dollars per 100 bunches, Long Island at 4 dollars per 100 large bunches and 5 dollars for another unit, while tomatoes list heat hothouse price per ton at 15Q 25 cents. Seed prices list CLOVERSEED cash prices: March 1335, April 1235, October 1310, and Timothy prime at 215, Allike prime at 1240.
Cattle receipts about 29 000 head with steady to strong prices. Steers 5 50 to 7 5 cows 3 60 to 5 50 heifers 3 40 to 6 25 bulls 3 50 to 4 10 calves 5 to 6 45 stockers 2 0? 2 30. Hogs receipts 41 000 head with steady market. Heavy shipping 5 95 to 6 10 butchers 5 95 to 6 10. light and packing hogs 5 20 to 6 05. Pigs 0 0. Sheep receipts 18 00 head with steady to 10 15c lower. sheep 4 70 to 7. lambs 6 50 to 8 20. yearlings 7 28 to 60. Cincinnati and other markets: hogs active 20c higher. cattle steady to 15c lower. top natives 7 0. export dressed beef steers 6 50 to 7. western steers 4 80 to 6 75. stockers 4 25 to 5 75. southern cattle 3 23 to 5. lambs strong 3 0 to 5 25. hogs in ranges 5 50 to 6 35. sheep receipts 8 000 with lambs 5 50 to 6 8. Yorkers 6 40 to 6 45. pigs 5 85 to 6 . troughs 5 5 to 5 9.
Wet winter wheat weather pressured the wheat market with May futures slipping to 93 1/2 to 93 3/4 cents, while corn rose to about 66 1/4 cents and oats held steady. Provisions led gains as lard and ribs climbed, and overall receipts varied across grains with strong corn supporting higher pork and rib values.
Public notice announces the City of New York as Commissioners Appraisal will determine compensation for owners and interested parties for property rights easements and a permanent and temporary easement needed for a rapid transit railroad. Parcels include lots on Delancey street extension and the Bowery with frontages on Bowery Delancey street extension and Elizabeth street.
Domestic situations wanted. Listings include a capable Finnish woman, a washing duties helper, and a working woman with charge of a bachelor’s house. Contact details for the Saint Bureau and addresses on Lexington Avenue, East 16th Street, and Avenue.
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