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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1908
Page
12
The fragment lists various market items including corn, flour, cotton, hogs, and grains with price hints. Mentions Minneapolis patents, futures or price markers, and a range of prime figures, reflecting a mid 20th century financial page tone without full context.
New York reports lighter coffee from lower European markets and steady to firm Brazilian supplies. Cotton shows a sharp advance on frost worries and strong demand, with New York and Southern spot markets steady to higher, while futures press forward on export hopes and improved weather outlooks.
The report lists multiple sugar varieties with unit prices, discounts for cash, and rebates, noting London market declines and the world’s visible sugar stock at 3 190 000 tons. It includes raw sugar prices on May shipment, duty paid levels for centrifugal muscovado and molasses sugar, and a Havana cable noting partial rains across several provinces.
Receipts for beef, calves, sheep, and hogs totaled 0 cars, 435 calves, 1914 cars of sheep and lambs, and 5 cars of hogs. Beeves steady with moderate demand for dressed beef. calves sold firm with several lots at $475 to $525 per 100 lb. Sheep and lambs strong for lambs, with unshorn and clipped varieties priced. mutton and lamb values cited. Hogs higher by 10 to 20 cents for prime state and Pennsylvania hogs, Maryland pigs sold around $5.25 to $5.25 per 100 lb, with several lots reported by Tobin & Shannon and Kerns Commission.
Liverpool April 30 market report notes spot wheat firm with No 2 red and No 1 California prices. corn steady with new American and old American varieties. peas Canadian steady. flour dull. hops quiet. beef and pork strong with various cut prices. bacon and lard steady to firm. butter and Canadian/U.S. whites steady.
Chicago wheat strengthened on strong export demand with July futures at 88 to 89 cents and a firm close. Corn rose modestly, oats fell, and provisions varied with live hogs lifting early prices before selling reduced gains. Local receipts included 291,060 bushels of wheat, 105 cars of corn, 160 cars of oats, and 15,000 hogs.
Anchester New Hampshire April 3 The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company the world’s largest cotton mill with thirteen thousand workers starts curtailment by closing tonight and shifting to a four day work week. The cutback will continue indefinitely.
Classifieds offer large furnished rooms at 3 University Place and varied positions from bookkeeper to chauffeur. Listings include Waterhouse and others seeking work in New Rochelle and New York City, with references, ages, and experience notes for clerks, engineers, and office staff amid a dense array of employment requests and room rentals.
A typified 1900s classified page lists multiple job ads and personal notices. MARINE ENGINEER seeks chief officer with license for ocean vessels in U S Germany Cuba. other listings include private agents secretaries salesmen stenographers bookkeepers clerks and companions. Contacts cite addresses in Brooklyn Manhattan Harlem and Newark with various ages and experience levels.
Classified notices list numerous butlers valets engineers gardeners and care takers offered by agencies Oster berg Morrow Matthews and Weisner. Advertisements seek experienced trustworthy men and couples for indoor house positions with references and varying wages, with contact addresses on Lexington Ave 6th Ave 49th St and West 36th St in New York City.
A long classified listing seeks several coachmen and related domestic workers. Entries describe first class, sober, married or single men with strong references, experience with horses, carriages, or chauffeurs, and various locations in New York City and environs.
Domestic situations wanted listing first class servants and house workers with calls to agencies. Also long real estate deposit and road purchase note detailing parcels in Mount Pleasant Westchester and Kensico Reservoir area with map reference and City of New York acquisition notes.
A crowded page lists chambermaids, cooks, waitresses, seamstresses, and housekeepers seeking work through agents like Osterberg, Mathewson, Collier, Mathewson, Arty, Flaherty, Morrow, Kissam, and the Scandinavian Employment Bureau. Wages range from modest to higher sums, with references and locations including East 76th Street, Lexington Avenue, West 23rd Street, and Columbus Avenue.
Proceedings to acquire permanent and temporary underground easements for the Brooklyn Manhattan transit commission involving parcels at the Bowery Delancey Street Elizabeth Street and related lots. Maps adopted March 4 1908 identify Lots 2 5 3 7 9 12 and 11 12 in Block 478 and Lots 1 2 in Block 478 plus adjacent Elizabeth Street parcels. City of New York and Public Service Commission notice dated March 25 1908 with Francis K Pendleton corporate counsel.
Help wanted ads list various domestic positions including dressmaking, millinery, laundress, nurse, and governess. References required from employers such as Furlong, Jus Sila Bureau, Morrow's Bureau, Osterberg's Bureau, and more. Rates and locations span Madison Ave to East 234th Street with multiple agencies offering city or country work.
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