Price readjustment critique from Roger Babson in retail debate
Roger W Babson argues that retail prices lag wholesale trends and criticizes retailers for not aligning markups with cost. He cites lumber costs, labor wages, and modern distribution as drivers, blaming broad economic changes and consumer habits rather than retailers, and predicts centralized buying and mail order firms will reshape shopping as groceries and meats grow pricier.
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Mr. Bab
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Gloucester
Massachusetts
Inc
Tutchier
Fashi
Woolworth
Kress
Union Retail Stores
Butler Brothers
Sears Roebuck
Buddhist sacred place in Korea attracts scholars and monks
The Christian Science Monitor notes Korea hosts a sacred Buddhist site where Chinese priests settled centuries ago. J Wilson of the Arnold Arboretum, during a Korea trip, reports lush trees and flowers, highlighting potential introductions to the United States. Also practical tips on goldfish care: change water weekly, keep temperature steady, feed small pieces daily, and avoid bright sun.
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Diamond Mountain
Korea
China
R Becauise
Christian Science Monitor
B. J. Wilson
Arnold Aboretum
Boxton
Wentsman
United States
Globe
The Bishop’s Error in a Warm Confirmation Service
A tired bishop faced many confirmation candidates as the service grew tense and heated. A baldheaded man knelt before him and the bishop, suppressing a yawn, laid a silent curse upon the stone wall with a muffled declaration.
Local Happenings In Alma Aglow With Notices
Alma readers receive a tangle of local items. names like Blakley, Dowd, Gaffney, and Griffith appear with events from Grand Rapids to Flint. church meetings, baptisms, conventions, weddings, and sales ads fill the page amid assorted notices and social updates.
East Alma residents visit New York and move notes
East Alma and neighbors include Mar grette St visitors to New York, Willi Paul family moving to Mariquette St, and Mrs James Zimmerman from Repub fer ais. Local church events praise a Sunday program at Eastminster chapel featuring The Empire of Alaska, with school grounds praised and pupils disciplined.
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Edward Shaffer
Eastminster Chapel
Empire of Alaska
Republic Cohoul
Mice Emnn Fitter
Ruth Grierson
Alma College
Lansing
Baatminster
Aldmeete
Robert Grierson
Grove Ave
Fuller
Rosedale Ave
Samuel Rhodes
Substitutes for Rubber from Early Trade Notes
Fragmentary text discusses rubber substitutes including hood, peanut, rape, and mustard derivatives. Mentions entoliae form pity herlike suhetances to be used in limited amounts in the triumphant production of keeping rubber evie pons. References nonvulcanized India rubber and contrasts with white thread sobattontes, noting slight heaviness in prycretian to their bulk.
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India
Witer
Negro Blood In Alexandre Dumas Birth and Lineage
A damaged note outlines the birth of Alexandre Dumas in Villers Cotterets Aisne France on July 24 18902 and his death at Puys Decenter 6 570 It mentions his father Gen Alexandre de la Pauleterie Dining as the natural son of Marquis Alexendre Davy de la Pauleterie a Santo Domingo colonist and of a negress named Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dutus
Povellat
Villers Cotterets
Aisne
France
Puys Decenter
Alexandre de la Pauleterie
Alexendre Davy de la Pauleterie
Santo Domingo
Dumas
Recruiting for Civil War in Madison Avenue Window
An old woodcut depicts Civil War recruiting in City Hall Park 1868. A large sign lists multiple bounties and a $15 hand money reward for bringing in a recruit while crowds of citizens and soldiers gather at the recruiting booth.
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Madison Avenue
City Hall Park
New York Heralds
United States
Heritage fragment from Time: fossil slab in Trinity College display
A fossil brown stone slab with a valuation imprint has been donated to Trinity College Geology Museum. The print dates thousands of years, with later notes on Keats and rain symbolism. A separate tip suggests restoring ferns by weekly hot-water soaking to spur new shoots.
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Roninhow Shelley
Trinity College
John Keats
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Madge Bellamy
Niles Welch
Tully Marshall
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