Michigan labor report shows better homes many owned
A Michigan labor bureau study surveyed 4 435 workers in agricultural implement and iron trades. It finds many families own homes with little mortgage, average yearly income around 407 dollars for single men and 525 dollars for married men, with substantial personal possessions such as sewing machines and even organs or pianos. It notes 69 percent own sewing machines 67 percent read papers and more than one fifth own musical instruments, with 40 percent saving money and a total of 175 470 dollars spent on homes and improvements and 320 880 dollars saved.
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New England Hired Men and Farm Household Ties
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Boston Journal
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Tea in Mongolia Markets and New Log Tea Trade
The New York Ledger describes Mongolian tea as a standard of value among nomads with brick tea traded by the basket and a brick or half brick boiled in copper vessels with mutton fat. It notes log tea from Hankow, inferior in quality, packed as logs weighing eight to eighty pounds wrapped in bambusa latafolia leaves for cheaper packing and freight to Chinese ports.
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New York Ledger
Future of the Oyster Threatened by Extinction Methods Adopted
A letter from General Bradley T Johnston urges extinction of the oyster to be halted by new culture methods. Virginia college figures propose experimental oyster culture along the James and York rivers, funding could advance scientific trials.
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