LOCAL MARKET QUOTATIONS LISTED FOR ROUND LOTS
General local market notes that quotations are reviewed and corrected weekly and represent prices to round lots from first hands.
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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1897
Page
7
General local market notes that quotations are reviewed and corrected weekly and represent prices to round lots from first hands.
Market listing shows cotton prices by grade with quotes from Low Middling to Good Middling and daily provisions prices. Included are meats, flour, cornmeal, crackers, coffee, sugar, molasses, chewing and smoking goods, onions, beans, potatoes, seeds, hay, oats, rye, millet, cotton seed meal, poultry, butter, hides, wool, beeswax, tallow, sheep skins, and miscellaneous items with unit pricing and typical market conditions.
A dense catalog of animal hides and hardware items with per pound and per dozen prices. Entries include deer and wolf skins, axes, bellows, shovels, plows, feet, irons, wheels, and wagon parts. Numerous figures and unit marks appear, reflecting a broad rural tradesmen's inventory.
A Paris style theater hat in sapphire blue velvet features a threefold fluted crown, steel buckles, lace, and an aigrette, designed to sit low on the head and suit all seasons. A matching silk rose boa neck trim accompanies the look. Additionally a Los Angeles County case reports Mrs. Mary A. Livingston, 79, ordered by divorcee husband Samuel W. Livingston, with contempt fines, and a discussion on dowry systems in India as a protective practice for wives.
California law compels a wife to support her husband. The Boston Woman's Journal notes a recent Supreme Court decision by Justice Temple with Justices Wenshaw Van Fleet and Chief Justice Beatty concurring. The circumstances of the case were peculiar.
An old remedy suggests pouring eau de cologne into a soup to scent a room with a match for aroma. For a sty, place a cooled black tea bag with boiling water on the eyelid overnight. if needed, repeat once to remove the sty.
Stew blackberries until soft with moderately sweetened sugar. Stir in a flour and water thickener and boil until the mass thickens enough to pour into molds. When cooled turn out and serve as dessert with milk or cream and sugar. From Woman's World.
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