Accuracy the cost of clerical blunders in Chicago firms
A Chicago Tribune report examines how employee inaccuracy costs businesses vast sums daily. It cites Bark M Pratt of Oak Park arguing that one small error can cascade from department heads to clerks, managers, and customers, potentially costing millions and harming patronage across major houses.
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Jess Man
Chicago
Bark M. Pratt
Oak Park
Superiora
Pratt
Mr. Pratt
Inet
Pratt Haa
Manila
Orient
Philippines
Canton
Inez
Springfield
Thaland
Onleigo Tribune
Lonton Fire Laddie to Command Bremen Ship Fire Crew
Captain Hamilton, new London fire chief, will lead seamen trained crews in Bremen. Firemen start at $69 a week with room for progression from fourth class to station officer at $13 weekly after years of training, with shipboard duties and strict on duty hours.
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Lonton
London
Hamilton
Bremen
Rayy
Not Absolutely Helpless In The Bank and Money Tale
A tale contrasts a wife and husband who joke about managing finances after she seldom handles money. She claims she deposited a check into her own account while the husband mocked her, highlighting beliefs about women’s financial capability. The item shifts to a humorous note on famed men and fakes, ending with a remark on agricultural production value.
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Mr. Bliek
Hel
John
Mrs Black
Fashion and Home Notes From a Genteel Era
The article discusses color matching in gowns and hats, recommending hair color harmony, cautions against bright yellow tones, and suggests gray or white hair bonnets. It reviews fabrics for autumn and winter gowns, notably taffeta and silk, with style notes on trims and Parisian influences. Home hints cover cooking, pastry rolling, bread revival, wall cleaning, and practical sewing machine and cleaning tips.
Girl's Dancing Frock Description with Velvet Ribbon Details
A young girl's soft white silk dancing frock features a gathered skirt with seven graduated ruffled bands bordered in fagoting. The blouse has a plain yoke with fagoted bands, front rosettes, and light-blue velvet loops. Elbow sleeves carry fagoted trim and a decorative front buckle at the girdle.
Coats of Fur Cloth Describe Luxurious Evening Attire
The article explains fur cloth coats with high value, noting the white kam shatka nap, and describes evening carriage coats that are square and loose or pressed and curly. Day wear coats are fitted with multiple seams, some tight, others half fitted, with Renaissance collars featured on some fabrics.
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Kamshatka
Delicate Silken Trimmings Featured In Evening Gowns
A description of fine trimming on delicate fabrics highlights silk fringe like caracule used on black mousseline de sole gowns with shirted skirts reaching the knees. Blue Sum foundation accents the bodice trim, with white gowns showing bands of scalloped lace and shirred details enhancing the silhouette.
Chop Suey Recipe Steps and Ingredients
A fragment outlines chopping chicken and vegetables for chop suey. It lists half a chicken large onion mushrooms celery Chinese potatoes rice a small dessert and Chinese gauce. It describes frying chicken in fat until done then adding onions mushrooms sauce and water to stew.
Winter Shirtwaist Styles Bring Warm Linen Designs
A house shirtwaist offers winter models in heavy linen with embroidery resembling traditional patterns. Designs feature central plaits, collar and cuffs, or small strap details below the neckband. Colors include blue red or red green with other combinations also popular. One green shade looks especially handsome.
Women Gathering Wood Draw Spectators in City
A police officer explains a gathering of about 200 men and boys watching two Italian women break sticks into kindling from a Philadelphia building site. The crowd blocked the sidewalk and residents questioned the cause, with a bystander clarifying that the scene involved Italian women breaking wood for alterations.
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Philadelphia
Victor Emmanuel
Erin
Italy
Wyoming backache cure claim by Holst from Newcastle
A Wyoming stock raiser, 5 C Holst, asserts his cure of a two year backache using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He says he was nearly bedridden but recovered completely and now works hard with no pain. The piece notes skeptical response from a manufacturer and includes unrelated advertising fragments about deafness remedies and dyes.
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Western Woolgrower
Newcastle
Wyo
C. Holst
Mr. Holur
Dodd
Wyoming
New Process Armor Plate Says Krupp Leads In Thinner Plates
The illustrated Zeltung notes Krupp has surpassed Harvey with a new armor plate process producing thinner plates for greater protection. Also mentions ready references to remedies and a harvest overview with large workforce figures and a cough cure promotion.
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Zeltung
Krupp
Treasures in National Museum Collections
The zoological collections of the National Museum have grown to immense size and rival any other museum. Insects number about 1,600,000 specimens, recent shells nearly 1,000,000, plus at least 500,000 other aquatic invertebrates, about 200,000 ashes, over 60,100 birds, 180,000 bird specimens, over 40,000 reptiles and batrachians, and more than 75,000 human remains.
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National Museum
Naonal Museum
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Tow
Shild
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Rowland
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Calarrh
le Nut
Catarrty Iy Hall
Eirrisiary
Tewe
Fd Ciney & CO
Toledo
Drugetetn
Tc. Mail
Pauly Pilla
Putnam
Mra
Winslow
Myra
New Zealand
Piao
United States
Sikirvin Co
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