The Business Outlook for the Year Half Report
The Dun, Barlow & Co report for the first half shows 4,749 business failures and 90,604,000 liabilities, compared with 4,600 failures and 108,415,000 liabilities in the prior half and 9,663 failures and 76,764,266 liabilities in the year before. It notes large midyear failures, yet cites abundant crops, fair prices, low imports, ample money, and potential harvest gains. Debts across federal and state levels total about 7.575 billion, with a cautious call to pursue debt relief and healthier commerce, while warning of continued contraction in some sectors.
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Messrs. Dun, Barlow & Co
Rational
Atorler
Losiratvo
Eure
Anthelpatad
Uut Holt
Amended bankrupt law urged to curb evils in banking
The passage discusses how wholesale merchants and certain facilities enable settlements at low values and how the National Bank rupt law fosters such practices. It argues for a business sentiment age that supports an amended bankrupt law to remedy these evils, noting time will reveal progress.
Reading of a Teutonic Cure Parable
A Teutonic friend renders a fragment about cure at Dreunawick. The paraphrase suggests a short horse remedy and cautions against rushing a homebound grooming with grit. The dialect hints at a regional linguistic habit and a comic mistranslation.
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Cure
Dreunawick
St Louis shifts from river to rail as commerce grows
The Republican notes a long term shift in Midwest trade favoring rail over river transport. It highlights three river branches serving St Louis and details 1871 to 1875 changes: upper Mississippi river, lower Mississippi, and Missouri shipments and receipts. Rail totals rise while river totals fall, signaling the decline of river commerce.
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Unite States
St. Louis
St. Louie
West
Missiesippi
Alisuleaippi
Missouri
Mississippi
Republican
Jolly Teutonic Friend and Odd Ball Tales
A garbled column from the Maansfeld Pa Advertiser mixes comic travel talk about Louis Locher in Elmira with odd anecdotes. It references a rambling painter found dead near Martineville Ky and a tale of a hopeful suitor tested by a father at a parlor pipe, plus scattered culinary notes and notices about local injuries, poetry, and a testamentary notice for Wile Hat Smith Sr.
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Gimberger
Maansfeld
Louis Locher
Elmira
Ile
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Busines
Gutlouk
Mousehold
Wwe
Lalita
Ueever
Martineville
Biackemith
Galveston News
Rebecca Anderson
Sences Falls
Shela Co
Joeh Dillinga
Tiakena
Ehe
Landon
League
Loulaville Courier-Journal
Parivs
Misa Jones
Craih
Young Min
Crabb
Young Tasly
Angell
Deeecher
Christian Union
Deecher
Wile Hat Silth
Linvaly
Uel
Awested
Welty Smith
Rowell & UU
New? York
Vdverthelny
Learburn
Lci
Westmit
Muster
Asslatint
Pitlidelphia
Macon
Gia
Wil Adpnugytets
DR. C. Mslane
DR. CO. Milane
Lane
Dragigiary
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