Priced Wholesalers See 44Year Highs Across Commodities
The annual wholesale price report shows foods at their highest since 1864, with 1914 levels reached or exceeded in multiple groups. Farm products, clothing, fuels, metals, lumber, drugs, and house goods all reflect dramatic shifts, while overall commodities run about 1 percent below 1913 and near 1858 levels, with Civil War peaks and 1882 1883 anomalies noted.
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Washington
D. C
United States
Bureau
Petroleum yield for 1915 tops 1914 record
Washington reports preliminary estimates show 1915 petroleum production near 267.4 million barrels with total yield around 291.4 million barrels. The larger figure includes 24 million barrels brought to surface during spar and stored by producers as readjustment follows 1914 overloads. Card of thanks for flowers and sympathy follows.
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Washington, D. C
John B. Northrop
United States Geological Survey
United States
Railroads in 1915 and 1916 investments and pay raises
Rail statistics show 60,000 miles of track signaled by 1916. Freight car orders and steel car shares rise while 1915 bridge work stagnates amid retrenchment. Gov Alaska rail building and Mexican lines noted. Pullman announces a 10 percent pay hike for 9,000 workers, offset by Burlington saving $823 daily via loss and damage reductions across 11 months ending Nov 30, 1915.
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Railway Age Gazette
United States
Hell Gate Arch
Milwaukee
Montana
Idaho
Norfolk & Western
Allegheny Mountains
Iowa
Chicago &North Western
Cedar Rapids
Otis
Alaska
Burlington
Burlington Railroad
The
Dagger in the Back Prompts Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Ad
An advertisement extols GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a permanent remedy for backache. It claims daily use prevents pain, cites Holland’s national remedy status since 1696, and urges buyers to seek the genuine GOLD MEDAL brand from reliable druggists with a money back promise.
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Haarlem
Holland
Netherlands
Yadvertinemar
Shippers to Save $1000 a Day Through 1916 Plan
Months mentioned show an effort to cut costs and expand efficiency. Officials claim the goal is to save about $1,000 a day during 1916 by improving handling and cooperation with the employer, aiming to attract new business and better service for present shippers.
Death of Dr Henry Atkinson In Turkey
Boston January 3 The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions reports Dr Henry Atkinson a medical missionary at Marpoort eastern Turkey died of typhus fever He had served fourteen years at the station and is the sixth board missionary to die within a year from war related causes He headed the Antiole Tracey Riggs Memorial hospital
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Boston
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Marpoort
Turkey
Henry Atkinson
Atkinson
Grinnell College Graduate Physician Details
A fragment notes a graduate of Grinnell College Iowa who studied at Cooper Medical College in San Francisco. It mentions land worn by extra duties from war and an epidemic of cyphus fever, indicating strain on resources and health concerns.
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Land
Grinnell College
Iowa
Cooper Medical College
San Wrandinco
Correction credits Waterloo Cement Machinery in error
A correction states that a previous item miscredited cement mixer consignments to New Zealand to Tila Machinery. The shipments should have been credited to the Waterloo Corner Machinery Corporation, Waterloo.
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Yenior Courier and Reporter
Waterloo
New Zealand
Cement Tila Machinery Company
Waterloo Cojrent Machinery Corporation
Boy suffers seven year old Parker breaks collar bone
Quintin Parker seven year old son of Mr and Mrs M A Parker at Blaze street suffered a broken collar bone from a fall in the cellar stairs. He slipped on a nut hull while playing near the top and struck the stone foot of the stairs yesterday noon.
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Quintin Parker
M. A. Parker
Verteh Avenue
West Baden Sprudel Water Promoted by Pharmacist
W. O. Strickler, a Watertown pharmacist, promotes West Baden Sprudel Water as a natural laxative with health benefits. He notes its bottled Mother Spring production, affordable sizes, and widespread use by over a million people for constipation and general well being.
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W. O. Strickler
West Baden
Reid
Wainre
Soc
W. CG
Strickler
Syemnoroe
How to Cure Coughs and Colds
Old advertisement promotes Dr. King's New Discovery as a remedy to kill germs and ease coughs and colds. It urges rest, proper eating, and avoiding exposure to speed recovery, claiming the product relieves irritation and expels dead germs. Available at all druggists.
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Dr. King
Jess
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Pullman
Pullman Company
Raving Allcocks
1Owan
Foreign Mission
Rvant
Resinal
Baltimore
Smith Axminster
Allen G. Lichty
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