New Jersey Folk Celebrate 250th Anniversary of Settlement
Jersey City will mark the 250th anniversary of New Jersey’s first settlement with a week of events starting October 16. The original site near Beregen Square now lies within Jersey City Heights as modern buildings replaced the earlier homes and structures. The Reformed church has existed 254 years with a school on the site.
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Jersey City
New Jersey
Obergen
Jersey City ‘Heights
Beregen Square
Reformed Church
Hog and grain prices mark steady to higher trading
Estimates show hog receipts today near 2,000 head with hogs opening steady and closing 10 cents higher on the Chicago market. Sheep markets opened steady with native and western flocks quoted, while grain and provisions move include cash wheat and corn prices and New York and St Louis closes. A post office safe at Churubusco is robbed for about $1,500 in stamps.
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Chicago
IBS
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LOY American Smelter
Sesa
Union Pacific
Baltimore
Ohio
Southern Pacific
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
United States Steel, Common
United States Steel, Pfd
Amalgamated Copper
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Erie
St. Paul
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
Fort Warne
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Churubusco
Landmark Tudge Hubbard Building to Be Razed for Improvements
Workmen began demolishing the old 710 Commercial Street structure known as the Tudge Hubbard building. Erected in the early 1850s it served as a general store court house and post office and once housed Cedar Falls county records and the city’s first Masonic lodge. New cement block building will include a saloon per city council approval.
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Commercial Street
Tudge Hubbard
Cedar Fall
Small Profits Explain Potato Prices Say Grocers
C A Draper, a Bluff Street grocer, states he sells potatoes at cost, denying large profits for retailers. He notes margins on other items are tiny and explains factors like carload buys and storage affect pricing. A second grocer recalls buying tubers at 75 cents a bushel, now selling at 70 cents as crops improve. The Very Rev P O Dowd of Independence visited Waterloo yesterday.
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C. A. Draper
Bluff Street
Twelfth
Draper
Wanted Girls and Boarders Ads Including Furnished Rooms
Classified fragments show multiple help wanted notices for housework and general service at addresses like 408 Logan Avenue 1106 Commercial Street and 1027 Washington Street. Also offers a wood finish formula for sale and a cash paying part time ad from Pandora Mfg Co London Ontario. Rentals include a strictly modern furnished room at 36 per month and phone contact details.
Absolutely the Best Land Proposition on the Market
The Calhoun County cattle company advertises 70,000 acres of O Connor Ranch land in Calhoun Texas for sale in large and small tracts at low prices on long terms. The land offers rich soil, 38 to 42 inches rainfall, mild climate, no frost droughts or mosquitoes, and promises profits with one productive year. Excursions and homeseeker rates are available on the first and third Tuesdays monthly. write for details.
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O'Connor
Calhoun County
Texas
United States
Calhoun County Cattle CO
Sil
Liggett
Brig
St. Louis
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