Rail Freight Costs Shrink Marketing Areas Nationwide
Freight rate hikes and higher transportation costs push producers to shrink markets near home. Cement, lime stone, steel, and canning firms report lost distant sales as rail rates rise 3.7 percent in September, carloadings drop, and higher shipping bills erode competition with distant rivals.
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Nazareth
Jose
Paeesiaten
Bedford
Ind
Wiliam G. Riley
Indiaana Limestone Co
San Francisco
New York City
Golden Stite Co
Midwest
H. Wolters
Denver
California
Pittsburgh
Chicago Steel Mills
Pittsburgh Mills
Baltimore
New York
Maryland
Smokey City
Supreme Court
Los Angles Cannery
Chicago
Percy Solotov
Brown-Salt
Man Furniture Firm Sees Limited National Branch Expansion
A Los Angeles furniture firm notes local firms lack scale for nationwide branch plants to ease freight barriers. Separately, a 1710 migration tracing case used a metal leg band on a captured heron in Germany, with a band later applied in Turkey.
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Man Furniture
Los Angles Furniture Firm
Germany
Turkey
Bavarian Clerk Seeks Help for Foot Pain
An elderly town clerk in Munich sought medical care for painful feet. The doctor counted 38 coins on his feet, and the clerk boasted that such wealth isn’t even found in America.
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Munich
Germany
America
Rainfall totals and average monthly precipitation report
The record shows 24 hour rainfall to date and year to date 1949 totals. It lists the average annual rainfall over 36 years as 36.42 inches and provides the 1913 1948 monthly averages ranging from January to December with values such as January 2.47 and December 2.43 inches and credits the Chester Search Laboratory.
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