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WHEN TO CUT HAY.
Columbus, OHIO.

At a farmers institute at Upper
Sendusky, Ohio, L. W. Hull read a
paper on hay which contains some
points On hay making that should be
remembered by every farmer. The
writer knows that Mr.. Hull under
stands how to make good hay, for we
have worked eide by side in the big
meadows OF his fathers farm many a
burning summer day:
Hay has become one of the fixed
marketable products of the farm. We
depend upon it as part OF our income
as much as upon any other product, OR
feeding and fa1tening stock. While
bay has been marketed for a number
of years, until it has been the surplus
left over in the spring, and not made
with the intention Of selling. We must
admit that, to large extent, the hay
has been handled in a haphazard way
by both buyer and seller-not handled
upon business principles the same es
other product no standard established
or guide for the farmer to go by. All
business will regulate itself. If the
man does not regulate the business,
the business will regulate the man
The time is not far distant when hay
will be handled in the same business
way as any ether prodL CT we market
Because, in the past, you have been
successful in getting as much for No. 2
hay as your peighbor got for No 1, it
will not always be wise to go On the
prir C pie that the fools are not all
dead for while that may be true in
many instances, they go out of bust
ness. The farmer has learned that ii
pays to get anything he may have to
sell in as good marketable condition as
possible. The same principle applies
to hay. The shipper can no more get
a first class price for Nd 2 hay than he
can secure a first class price for strong
butter, smutty wheat, unsound corn, or
half fat and crippled stock.
the first thing to consider is the
best time TO cut hay. There is a gen
eral theory that when the seed has
formed and the heads turned brown is
the best time-that it has better feed
ing qualities, etc. Whatever argument
can be produced to prove that theory,
the fact that such hay will not bring in
market within one or two dollars PEI
ton as much hay as when cut greenel
will affect any argument that can be
produced. When we deal with the
public we have to give the people what
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LIVE STOCK.
HORSE MARKS AND TERMS

A white spot in the forehead is a
star.
A white face from eye to eye is a
bald face.
A white stripe in the face is a blaze.
A stripe between the nostrils is a
snip.
A white eye is glass eye.
A horse has pasterns, not ankles and
there is no such j int as hind knee or
fore shoulder.
White below the pastarn joint is a
white pastern. Above the pastern a
white leg.
White around the top of the hoof is
white cornet.
A star, blaze or bald face can't be
anywhere except on the face. A snip
can't be any where except on the nose.
Amble, gait like pacing, but slower,
in which the two legs on the same side
are moved together.
Appel, the gentle tug on the rein
given by the horse at each step.
Group, that part or the morse DacK
of the saddle.
Bore, to bear on the bit.
Bucking. leaping vertically into the
air with ali four feet, and coming to-
gether on the ground.
Elbow, joint of foreleg next above
knee, lying next to horses side.
Forearm, that part of the leg be-
tween the elbow and knee.
Forge, to strike the toe of the fore
foot with the toe of the hind one; very
often the result of bad shoeing.
Frog, triangular piece of spongy
horn in the middle of the sole of the
foot
Grinders, the back teeth.
Hand, one-third of a foot-four
inches,
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Some Things Upon Which the People OF
North Garcia Need to be Aroused.

Some Things Upon Which the PeoPIe OF
North Garcia Need to be Aroused.
In spite of his tendency to speak con
tinually of war memories, Col. 7. B.
Kingsbury occasionally forgets him
self and pens some sound senee about
other than military matters. His jour
nal, the Messenger, recently had this
to say:
The North Carolina people need to
learn the Importance Of raising every,
thing consumed by them. They Iced
TO learn to make their home mRnures.
They need to be taught how very inn
portant it is to have good roads. They
need to understand that it does not pay
to cultivate any but improved lands.
They need to learn that only capable
and honest men are properly qualified
to be public servants. But probably
the road building deserves very special
attention. After education, it is per
haps the uppermost question for them
to consider. The building of good roads
is a positive necessity. A really good
road law is what the State needs. A
law is needed that will insure general
movement in all Of the ninety six coun
ties in behalf of road building-will set
the machinery to work ali over the
State. The convicts of North Carolina
should be utilized as the road builders.
We notice that our able contemporary
at Norfolk, Va, The Pilot, is urging
the road question with it's usual force
and earnestness. It recently said of
its State:
1--WE want no more mere road talk;
we want more than mere legislative
acts and we must have laws that will
direct and compel efficient action
actual work of improvement on the
roads,"
1t urges the use of the convicts and
the ''jaIlbirds" as well. It insists that
this, or an equally good system,
should be inflexibly imposed on every
county, without exception, with full
liberty, however, to supplement it as
may seem best by the supervisors Of
every county"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-10
AUGUST ON THE FARM.


Dog days are at their height now and
those who have neglected their haying
will have to finish 1T at a time of year
when hard work is most irksome, and
when the grass is Of decidedly inferior
quality.
Seeding down Of land to grass is no y
in order; it is the time when most of
our grass seeds are ripenipg and conse-
quently has the merit of being natures
seeding time; unfortunately, however,
our artificial seedlings must be made,
not with the freshly ripened seed, but
with seed at least one year old, and
not unfrequently mixed to some extent
with what is still older, and with the
seeds of various foul weeds. To secure
ourselves against the disappointment
entaiIed by so wing inferior seed it is well
TO buy of seedsmen of we'll established
reputation, who have an equal interest
with the farmer in selling only salts
factory articles.
In seeding land regard should be had
to the quality of the soil; thus sandy
plains and gravelly land should be
seeded with early ripening grasses such
as June grass, orchard grass and red
clover red top also will thrive on sandy
land, but as it's time Of ripening is con
siderably later than the above, it is
better to SOW it with some Of the later
grasses or alone. Red top will also
thrive on very moist swale land.
Strong cIayey land is better suited to
the growth of herds grass (timOthy)
and clover, though we are inclined to
doubt the wisdom of sowing the two
together on the same land as has been
the common practice of New E 1gland
farmers. The clover is in season for
cutting nearly three weeks before the
timothy is in best condition, and for
this reason it would seem wise to SOW
some early ripening grass, such as
orchard grass, with the clover, and
some late grass, such as red top OF
fescue with the timothy.
The farmers near our seashOre and
mountains now find an excellent mar
ket close at hand in the crowded board.
ing houses and hotels. Fresh eggs,
broilers, small fruits, fresh milk and
cream, and good vegetables, such az
lettuce and beans and sweet corn and
early potates, find ready sale. Many
farmers favorably situated find more
profit in catering to the demonds OF
the summer boarder than in sending
their produce to a larger market.
The blueberry and huckleberry are
now in their glory, and many jolly
picnics will be organized during their
season. In picking them, however, It
is now necessary to take some care to
find out whether the owners OF the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-10
FOR CATTLE-MRN.

What seems to be a revolution in the
beef cattle business is new system Of
stalls which entirely obviates the ne
cessity Of dehorning the animals for
feeding purposes. The stalls are said to
be very simple and inexpensive. The
Bovine Stall Company of Cincinnati,
Ohio, will send a handsome book called
''The Turning Point" describing the
system, free, to any one requesting it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-10
A NEw corn PRODUCT.

Prominent among recent discoveries
is the fact that corn pith placed be-
tween the inner and outer ehelIs of
armored vessels will, if shell pierces
the vessel, swell 80 rapidly by absorb
ing water as to close any opening and
prevent the vessel being flooded and
perhaps sunk. In securing the pith,
the blades and husks are removed and
the stalks cut In small pieces. After
extraction of the pith from the stalk
the balance is ground into meal,
which in general appearance re-
sembles coarse bran, dried malt sprouts
or brewers grain. This ground mate
rial is called the new corn product and
100 pounds of it contains IL pounds
more total digestible matter and 2
pounds more digestible protein than
than whole fodder shredded; as much
digestible matter as corn blades, and 8
pounds more total digestible matter
and cne half more digestible protein
than timothy hay. Animals fed with
a fattening ration with the new corn
product base made more gain in live
weight and upon less feed than with
fatteniBg ration of the same grain and
corn blades. R2tions made uD with
the new corn product can be fed with
less labor and less waste of feed than
when hay and fodder are fed separately
as ordinarily practiced. The keeping
qualities Of the new corn product are
as good as linseed meal, cotton seed
meal or wheat bran.
This new corn product is in such
shape thst it can be easily and uni
formly mixed with any kind OF ground
grain or any of the by product cattle
foods 80 common on the market. By
the use of this corn product es base
it is possible to mix a complete and
normal ration for stock in one bulk
and which can be fed at one feeding,
go obviatipg the necessity of feeding
grain and hay separately. This has
not been heretofore possible with any
class Of food products on the markets
in the shape in which they existed.
Rations mixed in this manner are as
staple and possess as great keeping
qualities as cotton seed meal or wheat
bran. Cows and steers would lie down
and chew their cud as naturally as
when fed hay or in pasture. Bulletin
43, Maryland Experiment Station,
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Midsummer is the best season for
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-10

Midsummer is the best season for
thinning all the larger fruits. just be-
fore the seed begins to form nature
does a good deal of this thinning, and
it is perhaps as we'll to wait until all
the fruit that will naturally fall has
fallen. Then pick off the surplus fruit
wherever it seems to be superabund-
ant. In most cases this thinning does
not decrease the amount of fruit be
cause it so largely increases the size of
individual specimens. It is the best
fruit that always pays best. That al.
ways means fruit that has been judi
ciously thinned.
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LEGTURERS,

JP. Soseamon, Charlotte, N. Q.
HamIin Y. Poore, Bird Island, Mimi.
E. II. Peirsol, Parkersburg, w. Va
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,zx RATIONAL FARMERS ALI
ANCR AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

Mann Page, Brandon,
Vice President-C. Vincent, Indian
Secretary Treasurer P. Bricker,
Ooqan Station, Pa.
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JUDICIARY.
,o,zez CAROLINA WARMERS STATE ALI
AEOE,


President : DR.. Cyrus Thompson
A'ST5S5- Wee President-Jno. Graham, Ridge
sS 8Ss1,retary- % -Treasurer-W. 8. Barnes,
LEISURE T,seturer-J. 7. B. Hoover, Elm City,
i igSto;ward-Dr. t; V. N. seawell, Villa-
aVT2 VCTh2apiain-Rev. D P. H. Massey, Dur
'I5I5' ID5Io5'or-kooper-Geo. T. Lane, Greens
AS Assistant Door -keeper-Jas. E. Lyon,
Gergeant-at-A -Arms-A.D D. z. Wallace,
gntberfordton, n. Q.
state Business Agent-T. Ivey, Hills
'UTT' TTngtee gtc business Agency Fund-W.
4. Graham, Machpelah, N. y.
svrr7r1vE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
o.PnTrNA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
A.F. Hileman, Concord, n. G.; n.
Q. English, Trinity, n. g.; James M.
Hewborne, Kins on, n. y.
,rATs ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
John Brady, Gatesville, n. O.; Dr.
IF, Harren, Whiteville, N. O.; L. -
Gambler, Acton. NO.
zsFsE Carolina Reform Press Association
f;aoers-.J. L. Ramsey, PresideHt )
sGTto7s Butler, Yiee- President W. ..
5aFRsS, Secretary,
PAPERS.
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NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Mann Page, Brandon, Va ). R. A.
southworth, Denver. Col. John Bre
nig, w. Va. A. B. Welch, New York
", A. Gardner, Andrews Settlement,
JUDICIARY.
Z. A. Southworth, Denver, Colo.
3, ". Beck, Alabama.
Nd. Davie, Kentucky.
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Gmcers-J. L. RGnesey, PrestGe''E ;
s4Tto7s Butler, Yfoe-P President; W. ..
9agRss, Secretary,
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24
SAN FRANCISCO CALL"

RTTsINFSS OFFICE OF the San Francisco CALL
40 Market street, open until II o'clock every
night in the year.
BRANCH oFFICES-527 Montgomery street.
corner Clay; open until $3.50 o'clock.
339 Hayes street. open until $3.50 o'clock.
SIS Larkin street: open until $50 O'Clock.
SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open
until O'Clock.
1243 Mission street; open until o'clock.
251S Mission street; open until o'clock.
1877 Ninth street; open until 8 80 o'clock.
1908 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock.
NV. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky
streets; open till o'clock
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THAT TEA APPOINTMENT 7.
Collector jackson Refuses to Sip cup
With Inquis Broker
BeIlingaIL

P..W. Bellingall, customs broker, has
addressed another letter to Colonel Jack
son, Collector of Customs, asking that the
Collector refer to the Secretary of the
Treasury BeIlingalps contention that the
Secretary had acted illegally and without
authority when he appointed an inspector
of teas or an examiner of teas for the port
of San Francisco.
The Collector has addressed diplo-
matte note to Broker BelIingall :ntl-
m sting that the Collector haa no Gouo'
whatever that the Secretary of the Treas
ury knew what he was doing when ne
made the appointment, and that 1t would
therefore be work of supererogatlon ana
of several other many-syllabled words Tor
him to ask the Secretary OF the Treasury
whether that exalted official was sure he
was right before he went ahead with the
appointment. In conclusion the Col!ecioT
Suggested that perhaps Mr. Bellingall
might himself ask the Secretary OF the
Treasury about it.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24

GERMAN OR SCANDINAVIAN COOK,
VI American family $50; cook, A merican fam
lily, across the Day, $25; cooks, German style.
$25, $50 and $35; French or German chamber
maid and sewing, $40; ranch cook, Sl8; girls for
housework-San Rafael, $26; Santa Rosa, $40;
Hanford, $25; Berkeley, 500: jamestown, $50;
Mountain View, $50: Alan eda, 500; Palo AL o,
$40 and large number of girls to fill situations in
city. j. F. CROSETT & CO., 316 Suffer- st.
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GIRL, HoUsEwotK, IN FAMILY (sEE
" party here), $40; girl, housework, 3 In family
$20 private family cook, $50: German girl, cook
ing $20 cook aud lau ndress, $40: girl for house
work Harbor View, S15; boardinghouse cook
Haywards, SO; woman for cooking, jamestown,
$40; girl for housework, Alameda, 800; girl for
light housework $16, $12. c. r. HANSEN &
CO., 108 Geary st.
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MEETING NOTICES.

Me- GOLDEN GATE LODGE NO 30 n
tS~S F. and A. M.-Called m Getting THIS "A
z 80 O'Clock. d. 3. wv
GEORGE J. HOBE, Sec.
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GIRL. POWELL ST., $40; GIRL, 8 IN FAM
" lily. $50; girl, Greenwich ST., $40; girl, Union,
$50; girl BrodericK, $40; girl. Palo Allo, $40;
see party here; girl sacramento, $40; girl, Octa-
via St, $50; girl, Franklin, $25: girl, Shasta
here; girl, o'Farrell ST., $50; girl. Webster ST.,
$2U; girl Twentieth ST., 500; girl, Oakland, $40;
girl, Turk ST. $40. MARTIN IL Co, 749 Market
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III OP-PICK Frs, HOP P-PICKERS-FAMILIES
Ill men, women and children, for the great hop
fields OF ~onoma County: can make good wages.
For particulars call on MURRAY & READY, 634
and 636 Clay st.
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Rns1NEss CHANCES.

moo BRANCH BAKERY FOR SALE; 3
SSU. nice Iiylng-rooms: well worth $50;
must sell to-day on account Of sickness NJ LESS
+ ourth st
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WANTED-5OO WOMEN AND GIRLS TO
w work on fruit. Apply imm ediately at Cali
fornia Canneries Company, Brannan ST., between
Third ard Fourth.
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COLORED WOMAN AS COOK, $50 AND
" room; colored girl, Sl2, etc MARTIN & CO.,
749 Market ST.
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FIREMAN WANTS SITUATION AS BOILER
i foreman good experience with pumps and
mining machinery. +. SPEA IMAM, Empire
House, Commercial ST., near Kearny.
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Young NAN, 23, WISHES SITUATION:
l. understands taking of fine horses; will
ing: sober; speaks German and English. A. r.,
934 Howard st.
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MEAT, MIDDLE AGED WOMAN FOR
IN chamberwork, waiting and assist washing
etc., $50 place; cook, country hotel, $25, fare
paid, and Others MURRAY & READY, Leading
Employment Agents, 634 and 636 Clay st.
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CITUATION WANTED-YOUNG NAN, GER
- man, wants situation at any kind OF work:
has some experience a. carpenter-work. Address
h. A. box 40, Cal Office.
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Young MAN (DANISH) WANTS SIIUA-
Il tion in private family any kind OF work:
best OF references furnished. Address P. JOHN
SEN, ADJ Third st.
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A GIRLS, SECOND WORK, SIS. ETC: 9
4 girls to wash dishes girl, Clipper ST. SIS; girl.
Leavenworth ST.. $15; girl, OctAvia, &l5; girl.
Geary $l5; girl, Ellis St, $40; girls, O'Farrel,
SIS: girl, Jones, S19 girl, Taylor ST.. SIS: girl.
Turk ST., SIS: girl Pao Alto, S15; 2 cooks, $l5
and room no homework; working housekeeper,
party here; girl, steuart ST., s15 girl, Webster
ST., SIS; girl, aller $15; girl, Dolores ST., SIS:
girl, Vallejo, $15; girl Twenty-fourth ST.: SIS;
girl, Hyde St, Sls: girl, California St, Sl5; girl,
80 young girls, So, SO and s1S per month, assist,
etc, nice families MARTIN d CO.. 74s Market.
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WAITRESS CITY, $40; MIDDLE-AaED
w woman as cook. SIS: waitress ~ week: cook
S25 and room; dlshwasher, $15 and room; cham
bermaid and wait some $15 and room 3 wait
resses, $15 and room, city; waitress country, $40
and room; COOK, $50 and room: waitress. SIT 80
and room, country, fare paid; waitress Berkeley,
Cal; cook ranch hume, $50, etc; Mattresses,
SIT and room; cook SS aweek: 3waitresses, IS
q week. MARTIN & CO., 749 Market
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SITUATIONS wANrEp-Cont,nr.n.

VOUNG, STOUT MAN (DANISH WOULD
L like position in wholesale grocery aud nsh
business; years experience ana best OF Sallioro r
mia references. Address A. SCHMlETT, lZo
Perry st.
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w INCHESTER HOUSE a. THIRD ST, Mr..
w Market; 200 rooms 25c to 81 80 per night;
Il 90 TO 81 per week; convenient and respectable;
free BUS and baggage TO and from the terry.
OHt)L. MISSION ST-BRANCH OFFICE OF
<-OAO IAH GALL; subscriptions AHA want ads
taken.
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Nj OST CONVENIENT AND RESPECTA BILE;
lN Winchester House, Al Third ST., near Market;
200 rooms: 25c to 81 so per nights; 81 30 to SO
per week; free bus and baggage TO and from ferry.
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NOOD SOBER HOTEL AND KESTAURAN
~ COOK, good baker, wishes a situation: city or
country. Address Cook, l Folsom ave-. city.
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7 AUNDRESS. PLAIN WORK, $50, ROOM
II and board MARTIN & CO., 749 Market st.
DANCH COOK. $40, SEE PARTY HERE, 9
III to 2 A. N, in Office MARTIN & CO.. 749
Market ST.
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| CECOND GIRL FOR ALAMEDA, 500: SEC
| - ond girl, city, see party here, 800; German
! housekeeper, country, $l3 G. L. HANSEN d
| CO., 10S Geary St.
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EERMAN WANTS TO MAKE HIMSELF
~ useful on gentleman's place; good horseman; ;
can milk. work In garden: good references. a. s.,
box 4 Call Office
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~ CARDENER OR MAN ABOUT PLACE, CAN
" drive and milk, wants good place: English;
aged 30; good appearance; excellent references.
G. g., 533 Sacramento st,
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IN RAILROAD LABORERS, FREE FARE,
lO we ship tonight q. R. HANSEN q CO.,
108 Geary ST.
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EXTRA Snort ORDER COOK: EXTRA
II walters; extra bell boys and extra porter for
country hotel. {. r HANSEN d CO., 108 Geary.
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HELP wANrED-Continued.

butcher FOR SMALL SLAUGHTER
u house, $25 and found: 8 camp walters, $50
and found: pantry man, $25 aud found, country
634-6Y6 Clay 81.
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DISHWASHER, $50 AND ROOM; DISH
~ washer, SIS and room; young man for min
ing camp, see party here: night dishwasher SIS
and room; dishwasher. 81 a week: dshwasher,
So a week. MARTIN & CO., 749 Market st.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24

CHIN ESE, FIKST-CLASS COOK, WANTS
" work in hotel or res taurant Apply 7O312 Du-
pont CHARLEY GONG.
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WANTED - SITUATION AS COOK ON
w board English ship Address LORENZ RO-
PAYTlCH, 1O012 Jackson.
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A LII LADIES IN TROUBLE OR WHO ARE
~ suffering from disease peculiar to their sex
will find immediate re. ief by consulting a first
class lady physician who never fails
single case; free consultation; terms easy. MRS
DIR. NJ. DWYER, 261a Kearny ST.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24

| u situation bookkeeper, collector, hotel or
| lodgingbouse CLERK, watchman tend bar or store.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24

WANTED - AN ELDERLY BUSINESS
w woman Of means for a manufacturing enter
prise without opposition in its line. Please ad-
dress Enterprise box 40, Call Office.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24

A PRENTICE WANTED TO LEARN HAIR
n dressing at Ill stockton st., G. LEDERER
references