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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-03
Price Hints on Reddin6

ID E THE need what it may, the resources of
b our bedding section are adequate to sup
ply it at a fair price.
Cotton crib blankets, white colors, with fancy
stripes 3Ox4O inches, ESQ each; 45c pair.
Cotton and wool white crib blankets, with blue or
pink borders, 30x4O inches 85c pair 36X5O inches,
$l35 pair.
Better grades from 81. so 5000 pair.
White cotton sheet blankets, 1914 size, Use pair;
ia size, $1.OO pair .
Mattress pads with white cheese cloth cover filed
with fine white cotton, tied like comforter, $l.l9
each.
Comfortables, filled with white cotton, with figured
silkoline covers, both sides
72x7sin size, $3.50. 72xs4-in. size, Sl.75.
Merritt's wool health comfortables, spring weight,
with white cheese cloth cover edges 72x81 inches
$3.50 each.
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-03
Summary Wash Goods

IF YOU are hunting for pretty shirt waist ma
j terials, don't overlook these two.
White ground oxford and madras cloths, printed IN
variety of patterns, Ice yard
Anderson s imported shirt waist madrases, In white
grounds printed with neat black figures, dots and
stripes at $50 a yard.
Special Values in Basement
More of indigo and cadet blue prints, IN staple
and fancy styles, at 4 1-2c yard. "
Zephyr ginghams in assortment Of pretty Styles
plain and in stripes and fancy checks, at 12c yard
Yard-wide percales in blacks, blues and reds, regu
lar 10c cloth, at 1-2o yard -t.~-.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-03
Ladies' Underwear

THE most triling blemish in the knitting or
i finish of Harvard Mills" underwear is
sufficient to class it as Seconds. - AS a rule
the unframed eye will detect nothing. These
are seconds, - but they give just as good serv-
ice and cost much less than first quality.
Ladies' spring weight vests, with high neck and long
sleeves and length pants with French bands,
ular soc garments, while they last at 29c EACH
Ladies' union suits with high neck long sleeves and
ankle length, medium weight, buttoning down
the 'front.' finished with hand crocheted silk trimming
and silk tape, dollar garments at 69c suit TO this
line have also added some of our other numbers,
likewise dollar values .~ IL .-
Ladies' medium weight vests and pants; vests have
high neck, long sleeves pants knee ankle length,
regular 59c value, at 39c garment.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-03

!. There is plenty Of "human in :
I. terest' in Journal want ads. :
!. Sometimes as much as in the news :
!. Of the day Only lie. a word. :.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-03
Specials in Petnc0dtS

THEsE three Saturday offerings will main
j tain the prestige Of our petticoat section
for giving values extraordinary.
Mercerized sateen petticoat, with 11-inch umbrella
dounce finished with strapping and two tucked ruff
fes, $1.00 petticoat at 75c
Petticoat made Of highly mercerized sateen, with 10
inch very full faring founce mads in three sections,
finished with strapping and tucking and tucked rue
at bottom, $3.50 value, at 9Sc.
Petticoat made Of shepherd check percale, with r.
inch accordion plated founce finished with rufle and
trimmed with five rows Of black strapping, underpiece,
q $125 petticoat at csc.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-03
No Longer Any Excuse For Daadruff,
Falling Hair or Badness.

Foso actually grows hair, stops hair falling
out, removes dandruff and quickly restores lux
uriant growth to shining scalps, eyebrows and
eyeashes. and quickly restores gray or faded
hair to its natural color. | don't ask you to
take my word for it, let me send you full 60
cent package free Write today.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-03
Desirable COryetS

A T EACH price these corsets are the acme
"A of good value.
Duchess batiste grdle corset with sateen strippngs
and zones straight front model, with all steel filing
top and bottom neatly trimmed with lace and ribbon
in white, pink and blue, sizes 18 to 20, style
at SOC.
w. straight front corset, made Of white and drab
sterling cloth, with long hips medium low bust, full
bias goring boned with nonrustable steels top dainty
trimmed with lace and ribbon, sizes ID to 80,
at 800. ..-#.#
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-03
Save on Lace Curtains
Clothes Hampers Reduced

Round willow clothes hampers with covers at these
reduced prices
No. l. $1.l0 value, sec. $3.50
NO. . 'lS0 No. Selu: ., y $11255 value sl.25.
Large splint baskets; some use them for making
baby cribs at the low prices Of 4Sc, Csc and 75c.
Youngsters will find marbles, jack-stones and jump
ing ropes ready in the basement.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10

Indeed, about the only cheap land in
Cuba is in large tracts. 1t is easier to buy
a 1O,OOO-acre farm than one of 200 acres,
and in the new Cuba, which means the
large territory opened up by the Cuban
railroad, almost everything is sold that
way. Hundreds of Americans are quietly
travelling over this island picking up the
desirable plots and holding them for specu-
lation or further development There are
real estate agents in the cities who have
such tracts for SALE and good lands can be
bought in big blocks at from 81 an acre
and upward. The same lands, when divided
and colonized, will be worth $50 or more
per acre.
have before me the lists of several OF
the American real estate agents showing
their properties and prices. l do not mem
ton names. but merely quote some items to
give a general idea OF the prices asked.
Here is a tract of 1900 acres in Santa
Clara province which has $50 acres OF cane
on 1t. 1t is for sale at IS per acre. On the
same page is a tract of 10000 acres, includ-
ing 1000 acres of guinea grass. at $3.50 per
acre. The most Of this tract is in woods
but It is described as rich land. suitable
for sugar cane. On another page 1 see
tract of $500 acres offered at s. per acre
and one OF loo acres at $4,000. Further
on is a tract OF 5000 acres at 81 per acre
This lies on the north coast and adjoins
one Of the best known of the American
colonies. where lands are sold In forty-acre
tracts at $50 per acre.
There is no doubt but that all good Cuban
land will double in value in the near future
and some OF II will be worth many times
what it is now. refer. OF course TO I'M
developed properties.
The government lands OF Cuba include
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10
Timber in Eastern Cuba.

A large industry IN getting out Cuban
timber has grown up since the war Scat
tered along the line Of the Cuba road from
Santa Clara to Santiago are scores of saw
mills with great piles of mahogany and
hardwood logs about them; and RATS Of
logs may be seen floating in nearly every
harbor. In 1903 Cuba exported about
$25O0,OO0 worth of forest products and such
exports are steadily increasing. Some Cana
dams have bought large tract OF timber
not far from Camaguey, which they expect
to exploit; and Michigan parties have just
purchased 5000 acres of timber along the
line OF the Cuba road not far from the
borders of Puerto Principe. The latter COM
pany will cut out the most valuable trees
and ship them to the markets, and then
use the land for grazing and sugar planta-
lions. 1t expects to establish a town upon
its lands, and will divide a part OF It into
forty or fifty-acre tracts for sale to Ameri-
cans. understand that the price paid for
the land was in the neighborhood Of IS per
acre, or about $685.
Cuba has large areas OF forests. Nearly
the whole OF the eastern part is covered
with woods. Nearly all the way from
Camaguey TO Santiago is through virgin
forest, This is so on the branch line of the
Cuba road from Alto Cedro TO Nipe bay.
back for many miles on both sides OF that
road.
These Cuban forests are rank and thick;
the trees are large and bound together with
vines. Nearly every one carries q machete
in travelling through the woods, in order
TO cut his way from one place to another
The trees include mahogany. cedar. ebony
walnut, majagua, ceiba, oak, pines rose
wood. logwood, cottonwood. lignum vitae
end about thirty Varieties OF palms. There
are also a large number OF dyewoods and
many medicinal bushes and plants
Much OF the wood is good for furniture,
and Grand Rapids company has bought
1900 acres and is about establishing a
factory in the northern part OF the island
to make furniture for the Cuban market.
At present nearly everything OF this kind
is imported and all homemade furniture is
high-priced
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10

TO buildings are done. From eighty TO 100
men were engaged all summer painting,
pastering. cleaning, grading, laying walks,
fixing furnaces and heating apparatus and
making all kinds of alterations and re-
adjustments. Not less than $4,000, roughly,
were spent in this way, and Superintendent
Finlayson said 1t was the hardest summer
he ever put in.
The rev Beals school, a six-room brick
structure at Forty-eighth and Walnut
streets, costing about $4,000, the first
school building ever erected by the Board
of Education by day labor was completed.
1t takes the place of a three-room frame
building, which was reduced to that size
in the winter of 1884, when a fire de-
stroyed two other small houses. Since
then many children In the Beals district
have had to go long distances to the Wind
sor and Columbian schools. Now they are
returned to the Beals school in their own
district and the change makes possible
the closing Of one room at the Columbian
school, which has been done. All six
rooms are occupied at the new Beals build
ing. 1t is to be warmed by stoves, as
water service cannot be secured so far
out for steam or hot water heating.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10

products are enormous.
.
Fortunes in Fruit.
l have before me a number of such pros
pectuses. They say that land planted in
cacao, the tree that yields the chocolate
bean, should yield at least $500 an acre
per year. The cacao trees come into bear
ing in four or five years, and when full
grown should average eight or ten pounds
per tree. Two hundred and fifty trees can
be grown on an acre, and the cacao beans
will sell, so it is stated, at 10 cents a
pound. AS to pineapples, these prospectuses
say 5000 can be grown on one acre and
they will sell from to 10 cents apiece,
which seem to me high prices.
The stories of orange growing are even
more glowing. A ten-acre grove, accord
ing to these estimates, will make a man
Independent and fifty acres will net him
a fortune In one advertisement 1 see
that ten acres OF oranges should yield
within five years after planting IS, 600, from
which, deducting the cost of the land and
the trees $500, leaves a cash profit Of
$3.50. These figures are based on the
hypothesis that man cares for his own
orchard and that the trees begin to bear
at three years 1t is stated that after the
fifth year the yield will greatly increase,
and that at the age of ten years the ten
acre grove should produce from 5000 to
$4,000 a year.
1t is a common statement here that a
good orange grove in Florida is valued at
at least 1000 an acre, and that inasmuch
as Cuba has no frost and the cost Of get
ting the fruit to the market is about the
same, such Cuban lands should eventually
be worth double that
Another estimate which I have before
me, taken from an article In the Havana
Post, states that the cost Of setting out
forty acres Of oranges. including the houses
and other buildings is $780, and that a
$4,000 outlay will result In an excellent
forty-aore grove at the end Of Ave years.
Such a grove, according to this, should
produce, at one box to the tree, 5000 a
year and when the grove reaches its maxi
mum in the tenth year six boxes per tree.
or $4,000 per annum These are interesting
figures, and even II divided by half they
make orange growing attractive.
At the same time / wonder whether there
is not even more profit in buying the big
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10

nished. The old store building on lower
jackson street, onc-story, One-room
frame building, was moved to Druid Hin
and fitted up for use as a new kindergar-
ten, which has been opened. The lot where
the store stood was sold for $1,000 The
store was formerly used by the custodian,
whose office was abolished, and filled with
school supplies of all descriptions. These
articles are now kept i'm the shop at 915
Pacific street, under the care of the SUI
perintendent of buildings.
Another job Of moving was taking the
old Monmouth Park school from Thirty
third and Meredith avenue to Thirty-sixth
and Kansas avenue, where It was refitted
with a new brick foundation, painted up
and put into commission as an annex to
Central Park school, but with the name
of Omaha Heights on it. Here a school
of several grades with one teacher was es-
tablished this fall for the benefit of a lot
of small children who otherwise would
have to walk long distances.
The heating and ventilating plant at the
high school was remodeled at a cost Of
about 500
Painting, plastering and vanishing was
done at the following schools: Kellom,
Train, CASTELAR,, Park, Dupont, Bancroft,
Central, Clifton HILL Comenius, Mason,
Omaha View Cass, Pacific, Saunders and
Webster
Work was begun on the two new wooden
wings of two rooms each the frame
Clifton Hill school. The cost will be
about $500 and congestion at the Walnut
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10
Buying Up Cuban Land by American Citizens

about 10000 acres They are mostly for
est lands; some of them have been rented
and others disposed of in the form Of
grants. the government holding an unlim-
tied mortgage at per cent per annum
upon their fixed value. A large part of the
government holdings is now offered for
sale by the president of the republic. The
sales will be at public auction, and in pay
ment therefor the certificates and warrants
issued to the soldiers of the war of indie
pendence will be accepted.
These timber lands have valuable hard
woods. They have mahogany and cedar,
the mahogany bringing in from S27 to 500
per 100 feet and the cedar from $50 to $50
per 100 feet, according to the grade and
locality where sold. Jucaro wood is worth
cents a foot, while granadillo. yamaguey
and cerilla bring in from sos to $50 a ton.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10

of an organization that spent SG47,413 during
the school year Of 1gO4-O5 should have CON
siderable to take up his time I'm advance OF
the resumng Of active operations. The
time that Superintendent Davidson used in
recreation and rest last summer would
hardly equal the ten days vacation of the
ordinary clerk. He kept office hours about
the same during the summer during the
school year, except when he was east TO
attend the National Educational associa-
ton convention. If this trip could be called
restful the head of the Omaha schools Sc
cured some of that much sought for re-
cuperation. Otherwise he was planning for
next years work or addressing Institutes
and various other gatherings of educators.
For the last several weeks prior to Sep
TENDER the onslaughts in person, by tee-
phone and mail, from the teaching corps
and others connected with the schools
would have driven man not used to It to
the brink of nervous prostration. Aided by
an efficient clerk the superintendent man
aged to pull through and was able to smile
at the teachers and shake hands with most
of them at the organization meeting the
day before the opening. He did pass up
the task of saying inspiring and encourag-
ing things to them, though, and inveigled
State Superintendent McBren into making
an address.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10

I'm good working order before he can ac-
complish much.
Secretary Burgess who has supervision
OF the janitors and a great deal Of the odds
and ends Of executive management, includ-
ing the fuel supply, got time for a brief
vacation and a lake trip, after he had lined
things up pretty well several weeks be-
fore school opened. In the new arrange
ment. however, whereby the superintend-
ent Of buildings, the Office OF the superin-
tendent of instruction and Janitor Nickers
of the school board rooms have the GUS
tody and delivery of all supplies in hand.
much of the direction falls on the secre-
tary's office and It has caused the young
woman clerk in the Office to wonder IL
she is bound to grow old before her time.
one teamster and several laborers will he
kept busy ten hours a day for two weeks
after the schools opened in equipping prin-
cipals and janitors with the things they
need to keep school and maintain the
buildings properly, and this part OF the
task of getting the schools under way is
no light one.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10
american. own vn.t E.tnte..

Indeed, nearly all the sales far made
are in thousands OF acres. The eastern
part OF the island, where most Of the sales
have been made, is divided up into large
tracts, the holdings ranging all the way
from 1000 to 5000 acres or more. Some
Of these estates have been in the hands
of families for generations; and when sold
they must go as a whole. The Cuban who
has 10000 acres does not like to sell a fifty
acre or even a 50O-acre strip He may be
willing to sell 5000 acres in order to
get enough money TO develop the
remaining 5000 but. as a rule, he
wants to sell outright and that for cash or
on short time. This has resulted in the
American purchasers being syndlcates or
individuals OF large means. I venture that
10000 Of the 1900 purchases have been Of
that nature Most OF the transfers are
for thousands OF acres and the average
sale price represents a large sum.
About Nipe bay a tract OF 10000 acres
OF some OF the best lands Of Cuba was
bought Ave years ago by Mr.. Hippolyte
Dumos for himself and other parties con-
nected with the United Fruit Company OF
Boston. This has been divided. Mr.. Du-
mois and his immediate associates taking
40, 900 acres and the balance going 10 the
Nipe Bay company. an association OF New
England capitalists which will invest mill
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10

Hill school will be relieved. The addi-
tions will be ready for use about Novom-
Der 1.
Two rooms were fitted and equipped for
manual training work at the Pacific school
and work begun on bricking up one side
and roofing a recess in the old high school
building SO new room, about 25X3i feet,
will be provided for the enlargement Of
the manual training department. The new
room Is directly over the engine room
of the building and will enable the lathe
work to be transferred from room in
the new building, where it has caused vi
bratons in the rooms above that inter-
fered with teaching and study. This will
leave more room for bench work i'm the
space partly vacated and means that about
24O boys can be accommodated instead Of
$50. 1t will afford an opportunity also
for Instructor Wigman to put in a small
plant for holding, something he has long
wished to do.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10
OmciaIs Were All Busy.

But If the superintendent of buildings mad
plenty to do. the truant officer was no less
well occupied for month before the open
ing He was busy checking up the school
rolls with the last census enumeration Of
children of school age, so as to be better
prepared TO round up the delinquents and
compel employers of children to dismiss
them so they may be placed in school.
The preliminary work counts heavily in the
success or failure of the truant officers
work and he must have his statistics
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10
No Joke to Get Ready.

Preparing for the reception OF the leglons
OF youngsters is not so much OF a joke
as the school coming About $50 persons
were interested in the Job in this city, but
OF these about 43O are teachers and their
chief preliminary concern lay in getting
assigned to the school they like the best.
returning home from sea shore or noun
tains on time and laying in a few neces-
sary supplies and big stock OF excellent
resolutions. The other people have the
work to do and the superintendent, prob
ably, is the busiest Of them all.
II is not unusual that the executive head
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10

lions in sugar mills and plantations. I
have already described the banana, pine
apple, coffee, cacao, orange and sugar
plantations upon the Dumois purchase,
which in full bearing I am told will bring
in something like 100000 a year.
In that same vicinity several other large
tracts are for sale. They contain from
a, 900 to GO,OOO acres each, and must be
bought as a whole, the largest requiring
at least $4,000 to buy it. Once in the
hands of Americans, these lands may be
divided into small tracts for colonists. II
so, they will be sold from $50 and upwards
per acre instead of $40.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10
AmerIcnn colonIe. I'm Cuba.

The fact that most OF the lands are for
sale only in large tracts has led 10 the
organization of American colonies Private
parties and syndicates are buying up es-
tates Of from 10000 to 10000 acres and
dividing them up into thirty, forty and
ffty-acre tracts. which are sold at prices
ranging from $50 and upward per acre
There are at present perhaps a dozen or
so such colonies in active operation, but
so far they have not been in existence
long enough to say that they will be last
ing successes.
These colonizing companies present their
lands 70 customers chiefly as tropical fruit
growing propositions. They send out glow
ing prospectuses, stating that such tracts
can be made 10 produce 500 or $500 and
upward an acre per year. They say a
farm OF nifty acres in Cuba is worth more
than one OF 800 acres in the United States,
and II the land Is rightly chosen as 70 To-
cation and quality ! doubt not that they
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10

chases amount to over S5O,WO,UUO There
are 1900 American titles registered in the
province of Puerto Principe alone, at
purchase value of $2sOOO,OOO and estates
are being bought in large tracts in every
part of the island 1t is said that seven
eighths of the land in the Sancti Spiritus
district of Santa Clara is now owned by
Americans and a large number of impor-
tant purchases have been made about
Cienfuegos. Great tracts are being bought
along the northern coast, and millions OF
dollars worth of real estate in and about
Havana has gone into American hands.
Some of this property has changed owners
several times, but the greater part of 1t
is still I'm large tracts awaiting develop
ment or colonization by small farmers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10
Trimming TeacherH.

This year will witness an innovation in
the establishment of Superintendent Dav-
idson's training school for teachers. The
plan is largely his own, though 1t has
been tried in a modified form in other cities
and Omaha once had something like it.
Under the arrangement nineteen grade
principals will secure an opportunity to
spend a fair portion of their time in super
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10
Change in Population.

Although new rooms have been opened
this fall at Beals. Monmouth Park, Central
Park. Druid Hill and Pacific, rooms have
been closed at Comenius, Omaha View,
Columbian and Pacific, and few more may
follow at other schools. This is due to the
tendency Of the population TO spread out
toward the suburbs Outside schools are
growing and those near the business dis
trict either standing still or diminishing
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10
Some Detnila OF Repairs.

The building department put down a lot
of brick walks practically making the
equipment of every school ground in the
city complete in this respect. About 5000
seats and desks were cleaned and revar-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-10

Busy Man with Buildings.
For the superintendent of buildings the
vacation is the busiest time. II is then
that the general overhauling and repairs