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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-06-23
THE MARKETS.

Chicago, June 23.-Following are the
market quotations today:
Wheat.
July. 90A, 9l9s. 9O9s, 9lK.
September, SAYS, S57s, S47s, S51a.
December, S47s. S51@, S49s, So.
Corn.
July, SAY. 545s. $685., 53h.
September, So, 531s. 521s. 52H.
December. 4S7s. 40. 4SA, 1875.
oats.
July. 32H, 3214. 80. 32A.
September. 3Oh. 3O24, 3OH. 3O9s.
December. BIZ. 313s. 31A, 319s.
Pork.
July. 1850. 1850. 12.47, 1850.
September. 1882. 1895. 1880. 1895.
Lard.
July. 1925. 1927, 1922, 1927.
September. 7.45, $50, 7.42, $50.
Ribs.
July, 7.G0, 7.67, 1857, 7.67.
September, $50. $50. III. 1877.
Receipts today-Wheat. /: corn.
59l: oats, 40. Estimated receipts to-
morrow-wheat, 3; corn, 633; oats.
81; hogs. 1900. Hogs. $4,000: cattle
1000; sheep. 5000.
Hog market opened strong to sc
higher. Light. 51O05.37; mixed and
butchers. 5.10G5.37; good heavy. 4.GO
@5.4O; rough heavy. 460G505.
Cattle market opened strong.
Sheep market opened steady.
Hogs at Omaha-11 900; cattle. 3
900. Hogs at Kansas City, 5000: cat.
tie. 5000.
L. S. Yards. 40 a. m.-Hog market
strong to sc higher Light 51O05.37;
mixed and butchers. 5.1065.37; good
heavy. 4.60@5.4O; rough heavy, 1900
sos.
Cattle market strong.
Sheep market strong.
Hog market closed steady-Light,
5.10@5.37; mixed and butchers. 51O@
5.37; good heavy. 4.6Od5.40; rough
heavy. 4.6095.05.
Cattle market closed steady.
Sheep market closed slow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-06-23
Friday, June %, 1905.

An insurance company proposes to
erect in New York 4he highest build
Ing in the world Lawson ought TO
say something about that
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-06-23
THE4RGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly a 1924
second avenue, Rock Island. Ill rEn-
tered at the postofice a. second-class
matter.1
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-06-23

E7day's Quotations on Provisions, Live
Stock, Feed and Fuel.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-05-24
II r II T H.

will forget in this land of wonders. So
in the morning we are off. Up through
the Salt Lake valley again, past Og-
den, and right into the fruit country,
where the boys sell luscious berries to
the passengers at five cents per cup:"
meaning box such as we used to buy
back home, and which said boys will
soon be shouting pears and peaches
ana other fruit at no less marvellous
prices, and presto! we are in the val
ley, with its hundreds of acres of SUI.
gar beets; with it's new orchards, al
ready come into bearing, although the
country Is less than five years old-or
rather it has taken on its greatest i'm
petus during the last five years-with
its fine farms, its mighty irrigation
bitches, its tremendous water supply,
its handsome homes, its new churches,
Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian. and
others. Oh, yes, of course All the
churches have rights, and they pros
per. There hasn't been minister
shot here in a long time. A preacher
can go out after dark here in Utah
with as much safety as he can back in
Dallas. New school houses, new pub.
lie buildings, new shops, new factories
for the conversion of beet Juice into
white granulated sugar, dot the valley
Everyone is prosperous and there Is
room for more. Plenty of land; plenty
of water. Why, the Bear River, from
which the water supply is taken, is
hardly touched yet. And how nice it
is to be able to have a shower at hama
any time. Back home we remember
how the crops used to parch up for
lack of rain. Here it is different.
When the growing corn needs water,
opening ditch with hoe brings the
fluid in with no trouble. You can see
the stuff grow after bath.
" "
And maybe they don't raise crops
here. Think Of nine hundred bushels
of the biggest, finest potatoes in the
world on a single acre. You say i'm
possible, but the proof is at hand, and
you must be convinced. That record
has been beaten many times. That Is
sort of average yield And beets.
Save us and bless us, but they raise rs
tons to the acre, and sell them for
SAFE per ton. How would you like to
be the beet raiser?
But we were going on to Portland
to see the fair before we returned. so
we leave this land of wonder, and over
the Short Line, the o. II. & N, with
is ever-changing vistas we glide until
we reach the 1905 Worlds Fair City.
with its marvellous amount of ship
pings, its great enterprises, it's won
1erful exhibitions of the products of
all the western states. We remain a
few days admiring the exhibits, the
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-05-24

minerals, the fruits, the flowers, the
grains, the manufactured articles, the
startling timber displays, and then re-
luctantly take either the steamer or
the train for the Golden Gate. San
Francisco, with its multifarious at
fractions enchants us until we note
the time limit on our tickets Is about
cut, and we again turn our faces east.
ward across the snow-capped Sierras,
over the arid plains of Nevada, and
back to Utah. With the remembrance
f that fertile valley in our minds, we
again visit It, Once more we look at
the green farm areas, the fruit-laden
orchards. We smell the flowers and
the lucern, and listen to the hum of
the bees. We linger and linger until
we once again noe that if we would
hide back to Dali,s we must needs be
going. But we have tasted the lotus.
No longer do we care for home again.
u this new land we have found the
Arcadia of agriculture we have been
dreaming of since the days of our
childhood. Though the leaves of the
maple and the oak may be green on
the hillsides of our native soil, here
j. a place where one may live in com.
IblI MltIOuJ an GNcl SUI
gle. Here there is elbow room; here
the toier reaps rich harvest for his
labor.
Alas for Ballast Alas for the blue
hills of Pennsylvania The SWEEP
flavor of the western air Is i'm our nos
trils. The rugged grandeur of the
mountain peaks has impressed us too
deeply The sheen on the waters i;
too enticing; we won't go back.
Some of the earlier Indians wan.
dered south to land of flowers. Har-
assed by enemies, they sought new
home secure from the fierceness of
the northern foe, who was merciless as
the winters in which they lived. The
fugitives came to the place which
awaited them; where the perfume of
the blossoms and the songs of the
birds attracted them, and when they
reached that glorious country the chief
of the band, after gazing in rapture
at the many attractions, exclaimed:
"Alabam." Here we rest"
We have found Bear River valley
our land of flowers and sweet bios
SONS, of comfort and prosperity, and
we say with the Indian of old:
Alabama" Here we rest"
c. M. JACKSON.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-05-24

TRUTH is a legal journal. Send In
your Mining Notices, Assessment No
tees, and Delinquent Notices. TRUTH
OFFICE, 241 South West Temple. Both
Phones 1888.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-05-24

When we wake up again we are in
Utah. Ogden. The train is being
made up for Salt Lake and while they
are shunting our car around let us get
out and look at the "Mormons." All,
here is a policeman; we will ask him
to show us one. He obligingly does
so. He points out three or four, a
dozen, twenty. Why, they look and
act just like other people! Certainly.
But where are their horns and cloven
feet? The officer smiles and suggests
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
THE MAIL=ORDER
BUSINESS Is A
GREAT EDUCATOR

being an aggregation of all
conceivable kinds of stores
under one central manage
ment.
If you are a clerk, a book
keeper, a small merchant,
big merchant a banker, finan-
cier or capitalist-connection
with our great institution will
be worth many times what
ever investment you may make
in the information and educa-
ton you will gain.
1t will acquaint you with
every detail of the huge
machinery of business-pro-
motion, advertising, merchan-
dising, buying and selling,
keeping stock, accounting.
managing and financing of
one of the worlds greatest
stores.
'eIcome TO visit our establish
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

Hozuard, Managing FARM, FIELD AND
FRESDE, of the leading agricultural eekes OF America says
of our cooperative pLan:-
Your cooperative of inter-
and giving the customers share in the business
of remarkable achievement
disposed congratulate rural constituency the
way they accepted cooperative proposition
and been benefited by it,
Joe Chapp the famous editor of the NATIONAL MAGAZINE
of Boston, SayS:-
Your enterprise is than business undertaking.
with the spirit OF the which is cooperation II IS
phase development which will be watched and
appreciated with interest by all close observers Knowing
enthusiasm in this work. great pleasure
congratulations the splendid success which
you have already Obtained
A. Epert, Editor of UPTo-DATE FARMING and of the
great champions of cooperation. of our plant
several months the Great strides made
forward by your We had much opportunity
judge of your dealings with and
have received one complaint"
Miller, of LESLE'S WEEKLY, published NeD York City,
Your plan the
buyers than Offer and the limits the
boundess certain that with good square
the plan will commend itself TO investors
and purchasers alike
John Ross STRAND WIDE WORLD
highelass NeED York publications,
hearty congratulations the successful
You safely bank
blocks OF Chicago real estate
place OF buildings for the handling of the
business that is come your way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
AN 100000 ORDER
"BLOWN IN" FROM SIAM

Prince Naradhip, wealthy Indian PRINCE
of Bangkok, Siam, saw one OF our bicycle
advertisements in copy of The Cosmopolitan
which floated to Siam.
Result:
cable order amounting to s8,ooo.oo.
Cost of securing the business? Nothing.
We shall be glad to show the original OF
this order to any of your Chicago friends.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
THIS IS THE SECRET OF OUR
LOW PRICES
EXPENSES IN THE MAIL
ORDER BUSINESS

are lower than in any other.
We have no expensive statesmen; just print
er's ink and postage stamps-thats all.
We have not an army of clerks to sit
around for hours idly on rainy days or when
business is dull
The volume of our business makes each
detail so great thatit has the closest attention,
study and superintendent of a specialist.
We make LESS work of our work, and having
it systematized thoroughly the cost is reduced
still further.
We are doing a full $50 minutes work
every day, so well can We regulate our
business.
1t cuts the percentage of payroll in just
half, compared with the retail department
store or the ordinary business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
EROu THE EXTREME NORTH

Andrew M. Nylund, of Helsingfors, Fin
land, noticing our advertisement in an Amerl-
can-Swedish paper, sent to him accidentally
bv a Swedish American, has bought several
hundred dollars worth OF goods since.
We shall be glad to exhibit the orlginai
account to any of your Chicago friends, and
mention these few examples only to show that
trade reaches us without the slightest effort
on our part, even from countries whose trade
as yet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
Leading Magazine Editors Say of the
FIRST NATIONAL COOPERATIVE SOCIETY

s. X. Hammond, of the ST. LOUIS NEFOoLAS'
the foremost daily paper of tn at city, says:-
1.-THE shilful advertising which you know SO we'll
how to do, to give you an acquaintance
aim st n throughout the United
States. Permit m O congratulate you on making
so practical application of the cooperative
idea 81 generally recognized as leading
directly to highe st commercial achieve enfs.
Hon. h1 g. Wootey, the NEW VOICE and Presidential
candidate the Prohibition ticket IN 1900 SayS:-
You certainly congratulated upon your MANAGEMENT
the Cash Buyers plan and The
idea is well conceived exCeeny worked out thus far Judge
from letters coming readers of the
great that they will realize satisfactory
addition the satisfaction oil cooperating IN an import
ant business Methods"
Eksteiu leading merchants STATE Street ClSagos
shopping president of the RED BOOK MAGAZIISc C9o
publication of great Influence, sayS:-
your splendid plan cooperation the maorder business
certainly indeaeable and persistent worker IN
the cooperation and achievement is welnieh
phenomenal"
K w. Johnson of the WORLD TODAY the leading magasine of
the great West
opinion of the greatest ideas oil the new
century field have something OF the
cooperative societies in England and while their
believe that America where the
field is so larger your will be propoionately
greater"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

make that small profit so
many times that it amounts
to a large sum at the end of
the year.
In the mail-order business
conditions are more favorable
than in any other for a large
turnover"
With experienced manage
ment of finances and of stocks
a SI,ooo,ooo.oo capital can be
made to do a SIo,ooo,ooo.oo
business.
The profit on the 100000
10000 business is $500, 900. 90,
OR so PER CENT ON THE
CAPITAL INVESTED.
None will say that a profit
of 5 per cent on a sale is not
the lowest possible percentage
of profit known. And still the
smallest per centage of profit
on the merchandise makes the
largest profit on the investment.
It's in the volume-the
turnover.
BEAR THIS IN MIND.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
STALL PROFITS ON SALES AND STILL
INTENSE PROFITS ON THE CAPITAL INVESTED

profit groceries than other merchandise
STILL all wholesale grocers wealthy
the goods where the made,
but turnover
This of times turn your capital.
capital and do 100000 business
turn your capital ten times
capital hundred
while dculousy small profit each
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
EROn THE EXTREME SOUTH

M Clifford, of Pietermaritzburg, South
Africa, on seeing one of our catalogues In
the hands of an immigrant American friend,
sent us a draft for 6125 (s625.oo) for road
carts, buggies and harness.
We shall be glad to show the original OF
this order to any of your Chicago friends
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
TO INVEST

Means To lay money capta the purchase property
especially for PERMANENT USE opposed to speculation
given by Standard Dictionary and the
FIRST NATIONAL SHARES which
property-GOOD PROPERTY FOR PERMANENT USE
with an of speculation about them.
FIRST NATIONAL SHARES" legitimate, high grade
safe and guaranteedand yielding the
greatest profit obanabe in mercantile enterprises
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
WE DO BUSINESS
ALL THE TIME
THE MAIL-ORDER
BUSINESS Is
ETERNAL

Agold mine plays out-most
of them do;
An oil well dries up-if ever
it spouts;
But a general mail-order
business,
Selling everything from a
needle to threshing machine,
Everything you eat, wear
and use,
Every day in the year, never
dies, but grows constantly.
We attend the baby's birth
with a cradle, the outfit of in
fant's wear. The schoolboy
looks to US for his suit, his
shoes, his cap, his books, his
games, his toys. The man
procures from US his pillow or
his plane, his anvil or his sex
tant; the groceries and wearing
apparel for himself and his
family. When his course of
life is run, his tombstone is
sent direct from our quarry;
then, and only then, closes
the account of the lifelong
customer of the mail-order
business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for NAY FL. 1905

prospery This isn't prosperous times, when the
purchasing frequency with which
buy higher priced goods and the nxuries which
sewing machines
wearing apparel jewely swell the volume Of
sales.
who good times don't look closely to the
dollars, and the higher viii
tight patronze the maiorder business which, with
work of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
NO GREATER MISTAKE IS MADE

We sell goods New York than other
State in Ohio is third and
goods in the homes of Fifth Avenue New 1ork
City, the Klondke or the rich
Hongkong.
glad show of Chicago TRENDS the
actual mentioned LOCALITIES ana sta
stcs of the of business throughout the world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
THE DEALER QUITS THE JOBBER
Our Prices Do the Business

We have several with DEALERS and MER-
each averaging several hundred dollars
Merchants find advantage deal with although
we have statesmen
The price and a one-cent catalogue does it ALL
We shall be glad ledgers to representative
and chow YOU the extent of business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
LOSSES IN THE rlAIL-ORDER BUSINESS

nothing 1t is a strictly cash business We give
credit We have either the the goods And
while ship goods c. o. d. subject approval doubling
Thomases, the
accompanied by cash.
they help business.
In the paragraph tell you why.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

Space, saving interest anu IlsuIanct on MeI-
chandise stocks, etc.
by doing our business direct with the user
by mail without the enormous expense of
the endless chain of statesmen, agents, etc,
of jobber, wholesaler and retailer added to
the cost.
THE PROFITS We eliminate entirely;
there are none to be paid to anyone, except
our own small percentage for handling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

possible by number of favorable conditions
The price article what produce; plus what it
plus of handng plus the profits of ALL
its handling from the time it from the factory
until it reaches
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

To begin with, buy DIRECT from factories mills and
sell direct the No Wholesalers obbs retailers
other mddlemans immense profits and added
nothing but ONE small percentage of profit
THE COST TO PRODUCE e cut to by being
buy quantities
their mills going and keep their forces together
THE COST HANDLING We down. by shipping direct
factories saving freigh saving handling saving valuable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
SELLING EVERYTHING FROM A
NEEDLE TO A THRESHING
MACHINE

including ALL medicines made ALL the watches made
anything and everything enter
ing into daily consumption of the world?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

shareholders always welcome visit establish
rnen pains will be taken acquain them with detail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
THE SECRET OF THE r1AIL-ORDER
Is Large Distribution

You have heard the Ivory Soap Co..
and nothing but Hoods Sarsapara selling
patent incidence by the Ingerso Watch Co.. selling
nothing that dollar WATCH of Cascaret OF
omega OIL" Others All these concerns sold but
fortune in few years-a by adve-
Using
you the possible profits of mercantile institution
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
THE r1AIL-ORDER
BUSINESS HAS NO
"DULL SEASON"

When stoves don't move, we
sell refrigerators and ice-cream
freezers. When the farmer
has ceased buying farm i'm
elements he buys his clothing,
piano, organ, sewing machine,
etc.
The sun never sets on our
business.
There are no seasons in our
business.
WE DO BUSINESS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

oftentimes.
hard times situation is offset in Our business
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
THE nAIL-ORDER BUSINESS Is A
"HARD Titles" BUSINESS

which means it fourishes in hard t
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even from countries whose trade have not solicited
The Jersey City news., 1905-06-09

IN CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY
10 francesca Maresco, MaddaisnA Marssco.
senatra Di Leo. Maria Df Leo, Pasquaie Sell
yaggf.-
BY virtue OF an order Of the Court Of Chan
Gerry Of New Jersey made on the day OF ths
eate hereof in cause wherein the Busiaess
MEMS Building and Loan Association is C5Tn-
plainant and you and others are Defendants.
you are required to appear. plead. demur os
answer to the Conpiainant's bill Of complaint.
on or before the third day Of July, A.. D..
nineteen hundred and hve or the said bill VIII
pc taken as confessed against you and sueh 4
decree made as the Chancellor shall think
equitable and just
The said bin Is fled to foreclose mortgage
made by Senatra Di Leo and Maria Df Leo,
MS WIFE and the Business mems Building and
Lean Association, dated February 1s 1893 upon
lands in the City OF Jersey City. And you
Francesca Mareseo are made Defendant be-
cause You own The said lands and premises,
and you Maddalena Maresco are made defend
ant because you are the wife Of francesca
Maresco. the owner OF said lands and pfefnisss
and have some Interest BY virtue Of y0rr dover
rights And you Senatra Di Leo and Maria Di
Leo are made Defendants because ycu jointly
hold mortgage on said lands and premises
subsequent to that Of Complainant And you
Pasquaie Selvagg are made Defendant because
you have mechanics lien upon the said
lands and premises.
Dated May 3. 1906
HUDSPETH, PUsTER CAREY.
Solicitors for Complainant,
No. z5s Washington Street.
Jersey City. n J.
The Jersey City news., 1905-06-09
MONDAY. JUNE 1e, 1905
At 4 o'clock P. NJ


Printed conditions under which, the
proposals must be made and plans and
specifications of the work. form of con-
tract. blanks for proposals. can be ex-
amined at the office of the Clerk Of the
Board of Chosen Freeholders, next I'd The
Court House, in Jersey City, on or after
June /. 1865. also amount and chafac-
ter of security required
Further notice is hereby given thar the
work above mentioned. with the contract
and obligation to be made therefor. are
TO be done under and in pursuance Of an
Act of the Legislature of the State of
New Jersey, entitled "a supplement TO
an Act entitled An Aet in relation to
County expenditures. approved April
2, 1873. which said supplement was ap-
proved April 2, 1902.
Each estimate or proposal must be ac-
companied by a certified check for Two
Thousand Five Hundred Dollars (S2. .50O).
payable to Stephen NJ Egan, County
Collector, drawn on some National Bank
or Trust Company, or cash to the same
amount.
Bonds for the faithful performance of
tile work to indemnify the county in the
sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars.
t$20,000). will be required of the success
ful bidder.
By order of the Board Of Chosen Free
holders Of the County of Hudson. II. j.
JOHN p. NOON-AN.
Deputy Clerk.
Bidders will please furnish certified
checks instead of cash If possible.