Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-10
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several times in this column, as
means of keeping Iowa money in the
state, and at the same time giving the
business men of Iowa more business
and incidental profit. In this mention
ed Sase of Mr.. Schiller it works to the
extent that many former patrons of
the mail order houses, now bring in
their big printed catalogue books, and
compare Garner prices with Chicago
and freight added prices. If would
be purchaser has no catalogue this
dealer has one ON his desk for the
use of the possible purchaser. Here's
the ad as it appears in the Garne:
papers:
Page 1005-Dresser R375, Price
$10.75, freight on $50 lbs $1.Os
total .................. $1l.Sl
Schuler's Dresser, Oak, top 20x
40, shaped mirror hevel edge
20x24, top drawers sweled,
for ............... HOO
Page 1912 Suit No. R4s4, Price
S41.50. freight on $50 lbs at
tic. S2.4S 1895
My Suit is solid oak, height of
bed 6 feet 8 inches. width 4
feet 6 inches. solid quarter
oak. roll on bed, top of dress
er 22x43, French bevel plate
mirror 24S2S, all drawers in
dressers are double swell like
dresser R4s5. My price for
suit complete .............. 1000
Page 1o18-China Closet R5221s,
price s16.6o, freight on $50 lbs
double LIST class $2.13 ........ 1878
NY China Closet Is 6 feet high,
40 inches wide, bent glass
sides, mirror 7x1s, four
shelves Observation-Disclosures. 1850
Page 62--Wall Paper P2290. &c,
P232o, Sc, Page 622-P2344,
We have Wall Paper at 6-S-1O-
IL 15-20-25- O-4O-45 and COO
per dbl. roll.
these goods at the prices advertised
On this bill we save you $500.
The practical part of this kind of
advertising is what counts A pros
pective customer has figures before
him. 1t isn't general offer ITO sell
you as cheap as the Chicago mail or
der house." but names the articles and
both home and Chicago, price. Put it
down as a fact that many towns In
Iowa would not be today crying, hard
times and dull trade, If they would use
the advertising columns of the local
weekly papers, and give facts and fig
ures after the style Of this business
man of Garner. There is another firm
in Manly Junction, Iowa, pursuing
this identical style Of advertising and
business, with gratifying personal re-
suits.
Under the head of poultry and eggs,
an eastern writer remarks that it will
surprise the average reader to learn
how the use Of dressed poultry and
eggs has Increased in the last few
years. The nineteenth annual report OF
the Boston Chamber of Commerce, be-
ing for the year 1904, tells the story os
the increased receipts in Boston and
several other Massachusetts cities,
which may be considered fair indica-
ton OF the increase turnout the coun-.
try Perhaps the most surprising
part of the information centers in the
fact that Massachusetts is buying from
outside sources more than four times
the amount Of poultry and eggs that it
produces! Boston and the thirteen 9TH
er cities reckoned In the estimate buy
only s23,912,023 worth of these house,
hold necessities more than the entire
state produces. 1t would seem that
more of their money ought to revert
to citizens of the state-in other words
that there is room for more poultry
raising.
Here in Iowa there is quite a general
opinion that 1.-The high prices here
are caused by the packing houses of
Chicago establishing purchasing
houses and agents all over the state
paying cash for the poultry product
Shipping it out of the state, thus re-
i1ucing the supply of the home market.
But the above quotation from an east
ern paper, shows the real cause of the
high prices here at home. The demand
is greater than the supply. Therefore,
we can encourage the growing use of
the incubators and breeders in both
town and country. There is no possible
dangea Of the poultry business being
overdone for years to come. Iowa can
double it's supply of poultry and eggs
and still get big paying prices.
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In a New York paper Of recent
date. a dealer in food supplies mem
toned comparatively new fad and
food. 1t is a demand for incubator
chicks" 1t probably was suggested by
the sauab industry of which a hundred
times as many should be raised in
Iowa. 1t seems that an incubator
chick4 q poor orphan that never has
known father or mother, is
offered and induced to eat all he can
stuff into his little gizzard from the
time he chips his shell till he is as big
as a mans first, and then he is sacr1-
feed to supply the demand of the well
to do patrons of the high priced res
taurants The reader must not confuse
this incubator chick with broller. IL
is a new kind of chicken. A SQUAD
chicken. Milk fed as it We're. One can
almost eat an tincubator chick" bones
and all.
So far this spring season has been
q very favorable one for the farmers.
The pasturage was two to three weeks
ahead of time. Near Coon Rapids, in
central Iowa, 100 cattle were turned
into an 140 acre pasture to shift for
themselves on the third day of April.
Spring blowing never had a more fav-
orable season. Oats at this writing
are coming splendidly Corn by the
Of acres was planted last
week and travelling men report it can
be seen In rows now in our southern
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