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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04
Industrial Opportunities in Minneapolis

wrong, the needle will undoubtedly be
put on the market and it might as well
be made, here. Mr.. Pilgrim has de-
vice which will make the hand sewing
needle an automatic threader He has
malleable iron, destined for quick and
general sale, which can be made in the
same factory and by the same hands.
Needles are made of steel wire cold
drawn Manufactured in large quanti-
ties 400 or 500 boys, girls and men
that the profit on the automatic needle,
if a success, would be from 20 to 20 per
cent. The United States now con-
sumes more than 60,000,000 needles a
year, to say nothing Of the consumption
in the eleven other countries covered
ton. An output of 100000 day would
require large factory and possibly the
output could be increased to i 100000 a
day, which would make necessary a pro-
portionately larger factory.
To make an automatic needle 1T is
necessary to draw out steel stem, then
stamp the flexible spring. Five e. ma ma
needles day. AS many more sets OF
machines, and also employees, would be
needed for. each additional $4,000 manu-
featured.
The machines required would be to
cut the wire into lengths; to draw the
wire; to point the needle; to grove the
shank; to cut the eye, to make the pat
ent stem, etc.
It is estimated that needle factory
could be started at 100000 output and
then increase gradually to 100000 a
day. -.
This takes no account of the novelty
end of the factory for the manufac-
ture Of key rings, lamp chimney clean
cles from wire, as we'll as novelties to
: be manufactured from malleable iron.
J Long narrow brick buildings would be
required for needle factory purposes.
} They should be, it is said, at least loo
!, feet in length each, and two stories
high.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04

/ can be made at the same time with
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04

were established it would be literally
patronized as home industry.
Possibly some question may arise as
to whether just needle factory would
last here. Needles are SO easily made
and are built on such staple lines that
it is stated that some kind of an i'm.
provement should be added to the
model to make it "takeo with the
trade.
A Minneapolis Invention.
One good reason for Minneapolis
men to take up with the needle ques
provement to make needles sell is now
in the hands of Minneapolis inventor
This is the self threading attachment
which makes it possible to thread {
sewing machine needle in the dark anC
while the machine is in operation, which
holds the thread from slipping, yet re
leases it at the will Of the machine
operator.
A company is to be formed to pu
pliance to make the threading of a com
mon hand sewing. needle a mere pas
time is already. Thought OUT I
might as well be formed Of Minneapo
lis men, and with Minneapolis capital t.
build factory in Minneapolis. Shout.
this, or some other device for self
threading. Of needles. prove :effectiv
and popular. the needle will likely ah
solutely replace the present pattern, a.
archaic one. 81. 49, 5-.-.... E.. re-. ,
But leaving the needle out Of tn
question as to profits, the novelty en-
or the factory would pay well, an
carry the cost of the needle manufat
ture, which would in turn help the sal
and advertise the output of the entir
factory. -
Just now w. II. H. Pilgrim is agitat
ing, the needle factory question. H
believes the sewing machine needle al
pliance to make automatic threadin
possible, on which he has patents in tn
Counties ' is destined T to re se
the needle manufacture question. H
LIS going east to look up the question c
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04

cuts little figure in the manufacture of
needles. The SAME is true of the carry
ing the finished product to the con-
sumner. One carload of wire material
While. An almost infnitesimal num-,
Der of needles can be made from car
of raw material. A carload Of the fin
ished product will go long ways in
supplying the use of a big city and it's
natural territory of distribution.
One of the circumstances which
makes a needle factory desirable in
same roof with the needles and of the
same or like material lot of articles
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04

for popular use made of wire could be
turned out by the factory with great
profit, and the demand, if the article
"took' with the public, would build
up tremendous center. .&...: =
One Of the reasons for establishing
a needle factory in Minneapolis is that
the needle demand is now supplied al
most entirely by eastern factories. A
long distance separates the western
market from the source of supply.
Needles are handled by iobbers, but
they are bought east and the attitude
of the local. wholesalers to Minneapolis
factories in general gives cause for be.
lief that in case local needle factory
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04

can be made at the same time with
great profit.
A Novelty Factory.
not a needle Factory alone, but a nov
city factory in which needles would be
part of the product. A business man
of Minneapolis said the other day:
"The article which it is most profitable
to manufacture is the one in daily
use.' 7 - ga
! Applied to needles this truism is pat.
But along with needles could be made
a lot of semi-novelty., patented articles
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04
Transportation Cost Small.
REST BARGAINS Hv LOTS

3Sth 39th
lie
132x220 Two blocks
Chamber Commerce and less than $50 foot
s7OO-East
alley these cheap.
water 50x109 feet.
s2d SD City
water walk 42x128 feet.
feet improvements neighborhood; cheapest lot in
Lowry
Lake Calhoun total size S3xl27 feet Terms
S27OO-A Humboldt between Goth
walk; cheapest tract Lake of
Isle addition.
38th 39h
ABILITY Shopper month
Franklin and 2st Best
Of Kenwood; 4sx150 feet Terms.
$65OOConer Grant Cnton l0xl29 mod
house it in good reasonable terms
S145O-A HILL between Lincoln and Frank
lies Terms
$4,000 railroad akage six blocks from the Union depot
196x15S feet cheap.
S325-Eas
alley. Terms $25 and $40 month
Sl75
walk; $25 and $40 month
within walking
State University. Size 50x132 feet. Very cheap.
between
sewer, Easy terms
AcreSixty Of NicoIet ne
Will sell
Fine soil. beautiful
Fine soil for gardening.
THORPE BROS., Ands'us Bzdy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04
II. y. j AN NEY
9N3 Oneida RBdu,

CLIFTON AV. HoUsE-This finely located prop
erty is offered now at reasonable price,,
and anyone desiring home in a choice resi-,
dence section will do well to cali upon US
and investigate this property. 1t Is nine
room colonial-front well-built upto-date fully
modern elegant home, located upon one Of the
highest lots on that street. The owner has
moved away from the city and does not ex-
pect to return here to live, hence he desires
to sell. Lot has 60 feet frontage.
$4,000 will buy complete nine-room modern
house, finished in hardwood and white enamel
with a fine hot-water heating plant, etc., in
the Lake Calhoun district, on Irving av s. This
is bargain.
$4,000 two-fat frame building with a
good hot-water heating plant and all modern
improvements, and good new barn, IN the
eighth ward, which rents for $40 per month";
This will make good investment. Why
not buy it? u
$4,000 12-room house, rented to two fami-.
lies, with two outside entrances and city
water, on Sd nv s.
S265O-A ten-room house on 4th av $, large
lot with bath, city water. gas and furnaces.
rents for $2S
$lSOO-A small. store and fat overhead with
city water, full basement, water closet, sewer
connections and bathroom; rents for $25 q
month. A good investment
$25OO-Two houses one Of eight rooms and
st. near 10th av; rents for $500 per year;
lot 52-foot front. A sure bargain.
LOTS! LOTS!
S3I5-S325 Each--East front, on Clinton av,
between 35th and Beth. S#
1926 1896 Each--I.ots west front, on Sd
av, between S5th and Beth.
S36O--Lots, east front, on Clinton av, be-
tween Gath and 35th st. 3 ts
$4OO-Lots. west front, on Grand av, near
32d. s.2ss...ss
l$5OO-Eots, on James avf S, near 2sth. s
We also have lots at Tow prices In ,all parts
of. the city. IL yous media lot it Will pay you
Ito cali and gee us before you buy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-04

over various other industries is that the
volume of the output does not depend
entirely on consumption for actual use
The needle is such a tiny article and
there are so many haystacks that the
loss demand is something tremendous.
Needles are sc. cheap that rarely is
search continued very long, for one of
the elusive points. It is easier to take
a new one. Then needles wear out rap
idly. They are articles whose ma
terial is never used completed up. The
delicate point once. gone the needle is
useless. Then the shank breaks easily,
and the shank gone, the needle goes to
the waste basket. .,....
Transportation Cost Small.
In the case of needles the cost is reg
ulated to some extent by the extreme
ease with which they are lost, broken
or destroyed by use. A needle factory
would, therefore, depend upon small
profits and quick sales for it's profit.
The bigger the sale of the article the
larger the output, the greater the fac
tory required and the larger the size
Of the payroll list.
The cost of shipment Of raw material
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11

courses therefore were offered. The scholarship
shown by women proves that they are as capable
of higher education men; but there is room for
doubt that at present equal opportunity in
after-ife is provided for them.
The college courses founded in the Middle
Ages as preparation for the priesthood Changes
in them have been absolutely necessary to fit them
more closely to the professional scientific COM
mercal and esthetic needs of men. If adaptations
and additions had not taken place, boys would have
refused to waste four or more years in work which
not only would not help them directly but in MANY
instances might prove Instantaneous on ac-
count of taking time which could be employed
better in direct contact with the world.
During these years the classical languages have
lost their ascendancy and the modern have been
strengthened History, literature and composition
have been adapted to modern needs. Laboratory
chemistry, physics and biology have been intro
duced and have become specific and practical in
application. Economics, political economy, sociol-
ogy, philosophy and psychology important
factors in connecting the college with the worlds
work. 1t is difficult to even appreciate that these
fields of research had their beginning in the moral
and the mental philosophy, the logic and the polit-
ica1 economy which received such scant attention
in the early days.
Theology, law and medicine WERE at no distant
date, the only professions for which training was
given. They have been supplemented now by
merous Others undreamed of in connection with
learning. Still other vital changes under discus
son that the modern college may society better
X
The direct practical needs of mans life, therefore,
have influenced the entire curriculum; but a similar
study has not been given to the requirements of
woman's life. She has continued to take the work
as it has evolved in response to mans wants In the
majority of colleges to-day, whether coeducational
or separate the entire atmosphere is apart from the
home; woman has been fitted more and more for
mans work and has been led farther away from sub
ects connected with from the interests of her
probable life work. Her trained mind and cultured
inspiration, instead of being utilized the very
problems needing her most, in many instances have
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MARY SCFTENCM WOOLMAN
OF
Director of the Manhattan -YorkC

also will tend to remove all 1ovab1e and womanly
qualities that the subjects possess
1t would impossible for anyone who is truly
familiar with the average American home to accept
TRANQUILITY the assertion that it cannot be improved
by the special education of the who is in control
The evidence of the way most take to
housekeeping NATURALLY" is familiar to eyes as
the cry for remedy from the ills is to our ears.
The correct organization and management of the
home is light question. The public demands
that men shall have education and experience be-
fore they allowed control in commercial
political Subjects yet the same public prefers that
shall not have serious and specific training
for housekeeping.
We therefore face two positions in regard to the
uplifting of this most important social institution
the home. The majority of citizens evidently think
that nothing can be done by education to improve
the home, SO they patiently endure and make the
best of what they find, hoping that time will bring
ameoration. The minority hold that rightly
directed education will materially improve con-
dtions in the household. The times demand that
this latter class shall go to work like Sentimental
Tommy and find way
The education of women always has been
sidered important in America. Before the college
was open to them there were seminaries which gave
at least music, literature and language The
ventiona college courses offered in 1861 when
Vassar College began Now all fields of graduate
and university work available and women's
ambition have full play
improvements, therefore, have been taking place
in opportunities for their education and we should
some corresponding advance in the order and
management of the home if the college culture is
being utilized to benefit womans special field of
labor. And yet, in the MAN, this connection has
not taken place, and the home continues as before
most poorly organized institution. Business and
municipal interests conducted by men, in the
meanwhile showing the good effect of improved
organization resulting from the practical bearing of
certain college courses
When the college opened to woman the
r1culum was the that for The idea
in the minds of the promoters was that both sexes
should be given ian equal chance" The same
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11

them with discomfort and unrest, when they should
be full of inspiration from their education.
The home into which the average graduate goes
is factory conducting number of lines of hand
work which calls for or less expert knowledge.
It is true that many of the household industries
have gone and Others passing. Enough, how
ever are left to try the soul of the inexpert girl
She may be wealthy enough simply to direct or,
not having the means to employ others, she her
self may do the work. In either she needs the
knowledge of the necessary processes.
Among these crafts she finds the cooking. Her
kitchen is a science laboratory; from it proceed
chemical compounds which depend the life,
health and happiness of her household. Her college
chemistry should help her in this business
of life SO that her judgment of food values is good
and her dietaries well combined. There is no
subject in the whole range of education which is
more important to the we-being of the than
this. 1t should have the best thought of large
group of scientists who would consider practically
its application to life and to education. In place
of the needed skill and balanced thought the college
girl finds herself in of maddening and unknown
details, in which her training does not help her
specifically
The cleaning which is necessary at all hours over
her domain needs her trained direction On her
knowledge, to great extent, depends the good
physical condition of her household and the comfort
of the home. Germ life may be rendered harmless
by cleanliness. The laundry too when scientific
methods used. will give excellent returns in the
preservation of the clothing well as in its more
sanitary condition.
Comprehension of the problems of plumbing
heating and ventilating will tend to increase the
vitality and efficiency of the family. If the man.
ager can make or superintend the many small
pairs, remedy slight Interruptions of function
which occur, and if she direct important atera-
tons. much time and money may be saved 1t is
rarely the though, that her college physics has
made adequate practical applications in these
fields
The woman who knows nothing of the sewing
and dress making needed in the average home is
dependent Others and unnecessary extravagances
usually result Much of the new clothing may be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11

e1n Suggestion t1dL u1SllGl tuu-
cation may deal directly with
the scientific organization of it
and thus lead to better con-
ditions there, strange to say, is
generally received with doubt
if not with positive negation.
Americans firmly believe that
the true basis of private char
acter and of national supremacy
lies in the home, and that here
woman's influence is paramount.
But the great bulk of our people
do not consider that the culture
of a college education is neces-
sary for her who must assume
these responsibilities. The
minority who do believe in it
still cling to the old college
curriculum and refuse to accept
as worthy of consideration those
newly organized courses deal
ing directly with the manage
ment of the home. In other
words, a large part of the coun-
try still cling to the belief that
women take to the care of the
household naturally, and that
college training, whether gen.
era1 or specific, not only will in
lure a God-given power, but
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- - - - W.
Omtribute
been divorced completely from them
When college days are over and the
organization of the home confronts
the graduate, she often refuses alto
gether to become housekeeper, and
prefers to enter the business world
which she comprehends better. Most
of those who assume the management
of home, not knowing how to utilize
their education on the complicated
machinery, or how to organize the
needed industrial improvements, make
the best of what they find and do not
try to institute reforms. They find
interests outside of the home fitted
to their active minds, or they grad
ually give up effort and cease to use
their brains at all on important ques-
tons. For the solution of the home
problems most women rely principally
on their own guesses at the best thing
to do, on the gossip of magazines and
old housekeepers, and on their own
natural gumption. This latter quail
ity has kept most homes happy in
spite of the difficulties, and makes us
admire wonan's ability and urge for
ward plans for her relief.
College women themselves have be-
gun to realize that the curriculum as
they found it did not fit them for the
life they were obliged to live. Their
inability to meet adequately the de-
mands upon them in the home fills
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-10-25
ASSETS ONLY $4,000.
Charge Made by Policy Holders Against
Western Life Indemnity-Con-
spiracy Is Alleged.

CHICAGO. Ill, Oct. 23.-Additional
charges against officers of the Western
Life Indemnity company are made in
an amendment to a supplemental bill for
an injunction filed today by policy hold
ers.
The new charges are based on the con-
tents of report by the state superin-
tendent of insurance. Counsel for the
officers of the company vigorously OBJ
iected to the motion asking to amend
and declared that the bill had already
been amended several times. The court,
however. overruled the objections
The supplemental bill sets up the three
directors who purchased 5000 shares of
stock in the Security Life and Annuity
company acted without legal authority
1t is declared that as a result of fla
grant acknowledgement of the present of
fcers the total assets of the Western
Life and Indemnity company will not
exceed $15OOO0.
w. II. Gray is accused of being in a
conspiracy with President Moulton and
General Manager Resented to wreck
the company.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-10-25
BULLET IN HIS APPENDIX.
Young Robert A. Pope Shot Himself
Thirteen Years Ago.

The, vermiform appendix has served
as lodging place for multitude of
strange and varied foreign bodies ac
cordlng to the annals of surgery, but
the physicians of st. Luke's hospital,
New York city, have recently recorded
a case which appears to be UNIQUE, The
object removed from the appendix, in
the course of regular operation for
recurrent appendicitis, was a 22-caIiher
bullet, which had been imbedde5 in the
patients body for thirteen years.
The subject was Robert A. Pona Of
Newburyport, Mass, a nephew of Col
Albert A. Pope. Young Pope is a Har.
ward undergraduate and an athlete. He
visited ST. Luke's some time ago and
complained that when training for foot
ball he invariably suffered from abdom-
inal pains. He expressed the belief that
he was suffering from some form of ap-
pendicitis. His diagnosis was confirmed
by DR.. Hussey of the house staff, and
later by DR.. Francis Markoe. the visit
ing surgeon.
:, The operation was performed, and to,
the astonlshment of the surgeons a small
ou!let was found in the appendix. When
informed of the result of the operation
young Pope said: 1'
Il had forgotten all about that bullet
l shot myself accidentally thirteen wears
ago. | have not been Inconvenience by
it until lately"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-10-25
The Cossack's Happiness.

Ernest Poole in his article in the
Everybody's on present conditions in
Russia, which he has called Peasant
Cattle" quotes brutal Cossack as fol-
lows :
"For what more can a man want than
vodka? To close the door Of your room,
to lie down on your bed with a big gal
lon bottle Of vodka lying across your
stomach, and plenty of good cold meat
and eggs on the chair by your pillow
that's living. Thank the good God, who
only makes us stop meat and eggs in
Lent, but lets us keep on with our vodka.
We have a clever trick for these jolly
bedroom hours. You put the candle in
a little dish of water, so when you booze
off the candle burns on and on till the
fame strikes the water with a big splut-
ter and goes out. This trick was found
out hundreds of years ago, and now we
all know it; so every one in the village
can get drunk without danger of setting
fire to anything.
1--WE have different ways Of drinking.
The poor man who can only have one
bottle, he sucks it in through straw,
because by drinking it slower it gives
you the same feeling as if you had two
bottles. But the rich Cossack who has
three or four bottles-he can just pour it
down in big glasses"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-10-25
Good News for All.

Bradford, Tenn, Oct 23-(Special)
Scientific research shows Kidney
Trouble to be the father Of so many
diseases that news Of a discovery Of
a sure cure for it cannot fail to be
welcomed all over the country And
according to Mr.. J. A. Davis of this
place just such a cure is found in
Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr. Davis says:
"Dodd's Kidney Pills are all that is
claimed for them. They have done
me more good than anything I have
ever taken. I had Kidney Trouble
very bad and after taking few boxes
of Dodd's Kidney Pills L am COM
pletely cured. l cannot praise them
too much"
Kidney Complaint develops into
Bright's Disease, Dropsy, Diabetes,
Rheumatism and other painful and
fatal diseases. The safeguard is to-
cure your kidneys with Dodd's Kidney
Pills when they show the first symp-
tom of disease