Michigan Tradesman. Published Weekly. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. $1 Per Ye«r~ VOL. 9. GRAND RAPIDS, JULY 27, 1892. NO. 462 Gr. S. BROWN, ---------JOBBER OF--------- MOSELEY BROS., Foreign and Domestic Friiits and Vegetables. - WHOLESALE - Oranges, Bananas and Early Vegetables a Specialty. FRUITS. SEEDS. BEANS AND PRODUGE. 26, 28, 30 & 32 OTTAWA ST, Send for quotations. 24-26 No Division St. G rretrid. Ra.TOic3.s. A iio li. MUSKEGON BRANCH UNITED STATES BAKING CO., Successors to M u s k e g o n C r a c k e r C o ., HARRY FOX, Manager. Crackers, Biscuits#Sweet Goods. MUSKEGON, MICH. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS. TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF The Green Seal Cigar Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Is the Most Desirable for Merchants to Handle because Teas, Coffees and Grocers' Sundries. It is Staple and will fit any Purchaser. 1 and 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS Retails for 10 cents, 3 for 25 cents. Send Tour Wholesaler an Order. THE NEW YORK BISCUIT GO., S. A. SEARS, Manager. Cracker Manufacturers, WHOLESALE 87, 89 and 41 Kent St., - Grand Rapids. Our Fall Lines of Dry Goods, Carpets and Gloaks We Make a Specialty of Blankets, Quilts and Live Geese Feathers. Oil Gloths, Garpets and Gdrtains Mackinaw Shirts and Lumbermen's Socks. NoW ready. Write for prices• OVERALLS OF OUR OWN MANUFACTURE. SMITH & SANFORD, 68 Monroe St. («iii, B iniim iH s a , **■ g “s , * s i- BLACK BASS CIGABS RINDGE, KALMBACH & CO., NEVER GO BEGGING. Made only by 12, 14, 16 PEARL ST. G. F. F A U D E , IONIA, M ICH Grand Rapids, Mich. THE NE PLUS ULTRA OF A NICKEL SMOKE ! T A T E would call the atten­ tion of the trade to our lines of walking shoes. We O. N. RAPP St C O .. can show you all the novelties at popular prices. 9 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids. We also carry good lines of WHOLESALE FRUITS AND PRODUDE. Tennis Goods at low prices. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. We want to sell you your rubbers for fall. Terms and discounts as good as offered by any agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. During the building of the Kansas & Pacific Railway “Not H o w Cheap, but N o w Good.99 Buffalo Bill “Blue Label” Ketchup SOLD ONLY IN BOTTLES, Contracted to furnish the laborers with meat, killing in one Will be found to maintain the high character of our other food season four thousand eight hundred and sixty-two products. We use only well-ripened, high-colored Tomatoes, seasoned with pure spices, thus retaining the natural flavor and color. PREPARED AND GUARANTEED BY CURTICE BROTHERS CO., BUFFALO Rochester, N. Y.t U. S. A. BALL-BARNHART-PUTMAN CO., We have taken the contract to furnish every dealer in Western Distributing Agents. Michigan with Heyman & Company, BUFFALO 80AP Manufacturers of Slot Casus BEST LAUNDRY 80AP ON EARTH- First-Class Work Only Of Every Description. la rk rocery o I M. C G C . WRITE FOR PRICES. SOLE AGJBJVTS. 03 and 60 Canal St., - GRAND RAPIDS STANDARD OIL CO., WHO URGES YOU TO KEEP S a p o l i o ? GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. T i e Public i D E A L E R S IN By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers create a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in stock so as to supply IHuminating and Lubricating the orders sent to them. Without effort on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchasers to the store, and help sell less known goods. Anv Jobber will be Glad to Fill Your Orders. NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. IM PORTERS AND Office, Hawkins Block. Works, Butterworth Ave. BULK WORKS AT g r a n d r a p i d s , MUSKEGON. MANISTEE, CADILLAC, UDÌ KA.PIDS, GRAND HAVEN, LUDINGTON. ¿.[.LEGAN, HOWARD CITY, PETOSKEY, HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR Wholesale t a r s EMPTY CARBON It GASOLINE BARRELS,GRAND RAPIDS V O L . 9, GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1892. NO. 462 FRANK H WHITE, EARNING ONE’S CAPITAL. lished carpet-weaving house of Thomas Deacon David Speers was taking his Blackie. Manufacturer’s Agent and Jobber of after-dinner smoke. Perhaps the long 65 MONROE ST. The first year the concern, in spite of clay pipe looked a little incongruous Formed by the consolidation of the falling prices, did very well. Robert’s Brooms, Washboards, Wooden with the handsomely furnished room and share of the profits not only gave him a COOPER COMMERCIAL AGENCY, the massive silver plate on the mahogany AND THE AND good living, but paid his interest, and UNION CREDIT CO., sideboard. But for that matter, the allowed him to lay by nearly one hun­ And embodying all the good features of both deacon himself was an incongruity—a dred pounds toward clearing off his bor­ agencies. Indurated Pails i Tubs, Commercial reports and current collections little, common-looking man, not very rowed capital; and the next year things receive prompt and careful attention. Your well dressed, with a Rob-Roy bonnet on were still brighter. patronage respectfully solicited. WOODEN BOWLS, CLOTHESPINS & Telephones 166 and 1030. ROLLING PINS, STEP LADDERS, his head, and knitted, gray worsted In the fourth year of the enterprise, L. J. STEVENSON, C. A. CUMINGS, WASHING MACHINES, MAR­ stockings on his slippered feet. Cer­ Robert Rae called again on his uncle. C. E. BLOCK. KET, BUSHEL & DELIV­ tainly a very wide contrast to the hand­ He was sitting smoking in just the same ERY BASKETS, BUILDING PAPER. some, stylish-looking young fellow who dress and attitude. interrupted his reverie by a very frank “ Good evening, Uncle David.” The Braflstreet Mercantile A p cy . Manufacturers in lines allied to above, wish­ and noisy— “ Good evening, Robin. How’s busi­ The B radstreet Company, Props. ing to be represented in this market are request­ ed to communicate with me. “ Good evening, uncle. Can I talk ness? ” a while with you?” 135 COURT ST., “First rate. I don’t come to-night Executive Offices, 279,281,283 Broadway, N.Y “That depends, Robin, on what you’re about business.” CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. gaun to talk about. I’m no’ in a mood “Hech! What for then?” Offices in the principal cities of the United for clish-ma-clavers.” “I am going to be married. I wanted States, Canada, the European continent, “I want to talk about business, uncle.” to tell you about it.” Australia, and In London, England. “Humph!” “That’s a mair kittle risk than Blackie’s “You know, uncle, that Aleck Lang business, Robin.” Grand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg. and I have been long friends? ” “I think not, uncle.” HENRY ROYCE, Snpt. PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. “I have heard so. I don’t Know it.” “Wha’s the lassie? ” T. St e w a r t W h i t e , Pres’t. “Well, we have. To-day, Aleck came “Jessie Lorimer.” i . J. SHBLLMÂN, Scientific Optician, 65 Monro« Street. W, F r e d M c B a i h , Sec’y ._________ to tell me that he is going into the carpet­ “The minister’s daughter? ” weaving business in Kilmarnock. He in­ “Yes.” IFire XBtfrglar Proof tends to buy Thomas Blackie out.” I A ll Sizes and Prices. “What tocher has she? ” I Parties in need of the above “Hech t He’ll need some bawbees for “Just her beauty and her noble nature; ■ are invited to correspond that.” Eyes tested for spectacles free of cost with "with she is of good family, too, and has had latest Improved methods. Glasses in every style “His father will help, and he asked the best of educations. Why, uncle, she at moderate prices. Artificial human eyes of I. Shnltes, Agt. Diebold Safe Co. me to join him. What do you think every color. Sign of big spectacles.__________ MARTIN, MICH. can do most anything—paints, draws, about it? ” plays the harp, sings like an angel, ESTABLISHED 1841. “How long have yon been wi’ Hastie?” and—” THE MERCANTILE AGENCY “Five years.” “I’m feared she’ll be a kind o’ matri­ “And how much have you saved?” monial luxury, Robin. But she’s a bon- R. G. Dun & Co. “Well, to tell the truth, uncle, nothing nie bit lassie; I ha’e seen her; yeti doubt Reference Books Issued quarterly. Collections at all. What with Jessie marrying last if she’s fit for a puir man’s wife.” attended to throughout United States and Canada year and Rosa this and the presents 1 had “You’ll come to the wedding. Uncle?” Edwin JL Gilues & Cos ( to give and other expenses, my savings “ Surely, surely.” BLENDED went away.” It was a very grand wedding, uncle “Humph! ” Speers made quite a sensation by giving “I thought, perhaps, that as the busi­ the bride a check for five hundred pounds. ness was such an old, sure one, and as Indeed, Jessie seemed to have quite cap­ both the Langs would be interested in it, tivated the old bachelor, and he soon be­ you would lend me two thousand pounds, gan to spend a great many of his even­ for such a wonderfully good chance! ” ings in her pretty home. PAMPHLETS The old man removed his pipe, and Three years passed happily away. In IF YOU ENJOY A GOOD CUP OF COFFEE READ THIS. looking Robin in the face, he said: Robert’s home there had been some pleas­ W HE fact that a coffee is a Java does not always Imply CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS A that ft will make a delicious beverage, for Java* “I have made it a rule never to lend ant changes, and Uncle Speers danced a differ very materially on account of the section of the money to young men.” For the best work, at reasonable prices, address Island of Java on which they are grown and the method pretty baby Jessie occasionally on his used in cultivating, some being grown by private planters, ether under the government supervision.