Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 91, Hammond, Lake County, 3 October 1913 — Page 9

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SHJNBBAVmlBHDTOBEItt 5tib9 -119113 Mi U WcBocBt p.m. Bmi 2$) Lolls if be Soldi at 2dDdD SS.OO ISOlPJfU AIM S5.O0 PER MONTH These prices are BnSy Good For Three Bays WEST HAMMOND'S GREATEST SUBDIVISION. Ninety thousand dollars invested in homes the last six months. These lots are located on Williams street, on the Illinois side, facing the beautiful Country Club House, while the finest residential section of Hammond adjoins it on the east. STOP BEING A RENT PAYER! Let your rent money be a working investment to earn big profits for you. Others sell lots on the same street at $300. We will build you a home on easy payments. YOUR CHANCE TO PROFIT. Buy now and save $100. Why delay? They are selling fast. Get a home started. Come early and get the best selections.

FRANK J. WACHEWICZ, Agent

PHONE 1617

109 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIFTH STREET

WEST HAMMOND, ILL.

RAIL ORDERS ARE PLACED Conservatism "of buyers is emphasized as the accumulations of steel works' order books are reduced. Eastern mills are feeling the falling off in business first. according to the Iron Age. Car builders have not had much encouragement as to new contracts, but where business has been offered steel car companies have not been averse to concessions on plates and shapes. The Chicago and Northwestern is about to close for 2.500 steel untlerframe cars. The New York Central

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has closed for 420 steel coaches. j Rail inquiries in the Chicago district amount to nearly 260.000 tons. October is expected to bring- a number of orders. In the foreign trade figrures are being taken on 10,000 tons for Argentina and 8,000 tons for Slam. British mills have taken 27.000 tons for the Australian government and several thousand tons for the Osaka railway in Japan. The LIthgow mill in Australia closed a 17.000 ton contract on which it receives a government bonus, of $7 a ten. Canada has been a buyer of structural steel, 10.000 tons fof bridge work having been closed by one interest. Bids went in on a fi.500 ton section of the New York subway this week. A Havemeyer warehouse in Brooklyn will require about 5,000 tons. There is quite a little railroad bridge work throughout the country. Canadian purchases of tin plate have just been made in this country to the extent of 300,000 boxes. Welsh mills made strenuous efforts for this business. The American Sheet and Tin Plate company has 75 per cent of its hot mill capacity operating both in sheets and tin plates. In the steel pipe trade some readjustment of prices is looked for. A contract for ten miles of 16inch pipe has been taken by a Pittsburg mill and the Texas company is in the market for forty miles of 6-inch and ten miles of 3 to 4-lnch pipe. The firmness of the pig iron mark", is in

contrast with finished lines.

present conditions in

STEEL CO. CALLS EXPERTS IN ANTI-TRUST SUIT

New York, Oct. 2. The steel corporation marshaled its experts today to refute the government's charge that it deserves dissolution as an illegal monopoly. The corporation took up the defense where it was left off when hearings were suspended last June. It maintains not only that it is not a monopoly, but that a monopoly of the steel and iron trade Is an impossibility. Professor C. L. Leith of the University of Wisconsin was the first witness. In answer to a question whether he could estimate the percentage of available iron ores in Michigan controlled by the Steel corporation, Professor Leith answered about 30 per cent in 1911 and slightly less in 1912. The witness explained the decrease was due to outside discoveries and explorations. Outside interests. Professor l,elth said, controlled more iron ore from Michigan than the Steel corporation. George P. Crosby, a mining engineer of Duluth, was questioned concerning the Cuyuna ore region, in which he Is

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Light the Patfh to Prosperity Merchants who use Tungsten Electric Signs never lose their way by choosing the wrong road to success. You simply cannot fail to attract new cusotmers if you use an Electric sign. It acts like an irresistible magnet, drawing all the trade within its reach. Tungsten lamps give over twice the volume of light of any other incandescent lamp. That is the reason they command the attention of buyers. For Every Store Owner no matter how small his business, the Tungsten Electric Sign is the cheapest and most effective advertising.

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, Whiting, E. Chicago, Ind. Harbor

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Random THINGS AND FLINGS.

uxr plain Ivory mtey lantead of Canhmlr BOqnrt while taking bathf

SCIENTIST says that the horseless age is fast approaching but judging from the spread of the suffragette cause there will always be some hapless husbands) In harness.

A GOOD APPOINTMENT.

Read that an Indian has been ap

pointed registrar of the treasury and will sign all of the paper money. Considering the way money vanishes now days it Is quite appropriate to have it bear the signature of the vanishing red man.

NEW industry in California is the bottling of orange juice. If the golden atate native sons were democrats instead of bull moosers they might be bottling grape juice instead. SAILOR In the navy vraa fourtmnrtlalrd and fined flOO because he wore

overall on a holiday when be greased machinery. Wonder what the penalty la when a naval eoal paftner happens to

ENTERPRISING fellow in Chicago has written a book about that city's proposed terminal depot. If a man

ever wrote a book about the depots along the Erie railroad the volume would stand a good chance of being

adopted by colleges to give students

an adequate id-ea of sanitary condi

tions in the middle ages..

AUTOMOBILE ran amuck In Chicago the other day and injured three persons. Considering some of the Joy riders the auto has to carry one can't blame it for being goaded to desperation. s

CLEVELAND dispatches say that John D. Rockefeller entertained sixty Italian laborers at a musicale held in his home. Is Jawn D. trying to influence the Italians to use gasoline instead of coal for cooking- purposes? CABLES bring news Of Dig earthquake In Panama. But Thl will be nothing

To the earthquake that will

l"pet aonte of the republican Poarmaatera aa noon aa the Democrat et buoy.

ALTHOUGH a lot of the railways have adopted the motto "Safety First," one can't help wondering that "Dividends First" still dominates most of them. On the New Haven line the motto Safety First" after dividends.

SEVEN LEAN YEARS AHEAD?

Oary paper says that Mayor Knotts had a dream about cows the other night. Inasmuch as hizsoner has

been In office and waxed rich for seven years this may have some relation to Pharaoh's dream about the seven fat klne and the seven lean kine.

JUDGING from some of the eggs served at the breakfast table there is a crying need for the introduction of eugenics into the barn yard.

SEE that Rip Van Winkle Is being played at a South Chicago theatre. Does this mean that South Chicago has finally become a theatrical Sleepy Hollow?

Miss Gladys Mason. Miss Gladys Mason is on a long hike from New York to San -Francisco. She has already passed through Chicago and hopej to reach her destination some time this year. She says the aim of her trip is to demonstrate the benefit of physical culture life, and show the people that we eat too ranch and take too little exercise.

interested. He explained that this land is and has been open for lease to any one offering a fair price. He estimated the available oro in the Cuyuna range at 100.000,000 tons, and added that much of the region was unexplored.

LABOR NEWS

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Boston The national headquarters of the United Shoes Workers of America are to be moved to Boston.

Glasgow Journeymen tailors Scotland have received an increase

10 per cent in wages. Indianapolis Uniaed Mine Workers of America this month pay the second installment of B0 cents a month aoward an international fund to aid striking miners in Vancouver, West Virginia, Southern Colorado and elsewhere. Boston Clgarmakers' Union No. 97 of Boston has voted hot to permit foreigners to membership until they have been in America at least a year. This is one of the strongest labor organizations In the country.

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DON'T GO TO LAW Our Abstract win show you whether yor ar buying land or a law suit. ALLMAN-GARY TITLE COMPANY

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CAPITAL $100,000.00 Abstracts of Title to Lands Lake County, Indiana. OFFICES: 664 Broadway, Gary, Ind.

Allman Block, Crown Point,

BRANCH OFFICE: Chicago Title A Tract Company, Chicago, Ilk

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