Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1893 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

They’ll Deliver Tour Groceries. Remember that Warner &. Shead,* the Van Rensselaer street grocery and hardware firm, are now running a delivery wagon, and will deliver goods free to any part of the city, on short notice. Call on C. B Steward, agent for lots in Columbia Addition; 140 lots at prices from 125 to 1130.

The Same Cleveland, August, 1893. With plenteous crops, with abundant promise of remunerative production and manufacture, with unusual invitation to safe investment, and with satisfactory assurance to business enterprise, suddenly financial distrust and fear have sprung up on every side. Numerous moneyed institutions have suspended, because abundant assets were not immediately available to meet the demands of frightened depositors. Surviving corporations and individuals are content to keep in hand the money they are usually anxious to loan, and those engaged in legitimate business are surprised to find that securities they offer for loans, though heretofore satisfactory, are no longer accepted. Values supposed to be fixed are fast becoming conjectural, and loss and failure have involved every branch of business.