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...mines temporarily, fix wages, mine, transport and distribute coal. ¶The retail price of anthracite has practically doubled in ten years. ¶About 50 cents of the consumer's dollar goes to pay for coal at the mine, the remainder paying for transportation, distribution, retailers' and jobbers' profits. ¶Of this same dollar about eleven cents, altogether, goes as profit, divided between the producer, jobber, it' any, and retailer. ¶In times of shortage, however, jobbers often buy and sell the same coal several times so that a whole series of extra profits is pyramided...
...against the Standard Oil Company have been silenced for the moment by the clamor about sugar. Wicked men, it would seem, are holding up the price of the consumer's dearest luxury, it is merely necessary to find the wicked men. But the search goes on from producer to jobber and from broker to consumer, each solemnly shaking his head and pointing to his neighbor. The last man in line with some consternation raises his eyes in significant reverence to an economic law. New committees set out on the quest every day with no success. In vulgar circles this game...
...TAYLOR, general jobber in furnaces, stoves, sheet iron and copper work; also repairer and urnisher of screens, doors and windows. Locks and keys fitted. Lawn mowers repaired and sharpened. Cash paid for old stoves. Send postal to 57 Plympton street, Cambridge...