Identifier: industriesofsain00morr (find matches)
Title: The industries of Saint Louis: her advantages, resources, facilities, and commercial relations as a center of trade and manufacture;
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: (Morrison, Andrew and Irwin, John H. C.) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: St. Loius, J. M. Elstner & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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trade. N. GOLDSMITH & CO. Hides, Wool, Furs and General Commission : H3 North Commercial Street.Mr. N. Goldsmith is regarded as a most active and accomplished business man by altwho have had dealings with his house, and these, owing to the miscellaneous character ofthe produce in which he has trajisactions, are legion. The house has no particular specialty,all sorts of country produce contributing to an annual business rising $100,000. The pat-ronage of the establishment likewise is not confined to one locality, but purchases are madein and shipments directed to all quarters of the West and the adjacent South. A strongcapital and exceptional resources enable the spirited proprietor of this house to do businessat widely different points, and to accommodate his customers as few others in the same lineof trade can. The premises occupied by the house are in the heart of the business center ofSt. Louis, and are conveniently located for ail the purposes of a first-chss commiisiotttrade.
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St. Louis Architectire. Plans by Pfabody and Sffarxs. THE INDUSTRIES OF ST. LOUIS. I47 THE ST. LOUIS NEWS CO. 307 North Fourth Street. This widely known house is the chief distributing point for about all the reading matterthat is perused in the West and Southwest. It has regular customers in all the towns ofthose sections, who are supplied daily with the periodicals and magazines as they arrive.Having 1,126 customers in the country necessitates the charging of that number of accountseach day, and considering the fact that almost the same number of persons take St. Louisdailies, the consequent shipping of over 2,000 packages. The supplying of the St. Louis dailies is a feature of the St. Louis News Companystrade. Before 6 a. m. of each day over 30,000 copies of the St. Louis newspapers are dis-tributed by it. The companys city news business is similarly conducted, except that no ac-counts are kept, every customer being required to pay cash. The number of these sup-plied daily is 275,

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