Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 13, 1916, Page 12

12 OMAHA BUSINESS Retail Sales for November, 1915, Thirteen Per Cent Greater world, lives in Omaha. Hoot, mon, ald ye no know it? Than for 1914. Aye, his name is James Burness, chief RESEARCH I8 COUNTRY-WIDE | soputy in the ccllector of customs’ office | He's a Scotchman from Scotland. He . Retall sales by leading merchants In | way horn in Ochtomuchty, Scotland, a Omaha In six representative lines of | niace which, he eays, you can’t pronounce business showed an average increase of | sorrectly unleas you're a German. Other- 32 per cent in November, 1915, over No- | wise you'll probabiy pronounce the “ch” | ~vember, 1914. This improved condition of | Ijke a “k," which s not correct. Dusiness is revealed by the second annual | “Bohbby Burns' name was originally merchandising research report of the As- | ‘Burness,’ " says the Omaha Burness pociated Advertising Clubs of the World, | “Bobby thought the name was hard to which has just been received here. pronounce and so he changed it to Burne, Clothing store and hardware =saled which is the name by which the whole mmade a gain of 10 per cent each, and gro- | world knows him. He tells about it some- cery sales made a gain of 13 per cent. | where, and ma miither used to tell, back Jewelry store advertising increased 11 per | in Ochtomuchty, just how our family was cent, but the jewelry sales showed a gain | related to his." of 25 per cent. The Increase in jewelry James Burness has the full Scotch burr #ales 15 regarded as particularly signifi- | in his speech, and nobody can say “it's eant and indicative of st busi- e (o ks ness conditions, as people generally buy B st vy e oo wonaiine | U0 Cars Battle A% one of the marketing centers of the Hard Against I()e Freezing to Rails Jocal merchants is embraced in this com- prehensive report Consumer demand in 1915, as indicated by retall sales throughout the United States, Increased approximately 16 per cent over 1914, and collections improved materially, according to the second an country, and Information obtained from Not in years has the street rallway company had as hard a storm to fight as the present one, is the assertion of Gen- nual report of the merchandising re- &l Manager Smith, who said | gearch committee of the Assoclated Ad-| "Not since the lines were electrified wertising Clubs of the World, which has ''&Ve We had a storm that compared with | Just. been received here In the January ‘" one in the matter of giving us number of Associated Advertising, the trouble. Of course the blizgard of monthiy magazine published by the Ae. LWeNty-clEht years ago was more severe, | Roclated Advertising elubs. In compiling DUt those days we were running horse the report, November was taken as an cars, and when the storm became too ndex month of business conditions bad, we simply umhitched and turned | The investigation touched nearly 207 M NOW we have got to keep moving the Jeading market centers in every part of Det% We can. the United States and in a number of Canadian cities, covering stores selling both luxuries and necessities. Grocers, Jewelers, department store owners, hard- ware dealers, clothlers and druggists Fepresenting the six lines of business in westizated, willingly opened their books o the hundreds of Investigators who in- gerviewed them. One Thousand Investigntors, Encouraging Increases in sales in all | Jines Investigated were reported prac- | *We have been working every sweeper since late Tuesday night keeping the ! lines open, but we have had great diffi- culty In maintaining a schedule. The trouble has not been on account of the amount of snow, but because of the cold. | A car pussing over the ralls, instead of | melting the enow by friction, simply con- verts it-nto solid fce. The next car | comes along and stalls on the ice and there 1a nothing to do but for the men to | get off the car and chop this ice away. The brooms of the sweepers will re- &nd the average Increase over 104 in |the lce. Then, again, the snow gets Husinens in all the thousands of stores |down in the flanges wlong the sidse that participated was shown to have been | the ralls and soon become solid ice, ra 3592 per cent, Business conditions In | 3015, as compared with those of 1914 fol- . any friction contact fowing the outbreak of the Iuropean war, were decidedly improved. {as the snow stops drifting I am of the No less than 1,000 Investigators called |oDinion that most of our trouble will Le | Gipon and Interviewed merchants in the OVer, as there has not been enoush | snowfall yet to interfere with the movie | Jeading marketing centers, In each city &t least three representative merchants | ment n each of the six lines Investigated were Interviewed. Assurance was given that mames of individuals or firms would not #ppear in the report, the object belng to r‘m only figures showing percentages - The Investigations were made by com- | smerelal club secretaries and members of | Jocal advertising clubs, under the general | @irection of Mac Martin of Minneapolis, ’ Increase in Advertising. Bules, local advertising collectons and the amount of stocks carried by mer- ©hants I Noverfiber, 1915, were compared ‘with those of November, 1914, and Novem- Jewish Community to Celebrate B'mai B'nal B'rith day will be observed by the local Jewish community Sunday, un- {der the ausicesp of the two Omaha lodges, Nebraska lodge and Willlam Mc- Kinley lodge, isted by the ladies' auxillary. The principal speakers who will come on for the celebration are Dr. Rudoiph I, Coffee of Chicago, superin- tendent of the newly organized social service bureau of the B'nai B'rith order, and Hiram D. Frankel of 8t. Paul, chair- man of the propaganda committee for thia district, An elaborate program ranged for the day. In the morning there will be an informal reception to the honor guesta at the Hotel KFontenelle, with a joint meeting of the two lodges in the afternoon, st Modern Woodman hall, At this meeing the largest class of candi- dates ever Initlated in enter the order. A large banquet will be held at the Hotel Loyal at 6 o'clock, following which Mere reported in-practically every city, |there will me a meeting at Temple ‘. average jewelry sales for the country | Israel at 8 o'clock. Dr. Coffee will be 189 per cent higher that those in | the speaker aud will be Introduced by _This shows thai, people everywhere | Rabbi Frederick Cohn, with Henry Mon- buying luxuries, which is taken as a |sky presiding as charman. Mr, Frankel Gertain indication of good business, for | will address the Council Bluffs lod _ mecessities naturally come first and lux- | uries aftervard. hand in hand—is an interesting feature the report. An average increase of 5 per cent in local advertising throughout the country is disclosed. Retallers in- wreased the stockh they are carrying 4.81 t mmers Buying Luxuries. tory increases In jewelry sal evening. Vulges fs that while the jewelers' sales |lodge and Isidor Rees of McKinley lodge. d more, proportionately, than of the grocer, the grocer, rule, what is due him with much | ter ease than any other kind of mer- | Some Cold Spots 1 | ! Bismarck, N, D.—40 | Modena, Utah £ ellections Above Normal. Aris.—i2 |§:pm City, 8. ~ In addition to the fact that consumer | jiavre: Mont..—4% ) Sheridan ~Wyo.— . 8, D.-2% nd-—retail sales—showed a healthy | Lander, Wyo...—18 | Billings, Mont. 42 se, collections also were better, the | NEBRASKA TEMPERATURES. mverage for the whole country be'ng 5.6 | lnman =3 Ravenna . points above mormal as compared wlun““n},{"“"’" pesvptanen -0 £ <o RN 3 The point system of scoring collec- | Lon 3 | Republican , 4% used in the report, consists of | Valentine . | Kards, & forty points for a report of | LN 5 | R eollections, aixty points for & report | Bubertor = | Walthiy normal collections and eighty points | NOrth Flatte, . —3 | Hartington & report of good coleletions. The re- | Loup Oty ......—24 | AnoKs -..... of the retallers are thus given nu- | Burwell . % | Ashland cal value for the purpose of tabula- | Aurora and averages. 1 . The following table shows average per- ?«mi;i of increase In sales and adver- | Crow Agency... v o g DAKTOTA TEMPERATURES in the United States in the six |SOUTH of business (nvestiguted: the figures | Bomner oy ' """ collections indicate the number of | Edgmont collections are above normal, as | Hermosa by the merchants ‘HEALTH” —% Adver- Collec Sales. tistn oo 19, 1 | A How | mes Increased. The following table shows to what ex States in (he several lines of busi investigatod, the figures showing 16| This Reall sl PER ASSIMILATION OF FOOD LIVER ACTIVITY BOWEL REGULARITY RICH, RED BLOOD R Liver or Bowels, ' |Omaha Discovers It Has a Distant SHOWS INCREASE! Relative of Robert Burns Living Here A distant relative of “Bobby” Burns, beloved poet of bonnle Scotland and the | Just exactly to suit, him Fire in the Rear | the Dresher storing of waste paper and other scraps. | The fire did | department Iw tleally everywhere in the United States, | move the smow, but they will not touch | M48Istant secretary |Ing the wheels until they are withoat | Luikart. ‘We are doing our best, and as soin |0 be increased $100,000. | giste.—~Advertisement | B'rith Day Sunday |Can’t Do the Work has been ar-| this city wil |- | neys. Thri BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, THOLDUP TACKLES WRONG MAN IN HARRY EASTON Harry astor 1417 South Sixteenth street, was accosted by a holdup ip a bra' bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht* "";""‘, b '} "’:y’,'",‘ll :I,Zy: - u”T\‘m" No matter it " piston appeared at headquarters you say it exactly like he does he shakes to see If any suspects had been arrested. his head and declares, “No, yo eanna’|.(ofl 0" IO SR AL ou saw him &et It just richt ng arked the officer I ought to, Mr. Burness has scen Bobby Burns' Satt’ W T SO o anewered home. “It's only a butt and ben in the |10 T wee cot,” he says. Belng translated this k. means that the liitle cottage consista of | Advertiser and customer profit by the only a kitchen and a living room. The “Classified Ad" habit place where Tam O'Shanter took his pt famous ride on his old krey mare lwa OMAHA ROTARIANS TO GO road on which, reys Mr. Burness, anyone on a moonlicht woe spooks nicht would be sure to TO DISTRICT MEETING It's astonishing how the British have' The Omaha Rotary club is planning possession of this collector of customs 10 send a large delegation from this city ! office. C. W. McCune, the collector, Is!to the district convention which will be of dear old ireland held in Waterloo, Ia., January 24 It J. C. Thomas, deputy and inspector, is | '8 planned ty have special accommoda- Welsh *and English. And George R, |!ons for the Omaha crowd. leaving here Porer, deputy and clerk, is of Scotch '" the ing. Junuacy - 35, SaccAreVe about wat return will be after the convention closos he following nighw in oo midnight. The parentage although he was born out here In western Nebraska Indigestion and Stomach Misery Just Vanishes The moment ‘‘Pape’s Diapep-f sin’’ reaches the stomach all distress goes. of Dresher’s Blocks Street Car Line Fire destroyed five bales of paper in a vacated bullding at the real of Dresher Bros.' dry cleaning plant at 7:15 yesterday morning. The building i« not a part of plant, but is an old build- ing formerly used by the company, but now abandoned and given over to the | Instantly stops any sourness,| gases, heartburn, acidity, ' dyspepsia. reach the cleaning plant, ns it was soon extinguished by the fire This early morning fire on Farnam street, calling out the fire department | and causing hose to be strung across the street, still further confused the car service, which was already in bad shape on account of the blizzard LION BONDING COMPANY HAS ELECTION OF OFFICERS | “Really does” put bad stomach in | order—"really does” overcome indiges- | tion, dyspepsia, gas, heartburn and sour- nees in five minutes—that—just that— makes Pape's Diapepsin the largest sell- ing stomach regulator in the world. If what you eat ferments into stubborn lumps, you belch gas and eructate sour, undigested food and acid: head 1s dizzy | - and aches; breath foul; tongue coated; Stockholders’ meeting of the Lion Bond- | your insides filled with bile and indl ing and Surety company have elected the | gestible waste, remember the moment i following officers: Henry Haubens, pres- | “Pape’'s Diapepsin” comes in contact with | i ident; B. H. Lulkart, vice president; C.!the stomaeh all such distress vanishes. Shaffer, secretary; K. A. McGlasson, |It's truly astonishing—almost marvelous, {and the joy s its harmlessness. Henry Haubens, | A large fifty-cent case of Pape's Dia- Directors elected are Henry Keating, Henry Rohlff, J. M. pepsin will give you a hundred dollars Hays, L. P, Larson, W. T. Auld, K. H, | worth of satisfaction or your druggist {hands you your money bpck. The year's operations show the surplus | Premiums writ~ $248,000, It's worth its weight in gold to men | and women who can't get their stomacas | regulated. It helongs in your home-— !should always be kept handy in case of |a sick, sour, upset stomach durmg the ten for the y Don't Have a Winter Cough. Take Dr. King's New Discovery and|day or night. It's the quickest, surest you won't catch cold. It kills the l‘nldlnml most harmless stomach regutator in germs, keeps you well. Hc. All drug-|the world. Pape's Diapepsin instantly neutralizes the aclds In the stomach, stops food fer- | mentation or souring, absorbs gases and starts the digestion, The rellef 18 quick sure, wonderful—stomach sufferers have PORTER CHARLTON LEAVES FOR HOME '!EXT wEDNEsDAY :‘rtlfluo::::“.nurprln awaiting them —Ad M, . 10, — (Delayed.) — 1 eTHDDEDR Chariton, the American who wer recores || STOPPED tarentor Wi nie witer it eee1 MY _CATARRH N':;xu ’f‘or New Y;‘ovk on Wednesday SUFFERING al rd the steamer America. OVER NIGHT I Gladly Tell How -- FREE HEALS DAY AND NIGHT! Read The Bee Want Ads. It paya! A bad back makes hard work harder. All day the dull t Is & new way. It is something abso- throb and the |lutely different. No lotlons, aprays or sharp, darting|Sickly smelling salves or creams, mizer, or any apparatus pains make you any kind. Nothing to miserable, and|moks or lohale. = No there's no rest at| or vibration or mdssage. night § No powder, no vlaster, no Maybe it's Your| keeplug in the ho use Nothing of that kind at all. Something new and different — something do- lightful and healthtul — something nstantly suc- cosstul. You do not have to walt, and linger, and pay out @ lot of money You can stop it over nighi " | —and T will ciadly tell you how—FREE. 1 am not a doctor and this !s | not & so-called doctor's preseription—but 1 red, and my friends are cured and you cured. Your sutfering will stop at once like magic. | daily worlk that - hurts the kidneys, for jarring, Jolting, | Ufting, reaching, | Aampness and many other strains do weaken them. Cure the hld- Use Doan's iidney ,Pills. They have helped thousands and should do as which holds a similar celebration that | | An Omaha Example. . An Interesting fact which the report di-| Emil Ganz is president of Nebraska | | #incer, 2008 N, 224 st | g | days at a time, I couldn't do & bit of {'work. 1 We Are Overstocked on i | e —— - s s THE WATCHWORD s in the different sections of the | ¥ = === | " Means, DIGESTION AND = HOSTETTER'S ‘is manifested in the 1 AM FEEE — YOU CAN BE FREE My catarrh was fiithy and loatheome. 1t made | me Il It dulled my mind. It undermined my | health and was weakening my will. The hawkiag, coughing, spitting made me obnoxious to all, and | my foul breath and disgupting habits made even my loved ones avoid me secretly. My delight in Mte was dulled and my faculties Impaired. 1 knew | that in time it would bring me to an untimely Krave because every moment of the day and night | it was slowly yet wurely sapping my vitality. Ont 1 found & cure, and I am ready to tell you about it FREE. Write me promptly RISK JUST ONE CENT { Send no money. Just your name and address on | & postal card ‘Dear Bam Kats. please tel] me how you cured your catarrh and how I can cure Thats all you need (o say. 1 will under- and 1 will write to you with complete in- formation, FRER, et once. Do not delay the postal card o write me & letter today think of turning this page until you have asked for this wonderful treatment that it can do for you what it bas done for me SAM KATZ, Suite M771 2909 Indiana Ave., Chicago, III. well for you. B. F. Harker, retired locomotive en- says: "My back [ hurt continually day and night and at times it was s0 bad I thought 1 wouid never be rid of it. The kidney secretions | contained a brick-dust like sediment. For 1 finally got Doan's Kidney Pilly | At Schmidt's DrugsStore and after seven boxes 1 felt like a different man.” DOAN'S "5 50¢ at all Drug Stores Foster-Milburn Co. Preps. Buffalo,NY. Head Don’t SPECIAL OFFER FOR A SHORT TIME SPADRA LUMP COAL For Furnaces and Hot Water Plants | OUR REGULAR $9.00 $8.00 PER ToN [ COAL,NOW . . . . ROSENBLATT 2t7. COAL €0. | | TEL ONE DOUGLAS 1916. Most Modern and Sanitary Brewery in the W Family Trade supplied by WM. JETTER, utor, 2502 N 8t. Telephone Douglas 4231, South 863 or 868. < casmmm—" THE, SAME HIGH QUALITY OF MERCHANDISE AS AL WA Y e BUT AT JANUARY SALE PRICES WHICH MAKE EACH ITEM A REAL BARGAIN Only a Few Hundreds of of the Many y Other Splen- Thursday did Bargains HAYDEN 6 1 DODGE 2% DOUGLAS STREETS Specials Here Listed. in other stocks See windows On Sale Two Big Tharsday Special Lots Over 2,000 Beautiful Blouses at About Half Worth $3 and $4 Blouses, $1.95 $5 and $6 Blouses, $2.95 Big assortment for selection, at choice; fncluding many Dress Waists on sale. come in Laces, Crepq de Chines, Tub Come in Laces, Combination Chif- Silks, ete., in bevy of beautiful de- fon or Cpepe, Silk Taffetas, Fancy signs, . Silks, ete, MORE MIDWINTER TAILORED | NEARLY 1,000 NEW COATS- Both SUIT8 —Several hundred new ones just ‘ Women and Misses’ on sale Thursday received from our N. Y. buyer. Fur trim- in Two Big Lots— med Poplins, Whipcords, ete., in choie- l COATS—Made to sell up to $20.00; your | est styles and colors; great $14.85 ------------------ 7.50 bargains Thursday, at..... COATS Made to sell at $25.00, $975 M A N NEW g R MO R s SR A > ELEGANT NEW DRESSES— WOMEN'S LONG KL FUR SETS, MUFFS and MONAS—In Flannellettes An advance showing of the SCARFS on sale at HALF and Crepes, garments that sold most captivating style ideas for TEURS 010 EROLALE at $3.00 and $4.00; and Less Than Half Regu- Thursday at, choice $l 045 *15, *19.50, *25 lar prices. A Great January Lace Sale Thursday begins Our Annual January Clearance Sale on fine Laces. This will include all the different lines-- Hand Made Cluny Laces, for underwear and fancy work. Novelty Flouncings for Evening Gowns, Party Dresses, Reception and Ball Gowns. Point De Paris, French Vals, Point Esperit, Fillet and B. B. Laces for Lingerie and infants’ wear. Cotton Cluny for fancy work and curtains. Fine Val Laoces, Oriental Laces, Chiffon Laces, Allover Laces, Silk Chantilly Laces, Real Princess Laces, Irish Crochet and Flat Venice Laces. Silk: Nets, Crepe Chiffons and Georgettes. A wonderful opportunity, insuring you a saving of 25, 3314 and 50 per cent, duringthis clearing sale. Read the Big Grocery Special tor Thursday Quality Gioods, Freshest Stock and a Saving of 25 per cent to 50 per cent. on the Cost of Living. 17 1bs, Best Pure Cane Granulated Sugar . .81.00| Large 48-1b, Sack Best h Grade, DI Pickles, mond H ®lour; no‘vgfn' finer at . Mustard price, for bread, ples or cakes. Advo Jell for dessert, pkg. r from 1 sack 2 bottles Royal Red Catsup......150 BOX APPLE SPECIAL, THURSDAY Sauce: | A boxes Bolse Valley ldaho, bottles Worcester 1,000 : |V usorted kinds, or Prepated| ‘1yncy Homan Beauty Apples, worth & $2.26 box; Thursday Special, only, per box .. «.The 98¢ pays to make your own 4 large cans Condensed Milk.. 9% caa TaRKS. 08 Jedves $1.40| 8 small cans Condensed Milk. bars Beat * Diam: ™ The Best Tea Siftings, 1b. ' e A tamong Cacy| Golden Bantos Cotfee, for family use, TER PEOPLE. Laui Laundr;: ndry Queen Whits LaunQle|” there ia nothing finer, try it, Ib. 806| Wisconsin Cabbage, per 1b. . or Yellow Corn-| yom BUTTER, .“-'Hr. 1bs. best Cooking Potatoes Jrgptages © v g ) TRY HADEN'S FIRST, Best White l‘:n:s‘ 3 large bunches Fresh Shallots, Rad- ishes, Beets, Carrots or Turnips, 10¢ Fancy Denver Cauliflower, 1b. 8 1bs. Best Bulk Rolled White Br-',l.l'- ’ : .. ThHe fast Oatmeal .... The Beat Creamery Butter, carton 0% o1a. Reets, Carrots, Turnips or Par- 5 bars Tvory Soap Mk, "‘ 1 Gountry Creamery But-| 5uips. 1b, & cans O1l Sardines 3, pih ol .....a%¢ & large Soup Bunches MacLaren's Peanut Butter, 1b..18%0 Hershey's Breakfast Cocoa, 1b...880 4 pkgs, Best Domestic Macaroni, 850 ..270|Large Cucumbers, each Table Butter, Ib. y ..35¢ Fancy Head Lettuce, bead Good Fancy Table Butt Fancy Dair: Red Strictly Fresh Eggs, per Fresh Spinach, peck . E. C. Corn Flakes, pkg. .. .. Be| P My Nty -3 Buns, pay W. O. (. or Krumbles, pks. 99! e Best No. 1 Fggs, dos. g3e 100 SIEE NIGKLAND Tall cans Alaska Salmon.. 3990 11 Cream Wis am Cheese ORANGES. 32-02. jars Pure Fruit Preserves, 860/ |p, AD s 28-0% jars Pure Btrained Honey, 83¢| prull ¢ m_ N, White oung | I'he kind that retail for 50c dozen Fancy Large Queen Olives, pint, 30e] America Cheese, 1b. ...... ..88¢. everywhere, Thursday, dozen, 300 TRY HAYDEN'S FIRS' I1s Summerlime All Winfer atf MOBILE Mobile is the headquarters—the starting point—from which the tourist may quickly and conveniently reach all the de- = lightful winter resorts of The Gulf Coast with their alluring succession of outdoor sports: golf, tennis, bathing, boating, riding, driving, motoring, fishing, and bunting. Moreover, Mobile is the new gateway to FLORIDA Write today and find out about our all-rail or mil-and-water trip to the Southern resorts. Let me tell you sbout our low-fare circle tour to Mobile, Tampa, Key West and New York. 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