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From the Matty Davis Stock
Positively worth up to $1
and $1.50 Each, at .........
16 Amsterdam Ave,
HARRY OSTERMAN, RECEIVER
DAVIS
Now York
S
S Broken Lines of All the Men's Fleece Lined
S UNDERWEAR, from the Mavtty Chr
DaTis Bankrupt Stock, worth to 75c, 1LC
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Negligee Shirts
Flannel Shirts Outing Shirts, Etc.
FROM THE DAVIS BANKRUPT STOCK
Thousands of shirts all sizes all patterns big- I
gest siurt bargain ever oiiered
WORTH
UP TO
$1.50. at
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49c ""25c
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All the Men's 15c Linen Col
lars from the Davis stock-
all sizes all styles,
12c dozen, each. . .
1c
$1.50, each. . . .
inonononononoi
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All the Men's 50c and 75c
SUSPENDERS
from the Davis Bank
rupt stock, each. ,
17ic
We bought the entire stock of the bankrupt
New York Haberdasher at a mere fraction of
its value.
It goes on sale Saturday at the most amaz
ing Bargains ever offered in the West
HIGH CLASS FURNISHINGS WERE NEVER BEFORE PRICED SO LOW
Unlaundered Shirts and Broken Lots of
Men's and Boys' Negligee Shirts, from
the Davis Stock, worth up to 75e, at. . .
IP x
All
the
Hats s Caps
FOR MEN AND BOYS
FIIOM THE MATT DAVIS BANKRUPT STOCK.
ononononoi
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98c
All the men's fine, soft and derby hats from
the bankrupt stock, worth $2.50 and $3, at. .
All the Men's Caps from the Bankrupt Stock, cloth,
silk, plush and corduroy, worth up to C
$1.50, at
All the Girls' and Children's Bearskin, Flush
and Cloth Caps, worth up to $1.25, at
15c
All the Boys' 75c fur
lined caps, at
10c & 15c
oaoaononononoaoEDonononoc
Your choice of all the
loaonoDonoaonoao each, at
oaonoaonononononon
p All the Men's $1.25 fi
8 Silk Neckwear
ij Tpcks and 4 In
U hands, from the
2 (stock, each . . .
ononoaononononono
All the MEN'S LEATHER BELTS from the
Davis stock, worth up to $1.50 , 1 Cp
narh. at
All the Men's SUk Shield
and Band
BOW TIES
worth up to 25c,
at
5c
Mea's Overcoats
and Suits
FROM THE BANKRUPT STOCK
Worth $10, $12.50 and $15, at $5.00
These are up-to-date, well made
clothes that are worth twice or three
times the price we ask.
All the Men's m All the Men's
onononoooaononoi
$10 and $15
Overcoats
at
lODODOnODOI
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$10 and $15
Suits
at five dollars
roononononoo
ft i m
ill
All the Men's Fancy Cotton and Wool Hose from
the Davis stock worth up to 50c, f A P
lUV'lJW
at
ononononononon
odd vot Men's Shoes
Hundreds of pairs of men's heavy and medium weight
shoes all sizes very special 2 50
Men's winter shoes in every correct style will
give splendid service pair.
Men's Shoes good
quality, in $(98
basement, pr. . .
CURIOUS FINANCIAL YEAR
A Glance Back Over the Completed
Story of 1908.
OTHER "AFTER PANIC YEARS"
One Strlklns Analog)' and One Strik
ing Conlrut-Whti Place Will
It Hold In Financial
History.
The financial editor of the New York
Evening Post, in a review of the events
of the year. Interprets the signs cf the
times In these words:
With the ending of 1908 there pauses
Into financial history a very curious
financial year, concerning whose true re
lation, both to the years which preceded
It and to those that will follow It, nobody
can at the moment speak with assurance.
The year has witnessed substantial re
covery; It Is not wholly easy, however.
to determine whether that recovery ha
or has not been more rapid than is usual
in the twelvemonth following a panic
There Is, for Instance, the familiar test
of iron production. Klse In the weekly
output from 232.652 tons, at the opening
of last January the low level of reaction
to 381,102 at the beginning of the pres
ent month, shows how we have regained
GRAY HAIRED YOUNGSTERS
Carrying Signs of Ago Year Before
They Are Due to Arrive.
OMAHA FOOLS THE OSLEHITES
Hebraskaa leant the Way to JUstore
Qray, raded Hair to the Color of
Youth, To Arrest Baldnssa
and rresarr Hair.
"There goes Bob White and he's as
gray as a badger! lie looks as If he
were trying to catch up to Methusalrh,
but I know he's only a young fellow!"
This Is Just an every day observation.
Every town and hamlet In the country
has Its "Bob Whites" old-young fellows
who are carrying around the signs of age
years before their time.
Gray balr is not welcome in many
quarters. Some Oslerlred sods look upon
It as a business handicap. Nowadays no
one really need be gray.
The presentation of Dr. Kott's Q-ban
Hair Restorer has created wide-spread
Interest. There have been hair restorers
of more or less virtue for centuries, but
nothing that filled the the place which
this discovery of Dr. Notts has done.
Gray hair, faded snd streaked. Is trans
formed by its use to the luxurient color
and freshness of youth. One thing It will
surely do arrest baldness and help pre
serve the hair you have. About 90 per
oent of bald heads will yield to right
treatment for renewed growth of hair. In
many cases seemingly hopeless Dr. Nott's
Restorer baa proved Just the preparation
needful.
The Ifeseig-EIUs Drug Company the
big Memphis bouse, which has secured all
of Dr. Nott's standard foimulas 1 so well
satisfied that Dr. Nott's Hair Restorer
does give results claimed, that the Ten
nesstsans are behind the guarantee of the
Myers-Dillon Drug Co. to return th entire
cost of treatment if three bottles will not
restore to gray hair its former naluiul
color. One bottlo Is glvoa absolutely free.
k fcbgitt UUs. , .
lost ground this year. But from tho 73,
895 weekly output which, on October 1,
1893, marked the nadir of that trade re
action, production had got back by the
last month of 1894 to 168,762. That was
a much larger ratio of recovery than this
year's; yet 1894 is classed in financial
history as a period of slow recovery. At
the end of 1894 production was 93 per
cent of the previous year's best record.
But the above-stated weekly output at
the beginning of the present month is
only 72 per cent of the 528,170 tons which
the foundries turned out weekly In July,
1907.
Interesting; Parallel.
In all comparisons between the present
twelvemonth and the years which Imme
diately followed the two great panics
prior to 1907, it must be remembered that
volume of trade had been slowly dimin
ishing for some considerable time before
the panic of 1893. On the other hand, the
panic of 1873 witnessed a sudden plunge
of industry, directly from a pinnacle of
unparalleled activity and high prices. In
this respect 1907 ' resembles 1873; one
might expect, therefore, to find the
analogy between those two after-panic
periods more exact. And, In fact, there
have been many close analogies. To which
of the two years, 1874 or 1907. would the
reader suppose the folUwiPg description
to apply?
"Having passed through the extraordin
ary crisis, there was a general rebound
from the previous depression, and an ex
pectation of renewed buoyancy In business
affairs, which was not really warranted by
the facts of the case. This general antici
pation of a rapid and wojderful recuper
ation from the effects of the panic Is not
without significance, as it lias formed, to a
great extent, the standard by .which the
actual results of the year have been meas
ured. The effects of good crops
In the principal articles of agriculture pro
duce were undoubtedly beneficial.
Rigid economy was practiced alike by all,
from the largest corporations to the hum
blest Individual.
"Railroad earnings showed In most cases
a material falling off as compared with pre
vious years, so far as their gross receipts
were concerned, but a great economy In
working expenses, which made net earnings
of a number of prominent lines equal to, or
greater than, those of the preceding year.
Prices of dividend-paying stocks
were well maintained, particularly in the
last half of the year."
This citation, which so closely describes
the events of 1906, Is taken from the
Financial Chronicle of January 9, 1875, in its
review of the year Just ended. It cer
tainly suggests a bit of reflection, as t4
wneiner, alter an, me History or nas
differed so widely from the history of a
normal after-panic year.
Where Precedent Is at FaH.
There occur in the same review, how
ever, one or two passages which do not at
all describe 1906. Money was relatively
quite as easy then as In the present year,
and surplus bank reserves as large. But,
we are told, "the stock market was less
agitated by violent fluctuations and less
Influenced by speculative combinations
than for many previous years," and as a
consequence, "the course of prices was
thus left to be governed more by natural
causes and by the actual values of the
several stocks." Here is a contrast which
may well make the reader pause; It Is
posclbly a key to the characteristic events
of 19u8.
Are we better off at the close of the pres
ent year, or are we worse off, because of
the wild speculation for the rise which,'
from January to December, has rioted on
the 8tock exchange? If that speculation
ere to be considered in ttself. all rlght
mlmied people would answer, veiy much
i worse off. No (acj tan corns flora such
wholesale dissemination of delusion, false
hood and mistaken judgment of an Indus
trial and economic situation, as has marked
every outbreak of the kind this year, and
certainly nothing can be gained by a 10 or
20-polnt rlso, manipulated by rich finan
ciers, only to be followed by a sudden and
almost equally large decline, with conse
quent losses Imposed on the unlucky specu
lators and investors. These Wall street Il
lusions may not, except for a few Isolated
moments, have led astray the Berlous mer
chants and manufacturers of the country;
but it Is at least a possibility that they
have stimulated what they have at all
events reflected namely, a stubborn unwil
lingness of a good part of the community
to recognize the facts of the situation.
Two Inferences from 190R.
In one way or another, there has been
this year a good deal of the "Prosperity
league" In the community's conduct it has
displayed Itself no more In the constant
assumption that business must bo good be
cause stocks were rising in Wall street,
than in the steel combination's argument
against price concessions, on the ground
that nobody ought to cut prices when there
Is no business, or In the copper combina
tion's marking up of prices in the face of
unsold stocks on hand increasing far more
rapidly than consumption, or in the rail
ways demanding higher rates because they
are getting an unsatisfactory amount of
traffic. All this political economy upside
down has In reality been no less of a nov
elty than the Sunshine propaganda, and it
has been the marked characteristic of .the
year.
On the other hand, and after all this is
said, there is the other possible inference
that, underneath all these strange demon
strations of perverted reasoning, there may
be a substratum of resources, and genuine
confidence which will at any rate make the
second and third of this generation's after-
panic years something different, even In the
real things, than the corresponding years
after 1&3 and 1873.'
STORK DEFEATS GRIM DEATH
Nine Hundred Twenty-Nine More
Babies Born Than Persona Died.
OMAHA IS COSMOPOLITAN CITY
Eight Hundred Twenty-Poor Births
During- Year of Korela-n Parent
age, nerinans Leading", with
with Bohemians Second.
Omaha's population during the year 1908
increased over 2,000 from natural causes,
the net gain of births over deaths, as
shown by the record of vital statistics kept
lu the office of the commissioner of health,
being 929. There were 2,375 births during
the year, 1.177 being boys and 1.179 being
girls, the girls thereby having the best of
tho boys by two. Deaths during the year
totaled to 1,440.
While most of the children were born of
American parentage, the record shows that
Omaha is a cosmopolitan city, as 842 of the
babies born within the hist twelve months
were of foreign parentage. In this the
Germans took tho lead with 167 babies, the
Bohemians next with l'! babies and the
Russians next with 113 babies.
Official Birth Record.
The record of births according to nation
ality of parentage is as follows:
American 1,238 Hungarian 19
was tho centenarian. Sho died on April
1 at the age of 102 years.
The record of births and deaths for the
past ten years is us follows:
FIRTHS DEATHS
Yr. M'le. Fe le. Tot. Vr. M'le. Fe'le. Tot.
1X!8 815 94'J l.iMtS IS'.W 610 427 937
w.n mo 7so i.sjs ism M ri3 1.1x7
1SK) SHI0 8I1S l,72tt 1!M fWJ 415 1.0OS
I9(il 8X5 Kti 1.H12 ISXil 5: 455 W
1902 824 1,709 1112 677 b'l 1.07!t
!!( 9K1 7(.:l l,i27 19)3 5(W 4:!9 845
YMH H77 WI9 1,764 1904 690 611 1,101
lli l;!9 tjjr, JKA yMt5 577 4;l)
inoti 1.0H7 97i 2,m 19i6 7(4 5:i5 1,:3U
19"7 1.2C1 1.071 Z.-.m l!r7 751 f.13 1,3;4
11W8 1.177 1,198 2,37-5 19i 747 610 l,14ti
BULDINGi FOR THE YEAR
Total Construction for Omaha Cost
Four and a Half Million
Dollar.
PUBLIC SCHOOL STATISTIC
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Enrollment for the Year Borders on
Twenty Thousand.
ATTENDANCE SIX THOUSAND LESS
These Represent Increases Over Pre
ceding; Tear Half Million Dol
lars Spent and to Be Spent
In Improvements.
Arabian
Austrian ...
Bi-lgian
Bohemian ..
Braziliun ...
Canadian ..
Danish
Knglish
Krench
Finnish ....
German ....
Greek
Hollunduise
1 Hebrew 2
Irian 29
SUNDAY SCHOOL MEETING
Conference of Baptist Workers of
Three Cities Will Be Held
In Omaha.
The second annual conference and joint
Sunday School Institute of the American
Baptist society will be held In Omaha Jan
uary 3, 4, 6, 6 and 7, together with a trl
city Sunday school conference for Omaha,
South Omaha and Council Bluffs. The aft
ernoon conference will be held each day
at the Young Men's Christian association
for all Sunday school workers of all de
nominations. Tha evening meetings wl 1 be
held as follows:
Monday At Calvary, South Omaha, Ben
son, Olivet, Immanuel and Council Bluffs.
Tuesday At First, Calvary, Grace, Im
manuel, Olivet and Council Bluffs.
Wednesday Meetings in all the churchea
Thursday Mass meeting for all at the
First Baptist church, Omaha.
The Baptist ministers of Omaha decided
upon these meetings and on request the
American Baptist Publication society has
arranged for these prominent men to be
present: Ilev. Hugh T. Musselinan, edu
cational secretary, Philadelphia, Pa.; Rev.
J. D. Sprlngston, superintendent Sunday
school work for Kansas; Rev. K. M. Steph
enson, superintendent Sunday school work
for Colorado; Rev. T. 11. liagen, superin
tendent Sunday school work for South Da
kota; Prof. J. A. Baber, superintendent Sun
day school work for Nebraska; Rev. Joe
P. Jacobs, secretary western district, Kan
sas City, Mo.
3 Italian
136 Japanese
1 Moravian , 1
19 Norwegian 6
90 Pollock 26
21 Roumanian 1
7 P"--'--n - m
1 Swedish 98
167 b.-... 7
2 Syrian 8
1 Swiss 11
' Wulch 1
Twenty nationalities are represented In
this showing with a record of 2,045 births.
No nationality Is given of the parentage of
the other 330 babies born during the year.
The increiase In births, over last year was
41, the record for the two years, month by
month, being as follows:
1908 Boys Girls 9o7
January .
February .,
March
April
May ,
June
July
August ...
Hrpiember
October .,
November
December
90
S3
lOJ
16
K5
liri
119
rx
95
93
I'M Junuary .
84 February ,
93 March ....
87 April
89 May
100 June
104 July ,
105 August ..
9" September
88 October .
114 November
84 December
Boys Girls
. 117 9li
,. 94
. 123
,. us
,. 92
,. 1(0
.. K5
... 120
. 89
.. 113
. 95
. 99
101
8i
85
88
99
lim
79
87
89
92
C. II. With
rrleaa Lacerations
and wounds are healed without danger of
bleed poisoning by Bucklcn's Arnica Halve,
the healing wonder, l&c. Fur sale by
Bialgu Lru Cu.
Totals 1.177 1.198 Totals 1,2(3 1,071
While the records In the office of the
health commissioner show 1,644 deaths, but
1.44S rightfully belong to Omaha. Of the
total record, 33i were residents of other
places who died In local hospitals and
ninety-six were persons who died elsewhere
and brought here for burial. The mortal
ll y record shows the greatest number of
deaths among infants, under the age of
1 year. The next greatest mortality Is be
tween the ages of 40 and 60 years. This
record follows:
t'nder the ago of 1 year 310
Between the ages of 1 and 6 years...... 89
Betwen the ages of S and 10 years 31
Between the uges of lij and 20 years 72
Between t lie ages of 20 and 30 years 17i
Between the ages of SO and 40 years Iri2
Between tha ages of 40 and 50 years. ...216
Between the ages of 50 and HI years 1M
Between the ages of Hi and 70 years 1VJ
Between the axes of 70 and 80 years. ..144
Between the ages of 80 and 9o years. 50
Between the ages of to and 100 years..,. 6
Over the age of 1U0 years 1
Woman's Oldest Death Ilecord.
Fannie Litvenow of 2118 Nicholas street,
Four and one-half million dollars. This
is the 1908 building record. .
Not since 1S89 has thcro been as much
building in Omaha as there was in the year
which came to a close last night. Building
operations were thought to have reached
tho high water mark In 19J7, but the rec
ord for 1908 passed the high mark set by
tha preceding year by over J50.0CO.
An even l.OOO dwellings were built during
the last year at an average cobL of 32,018.75,
an unusually high average for dwe. lings,
but an average which shows that the people
of Omaha are comfortably situated and are
not suffering from the financial flurry of
one year ago. The average cost of dwel
lings erected In 1907 was $2,302.77.
Of the dwellings erected in 1908 470 coit
$200 or more. Of these 372 are frame and
ninety-eight are brli k. Twenty-two ware
houses and factories costing each $2,500 or
more were erected during the year, the
most costly being that of the John Deero
Building company. This cost $300,0(0. Fif
teen store and office buildings were erected
each of which cost over $-.6 0. Six apart
ment houses, each costing over $2 500, were
built, and permits were taken out for fix
school buildings, and four churches and f ve
hospitals were built or work begun.
Records for Two Decades.
The building record for the last twenty
years, as shown by the books in tho office
of the ttty buliding inxpector,
mil, Is as follows:
188S $3,770.3'.8 199
ls9 4.0O';,7::5 19 0
189( 4,093 504 19'l
1891 , 1 8,"i2.l '9"2
192 2,412,H5 l!t3
193 i(75,).'.0 19.1
JM4 f.siiM 15
189.1 M 0,117 IS"!
lvji 291.1.13 19"7
1X17 1,298,'aiS 190S...
li'M l,3(,l,2i:
FEDERAL JURORS EXPENSIVE
Half of Appropriation of Fifty Thou
sand Dollars Goes to Pay Grand
and Petit Jurymen.
Scarcely $50,000 has been expended during
the last year in the maintenance of the
L'nlted States marshal's office. There have
been no long sefsions of tho courts, but
the greater exp'nd lurs of the office dur
ing the year 19uS have been in tho payment
of grand and petit Juries, with witness
fees coming next.
The receipts und disbursements of the
l'nlted Stales marshal's office during the
year Vjeg were:
Fees earned ? !?
Amount collected and paid to clerks
Kxpended during the year 1)8:
Salaries., fees and expenses
Fees of juiors
Fees of witnesses
Support of prisoners
Mlaccll ineous
Pay of bailiffs
Salaries and expenses of district
attorney
ii iv k mi
991. '.31 e
l.t:3.2'.l
l,3(io,. b; A
1. n;2.8,7 Q
2, flf.l,93 ! M
4.; 87.4 .4 , U
4.273.0.KI M
4 M0. 04 1 ! &
4.59U 0oi . H
2
Nearly $2O,C00 was expended In Improve
ments for tho public schools of Omaha In
1908 and other work wus begun which will
require the expenditure of $300.0110 more.
The year has also seen a:i Increaso , f noaily
2,K) in eni'.ilinuirt of pupil in the schools
and an lncreasa In the size of the teaching
force, 461 teachers njw being employed.
One new school building and additions to
three others have been complnteJ. The new
building Is the Vinton schoool, wlrch cost
approximately $S0.Oii0. The addition to the
Lothrop school, which makes It the largest
largest grided tch m1 In Omaha, cost $45,0 0.
On the addition to the Franklin, $25,(00 was
expended, and on the Farnam, $16,000, ap
proximately, In Increasing facilltl s.
In addition to this expenditure, udditicnr l
ground for Lothrop school was b light for
$11,000, additional ground for Castelar
school for $7,009, a new site for Omaha
View schorl for $7,500, anJ a new site for
Forest, for $2,500.
Work cn the south wing of tho High
school and on the new Omaha View school
i have begun, tho former to cost approxl
I mately $200,00", and the latter $100,000.
k It has cost the city of Omaha $596,323.19 to
! maintain the public schools dur ng the
1 year, the sum covering ail salaries and
running expenses.
Enrollment Per Kohool.
Out of an estimated school population
of 28,000, there arc enrolled In the schools
14,2io pupils. This enrollment Is divided
among the schools as follows:
High school (grades 9, 10, 11, 12) 1.883
Grammar (grades 5. 6. 7. 8) 6.2M
Primary (grades 1, 2, 3, 4) 8,3oQ
Kindergartens
Night school
Total ' ; 19,320
The average dolly attendance during Ux
year has been as follows:
High school 1.491
Grammar and primary grades 11.421
Kindergartens 1,117
Night schools (compared with day; lis
Total .1I,1M
The number of pupils enrolled were:
W'hito is, Si;;
Colored 4 .S
Total 12,320
Tho number of teachers Is as follows:
High school 61
Grammar and primary grades 312
Kindergartens ,',;
Night schools (16) 7
HK'clal teachers (supervlsois) 1
Principals not leaching II
Manuul training teachers 8
Total 101
In the figures for night schools the en
rollment given, 1.018, Is the uctual mi nili'
enrolled. In getting the averagu number
belonging, tho average dully attendance and
number of teachers, the total number of
days' membership, attendance or teaching
wus divided by 188, the numlnr of days
tho duy schools were lu session. This was 1
done so that the figures for the night
schools might properly bo combined with
tho figures for the day schools and a trie
totul obtained. During the time Via niglil
schools were In session tho actual average
number belonging were 449, tho average
dally attendance 311 and tlu uveragu num
ber of teachers employed sixteen.
SNOW AND COLD IN NORTH
Drop In Temperature to Thirty Be
low Zero Experienced In Brit- "T
Ish Territory,
ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 31. The old year
Is closing with the coldest weather of the
season In the northwest. In St. Paul today s
temperature was only 5 degrees below sero,
but to the northwestward the cold was
Increasingly severe. At Saskatchwan It
was 30 degrees below. Kdmonton Is enjoy
ing a temperature of 22 below, Calgary 12
below, Havre, Mont., 11 below and Helena
6 below.
1,673. t0
t ?.85.87
22.9:5(0
13. 173.' i
2.C13..3
8,2i.22
2.498.65
826.82
Total
.$17,179.38
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