New Yor'k throughout the year consumes enormous quantities of ice, which is a natural and inexhaustible product of the Hudson River, and harvested in the months of January and February. It is sold normally at- an average pf four dollars per ton- The recently convicted “Ice Kings,” Morse and other monopolisers, increased the price to 18 and 20 dollars per ton, which meant putrid food and tainted nnllc to countless thousands of the poor, ana a staggering rate of mortality. me “Ice Trust” has been described as the most unconscionable monopoly America has ever known. It was William It. Hearst who initiated and pursued with merciless vigor the campaign that led to the break-up of the trust and that brought to liglit its inner workings.— bow .thousands of women and children perished in the congested East bide districts of New York .City through, being deprived of wliat is in the summer months a dire necessity—an abundaiice of cheap ice. If that long,, exhausting illness has loft you in a very weak condition, let Stearns’ Wine of Cod Liver Extract give you back your strength by buibiing up your tissues. It makes new b!a"d' and vitality-
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2704, 7 January 1910, Page 3
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195Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2704, 7 January 1910, Page 3
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