Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 17, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba V m it Troba free december paper shortage and High wages keeps prices up Small by Frank close Allied to the publishing business is that of the bookseller and advancing costs of paper and wages in the printing trades Are reflected in the retail Price of books and Anil reduced when they tre As quickly re the tendency is still up wards in Liia Linn of Al though the of increase a and menus but Little added Cost to the individual there hns been nothing like the increase in Price of books notice Able in other lines of Days a prominent retail this is particularly True in the bet Ter new copyrights in 1914 were Selling at no proximately today they average some Only and copy right at in what used to be known As the popular in which poorer Tun Lity of paper and a building tonic to those of delicate con Young or Scott s emulsion is nourishment and tonic that builds up the whole Scott 3018 binding was the increase on the percentage basis and it has not teen easy to obtain them at travels and biographies show an Advance in the retail Price of about 20 per so the Public have had Little to complain of in re Gard to the pric3 of and there is a correspondingly smaller readjustment to to Mai costs still that read men floes not seem to be in every time a Book is it comes Back to us from the publishers at a higher the retailer in the books Ell ing business works on a very Nar Row margin of in most in stances the Price of the Book is printed right on and the profit for the retail is by the he must pay Over Cid expenses and make his profit Between the Price charged him and retail Price As fixed by the it takes close figuring sometimes to do it world everybody knows there is a world shortage of it is not a local not even confined to one continent but is Felt the world wages paid in the Large print ing marts of the and new to bookbinders and Pressman have been largely increased in the past five it does not seem to suppose there can be any big reductions until there a big break in the Price of paper and bookbinders occasionally we Are Able to Purchase a Large edition of a Book at a special Price and in such cases the books Are retailed to the Public giving them the advantage of Tho reductions made to the Many added in addition to other costs on books obtained from the United states there Are various taxes to be taken into there is a duty of 10 per then approximately 15 per Exchange on Cash and an additional 2 per sales tax charged on the wholesale Cost plus the making a total additional Cost of about 30 per on the wholesale Price of which nothing goes to the the is that books did not go soaring in Price for As a matter Candy Are popular presents Odd shaped bundles being hidden in Many Homes just now Christmas shopping is in full swing in local storekeepers re and every Day finds the emporiums crowded with a bustling throng of humanity anxious to get their Pur chases Over with in Good photographers Are do inst a great and the indications seem to Point to Many people distributing their pictures among friends this Candy stores too Are do intr the Best business of the and Many Young men going Home from work Are bearing under their arms Large packages containing gorgeous Boes of which will be stored carefully out of reach of Inu juvenile members of the until the time arrives for their presenta Tion to the fair Bon Bons and glittering baubles for the Christmas tree Are being bought in Large and Johnny Winnipeg is evincing great interest in the which Are feeling smuggled into the and is diplomatically endeavouring to judge from their shapes what their contents Are Likely to All his queries Are an Verej with the information that it is not time for him to know but that if he is u Good he will find out on Christmas Little Janey Winnipeg is putting out feelers to big sister Mary that she of fact they have not really kept Pace with increased retailers not speculating purchases for the business of fall 921 will be made in re Tail men do not care to speculate on the prices that will be charged them by but they do not co any possibility of lower prices for 1921 at great strides have been made sen really in the business in the de Cade and a larger portion of the population than Ever has come to regard books As close Busi Ness generally is Good and the Book Sellers Are optimistic As to the will want to Borrowe Ritof her Stock Ings before Christmas might find Heri Wonsoo mall for the gifts which Zwia going to bring Little considering hanging up Pillow Case this As he is certain that that automatic train which he has set his heart on could never be fitted into a local the British the mild weather in Manitoba has induced Many to remain at it is while the High rate of Exchange has Stop Ped Many others from going the City health department is checking up the number of vacant houses in it was announced at the City Hall the Sale City hydroelectric Bonds up to yesterday totals the first general meeting in 1921 of provincial chapter of the will be held on Excelsior 486 will hold a whist drive and dance this even ing at 8 in Morrow Elm Sunshine Rebecca Nill hold a whist drive on at at the Odd fellow Kennedy mayor Gray is 41 years old he will entertain a few friends in the evening at his the Elm Elijah Tuckey was found i guilty of perjury by judge at a special aes Slon of the provincial police court yesterday and was remanded until today for Isaac will represent Edward Parnell at the recount of ballots cast in the mayoralty con which opens at 10 today at the City a Public meeting of James ratepayers was held last night in Bannatyne under the auspices of the Reform administration the meeting was Well attended and was addressed by god candidate for Reeve and Wooler and candidates for railway travel for the Holiday sea son has been Light according to local railway although As heavy As could be expected this few tickets have been sold for Over seas Points with the exception of second annual of the Western Canada fruit jobbers will be held at the Royal Alexandra january advices from state that patents have been granted to two Winnipeg Joseph Isher and Truman Fishers Patent is for a dental and laying for a closure for according to records of the City health department yesterday mumps is on the increase in nine new cases were reported during the last 24 As Well As four cases of three of Scarlet fever and one Case of chief inspector of the City health state that Early in the new year he will ask for an amendment to the health to the effect that no except those contained in will be removed from Back Yards in i during the visit of the Western Canada livestock to i a number of the members visited the i packing Plant of Burns co the party included minister of agriculture for Mani Toba Deputy minister of agriculture for Manitoba livestock commissioner for and presi Dent of the Manitoba agricultural Lewis Jones pleaded guilty in police court yesterday to violating the Temperance and was fined and magistrate George de he was charged with having liquor in a place other than a private civic tax receipts will total 000 by december civic tax estimated yester this will include approximately from the civic tax receipts for wednesday totalled making the total for the year to Date John deported to United was convicted yester Day in police court on a charge of violating the immigration Al though his counsel said if he was re leased he would return to the United he was sentenced to two months in jail and will be deported at the end of that no definite plan at the present time is before the provincial Cabinet for a soldiers the scheme of f for the erection of a Marble Cenotaph at the South Side of the new parliament buildings has been Laid aside for the time children in Boniface orphanage will have their annual Christmas tree and special entertainment on at this entertain ment the Junior orphans friends will be thai guests and in addition to the children the institution there will Alao be remembered the inmates of the old folks sent out from the Domin on office of the retail merchants Are now being filled out by the various Trade sections of the association in these ask for the opinion of the merchants on the luxury according to the Winnipeg association the majority of favor collecting the tax at the source of the manufacturer ppr Only tablets marked Bayer Are aspirin not aspirin at All without the Bayer Cross in order to secure an expression of opinion the retail ques the name Bayer identifies the Only genuine aspirin prescribed by physicians for Over nine teen years and now made in always buy an unbroken package of Bayer tablets of aspirin which one contains proper directions for joint and pain generally tin boxes of 12 tablets Cost a few larger Bayer what will Santa aus bring our politicians antas political stocking is the title of Munro feature article in Mac leans december i5th Munro thinks old Kris Kringle should bring Premier Meighen a Cap that will pull Down Over his so that he cant hear what his Cabinet colleagues Are saying about a Hobby horse for Crener a tin sword for Ballantyne a White plume for Lapointe a Case of grape juice for and a pair of Long trousers for Mac Kenzie Munro also sizes up the East Elein Farmers and lets you know its real Wilfred y he famous physician of Labrador has contributed a striking piece of graphic fac fiction for the Christmas Issue deeds of daring which describes the Brave fight waged by skipper his Crew and wife in the dismantled Silver they expected to find a watery grave that Christmas but the wife daunt less spirit put so much courage into the men that they won a fearful fight against the december Yea Stoit Kotec d Christmas Issue of december 15th the emancipation of Polly Maccrae by the Schuman Story of two spinster Sisters in old Ontario and How the crippled one won a the jest of circumstance Gertrude Phyllis lands in a Canadian fresh from and there is no Fiance to meet the girl ultimately finds happiness just the Christmas carols but How our Golbov flood roars East by Nicholas every few minutes a train loads up at one of our Many Mammoth Grain taking wheat to the the City of peril by Arthur the largest instalment yet published of this Sensa dramatic serial of bolshevism in plotting in new and All Points North by Nellie s a gripping Story of the Pioneer men and women of the peace River even out of the reach of rail telephones and Bead what trained Are doing a the Pioneer of christmases and governors by colonel Gearge the colonel has spent Christmas in some Peculiar his experiences form Thuc foundation of a great Ham tells of the human Side of of oar who gets our paper profits by Agnes the real Facto of our palp sulphate and some information a to where the biggest slices of us Melon the yuletide glow by Charles Christopher what converts Scrooge into human round about december each year gel in a crowd with and youll find buttered Side up by the hero of this Story loses his Job a few Days before but he Doest lose the and lands a real Job Christmas orators i have enjoyed by Margot the wife of the exp remier tells what she thinks As an and review of reviews Section the War spirit in the Sisley a modern Charles Merrill the irresistible sir Gilbert Lansdowne Marquis of German utter Sites hard Allen flesh and blood inspired William de the bleeding statutes of Ute doctors secure your copy Supply is limited canals National Magazine december 15th Issue 20c or Send for a years subscription to Mac leans 143153 University Cutanda i the drop a clothing prices for the last six Days Selling in the great Wesley Thompson Selling out Sale Are consistent with the tremendous reductions that have been made All us the drop on All other clothing sales in remember All Stock Over the must be sold before next Friday its been a wonderful it a wonderful december 24th positively the closing Day of Tifis Sale mens suits mens 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