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[Start Page] Formerly 10 cts and 12% lard ^oil^ lust year from [drs?] - southard oil good but first lot best [mined?] early. [Mr?] Alders thinks [best?]to manufacture the oil purchase here[d?]. [norly? or wor buy?] contract by means of a broker and instruct[ion?] pay for purchase by packages not per cent. Continuations always made against - Government difficulty in testing [End page] [Start page] Lard will probably fall after killing time Government looses by advertizing [Alculy?] - carbonate of soda just in [land?] was free [alculy?] [tested?] with litmus paper - Mr Alders says steamers are abandoning use of Kerosene [sinse?] New England burned with it. Mr. Goodwin has reason to believe that one of the [cafer?] of the tenders is in favor of disparaging lard oil [Page end}