Hetty Screen Balks at Prices for Luncheon Menu
A local luncheon menu drew attention as Hetty Screen balked at the set prices cutting meat from her bill of fare. The item reflects a shopper’s stance amid rising costs impacting daily meals.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1910
Page
13
Mrs Hetty Green Joins Meat Boycott at Lunch
New YorkJanuary 24 Mrs Hetty Green billionaire eschews meat in a lunch order choosing halibut at 15 cents while steak hits 50 cents as prices fall in beef and pork markets amid boycott efforts. Two suffragists canvass homes gathering nearly 1000 pledges to abstain from meat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hetty Green
Woman Suffragist Association
Butter Price Crash Sparks Elgin Board Rally
In Elgin Newfoundland the price of extra fancy creamery butter fell to 30 cents a pound from 36 cents amid food price unrest. Board members attributed the drop to agitation and a trend toward avoiding costly foods, with reports of a butter boycott in some areas. The report of the 30 cent quotation was met with applause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
Elgin Board of Trade
Cattle prices drop amid boycott at Pittsburg stockyards
In Pittsburg the union stock yards saw cattle prices fall from 50 to 40 cents per hundred as a meat boycott spreads. Hogs and veal also eased, beef stayed high, and dressed beef prices held. Hog and cattle supply appeared higher, hotels adopted meatless menus, and 125000 signed an anti meat pledge affecting 600000 people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Union
Meat prices drop again as hogs and cattle fall
In Cleveland on January 24 wholesale meat markets weakened further with hogs 20 to 25 cents lower and cattle 15 cents down. Retailers sold sirloin at 15 cents a pound and round at 13 cents, the lowest quotes in a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
New York Faces Fight Over Cost of Living Referrals
New York today engages in a broad push to cut living costs. A grand jury probes the meat question while a prosecutor investigates cold storage issues. Protests against high prices for food products are underway as pledges are pledged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Prosentor
Physician questions quadruplets birth claims in San Francisco
Dr A Pratt who attended Mrs Wilson after the birth refuses birth certificates asserting doubt over the quadruplets. San Francisco health chief Powers says certificates may exist under another name. The Wilsons deny, noting a non nurse attended. The case recalls Roosevelt honors after alleged Chicago triplets years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
W. W. Wilson
A. ©. Pratt
Powers
Wilson
Banker Van Norden of New York Victimized by Two Women
A New York banker named Van Norden was swindled by two female so-called crooks. The incident details remain unclear but the victims described the women as posing as legitimate clients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banker van Norden
New York
Robbery fits Van Norden finds $29,400 missing
Warner M. Van Norden, president of Van Norden Trust, loses 28,000 in thousand dollar bills and 900 in hundreds and a 500, after two Chicago women, Bessie Roberts and May Williams, drop a handbag in front of a Waldorf area hotel. Both are arrested on $15,000 bail, police say.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Warner M. van Norden
van Norden Trust Company
van Norden
the Waldorf
Bessie Roberts
Kitty Dowd
May
Margie, Williams
Rogues
Chicago
Waldorf
Dowd
Taft Nominates Military Officers and Officials
President Taft sent to the Senate nominations including Brig. Gen. James Allen to be chief signal officer and Brig. Gen. Hiram M. Chittenden to brigadier general. Sterling A. Campbell named collector of customs at Humboldt California. Chittenden will succeed Brig. Gen. Knight, now retired for age. He is on leave in Seattle and ill health prompts retirement within days, with Col. F. K. Ward expected to succeed after the transfer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
James Allen
Army
Hiram M. Chittenden
Corps of Engineers
Humboldt
Cal
Sterling A. Campbell
Chittenden
Knight
Engineers
Seattle
F. K. Ward
Seventh Cavalry
Farm prices seen hurting consumers at home and abroad
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson told a House sub committee hearing that American farm products are sold cheaper abroad than in the United States. He said producers receive slightly more than before while the ultimate consumer pays excessive prices at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson
House Committee On
District of Columbia
Democrat Is Selected Member Of Committee
The House elected Representative Graham of Illinois to the Ballinger Pinchot investigating committee replacing Lloyd of Missouri who resigned after being selected by the Republican caucus and elected by the House in place of Rainey of Illinois. The choice was ratified without debate by viva voce vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Representative Graham
Ilinois
Ballinger-Pinchott
Lloyd
Missouri
Rainey
Illinois
Graham
Milk River delegation presses irrigation and land issues
A Milk River group led by Louis W. Hill met President Taft and Secretary Ballinger in Washington to push completion of the irrigation project and bond backing by Great Northern. They urged quicker surveys of public lands, protested forest service land restrictions, and asked open settlement of forest reserves bottom lands. action planned for later in the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Standard
Washington
Milk River
Louis W. Hill
Great Northern
Taft
Ballinger
Montana
Everett
Benjamin Phillips
M. D. Hoyt
Glasgow
Canada
Forest Service
Crete Autonomy Promise From Ottoman Premier
Constantinople. Jan 24. Hakkı Bey addressed parliament in his first session as grand vizier. He stated Turkey will uphold the sultan’s sovereign rights in Crete by any means but is prepared to grant Cretans the widest possible autonomy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Hakk! Bey
Turkey
Crete
German Snow Storm Halts Ships in Elbe
Berlin dispatch reports the worst blizzard in years as heavy seas and snow trap vessels on the Elbe. Shipping across the river is halted with crews struggling against the storm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
Hanburg
Elbe
Seattle Merchant Killed by Woman
Seattle dispatch reports Charles C. Tucker proprietor of a large furniture store was found dead in his hotel apartment with a bullet in his heart. Nearby lay Elvira Bunkerman, dressed in street clothes, with a bullet wound to the brain and a pistol in her hand. A $10 gold piece was on the floor. police say the woman came to demand money, killed Tucker, then himself. Tucker had come to Seattle from St. Louis a decade earlier with Loraine Lemoine, who later left him and died in misery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Charles C. Tucker
Tucker
Elvira Bunkerman
St. Louis
Loraine Lemoine
Millionaire D K Pearson Vows to Give Away Fortune
Chicago reports Dr D K Pearson, aged almost years, after donating over 4 million dollars to 47 colleges in 47 states says he will give away every cent before he dies. On his 90th birthday he plans a new rampage of giving and aims to die penniless within 10 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
D. K. Pearson
Pearson
Record Snowslide Halts Great Northern Traffic
Kalispell Jan 24 A massive snowslide 600 feet long roared onto the Great Northern track at High Gate 65 miles east stopping trains. Two workmen died in a nearby slide. four were trapped with two rescued alive. Names given as Asu and Peters. Weather worsens delaying rescue and travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Standard
Kalispell
Great Northern Railway
High Gate
Great Northern
Asu
Peters
Massachusetts
Waggener
May Issue Certificates to Help Irrigation Work
Washington Jan M4. Senate committee on Irrigation reports the administration bill creates a reclamation fund and authorizes issuing 30 million dollars of certificates of indebtedness to fund existing reclamation projects. The certificates run five years and half of land sale proceeds are reserved for redemption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, Jan
Senate Committee On Irrigation
Woods Freed After Detention in Monterey Mexico
The state department was notified of the release of engineer Joseph Woods who had been imprisoned in Monterey Mexico on a charge of housebreaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, Jan. M
State Department
Joseph Woods
Monterey
Mexico
Coal Company at Red Lodge Installs Battery of Apparatus
A Red Lodge coal firm installs a battery of safety apparatus to protect the life of rescuers and workers. The upgrade aims to enhance emergency response and worker protection at the mine site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Lodge
Northwestern tests life saving Drager apparatus in Montana mines
The Northwestern Improvement company installed and tested a Drager rescue system for coal mines in Montana. State inspector J B McDermott and local officials witnessed two hours of endurance tests, including formaldehyde exposure trials with cats, showing the apparatus worked and breathing remained normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Lodge
Northwestern Improvement Company
J. B. McDermott
Bear Creek
C. C. Anderson
Northwestern
McDermott
Helena
Butte
Montana
Three Killed in Kansas City Motor Crash
Three persons died and three were badly hurt when a car owned and driven by John Mahoney of Kansas City Kansas careened on Cliff Drive at Agnes Avenue, plunging 40 feet into Cliff Drive Canyon. Victims were John Mahoney, Mrs. John Mahoney, and Thomas McGuire with injuries to John O Connor Nellie Mahoney and a Mahoney child. Mahoney lost control while rounding a curve and the car struck stones before overturning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
John Mahoney
Kan
Cliff Drive
Agnes Avenue
Cliff Drive Canyon
Thomas M'Guire
John O'Connor
Nellie Mahoney
Mahoney
Singer in the Choir Confesses to Murder
Santa Rosa California January 4 Willard E Thomas a laborer and singer in a church choir confesses to killing his infant child whose body with its throat cut was found in a creek near the city The police say the child was born days after the parents marriage and the man admits the act to save himself and his wife from disgrace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Rosa
Cal
Here
Willard E. Thomas
Thomas
Students Dig Out Snowbound Train in Wyoming Rescue
A special train carrying 150 business men and high school students left Casper at noon to free a Chicago & Northwest train that became stalled in a snowdrift after departing Casper yesterday. The rescuers carry shovels as they race to clear the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Casper
Wyo
Chicago & Northwesterm
Meat Dealers Probe by Judge Landis Targets Packers
Judge Landis launches inquiry into meat dealers amid charges against grand players in the packing industry. Investigators focus on patterns of price fixing and market manipulation involving major firms.
Beef Trust Inquiry Ordered By Judge Landis
Judge Landis told the federal grand jury in Chicago that the beef trust probe began from information he provided and that papers from Washington seemed to announce government action. He urged delay to let the jury learn procedure and cautioned against public disclosures during the investigation while outlining federal anti trust law and its scope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Landis
United States District Court
Federal Grand Jury
Beef Trust
United States
Washington
Congress
Big appropriation cut from national immigration commission
Washington state news reports a $1250 cut from the national immigration commission budget. Representative Magen of Arkansas leads opposition threatening the commission and its survival if funds are not restored in the urgent deficiency bill. The body, created Feb 1907, has produced reports on immigrants and their lives after arrival, with others in preparation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Immigration Commission
Magen
Arkansas
Friends of the Comemission
Senate
Congress
Sesaterlingham
Vermont Tech
Hows Jersey
Bennett
Newnett
Alabama
Cornell University
Whreeler
San Francisco
Also Mentioned on This Page
Physican
Neck
Women From
New York American
Spector of
Hotte
Packers
Ries
Quiry
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