Ten Million Boycott Sweeps Meat Prices Across States
A wide scale anti meat boycott unfolds in Missouri Wisconsin and surrounding areas with unions doctors club women and labor groups urging reduced meat consumption. Campaigns spread from St Louis to New York anchored by the Baltimore Kansas City and Chicago activists aiming to pressure governors and retailers into lower prices.
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Sas
Missouri
Wisconsin
Tabor Titana
St Louis
Connecticut
Boycote
Cleveland
Cinginnati Club
Wilmington
Del
Mingo Junction
Ohio
Michigan
Canada
Marion Talbot
University of Chicago
Womens Trades Union League
Fight
New York
Anita Comfort~ Brooks
Greater
Mra Comfort Brooks
Federation of Womens Clubs
Ingman
Frederick Nathan
Consumers’ League
Comfort Brooks
League
Nathan
Omaha Central Labor Union
Indiana
Jowa
Bishop
Kansas City
Anetican Federation of Labor
Back to Farm Sawtells Advice and Meat Boycott Mood
Pioneer packer T R Sawtell urges a wholesale return to farm life as a remedy for sky high living costs. He links meat price pressures to urban migration, warns farmers face penalties from packers, and notes widespread boycotts and labor actions targeting the beef trade across cities and states.
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R Sawtell
Gf Allants
Beef Trust
Sawtell
Piedmont Hotel Menus Expand With Venison and Fresh Seafood
The Piedmont Hotel restaurants showcase a luxurious menu expansion featuring Venison prepared in various styles. Booth Bay Lobster from Heath Bay Maine and fresh mushrooms highlight the seafood emphasis, with special Formosa and Cayton Teas imported for patrons. Continuous shipments of Piedmont Gystera ensure daily freshness.
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Piedmont Hotel
Booth Bay
Piedmont’ Hotel
Wil Leary
Food necessities rise to luxury amid higher living costs
The Atlanta household ledger shows butter, eggs, flour, and lard climbing to or near luxury levels. Prices for butter move to 41 cents a pound, case eggs to 40 cents, flour at six dollars a barrel, and meat items and seafood all jump. Housewives seek cheaper substitutes like margarine as boycott sentiment grows toward meat packers. Prices for vegetables and fruit surge as citrus and potatoes rise, leaving families strained and worried over the shrinking shopping basket.
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Atlanta
East
Middlewest
Baycote
Thig
Nor
Lois Bringé
Meat Prices Stay High Despite Boycott Spread
Chicago reports little effect on meat prices as anti meat campaigns spread nationwide. Pork and veal dipped by 2 cents per pound in Pittsburgh, while Milwaukee and several cities posted mixed reductions. Louisville sees fraternal orders pledge abstinence from meat twice daily in February. St Louis unions plan action. St Paul and Indianapolis report limited success. Census data cite livestock value at 488 million dollars with record high prices, cattle and hog numbers fluctuating.
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Chicago
Httle
Louisville
Womens Trade Union League
Building Trades Council of St Louis
St Paul
McEwen
Minnesota
Greange
Judd Palmer
Wilson blames lack of farm labor for high meat prices
Washington reports Secretary Wilson argues shortage of farm labor drives meat costs up. He says three quarters of a million people migrate to cities annually, drawn by feeding needs, while farms lag in attracting workers. The secretary notes cities produce little food.
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Clites
Irving City
Mer Sawtell
Wilson
Washington
Department of A Sericulture
United States
Abrom
Jim Hilsaya
Race of mollycod dles if all quit eating meat
Washington rumors quoted Dr Harvay Walley chief of the bureau of chemistry warns a race of mollycoddles could form if meat is abandoned He argues against a full meat ban noting long term effects and the need for a proper mix of normal and vegetable foods to prevent disease
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Washington
Harvay Walley
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Eericulture
Meat Boycott Sparks City Actions Across Nations
January 22 reports from Anderson to Milwaukee to New Haven describe meat-eating abstention pledges, boycotts, and price protests. Clergy and labor groups announce or discuss campaigns while cities like Louisville and New York see moves toward reduced meat consumption amid rising prices. Government notes mention preparations related to meat trust tensions.
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New York
Fredgen
Union Squars
Government
Meat Trust
Meat boycott spreads as Chicago probes packers
Chicago and Minneapolis reports show federal prosecutors preparing to present grand jury findings on the National Packing Company and alleged price fixing. Labor groups in Chicago and across cities join boycotts, seeking price relief and a broader inquiry into cost of living including meat, rent, and clothing.
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Chicago
Ueef
Department of Justice
Ys Administration
National Packing Company of Chicago
St Paul Mion
Wol McEwen
Minnesota
Grand Jury
United States
E W Lima
Raiicords
Morris & Co
Ttin
National
Grogsoup
Los Cricago
Mats Chicago
Organized Labor of Chicago
Chicago Federation of Labor General
John Fitzpatrick
Variega
Hoxte
Mitons
Pittsburg
Thomay Toomey
Toomeys
Starling
Shorter College elects Prof VW Brittain head
The trustees of Shorter College announce the election of Professor VW Brittain of Atlanta as president of Shorter College. Brittain, a leading educator and Fulton County Georgia superintendent, will reorganize the faculty, furnish buildings, and install modern laboratories and a conservatory of music at considerable cost.
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Shorter College
VW Brittain
Atlanta
Mos
Brittain
Fulton County
Georgia
Richard H Rushton Summoned by Death in Philadelphia
Richard H Rushton longtime president of large Philadelphia financial firm Bealey Stratford Hotel death announced after unnamed assailant detonated a bomb at his door He was born 1851 in Dalton Georgia and moved to Philadelphia in 1869 He held roles with Tonopah and Goldfield railroad and Whitney syndicate once chaired Tonopah Gold Mining Company His nervous system never fully recovered from the bombing and its aftermath.
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Tiladelphia
Richard H Rushton
Vour Street National
Beiley Ie Stratford
Deana
Mc Rushton
Dalton Ga
Philadelphia
Ytonopah and Goldfeld Railroad
Whitney Kin Syndicate
Tonopah Gold Mining Company
Rushtons
Rushton Safie
Bagh
Hishton
Hearings Set on Transit Tonnage at Montgomery and Memphis
Interstate Commerce Commission fixed hearings on tonnage suspension at transit points in Montgomery Alabama on January 31 and Memphis February 2 in U S court rooms. Two hurt by auto in Montgomery as street car struck a car on High Street injuring G A Berry and J A Felder. Despite the crash, no one on the street car was harmed and both men are expected to recover. In Allegheny 2000 steel workers join boycott era, totaling about 126000 workers as Diamond Market stalls show fewer buyers and butcher margins cut early. Nebraska labor leader Coffey urges abstinence from meat eating in federation drive.
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United Mine Workers of America
Indianapolis
Federation of Western
Chicago
Boston
National
Iron City Trades Council
Pittsburg
Samuel Gompers
Memphis
van Houten
Georgia Federation of Labor
Poycott
Washington
Daughters of the ‘American Revolution
Mary Lockwood
D AR
Washington Federation of Women’s Clubs
DAR
Bostontes
Rovert Oliver
Assaistant
Wéventy Conty & Dowen
Hoycott
Wenin Augusta
Fino Antonio
San Antonio Texas
San Antonio
Typographical Union
Interstate Commerce Commission
Montgomery
Ala
United States Court Room
Allegheny
Tate
Nebraska
Lincoln
Neb
Frank M Coffey
Nebraska Feperation of Labor
Seld
Federation
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