Cottage Cheese As Staple Food Demonstration Drive
Federal and state agencies organize a cottage cheese drive to educate American housewives on value and use. Forty seven women from many states train in Washington to demonstrate dishes and serving ideas to promote cottage cheese as a staple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dairy Division
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Carl Vrooman
Raymond A. Pearson
Clarence Ousley
Dean H. L. Russell
The
Food Administration
Department
Cleveland
States’ Relation Service
Bureau of Markets
Late Market Quotations for Cattle and Hogs
Fat steers and cows show varied prices from 7.00 to 16.40 with ranges for good to prime grades. Veal calves and feeders list multiple brackets, while stockers run 9.00 to 11.56. good hogs priced at 16.85 to 17.50 in late market quotations.
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Chicago
Egg market brief with graded exports and butter quotes
Egg prices and grades listed with no 1 and no 2 net yields for Denver shipments. Case counts and commissions noted for miscellaneous eggs. Butter prices show creamery first and second grade per pound with processing details and minor misprints in product names.
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F. O. B. Denver
Flint Trade Prices for Hides Pelts and Glue Green Salted to Tallow
Historic market list shows Flint prices for hides pelts and byproducts. Including green salted hides Calfskin Kip and Lamb prices, horse hides buck saddle pieces and tallow values. Notable entries note prime rendered tallow per pound and various weights for wool pelts and shearlings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flint
Gale
Owe
Sietsidie Ee
Odin Ee
Csssise Cess
Gach S
Mixed Commodity Prices and Grain Cotton Markets Report
A market roundup shows bar silver and copper prices, tungsten and ore values, and mixed commodity quotes. Cotton futures fall in New York while hogs and cattle trade in Chicago. Boston wool and textiles list varying staple prices and classifications.
Chicago Grain and Provision Prices Summary
Chicago market notes corn prices for various yellow grades with No 2 yellow ranging from 1.60 to 1.73 per unit, No 4 yellow at 1.45 to 1.56, oats at 88 89 percent, rye No 2 at 2.40 to 2.50, barley 1.40 1.78, Timothy 5.00 8.00, Clover 18.00 28.00, and lard and ribs at 25.15 and 23.00 to 23.50.
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Chicago
Clover
Butter Eggs and Potatoes Chicago Prices
Butter Creamery 34 42c. Eggs firsts 324% 33c ordinary firsts 31 14% 32c at mark. Potatoes Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota bulk $1.10–$1.30, sacks $1.25–$1.35.
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Chicago
Wisconsin
Michigan
Minnesota
Farm Animals and Pork Production Preservation
Prepared by the USDA the piece stresses preventing disease to conserve and boost pork output. It categorizes swine ailments into minor treatable diseases and highly destructive infectious diseases requiring farmer stockman and government cooperation. It urges housing feeding water sanitation and especially elimination of filthy mudholes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Feeding the Suckling Pigs
A United States Department of Agriculture guide on early pig feeding urges starting with shelled corn in a self feeder or creep pen for three to five week olds. It recommends gradual creep expansion, occasional supplements like shorts or oil meal, but favors skim milk, and notes market pigs should stay lean with continued feeding to grow until weighing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Production of Livestock Essentials for Prosperity
The article outlines five core practices for economical livestock production: thorough pastures, leguminous crops, a silo, and only pure bred males. It notes labor and expense are required but permanent prosperity in livestock regions proves the profitability.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Baby beef industry gains attention amid feed cattle scarcity
Growing feed er cattle shortages push farmers across livestock regions to focus on the baby beef trade as land values rise and farm prospects shift, signaling a expanding role for this sector in rural economies.
Metal and ore price quotes from New York and mining hubs
Prices quoted by Western Newspaper Union News Service show metals and ore values. Lead $7.07 to $7.12 per unit, copper $23.12, bar silver 95.5 cents, spelter $6.82 to $6.92, tungsten concentrates 60 percent $20 to $22.50, crude ores 60 percent $22 to $25, 25 percent $12, 10 percent $9.40.
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Boulder
New York
Copper output to improve in April over March
Arizona reports a better April copper outlook with improved performance versus March. Miami Copper Company shows 1917 profits of 3,204,260 compared with 7,336,196 in 1916. United Eastern Kingman district shipments reach 210,000 in March, up from February. Chino Valley Oil & Mining moves rig near Prescott to start a new well.
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Arizona
Miami Copper Company
United Eastern
Kingman District
Chino
Leadville Mining Activity Highlights and Tungsten Demand
In Leadville the Denver Mining and Milling Company overhauled its Wortman mill and will begin milling. A gold ore streak from Bartlett tunnel on Sugar Loaf ranges from two to ten ounces per ton. P O S property on Carbonate hill sees old workings cleaned and main drifts retimbered. Teddy Bear claims opened under lease and bond on Red Elephant mountain. Tungsten demand outstrips supply. 1917 US production reached 6,000 tons with Colorado supplying half. Boulder district hosts vast tungsten deposits. Summit county employs about 300 in Wortman, Climax and Buffher amid molybdenum-driven prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leadville
Denver Mining and Milling Company
Wortman
Bartlett Tunnel
Sugar Loaf
Teddy Bear Group of Claims
Red Elephant Mountain
Lawson
United States
Colorado
Boulder
Summit County
Climax
Buffher
March copper output rises as shipments to refiners boost operations
The March report shows porphyry copper producers expanding activity with refined shipments lifting first quarter output to 103,911,871 pounds versus 104,816,152 in early 1917. Prospective chromite samples from prospects in Montana to New Mexico may be tested free by the Colorado School of Mines. Alaska again led national production last year.
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Porphyry Copper
Montana
Arizona
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
New Mexico
Colorado School of Mines
Golden
Alaska
United States
Mill and mine developments mark New Mexico region
Mill construction advances at Socorro plant while Mogollon week tonnage reaches 1120 tons. A larger hoist goes into Deadwood mine and Oaks company reports cross cut on third level at Deep Down mine. Union County shale shows oil. Clayton retort yields oil with blue flame. Pima Mining and Smelting now owns its plant in Socorro. Tucson site secured for reconstruction. Phelps Dodge withdraws after 360000 development at Organ district properties near Las Cruces.
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Socorro
Mogollon Mine Company
Deadwood
Mogollon
Oaks Company
Union County
Clayton
Pima Mining and Smelting Company
Tucson
Torpedo
Stephenson-Bennett
Organ District
Las Cruces
Phelps Dodge
Wells and drilling plans reshape Riverton region
Residents of Riverton fund a local well east of town while Fremont county holdings of Rand-Wyoming are taken over by a Denver syndicate. Northern Petroleum, with stakes in Maverick Springs and Pilot Butte, prepares a summer drilling campaign on company account.
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Riverton
Riverton Valley
Fremont County
Rand-Wyoming Company
Denver
Northern Petroleum Company
Maverick Springs
Pilot Butte
You Need PERUNA You Need PERUNA Prepared in Tablet Form
Advertising blurb for the Peruna Company offering Peruna prepared for tablet use and noting the company based in Columbus Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peruna Company
Columbus
Ohio
Not Quite as Good Dialogue from a Humorous Exchange
An exchange features a child asking for a hand and the father reacting by putting down his foot. An advertisement promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets to regulate liver bowels and stomach and a sofa trial line ends with a playful handshake request.
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Dr. Pierce
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Promote Skin Relief
Itching burning skins for eczemas rashes and irritations are claimed to be relieved by Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Free samples offered by sending to Cuticura Dept X Boston. Soap 25 cents Ointment 25 and 50 cents plus mail options.
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Tor
Cuticura
Dept. X
Boston
Table Talk and Eloquent Breaks at Rogers Breakfasts
Leigh Hunt defines table talk as sincere and inclusive, allowing all to speak. A French guest at Rogers' breakfast mocked Macaulay's rhetoric with the quip S il tousse l est perdu. The piece cites Johnson and De Quincey on anecdotes and the storytelling burden in social chatter.
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Leigh Hunt
Rogers
Macaulay
Johnson
de Quincey
Phrase from war era dialogue reflects gender roles
The excerpt notes a view that men are asserting themselves in the conflict and includes a counterpoint about their reaction. It captures attitudes toward gender and wartime roles without specifics on events or people.
Poets Craft Advertising Jingles for Yeast Makers
A note on rising poets who write catchy jingles for yeast manufacturers. The article highlights a trend of literary voices crossing into commercial advertising in the food science sector.
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Special Information Service
Women’s Task
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Denver Markets
Colo. Upland
Nebr
Upland
Colo
South Park
Gunnison Valley
D. P
Ian Eit
Navy
Lima
Texas
Mining and Oil News
St. Louis
Carbonate Hill
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