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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1918
Page
3
What The Packers Do For You describes Swift and Company U S A offering a service so efficient that consumers notice little effect, noting the packers’ average profit is only a fraction of a cent per pound above cost on every pound of meat consumed.
The First National Bank of Boston increased women employees from 124 on April 1 to 240 now. A luncheon hour rest room equipped with kitchenette and writing tables with magazines makes staff more comfortable, while a Firnaban club uses the bank’s initials to aid men serving at the front. Other banks report similar increases in women workers.
Squeeze the juice of two lemons into three ounces of orchard white to make a quarter pint freckle sunburn and tan lotion. Grocers carry lemons and drug stores offer orchard white. massage on face neck arms and hands to fade freckles sunburn and tan and whiten skin. Harmless.
A brief item notes rising prices and wartime rationing with a proverb about teaching a hired girl to behave. The piece contrasts a penny saved with higher costs and suggests scarce resources during conflict.
Excavators at Cyrene reveal early Roman period artifacts including two statues a second century Roman matron and a Winged Victory to be housed in Benghazi museum. The site also uncovers busts statues and a temple with a colossal Demeter statue and a long third century B C inscription.
An old advert warns of kidney and bladder trouble and promotes Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a quick remedy. It claims rapid relief, centuries of use, and a money back guarantee if not effective, urging purchase at drug stores with the GOLD MEDAL brand.
A brief, ironic dialogue asks where a shipment of pig iron is headed and answers Hog Island as a possible destination. A vintage wash-day slogan promotes Red Cross Bag Blue to whiten clothes, followed by general ads and a stockholder warning about trust.
Visiting Marines from Quan tico joined Camp Meigs soldiers for a gala baseball game on Florida avenue. Marines walked past a mid sized flag at the gate with their girls, then were prompted by the guard to salute the flag, inspiring blushes and smiles from the crowd.
A playful exchange unfolds as a woman boasts generosity over a purchase she cut into. A sympathetic shopper challenges her, citing return rules and past gifts, while the scene shifts from remnant counter to a soda coupon line. The tone fuses humor with social satire of taste, shows, and vanity.
A trolley car full of riders treats danger as a game while the motorman keeps a vigilant grip on the controls. A stranger warns of reckless risk as the car hops over broken tracks and relies on a quick stop to avoid tragedy. A short-skirted woman in high heels narrowly escapes a fatal accident.
A woman and baby ride in a car seat as a kindly, older man helps settle the child. The baby calms, the mother thanks him, and he jokes that as an old bachelor he has a way with the young ladies. Passengers share a quiet smile at the moment.
Lead at 8.05 dollars per unit and bar silver at 1.01 plus percent. Copper listed at 25.62 percent. East St Louis reports pelter ranges from 9.12 to 9.37 percent. Boulder Colorado lists tungsten concentrates with 60 percent at 20 to 24 dollars per unit, 25 percent at 12 to 12.50, and 10 percent at 9.40 to 12.20.
In the Pearce mining district, United Verde Extension Mining Co. reports July copper output of 3,100,000 pounds versus 3,000,000 in June. Calumet and Arizona Copper Co. sets its usual quarterly dividend at $2 a share, payable Sept. 23 to holders of record Sept. 5.
Extensive improvements are under way at the MacGregor mine west of Steamboat Springs and the Eagle mine at Gilman. A California refinery rises in the Rangeley oil fields. The Davis Daly mine yielded 632120 pounds of copper and 30208 ounces of silver in June. The Boulder Valley oil well, now owned by Mitchell Oil, begins production. Michael Johnson on Tenderfoot hill Cripple Creek reports a rich new gold vein at Ella W. A rich gold and silver body opens on Old Crown Point and Virginia in Idaho Springs. A. W. Widdifield plans cleaning upper and lower tunnels at Golden Eagle near Salina for further development. Cripple Creek notes a strong ore strike by Victory Gold Mining, leasing Prince Albert and owning 50 acres of patented ground in the district.
Outlook suggests Montana zinc production will exceed 1917 levels despite early year price declines. Major mines are Butte Superior Anaconda and Elm Orlu. Copper output in 1918 is expected to meet 1916 levels at over 352 million pounds, with 1917 copper around 278 million pounds. Montana led silver production in 1917 as a by product of copper ore.
A 200-barrel well was completed at Mesa Verde Oil Co near Flora Vista at 800 feet. A manganese vein was reported on Cap Rock Mountain ten miles from Duncan. Eastern experts in Glenrio assess Rana flats drilling viability with Judge Hazelwood predicting drilling within 60 to 90 days. Lordsburg Last Chance mine owners resume, plan a fifty-ton mill, with the adjoining Viola mine to be worked by a large crew.
An Ohio company is constructing a gasoline refining plant at its pioneer well to supply fuel for its camps in the Rock Creek field. The Pilot Butte Riverton pipeline is nearly complete with three miles remaining on the north end. The central pumping plant work is finished and oil is expected to flow through the line by September 16.
The bulletin lists metal prices for Boulder Colorado tungsten, New York lead and copper, and East St Louis delivery specifications, plus bar silver. It also covers dairy prices in Chicago for butter, eggs, and cheese, and live stock quotes for hogs, cattle, and sheep, with Minneapolis grain and New York cotton prices, and assorted hides and wool prices.
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