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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1910
Page
16
Washington reports wholesale gains as beef prices drop four to five cents per pound and pork down about three cents. Retailers have yet to see widespread consumer relief with beef remaining high in shops and mutton veal likely to follow if retailers pass savings along.
A Detroit canvass of chief packing houses shows broad price cuts over two months. Porterhouse steak seats 16 cents per pound, down from 20. sirloin 14 from 18. round steak 12 from 15. Poultry, hams, bacon, and lard also fall several cents per pound.
Memphis Tenn November 15 There has been no appreciable cut in prices of fresh meats and foodstuffs in the Mem- drum market with poultry quoted at three cents a pound less than prior rates in local stores.
This store touts exceptional value at $15 for suits and overcoats, claiming superior quality and fit versus higher priced rivals. It compares custom tailoring to factory ready mades, invites customers to see new sack coats and overcoats, and notes in-house alterations at no charge.
In local markets poultry cost three cents per pound less than last week creating a modest savings for shoppers. The note highlights sustained price adjustments across meat categories and encourages comparing local stalls.
Chicago dealers attribute the general decline in food prices to a bumper corn crop and heavy receipts of cattle and pork at the Stock Yards. They note lower prices for fresh meats and staples, with eggs expected to stay high. Packers say Western farmers flood markets with livestock amid the crop boom.
In Cincinnati on November 11 prices for meat fell with bacon leading a drop of five cents per pound. Sirloin steak available at 12 1 2 cents, while pork products and live hogs also declined. Cattle sheep and dairy held steady with coffee potatoes and eggs rising.
Nearly all grades of meat dropped two to three cents a pound in Columbus on November 15. Pork fell to 18 cents from 20 cents last Saturday, while butter and eggs held steady. Local merchants predict further declines.
Prices in nearly all food products show a downward tendency in St Joseph Missouri with a 2 1 2 cent a pound pork cut. Beef prices remain unchanged for now while poultry and eggs decline slightly.
Omaha, Neb. reports a two cent per pound drop in all fresh meats with forecasts of at least five cents more decline on pork by January 1 and similar drops on other fresh meats.
In Cleveland on November 15 declines in all meat prices were reported. Hogs have fallen $1.50 per hundred in three weeks while cattle veal calves sheep and lambs also declined though less. Bacon retail prices were up slightly and turkeys were 17 to 18 cents a pound with expected plentiful Thanksgiving supply and lower prices.
Beef and pork prices ease in New Orleans with beefsteaks down 2 3 cents in 10 days and fresh pork about four cents lower. Chicken and turkey markets down 3 4 cents from year ago. Fresh eggs quoted at 27 cents, five cents below last year.
Two Lynn gang members Andrei Ipsen and Wassili Ivankowski faced Essex County Superior Court as four eye witnesses described the June murder of Thomas Landregan and James Carroll. Witnesses traced the heaviest man named Joe taking the satchel, and Ipsen and Ivankowski were accused of firing on Carroll and Landregan during the Oxford street ambush.
Speaker Joseph Walker pledges House cooperation with Governor elect Foss in welfare matters for the Commonwealth. Correspondence dated Nov 10 1910 from Boston shows Walker offering support and Foss replying with thanks and intent to seek cooperative counsel for state interests.
Harold B. Faxon admitted stealing 7300 from the People's National Bank of Roxbury seven years earlier. He was arrested last month in Goldfields Nevada and pleaded guilty yesterday, receiving a five year term at Greenfield.
The engagement of Count Jacques de Lesseps the French aviator to Grace McKenzie youngest daughter of William McKenzie a Toronto railroad millionaire was announced in New York. De Lesseps met Miss McKenzie in Toronto and she joined the Belmont Park international meet after flying two long flights with him. He is a son of Ferdinand de Lesseps the renowned engineer.
Guthrie wins as State Supreme Court rules the seat of state government must remain in Guthrie after the Oklahoma City bid is defeated.
The Beaufort inland water way linking Pamlico Sound with the sea was opened today, allowing vessels to avoid the hazards of Cape Hatteras.
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