Sugar Refiner Reports Boom in 1919 Business
Earl D. Babst, president of American Sugar Refining, releases its calendar year 1919 report showing revenue rising from 200 million to 300 million dollars and profits around 3 cents per dollar of turnover. The firm controls about six of 22 U S cane refineries and expands capacity at Reston and Baltimore while purchasing a Cuban raw sugar plantation Central Canaran.
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York
Earl D. Babst
Ameran Sugar Refining Company
United States
Reston
Baltimore
Central Canaran
Cuba
United
Royal Commission On the
Great Britain
France
Lins
Royal Commission
Equalization Board
Italy
Canada
Congress
Europe
Belgium
Poand
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Philippines
Java
Sugar Shortage Rumors Rise From War Losses
An article notes the average family uses 465 pounds of sugar annually and traces supply shifts after World War I. It discusses cane sugar deficits, Cuban exports, and speculation-driven markets, predicting a European recovery lag and urging Americans to buy sugar beet crops to rebuild future supply.
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Ameriq
Cube
Hawaii
Porto iGo
Autopines
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Austria
France
Russia
Unified States
America
Atlantic Coast
Americas
Cuba
Sam
Farone
Europe
Elks to Use Black Rock Yacht Club Beach Home
Bridgeport Lodge No. 36 reaches a May 1 lease with the Black Rock Yacht Club for the harbor property to operate a summer home. Plans include a dining room run by a top caterer, shore dinners, dancing on the main floor with an orchestra several nights weekly, and beach facilities expanded to accommodate hundreds. A May opening banquet for members and guests signals a promising season.
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Bridgeport Lodge of Elks
Black Rock Ywcht Club
Ack Heck Harbor
Tod
Order
Itks
Yacht Club
Clis
Tks
Loci
Board of Governors In Charge
Tempting Recipes and Beef Loaf From Old Kitchen Notes
Homemade beef loaf uses two pounds steak ground four crackers ground fine one egg two cups milk butter salt and pepper and onion. Dough combines sugar mashed potato sour milk lard salt soda then stiffened and aged. Beets pumpkin pie blends pumpkin sugar molasses salt cinnamon ginger milk and crackers for a large pie.
Meat consumption falls as prices rise in 1919
Washington reports Department of Agriculture figures showing beef per capita consumption dropped nearly eight pounds in 1919 while veal and mutton use rose. pork and lard exports fell, total meat consumption declined from 1918, and European demand shifted away from U S markets as hog slaughter rose.
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Washington
America
Department of Agriculture
Department
Th Department
South America
Australia
Argentina
Soldier in Hartford Sells Postal Cards to Start Bus Venture
Thomas B. Bresnahan, Bridgeport born former Private, 27th Infantry, who lost an arm and a leg in France, turned down federal vocational training due to compensation worries and now sells postal cards in Hartford. He hopes to raise funds to buy two jitney buses with his brother in Bridgeport. He previously sold cards in Bridgeport and New York state.
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Hartford
Thomas B. Bresnahan
Bridgeport
Bresnahan
G27th Infantry
Fresnahan
France
St Michlel
New York State
Outdoor life lecture at high school tonight by Finley
William L. Finley of Oregon speaks at the Fairfield County High School Auditorium tonight on hunting and wildlife. The program features moving pictures of hunting on the Cascade Range and wild animals as actors. W. K. Moran and Charles R. Disbrow lead local and state Fish and Game groups, with A. J. Williamson as secretary.
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William L. Finley
Oregon
Great
Cascade Range
Fairfield County Fish and Game Association
W. K. Moran
State Fish and Game Association
Charles R. Disbrow
Fairfield County Association
A. J. Williamson
Spring Opening Tonight at H H Butler Store
The Spring Opening of the H H Butler Store at 1107 Main Street over Dillons occurs this evening. New season models in men and women’s wear on display. Manager M B Cohen invites everyone to visit, noting chain-store buying power allows lower prices and convenient terms.
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H. H. Butler
Main Street
Dillon's
M. 8. Cohen
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Britain
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Georgette
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Weicht
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