Bread prices and wheat crop outlook from Colonel Eckhart
Colonel B A Eckhart of B A Eckhart Milling discusses expected flour cost drops with new wheat harvests. He notes bread prices may not fall due to labor and material costs, estimates a 1.00 per barrel flour reduction, and explains price guarantees and crop projections for 1919 1920 including a projected 1 200 000 000 bushel harvest and potential surpluses and penalties for price discrimination.
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B. A. Eckhart
B. A. Eckhart Milling Company
America
Americans
Southwest
Northwest
Julius Barnes
Federal Grain Corporation
Europe
Central Powers
Russia
North America
Argentina
Australia
India
United States
Congress
Grain Corporation
Thompson's Chance to Reform City Hall Clerks
Editor argues mayor should reward honest city hall clerks while weeding out bums and loop hounds who struck for higher pay. Policemen and firefighters deserve raises for risking their lives serving the public.
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Thompson
Wasteful City Spending Exposed in Public Service Budget
Editorial blasts city for paying 93 000 yearly to the Department of Public Service for doing nothing and cutting wages. It argues employees are underpaid and urges city counsels to stop waste and protect policemen and firemen amid the financial joke.
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Department of “Public Service
Department of Public Service
Lincoln Park’s Sunday baseball barred to appease auto riders
Chicago residents voice fury over Lincoln Park being closed to Sunday baseball. The decline of park safety follows motorist aggression and unsafe roads, with critics blasting the Park Board for bowing to autoists and turning the field into a ruined space for the people.
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Lincoln Park
Edgewater
Park Board
Want to Run for Alderman in Chicago Fifty Ward System
A note explains Chicago will move to fifty wards with one alderman per ward and allows anyone to run without a party nomination under a non partisan bill. It emphasizes new electoral rules and candidacy eligibility.
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Chicago
City approves pay hike for patrolmen and firemen
The city council voted to set maximum annual wages at 1800 dollars for patrolmen and for firemen, an increase of 300 dollars to the patrolmen’s pay and leveling the firemen’s salary. The lowest grade city employees will see corresponding adjustments.
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Tim Murphy
Street Cleaners and Garbage Collectors’ Union
Richert
Municipal salaries and the Public Service clash across cities
The piece reports on proposed raises for firemen and policemen and critiques the Public Service Department as wasteful. It notes Akron and Youngstown paying higher wages than New York, and quotes Firemen's Union leader George B. Hargan disputing aldermanic claims. It condemns public works spending and praises Mayor Thompson's playground legacy. It also mentions the new tax commission appointed by Governor Lowden and mocks auto-dominated park scenes with noisy traffic and disrupted wildlife.
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Tee
New York
George B. Hargan
Firemen’s Union
Akron
Youngstown
Hargan
Lincoln Park Auto Traffic Criticized in Protest Letter
A reader attacks Lincoln Park autos on west drives claiming they endanger pedestrians and degrade the park. The letter urges banning autos from the park except eastern lake shore routes and criticizes car owners as a predatory, lawless class.
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Lincoln Park
Lake Shore
Park
West
Edgewater
Hang Them High in Opposition to Trusts and Conspirators
Editorial blasts at a constitutional convention schemed by trust barons. It accuses the Kutter Milk Potato Vegetable and Garden Trusts of price gouging and bold legislative control, urging action against treason and warning the public against a trust framed constitution.
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Kutter Trust
Milk Trust
Potato Trust
Vegetable Trust
Garden Trust
Trust Gang
Reynolds Raises Bank Employes Wages
George M. Reynolds, president of the Continental & Commercial National Bank, announced a 10 percent bonus for employees of the bank and its affiliate since Jan 1 1919. Newer hires receive smaller bonuses. He called bonuses a safeguard against Bolshevism and a means to keep families content.
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George M. Reynolds
Continental & Commercial Naonal Bank
Continental & Commercial Trust & Savings Bank
Reynolis
Whalen Returns From Honeymoon Trip
Commissioner James M. Whalen of the Cook County Civil Service Commission is back from a honeymoon tour. He wed June 14 to Jerence VY Coyne, daughter of B J Coyne, a South Water Street merchant. The couple visited Niagara Falls Atlantic City Long Branch New York City and other eastern points.
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James M. Whalen
Cook County
Nash Leads Review Board Record in County Notice
Patrick A Nash is noted for achieving a strong record on the Board of Review, reflecting steady performance and notable decisions in local tax assessment oversight.
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Patrick A. Nash
Board of Review
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Thompson's
Public Service Department
Public Service
James McAndrews
NEW Tax Commission
Lowden
Col
Joseph B. Sanborn
Frank F. Noleman
Centralia
C. C. Craig
Galesburg
Bird House
Aquarium
Lincoln Park Auto Pets
Reynolds
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