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Newspaper
Chicago Packer
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1938
Page
2
The South Water Market Club held its first dinner dance at the Congress Casino in Chicago with over 300 members and guests attending. A chicken dinner preceded the floor show featuring high quality talent and dancing to a renowned Chicago orchestra, praised by all attendees.
Rubin Produce Company inc opens a new unit at 39 South Water Market in Chicago on May 2. The expanded space includes offices and a store, with a larger sales force led by Nate Rubin and experienced men Nate Denison William Meyer and Louis Peck. The firm will handle a full line of fruits vegetables and related produce with a strong carrot department.
The United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association advisory board gathered at the Palmer House in Chicago on Saturday. Discussions focused on proposed new activities, the upcoming convention, dealer service, frozen foods, chain activities, and related topics. All members attended except Bruce McDaniel of Riverside, California, who is in Europe. Present were W. E. Anderson, George F. Burt, S. M. Cohodas, Joseph DiGiorgio, Joseph Marguleas, George A. Marsh, P. C. Miller, Tom W. Ransom, Edward Rosenberg, Van C. Taggart, C. R. Godding, and W. L. Wagner.
Tony Oddo, a California vegetable distributor, reviewed five heads of Delano lettuce sent by Robert F. Fukanaga of Oceano by air for 10 dollars. He praised the quality, noting rapid sales on eastern markets and daily freight cars carrying the same high quality with mostly heavy sixes and some fives in demand.
Chicago April 29 The better quality Texas onions met fairly good demand this week and the market stayed steady. Ordinary quality was dull and moved slowly as prices varied by quality. Raymondville area to finish soon and Laredo district may have peaked. Old onions cleaned up. Oregon Danvers 50 pound sacks at 1.25 to 1.85, Texas yellows 1.40 to 1.76, whites 1.50 to 2.15.
Detroit reports March unloads of fresh fruits and vegetables totaling 2,611 cars, the largest March business since records began in 1980. Receipts exceed March last year by 301 cars and March 1936 by 602 cars. First quarter unloads reach 6,647 cars, up from 6,407 in 1937 and 5,425 in 1936.
Chicago reports light to moderate arrivals of new potatoes from Louisiana and Alabama due to late week rains, keeping prices steady to firm. Better quality stock shows stronger demand while old Idaho Russets ease as buyers shift to fresher lots. Northern stocks from Wisconsin Minnesota and North Dakota remain in light supply with markets firm. Alabama and Louisiana shipments dominate the on hand total with varying carloads and prices noted across multiple grades and sacks.
B G Mahaffey, formerly of the Mahaffey Commission Company, becomes associated with Peter N Skallerup Co in Chicago. He has many years in the trade and wide experience distributing potatoes cabbage and onions, specializing in potatoes. Skallerup Co has supplied the local market for years and welcomes Mahaffey's addition.
Articles of Incorporation filed with the Indiana secretary of state by the Crawfordsville Frozen Foods Storage Company Inc to maintain and operate a cold storage plant for preparation and dealing. Incorporators include H. Davis Bess Davis Roy O Layton and William Stokes among 500 shares of no par value stock.
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