Chicago Street Notes recount seasonal business travelers
Walter Farley of the DiGiorgio Fruit Corp spent months in California and heads to St Thomas Ontario for Christmas, returning to Chicago for the Fruit & Vegetable Shippers Association convention. S. W. Callender of D E Ryan Co from Minneapolis travels home from Florida. Hubbard of W B Northrup Co from Minneapolis visits Chicago with Mrs Hubbard after a tour of the East and South. J W Green of the California Vegetable Union visits their local office in Chicago. John Denney of Denney & Co returns Thursday from Georgia and Florida. Milton Schoenberg, son of Jake Schoenberg of the Schoenburg Golbus Co, is in town.
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Milton
Florida
W. O. Woodworth
J. E. Gorcoran~ Company
Pittsburgh
California
Spaulding Peck
Alabama
Denney & Co
R Thomas Strain
National Fruit Company
Los Angeles
Schoenburg-Golbus Company
Harry R. Kellogg
Kellogg Brothers
Springfield
Mads
Carl Piowaty
Chicago
Walter Farley
DiGiorgio Fruit Corporation
St. Thomas
Ontario
American Fruit & Vegetable Shippers' Association
S. W. Callender
D. E. Ryan Company
Minneapolis
Mr. Hubbard
W. B. Northrup Company
Hubbard
J. W. Green
California Vegetable Union
John Denney
Re-St
Georgia
Milton Schoenburg
Jake Schoenburg
The
Michigan Potato Prices Reach Record Levels
Cadillac Michigan December 25 Potatoes in Michigan reach record high for the season says George Wager sales manager of the Michigan Potato Growers Exchange Prices exceed the 1919 peaks of 7 to 8 per cwt and may rise after holidays though some expect gains to be more conservative at loading points growers see about 3 per bushel as a possible future level
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Cadillac
Mich
Michigan
George Wager
Wager
Nellis Ducking Controversy At Beardstown Shoot
Chicago report alleges Frank Nellis fired 300 shells during a Beardstown weekend at the Western Gun Club and netted two ducks. Authorities later proved only 60 birds allowed by law. Nellis accompanied by his son prompts questions whether the boy or the elder shot the remaining ducks.
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Frank Nellis
Chicago
Western Gun Club
Beardstown
Ill
Nellis
Frank
Railroads' bid to charge perishable cars defeated again
Edward S. Briggs of American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers Association reports on repeated attempts by railroads to impose refrigerator car rental charges. Despite earlier defeats in East of Mississippi and Chicago Illinois Indiana regions, a new effort to apply charges south of the Potomac and east of the Mississippi was thwarted after industry opposition and rail carrier influence.
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Territory
Edward S. Briggs
American Fair and Vegetable Shippers’ Association
Chicago
National
United States
Mississippi River
Chicago-Illinois-Indiana
Howev
Potomac
Thie Raumpend Otter
Morais Sateen
Railroads Push Refrigerator Car Rental Charge on Fresh Produce
Railroads publish Rule 265 B imposing 12.50 per car per trip rental for refrigerator cars handling 12 000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables with ice in bunkers, and 5 per car if moved without ice. Protests filed but rails press on. National Perishable Freight Committee docket 1439 seeks similar charges nationwide. Critics warn contracts with Fruit Growers Express enable this levy, risking public costs and undermining regional railroad reforms.
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Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Growers Express Co
Fruit Growers _ Express
Fruit Growers Express
Five Leap to Safety As Train Hits Auto
In Miami Missouri on December 25 A B Thomas president of the Thomas Fruit Company and his wife plus three others leaped from a stalled motor car on Frisco tracks just before a passenger train struck, dragging the car about 150 feet. Occupants escaped injury but the car was demolished.
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Joplin
Frisco
Miami
A. B. Thomas
Thomas Fruit Company
Thomas
L. A. Evans
Thomas Home
Florence Freeman
North Moffet
Pena
Evelyn Freeman
Traveling for Pleasure in Northern Europe
A Berlin couple, Herr Schulze and his wife, toured Northern Europe and reached Nordkap in Norway. They viewed the midnight sun and Schulze scratched on a rock, “Sat here with wife. Fine! Schulze, Berlin.” Weeks later a nearby rock read, “Sat here without, Finer! Meier, Hamburg.”
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Herr Schulze
Berlin
Europe
Nordkap
Norway
Schulze
Meier
Hamburg
Lustige Bleetter
Winnipeg Market Report And Death Of J F Alexander
Christmas trade at Winnipeg remains brisk with mild weather allowing stock forward without frost damage. Apple trade active with prices ranging from 2.75 to 3.50 per box. oranges and California figs steady. bananas 10 cents a pound. cranberries and lemons firm. Vegetables: lettuce strong at 6.50 per case, other greens steady. BC storage stock nearly cleared. J. F. Alexander, prominent Lumpkin businessman aged 67, dies in St Petersburg Florida. burial in Forest City North Carolina.
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Winnipeg
Ontario
California
Florida
Malaga
Jana
British Columbia
Cora
Speak at New York Hort Society Meeting
Dr W H Jordan former director of Geneva station and resident of Maine will speak at the New York Horticultural Society meeting in Rochester next month Officials say Jordan guided the Geneva institution from 1896 to 1922 and will discuss soil fertility and agricultural welfare Other speakers from the Experiment Station include Tharpeet Parrott and L K Jones detailing insecticides pest control and seed born diseases of canning crops
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Geneva
N. x
W. Hil Jordan
State Agricultural Experiment Station
Maine
New York Horticultural ‘Society
Rochester
Jordan
Geneva Institution
R. W. Thatcher
New York
Tharpeet
P. J. Parrott
L. K. Jones
John Witherspoon & Co Acquire Glass Factory
Fort Smith Arkansas December 26 John Witherspoon Co brokers of Fort Smith have acquired control of Mée Swain Glass Company lamp chimney makers producing hand made lead glass chimneys. The factory sits with ample gal and levels to supply chimneys to compete with any maker. Officers are John Witherspoon M E McSwain and E O Simpson. affairs managed by John Witherspoon Co.
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Fort Smith, Ark
John Witherspoon & Co
Fort Smith
Swain ‘Glass Company
John Witherspoon
M. E. McSwain
E. O. Simpson
Doubtful Customer Tests Local Drug Store Clerk
An elderly lady enters a drug store and questions a young clerk about his qualifications and past misdeeds. Satisfied, she buys a nickel worth of cough drops, easing her concern with a sigh of relief.
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C. H. Weaver & CO
South Water Market
Texas
Milwaukee
Dec
T. E. Ball Fito
Frank B. McCurley
E. Adams St
the Packer
Berkowitz
Champaign
Wilno's
DE Giorg! Brothers CO
Council Bluffs Iowa
Harry A. Levy
South Water
Piowaty
P. W. Coppersmith &Co
Peter W. Coppersmith
Coyne Bros
Chicago, Ill
Wayne & Low
Sitanoeenva Tr
A. Mangan
Winnipeg Warn
J. F. Alexander
Lumpkin
County
St. Petersburg
Fla
Forest City
N. C
New. York Hort
Buy Glass Factory
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