Slow Vegetable Market Quiet as Cold Weather Bites Chicago
Chicago vegetable trade remained dull with high prices as cold weather slowed movement. Cauliflower, beans, cucumbers in slow demand. celery ample. lettuce scarce but available. California crates 5.40. Michigan boxes 1.50. local stock firm. Florida hampers 2 to 2.50. tomatoes hard to move. mushrooms and peppers in fair demand. beets quiet. eggplant and radishes slower. overall steady or higher price levels despite sluggish activity.
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Chicago
California
Michigan
Texas
Florida
Ornia
Louisiana
Ohio
Minnesota
New Orleans
Chicago-New Orleans Special Proving Popular
Chicago reports the special train to the Western Fruit convention in New Orleans is nearly sold out with 180 reservations. The Illinois Central plans a 140 car train, including ten Pullmans and two diners, possibly split into two sections. Delegations from outside Chicago will attend, with headquarters at Hotel Sherman prior to departure on Saturday the 27th.
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Chicago
Illinoi Central
New Orleans
Ilinois Central
Hotel Sherman
Onions and Cabbage Firm in Chicago This Week
This week saw further gains in the cabbage market as storage supplies dwindled. Wisconsin holdings are under 60 cars, moving out. prices around 115 to 120 per cent of standard, f.o.b. shipping point. Onions remained firmer with strong demand. red stock at 5.50 per 100 pounds, yellow 5.75, California Oregon stock at 4.75 to 5, and Colorado re handled at 5 f.o.b. loading station. Storage shrinkage this year was unusually light, about one percent in one warehouse.
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Chicago
Wisconsin
Central States
Californias
Oregon
Colorado
Elgin Butter Market Sees Lower Prices at Board Meeting
At Elgin butter board last Saturday, creamery extras sold at 28.44 cents per pound, down from the previous market. Two sales reached 38.5 cents, with lots of ten and twenty five tubs sold after a bid of 38.5 cents for fifty tubs.
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Elgin
Elgin, i
Elgin, Butter Board
Cold Weather Retards Chicago Apple Sales
Chicago January 19 Apple market held generally steady with slight arrivals but reduced movement due to a cold spell. Storage stock remains good quality while new receipts stay similar to recent weeks. wholesale barrel prices show little change with varied grades and sizes, box apples inactive and shipments to nearby areas curtailed.
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Chicago
Jonathan
Kings
Rome
Rutabaga Prices Push Up Across Markets
Chicago January nineteenth. Analysts note rutabagas rose to two cents a pound while onions and cabbage trade around six cents and potatoes about three and a half. A surge in demand from Texas Louisiana Alabama and other states has boosted rutabaga prices, with northern supplies dwindling and Ontario holdings as the main remaining volume. Market observers expect prices to rise further as demand persists.
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Chicago
Texas
Louisiana
Alabama
Ontario
Cabbage Shipments Rise as Texas Prices Surge
In San Benito Texas cabbage prices reach record highs with growers paid up to 100 per ton by two agencies while one pays 80. Prices climbed from 65 to 75 to 80 and 90 over the past week with supply expected to stay strong at about two carloads daily through February amid North crop shortages. Five hundred acres may be planted in potatoes this season near San Benito with seed sales already committed and treatment trials underway.
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San Benito
Vex
Texas
San Benitto
Los Fresno
Cold Wave In Texas Injured Truck Little
North Texas snow blanketed the region with three to eight inches as sleet reached Taylor and San Antonio. Lows near 28 to 30 degrees hit Austin Corpus Christi Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley. Some crops damaged but cabbage onions and citrus showed resilience. berries in Pasadena praised for healthy plants and potential large yields.
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Texas
Truck Little
Dallas
Taylor
San Antonio
Corpus Christi
Laredo
Austin
Rio Grande Valley
Brownsville
Kingsville
Alvin
Tex
Policeman to Grow Grapefruit in Florida
Chicago police Sergeant Michael P. Duggan offers resignation effective February 1 and will move to Fellsmere Florida to cultivate a grapefruit tract on the Indian River. The move aims to start a new life away from the city beat and pursue horticulture along Florida’s east coast.
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Chicago
Michael P. Duggan
Chicago Police Force
Fellsmere
Fla
Lahue & Co Move Into Larger Quarters
Detroit January 19. U H Lahue & Co wholesale dealers in poultry veal and eggs will move next Monday to 244 Napoleon Street on the Eastern market. The new quarters offer about four times the floor space of the old location and will help them keep up with a growing business.
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Detroit
H. Lahue & Co
Napoleon Street
William H Vollmer Dies in Vincennes Indiana
Vincennes Ind Jan 19 William H Vollmer a prominent business man and politician of this city died here after an operation for gall stones He was tied to local enterprises including Vollmer Winkler a melon distributing firm The melon business will be continued by C G Winkler without change
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Horace L. Lepman
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