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Newspaper
Chicago Packer
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1911
Page
2
An OCR filled fragment outlines shipments of apples and onions to New York and other places, naming vendors and locations in a garbled way. It hints at dates, totals, and local references but lacks coherent structure or complete names and events.
The article reports potato shipping from New York and Long Island, with Norfolk and Eastern Shore supplies feeding New York imports. It notes plentiful cargoes daily, large barrel counts, and prices firm as shipments resume next week into September.
Reports from New York indicate stronger peach prices and rising demand as harvests near. Connecticut orchards at Glastonbury and Middlefield show steady yields with about 600 peaches worth baskets and some farms producing large totals across the region.
New York is homeward for Julius De Mahe and Mrs Mahr who ran the Mer nile exchange. They toured Europe and mailed a card from Luzern. The note says they are two months from home and enjoying the trip. A separate item notes an Allied Side outing featuring a clam bake at College Point with a baseball game between Mercantile-x and white wholesale grace teams.
The Todda Co a prominent supplier in Kalamazoo proclaims the ability to quote prompt shipment prices on head lettuce to reliable buyers. They offer potential smaller shipments by wire and emphasize nationwide coverage, with broad trading ties and use of a common code across markets.
In New York and California stock movements show minimal improvement this week with prices for canpaloupes mostly unchanged or lower. By midweek receipts were lighter and demand faltered, though some belated advances appeared late Thursday as market activity waned and buyers pulled back on all but the strongest lots.
A Good Business Center notes the summer season in Winnine Chinida with renewed activity at a dingle and Stewart shop. The piece highlights refreshed fruit and vegetable offerings, cautious correspondence, and a large customer turnout as sand supply and pricing draw attention.
Promoter seeks apple peach and pear growers in Indiana to Nebraska and Michigan Wisconsin Missouri to supply unlimited quantities. A 2 cent stamp is requested to begin negotiations and potentially boost profits beyond market prices. Write immediately to explore opportunity.
A letter from Redlands Golden Orange Association managers explains collected orange sales and packing costs, disallowing several claims against the association. It sets a 600 car packing cap for the season, traces finances, and notes a near 20 million pound pool yielding about 406 thousand dollars.
Heat waves cripple Chicago fruit and produce trade as workers and horses struggle in record highs. Ice shortages worsen spoilage of perishables like carrots while shipments face delays and elevated costs. Eggs hold steady in Indianapolis with fair supply and strong grading standards.
Receipts this week show 12 500 Havana and 3 000 Porto Rico pineapples. Market down 25 to 1e lower with demand best for large pineapples. Hav ana pines range 1 40 to 2 75. fancy large up to 3 04. Porto Rico small poor 1 10 to 2 0. fancy medium and large 2 50 to 3 25. Florida pineapples few cars. California oranges 6 to 66 cars sold. Market opened strong Monday with prices just under last week’s close. hot weather caused a decline.
A long list of dealers and firms by city names including New York Philadelphia Boston Baltimore Pittsburg Cincinnati Cleveland Detroit Toledo Springfield Worcester Louisville Indianapolis Minneapolis and St Paul. It notes representation by various firms and that additional dealers in smaller markets will be named on request.
Prices for Valencias ranged up to 3 dollars with good fruit selling at 2.25 to 4 dollars. Navels appeared in small lots selling from 1.35 to 1.60, some reaching 2 dollars. Sweets and Seedlings were poor, many 1.20 to 1.90 per box. a few up to 2.50. About stu boxes of grapefruit sold from 1.87 to 4.624 per box.
Wauchula Florida veg shipper W. S. Shelton visits New York and joins headquarters with C. I. M. Dingfelder. Brawley California alfaloupe grower W. H. Best stays with Lyon Bros. Co. Watermelons show daily shipments of ten to twenty cars from Hempstead area via Webster Company San Day Texas. Shippers since 1896. Also notes on USDA bulletin Foreign Crops June 1911 and Minnesota and Vermont agricultural bulletins on pests and annual station reports.
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