Ashland Cold Storage Wins Lawsuit in Chicago
The Ashland Cold Storage and Warehouse Company won a lawsuit filed by Treen, Yanes & Wagner, Inc. for 25000 dollars. The case concerned 35 apple cars moved from October 1934 to March 1935 to allow widening of Thirty-ninth street and resulting alleged damages. The ruling was issued by the First Court of Cook County. Leo P. Kalahar will attend Washington events to invite Congress to the Cherry Harvest Festival in Traverse City next July.
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Chicago
Ashland Cold Storage and Warehouse Company
Treen, Yanes & Wagner, Inc
Cook County
Troen, Yanes & Wagner
Thirty-ninth Street
Traverse City
Mich
Leo P. Kalahar
National
Washington
Capitol City
Congress
Detroit Agricultural Club Elects Officers
Detroit Michigan March 19 new ly organized Detroit Agricultural Club elected officers for its first year at a luncheon meeting last Friday at the Hotel Barlum Burt Wermuth editor of The Michigan Farmer was named president R T Duncan of the Detroit Edison Company became vice president O B Price agricultural representative and livestock agent of the New York Central Lines was secretary treasurer G V Branch director of municipal markets chaired the program committee Kirk F Mitchell Detroit Union Produce Terminal chaired the public relations committee H C Sparr Standard Oil Company chaired the membership committee The club aims to educate and foster better understanding of agricultural problems and to provide a forum for exchanging ideas on agriculture and industry Membership is open to men in metropolitan Detroit involved with farm products or serving agriculture educationally scientifically or commercially Meetings are planned for the second and fourth Friday of each month.
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Detroit
Mich
Detroit Agricultural Club
Barlum
Burt Wermuth
The
Michigan Farmer
Wermuth
R. T. Duncan
Detroit Edison Company
O. B. Price
New York Central Lines
G. V. Branch
Kirk F. Mitchell
Detroit Union Produce Terminal
H. C. Sparr
Standard Oil Company
Miller to Open Albert Miller & Co. Shafter Branch
Perrin C. Miller, executive vice president of Albert Miller and Co., will travel west next week to open a Shafter California branch. W. H. Richards will head the new office in April as the firm expands California potato shipments. Miller plans visits to Los Angeles San Francisco Burley Idaho and Scottsbluff Nebraska before returning east.
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Chicago
Perrin C. Miller
Albert,Miller & Co
West
Shafter
Calif
W. H. Richards
Scottsbluff, Neb
Albert Miller & Co
California
Miller
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Burley
Idaho
Scottsbluff
Neb
Paul Hancock Buys Glen Haven Cherry Orchard
Paul Hancock of Indianapolis closed a deal this week for the D. H. Day farm in Glen Haven Michigan. The property features a premier cherry orchard and is regarded as a show place in the region.
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Glen Haven
Mich
Paul Hancock
Indianapolis
Chicago Street Notes on Market Visitors and Trips
An updated report lists numerous Chicago traders and dealers visiting South Water Market, including R. T. Mackenzie of United States Cold Storage, and J. D. Horton of the National Fruit and Vegetable Exchange. It notes Chicago transfers, trips to Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, and California, plus cabbage arrivals and bowling team results by Applebaum Missner Company.
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Carlot
South Water Market
R. T. Mackenzie
United States Cold Storage Company
Dallas
Tex
Chicago
Mr. Mackenzie
Nate Allen
National Fruit and Vegetable Exchange, Inc
California
Applebaum-Missner ‘Company
Fox & Godding Company
LaMantia Bros. Arrigo Company
Red River Valley Seed Potatoes Peak During Spring Deal
Moorhead Minn March 19 With about 100 cars daily from the Red River valley the spring potato deal has peaked and will taper as southern and midwest demand wanes. Most shipments are seed stock though some table stock. weather delays in Oklahoma Arkansas slowed planting, Missouri and Kansas starting later, opening wider markets from Virginia Ohio to Nebraska and Kansas.
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Moorhead
Minn
Red River Valley
Midwest
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Missouri
Kansas
Virginia
Ohio
Nebraska
Two Cold Storage Bills Introduced in Illinois House
Chicago reports two proposed laws affecting Illinois cold storage. One would require drawing of all poultry entering cold storage and expand marking rules, with new limits of ten months for dressed poultry and nine months for butter. The other bill broadens the Uniform Cold Storage Act to include all fresh fruits and vegetables, cheese, dairy products, and other human food items.
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Chicago
Illinois
Springfield
Harrison F. Jones
National Poultry, Butter and Egg Association
Gail Healey
Illinois Poultry and Egg Shippers Association
Granata
Representative Weeks
House Committee On Agriculture
Gola
Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Committee
House
Weeks
Agricultural Committee of the House
Michigan House Approves Tomlin Fair Trade Bill
The state affairs committee reported favorably this week the Tomlin fair trade bill. It would allow manufacturers to fix resale prices and outlaw price cutting among retailers. Backed by the Association of Creamery Owners and the Michigan Retail Grocery and Meat Dealers Association, the measure was endorsed at Grand Rapids convention.
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Michigan
Lansing
Mich
House of Representatives
Tomlin
Association of Creamery Owners
Grand Rapids
Michigan Retail Grocery and Meat Dealers Association
Utah fruit damage and tax changes in state notes
Utah fruit growers report cold weather damage to cherries peaches and apricots but no precise totals until April 1 as a statewide survey is conducted. Legislature repeals ten mile tax in favor of a license fee on trucking and farmers processors gain license act revisions reducing annual fees from 35 to 25 dollars. Provo area crews in a 12 hour shift uprooted 675 diseased trees using a caterpillar tractor.
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Utah
David F. Smith
Commissioner of Agriculture
Provo
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Adopts Rule Changes
Chicago March 19 At a board meeting the Chicago Mercantile Exchange adopted several rule changes. Effective dates are given for each amendment including rules on storage approval, eggs and potatoes inspection certificates, and duties of sellers for bag closures. A new 24 hour hold on spot delivery checks is established for buyer relief.
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Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Advertising Plan Urged by Michigan Apple Institute Leader
R J Martin Bangor manager urged institute directors to back advertising for apples and to seek a state excise tax to fund campaigns. He cited full sign-ups in central Michigan and broad interest across Grand Rapids, with ongoing efforts in southwestern and northwestern regions. A bill seeks $5 000 for overhead costs.
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Traverse City
Mich
R. J. Martin
Bangor
Michigan Apple Institute, Inc
Michigan
Co. C. Taylor
Albion
Institute
Martin
Grand Rapids
Detroit Trade Notes on Fruit Trade Visitors and Movements
J By Robertson and others report from Detroit on visitors and events at the Detroit Union Produce Terminal. A Virginia apple shipper toured the trade, A. W. Foster and Herold Shrier made business calls, and Ben B. Schwartz & Son received a carload of mixed South American fruit including 82 boxes of plums said to be the first in Detroit. Saul Jacob returned from Orlando with his brother, Harold O’Neill injured in a handball mishap, and C C Brown resumed duties after a six week Mediterranean trip lengths.
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Ben B. Schwartz & Son
Detroit
Cc. C. Brown
Detroit Fruit Auction Company
Mrs
Brown
Mediterranean
Mr. Brown
John Vyn Resigns From Local Steamship Firms
John Vyn of Grand Haven resigns this week as general manager and vice president of the Wisconsin Michigan Steamship Company and the West Michigan Dock and Market Corporation to devote full time to his private trucking business. The firms will name a successor soon.
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John Vyn
Muskegon
Mich
Grand Haven
Wisconsin- Michigan Steamship Company
West Michigan Dock & Market ‘Corporation
Steamship Line
Market Corporation
Vyn
Record Onion Shipments From Michigan Expected This Season
Grand Rapids Michigan March 19 Michigan onion shipments may set a record as growers and shippers move as many cars as government estimates permit. An estimated 600 to 800 cars remained, now reduced to about 100, with totals possibly reaching 6,500 cars for the season. Truck activity is heavy yet market quiet with medium to large yellows at 1.10 per 50 pound sack.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Michigan
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C.H. Weaver &Co
Berne
Tom
ONION
Gordon Tyrrell CO
Ceticago Commission
Coppersmith
Jack F. Battistini Company
Chicago Haymarket
Postal
L. D. Carlot Brokers and
Iceberg Car
Ashland Cold Storage
Detroit Agricultural ' Club
Pacific Coast
Chicago Street Notes
Charles K. Schulte
Golden, Schulte& Co
John M
Louisiana
S. & H. Levy Company
Alabama
R. L. Forrest
Charles Holzer, Inc
Florida
Mississippi
Georgia
R. G. James
Fresh Foods, Inc
W. G. Morgan
Bursley &Co., Inc
Fort Wayne
Ind
Jake Rudin
Jacob Rudin
St. Louis
J. D. Horton
Arizona
Abe Schwartz
A. Schwartz& Co
Oregon
R. M. Cooledge
Northwestern Fruit Exchange
Wenatchee, Wash
American Fruit Growers Inc
Carl Gilb
Keality Kids
Twin Falls
Ida
Sam’ Battaglia
Battaglia Brothers
Kankakee, Ill
Frank S. Idaka
Frank S
Frank C
Crispo
Carler Brokers
Haymarket
L. D. Monroe
L. D. Teletype
Utah News Notes
Chicago Mercantile Exch
Apple Institute
Rosenthal & Stockfish, Inc
Erin
Ing
Oreberg
India
J. By
Robertson
Detroit Union
A. W. ‘Foster
Greenfield Packing Company
Stockton
Herold Shrier
A. Shrier & Sons, Ing
New York City
Saul Jacob
A. Jacob, & Co. Commission ‘Merchants, Inc
Orlando
Fla
Louis
Louis L Jacob, Inc
Harold O'Neill
W. A. White Brokerage Company
Indiana
Geo. Hitz&Co
Indianapolis, Ind
Texas
Alford-Gigebo CO
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Fruits and Vegetables
Phil [Malat
Minneapolis, Minn
Jimmie Meyers
Phil Malat
Carlot Brokers
KKK
South Bend
NORE
Brother Ee
Detroit, Inc
Minal
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