Grand Rapids Market Adopts Summer Trading Hours
The Grand Rapids wholesale market starts its summer schedule this week, opening at 6 a.m. instead of spring and winter hours. The change will hold until next autumn, with no current plan for a later morning opening if an afternoon and evening market is created. The advisory board urged a late afternoon session, but the city commission has not acted.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
City Commission
Advisory Board
Onion market update from Chicago firm reports crop fine
The C. H. Robinson Company of Chicago has returned from Iowa assessing onions. Quinn says the crop looks fine and recent rains have aided growth. The firm is selected as exclusive distributor for United Union Growers Cooperative Association based in Pleasant Valley, Iowa.
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C. H. Robinson Company
Chicago
Iowa
Quinn
United Union Growers Co-operative Association
Pleasant Valley
Tom Ferrarini
Charles Abbate Company
Paducah
Barger & Golightly
McCracken County Growers Association, Inc
Southwestern Michigan Blossom Festival To Celebrate In May
Benton Harbor and St. Joseph host the 10th annual Southwestern Michigan Blossom Festival May 5 to 12 with a floral parade on May 11. Churches unite for services May 5 and May 12 to close the week, while routes through Blossom Land showcase early fruit bloom and hopeful yields amid frost risk and moisture concerns.
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Benton Harbor
Mich
Michigan
Demand Is Fair on the Market at Indianapolis
Indianapolis May 3 A tar demand existed for both fruit and vegetables this week as Spring weather arrived. Homegrown crops will be behind schedule. apples were firmer with limited offerings. Citrus prices were modest. strawberries heavier but prices fell. Onions and beans showed firm or rising prices amid ample supply. Milwaukee Club Meets at Eberhardt Restaurant with constitution adopted and plans for a membership drive.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Texas
California
Florida
Mississippi
Alabama
Milwaukee Club
Milwaukee
Wis
Broadway
Eberhardt
North Broadway
Fruit Crop Outlook Promising in Saugatuck Area
Horticulturists report the fruit outlook in the Saugatuck Michigan area is the most promising in years. Both tree and small fruits survived winter well and orchards will begin to bloom next week.
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Saugatuck
Mich
California celery and cherry shipments in Chicago market notes
The first car of California celery arrived this season and was sold to Coppersmith Celery Company via G. I. Robinson. Notables include C. F. Minkler and industry visitors from Detroit, Seattle, Duluth, and Salinas. Mississippi broccoli and California cherries also reached market with auctions and purchases by Louis Schoenburg & Sons. Obituary noted for Mrs. Julia Baldwin. several Chicago traders attended her funeral in St. Louis. Frank A. Biggio joins M. J. Ardito handling tomatoes and vegetables. E. S. Briggs traveled to Washington, D. C. to aid the American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers Association.
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Robinson Company
Coppersmith Celery Company
California
Louis Schoenburg & Sons
Julia Baldwin
John R. Baldwin
Baldwin- Pope Marketing Company
Baldwin
Chicago
St. Louis
del Gourley
Austin Lime Corporation
Gourley
William L. Wagner
Western Fruit, Jobbers Association
William Garfitt
Standard Fruit & Steamship Company
E. S. Briggs
American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers Association
Washington, D. C
Portable irrigation system to aid farms and orchards
Hammond Indiana May. The Champion Corporation announces the O K Champion Portable Irrigation System a mobile outfit offering rainfall flood and orchard methods. Powered by an automobile engine the 400 to 600 gpm pump drives irrigation from a creek or well with quick setup to fit rolling or level land. The firm known for potato diggers and farm tools notes the system suits small or large farms and requires minimal pressure.
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Hammond
Ind
Champion Corporation
Lana
O.K. Champion
Pacity
Hyatt and Timken
Champions Corporation
Cohen & Gordon Open a Chicago Jobbing Branch
Cohen & Gordon expand by opening a jobbing branch at 67 South Water Market Chicago under Charles Cohen. They handle all fruits and vegetables with emphasis on new potatoes cucumbers cabbage and southern vegetables. J Lerger oversees Alabama shipments from Mobile and will stay through the season.
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South Water Market
Cohen & Gordon
Cuiaco
Alabama
Chicago
J. Lerner
Movie
Charles Cohen
J. Lerger
Mobile
Ala
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U.S
C.H. Weaver & CO
Cantor Potato Department
Idaho
F.e.baldwin & CO
H. Rubenstein & Co., Inc
Seng Fruit Company
Sereasiaenea Strawberries —Southern Vegetables
Detroit Union Produce Terminal
Etroit, Mich
Geo. Hitz& Co
Indianapolis, Ind
D. L. Peppard
Ashe Packer
Minneapolis
R. M. Quinn
Roy M. Cuinn
Western Market
Detroit
All Communications
M. Wohl
Western
Micha
Southwestern Michigan
Chicago Street Notes
Cy Cc. Minkler
If. Robinson Company
Veorla
Cleveland
Harry
Mall
Grand Ruink Railway ‘Terminal & Cold Storage Company
Presient
Association of
Association
Ralph Woxie
Waterloo Wrult & Commission Company
Waterloo
LaMantia Bros.Arrigo Company
EB. Halgren
The
McDougall Terminal & Cold Storage Company
Duluth, Minn
Ray F. Ryan
Pacific Fruit & Produce Company
Seattle
Wash
L. E. Newby
Church & Knowlton
Salinas
Calif
J. W. Fox
Fox & Godding Company
Pacific Coast
Joe Sherman
Gridley, Maxon & Co., Inc
Joe Macaluso
L. Gillarde Company
Phoenix
Ariz
Frank A. Biggio
M. J. Ardi
Finest California Daily
Watsonville
Carrots Calif
Austin Lime Corp
Ieee ‘i
Tna
South
Haymarket
Rosenthal & Stockfish, Inc
Louis Schoenburg
Harold
Seymour
Charles
Bernard
L. D
Shippers Service Company, Inc. Carlot—Commission Merchants
Detroit, Mich
Andrews Brothers
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