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Newspaper
Chicago Packer
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1918
Page
2
New Orleans reports fine weather and active demand across fruit and produce. Old potatoes from Michigan Minnesota and Iowa remain abundant while Louisiana new potatoes and onions arrive steadily with modest demand.
Vincennes Ind May 10 There is a movement to organize a new cantaloupe growers and shippers association in Southern Indiana A preliminary meeting was held Saturday with plans discussed and a committee appointed to recruit more members A further meeting will form a permanent body if enough interest exists Central packing houses uniform packaging under one brand and pooling shipments are being contemplated
Albert Miller & Co., carrot potato operators, have added three rooms to their office suite, now occupying well over two thirds of the seventh floor of the Ogden building. The new offices feature new furniture. Detroit carlot distributor George A. Hanes visited the local trade Friday and Saturday. Minneapolis potato shippers G. C. Ryan of the DBE company passed through Chicago en route south Wednesday.
San Pedro Growers Association ships potatoes beans peas tomatoes squash cucumbers from 407 Front Street. Multiple firms across New Orleans, St. Louis, Albany, Charleston, Jacksonville, Humboldt, Chicago, Braxton, Alexandria, Wharton, and Jackson provide potato and vegetable shipments or products. May dates and quantities appear with various firms including Triumph potatoes and Cobbler varieties.
Chicago May 10 A good trade reported in green vegetables this week with overall prices steady though easing as season advances. Tomatoes abundant and absorbed. Florida six-basket repacks at 4.25 to 4.50, Indiana eight pounds 20c per lb for fancy grades. String beans mixed quality, Louisiana and Mississippi offerings inferior. wax beans Louisiana at 2.00, Mississippi stock weak. Spinach moderate. Texas fancy stock 1.11 to 1.15 per bushel, Louisiana barrels 0.50 to 0.50. Peppers ample and steady for fancy stock. Florida fancy crates 3.50 to 4.00. Head lettuce moderate. interior lack of market. Cucumbers scarce steady. Illinois two dozen 2.00 to 1.50, Louisiana 3.50 to .75, Florida hampers 2.50 to 3.50. Celery steady to firm. Florida fancy crates 4.50.
Saginaw May 10 Michigan cheap bean growers and jobbers fear the price dispute may cut this year’s crop by half. Government action drives Pinto bean imports at $4.80 a bushel while Michigan beans face possible losses. A Saginaw meeting backed patriotic grower resolve as officials push for fair access and equal opportunity for Michigan beans.
M J Flynn, longtime sales head of Joseph Mlaherty & Co, opens his own business in the Kellerman building at Eighteenth Street and Penn Avenue. Jack Douglass, ex Crutchfield & Woolfolk staffer, is his top salesman. William C Walters, leader of the Traffic Adjustment Company, based in the produce district, enters the Republican primary race for the House of Representatives, filing this week.
Louis Berglass, already a resident of the Tenth Legislative district, has taken possession of recently purchased property on eighteenth street and opened a retail fruit business at his car lot and yard. Albert C. Walter, broker, with offices in the Willam Penn Trust Company building, has returned from Chicago after two days with Yakima Valley fruit growers and the Yakima County Horticultural Union. Walters was reappointed tri state representative for these accounts. A 100 Per Cent Firma, New York, May 10. The R. E. Cochran Company is displaying a ten Star Liberty Loan flag indicating every member and employee purchased Liberty Bonds.
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