Receiver Appointed For Bockelmann & Warnecke Chicago Firm
Insolvent butter and egg dealers Bockelmann & Warnecke owed about $60 000 and were placed in involuntary bankruptcy. Edward Buell named receiver after a petition by creditors cited concealment of assets and removal of property to defraud creditors. Hearings were postponed due to difficulty locating partners. Local creditors include Peter Fox Sons Company and Bowman & Co with substantial claims. banks hold unsecured notes.
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Edward Buell
Chicago
Bockelmann &Warnecks
West Randolph Street
United States District Court
Harry A. Parkin
Fred Bockelmann
Bockelmann
Warneckes
Peter Fox Sons Company
Coyne Brothers
Merrill & Hildredge
Bowman & Co
Gallagher Brothers
Cohen & Co
Harry H. Field &Co
J. H. Hoar & Co
J. H. White & Co
C. B. McNeill & Co
Hunter, Walton & Co
Miles Friedman Company
Coyne & Nevins Company
Lenters & Sons, Inc
Ames & Lamos
Western Dairy Company
Warnecke
Chelago
Earl Brothers
Co. E. McNeili & Co
Bockemann
Rusk
Thomas EB. Heffernan
Bockelmann & Warnecke
Butter delivery questions stain county case scene
The testimony centers on rapid butter deliveries from Coyne Brothers to Cookes Cold Storage and Peter Fox Sons Company. George Duer reports urgent calls on October 29 and the next day for 150 and 145 tubs, while attorney Cloud questions Duer’s regular employment. Referee Parkin quips about the hurry up man.
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Mercantile Exchange
George Duer
Coyne Brothers
Cookes
Peter Fox Sons Company
Attorney Cloud
Standsbury & Cloud
Duer
Bockelpane & Warnecke
Mr. Cloud
Mr. Duer
Parkin
Grape Market in New York Demoralized
New York on November 6 reports continued demoralized grape markets with heavy offerings and failing freight prices. Prices for Tokays and Alicante types plunged, car volumes around 200–260 daily, 350 on one Wednesday, with Friday sale leaked to deplete railroad yards.
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New York
Alicantes
Carrignans
Zintandela
Almerias
Calif Fruit Exchange President G A Cutter Dies
George A. Cutter, president of the California Fruit Exchange and a leading fruit expert, died suddenly at his Sacramento home after heart trouble. Born in 1863 in San Francisco, he married Carrie M. Curtis in 1892 and held numerous state and local agricultural posts. He helped form the California Fruit Exchange in 1961 and led the company as president since 1906.
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Sacramento
Calif
George A. Cutter
California Fruit Exchange
Cutter
San Francisco
Carrie M. Curtis
State Fruit Growers’ Convention
Newcastle Fruit Growers’ Association
Exchange
Wild Scramble in the Northern Potato Market
Detroit November report shows a volatile potato market with prices rising from about 4.75 per 150 pound sack to 6.60 fob Detroit last Saturday. Dealers cite speculation and severe cold in Northern states as drivers while late Michigan crop remains largely unharvested under snow. Prices eased briefly as digging resumed but frost in arrivals may weaken the market. Michigan round whites traded around 6.75 on Tuesday.
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Detroit
Michigan
The Produce Packer and Its Weekly Trade News
A brief notice explains The Produce Packer weekly newspaper, separate from The Packer, devoted to market and trade news for shippers and distributors of eggs poultry butter hides wool furs and related commodities. A free sample copy can be mailed on request.
Ben Weil of Alexandria Faces Bankruptcy Case
Ben Weil a major potato cabbage and syrup operator based in Alexandria filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition on October 21 listing liabilities of 299000 and assets of 277000. Unsecured notes and open accounts totaling about 71438.73 were found with little collection effort noted by examiner Mr Newhauser. Most assets were pledged to banks or individuals and Weil had operated under a trusteeship with banks backing him.
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Alexandria
Ben Weil
Florida
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
Northwest
Ben Weil, Inc
Weil
Crockett & Weil
Mr. Crockett
Alexandris Banks
Newhauser
Potatoes in Sharp Decline at Chicago
Chicago ill nov 6 the potato market has swung rapidly with a last week rise of about 1.60 per cwt followed by a drop to 1 25 per cwt this week carrot potato operators had anticipated a jump but saw a sharper decline experts note the early freeze damaged some crops but snow saved others and milder weather later eased concerns leading trade to expect a rebound later in the season
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Chicago
Ill
Packer
White Brothers, Scotts
Mich
Holland
Rolla
Health Department
New South
Market Slump Hits Wisconsin Potato Prices
Amid severe weather and damaged sections the potato market for Wisconsin No. 1 round whites fell to about 4.25 per cwt on some days, with prices ranging from 3.25 to 3.75 and occasional high quotes for fancy car lots. Prices for Michigan No. 1 hens varied around 3.30 to 3.50 per cwt as buyers adjusted to quality shifts and frost impact.
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Wisconsin” Sta
Wisconsin
Michigan
Wisconsi
Sal Ho
Cabbage Market Chills and Fires Across Chicago Trade
Chicago fresh cabbage market fights freeze damage and rising prices. Reports indicate some fields salvageable despite cold snaps while others call crop a loss. Prices jumped from 14 to 35 per ton as buyers expressed wary optimism about warehoused stock and future gains.
Lower Rio Grande Valley Winter Crop Shrinking Sharply
Mercedes Texas reports the winter vegetable crop in the Lower Rio Grande Valley will be at most half of last year with acreage shifting to carrots and limited beets and cabbage. Ground is scarce as farmers previously left land to cotton. worms have damaged beans and peppers and cold, light rains persist. Eggplant peppers squash okra and a few beans are moving out, mostly to New Orleans, at 60 to 100 hampers daily.
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Mercedes
Tex
Rio Grande Valley
New Orleans
Michigan crops voice losses from freeze across fruit and vegetables
Grand Rapids reports damage near one million dollars across Michigan crops from last week's snow and freeze. Apples suffered heaviest losses with unharvested stock and brown cores after thaw. Potatoes show shallow planting injury but some crops salvageable. celery tops damaged where uncovered. Prices for potatoes rise as outside buyers enter the market while growers hold stock.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Michigan
Baldwins
Wageners
Ben Davis
Fennville
Lake Michigan
Shelby
Traverse City
Algo Sete
Cadillac
Boosters’ Club
Use of Second Hand Branded Sacks Regulated By Law in Michigan
Grand Rapids, Nov 6. A Michigan shipper on the eastern side used second hand branded potato sacks to ship potatoes to Cincinnati without owner permission. The car was intercepted at destination and the law forbids second hand branded sacks without authorization from the brand owner.
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Michigan
Grand Rapids
Mich
Cincinnati
Ownership Label Law Protects Ship Pers Brand Standards
The label owner says the law shields labels used on sacks for potatoes shipped aboard ships. It notes that secondhand sacks can injure brands when potato quality fails to meet standards. A federal statute also governs branded sacks with a copyrighted label, and the Michigan shipper faces potential state and federal prosecutions.
Rates On Potatoes to Ala and Tenn Not Justified
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that proposed higher carload rates on potatoes from Michigan Minnesota and Wisconsin to Alabama and Tennessee were not justified. The suspended schedules were ordered canceled.
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Washington, D. C
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Alabama
Tennessee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Foreign Spud Embargo Not To Be Lifted
Washington Nov 6 The United States Department of Agriculture denied rumors that potato wart quarantine would be removed or loosened. The agency said the disease is widespread in Europe and remains a serious threat. It noted imports from Canada Bermuda Cuba and parts of Mexico under existing rules and warned many rural varieties in the United States remain highly susceptible.
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Washington, D. C
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
Europe
Department of Agriculture
Aroostook County
United States
Canada
Bermuda
Cuba
Mexico
Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
New Yorker
Russel Rural
New York
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Fruit and Vegetable Brokers Meet Attracts Huge Crowd
New York November 6 R S Knowles second vice president and entertainment chair of the Fruit and Vegetable Brokers Association said the January 18 19 and 20 convention at the Hotel McAlpin will draw the largest attendance in the club history Features include dawn visits to fruit and vegetable piers auctions a market breakfast at the Northwestern Hotel a trip to the New York Stock Exchange pit and other educational entertainment plans.
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New York
R. S. Knowles
Fruit& Vegetable Brokers’ Association
McAlpin
Packerman
Sorthwestern
New York Stock Exchange
New York Yards Closed Embargoed For Potatoes
New York and Brooklyn yards are fully embargoed for potato arrivals this week. Only shipments in transit when embargoes were set could arrive, with mixed conditions and price shifts across regions. Wisconsin and Michigan stock arrived but was in poor condition from cold. farmers and shippers face price moves as markets await government report.
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Brooklyn
Wisconsin
Michigan
New York
Thirty Third Street Yards
Bushwick Lyarag
Harlem River
New York City
Harlem
Bushwick
Aroostook
Maine
Beason
Long Island
Banks Indicted by Virginia Grand Jury in Larceny Case
Norfolk Va Nov 6 The Virgini an Pilot reports grand jury indictments against C W Banks former sales manager of the Southern Produce Company on charges of grand larceny and forgery. He is accused of stealing checks and forging Henry Carlton's name to an order for a 244365 money payment. Nine counts total claim thefts of 3468 16 during Feb 1923 and May and June this year.
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Norfolk
Virginian Pilot
C. W. Banks
AS Capias
Banks
Southern Produce Company
Henry Carlton
Apples and Pears on the English Markets
New York reports from Liverpool show American apples selling at York Imperials 4.60 6.53, Newtowns 6.29 7.02, Ben Davis 4.72 5.57, Baldwins 4.72 5.87, Winesaps 4.84 6.05 per barrel, Jonathan 2.30 2.78, and Kieffer pears at 4.84 6.41. In London York Imperials 5.57 6.77 and Winesaps 5.32 6.81. Kieffer pears 3.57 6.77.
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New York
Liverpool
York Imperials
Newtowns
Ben Davis
Baldwins
Jonathans
Anjous
Clairgeaus
Beurre
Bosc
London
Winesaps
Kieffer
Freeze Ravages Wisconsin Cabbage Crops
The severe freeze last week damaged Wisconsin cabbage crops. All stock in the fields is virtually a total loss. One shipper estimates this week that damage would total 2,000 cars.
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Chicago
Ill
Wisconsin
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Ntters
Tary
G. H. Cutter
Calif. Fruit Exchange
Victim Heart Disease
Alexandria, LA
Crockett & Well
County
Ane
Washington
Fruit and Vegetable Brokers
Virginia Grand Jury
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