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Newspaper
Chicago Packer
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1913
Page
2
Onion market shows little change with prices near 2 dollars per hundredweight. Domestic stock declines amid heavy Spanish imports. traders fear reduced demand for stored domestic onions as imports double domestic sales, with Spain crates at 1.25 to 1.20 each and Chicago root vegetables moving in a brisk, unsettled rhythm.
Carl Piowaty of M Piowaty & Sons will marry Eleanor Chalonay, sister of Joseph Chalona, at 6 pm on Thanksgiving day in the music room of the St. Frasier hotel New Orleans. The couple travels south with relatives and stays at the St Charles hotel until the wedding. The romance began at the Western Fruit robbers convention in New Orleans earlier this year.
Chicago dispatch reports the federal horticultural board will not lift the potato quarantine this season, despite pressure from foreign countries. Dr. W A Orton states the embargo remains until the sector is convinced the disease threat is absent, with discussions noting Belgium and English shipments through loopholes. The article cites Greeley Colorado as a case for drastic action to prevent diseased imports and notes the embargo aims to protect U S crops. meanwhile Ben Hauslinger's Diamond Butter and Egg Co in Chicago reportedly closes its office after debts and missing funds emerge.
The Chicago Green Fruit Auction Co opened a new sales room on the Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad at Eighteenth Street to auction Florida and southern citrus. About fifteen cars were present, eleven sold, with buyers totaling around seventy. Prices ranged across Florida oranges, grapefruits, satsumas, California navels, and Verdellis lemons, featuring multiple brand averages.
The Chicago apple market shows a softer tone this week with steady overall demand but less intensity than last week. Storage movement remains similar, greens arriving overripe, prices for Fancy fruit steady, Baldwins and Greenings $4 to $4.25 per barrel, Jonathans $5 to $6, Spies $4 to $5, Twenty Ounce Pip Pins $4 to $4.50. Box apples slow with most incoming stored. Jonathans $2 to $2.25 per box, Spitzenbergs $2.25 to $2.60, Winter Bananas $2.50 to $3, Grimes Golden $2.25 to $2.50, Staymen Winesaps $2 to $2.25.
Sam Free of M O Coggins & Co visits en route to the east from Brawley California where he manages cantaloupe deals for a Pittsburgh firm. Michael Connery of C N Weaver & Co mourns wife’s death this week. Billy Quinlan of Farrar & Quinlan in Champaign Illinois reports strong staple fruit and vegetable business on South Water Street. E J Kessler from New Orleans arrives to base operations in Chicago for southern vegetable shipments and plans substantial sales on Chicago and Milwaukee markets.
The cabbage market showed firmness this week with eastern buyers advancing quotes and Wisconsin prices climbing to 22 to 24 dollars per ton f o b loading stations. York state stock fetched about 18 dollars a ton f a b. Demand remained steady but many orders stayed hard to close at higher levels. Local dealers shifted toward York state deals as Wisconsin stock was scarce. Storage movement unlikely until prices exceed 25 dollars due to prior warehouse prices.
Customers express confidence in securing top prices by shipping consistently. The firm advertises live and dressed poultry, butter, eggs, veal, rabbits, and more, offering identical careful attention whether crate, carload, or hundred packages. Thanksgiving shipments urged with quick action via wire or phone.
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