Beef Trust Methods in Packingtown Exposed
An article by Artex Sinexam in the New York World alleges brutal treatment of workers in Packingtown. It describes forced hours, unpaid overtime, routine layoffs, and widespread abuse against immigrant laborers from Germany Ireland Poland Bohemia Lithuania and Slovakia. It cites unsafe conditions, dirty facilities, and insanitary practices in packing plants, including poor meals and medical neglect, with vivid accounts of bosses beating workers and degrading laborers. It also notes the lack of eatery spaces for workers and mentions attempts to suppress complaints, framing the system as a result of labor competition without capital competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Packingtown
Germany
Swift & Co
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Profits in Chickens Through Cramming and Finishing
The article describes westward poultry finishing plants that crate fatten fowls by trough feeding then cramming to boost weight. It explains feeding regimes from 12 to 21 days, the cramming machine, water and grit management, and differences between yellow meated and white market birds. It notes weight gains, cost per head, and higher prices for crate fattened poultry, plus packing with uniform boxes for sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwest
Kansas City
West
WWE
Cleanliness Critique in Meat Processing Report
From the Beef Trust report an absence of cleanliness was found throughout meat handling. An extreme example showed a freshly killed hog cleaned washed and started toward the cooling room far from the siding rail on a dirty floor.
Cultivation tips for garden crops and soil moisture
Frequent shallow cultivation aids most garden crops. Under dry weather, keep cultivation to 2 inches. Form a dust mulch to reduce moisture loss, add light mulch around plants to retain moisture, and break crusts after rain. Use a squeeze test to judge dryness. sandy soils can be worked sooner than clay. Thorough cultivation helps weed control.
M Kline’s Great Nerve Remedy Offered Free Trial
A Philadelphia firm advertises a permanent cure for fits, nervousness, and nervous strain after short use of M. Kline’s Great Nerve Healer. Free 200 bottle trial and treatise available from M. Kuing Ltd at 031 Arch St Philadelphia PA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Kline
M. Kuing, Ltd
Arch St
Philadelphia
Classified Ads Seek Tradesmen and Sales Help in 1920s
Multiple notices seek copywriting and advertising staff at $240 salaries, experienced nursery salesman, railroads hiring hundreds of firemen brakemen conductors with staged pay, amateur photographers for art, sales of post cards and advertising fans, plumbing trade trainees with union prospects, land and property offerings across Kansas California and New York, miscellaneous items including thief proof scarf pins.
Shirt Waist Holder Extraordinary
An advertisement for a waist measurement garment from Felix Corset Co. at 13 Prince Street New York claims it keeps the waist firmly supported with no pins or hooks and offers white or black colors. Buyers are instructed to send 25 cents with their measurement.
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Wood Wood CO. Dery
H. Rypluoski
West Loth Street
New Orl
Felix Corset Co
Prince St
New York
Walnutta CO
R Vilve Bt
Louis, Mo
San Francisco
Opportunity
America
Dearborn Street
Chicago
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Artex Sinexam
New York World
T. F. McGrew
Ogden Armour
Upton Sinclair
Beep Trust
THE
Beef Trust Report
Neill-Reynolds
Congress
HA Dhf
Chet
Toro
Mit
Vee
PIALE
Hapgoods
Broadway
N.Y
Pan-American Nurseries
Rochester
N. J
Ige
Monroe Street
Brooklyn
Geo. R. Lawrence Company
Wabash Ave
WVEN
Alfred Volzman
Dearborn St
MEN & Doys
Jolin
Union Plumbing School
W. 2Th St
Gulf Coast Highlands
Alabama
OLE Fuipg Co
Ti la Salle
Chicaro
Wichita
Kansas
Garden
E. J. Spencer
Lawrence Ave
California
U. S. Dike Investment Co
Jason Hide
Los Angeles
Cal
Sphillips & Wells
Tribune
Caligraph
Henrington
Yost
Densmore & Jewett
Electric Commercia Graphaphone
Cienero
O. Hacker
Park
Ti. A. Ink Eradicator Co
Washington Ave
Ladies’ Apparel
Ieach
Drexel Info. CO
Ouutoaghu
Cass
Brett
Express
Farber
Gregory
Jackson Boul
Chisago
Spafprere Ae
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