Western sugar beet price subsidies and global news wrap
A weekly digest reports concessions by Great Western Sugar to beet growers with a sliding scale bonus as seaboard sugar tops $11 per hundred, plus international reports on deportations, court rulings, and political shifts across Europe and America.
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Great Western Sugar Company
Seaboard
Henry Berg
Fort Douglas
Utah
Germany
Department of Justice
North Dakota
Supreme Court
Supreme council memo calls for rapid world peace and currency deflation
A March 10 dispatch summarizes a supreme council memorandum urging rapid restoration of peace and normal economic relations worldwide. It advocates reduced armaments, League of Nations input, unrestricted interchanges, and deflation of credit and currency to bridge supply gaps, plus financing for devastated northern France through market loans in anticipation of reparations.
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London
Supreme Council
Europe
League of Nations
Fife
France
Germany
Plans to force stored foods into retail trade
Chicago reports plans by District Attorney Clyne to push large stored stocks of butter and cheese into the retail trade. He spoke before departing for Washington to present the scheme to Attorney General Palmer. He said Chicago storage levels are far above those of the same period last year.
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Chicago
United States
Clyne
Washington
Palmer
Railroad Officials and Labor to Hold Wage Meeting
Washington March 10 Representatives of railroad labor and railroad officials will confer today on wages for the first time in more than two years. Committees for rail unions and the Association of Railway Executives plan a joint board to thresh out a wage increase demand pending President Wilson's guidance. The board will consider living cost advances and pay comparisons with other industries, while officials say any raise must reflect revenue from higher rates.
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Washington
Albert Strauss
New York
Federal Reserve Board
Strauss
Europe
Baker
Gold Star
War Department
War Risk Bureau
Daniel C. Roper
Internal Revenue
Bureau of Internal Revenue
House
Judiciary Committee
Prlmer
Louisiana
Pahner
Egan
New Jersey
Wilson
Shipping Board
Association of Railoway
Witee Cothevovoelstos
Hines
Women Held in Fatal Holdup in Kansas City
Four men and two women are detained by police after an attempted robbery of the South Side bank. Cashier G M Shockey was killed, treasurer M J McNellis and James Smith the janitor were injured. One bandit is believed wounded, with a hip bullet wound reported.
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Kansas City
South Side Bank
G. M. Shockey
M. J. McNellis
James Smith
Mrs Rose Stokes Granted New Trial in Espionage Case
Mrs Rose Pastor Stokes a millionaire New York socialist was granted a new trial by the United States circuit court of appeals reversing the verdict from the Kansas City trial in 1918. The court held there was substantial evidence but noted Judge Van Valkenburgh’s jury instruction was prejudicial to her.
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Shipping Board
Poughkeepsie
Trans
Hampton Roads
Department of Justice
Norfolk
United States
Hamilton
Bermuda
Learned Hand
New York
Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll
Bergdorf
Hand
Antoinette Ponner
Paris
Joseph B. Kislinger
Kislinger
New York City
Burr
Barney Sekat
Racine
Wis
Rose Stokes
St. Louis
Rose Pastor Stokes
Kansas City
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
van Valkenburgh
Hirs. Stokes
Supreme Court rules stock dividends not taxable income
The Washington ruling states stock dividends do not count as income and are not subject to federal income tax. The five to four decision voids 1916 tax provisions and affects Brent Jossin revenues, with refunds possible on taxes already collected. Stock shares are deemed paper certificates with no undistributed assets taxed until sale.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Mancini
Justice Pitney
Market Report Chicago Livestock March 10
Hogs receipts 43 000 with prices 15 to 25 lower. Bulls top 15 50 heavy 14 00 14 90. Cattle receipts 15 000 market weak beef steers 14 25 15 85 medium 11 75 14 25 common 9 76 11 75. Sheep receipts 11 000 market strong lambs 84 pounds 17 20 ewes 11 14 50 culls common 6 10 75.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Livestock Prices Steady at St Paul Market
Hogs receipts 11,000. market steady with a range of 14.40 to 14.70 and bulk around 14.60. Cattle receipts 5,000. fat steers 14.? to 14. to, cows and heifers 5.60. calves steady around 5.50. Stockers and feeders strong at 5.72 to 5.50. Sheep receipts 200. market steady with lambs 64 to 68, wethers 12 to 14, ewes 8 to 12.
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St. Paul
South St. Paul
Omaha Livestock Market Report for Hogs Cattle and Sheep
Receipts: hogs 15,500, cattle 8,000, sheep 1,400. Hogs traded lower with heavy at about 14.60 to 14.70, medium 14.85, light around 14.80. Cattle market down. prime 13.74, medium and good 11.75 to 13.75, light 12.00 to 14.25 with veal calves 14.25 to 15.78. Lambs 84 pounds and under around 19.00, culls 13.50 to 16.50, yearling wethers 14.50 to 17.00.
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Omaha
Grain prices advance in Minneapolis session
Minneapolis grain market report shows wheat for No 1 northern at 2 70 to 2 80, No 1 hard Montana around 82.55 to 42.65, corn No 3 yellow 1.51 to 1.53, No 3 white 1.60, No 3 mixed 1.49 to 1.50, flax at 5.04 to 5.14, barley listed across grades, live cattle price 1.62 to 1.64.
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Minneapolis
Montana
Chicago Grain Prices and Market Quotes
Chicago market notes corn prices with No 3 mixed at 1.56 to 1.58 and No 2 yellow at 1.56 to 1.59. Oats show No 2 white at 91 to 4 93 0. Rye bids at 1.69 to 1.74. Barley at 1.40 to 1.55. Timothy 12 to 14. Clover 45 to 59.
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Chicago
Japanese Troop Withdrawal from Siberia Approved
Tokyo reports the cabinet approved pulling Japanese troops from Siberia in April after Czecho Slovak repatriation is complete. Czechs expected to depart by March 20. Dispatches say Japan will abandon its Siberian expedition.
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Tokyo
Siberia
Honolulu
Montana Primary Dates Set and Bond Plan Emerges
The Montana Supreme Court's ruling keeps the 1918 style open primary process and sets a statewide vote on a $5,000,000 bond issue and a 1.5 percent tax for financing state educational institutions. Educators warn Montana cannot house all students without funding, launching petitions March 20 to secure signatures for construction and maintenance.
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Helena
Montana
Supreme Court
Brantley
William L. Gleason
Ford
M.r. Gunn
Gleason
CT. Stewart
Boulder
J. He. Menzemer
School For the Deaf
School of
Imines
J.O. Ndinands Cof
Absarokee
Girls’ State Vocational School
Enhin
Elliott
Montana Higher Institutions of Learning
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Federal Grain Corporation
Congress
Julius Barnes
House Rules Committee
Ife
American
Thompton Express
Central Railroad of
Elizabethport
N. J
Oscar M. Torrison
Circuit Court
Torrison
Chicago Tribune
James Carney
Duluth
Vermont
Prenier Lloyd George
Netherlands
J. Austen Chamberlin
England
Peace Conference
Turkey
Tan Macpherson
Ireland
House of Commons
Sinn Fein
Sweden
Tower House
Chamber of Deputies
Gustaf Bolinder
Colombia
Venezuela
Bolinder
Admiral Horthy
Hungary
Hazzar
Horthy
Peace Paramount
Peace
Reparations Commission
Kener
Memorimedum
Great Britain
Peance
R. R
Harold Lawton
London Daily Graphic
News OF
Register of State Lands
Sidney Miller
State Land Office
R. E. Bateman
Bureau of Biological Survey
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