How They Fought the Commission Trust in California
For Hawaii banana and fruit growers this account explains the Southern California Fruit Exchange, formed in 1893, and its control over local exchanges. It details how consignments shifted to the exchange, eliminating fob sales, lowering rejections, and shaping markets across the United States and Canada, with rising carload volumes and modest loss rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Hawaii
Commission Trust
Ha’ Waiian Islands
Commission
Los Angeles
Southern California Fruit Exchange
Riverside Fruit
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
United States
Canada
Liverpool
London
Order of Carabon Founded In Manila In 1906
The Military Order of the Carabon organized in Manila in 1906 to foster high military and social duty and to perpetuate memory of services in the Philippines during early American occupation. Membership includes commissioned officers who served between May 1 1898 and July 4 1902. The name derives from the water buffalo used to transport supplies. Corals, as branches, are in many major cities with high ranking officers among members.
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Order of the Carabon
Manila
Philippines
Philippine Islands
Army
Navy
Fruit Growers Contract Forms Union With Upland Citrus
Specimen contract binding San Bernardino County citrus growers to the Up land Citrus Association of North Ontario California as their sole handling agent. Each grower pledges fruit delivery pro rata to proceeds after packing and selling costs, with a liquidated damages clause of one cent per pound for unauthorized disposal of merchantable fruit. Signed this day of May.
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San Bernardino County
California
Upland Citrus Association
Southern California Fruit Exchange
Upland Citrus Association of
North Ontario
Pro Tata
Local Fruit Exchanges Form Southern California Coalition
A historical account describes how diverse local fruit associations and Riverside units merged into the Southern California Fruit Exchange network. The arrangement centralized marketing, pro rata sharing, and price coordination among five Riverside subdivisions, each operating under a common brand with the Southern California Fruit Exchange, while avoiding profits and maintaining level costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern California Fruit Exchange
Hroke the Glass at Milwaukees Inn Ends with Damaged Bookcase
A Milwaukee merchant and a companion, resting at a country inn on a hot evening, broke a window to improve ventilation but woke to discover they had smashed the door of a bookcase instead, paying damages for the misadventure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Dream Land
Prominent West India Merchant Cures His Daughter
A Jamaica merchant, James Prendergast of Amato Bay, West India Islands, reports his daughter recovered from a severe cold and pneumonia threat after using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. He claims two days to relief and notes seven years of trusted family use. sold by Hilol Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West India
James Prendergast
Amato Bay
Jamaica
West
India Islands
Hilol Drug Co
Pacific Mutual Dividends Highlight Policyholder Satisfaction
Life insurance agents petition officers for annual dividends, yet Pacific Mutual Policyholders are reassured as the company has issued little else for years. California law holds directors jointly and severally liable for embezzlement or misappropriation by officers during their terms, a strong security provision amid recent events.
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Pacific Mutual
California
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Forma Fruit Exchange
Order of Carabon
Combine
Cali
Riverside Fruit Exchange
Coodywear Rubber CO
R. H. Pease
San Francisco
Cal
Good Old Pacific Mutual
Farth
Pacific Mutual Life Ins. CO. OF
Cala
Clinton J. Hutchins
Fort Street
H. E. Picker
A. N. Sanford Optician
Boston Building
Honolulu
Union Barber Shop
Cameron
Spreckel
Planters’ Line
Hilo
St. Catharine
Saunders Hark Amy Turner
Warland
Sch. W. H
H. Hackfeld & Co., Ltd
Notick
R. II
Hilo Tribune
1Miowera sKoren
Siberia Olya
Mongolia
Ventura
Siberia
tAorangi
Alameda
Nebraska
China
Nebras
Mongoliay 'Doric
Colonies
Victoria
B. C
Yokohama
Kinau
Mauna [Oa
Tribune
Publisher's
Club A
Saturday Evening Post
Ladies’ Home Journal
World’s Work
Everybody’s Magazine
Hilo Tribune Publishing Co., Ltd
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