10 Oct 1919
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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1919
Page
1
The article discusses cold storage as a tool for stabilizing food during high living costs, noting public misperceptions and profiteering fears. It explains storage levels, rising exports, and the need for prudent reserves, with warehouses owned by many firms and public storage playing a major role in price guidance.
The article reviews 1915 to 1918 USDA figures on butter storage profits and losses in cold storage, noting average prices and net losses per dozen in certain years. It argues that storage is risky and not highly profitable, with charges and interest eroding potential gains.
A public health notice warns that tuberculosis causes about 150,000 deaths yearly in the United States and harms over a million currently. It stresses TB is curable and preventable, spread by ignorance and neglect, and urges support for the National Tuberculosis Association and Red Cross Christmas seals to fight the disease.
The National Tuberculosis Association launches a broad educational campaign in response to a health survey showing about 150000 deaths annually in the United States and 1000000 active tuberculosis cases patients remain diagnosed nationwide.
Emblem of the National Tuberculosis Association sponsors annual sale of Red Creek Christmas Scale. Advertises federal farm loan offers at 542 percent in Polk Yambill Marion Benton and Lincoln counties. Requests applications and directs inquiries to BE Piascki secretary treasurer. Dallas National Farm Loan Association and Independence National Bank referenced. Pay your taxes today.
A satirical tirade argues that strikes by trolley workers and others would halt society, urging universal stoppage from public functions to private enterprises. It mocks the idea of grievances as universal and suggests broad disruption as a imagined remedy, ending with doubts about modern progress.
Betty Fisher of the Navy Building in Washington receives notice of an uncle’s Oklahoma death and two million dollars in oil investments. She defends delaying any payout to pursue a utopian socialist dream and advocates broad strikes, including against undertakers, as a challenge to tradition.
Herbert Hoover arrived in San Francisco en route to Palo Alto and urged restraint on purchases. He said he would live in Palo Alto to avoid poverty and hunger, noted few family visits in five years, and predicted prices would drop further for three months. He urged stopping purchases of clothes and shoes to fix the market in three months.
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