Meat consumption patterns and regional tastes in the United States
A Chicago report from the Institute of the American Meat Packers outlines daily meat use, per capita consumption, and imports. It notes eight ounce daily rations with beef pork veal and lamb shares, regional taste differences, and urban rural contrasts in meat choices across the country.
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Chicago
United States
Institute of the American Meat Packers
The
Institute
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Twin Cities
Farflung
United States Department of Agriculture
Regional Tastes Drive Meat Industry Across the United States
The piece notes how hotel and retail meat buyers favor heavier or lighter cuts by region, with New York buyers taking all grades while Mid-West shops prefer lighter cattle. It cites distribution patterns from Chicago and Sioux City plants and summarizes John Roberts’s report on meat consumption by Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Britain and Germany, highlighting per capita meat intake and population density.
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Twin Cities
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Boston
Chicago University Press
New York
Hudson River
Long Island
Mid-West
Fort Worth
Oklahoma City
Ohio
Missouri River
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Omaha
Sioux City
St. Louis
Chicago
Middle Atlantic States
United States
John Roberts
Bureau of Animal Industry
Argentina
Australia
New Zealand
Bear Sighted in Forest Challenges Extinction Claim
The California Academy of Sciences reports Col. John R. White saw a large California type grizzly in giant forests. Destruction began during the gold rush with miners, and the last survivor died in captivity in 1911. Dr. Barton Evermann notes fewer than 600 bears remain in North America.
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San Francisco
California
Barton Warren Evermann
Natural History Museum
North America
Cow Routs Vicious Mule in Texas Heroic Cow
E. W. Sprague, a farmer near Mercedes Texas, owed his life to a fighting cow. A mule kicked and bit Sprague as he led the animal to water, but a Shorthorn cow charged the mule, protecting its owner and driving the animal away. The event followed the mule’s aggression, with the cow acting to rescue.
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Mercedes
Texas
E. W. Sprague
Ufe
Sprague
Serpent Terrorizes Spanish Town
A serpent eighteen feet long and three feet in circumference appeared in Belarista Spain during siesta hour sparking panic among cafe patrons. Troops are trailing the monster as authorities seek to capture or kill it.
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Paris
Belarista
Spain
Reed Johnson bill aids 40000 disabled veterans and families
Indianapolis reports that nearly 40,000 disabled veterans and families received over 16.49 million dollars under the Reed Johnson rehabilitation bill and amendments in the last year. The average benefit was 418 per case. The report cites progress in reviewing old denials and continued extensions for mental and tubercular cases, with thousands benefiting from increased death and disability pay and attendant allowances.
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Indianapolis
James F. Barton
American Legion
Legion
Watson B. Miller
Legion's
National Rehabilitation Committee
The
Legion Re
Reed-Johnson
Johnson
Miller
Six Die in Battle Over Ancient Gudea Statue in London
A fight among Mesopotamian Arabs over a soap-stone Gudea portrait statue brought from Baghdad to London by a merchant resulted in six deaths. The 18 inch artifact, dating 4425 years, is valued at 40 000 to 60 000 dollars and experts regard it as a premier Ita period work.
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London
Bagdad
Gudea
Tonawanda Indian Woman Brisk at 116
Nancy Miller, 116, a Tonawanda Seneca elder living near Buffalo, recalls 1812 war memories and early Buffalo life. Born in 1809, she weaves baskets, smokes clay pipe, travels the reservation, and remains active, walking miles daily and posing in generations photos at the Tonawanda reservation.
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Tonawanda
Buffalo
N. Y
Tonawanda Indian Reservation
Nancy Miller
Black Squirrel
Buffalo Creek
The
Buffalo Express
Europe
Waterloo
Miller
Nicodemus Billy
Bears 24th Child in 24 Years in Yuma
Mrs. Jose Sanchez of Yuma has born her twenty fourth child in twenty four years of married life. She is thirty eight and her husband fifty one. The twenty fourth child is a healthy girl. The mother pursues her usual household duties. Only seven of the twenty four children are living. All were born singly in consecutive years.
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Yuma, Ariz
Jose Sanchez
Yuma
Nevada Road Paved With Flour and Gold Flakes
A Nevada highway between Ruth and Ely is said to be paved with a mix of flour and gold flakes. Officials note the material lacks sufficient gold to be a mining investment, so the company uses it as paving material rather than as ore.
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Nevada
Reno
Nev
Ruth
Ely
Famous Stradivarius Violin Sheds to Thuringian Government
A renowned Stradivarius violin once kept in a Weimar vault has passed to the Thuringian government after protracted litigation. Heirs of donor Concertmaster Koempel contended a sale option clause, but the Supreme Court denied their claim. The instrument, once given to the Asylum for the Blind, is now in care of Professor Reitz.
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Weimar
Koempel
Weimar Court Theater
Supreme Court
Herr Koempel
Ludwig Spohr
Thuringian Asylum For the
Professor Reitz
Mummified Woman Puzzle to Italians
In Vatella Salerno province researchers uncover the mummified body of Rosa Scarpa who died in 1912. Clothing remains petrified yet colored as in life, while a nearby grave decomposed, prompting locals to suspect a soil miracle.
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Naples
Vatella
Salerno
Rosa Scarpa
Wilt’s 23 Year Suit Record Impresses Swanton Farmer
J R Wilt of Swanton Garrett County Maryland is said to wear one suit of clothes for 2% years. He recently visited a local store in Westernport where he bought clothes in April 1902 and received a new coat and vest for the old. Sixty three percent of Who's Who entries are college graduates.
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Westernport
J. R. Wilt
Swanton
Garrett County
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