Christmas Market Brims With Fresh Produce And Nuts
The Christmas market offers abundant vegetables and fruits with scarce dates. Fine nuts include Schley selected Texas pecans at a dollar a pound. Featured baskets showcase varied fancy fruits, figs, and decorative natural decorations. Prices listed cover cabbage, celery, potatoes, apples, cranberries, grapes, citrus, melons, and more with regional and seasonal varieties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schley
Texas
Michigan
Lac
Royal Idaho Bakers
New York
Jonnathans
Ben Davis
Paradise
Calif
Malagas
Almeria
Spain
Florida
Casabas
Valencia
Doz
Indian River
Fia
Nuts and dried fruits price list from western markets
A dense OCR style listing of nuts and dried fruits with varied spellings and numbers. Items include walnuts English and Turkish, native Hickory and baby cashew, hazel, mixed nuts, jumbo roasted in shelled, peanuts shelled and unshelled, pecans fancy halves at 1.90, and figs and dates with prices per pound or package.
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Dee
Ayr
ASK LOCAL AID IN FEDERAL FOOD SURVEY
The U S Department of Agriculture requests the Chamber of Commerce to aid in the national war emergency food survey. It seeks the supply of food materials held in the United States as of December 31, 1917. Quincy firms missing schedules by January 2, 1918 should contact the Bureau of Markets in Washington or notify the Chamber by phone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Markets
Washington, D. C
Chamber of Commerce
United States
Quincy
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Spicy Chamber of Commerce
Pittsfield Notes Soldiers and Local Updates
ASSIGNED 10 BAND OF 334TH ARTILLERY Ray Kelley reports to Camp Pike for the 38th field artillery headquarters band duty. War tax on Pittsfield railway tickets totals about $200. Mrs. Robert Ravig ill with diphtheria. quarantine in effect. Various residents travel, visit, or relocate for wartime duties and family care. Pittsfield lodge No. 790 A F and A M elects officers for the coming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsfield
Ray Kelley
Tt City
38¢Th Field Artillery
Camp Pike
Second Meutemant
Tie
Nes Ud
Jacksonville
Thomas E. Smith
Pittsheid
Robert Ravig
Barbara Weih
Fort Worth
Texas
Robert
David
Siegle Dulaney
Carthage
Ill
Lert Dulaney
William Schmidt
Newburg Township
Charles P. Cummings
St. Louis
Roy Clark
Velma and
Veryl
Delmar Kesterson
Frank Pulliam
Hannibal
Pittsfield Lodge
A. F
A. M
A. B. Carey, Jr
Charles Shaw
Russell Carey
Bert Whitten
Charles Shadel
Tobacco Wanted by Soldiers in France
An American trooper Renee A. Wright from Cass county writes to his grandfather at the Soldiers' Home describing life in France. He asks for chewing tobacco as it gives him the most pleasure, notes good food and apple pie, and hopes for an end to the war while expressing patriotism.
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France
Renee A. Wright
Cass County
M. S. Culler
Grandpa
United States
Renel
Marion county urged to boost pork production during war
County Agent HI T Nielsen mails farmers a call to raise Missouri pork output by 50 percent to meet wartime fat needs. He cites a Washington telegram requesting county estimates on feeder hogs and stock hogs from outside, with potential demand from Kansas City buyers and a declared price of 15.50 per hundred with protein supplements. He also urges saving seed corn for spring amid seed shortages in several states. Palmyra High’s basketball team lost 31 to 19 at Canton, with Diemer and Menge on the trip.
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Palmyra
HI. T. Nielsen
Marion County
Farmer
U. S
Missouri
Washington
Kansas City
Mr. Nielsen
Iowa
Ilinois
Indiana
Ohio
Canton
Frank Diemer
William Menge
Iowa Parole Board Frees Twenty One Inmates For Christmas
Fort Madison Iowa December 22 Twenty one inmates at the state prison were released after deliberations by the state board of parole. Names were not released though the list includes some well known prisoners. Officials say shortages statewide contributed to the larger than usual release.
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Fort Madison
Towa
Iowa State Prison
State Board of Parole
Asual
Empire Theater Offers Night of Wonders and Laughter
The Empire theater presents a grand program featuring The Great Nicola and a myriad of mysticism from Egypt China Africa along with illusionists and wonders. The mind bending acts join the familiar comedy Twin Beds in a strong bill for Sunday with Salisbury Field and Margaret Mayo behind Baby Mine providing a rib tickling farewell.
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Nicola
Egypt
China
Tadia
Africa
Empire Theater
Wil
Salisbury Field
Margaret Mayo
Daily film schedule with many silent era features
The listing notes multiple 1910s and 1920s screenings across theaters including Quincy shows of Threera at the Solite Double Deception Barn Yard Frotes Star The Man Trap Bluebird Princess Mary Miles Minter in A mie for Spite Mutual Star Belasco Senta Markova in The Painted Madonna Family Constance Talmadge Betsy's Burglar five reel Triangle Hier Cave Man Savoy Puerothy Dalton The Dark Road five reel Triangle Charlie Chaplin in The Immigrant two reel Colonial Pioneer Days The Laundry Mix-up House of Secrets
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Quincy
Threera
Solite
Bluebird
Mary Miles Minter
Divo Rces Mutual Star
Pro- Dation
Belasco
Senta Markova
Family
Constance Talmadge
Betsy
Savoy
Puerothy Dalton
Gem
Charlie Chaplin
Colonial
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Dicky Dippy’s
Dorothy
Sinnott
Les
CAT Tales
GOSH
Venus
Ginke
Nickel
Les Cas
Quixcy' S Greatest Clothing House
Manhattan
334Th Artillery
Empire Matinee
Morepork
Pardon Board
The
Dorothy Dalton
Princess
Reel Mutual Star Production
Peter E. Pinkelman
Prop
Orpheum
Mae Dy
Mer
Las Hippodrome
A. 5. Stern & CO
STG de Bong Aed Ees Deo Hippodrome
Big All Star Company
America
Tel
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