Fair Price Board Begins Work Here
The first regular meeting of the Price committee was held in the offices of the federal food administration. Bakers and retailers discussed bread price rises. The committee will operate from 117 White Building with Mary F. Smith in charge and invites criticisms and questions on costs.
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Fair Price” Board
Price Committee
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Federal Food Admin
Fair Price Committee
White Building
FE. X. Smith
Portland Buys Army Food With Post Office
Portland purchases six thousand dollars worth of army rations through the city post office. Canned cherries allotment is exhausted with corn peas and bacon also popular sellers.
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Portland
Ore
Strike cripples Akron rubber factories
Akron Ohio August 22 The citys great rubber plant and nearly all industries were seriously crippled by a strike of union machinists. Two thousand members voted unanimously to strike without further parley.
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Akron
Ohio
Have You Seen Seattle Market Opens To Public IN PLANNING
Public notice describes a new market in Seattle aimed at farmers selling vegetables direct to shoppers with low rents from 33 cents to 1 dollar per day. It mentions sugar stock and a week of activities including bands on August 23 and August 30 and notes management by S. T. Manard and Elliott.
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Bba
Dren
Pening
Shrinking dollar and the fading purchasing power
A humorous admission of currency inflation and the misplaced optimism about full purchasing power. The piece notes a spender’s dollar now buys far less, with the 100 cent dollar yielding only about 59 cents in practice, urging recognition of the reduced value.
Food prices over nation show uneven changes across cities
United Press reports from nine cities show July to August price changes for butter eggs bacon bread and potatoes. New York remains highest priced with some declines. St Paul cheapest. Washington and others show mixed moves. San Francisco and Los Angeles differ on butter and bacon.
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New York
United Press
America
United Presse
St. Paul
San Francisco
St. Louie
Washington
Eigen
Los Angeles
Golden Gate
Health of babies threatened by high milk prices
Tacoma reports baby health at risk as mothers struggle to feed infants with condensed milk amid high living costs. Dr. Robert G. Miles warns that many babies lack fresh milk. state association elects J. V. A. Smith president and reelects Dr. C. A. Smith and Mrs. R. C. McCredie as vice presidents. John Weinzirl re-elected secretary and A. Case named treasurer.
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Tacoma
Bablea
Robert G. Miles
Washington Anti-Tuberculosia Association
Miles
Association
J. V. A. Smith
Seattle
C. A. Smith
Mra. R. C. McCredie
Sunnyside
John Weinzirl
University of Washington
A. Case
Market plan sparks criticism from Seattle grower
Capt. Gill, former Seattle Produce Association secretary, denounces Councilman Bolton's proposed million dollar farmers market as wasteful. He argues the market would mainly aid Japanese truck gardeners near the city and that Seattle sources over 100 miles away supply most produce. Gill questions why public funds should target food when clothing and other daily goods have risen more in price.
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Bolton
Seattle
Capt
Gill
Seattle Produce Association
White River
Snohomish
Skagit
Capt. Gill
Reporter killed on duty honored in London
British press men plan a monument for James Harvey Dale a young reporter mortally injured in a street accident who remembered his assignment and sent his copy to his paper before dying.
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London
James Harvey Dale
Concrete tree shelters birds in Westchester yard
Westchester Pa August 22 Dr B Harry Warren longtime taxidermist and bird lover has erected a 15 foot concrete and wire tree on his lawn. The imitation oak trunk features bark like texture and openings for birds to shelter and nest.
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Westchester
B. Harry Warren
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