20 Mar 1913
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Newspaper
The Greenville Journal
Location
Greenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1913
Page
1
Community notes celebrate St Patrick's Day with Irish symbols and local customs. Weather and political commentary mix with personal updates on residents, legal matters, and school health proposals in a brisk, period-voiced local column.
Jobes Post G A R invites the public to a bean supper at their West Fifth Street hall on Saturday night March 22. Supper served 4 to 7 p.m. admission ten cents, supper free. A program follows featuring Soldiers Camp Fire.
A New York engineer, Carroll Livingston Riker, suggests building a 200 mile jetty eastward from Cape Mice to deflect Arctic currents into the mid-Atlantic. He claims it could eliminate cold Newfoundland to Hatteras winters, reduce iceberg dangers, and slightly tilt the earth's axis at lower cost than the Panama Canal, while a separate joke about a lost golf ball appears in the London Opinion.
The sugar trust, led by the American Sugar Refining Co, faces a surge of beet sugar from Ohio and other states that lowers prices, presses beet refiners, and challenges the trust’s domination. Production of beets rises, imports fall, and refiner profits shrink as domestic beet sugar undercuts cane sugar across markets, with tariff debates and legal actions cited.
The piece argues that central players in the sugar industry maintain power through foreign relations and a domestic price network. It notes gains from profitable operations, a perceived alliance with the Democrat administration, and fears over potential competition from Cuba if duties were altered. It cites dividends and wealth tied to a sugar monopoly and warns of congressional accountability for policies affecting American consumers.
An article by Truman G. Calis in National Magazine explains how sugar beets, grown in rotation, improve soil structure and moisture retention. It details deep root action, weed suppression, and hummus formation from beet roots, noting enhanced fertility and higher yields for subsequent crops without expanding acreage.
Mr. W. P. Willett, leading sugar statistician, says domestic beet sugar lowers wholesale prices by about a half cent per pound in 1912 and that 60 percent of the crop carried over into 1913 should keep prices down. He warns price declines recur as beet sugar markets absorb production while imports and refineries regain control.
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