Consumers Fancies and Cheap Cuts in Meat Marketing
George K. Holmes surveys consumer misperceptions in marketing systems and the delusions buyers harbor. He highlights the bias toward expensive cuts, noting cheap but nutritious options like neck pieces and rounds are undervalued, and warns that labeling like Canada lamb inflates prices while delivering domestic meat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George K. Holmes
Division of Foreign Markets
Bureau of Statistics
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
Porterboune Aveak
Long Island
Canada
Hypnotism for Tobacco and Alcohol Problems
A New York Medical Journal excerpt reviews hypnotism as a treatment for drunkenness morphine and tobacco habits. It notes no drugs cure these, favors mental suggestion, and discusses prohibition, state monopolies, and outdoor or confinement treatments. Tobacco should be banned early. cures vary 20 to 80 percent for alcohol, with 0 to 70 percent ideal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beresniteky
New York Medical Journal
Russia
Beaux and Bachelors Banquet Sparks Belgian Matrimony
In Beanssmendi Ecauasines women form a matri club of 60 to woo bachelors with an open air feast. The event led to 14 engagements and a permanent annual banquet emerging as the club plans next year’s invitees limited to Belgian suitors due to patriotism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beanssmendi
New Yorke Tribune
Ecausaines
Belgium
Ecauasines
Eeaussines
Europe
Woaussines
Atriefly
Spare Lobsters Feelings Stir in Advice on Killing Lobster
The Detroit Free Press reports the 8 P C A issued a circular offering a painless method of killing lobsters via a knife through the head near the eye stems. The piece notes some executives were shocked by boiling alive methods and jokes about bifurcation of the crustacean with a cleaver, while urging care and precision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fishing Gazette
Lobater
Royal Humane Society of England
Pa's Humgaran Diet Sparks Macaroni Goulash Talk
A playful exchange asks what the Humgaran diet is and replies with humor about macaroni and goulash. The quip nudges readers to skip pap stories in favor of lighter topics, noting Chicago Sun as the source of the remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paps
Chicago Sun
Ex Slave Reunites With Old Master Near Springfield Neb
Harry Edmund a freed slave living two miles from Springfield Nebraska met Mason Peters a Kansas City stockman for the first time since 1864. Sold as a child with his mother and siblings, Edmundson was kept on the Peters homestead as a present to the elder son. After wandering to Kansas City and starting a family on a farm he received an invitation from his old master and traveled to visit. He has since returned home.
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Springfield
Neb
Harry Edmund
Mason Peters
Kansas City
Harry
Ashby Peters
Clay County
Petera
Sam
Kan
Edmundson
Nebraska
Fight on Lazy Worm in Porto Rico Gains Steam
Washington reports Porto Rico awakens to the fight against the anaemia known as the lazy worm. Capt. B. K. Ashford plans a $16,000 campaign this year and treated nearly 10,000 patients in June to August with high cure rates. In Albano station 2,482 treated in August. six died, 716 cured, others recovering. The disease wastes the body and disables work, prompting education on sanitation and a forthcoming law to support the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Porto Rico
Army
B. K. Ashford
Albonito
Ashford
Man accuses wife of witchcraft in Freeland case
Russian immigrant Andrew Fetchik of Drifton brings his wife to Dr J B Houston’s office claiming she is bewitched and possessed. He demands an examination else says he will not live with her. Dr Houston refuses. Neighbors echo fears and threaten to harm the woman as she denies the accusations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeland
Andrew Fetchik
Drifton
J. B. Houston
Ler
Houston
Fetchik
Rare Continental Bills Found By Local Writer
Washington report says Col. Ezra Nat Hill, a city newspaper writer, possesses rare continental money notes. Examples include Albany 1791 three pence, Philadelphia 1797, and Massachusetts Bay 1785 with Spanish milled dollars references. Also mentions seven dollars and two Spanish milled dollars. Fine table fish and swordfish noted as diet alongside salmon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ezra Nat. Hill
Albany
N. Y
Philadelphia
Mascachusetts Bay
Col. Hill
New England
The Japanese Red Cross among Japan’s war effort
The Red Cross Society of Japan, growing since 1877, is praised as the finest of its kind with nearly a million members and large funds. Its army-aligned method contrasts with American volunteer groups, emphasizing trained military collaboration, efficiency, and minimal waste as seen in the Japanese Russian war and other campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross Society of
Japan
Anita Newcomb McGee
America
Japanese Red Cross Society
Minister of War
Red Cross
Red Cross Sociery
Women Own Much Downtown Real Estate Says Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times reports that fully one third of city real estate is owned by women, with nearly 200 women named as property owners in the Merchants and Manufacturers association list. Many are widows or single, some holding property for years, others actively trading estates to grow fortunes. A Chicago Tribune item recalls a contractor upset at wagons blocked outside an eating house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lmits
Los Angeles Times
Mary
Elizabeth
Caroline
Merchants'and Manufacturers’ Association
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Philadelphia Ledger
mos‘Guitons
Detroit Free Press
THE
Los Angeles
Cnicago ‘Tribune
Janes Gayee
W. H. Perkxen
R.N. Hull & CO
Ederal Merchandise
Custer County
Challis
Idaho
William Buster
Prop
Shaleiss
R.mokcisong CO
General Merchandise
Crockery, Hardware
Ie LIV
Custer and Loon Creek
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