Roosevelt Sends Beef Trust Report to Congress
President Roosevelt transmits the commerce and labor department study on the beef packing industry. The six major firms Armour Morris Swift National Schwarzschild Sulzberger and Cudahy slaughtered about 45 percent of U S output in 1908 and had modest profits per head while some years showed losses. the report says packers were not over capitalized and margins did not reflect vast gains.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
House of Representatives
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Armour & Co
Swift & Co
Morris & Co
National Packing Co
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Co
Cudahy Packing Co
United States
Cudaly & Co
Profit on Car Lines and Packing Trade Detailed
A review notes liberal profits in private car lines in the packing industry with returns of 14 to 17 percent, while dressed beef yields lower consumer costs. It cites Cudahy Packing at 22 percent, and six top firms handling about 80 percent of Western cattle, supplying major markets to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore. A merger note mentions National Packing among the big six.
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Cudahy Packing Company
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Baltimore
National Packing Company
Mrs Berner Names Suspect In Soda Poisoning Case
Miss Berner, Mrs Stanford's secretary, names Ah Wing, a long time Chinese cook, as the man she suspects of placing strychnine in bicarbonate of soda. Ah Wing and other servants are confined at the Stanford mansion by private detectives. Berner later says the San Francisco report is utterly false.
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San Francisco
Honolulu
Bertha Berner
Mrs. Stanford
Ah Wing
Chamberlains Cough Remedy Advertised for Families
The soothing remedy is praised for cold cough and croup relief with a pleasant taste and rapid action. It is described as non opium containing, safe for babies and adults, and offered for sale by Stewart's Pharmacy and Cook & Sherman.
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Stewart's Pharmacy
Cook & Sherman
Electors Meeting In Washington Iowa for School Board Nomination
A gathering of ISD Washington electors will meet in City Hall on Thursday at 7 30 p m to nominate two candidates for the three year school board term. The note adds a domestic aside about a wife’s confusion on the Eastern war and interest in ongoing special sales.
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City School Fund
Independent School District
Washington
Iowa
Young Cashier Arnold Reuthien Sentenced Four Years
Davenport March 4 Arnold Reuthien the young cashier of the wrecked New Liberty Savings bank has been sentenced to four years in the Fort Madison penitentiary. It was believed he would be released like his father the bank president under a statute aiding the offense but one indictment against him rested on a separate statute.
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Davenport
Arnold Reuthien
New Liberty Savings Bank
Fort Madison
Young Reuthien
Ted
Beuthien
Woodmen Accident Draft Settles Cedar Rapids Injury
H. J. Williams injured his foot while working with machinery in Cedar Rapids. He carried a policy with the Woodmen Accident Association of Lincoln Nebraska and reports the company paid a full draft for the injury, expressing satisfaction with the settlement.
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H. J. Williams
Cedar Rapids
Williams
Woodmen Accident Association of
Lincoln
Nebr
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J. A. Y. Ashby
J. W. Morton
Washington National Bank
H. F. Steck
East Side Jeweler
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East Side Restaurant
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Roy Y. Stichter
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School Caucus
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Mason Transfer & Storage CO
Dr. Gossom
McElhinney Drug Co
North Side Square
Florida
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Southern Railway
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