Food Profits Huge in Potatoes Across Retail Chain
Investigations by The Post reveal high margins in staple foods, with wholesalers and retailers earning large profits on potatoes and other items due to rising living costs. Commission merchants and middlemen buy cheaply and sell at multiple times the purchase price, while farmers see far smaller returns. Washington inspectors note nationwide profits ranging from 4% to over 109% in various items, sparking government probes into price inflation and cost of living. The piece highlights the gap between farmer earnings and consumer prices, blaming middlemen for sustained high costs.
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Petafl Grocer
Washington
Postaturday
Connecticut Avenue
Washinaton
Tirmer
Evelury Wilson
Department of \ citure
Shreveport
Nash Uc
Wr Wilson
Tt Post
City Life
Dream of death foretold by wife’s vision in Wilkes-Barre
A Washington Post special reports Mrs Belinda Elliston died suddenly in Wilkes-Barre after a dream in which her deceased husband appeared and warned she would live to age 62 years months and 17 days. She had been in good health yet suffered apoplexy after midnight ending her life, just days before the prophecy would have come true.
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Washington Post
Wilkes-Barre Pa
Belinda Elliston
Zelaya Declares He Remains Nicaraguan President in Exile
Zelaya says he is still president though he may not return to Nicaragua. He rejects a guaranteed exile on a warship and notes Mexico granted him permission to board with no reservations. He favors friendly intervention by Mexico and the United States to stabilize Central America, predicts war ends soon, and plans to travel abroad to free President Madriz of suspicion.
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Mexico
Dee
Joe Santos
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Madriz
Craser Shearwater
Tum
Belgium
Salina Cruz
New York
Pio Bolanos
Madris
Baca
Managua
United States
Brokaw Testifies Amid Family Alimony Battle In Mineola
In Mineola New York on December 2 Brokaw faced a tense cross examination over his marriage to Mary Brokaw seeking 381 000 a year alimony. He admitted a letter in his handwriting and described tension with his wife including a door incident in Paris while denying heavy drinking though acknowledging some days with more than two drinks. Friends of Mrs Brokaw offered to testify on her behalf but were not called.
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Brokaw
Mineola
Felrous
Warg
Sharetes Healay
Bytora
Tif
Westbury
Louez Island
White
Tyre
Brokaws
Frake Gould
Blair
Mary King
Paris
Marys
Mary
Bald Baldwin
Holland House
Baldwin
Iad
Mra
Mr Baldwin
Europe
Railway Chief Goes Mad From Overwork at Reading Terminal
Bernario Bal, second vice president and general freight traffic manager of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, is declared insane after a week of derangement. He was found in his office at Reading Terminal handcuffed and taken to a hospital. Bal, 61, once a noted freight expert from Oneida County NY, had shown incoherence, scattered actions, and strange telegrams about salary increases before the breakdown.
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Dec
Bernario Bal
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company
Reading Terminal
Mr Bail
Bail
Mrr Ball Fowgo
Chicago
Bay
Baitlx
Oneida County
Foraker's Sister Dead in Ohio Funeral at Hillsboro
Mrs Sarah E McKeehan widow of Milton McKeehan of Hillsboro Ohio and sister of ex Senator J B Foraker died at her daughter's home in Wentwood Wardwell avenue. The funeral will be held at Hillsboro tomorrow afternoon. She leaves two sons Homer McKeehan a Cleveland attorney and Frederick who lives in the Far West. Her two daughters are Mrs Logan wife of Principal Logan of the public schools and Miss Fannie McKeehan of Colorado.
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Sarah McKeehan
Hillshoro
Ohio
Toiday
Washington Post
Cincinnati
Sarah E McKeehan
Milton McKeehan
Hillsboro
J B Foraker
F P Logan
Wardwell Avenue
Wentwood
Homer McKehan
Cleveland
Frederick
Far West
Logan
Fannie McKeehan
Colorado
British Navy Secrets Taken in Portsmouth Trial
Rich ard Knowlden a Vernon torpedo school draftsman faced trial at Portsmouth for theft of wireless plans and confidential sketches. Police found nine wireless improvement plans and officer signed books in his room, underscoring fears of compromising the navy wireless system if released to foreign powers.
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London
Richard Knowlden
Portsmouth
Knowlden
Daughter Is His Bride Secret of Chalé Adoption Revealed
William Chadwick of Heston, a retired carriage maker, was married to Lina Chadwick in a secret adoption. Lina, raised by Chadwick’s late wife as a daughter, was believed to be not his child. The bride, four years old, wed a man about fifty, with the marriage disclosed today.
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Chalé
Washington Post
Boston
Wiliam Chadwick
Heston
Lina
Chadwick
Antil
Lina Chadwick
New King Gets His Pay In Belgian Socialists Clash
Brussels December 2 Socialist deputies opposed the king's doust claiming the king should be deposed to a republic. They urged turning the chateau into patarias and sought an inventory of royal palaces to prevent sale of national property as under Leopold. The amendment was defeated with no increase over Leopold's allowance.
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Brussels
Chamber of Deputies
Rayer
Fire on Celtic Liner Burns Five Days After Transatlantic Voyage
Wire was found burning in the hold of the White Star liner Celtic four days out from New York. Upon arrival in Liverpool smoke appeared from among cotton bales in No 6 hold. Captain Hamberton ordered watches fed and tents set. The fire burned steadily below decks for five days despite flooding the hold.
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Dee
White Star
Celtic
New York
Jia
Hamberton
Football Rules Move To Limit Mass Plays In 1906
The Intercollegiate Athletic Association advanced a motion to modify football rules to minimize player injuries. Dartmouth professor Hall led a resolution urging committees to curb mass plays and long tackles while preserving core game features. Major colleges supported a compromise favoring changes but warned some institutions might resist or withdraw if not.
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Dec
Intercollegiate Athletic Association
H K Hall
Dartmouth
West
West Point
Mr Hail
San Francisco
Hall
Cornell
Jepes
Association
Palmer Piercee
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West Fount
RT Mckensie
University of Pennsylvania
P W Nicolson
Wesleyan
Conn
Marvel
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Golden
Pennsylvania State College
AH Peterson
University of North Carolina
CW Savage
Oberila
Ohio
Beyer
Laws
State College
CW Hetherington University of Missouri
Wil
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H FP
Wiliams
Minnesota
James A. Babbitt Haverford
EK Hall
Dartmouth College
Trent
Hackett
Doomed schooner wrecks strike outer Boston harbor
Reports confirm the five masted schooner Davis Palmer sank Sunday morning near Broad Bay with twelve aboard, and a second vessel is seen three masts above water eight miles east of that site. Capt Kemp of the tug Ariel cites a possible collision risk as authorities question his bearings. The Adame Damon went ashore near Ipswich, likely a total loss, while a storm flood battered Chelsea and Boston, closing streets and forcing evacuations as a high tide infringed via rising waters.
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Dee
Davis Palmer
Broad Bound
New England
Kemp
Ariel
Sockamp
Lynn
Hoboken
Cape Cod
Palmers
Adame Damon
A K Brewater
York
Ipswich
Capua Freighter Believed Lost After December Sighting
The German freighter Capua with a crew of 23 sailed from Hamburg on December 1 bound for Genoa. She was last sighted two days later and is now presumed lost. The Gloman line vessel, built in Glasgow, 1,282 tons net, registered 1,282 tons net.
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Dee
Capua
Jost
Gloman Line
Genoa
Capia
Glasgow
Barnes's Struggle Through College Drives Mental Break
A student, burdened by poverty and pressure, faced severe mental strain while attempting college. He struggled to work, starved, and his mind fractured under mounting stress, illustrating the toll of hardship on student life.
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Barnes
Society girls hurt in auto crash in Cambridge
Special to The Washington Punt from Boston December 8 describes a crash near Cambridge injuring several young women including Miss Gladys Pullce and Miss Josephine Newarre Irvine. A Boston judge’s granddaughter and other social figures are mentioned amid hospital notes and an inquiry into the accident.
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Boston
Sollese
Roland F Barnes
Harvard
State Board of Insanity
Cincinnati
Barnes
Cambridge
Sumner Hall
Mra W H Taunton
McMiter
Mra Burges
Aye’ Mia Robert J
Trang Irvine
Washington debates football reform and game structure changes
The discussion in Washington focuses on football reform with proposals to mail sup changes. Kirby argues for a three-division game instead of halves and the abolition of man plays. The measures, backed by Reatlond and Beesil, go to the Wales committee for consideration before next season plans are finalized.
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Feling
Washington
Saegrenac
Kirby
Beesil
Wales
Two College Men Die in Wildwood Coast Tragedy
In Wildwood Crest New Jersey two university men were found frozen to death after a night spent at the McFarlane summer home. Lewis C Krautter of the University of Pennsylvania botany department and Ernest W McFarlane son of Prof John M McFarlane left Philadelphia to spend the evening at the Wildwood Crest residence and later took a skiff from the Holy Beach Yacht Club. McFarlane's body showed signs of water inhalation and Krautter reportedly died from cold and exhaustion while attempting to recover his companion.
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New Jerey Shore
Sam
Woowood
Lewis C Krautter
University of Pennsylvania
Ernest W McFarlane
John M. McFarlane
Gave University
Phiadelphia
McFarlane
Wildwood Crest
Holy Beach
Krautzer
Turkish cabinet forced out in Constantinople turmoil
Reports from Constantinople say Kiamil Pasha has resigned after months of cabinet upheaval. The Young Turks push for reform, voiring the resignation of Hilmi Pasha as grand vizier and favor appointing Tekfi Pasha as new premier, while opposition challenges the cabinet’s policies and public works minister.
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Constantinople
Hilmi Pasha
Committee of
Umion
Tne
Union and Progress
Sultan Abdul Hamid
Péile
Fizier
Dreyfus In Street Fight In Paris
Maj Alfred Dreyfus attached to Gen Dalstein and M Boerner met in the street in Paris today and indulged in a violent altercation with blows exchanged. No injuries were reported and police did not intervene.
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Alfred Dreyfus
Dalstein
M Boerner
Ardent suffragist wife declines aiding Bryce in Inverness bid
Mrs Martin Littleton, wife of Bryce supporter, says she will not return to Scotland to campaign for him in the Inverness seat contest in January. She calls suffrage a cardinal part of her faith, notes Bryce’s opposition, and cites loyalty to the cause over personal political work. The ambassador in Washington also opposes inviting press access, complicating public statements.
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Amenca
Washington Port
New York
Anca Bryce
Mra Martin Littleton
Scotland
Anie
Inverness
Fm Mn Bryce
America
Washington
Ohio River Ice Gorges Threaten Ferry and Harbors
Passengers on the icebound ferry Charon endure a terrified night after the Ohio River freezes over at Bellere to Benwood. Ice packs block Pittsburg and Wheeling harbors, with ten million bushels of coal diverted and bridges endangered by piled ice. River operators brace for weeks of disruption as dynamite and careful delays are considered.
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Steubenville
Pend
Rover Craft
Ohio
Wheeley
Scen
Pennsylvania
Point Bridge
Gorges
Pittsburgh
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Leubenvile Ohio
Pennsylvania Railroad
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Cincinnati
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Bellere
Benwood
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Paris Moves to Abolish Slums and Improve City
The Paris chamber of deputies today approved borrowing 518,909,000 to fund a sweeping public works program. Plans include demolishing insanitary quarters, building new streets and gardens, constructing schools, and other city improvements.
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Dumaparity
Paris Deep
Tlex
Paris
Homer Davenport Illness Reported At Home
Cartoonist Homer Davenport is critically ill at a friend's home in San Francisco after a nervous collapse. A physician says Davenport’s condition is serious and requires urgent care.
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San Francisco
Homer ¢ Davenport
Wrights Pass Cup Contest in France Last Year
Dayton reports the Wright brothers will not contest for the Michelin cup again after their 191? flight in France. Wilbur Wright is credited with a long dispute over the trophy and plans to rest from aviation rivalries for now. They may resume later with flights in Florida where an aviation course is planned.
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Dayton
Ohio
Wright Brothers
Wilbur Wright
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