The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-08
City Ordinance.

goes higher, we might reduce the
weight"
City Ordinance.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, Aug. 81
The price of wheat will have to soar
higher before there will be any ma
terial reduction in the size Of a LOAF
!, tendent X. G. Krause, OF the Cali
| fornia Baking company.
There is a city ordinance fixing
the minimum weight of a five cent
loaf of bread at twelve ounces" said
he. "The loaves sold for that price
now weight from fourteen ounces to q
pound" n2h
No Change Considered.
ST. LOUIS. Mo-. Aug. s.-A. =.
Welle, president OF the American Bak-
cry company said today that the IN
crease in the price Of bread now
threatening northern cities has not at
fected St. Louis. No change in the
five cent loaf is being considered.
Five Center to Stay.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. S.-The
five cent loaf will stay. Some people
can't buy bigger loaves, We are edu'
eating the housewife to purchase ten
cent loaves because 1t takes little
more labor to make q ten cent loaf
than five cent piece.
Bryce B. Smith, secretary OF inc
Consumers Baking company summed
up the proposed increase IN Dread
prices today.
Not Hiked Vet.
TOPEKA, Kansas, Aug. .S.-Topeka
bakers did not know any other way
to offset the Increased cost OF flour
TODAY than to boost the price OF bread.
1--WE have not liked the price vet
one baker said, "but we probably Will
be compelled to do so If the price OF
raw material keeps going up.
Housewives Will Howl.
SPRINGFIELD. III. Aug. S-"Twen-
ty-eight ounces of bread in q ten cent
loaf looks like just as much bread
proportionately to the housewife as
sixteen ounces In Ave cent loaf. The
difference of four ounces allows the
baker to make a profit which ne
could not do otherwise with flour
selling as 1t is"
This was the argument advanced
today by John c. Rodenburg, owner
Of this city's only cash bakery. when
asked his opinion Of ten cent bread.
"Cut the size of the five cent loaf
and housewives will raise an awful
howl" Rodenburg said.
No Change Here.
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Aug. 8.-"Ten
cent loaves Of bread for Des MONIES!
Mo- says F. J. Boekenhoff. baker,
| oho HI xy
loaf that will cost you the regulation
jitney."
And so while the national bakers
in Salt Lake City are discussing the
probable ten cent loaf. Des MoineS
consumers rest easy and continue to
pay half that amount, but get less
bread than heretofore.
Compelled TO Raise.
DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 8.-"Ten cent
bread will be a realty, all right, II
flour continues to hit the high spots,
said F. NJ. Kleber, president OF the
Kleber Baking company today. we
win be compelled to charge ten cents
for a twenty-five ounce loaf. We are
selling twenty-five ounces for ten
cents at present. Cakes. cookies and
pastry will go up proportionately."
Not Raised at Present.
LINCOLN, Neb.. Aug. 8.-Tne
price of bread in Lincoln will not be
raised at present, according to Man
ager F.. B. Folsom, of the Folsom
Bakery company, though it may have
to be raised soon, unless flour takes
a drop. An ordinance about to De
passed fixes the weight OF loaf al
one pound, SO that any increase IN
price will more readily be known to
the consumer.
Abolish Niekle Loaf.
| MILWAUKEE,, Wis. Aug. S.--"We
are now selling as much ten cent
bread as possible and it will be but
a short time until the five cent loai
! is done away with entirely. In my
| opinion" Oswald Jaeger, president OF
big Milwaukee bakery firm. said
| today.
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