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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-12-14

several carloads OF apples are
expected the next day which will
be sold out at very low and at
tractive prices.
That piece of duplicity is used
to render it impossible for the
consignee to dispose Of his ap-
Piles at a living price and to get
the man in a frame Of mind to
sell out at the best offered price.
If the man from Benton Har-
Dor is a fighter and undertakes
to sell directly to the consumer
from the team track of the rail
road, he will have to play hide
and seek with, his car even for
days. He may expect it in the
central section of the city but,
in reality, may find it on Rice's
Point, at Twentieth avenue W.
or even at dear old West Dn-
,luth. Some railroad employee is
quite sure to be thrifty and in
fluenced by a bit of long green.
While the poor sucker is play
ing hide and seek up and down
the railroad yards, as did L. E.
Paddock the past season, the
Food Hogs have time to load up
the retailers. Some of the retail
firms may be owned by the Food
Hogs. Others may be at their
mercy financially. Still others
may be easily bluffed and domi-
mated. If the man from Michi-
gan ever does get his car at
the right spot on the team track
and manages to hold it there,
apples are down so low and in
such poor demand that he takes
what he can get and slips out of
town; cursing Duluth and it's pro-
duce market.
But to freeze out, drive away
or even ruin the stranger, the
Michigan street Food Hogs may
have. sold apples at a loss. To
recoup, they boost the price on
! other produce, scarce and in
strong demand, anywhere from
| 10, Is to Is per cent, thereby
getting back their apple losses
with usury.
Duluth's Food Hogs are strong
on nerve and system and ability
| to look out for No. l.
The consumer who groans over
high prices and mourns because
| his dollars buy so little may be
interested in the difference be-
tween wholesale prices in Duluth
in comparison with those in Min:
! neapolis, Chicago, New York and
other distributing points.
The George w. Lift Co. OF
! New York sent out price lists
! October 80, for example. Gran
berries were offered at 1926 a
! crate while they cost 1926 the
same day in Duluth. Transpor-
tation from New York to Duluth
ate up only a very small per
centage Of the difference.
Porto Rican oranges were Of
fered at 1925 a box for 126 size
and $40 for the $50. size. The
same day similar oranges were
quoted at SIG a box in Duluth
Freight on oranges from New
York to Duluth is about 55 cents
a box, a very small item.
Grape fruit was offered at So
"a box in New York by the Litt
company while Duluth's Food
Hogs asked $6.75 a box, the
freight from New York being
the same per case as oranges.
Jersey sweet potatoes, U. s
grade No. l, kiln dried. were
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-12-14

When an apple shipper at,
Benton Harbor, Mich, for ex-
ample, gets a car started for Du-
luth, the agent of the Benton
Harbor railroad wires to the
agent Of the connecting line in
Duluth the number, initial, con-
tents, consignor and consignee of
the car. The agents of the ter
minal lines in Duluth know daily
what and how much produce
may be expected the next day or
for number Of days in advance.
This information may be known
as to a single shipment even be-
fore the consignee in Duluth
knows it and whe it comes to
the aggregate receipts, the rail
road companies have a broader
and deeper fund Of facts than
the commission houses.
IF ff, therefore, a combination Of
commission houses or Produce
Exchange with an extremely. Sc
lect and limited membership gets
this advance information, fully
and correctly, in strict conf
dence from some employe Of the
railroad company, or companies,
then the small, weak or inde-
pendent commission houses are
put to a great disadvantage.
It has been believed and even
frequently charged by independ-
ent commission merchants in Du-
luth that there are leaks of that
kind in the principal railroad Of
fices in Duluth, if not all Of
them. A consignee's competitors
often know before he does what
produce is on the way, how much
and when it is likely to arrive.
When a consignnor sends his
produce by freight and then goes
on by train to meet it, he finds
that prices are high and strong
in Duluth, therefore has rosy
dreams Of cleaning up quickly
and profitably. He puts up at a
good hotel, eats we'll and then
strolls down to the office Of one
of the Food Hogs, for example.
When he enters the nest Of the
Food Hog his hand is shaken
warmly. A chair and a big
cigar are handed him. Questions
are cleverly asked as to price
and production conditions at the
old home town Of Benton Har-
Dor.
While the visitor is putting his
Havana and undergoing cross ex-
animation, clerk slips into a
booth and rings up the members
of the "Big Four" The regular
telephones may be used but. if
the situation is delicate, that
noted private system may be en-
ployed and even the talk carried
on in code. All are 'sput wise"
and the stage set for the next
scene.
The shipper from Benton Har-
Dor then may be asked to come
back in an hour. On his return,
he may be shunted onto another
Food Hog and so on until the
day is gone and he has got no.
where.
After the Food Hogs have fin
ished their days business, a
ridiculously low price may be
made for the Michigander's stuff.
Of course he; refuses and even
plans to sell The stuff to the re-
tailers.
But the retailers have been
Systematically called up during
the busy day aid informed that
I
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-12-14

quoted at $4.1O for sacks of $50
pounds The price in Duluth
was $500.
Baldwin apples were offered at
New York for $3.50 per barrel
and $3.50 per barrel in Duluth.
Freight on apples in carload lots
is only 60 cents per barrel from
New York to Duluth.
Messrs. Longfellow Brothers Of
Minneapolis, licensed by the
U. S. Food Administrator, in
their price list Of November 1,
asked $3.50 for grapefruit that
cost $3.50 in Duluth. Empire
grapes cost $3.50 a crate in Min
neapolis and $3.50 in Duluth.
Sweet potatoes were quoted at
$1.7O per hamper in Minneapolis
and $2.75 in dear old Duluth.
Chestnuts that sold at IL ~
cents q pound in Minneapolis
cost 80 cents a pound in Duluth,
the every same day.
On November 8, Messrs. Long
fellow Brothers offered sweet
potatoes at $5 a barrel while the
Michigan street Fod Hogs de-
manded $7.75 a barrel. Blue rib
bon celery was quoted at 70
cents a dozen in Minneapolis and
$1.25 a dozen in Duluth. Some
firms in Duluth could buy more
cheaply than others, thanks to a
carefully devised system Of dis
elimination.
Leaf lettuce cost 80 cents a
dozen in Minneapolis the same
day that it sold for 55 cents a
dozen in Duluth.
The Minneapolis firm asked
$40 a box for $50 size Florida
oranges the same day that Du-
luth's Food Hogs demanded $16
a box.
On November 1, the Rochot Co.
of Minneapolis sold as many CAL
ifornia tomatoes for 1926 as Du-
luth's Food Hogs did for $5,
with the chances that the Min
neapolis offerings were in bet.
ter condition than those showed
onto the Duluth market. Ca
tawba grapes sold by the Min
neapolis firm for "a cents a bas-
ket cost "A cents on Michigan
street.
Extra fine celery, we'll bleached,
was offered by the Rochot Co. at
20 cents a dozen while the Du-
luth Food Hoogs charged Is
cents. Florida oranges cost SO
in Minneapolis the very same
day that they cost from $14 to
$16 in the Zenith City.
Winter Nellis pears cost 1925
a box in Duluth and 1926 a box
in Minneapolis. Kiefer pears
brought So a bushel in the big
city when they were sold for
$3.50 a bushel in the Zenith City.
The Rochot Co. offered Jona-
than apples at $2.75 when the
same variety and quality cost
1915 in Duluth. Delicious
apples were $3.50 a box the same
day that Michigan street talent
asked 81 to $3.50 a box. (
Jersey sweet potatoes sold at
$4.1O for sacks Of $50 pounds
down there when they sold for
81 up here. Baldwin apples cost
$3.50 a barrel there when they
were selling here for $3.50 bar
rel. The freight on apples in
carload lots does not exceed 60
cents a barrel.
On November 20, 1918, the Pa
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-12-14

If you cannot find it in the
daily papers, probably you can
get it in the Rip-saw.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-12-14
FORMER POLICE CHIEF
AVOIDS OFFICIAL PROBE

Discharge Comey-Amorous Ad-
New BuidngPrOteced Syndicate of Blind
Pigs-Woman Trades
Working Girl Insu]ed
Profit Pinds Buys Booze at Police
Station-Bogus Arrests Big Bal-Tuckman
For Craft Plots Pound Up Rip-saw Editor.
Brutally Treated.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-12-14
RAILROAD employees
HELP OUT FOOD HOGS

Visiting Shippers Glad
Chair-Pmped Dry for Information-Offers for
Shipment Delayed Stage Neatly Set to Beat Down
Prices-Producer Away Cmsing Duluth.
Some Interesting Comparisons Minneapolis
Chicago New Michigan Street in
Express Not Warrant the Wide Spread in
Markets and That in Duluth.
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Continued on Page A.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09
Mans Creative Force.

Mans highest virtue is always as
much as possible to rule external cir
cumstances, and as little as possible
to let himself be ruled by them. Life
lies before us, as huge quarry be-
fore the architect; he deserves not
the name Of architect except, out Of
this fortuitous mass, he can combine,
with the greatest economy, suitable
ness, and durability, some form, the
pattern Of which originated in his
own soul. All things without us -
nay, l may add, all things within
us are mere elements; but deep in
the inmost shrine of our nature lies
the creative force, which out of these
can produce what they were meant
to be, and which leaves us neither
sleep nor rest, till in one way or an
other, without us or within us, this
product has taken shape.-Goethe.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09
Historic ST. Marnaret,s.

st. Margaret's, Westminster, whe"o
the British house of commons att
tended service on the anniversary Of
the declaration of the war, has the mis-
fortune of being reduced to relative
sinsignlfcance as a building by its
mighty neighbors, st. Stephens and
Westminster abbey, says Christian Sci
ence Monitor. 1t would look immense
in a country town and something ap-
preaching cathedral in village. St.
Margaret's in the days when Crom-
well ruled at Whitehall was patron
ized by a number of devout men,
bers of the Long parliament, who used
regularly to attend service at six
o'clock in the morning to hear the
seven preachers who officiated in rota-
ton for salaries of $500 each. The
west window was presented by a num-
Der of Americans in memory of RIA
leigh.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09
wbv Army Mule Is Valuable.

The horse and the mule are not used
INTERCHANGEABLE by the army. There
fore the lack of good horses is to the
army men particularly lamentable. II
the task requires quickness and cour-
age, If it is one that sense OF pride
or love of parade will carry through,
the horse is chosen. Therefore the
cavalry and artillery use only the
horse. If there is hard. thankless
Job to be done day after day through
any conditions and over all kinds OF
trails, if there must at times be short
rations, then the mule gets the call.
He will go forward uncomplainingly,
doing more work day In and day out
than any horse, and at night he will
ask for 25 per cent less grain. He will
thrive on this, and at the end of a
hard campaign be squealing and kick
ing up his heels when the horse would
be reduced to ineffectiveness.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

tached hood of the same material goes
over The head. These suits are made
especially FOR the men on submarines.
Over, all Of this is worn weatherproof
suit which also has hood. The heavy
arctics are issued to men on all ships
other than destroyers, and these are
worn over ordinary shoes. For men
on destroyers heavy sea boots are Is.
sued. The clothing is inspected Of
least once each quarter.
The men of the navy, it will be seen,
lave every protection against the cold
and the ice of the sea and land. AS
Admiral Samuel MCGOWAN, chief OF
the bureau of supplies and accounts,
remarked, in regard to the winter out
fit worn by deck crews on exposed
duty:
"If sailor had on any more clothes
than he is now wearing he couldn't
walk"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09
Early Use of Tobacco,

The habit Of smoking and snuffing
tobacco gained a foothold in Europe
generations before the permanent set
Element of the United States, and the
settlers at jamestown did not for
several years realize that the growing
of tobacco for European consumption
was their road to wealth AMI pros
perity. 1t is said that the smoking
habit was introduced into Spain and
Portugal by one Hernandez de To-
ledo in 1850, Hernandez bringing his
tobacco from Santo Domingo. From
the peninsula the practice Is said to
have been carried to France by Jean
Nicot, French ambassador to Lisbon.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

There was never time when the sac
rifces and the help Of women were moro
appreciated than at the present time.
Women should learn war-nursing and
nursing at home. There is no better
way than to study the new edition Of the
" Common Sense Medical Adviser p
with chapters on First Aid, Bandaging,
Anatomy, Hygiene, care Of the Sick,
Diseases Of Women, Mother and Babe, the
Marriage Relations be had at some
drug-stores or send SOC. to Publisher, 654
Washington Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
If woman suffers from weak back,
nervousness or dizziness if pains afflict
her, the best tonic and corrective is one
made up Of native herbs and made with
out alcohol, which makes weak women
strong and sick women well. It is the
prescription Of DR.. Pierce, used by him
In active practice many years and now
sold by almost every druggist in the
land, in liquid or in tablets. Send DR..
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y, 10c. for trial pkg.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are also best
for liver and bowel trouble.
Cleveland, Ohio.-"During expectancy l was
sick for three or four months, my strength left
me and became weak and nervous and Just
felt miserable. / began taking DR.. Pierces
Favorite Prescription and my strength returned
very rapidly and felt very well the remainder OF
the time. My baby was very strong, healthy
child and always has been. I would especially
recommend 'Favorite Prescription to the ex-
peotant mother"
Mrs. Bessie Baumoardner. 1854 77th 81. b.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09
Has Floats Like Footballs.

One of the newest types of life pre-
servers consists of a belt to which
are attached two or three inflatable
units shaped like footballs. Each has
a casing of properly reinforced duck,
and is lined with a rubber bladder
having a valve at one end for initiating
1t. The preserver weighs only about
one and one-fourth pounds and when
Debated can be carried in the pocket.
Equipped with two bags, it has sufi-
cient buoyancy for use In swimming
while the three-bag life preserver will
sustain person weighing $50 pounds
in the water.-Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09
Trinidad SnidArs.

A spider native to Trinidad has a
body as large round as half dollar
and eight legs which spread them
selves out to circumference size of a
cheese plate. For months at a time
these spiders, husband and wife, will
live irreproachably together In chos-
en- corner Of cupboard or ceiling,
where they stay during the hours of
daylight, the wife clapslng her white
egg case to her body by her forelegs.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

little distance to conduct onto the
iron pole In case of need.
The frogs climb the poles and find
the insularors cool ard pleasant to
their bodies. and fancy that fhe drop
per- is put there to furnish chem with
back seat
After a nap they yawn and stretch
out leg until it touches the pole
result, sudden death to the frog, and
as the body continues to conduct the
current to earth there is paragraph
in the papers to the effect that Sin con-
sequence of an interruption to the
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09
Dialects in British Isles.

Several languages and many dia-
lects are spoken in the British isles.
In Northern Scotland most Of the
people speak Gaelic, as they once
did In Ireland, where the Gaelic
language has been undergoing a
revival in recent years. The Welsh
have a distinct language of their own
which is of Celtic origin. The Cor
nish people until far into the eight
zenith century spoke Celtic language
very similar to that spoken by the
people of Brittany in France.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09
Saved by Collar Stud.

An American artillery officer was
trying his new gun on the Hun, when
large, spent shell-splinter caught him
In the back of the neck.
He coolly extracted his collar stud
from his shirt and gazed on it re-
ffectively.
81 guess that shell was one Of
Krupps," he muttered. "Gee, but it's
good thing you were made in Con-
necticut, you beautw
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09
poinu Ones Best Work.

To do ones best work and be ones
best self involves the quiet but final
acceptance of such tools as have been
put into ones hands and such mate
rails as lie about one. To be happy
and useful and to contribute to the
joy Of life one must take up the
work at hand and do it as best he
may, without envy, jealousy, or strife.
The Outlook.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09
More Honor to PershInu.

Kansas City, Mo.--Plaza road, a
well-known drive near the Union sta,
ton, has been renamed "Pershing
ROAD in honor Of Gen. John ]. Perish.
Ing, by the city council. The council
has authorized the improvement Of
the road by widening and removing cal
tracks which are on part of 1t.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09
My Wordl

A by-product Of the world war in
England has been an enormous de-
mand for baseball paraphernalia. LON
don and other English cities have
been unable to supply the balls, bats,
gloves, masks, ETC., urgently called for
by the American and Canadian troops
stationed in the British isles and near
by France.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09
"ANzAC" FROGS CLIMB POLES
Australian Variety Declared to Be Big
Nuisance to Telegraph
Company.

Sydney, N. S. W.--One Of the great
enemies Of the overland telegraph line
in Central Australia is the common
green frog. In order to save the insu-
lators from being broken by the light
uing they are provided with wire
'droppers" leading round them at a
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09
What He Was Going to Say.

G. Z. Williams Of Toronto was COM
PEELED to make an unexpected business
trip to Ohio. He entered hotel In
small town In that state without bag
gage.
Can I get room here for the
nightY he asked.
Yes, sir. answered the proprietor,
'if you can put up" m
Mr.. Williams placed bill on the
desk. aas
II started to say" continued the
proprietor, ''if you can put up with a
room without bath, Boy, show this
gentleman upstairs"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

Especial severity with men who car
ry concealed weapons is more than JUS
titled at time when every able-bodied
citizen is invited to shoulder a gun
In the service of his country.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

Government seizure Of alien prop
erty will help to quicken among all
classes the sentiment that a nation
good enough to make money in is a
nation good enough to take out citizen
ship papers in.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

An American private in France has
been awarded the Distinguished Serv
ing Cross for capturing a German gun
and its crew single-handed. The kaiser
Is rapidly finding out whether Ameri-
cans will fight.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

Joy riding has been stopped in Eng
land, but it took a world war to do it.
In this country, speeding is still defy
ing every sort of cataclysm except its
own.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

An Armenian army is reported to
be on the aggressive in former part
of Russia. This is quite a pleasing
variation from an Armenian massa-
ere by the Turks.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

1t is perfectly clear, from the truth,
full and illuminative accounts of re-
turning travellers, that Germany either
has plenty of food or else Is on the
point of starvation.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

Ninety per cent of letters from sol.
der boys are addressed to their moth
ers. In time Of peace these young
bloods were mostly writing to father
for more money.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

After dark, when they hunt, they run
all over the house, for they spin no
web, but get their living by catching
cockroaches by sheer fleetness Of foot.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

One of the government weather ex-
perts has been ousted on the charge
that he is pro-enemy So that is what
has been ailing our so-called summer |!
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

American Riddles want to know why
they should study joggerfy these days
when our soldiers are going to change
the map of Europe all over, anyhow.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

Keep yourself in good humor," says
the war department. Does this mean
we can't retain our usual Monday
morning crouch?
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

Perhaps those shoe men had better
consult the girls before they feel per-
fectly sure about what kind of shoes
women and misses will wear next year.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

lines probably caused by cyclonic dis
turbance in the interior, we are unable
to present our readers with the usual
cables from England"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

The great outdoor sport over in
France seems to be that of decorating
American soldiers and aviators for dis
tinguished service.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

Talking about putting Russia on her
feet, 1T is reported that the United
States is preparing to send her $4,000
pairs Of shoes.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

Porch conversationalists are al
ready trained and accustomed to put
ting out lights as protection against
air raids-by mosquitoes.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

The Huns are now discovering that
America is getting Americans into
France faster than they had planned
to get Germans into America.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

The spruce trees, much needed for
airplane manufacture, are being at
tackled by Il blue bug" Prusslan blue,
no doubt.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

You scarcely can expect one to be.
come excited over the exposure of prof
iteering as long as the prices are I'M
affected.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

If you haven't done so already, get
ready to see how many war stamps
you can take, and arrange to take
them.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-09

Some fellows seem to have difficulty
in getting rid of the idea that the war
is being fought for their private profit.