The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-29
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A cafeteria was recently opened in
Des Moines, Iowa, With decided cut
in prices commonly charged in res
taurants. Included in the menu are
roast beef for ten cents a portion, cof-
fee for three cents a cup and bread for
one cent a slice.
With the organization of an Ameri-
can chamber of commerce at Pernam-
buco. Brazil, there are now % SINH
lar organizations promoting American
trade in foreign countries. China leads
all others in total number of American
chambers OF commerce, with six such
bodies. Our trade with China Is grow
ing. The only menace is the growing
z influence and force of Japan.
The Hungarian parliament has
planned a law authorizing corporal
punishment for p ,fiteers and specu-
Iators in necessities of life. The normal
number of lashes is %.
The trade of the United Staes with
war Nequestered countries those
( which We're cut off from international
commerce as result of war-will ag-
gregate mere than billion dollars in
calendar year 1920. To the dozen coun-
tries with which our trade was neces-
sarily suspended during war period
our exports in calendar year 1920 viii
approximate $75O.0O0.000 and our i'm
ports therefvom about S250,o00,000.
The worlds production of silver in
1920, according to an estimate submit-
ted to the International Financial
Congress at Brussels, will fall short of
pre-war rate of production by fully
29.000.000 ounces, if not more. The es-
innate places the 1920 probable output
at 195,000,000 ounces. In 1913 the
amount produced was 223,so0,oO0
600 ounces.
Plans for the construction of a
sweet potato storage house may be
had by writing to the Experiment Sta
ton at Gainesville, or from farmers
bulletins $40 and SAT, u. S. department
OF agriculture, Warrington. d. C. A
large percentage of the sweet pota-
toes grown each year is lost because
of poor storage facilities and bad
handling.
There are some 1900 cooperative
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Britain, with a business last year
amounting to nealy one billion dollars.
among 100000 members
Business in the world is in an upset
condition. To bring things back to
normality is a question up to each in
dividual. Don't buy what you don't
need. Don't buy unless you know you
are getting your full moneys worth.
The u. S. bureau of chemistry.
Washington. d. c., has developed a
method TO manufacture cane syrup so
as TO prevent crystallation and fer
mentation. II interested write to the
bureau and get information.
The u. S. department of agriculture
announces the result of a farm profits
survey, of farm profits, covering seven
years in two areas and five years in
a third. show that comparatively few
OF the farmers in the groups studied
have been making large profits during
the recent years of comparative high
prices: that their average return on
investment increased from about per
cent in 1918 to Z per cent in 1918: that
most of them are making less than
$500 cash per year over and above the
things the farm furnishes toward fam
ily living.
The total attendance for the seven
games of the worlds series between
Cleveland and Brooklyn was I7S,357.
The total receipts were s564.7Ss. or
this $56.47s.S0 went TO the National
commission. s293.4 1924 to the owners
OF the two clubs and s214,S76.2s to the
players. Baseball pays better than
farming, teaching or preaching.
American purebred animals to the
value OF 100000 were sold in South
America during the first six months
of 1920. and livestock commissioners
sent to South America to develop the
American purebred industry in that
country report that the field is very
promising.