Queen City Times. (Agra, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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Queen City Times |
AGRA.
OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma NewsNotes
Sapulpa now has a choral club.
It Is 1912; the bugs are frozen up
and tlie ground Is wet. Why not be
happy?
Oklahoma marble will be used In
constructing the new’ union station at
Kansas City.
Number of postoffice boxes rented
by the Shawnee office is said to exceed
all past records there.
The Wichita Palls & Northwestern
has established service between
Woodward and Supply.
Freeholders are busy writing a city
charter to be submitted for the ap-
proval of the citizens of Ada.
December postal receipts at Tulsa
aggregated $S,920.46—a gain of $1,-
421.92 over the same month in 1910.
Total receipts for 1911 were $78,624.21.
In one day last week, at Shawnee,
40 hogs were shot by order of the
health inspector. Cholera had de-
veloped.
The Oklahoma Metal Tank com-
pany, of Tulsa, capital $100,000, has
been granted a charter by the secre-
tary of state.
Scotch clans of the state will as-
semble at Shaw’nee, January 25, to cel-
ebrate the anniversary of the birth of
Robert Burns.
Having already a bonded debt of
$217,000, Vinita contemplates another
issue to take up warrants declared
void by Judge Davis and to meet other
indebtedness.
Fire, which started in a pool hall at
Mountain View, burned the pool hall,
a meat market, and the city's new
town hall, entailing a loss of $32,000.
By a vote of 65 to 7 the people of
Weleetka gave the city council author-
ity to pipe the town for oil, and they
have also decided to expend $1,000 in
boring for gas.
Every farmer in Oklahoma should
get hold of the stories told by the boy
champions as to how they raised corn
and cotton, and follow the method
these boys pursued. What a crop
would be raised, even if they were
only half as successful.
Jefferson county farmers are in a
bad way because of crop failures, and
steps are being taken to obtain seed
from grain growers in localities more
favored. J. R. True, of Ryan, will go
to Washington to seek aid from Con-
gress.
Word has been received at Hobart,
from R. J. Edwards, of Oklahoma
City, purchaser of the $100,000 bond
issue recently voted by that city, that
the money for the bonds was ready,
and that the bonds had been approved.
The money is to be used for a new
city hall and other Improvements, and
with the contract let for a $10,000
Carnegie library, Hobart expects to
get busy in an industrial wray.
A general reorganization of the
Lawton chamber of commerce has
been made with R. W. Thompson,
president; E. W. Moll, first vice-presi-
dent; Robert Landers, second vice-
president; Roy F. Champlin, secre-
tary’, and Frank L. Ketch, treasurer.
The chamber of commerce has de-
clared against the Akin bill which pro-
poses to abolish fourteen of the state
schools, and will take an active part
in the campaign against it.
Hold-Up
An Oppressive Trust.
Before the Coffee Roasters' Association, in ses-
sion at Chicago on Thursday, Thomas J. Webb,
of Chicago, charged that there is in existence a
coffee combine which is “the most monstrous im-
position in the history of human commerce.”
There is very slight exaggeration about this
statement. It comes very close to being literally
true. There is a coffee combine in Brazil, from
which country comes the bulk of the coffee used
in the United States, which is backed by the gov-
ernment of Brazil and financed by it, which com-,
pels American consumers, as Mr. Webb said, “to
pay famine prices for coffee when no famine
exists.”
The worst thing about this is that the consum-
ers of the United States have been compelled to
put up the money through which this combine,
to further cinch them, has been made effective.
There were formerly revenue duties imposed upon
all coffee entering the United States. Those taxes
were denounced as an imposition upon the people;
as taxing the poor man’s breakfast table, and the
like. The taxes were removed. Immediately
thereafter Brazil imposed an export duty uponj
coffee up to the full amount of the former customs
taxes in this country. The revenue which for-
merly went into the treasury of the United States
was diverted to the treasury of Brazil. The poor
man’s breakfast coffee continued to cost him the
same old price.
But this was only the commencement. The
“valorization” plan was evolved in Brazil.
Through this plan the government, using the rev-
enues derived from the export duties for the pur-
poses, takes all of the surplus crop in a season of
large yields and holds it off the market, thus
keeping the supply down to the demands of the
market and permitting the planters to receive a
much higher price than they would otherwise
have done.
The United States consumes more Brazilian cof-
fee than does the rest of the world. We are the
best customers of Brazil, and Brazil buys little
from us. Now Brazil is promoting, financing and
maintaining a trust designed, and working effect-
ively for the purpose, to compel American con-^
sumers to pay an exorbitant price for the coffee
they use. What is the remedy?—Seattle Post-In-
telligencer—Ifov. 19,1911.
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Standard statistics of the coffee trade
show a falling off in sales during the last
two years of over two hundred million
•ounds. Authenticated reports from the
postum factories in this city show a
tremendous increase in the sale of Postum
in a like period of time.
While the sales of Postum invariably
show marked increase year over year, the
extraordinary demand for that well-
known breakfast beverage during 1911 is
very likely due to a public awakening to
the oppression of the coffee trust.
Such an awakening naturally disposes
the multitude who suffer from the ill
effects of coffee drinking to be more re-
ceptive to knowledge of harm which so
often comes as a result of the use of
the drug-beverage, coffee.—Battle Creek
Evening NewS—l)ec. 19,1911.
is a pure food-drink made of the field grains, with a pleasing'
flavour not unliKe high g'rade Java.
A Big' Package
About U lbs. Costs 25 cts.
At Grocers
Economy to one’s purse is not the main reason for using
Postum.
It is absolutely free from any harmful substance, such as
“caffeine” (the drug in coffee), to which so much of the nerv-
ousness, biliousness and indigestion of today are due. Thou-
sands of former coffee drinkers now use Postum because they
Know from experience the harm that coffee drinking' causes.
Boil it according to directions (that’s easy) and it will
become clear to you why—
“There’s a Reason”
Postum Cereal Company, Limited, Battle Creek, Michigan.
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