The Carter Express. (Carter, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, January 17, 1919 Page: 4 of 8
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Why Meat Prices Vary
in Different Stores
Prim* itwra.................,.,..|U).9M5MO.*5
Good tochoic* nteort............. 17(Xtyi<19.86
Common to modlum itti.ri........ I0.76W10.7J
Yoarlinio, f»lr lo fnticy........... I6.00D18 W
FWtcnwa and hoifera........... 9>6(916 86
Cannim row* nnd heifart........ 7.26W 8.26
B ilia, plain to boat............... 6.6 (912.(0)
Poor to fancy calvat.............. 6.7. W16 76
Woatara rung. ataart............. lU.UUWl8.o0
These newspaper quotations
represent live cattle prices in
Chicago on December 30th, 1918.
The list shows price ranges
on nine general classified groups
with a spread of $13.85 per cwt
—the lowest at $6.50 and the
highest at $20.35.
Why this variation in price?
Because the meat from differ-
ent animals varies greatly in
quality and weight
Although the, quotations
shown are in nine divisions,
Swift & Company grades cattle
into 34 general classes, and each
class into a variety of weights
and qualities.
As a result of these differences in
cattle prices, (due to differences in
weights and meat qualities), there is a
range of 15 cents in Swift & Com-
pany’s selling prices of beef car-
casses.
These facts explain:
1— Why retail prices vary in
different stores.
2— Why it would be difficult to
regulate prices of cattle or
beef.
3— Why it requires experts to
judge cattle and to sell meat,
so as to yield the profit of
only a fraction of a cent a
pound—a profit too small to
affect prices.
Swift & Company, U.S. A.
SAD DAYS FOR SUGAR LOVERS
—
Sweet Substance Is Doled Out In Nig.
gardly Fashion by Order of the
Food Administrator.
If you are well acquainted wiU J
the Virginians, you know how irre-j
sistible is their love for sugar. No;
F. F. V. will accept less than two,
spoonfuls in his coffee unless hej
should be entertaining Mr. Hooverl
or some other one of those dour and
mathematical Washingtonians.
So it was a day or two ago that.
Assistant Food Administrator Malt-
bie was traveling in the diner with
Administrator Sproul of Virginia,
and the waiter served canteloupe.
“Here, waiter,” said Mr. Sproul,
“a little sugar with the canteloups,
please. I like it that way.”
“Sorry, suh,” said the waiter, “but
the guv’ment done ’ministrated
again’ it. No sugar for nothing,^
suh, except cereal and also coffee, if;
you ask for it.”
“Well,” said Mr. Sproul, “you
haven’t brought me any sugar fori
my coffee. Bring it and I will put
some on my melon.”
The waiter nodded, hurried out,
returned and Jam tlie uugiu ni ml
Sproul’s plate. It was lump sugar.
Such are the newest of the food
administration regulations. The
sugar bowls have been banished from
the dining cars, and no sugar is
served to any diner, except for his
cereal. He can have lump sugar for
his coffee if he asks for it.
I Sugar for cereals will be served in
small envelopes, and it is necessary
to make that much do. Nobody—
not ev'n a food administrator—gets
more than that.—Baltimore News.
FOR ITALY’S BABIES.
Motherhood in Italy just now Is not
the Joy that It might be, for the poor
women are at their wits ends to clothe
the children already In the family, not
to mention the preparation for the lit-
tle newcomers. Perhaps the most ap-
preciated gifts of the American Red
Cross at this time are the layettes
which are being given to the mothers
of Italy. Each layette consists ol
twenty-four pieces nnd includes four
bright colored swathing hands, so dear
to the heart of the Italian woman.
Twenty layettes a week are needed at
Chioggia alone.
LETTER FROM
HARVE MCRCE.
Kingman, Kansas.
Jan. 10, 19.
Kind friend: As we are now
THE FLU.
(Clipped from Clinical Medicine by Dr.
E. S. Kilpatrick, who requests that we
republish in the EXPRESS.)
When your back is broke and
located in our new home, we are your eyes are bIurred*
tasking that you send our paper And y°ur shin bones knock and
Itrt * vour tonniiR is fnrpoH
| to Kingman
We have been having some
I winter weather in the way of
| snow but it hasn't been so cold.
We are still among the lucky
[ones who haven’t had the “flu
all of
| Kingman to see us.
Best regards to all.
Harve Monroe and family.
your tongue is furred,
And your tonsils squeak and your
hair gets dry,
And you’re doggone sure you're
going to die,
But you’re skeered you won't
and afraid you will —
Will be pleased to have any or an(* a^ra^ y°u will —
1 of our Carter friends come to c*rae *° be^ and have your
:------l------ chill,
And pray to the Lord to see you
OFF FOR SOUTH-
ERN TEXAS.
J. D. Jones and son, Campbell,
are leaving this week for Chris-
tine, Texas, where they will
spend the rest of this winter.
Christine is in southern Texas,
and they are going down there
in order to get out of this cold
country for a while. Mr. Jones
owns some property at Christine.
Mr3. Jones and Lester, also Mrs.
Jones' brother, Charley Bohan
nan will remain here on the
farm
Officers O. T. Golden and Lum
| Ridley were over at Sayre Mon-
| day.
Wash Dalton and one of his
daughters went over near Port
Monday to see bis brother, Bud,
who, with all of his family, were
| down witn the flu.
-0---
Farm Loans.
Money ready on examination.
G. C. Mitchel.
0-
Mr. V. Herron informs us that
he has lost a yearling with black
through,
For you’ve got the flu, Boy,
You’ve got the flu.
When your toes curl up and your
belt goes flat,
And you’re twice as mean as a
Thomas cat,
And life is one long dismal curse,
And your feod all tastes like a
hard boiled hearse,
When your lattice aches and
your head's a-buzz,
And nothing is as it ever was,
Here are m.v sad regrets to you—
You've got the flu, Boy,
You’ve got the flu
What is it like, this Spanish flu?
Ask me, Brother, for, I’ve been
through.
It is misery out of sheer despair;
It pulls your teeth and curls your
hair,
It thins your blood and brays
your bones,
And fibs your craw with moans
nnd groans,
And sometimes, may be, you get
well,
Some call it flu,-I call it HELL.
—Anonymous.
Uhe Carter Sxpress
Published ever Ftiday at Carter, Ok la.
Ceo. W. Cain, Editor and Owner.
Entered at tho Carter, Oklahoma,
Postoffice March 25th, 1910, as second
class mail, under the act of March 3,
lb79.
Subscription price $1.50 per year.
E. S. Kilpatrick
Physician and Surgeon
Phone Res. 56. Office 28.
Successor to Dr. J. M. Denby
Office With Richards' Drug Store
D. H. LUSK’S
DRAY LINE
Transfers on everything to any
part of town. You pay only
according to what you have
hauled.
OUR CLUBBING OFFERS
iiuo luai ayeanuig witn DiacK- The EXPItESS will be sent
leg. Mr. Herron says it is rather for one year> together with the
PHrltr ffiT fVn'a rlioonoA (•/» folIfiWinfV nunoro it.- . ?
early for this disease to break
out so he warns the farmers to
be on their guard,
-o-
Sam Simpson was up at Elk
City Saturday distributing his
sale bills, his sale being billed
to take place at his farm four
and one half miles southeast of
here today, the EXPRESS hav-
ing printed his bills last week.
-O--
W. T. Hill of Willow was here
doing some trading last Friday
and be was telling us about what
a time his family had had with
the flu. He said there were ten
of them down at one time, but
none of them took pneumonia so
he considers they were lucky-
after all.
following papers at the price
stated.
The EXPRESS and Dallas
Sjmi-Weekly Farm News, bo h
papers one year...........$2.25
The EXPRESS for s i x
months and Dallas Semi-Weekly
Farm News one year.......$1.50
Ihe EXPRESS and Kansas
City Star both one year____$1.75
The EXPRESS and Dally
Oklahoma News both one year
for:-.....................$4.75
The EXPRESS one year,
and Fort Worth Star Telegram!
including Sunday, from now till
Dec., lsf, notquitea year...$6,25
M. Shadid
Physician & Surgeon
GRADUATE WASHINGTON
UNIVERSITY
Res. Phone 63. Office 51.
See
G. C. Mitchel
For Farm Loans
Real Estate
And The
Best Insurance
EASING THE CARES
OF SOLDIERS’ FAMILIES
Dock Barr is aiming to have
ice cream to eat next summer
without having to buy the ice to
freeze it with as he has stacked
away several wagon loads in his
silo. He cut the ice up in blocks
of abouc 100 pounds each and
stacked it snugly away in the si-
lo and covered same up to ex-
clude the air. %
JOT IT DOWN
That we do the very
best line of Commercial
Printing and at reasonable
prices. Give us your next
order and let us prove our
assertion.
Bear in mind, we want
your business, and we pro-
pose making ourselves de-
serving. Are you with us?
THANK YOU
Let Us Print Your
Sale Bills
—j, .« vcv..v.. tumnoii; and acts
thru the Bltiod on the Mucous Surfaces |
of the System. One Hundred Dollars re- WV\c>r\
ward is offered for any case that HallV ™ nSIl II C0II16S 10 HSSlt
send£01 anc( effective printing
of any Kind we will
guarantee to give you 1
satisfaction. i
There Is more Catarrh In this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and for years it was sup-
posed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing
to cure with local treatment, pronounced
it incurable. Catarrh is a local disease,
greatly Influenced by constitutional con-
ditions and therefore requires constitu-
tional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Medi-
cine, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, Ohio, is a constitutional
remedy, is taken internally
circulars and testimonials.
SiK’SSS.S, c£: ow»-
Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The ten thousand Home Service Sec-,
tlons of the American Red Cross, In
their work of looking after the famk
lies of the enlisted men, are doing won-
ders for the morale of the army, (hir-
fighters are not men who are going to
worry about themselves, hut if they do,
not get cheerful letters from home, or
If anything goes wrong there, they are.
going to worry, and that delicate thing
the army men call morale is going to
he disturbed. It Is to safeguard'
against tills nnd also to prevent need-
less suffering and to promote that spir-
it of neighborliness and kindly aid that
binds each community Into an organic
whole that the Home Service was or-
ganized.
Over 50,000 workers are serving on
these ten thousand committees, which
reach Into every corner of the country,
however remote. Not n town or vil-
lage or crossroads that Is not within
reach of the lied Cross; not a wife or
child or mother of a man In service
who cannot claim Ihe ready uld of the
Red Cross workers.
More than 800,000 families of Amerh.
enn soldiers and sailors have been re-
lieved of money troubles, legal difficul-
ties nnd worries of all sorts by the.
protecting arm of (be Red Cross. If
the allowances of allotments under the
War Risk Insurance law do not come
the matter Is at once referred to Itod
Cross Headquarters, taken up with the
proper government bureau and prompt-
ly straightened out. If, through tho,
delay, the family finds Itself In need
of money sums are advnneed to tide It
over until the allotment arrives. Dur-
ing July over sixty thousand Inquiries
of this kind were received, and more
than a third of these were taken dear,
through to headquarters before tlieyj
could be straightened out.
A DISGUSTED HOBO. - j
“So you’re goin’ to work,” said j
Meandering Mike.
“You bet I am,” replied Plodding!
letk. “The I. W. W. lias took all
the dignity out o’ loafin’.”
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Cain, George W. The Carter Express. (Carter, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, January 17, 1919, newspaper, January 17, 1919; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc957270/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.