Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1919 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

—. ’ ' ■ - Vr- ' ■' .x’ - ■ - - Xmi 9■; —— '■ '■ ' *■"' * " * < Jjr Mr * Half a Century Ago Haif a Century Ago, every community could be supplied to some extent with locally dressed meat, drawing on live stock raised nearby. Now two-thirds of the consuming centers, with millions of people, are one to two thousand miles away from the principal live-stock producing sections, which are sparsely settled. The American meat packing industry of today is the development of the best way to perform a national service. __ _ The function of providing meat had to develop accordingly. Those men who first grasped the elements of the changing problem created the best facilities to meet it—-large packing plantsand branch houses at strategic points, refrigerating equipment (including cars), car routes, trained organization, profitable outlets for former waste which became the natural, inevitable' channels for the vast flow of meat across the country. \ If there were a better way to perform this necessary service, American ingenuity and enterprise would have discovered it, and others would now beta&tglt. During 1918, Swift & Company has earned a profit on meats (and meat by-products) of less dian 2% cents per dollar of sales—too small a profit to have any appreciable effect on prices. B Swift & Company, U.&A. Join the Red Goss S- z.—- — ■ . ■ 111 I RAW FURS FUR SHIPPERS WANTED I to ship direct to us. No shipment too large for us. No shipment too small to receive personal attention I from us. Fur graded and check mailed day fur is received. We pay express on lots over $25.00. I XV. 1,000,000 Skunk, 100,000 Fox, 25,000 Ermine, I C IICcU 5 000 Badger, 40,000 Mink, 2,000,000 Muskrat, I 500,000 Opossum, 100,000 Raccoon-and 2,000,000 other Pelts. I Write for Complete Price List, or better still, ship us what you I have on hand. We will keep you posted if you write or ship to | Cramer-Mann Fur Company I 700-800 Block, North Third St, St Louis, Mo. I Reference: Dun’s, Bradstreet, Your Bank

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