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Sirs: Your excellent weekly published this week a letter from one August Wagner of Columbus, Neb., containing a mass of misstatements reflecting on the flour millers of the state which we wish to emphatically controvert. You have been grossly imposed upon. . . . We have kept an accurate weekly record of wheat and wheat products prices for years and keep in close touch with the mill prices to retailers over the state all of the time. When wheat on Aug. 3, 1929, was $1.44 per bushel, Chicago option, Omaha cash was $1.34 to $1.40 per bushel. The mill quotations on standard flour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 1, 1930 | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

Sirs: Across the street I see a large sign-48-lb. sack good flour only 991-. W. D. Rhoades cash store. August Wagner of Columbus, Neb. should move to Texas where everything is right. J. E. BRADLEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 1, 1930 | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...train to come by. A switch engine backed across the spikes, its crew removed them, preventing disastrous derailment of a Newark-New York express. In Louisville, Ky., small Charlie Bradshaw found a sack of paperhanger's paste powder, took it home, dumped it into his mother's flour can. Biscuits made from the flour caused Charlie, his parents, his brother to be violently ill. His 15-months-old sister was expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Boys | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...Continuing high prices for flour, despite wheat's slump, continues to puzzle consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Crisis & Crusade | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

Albert C. Loring, president of Pillsbury Flour Mills Co.: "We have not contemplated any reduction in wages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wage Symposium | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

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