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REYNOLDS SHOWS BUTCHER
ARMOUR AS BANKER
George Reynolds, president Conti
nental & Commercial bank, is out
with a newspaper statement telling
how interlocking directorates oper
ate in Chicago-
He says in substance that our most
prominent butchers are not only
butchers, but also bankers. The two
business interlock. That's why J.
Ogden Armour, the banker, is going
to punish, England for what England
is doing to J. Ogden Armour, the
jiuteher, in confiscating $2,500,000 of
meats shipped to a neutral port in
thirteen times normal quantity.
Both Germans and allies who like
a laugh are enjoying the comedy in
it The Germans don't know wheth
er it was Armour, the banker, or Ar
mour, the butcher, who said a few
weeks after the war started that he
wanted to see Germany whipped.
Banker Reynolds tells newspapers
that England's confiscation of the
$2,500,000 of meat "was an unfor
tunate decision to be laid before Chi
cago bankers at this time." Banker
Reynolds shows how the wheels go
'round when he says:
"Packing house interests are ne
cessarily heavily interested in the
larger banks and, as is shown by their
public utterances, they feel aggrieved
at the British prize court's action."
In this case it's England that Ar
mour is punishing by blocking a loan.
Next time it may be a Chicago news
paper publisher or an Illinois politi
cian or a commission merchant who
raises a kick against rates charged
by the Armour refrigerator lines.
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RIGHT ON THE POCKETBOOK
London. Forty per cent increase
in income tax and other drastic levies
to meet greatest deficit ever faced by
British nation proposed in govern
ment's tax budget introduced in the
house of commons this afternoon by
Chancellor of Exchequer Reginald
McKenna.
THIS 13 NOT PLEASING NEWS
BUT IT IS NEWS
News is news only at times to the
trust newspapers. Last Saturday the
facts of an unfortunate incident, the
finding of an unborn baby, were car
ried to every loop newspaper by the
City News Bureau, official organ. Not
a line was printed. The incident hap
pened in Marshall Field & Co.'s swell
State st. store.
A patron of the store going into
one of the lavatories on the third floor
of Field's store found a tiny body on
the floor, wrapped in a towel A ma
tron, then Policeman Jphn Poot, were
called and the tiny body was removed
to the morgue.
The police made a search for a
well-dressed woman seen leaving the
place a few minutes before the dis
covery, the record of the incident was
made in the police books and passed
on to the newspapers. Nothing was
printed.
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"MAJOR" BROWNE MUST TELL'
ABOUT "RADIUM TREATMENTS"
George Browne, who claims he is
major in the British army, is under
arrest at the East Chicago av. police
station, charged with obtaining mo
ney under false pretenses.
When his case is called in court
this morning he will face 19-year-old
Ella Peterson, who tells of radium,
treatments in his room on the second
floor of the Grant hoteL Miss Peter
son last night told Ass't State's Att'ys
Sullivan and Prindiville how Browne
had as many as five girls seated neg
ligee in his room arid that she had
spent the night ther several times.
Oleda Houghton, another patient,
corroborated Ella's story, and said she
knew of twenty girls who had been
lured to the "doctor's" office.
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Before marriage, a man thinks his
girl ought to have wings. After mar
riage, he makes an awful howl be
cause of their price 'When the mil
linery bill comes in.
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