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ONE CENT-jijgig-ONE CfeNT J. S. WILL NOT INTERVENE IN MEXICO FEWER TOTS WORKING ON STATE ST. THE DAYBOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL.5, NO. 91 Chicago, Friday, January 14, 1916 3 IS OG. ARMOUR GOING TO STARW HARDLY! He and Swift Should Worry Big Coin Has Rolled in to TJiem in the Pig, Cow and Sheep - Rilling Game Chicago's slaughter houses . are more than ever the world's greatest Every report from the stock yards district shows the Swifts and Ar mqurs piling their personal fortunes higher and cinching more strongly every year their places among the world's families richest in personal commdnd of cash and .s property. Matching the Svrfft & Co. report two'weeks ago of 18 per cent profits, Armour &,Co.'s annual report yes terday show a business topping all past records. JU Ogden Armour can now write with perfect accuracy after his name: The World's Great est Butcher of Beef, Sheep and Hogs. Reading the annual report, it is easy to understand why Armour could afford to build last year a fence or high stone wall on his Mel ody farm, near Lake Forest, at a cost of $60,000. For the year ending Oct 30, 1915, Armour & Co. sales were $425,000, 000. This beats 1914"by $50,000,000.