PATTEN IN DANGER
Patten has engaged a detective to protect him owing to the public indignation against gambling in foodstuits.
THE ONE SUCCESSFUL WHEAT CORNER.
h. JJ \ w 00 !* • secrct^ r y for. Agriculture, at Washington, states that Patten is reckoning the supplies too low. Only one wheat corner succeeded, that was the one conoucted by Joseph in Egypt. ■ JViS^fl .Mr J. J. Hill prophesies that wheat Will not return to low prices for a long time. '
„ LONDON, April 17. liie Economist states that Patten's corner is far less important to tnc J3riasii workiiig classes than any of the big past manfpulations. ' ' '• Evidently the high prices in London must, be attributed jto other causes than the Chicago manipulation. Beerholm's wheat estimates arc for four months t
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Grey River Argus, 19 April 1909, Page 3
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