Name/Title
Facts About St. Joseph, News Clipping, 1921Entry/Object ID
AM2020.2.307Scope and Content
Facts About St. Joseph, News Clipping, 1921. St. Joseph Gazette, Sept. 4, 1921. News photo as headline shows panoramic view of downtown St. Joseph looking east from river. May be an add for Block Brothers Clothing Store,.
Headline:
"Facts About St. Joseph--That Everybody Should Know"
"Block Brothers , A Store for Four States, The Apparel Fashion Center of St. Joseph."
Facts include:
--5th largest Live Stock market in U.S.
--Annually, 1,000,000 cattle, 2,500,000 hogs, 1,000.000 sheep, 45,000 horses
--4th in Wholesale Dry Goods Center in U.S., 1st per capita
--5th in Candy manufacturing industries, 1st per capita.
--5th in sale of Hardware, 1st per capita
--1st in manufacturing of school & writing tablets
--Largest Ice Cream Cone Manufacturing plant in U.S.
--Largest Winter Wheat mill in U.S.
--Headquarters & intersection of 2 great highways--the Jefferson & Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean.
--Large mixed alfalfa feed mill in U.S.
--Largest manufacurer of ornaments & white way lamp posts in U.S.
--Center of greatest corn & wheat producing district in U.S.
--Largest pancake flour mill in U.S.
--Largest manufacturer of saddles, harness & collars in U.S.
--8th as a Railway mileage center, 150 passenger trains arrive and depart daily. Incoming & outgoing freight for 1919, 213,487 cars.
--14,481 telephones & 11,937 gas consumers
--113 miles of paved streets
--Street Railway Company carried 24,957,836 passengers in 1919.
--19 Banks and Trust Companies with total resources of $50,000,000.
--91 Churches, 43 grade schools, and 5 high schools.Collection
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St. Joseph Statistics, 1921