Identifier: cangroceraprjune1918toro (find matches)
Title: Canadian grocer April-June 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
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Subjects: Supermarkets Grocery trade Food industry and trade
Publisher: Toronto : Maclean-Hunter Pub. Co. (1887)-
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t canned goods when they are avail-able. Mr. Nairn intimated that practicallyall of their factories would be in oper-ation this year, the only ones closed be-ing those where help could not be se-cured. Reports from practically everycentre indicated that efforts to grow thevegetables were being made, and withreasonably good luck the result shouldpan out ahead of last year. THE COCOANUT SHELL IN FRANCE German poison gas has given the shellof the cocoanut a humane as well as acommercial value and thousands ofeocoanuts are being shipped from PortoRico so that the shells may be used inthe manufacture of gas masks for Am-erican troops in France. Space is beingfound on ships to take care of all cocoa-nuts offered. The shell of the cocoanut, it was foundafter much experimentation, could bemade into a high grade of charcoal. Thischarcoal, it is said, is a valuable antidotefor poison gases. The cocoanut is theonly nut on the list of 81 essential im-ports prepared by the United StatesGovernment.
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Attractive interior of the James Osborne & Son store, James Street, H amilton. Note the prominence given to counter display. 26 CANADIAN GROCER May 31, 1918. Analyzing the Cause of Failure Some Interesting Deductions From Mercantile Returns Regarding Business Failure—Sat-isfactory Decline in Gross Number of Failures—Contributory Cause. AN ANALYSIS of the causes offailures in Canada since the warbegan, in comparison with thecauses that were operative before thewar, as carried out by Bradstreets, pre-sents some interesting and helpful fig-ures both as to this country itself, andin contrast with a similar analysis cover-ing the United States. Apart from theoutstanding fact of the striking decreasein the number of failures, is the lessenedinfluence of the war as a direct cause offailure. This was known in a generalway, but it is encouraging to have proofsubmitted in so tangible a form. Withwhat are termed specific conditions(disaster, war, floods, etc.), having alessened influence

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