California and West Virginia Back Repeal of Prohibition
Returns from California and West Virginia push repeal gains as nationwide tally shows states voting to delete the 18th Amendment. Counts indicate California leading about 3 to 1 in some regions, with West Virginia margins around 79 thousand as more ballots counted. Other states listed as having voted to ratify include New York New Hampshire Indiana Connecticut Iowa Michigan Wisconsin Rhode Island Wyoming New Jersey Delaware Nevada Illinois and Massachusetts.
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Cy Foe
San Francisco
California
West Virginia
New York
New Hampshire
Indiana
Connecticut
Iowa
Michigan
Wisconsin
Rhode Island
Wyoming
New Jersey
Delaware
Nevada
Illinois
Massachusetts
West Virginia votes to repeal prohibition in first Dixie state
West Virginia becomes one of 16 states to repeal prohibition with about 1 755 precincts reporting. The tally shows 187 421 for repeal and 109 918 against as drys warn of a regional wave while wet areas in the northern panhandle and industrial districts push the repeal vote. Patrick D. Koentz of the United Repeal Council notes strong southern county support and signals southern states may follow.
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San Francisco
California
San Diego County
Agua Caliente
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Dixie States
Pocatalico
Kanawha County
Panhandle
Patrick DP. Koentz
United Repeal Council of
Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
West Virginia Vote Hints at Prohibition Repeal Path
Postmaster General Farley said West Virginia's vote signals favorable results for a repeal in Alabama Arkansas and Tennessee next month. He claimed California and West Virginia prove earlier statements justified and that the eighteenth amendment could be repealed this year.
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Farley
Washington
West Virginia
Alabama
Arkansas
Tennessee
California
West Virginia Faces 61 Precincts Missing In Election Count
Report notes 61 scattered precincts unaccounted in West Virginia totals, with 28-11 indicating limited data as authorities seek full results. Officials urge patience as agencies compile remaining vote figures.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Stocks and commodities mixed as market fades late
The report shows gains in Hogs and several whiskey stocks while cotton and grains slump. Wall Street closes with mixed results as rail and steel shares drift and dollar weakness broadens after a rally in alcoholic stocks. Transfers reach about 5.3 million shares.
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Wall Street
New York
Owens-Illinois Glass
National Distillers
U. S. Industrial Alcohol
Crown Cart
American Commercial Alcohol
Celanese
American Ice
Druc
Case
Sears, Roebuck and
Montgomery Ward
U. S. Steel
Consolidated Gas
American Telephone
DuPont
Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Oklahoma City Livestock Report Prices Move Mixed
Cattle receipts 1300 with calves 400 and stockers slow. Steers and yearlings mostly 4.25 to 5.50. good butcher cows 2.25 to 2.50. canners 1.25 to 1.75. bulls 1.50 to 2.25. Calves mostly 25 to 75 lower for the week. some fancy medium weights 4.50 to 5.00. Sheep 600 with lambs active and steady. natives 6.90 top, bulk 5.75 to 6.60.
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Oklahoma City
Uploads of Quarantine Hogs and Cattle Prices in Kansas City Market
Kansas City market report lists hogs 400 direct, higher than Tuesday average. Prices for various weight ranges top around 4.45 for 200-250 lbs, sows 275-550 lbs, and stock pigs 70-130 lbs. Cattle and calves show steady to strong demand with top fed yearlings at 6.35 and steers mostly 5.15-6.50 per 100 lbs. Sheep and lambs quoted with lambs around 6.75-7.15 and hog quotes summarized.
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Kansas City
Ic. S. Dept. Agr
Choice
Potatoes Steady in Chicago Trade With Limited Sales
Potatoes about 69 on track with 250 on the move and total U S shipments at 366. New stock weaker and trading slow with moderate supplies. Virginia cobblers and Missouri cobblers sold in small lots around 2.35 to 2.40 and 2.25 respectively. Arkansas Oklahoma cobblers and triumphs 2.20 to 2.30 with decayed 1.90 to 2.10. Virginia bbl cobblers 4.00 to 4.25 decayed 3.50 to 3.90 old stock firm. Hecht noted light supplies with Wisconsin round whites about 1.69.
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Chicago
UC. S. Dept
U. S
Virginia Cobblers
Missouri Cobblers
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Virginia
Poultry Price Report From Market Ledger
Live poultry steady with 45 trucks. Hens 10 to 10 1 2 cents. Degnhorns roosters and turkeys 10 to 11. Spring ducks 6 to 9. Old stock 5 to 6. Geese 6 1 2. Leghorn broilers 11 to 13. Rocks 16 to 18 1 2. Colored poultry 14 to 16.
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Chicago
Ceese
Butter Prices Report From Chicago Creamery Sale
Chicago reports butter trading details with creamery specials priced at 93 score and extras at 92. Firsts range 90 to 91, with a 25-25 1-2 mark on 10.378 butter.
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Chicago
Readable fragments on grading and storage firsts and receipts
The notes list grading figures including firsts and seconds with percentages and ranges. It references centralized car lots, fresh graded firsts, current receipts and storage packed firsts with specific counts such as 8 647 and 14 1-4. The fragmentary text lacks full context or entities to confirm a clear event.
Dollar wheat tumbles on quick tax fears and stop orders
Chicago reports a sharp reversal in grain markets as the new process tax and farm bonus plan fuel uncertainty. Stop loss orders cascaded as traders booked profits. wheat closed near the day’s bottom with May at 99 1/4, corn and oats also down, while provisions ranged from 5 cent declines to 20 cent gains.
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Chicago
Archaeology of State Studies Oklahoma Prehistoric Habitations
An Oklahoma archaeology study group led by Dr. F. E. Clements and including Dr. C. S. Johnston H. R. Antle and Fred Carder surveys eastern sites such as Crowder mound Wagoner ceremonial mound nearby burial grounds Ozarks near Tahlequah Bluff Dweller villages west of Ada and a village near Optima Panhandle excavation aims to illuminate Pueblo culture eastward drift and Oklahoma Indian cultures.
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F. E. Clements
Department of
C. S. Johnston
School of Mines At
Wilburton
H. R. Antle
East Central State Teachers’ College
Fred Carder
University of Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Crowder
Wagoner
Ozarks
Tahleaquah
Ada
Antle
Panhandle
Optima
Oklahoma Senate to probe $48,000 school land shortage
Oklahoma City June 24 Senate investigating committee summoned Earl R. Wilson of Wilson and Garnett to explain when a $48,000 shortage in the state school land department was discovered, why it wasn’t revealed before the statute of limitations ran, and to hear details on Pollard era irregularities. The audit began in 1931 after 25,000 was set aside for the review.
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Oklahoma City
Senate
Earl R. Wilson
Tulsa
Wilson and Garnett
Ross Rizley
Willson
Sam Pollard
Land Commission
Rizley
Lana
Herbert Hyde
United States District Attorney
Pollard
Cornerstone Laying Marks Ada Federal Building Era
Ada citizens gathered for the cornerstone ceremony of the new federal building amid music, prayers, and speeches. Congressman Tom D. McKeown and Dr. A Linscheid spoke of Ada’s growth, government faith, and national progress as workmen set the cornerstone.
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Ada
Federal Post Office
Indian Territory
F. A
Fred Schrieber
America
C. E. Dunning
E. H. Nelson
East Central
T. J. Chambless
Tom D. McKeown
Congress
McKeown
Dr. A. Linscheid
East Central College
Chambless
Linscheid
Linseheid
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jefferson
Wilson
National Congress
Expert Caning Pointers Help Oklahoma Homemakers
Oklahoma homemakers receive home canning guidance from Martha McPheters of Oklahoma A. and M. College. The article details cherry, beet, tomato, and corn canning methods, with tips on processing times, salt use, and avoiding spoilage, plus instructions for using high quality young beets and corn handling to maximize shelf life.
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Oklahoma
Martha McPheters
Oklahoma A. & M. College
Miss McPheters
Oklahoma G
McPheters
Grain and cotton markets slip on mixed signals
Chicago Wheat quotes ranged from 93 1 4 to 94 1 2 for No. 2 red and 92 1 2 to 93 1 4 for No. 2 hard as market breadth varied. New York cotton prices fell on liquidation before partial rallies amid foreign buying and exchange fears with October futures around 10 42 and spot mid remains 10 25.
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Chicago
New York
New Orleans Spot Cotton Closes Steady after Decline
Spot cotton in New Orleans ends steady with a 20 point drop. Sales total 2784 with low middling at 9? and middling at 10.09, food middling 10.49. Receipts 2 314. stock 837 997.
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New Orleans
Cotton futures close barely steady in New York and New Orleans
Cotton futures in New York and New Orleans closed steady with modest declines and narrow ranges. July and other contracts posted slight gains or losses as markets reflected light trading and recent price activity.
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Cotton Futures
New York
4-H aims to boost canning with tomato and pear demos
Mrs. Jessie Morgan, home demonstration agent, led a Friday session for the Egypt 4-H club on canning tomatoes and drying pears. She noted that light rain now would assure an abundant vegetable supply for summer canning.
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Jessie Morgan
Egypt 4-H Club
Dan Pears
Gardens Flourish Across Counties In Local Judging
Garden judging last week in Colbert Maxwell Summers Chapel and Central communities reported gardens in splendid condition. A few early bush beans were harmed by weather, corn is good, vines thriving, cucumber vines loaded, carrots and okra done well, rhubarb noted.
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Colbert
Maxwell
Summers Chapel
Farmers Told of Cotton Program In Oklahoma County
A capacity crowd heard county agent J B Hill explain the government plan to reduce cotton acreage by paying farmers to plow up part of their crop. Contracts will cut 25 to 40 percent. payments range 6 to 20 dollars per acre, cash or cash plus a share of government held bales, depending on options chosen. Committees named to administer the program. contract blanks expected from Washington by Tuesday.
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J. B. Hill
Oklahoma
Mr. Hill
Washington
J. E. Chandler
Francis
George Crumley
Allen
Sim Blackburn
Lester Lillard
Ada
John Balthrop
R. A. Sliger
Stonewall
G. W. Hagger
H. L. Norman
EK. Corvin
A. P. Young
Fitzhugh
W. H. Brents
Hickory
W. T. Ready
John Laxton
J. J. Townsend
C. A. Acker
I. R. Gilmore
Carl Solomon
Vaness
J. E. Hall
Roff
L. O. Cobb
Oscar Rankin
Byars
Roy Glover
Lula
Hill
Tom Dpd
McKeown
Ada opens community cannery for surplus vegetables
Ada announces a Monday opening for a community cannery at the Choctaw Cotton Oil Mill office building. Citizens may use water lights and gas with a large canner and supervisor Mrs McNeil to guide operations. Donations of buckets washpans knives and equipment are urged to support the project.
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Ada
North Townsend Avenue
McNeil
Red Cross
Jessie Morgan
Manning
B. B. Howard
Tinner
Haynes Hardware Company
Bradford Supply Company
Barney Welding Shop
L. L. Hill
Chamber of Commerce
P. A. Norris
Ada Club Beaten By Antlers Sunday
Antlers Mountaineers won 9 to 0 over Ada Independents Sunday in Antlers amid a torrid heat. Antlers scored early, Coil and Shipley contributed on the mound with Brecheen pitching seven innings. Ada's infield included Roy Bryant, Earl Thomas, Lobaugh, and John Daugherty. Ada next meets Wilcox Oilers of Oklahoma City on Sunday July 2, with Oilers noted as leaders in Oklahoma City’s Twilight League.
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Ada Independents
Antlers Mountaineers
Antlers
Coil
Shipley
Harry Brecheen
Independents
Mountaineers
Gene Bryant
Ada
Roy Bryant
Earl Thomas
Lobaugh
John Daugherty
Wilcox Oilers
Oklahoma City
Oilers
Rain Delays Relief in Missouri Kansas
Heavy rain drenched central Missouri and broke a four week dry spell in southwest Missouri while Joplin recorded 1.14 inches. A light shower fell at Springfield churches and a late thunderstorm yielded about a quarter inch. Eastern Kansas saw cooler temps but central and western Kansas got only light, inconsequential rain. Oklahoma crops still in danger with forecasters warning of doom without more rain. No significant precipitation in Texas.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Joplin
Springfield
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Lead pencil makers announce wage increases
The lead pencil industry says it will raise wages due to improved business conditions. The move may reflect tougher work and greater effort required by workers in contemporary times.
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