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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1936
Page
6
The Pontotoc County Oklahoma delinquent tax list warns Ada area lands and lots for 1935 ad valorem taxes and 1936 installments will be sold November 2 1936. The sale runs 9 am to 4 pm at the Pontotoc County treasurer office and continues until all parcels are sold.
Ann Hamilton a young secretary vacations at Lake Racine where she encounters Ralph Spring Jaime Laird and Bill Ware amid romance and a feared hotel robbery. Ann rejects Jaimes push to Canada chooses Bill while a bonds theft mystery unfolds drawing in local figures and a mounting tension at the mountain lodge and inn.
Poultry and produce market report from Chicago dated Oct 7 shows prices for live poultry and various fowl, turkeys, ducks, geese, and broilers with ranges in cents per pound. Butter and eggs prices are listed with unsettled butter and firm egg readings including local grade figures and car lots.
U S Dept of Agriculture reports show total shipments 759 with Idaho russets weaker and western stocks dull. Northern stock firm with light supplies and fair demand. Sacks of Idaho russet Burbanks mostly around 2.00. Wyoming Bliss mostly 1.90, Colorado McClures 2.00 to 2.25.
Chicago report notes rains expected to boost wheat yields but caused grain declines. Liverpool wheat dropped 1 3-4 to 25-8 cents, export demand for Canadian wheat appears halted as futures close lower across December and May contracts. Corn oats and provisions also move, with oats down and provisions up.
Chicago prices show cash wheat with No 3 red at 1.16 1 2 and No 2 mixed at 1.15 1 4. Corn bids range from No 2 mixed lake billing 1.07 to new crop 1.06 1 2. Oats list No 1 white 44 1 2 to 45 1 2 and No 4 white 41.
A feature on American dessert preferences notes chocolate cake as a family favorite but allows for alternatives like cocoanut. It provides two recipes: a layered chocolate cake with boiled frosting and step by step directions for preparing the batter frosting and assembly.
New York on October 7 saw cotton futures open with losses of 5 to 9 points, rebound to just above prior close, then ease under liquidation ahead of the government report. December slipped from 11.91 to 11.84 with late selling easing 2 to 6 points.
New Orleans reports spot cotton closing steady with a 2 point uptick. Trading activity totaled 12,719 bales with low middling at 11.15 and good middling at 12.85. Receipts reached 390,856 and total stock stood at 589,580.
Thirteen men start across the Pacific aboard the China Clipper with seven crew members guiding the flight from San Francisco to Honolulu as the first stage toward Manila. This marks the first travel flight ahead of regular passenger service set for October 21. The report notes no mosquitoes in France per current dispatches.
The Ada Weekly News publishes its October ownership and management statements. W D Little as business manager swears the details list Publisher News Pub and Pty Co Ada Editor Byron Norrell Managing Editor Byron Norrell and stockholders including News Pub and Pty Co Ada W D Little Byron Norrell J F McKeel Tom D McKeown Willie Faust Little all of Ada. No security holders with 1 percent or more are named. Sworn October 6, 1956 before Notary Loma Agnew.
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