Oklahoma readers urged to voluntary car inspections and repeal debate looms
Ponca City News notes car owners should inspect vehicles regularly though enforcement is lacking. Oklahoma voters will decide on repeal of the dry amendment next year with concerns about liquor control and local option. The piece contrasts armament race history, praises ministers for delaying a slot machine law, and honors Ada hosting the state pecan show as both display and education.
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Ponca City
Oklahoma
Secretary of State
Ciry
Ada
United States
Europe
Marland
Ruin Follows Nation as Zedekiah Falls to Babylon
The piece recounts Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Jerusalem under Zedekiah, the city’s fall, and the murder of nobles with Zedekiah’s eyes torn out. It links national decay to disobedience and cites prophecy as warning, then shifts to U S political notes on taxation exemptions and farm protection debates.
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Saul
Jerusalem
Zedekiah
Babylon
Jeremiah
Nebuchadnezzar
Moab
Jordan
Jericho
Egypt
One Thing He Forgot and War News Across the Atlantic
A mixed column blends personal quirks and a funeral notice with global affairs. It notes Mussolini’s Ethiopian war strains, the liquor repeal debate in Maryland, a traitor in Ethiopia, and a Chicago gangster’s suicide after escape. Also discusses convict labor, drunken driving bonds, corn-hog politics, and Oklahoma farmers weathering winter.
Taxes Exceed Dividends Warn of Tax Burden
A letter to stockholders from a leading American retailer laments taxes per share at 1.12 dollars while the dividend is 1.00. It argues higher taxes raise costs for goods like locomotives and beans, and that the public ultimately pays for government waste.
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John Citizen
Oklahoma City Livestock Markets Report and Education Board Action
Oklahoma City notes cattle and hog prices with mixed gains and losses across classes including calves, cows, sows, and lambs with price ranges. Separately the state board of education elected John Patterson former Ringling superintendent as business manager for Southeastern State Teachers College Durant succeeding Joe Scott as assistant state superintendent.
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Oklahoma City
State Board of Education Today
John Patterson
Ringling
Southeastern State Teachers College
Durant
Patterson
Joe Scott
Tishomingo
Chicago Dairy and Egg Prices on October 30
Butter 6 650 firm. Eggs 2 445 steady. Extra firsts 28 1 2 cents local, fresh graded firsts 28, current receipts 25 to 27 1 4, refrigeration extras 23 3 4, standards 23 1 2, firsts 23 5 4.
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Chicago
Poultry Prices in Chicago Market Report
Live poultry trading shows 40 trucks steady with hens 17 1 2 to 21 cents a pound and leghorn hens at 14. Rock springs 19, colored 18, leghorn chickens 16 1 2, roosters 15, turkeys 16 to 22, white ducks 4 1 2 cents, up 17, small 15 1 2, heavy colored ducks 16, small 15, geese 15 1 8.
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Chicago
Rock Springs
Potatoes Steady With Slow Demand In U S Market
Potatoes 88 on track 447 total U S shipments 447 steady. Supplies liberal and trading very slow. Idaho russe Burbanks U S No 1 1.50 to 1.60 mostly 1.60. U S No 2 1.25. Colorado McClures U S No 1 mostly 1.40.
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Chicago
U. S. Dept
U. S
Idaho
Wheat Prices End Mixed As Rallies Fade
Chicago wheat closed irregular as late rallies failed to hold with most contracts down a fraction to several cents. Traders favored peace talk over war rumors, with July showing the only notable advance while December softs declined. Oats and provisions also declined on the day.
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Chicago
Spot Grain Prices in Chicago Market Report
Spot grain prices in Chicago show Cash wheat No 2 red at 1.00 1 4, No 2 hard at 1.15. Corn No 5 mixed 57 to 59, No 2 yellow old 76. Oats No 2 white 30 1 2, sample grade 24 1 2 to 25 1 2.
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Chicago
Cotton market uneven as southern selling tempers gains
Cotton prices were irregular with an early advance then declines as southern selling and hedging pressured values. The midafternoon market stayed quiet with Dec at 10.99 while later months slipped. Futures closed barely steady with overall gains mostly erased. Speck steady middling at 11.35.
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New York
Spot Cotton Closes Steady Up In New Orleans Trade
Spot cotton in New Orleans closed steady with a three point up move. Sales reached 3,869 bale while receipts totaled 11,235 and stock stood at 565,248. The low mid grade sold at 19.53, middling at 11.33, and good middling at 11.88 per unit.
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New Orleans
Oil production changes little across states in week
Daily average U S crude output for the week ending October 26 stood at 2 825 296 barrels, nearly unchanged from the prior week. California rose to 658 000 barrels while Texas fell to 1 955 176 and Oklahoma eased to 499 875. Eastern states slipped and the Rocky Mountain region rose with Kansas also advancing.
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Tulsa
United States
Oil and Gas Journal
California
Texas
Oklahoma
Rocky Mountain
Kansas
Okla Y
Texas Pan
Tex
Gulf
Ome
North la
Arkansas
E. Fields
U. S
Garner Pays Respects To Jap Emperor
Vice President John Nance Garner met Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo in a private ten minute audience wearing formal dress and shoes. Speaker Joseph Burns and Edwin Neville accompanied him as they discussed no disclosed topics before departing for Manila to attend the Philippine commonwealth inauguration. A camera incident involving a sightseeing chauffeur was resolved and the affair closed.
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Tokyo
John Nance Garner
United States
Hirohito
Japan
America
Joseph W. Burns
House of Representatives
Edwin L. Neville
Foreign Office
Phoenix Hall
Palace
Garner
Burns
Grant
Kobe
Manila
Philippine Commonwealth
Keisuke Okada
Koki Hirota
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