Grain futures ease after early rise on Board of Trade
Grain futures drifted lower in Chicago trading as May wheat edged up briefly at open but settled lower while other cereals held steady or dipped. Corn rose slightly on wet weather delaying planting, and soybeans gained modestly amid price shifts. A separate note described a morbid Riverside scene at a club meeting where mortician Earl Getchell presided with tombstone place cards.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Shiwnan
County Agriculture Ste
Mittee
Coin
Agriculture Departments
Eisenhower
Lafayette
Virginia
Shuman
Riverside
Calif
Earl Getchell
Riverside Exchange Club
Getchell
Stock Quotations and Market Ticker Extract
A dense list of stock names and market figures appears, including major automakers and industrials such as General Motors Ford Chrysler and U S Rubber along with several rail and utility firms. The passage notes Dow Jones averages and approximate volumes, with scattered prices and index figures in a clipped historical newspaper style.
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U. S. Rubber
U. S. Steel Western Union
Westinghouse
Ahs Mutual Funds
T, Wto
Wallington
Dow Jones
Avera Paraximals
Wee
Apprax
New York Cloth Markets and Lafayette Home Note
Dry goods in New York show mostly steady cotton textile prices with a 38 inch Sprintcloth at 13 1 2 cents per yard. Lafayette’s home in Vichy, France, saved and open to tourists as Marquis de Lafayette born 200 years ago. Shares rise on New York stock market with industrials leading and the AP index at a 1957 high, volume around 930,000.
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New York
Lafayette
Vichy
France
Marquis de Lafayette
Chavaniac
Auvergne
Wall Street
Associated Press
Local Livestock Market Prices
Prices for livestock and poultry include weight ranges from 200 to 300 pounds with sows calves and heavy hens. Grain prices cover wheat oats and corn per 68 pounds. Poultry items list fries under four pounds and old roosters, along with leghorn hens and eggs at current receipt.
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Anderson Poultry
Leghorn
Muncie Livestock Hogs Prices Reported Friday
Market notes from Muncie show hogs priced low to high with weights 80 to 240 pounds and over. Choice No 1 hogs quoted at 29 dollars 10 cents for lighter loads and declining to 16 to 17 dollars for heavier weights. Stags listed around 11 dollars.
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Muncie
Mixed Hog Market Prices Weaken in Chicago and Indianapolis
Hog market mixed with Indianapolis figures steady to strong on several weights and heavy cattle and steer offerings. Chicago trades showed hogs 25 cents higher to 30 cents lower with sow prices stable to down and cattle prices mainly steady to lower amid light sheep receipts.
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Indianapolis
Chicago
Markets Drift as Bonds Edge Lower in Busy Day
U S government bonds and corporate issues were mixed while equities fell on a listless Friday. Trading closed softer across industrials and utilities with converts irregular at the close. A Dallas motels thief left behind missing items including clamps chairs and a wall rack after a break in.
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New York
U. S
EADY
Dallas
Tex
L. S. Cole
Gary Resident Returns for Arkansas Murder Case
Gary Ind man Charles J Sexton 39 to face first degree murder charges in dynamite deaths of his estranged wife Edna 36 and stepson Charles Dittinger 5 in Paragould Ark explosion tore through apartment early Tuesday. Sexton arrested in Gary waived extradition. Mrs Sexton's mother Mrs Beulah Blackburn to care for 13-year old Nancy Lee Bittinger. Bodies to Fishertown Pa for services Sunday.
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Paragould
Ark
Arkansas
Charles J. Sexton
Gary
Ind
Edna
Charles Dittinger
Mather
Son
Sexton
Rollen Boone
Bill Read
Beulah Blackburn
Fishertown
Nancy Lee Bittinger
Public Auction Listings and Legal Notices in Anderson Indiana
A dense listing of multiple auction sales by various auctioneers in Pendleton Alexandria Elwood and Anderson Indiana with dates in May 1957. It includes household goods real estate personal property and administrator sales plus a bond sale notice from the City of Anderson detailing bid procedures and terms.
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Board of Public Works
Anderson
W. P.M
C.D.T
State Board of Accounts
State of
Indiana
Wheeler Avenue
Willis Winkler
Scretary Board of Public Works Tv
Harry S. McKinley
Noble W. Rine Earson
Joseph H. Armington
Superior Court
Madison County
William L. Peck
Alttomey Nn
Harlan Lewis
Mary E. Smith
North Mechanicsburg
Joe Kellum
Kim Bradley
Mar
Hillside Nursery
Anderson Sale Barn
H. D. Kirk
Auctiooneer
Ralph Gunning
Adm
Sale
West
Sir
H. Petty
H. L. Kennedy
George St
Bill Betty
Wiliam H. Owen
Gladys Owen
James Bradley
South
Pendleton. Ave
Pendleton
Ind
Wm. J. Rady
Arrow Ave
Billy Petty
R. W. Boze
Fairview St
Egg M. Hood
WIWA
E* St
Elwood
M. Hood
Ward Youn
Ww.a
St. Elwood
Corrine Wood
St. Alexandria
W. St. St. Alexandria
Arthur Hudson
Vivian P. Henry
Dorothy
Tittle
Farkleville
Elbert H. Whelchel
Ames & Silver St
No. Anderson
Madison Circuit Court
Byrn
Realty Corporation Way
Asa S. Shaul
Asan. Shaul
John L. Saxon
Margaret Saxon
Francis Sparks
Matilda N. Sparks
Oscar F. Eads
Ann Eads
Ann Davis
Montezuma Moss
Matida Eads
Berice Eads
Oliver F. Eads
John Ile
Township
Busby, Davisson, Cooper & Fars
Altys
Board of Pubic Works of
Anderson Waterworks
Indianapolis
State Board
City of
Rows
McCord, Ice & Miller
Wilson G. Anderson
City Controller Inc
Main Street
Summitville
Josephine Moore
A. ME. Williams
Guardian
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Ua Bolle
W. 13Th St. C
C. Clark & Sons
Muncie Livestock
ALR
SS. Petersburg
Fla
St. Petersburg
Tampa
Uy ’ . Lambs—Ste
Havana
Christopher Columbus
America
Avner Ter
Eee
Red Brick Inn
North Anderson
Aranca
Lancaster" Curtis
Edysteieliits
Hopper
Dusl Om
LAN
Sinatra
Reynolds
David Celeste
Deborah Kerr
Robert Mitchum
Charleston
DSA
James Stewarts
Lindy
St.louis
Cinemascope
Warner Color
B. F. Goodrich
Dolenski
Chesterfield
Chuck’ Baldwin
His
Sis Pieces Orchestra
McDonald Furniture
McDonald's
Peat
Soin Tae
Grant Williams
Randy Stuarapoe
Sgaf
Pall Langton
Raymonnd Bailey
Cesar R
Adele’ Mara
Regalscopt
Lions Club
Anderson Lions Club
Charles A. Roal
J. Luther Elsen
Herman Landes
Earl Hoover
Mr. Roof
J. Ben Sloane
Ralph Horrell
Dallas Miller
A. G. Benning
John H. Kane
J. F. Phillips
Paul Bickel
Miller
Banning
Kane
Herald
Leonard E. Moore
Douglas D. Mosra
Cheryle Moore
Harold J. Anderson
Florida
White Stone Lane
Allis W. C
Marion
Mt. Gilead Church
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