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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1944
Page
8
Chicago AP dispatch reports hog prices holding at the 14.00 top with weights around 270 lbs and 9 000 salable hogs the largest Friday in months. Cattle and lamb markets show mixed moves with steers and yearlings softening while cows hold, vealers steady, and stocker trade at a standstill amid broad market softening.
A catalog of sale dates lists buyers and towns with each sale day in December. Included are R W Piteck Elk Horn December 6 Raymond Clausen Elk Horn December 14 Frank Will December 15 Peter Leander Maine December 19 Mr and Mrs Chas Bigelow Atlantic December 21 John Jepsen Atlantic December 21 Flick and Schhetfaide Aves December 5 Wm M Beyer Atlantic December 7 John Ahrenkiel Elk Horn Hermans Naw Auc December 6 Harvey Weaver Griswold Taylor and Ross Anse December 11 Paul Killton Oakland Earl Cramer Ace December 8 Noble Wasmet Grant.
Anita-Jens Rasmussen was in Qakaloosa on business Tuesday. Robert Cooper joined him to Knoxville to visit a brother and sister. Mrs Jens Rasmussen and son Gene were in Omaha earlier in the week. Miss Mildred Pace and Miss Ruby Simon, attending A I B, are also mentioned.
Des Moines data show 90 000 hogs moved in 24 hours at 19 yards and 11 plants across interior towns and southern Minnesota. Prices listed by weight: 160 180 lb at 11.40 to 13.35, 180 200 lb 13.10 to 13.55, 200 270 lb 13.25 to 13.70, sows 270 400 lb 13.00 to 13.35, 400 450 lb 12.90 to 13.25, 450 560 lb 12.75 to 18.20.
Sweet cream 53c No 1 cream 60c No 2 cream 48c eggs extra 4c No 1 36c No 2 25c old roosters 14c heavy breed hens 20c Leghorn hens 18c heavy breed springs 284c Leghorn springs 22c in Des Moines spent Thanksgiving weekend at their respective homes in Astis. J B Bertiman employed in Des Moines visited here Wednesday.
Salable 4,600 hogs and cattle offered as of Dec 1 with barrows and gilts 270 lb down, 270 lb plus mostly 80 cents lower, sow prices off more. Top hog price around 139.78, lean cows and calves mixed. Cattle and calves sale mixed with canner and cutter cows cited.
Chicago Dec 1 AP Wheat No 2 red 1.71 and a half dollars. Barley prices for malting and feed noted. December rates show slight declines in commodity quotes with various grade listings and mixed futures.
Closing stock prices show Am Can at 90 percent Am T and T at 165 percent Bendix Aviation at 49 percent Beth Stanford at 62 percent Boeing at 16 percent General Electric at 40 percent Gen Motors at 68 percent International Harvester at 77 percent Mont Ward at 52 percent Woolworth at 42 percent.
Fragmentary OCR shows numbers and stray phrases like 7.75 18.98 and 812.50 14.50 with unclear context or item names making a coherent summary impossible.
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