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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1915
Page
4
Chicago market update notes hog receipts at about 14 000, with tone strong and five higher than yesterday. Top lots vary, with mixed weights and several headings showing 7.47 to 7.65. Bulk buyers and sellers respond to fluctuating prices amid a busy session.
Receipts for cattle reached about 5 000 with steady tone and bids around 7.40 to 7.50 for beeves and 6.50 to 8.00 for western Texas steers. Sheep receipts near 9 000 with strong tone and bids around 6.40 to 7.75 for lambs and yearlings, western and native lots noted.
Open and daily ranges for Wheat Corn and Oats show July and Sept contracts with figures for high low and close. Pork Lard Ribs firm near previous closes while spring wheat and winter wheat conditions stand at 94.9 and 85.6 respectively.
HOGS Receipts 11 000 slow. shippers 5 higher. bulk 7.40 7.60. top 7.60. mixed and butchers 7.40 7.60. light 7.40 7.60. CATTLE Receipts 4400 steady to 10 higher. cows 4.00 7.75. stockers and feeders 6.00 8.00. calves .00 1.25. SHEEP Receipts 1600 steady. springers 10.00 11.00. lambs 9.50 10.85. ewes 4.50 13.75. To the Public notices flowers for Memorial service. probate of will in Cass County.
Word from Washington reports Secretary of State Bryan has resigned this afternoon. The departure follows speculation and reshuffles within the administration as officials confirm the resignation.
S R Nelson travels to Omaha on business while Mrs Boorman prepares to return from the west coast. George Vrestan from Avoca visits. Mrs Clausen and son Arthur of Wiota are in town on business. Attorney Boorman heads to St Paul for legal matters. The Saverys plan a multiweek western trip including California expositions. Mrs Brehmer and four daughters visit Winterset to see relatives. Ira Welch of Griswold attends to business in town. The Acme Mercantile Agency advertises money on commission. Tom Maher returns from Chicago for vacation and family. Mrs Rowe departs for Sioux City as W F R C delegate. will be away week. Church of Christ class to meet at 8 pm. Crain home hosts. James Quirk returns from Des Moines after funeral of uncle Michael Cragan. Moritz family and Pauline Davenport visit Rothschild home. Pauline plans San Francisco trip. Mayne Jr of Council Bluffs arrives to manage paving at Walnut project. Herbert clarifies auto collision report. Children Day observed at Church of Christ with program. Bible school 245. Master Stanley Woodring visiting from Council Bluffs. prefers Atlantic over Council Bluffs. Virgil Nelson and Percy Shailenberg er cited for letting horses roam. fines assessed. William Young, former resident, visits city. Water last evening flushed. four-inch main caused temporary supply due to hydrant repairs, likely by mischievous boys.
Short notices report G A R ladies to gather at the courthouse tomorrow afternoon at 2 30. Also a meeting of the Iowa Rural Letter Carriers reception committee chaired by Bert Butler will be at the Commercial club rooms this evening at eight. A telegram from York Neb states Pete Behnitzen Is recovering well after an operation. Dr Francis Strickland has resigned as president of Simpson College at Tu.
Alwhelham Grueoin filed stepship papers in Philadelphia. Alexiev, chief of staff of the Kiev military district, now commanded on the northern front. Kyurl Liebknecht, famed German socialist, joined a sandstorm regiment for Alsace service. Lewis Rixon resigns as Richmond NY public works commissioner to return to shipbuilding. Professor Unokichi Hattori of Tokyo elected Harvard Japanese literature professor for one year starting September. Colonel Larry Foote Harges becomes engineer in charge of DC water supply and river harbor works. former Panama Canal maintenance engineer, native of Massachusetts, class of 1881.
A collection of dubious statements references glass hand grenades from ancient times, early flag shapes misdescribed, an uncaptured rhyme for month, Niagara Falls named by Father Hennepin, and a list of lands supposedly free from earthquakes. It also notes the government building over 50 miles of trail and 3,000 miles of telephone lines in national forests in 1914.
Train and Track notes U S railroad mileage at year end 258,038. Ottawa and St. Lawrence Electric railway plans to lay sixty six miles of track at 28 000 per mile. Spain's total railway length is 9 377 miles with over three quarters standard gauge. Rail receipts fell by 3 000 000 in 1914 from 1913.
The piece notes Galveston tying export sales to New York, Boston eyeing a 1920 world’s fair for the pilgrim tercentenary, and ranks United States cities by size after New York and Chicago. It also details a Trinity Church plot on Wall Street in New York valued at 17 million dollars.
Pennsylvania coal mines include 7000 miles of underground tunnels. U.S. cigarette output rose by about 700 million dollars last year. Licorice farming grows in California with supply from Asiatic Turkey. Alaska yields about 60 million salmon yearly, caught by spines traps and gill nets. About 200 canneries operate annually.
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