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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1939
Page
7
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Miss Jocelyn Soukup left Friday for New York to attend the world’s fair with her cousin Earl Sterling and his Omaha wife. They plan a monthlong motoring tour visiting eastern sites while she completes business college duties. Funeral services for Mrs Fred Sorensen were held at Immanuel Lutheran Kimballton with Rev Alfred Jensen presiding. She died Saturday after an appendectomy at Carroll hospital and was buried in Clay township cemetery south of Elk Horn.
At the Memorial building in Audubon rural exercises featured 15 eighth grade graduates from Audubon township north of Anita among the speakers and ceremony attendees.
Chicago June 13 wheat futures rallied late with July at 73 3/4 cents and corn up 1/2 to 1 cent. wheat closed steady, corn higher, oats and rye mixed, soybeans little changed. Cash grain prices show 3 red wheat 77 cents, corn 51 to 61 1/2 cents, oats 34 to 35 1/2 cents, mixed samples vary.
Keith Nichols 10, son of Ben F. Nichols of Nichols Iowa, died after injuries from a fall from his father's portable mill yesterday afternoon. He died in Mercy hospital at Iowa City. Funeral services will be held at Nichols on Wednesday.
We thank relatives friends and neighbors for kind ness and deeply grateful for the devoted care given by Atlantic Hospital nurses and personnel during the fast and lengthy illness of our wife and mother Burleigh M Painter and Mrs Anna Brown.
Combined hog receipts at 20 concentration yards and 10 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota totaled 21 600 for the 24 hour period ending 9 00 am today up from 19 400 a week ago and 11 900 a year ago. Prices varied by weight with barrows and gilts mostly steady to 10 cents lower and packing sows reported at 275 to 550 pounds with several price ranges listed.
Herbert Olesen left Avoca for Richmond Virginia to attend the Alpha Tau Omega national convention then to New York City. He is a University of Iowa student and will be gone two weeks. Woodrow Christiansen graduates from Avoca High School and heads to Rockford Illinois to seek employment. Laura Smith and a friend depart for New York City by rail and water via the Great Lakes region. Mrs Lake Bear and daughter Mary Jane plus Miss Lilly Smither and Bud Mitchell escort Effie Blakesley home to Red Cloud Nebraska. Buddy Bear visits Omaha during the weekend.
New York stocks slipped again with leaders down over a point amid labor trouble at General Motors and Allis Chalmers plants. Activity remained quiet at the open, declined through the day, and ended near session lows with about half a million shares traded. Major declines hit motor, steel, chemical, rubber, and mail order issues, while Allied Chemical fell sharply. Commonwealth & Southern preferred steadied amid mixed demand. Closing quotes include Amn Can at 95% and Gen Elec at 357, among many others.
Chicago and South Omaha markets report hogs about 10-15 cents lower with varied weights, while cattle and calves show steady to modest gains. Sheep steady to higher with active feeder lambs. total receipts around 68,000 hogs and 7,000 cattle across markets.
Production and pricing figures show Butter with 20,209 tubs and varied scores, Eggs totaling 27,571 cases with multiple quality grades, Cheese with Twins at 13 percent and Longhorns at 15 percent, Live poultry reports steady movement across turkeys hens and ducks with assorted percentages.
The notice lists prices from Atlantic Markets including No. 1 cream 22c No. 2 cream 20c sweet cream 24c eggs specials 15c No. 1 12c No. 2 9c heavy hens over 5 pounds 1c 4 to 5 pounds 10c light and Leghorn hens 8c old cocks over 5 pounds 7c under pounds 8c.
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