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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1927
Page
2
Chicago board records a strong corn advance as cool wet conditions hinder harvest. Wheat slides early but rebounds later on corn strength and wet harvest fears in the southwest. Oats rise modestly and provisions vary. Cash demand remains slow. spot boats steady to lower.
Chicago cash prices list mixed gains and losses for corn oats barley timothy seed and meat cuts with various No numbers and percentages shown. Notable items include mixed corn prices around 9 1 4 to 9 2 cents and yellow and white corn values near 1 01 to 1 02. Lard ribs bellies and seed prices are cited with distinct per unit figures.
St. Louis June 16 Wheat No 2 red 1.53. Corn prices listed for No 3 mixed 98, No 2 yellow 1.08, No 3 yellow 1.00 1.01, No 2 white 1.03, No 3 white 1.00. Oats No 3 white 53, No 4 white 50.
Omaha market notes grain prices for June 16 listing wheat and corn and oats by grade with prices in cents per bushel. No. 1 hard wheat 1.42 No. 2 hard 1.44 No. 1 mixed 1.47 corn No. 2 white 96 No. 3 yellow 97 No. 2 mixed 95 oats No. 3 white 49 14 No. 4 white 48 3.
Toledo Ohio notes seed prices with Clover cash imported at 43.00 bid for Oct 16.75, Dec domestic 16.64 bid, Timothy cash aid 2.45 new 2.50 Dec 2.75.
Hog trade was slow yet steady with fresh supply about 33 000 and 1 600 direct to packers. Cattle arrivals around 12 000, trade uneven with many sales off 10 to 15 cents. Sheep and lambs about 7 000 receipts, bids generally weaker. top hogs near 9 15, best lambs 16 00 to 16 25.
Hogs receipts 8 500, prices up 5 to 10 cents for 160 to 210 pound stock at 8 65 to 8 80, 210 to 325 pound butchers 8 50 to 8 75, sows 7 50 to 8 00. Cattle receipts 4 005, fed steers weak to 2 cents lower, cows off, bulls and veals steady. slaughter steers 9 75 to 12 10, heavy steers to 1 402 pounds around 13 00. Sheep receipts 7 500, lambs and yearlings lower, top 14 75, fed clipped lambs around 15 00, fed yearlings 12 25 to 12 60, sheep steady to weak.
Hay steady to one dollar lower with receipts of 29 cars. Select alfalfa 19.50 19.00, prairie 8.00 9.50, packing hay 6.00 7.50. Hana Ha.
The government thermometer in Creston shows weekday readings with highs and lows. Fri June 10 reached 85 with 74 precip none. Sat June 11 80 and 53 with 31 precip. Mon June 13 64 and 51. Tue June 14 64 and 53 with none. Wed June 15 72 and 44. Thu June 16 70 and 51 with none.
Flour unchanged in carload lots with family patents quoted at 8.45 a barrel in 8 pound cotton sacks. Shipments totaling 40,688 barrels Bran priced 27.00 to 27.50.
New York June 16. Liberty bonds prices listed with various series values. Bond categories include First, Second, Third and Fourth 4s as well as Treasury 8s and other issues with prices noted beside each title.
Raw sugar in New York on June 16 remained steady at 4.52 for spot Cuban duty paid. Refined sugar held at 6.00 to 6.20.
A U S district court jury in Fort Dodge Ohio? No, Iowa found Arthur H. Cornetl not guilty after seven hours of deliberation over narcotics sale charges. The trial followed a shorter presentation of testimony.
Miss Mary, daughter of Mrs K A Barkman, left today for Barney Missouri to Piatt with friends. She travels with a group of companions for a visit and extended stay.
Wall Street opened steady with gains for Federal Mining and Smelting and St. Louis Southwestern reaching new peaks while U S Rubber first preferred slipped to 44 1 2 and Pittsburgh Coal and International Cement fell 2 to 4 points. Broad money remained ample at 4 1 2 percent and the day closed irregularly.
Chicago reports show poultry and fowl prices steady with receipts of 4 cars and various breeds. butter and eggs mixed with higher creamery butter in New York at 42 to 43 cents per pound and eggs firm with large cases and fresh gathered product pricing. Trade notes Oklahoma and Arkansas markets and Irish cobbler pricing, along with storage packed goods and firsts and seconds categories.
Hogs receipts 6,500 with prices 5 to 10 cents lower. top 89.0, bulk 88.0 to 88.0. Cattle receipts 2,700 with market lower. steers 7.3 to 11.25, top 12.00, cows and heifers 4.25 to 10.25, calves 6.00 to 11.50, stockers and feeders 7.0. Sheep receipts 4,000, market steady to 25 cents lower. spring lambs 14.75 to 16.50, clipped ewes 5.00 to 20.
Fergus McKeever, 17, of Lawrence Kansas, operates a 50 watt spark set since 1923 and has linked amateur stations across 52 nations on six continents. He is one of the country’s best known amateurs and serves as communications manager for Kansas in the American Radio Relay League.
The commissariat of education launches a special children militia tasked with protecting homeless waifs and curbing excessive punishment by parents while ensuring proper education for children in Moscow.
County attorney Mr. Orchard argues bonded road work will largely spend labor within the county, boosting finances while the state assumes principal and interest payments. He notes a concrete road lasts 20 more years with resurfacing and bonds run 15 years, urging an election petition for a $600000 bond issue.
In Washington in 1927 Manuel Rivas Vicuna, head of the Chilean cabinet, would have met a cordial official welcome but arrived months later as a political exile. His wife and daughter joined him, living near the Chilean embassy, with social recognition coming in intimate settings rather than grand functions.
Oxford Kansas votes to limit drilling to one well per city block amid a feverish oil boom. Property owners receive pro rated royalties based on acreage as plans to expand wells in yards and public spaces are halted. The opera house was demolished for an oil well before the ordinance.
A French League against Alcoholism stall at St Nazaire on AEF docks dispenses cider beer and light wines to Scandinavian Dutch and British sailors. The booth aims only at hard drinks and sits opposite a disused AEF cold storage plant.
S Ferris of the Royal Air Force won the annual open marathon from Windsor to London covering 26 miles and 385 yards in 2 hours 40 minutes. This marks his third victory in this event with Natale of Italy and J Barien of Belgium finishing second and third.
A Decatur county Hungarian refugee settlement is reported as part of Fort Atkinson events in Winnebago County. Council Bluffs is cited with a quoted liberty motto reflecting local civic sentiment.
Miss Loretta Hixinbaugh returned home Tuesday after spending several days with her sister Mrs. Chas Estep. Mr and Mrs Chas Stoll and daughter Emma spent Tuesday evening with relatives and friends.
Roy Sammons and N Dougherty worked the corn as Mrs. Wm Snyder’s household note shows. Numerous neighbors including the Estep and Sammons families visited Creston days with shoppers and calls. A road meeting in Creston drew many from the vicinity at the courthouse.
In London a divorce court ruled a Gretna Green marriage attempt void. Mrs. May Celine Bach of Cheltenham seeking annulment of marriage to William KE Bach of Birmingham argued the 21 days residence rule was unmet. Justice Hill found no valid marriage and granted nullity.
The St. Nazaire weekly Le Courrier preserves a wartime file on American Expeditionary Force pranks from 1917. Censors hid that U S troops were in St Nazaire by routing dispatches from the American camp near Negoceville. The paper printed The Gangplank and other A E F periodicals on its presses.
London reports an eighth of an inch shaved from British cigarettes after Winston Churchill raised tobacco taxes to balance the budget. Popular brands remain 20 for a shilling, the change largely unnoticed until Labour MPs revealed it in the House of Commons amid their breakfast-table reforms. Additionally local social notes list visits and travels of residents such as Jack Moran and Agnes Moran departing for Aurora Illinois, with others from Des Moines Creston Orient and Council Bluffs.
Classified notices list items for sale including a 1926 Ford Coupe and farm supplies Millet seed cabbage pepper plants and sweet potato plants. Rentals include offices rooms flats and a five room house with addresses and contact phone numbers.
Classified notices seek female tippers and roomers at Armours with 35 cent dinners at 500 North Maple. Help wanted for care of aged or semi invalid persons in a private home, box 208 Creston IA. Man with truck wanted to represent a reliable company in Creston territory, respond to G-10 Advertiser.
A lost fountain pen reported Wednesday morning between West Montgomery and the high school prompts a call to 503-Y for return.
Will sacrifice for cash a $12,000 wholesale stock of hardware in a county seat town in Iowa. Stock can be invoiced and delivered, fixtures and tools included for $1,000. Write or call J E Richey Sharpsburg Iowa. Also note W N Frazier shoe repair and Fidelity Abstract & Loan Company.
Price wars shrink Midwest motor coach rates from Chicago to Detroit to as low as 2.50 for the ten hour trip and 35 to Los Angeles for long hauls. Detroit Toledo one way fares drop to 45 cents as regulators require two licensed drivers on duty. Officials call the cuts temporary and argue full coaches can still profit.
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