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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1941
Page
2
Market reports from Armour Stock Yards and Sioux Falls show hog prices advancing with top quotes around 8.75 to 8.90 per hundredweight. Cattle and sheep held steady to firm with varied per hundredweight gains, feeder pigs steady, and limited fat lamb action noted.
Market notes from Huron and Sioux City detail daily price ranges for heavy and light hens, leghorn hens, roosters, eggs, and butterfat. Also listed are hogs, cattle, and sheep prices from Chicago St Paul Mitchell Watertown Sioux Falls and Des Moines area markets for April 10 with counts of salable animals and price bands.
Wheat prices firmed after the Balkan hostilities news, with gains around a cent and specific May and July quotes noted. Minneapolis cash and futures values are listed with No 1 dark northern and No 3 dark hard winter categories, along with corn and oats standings and related grain prices.
British RAF strafed German motor columns near Axioupolis as Axis forces push toward Salonika. Nazi claims of Greece's east army surrender contradicted by Greek denials and reports of heavy fighting, while Mussolini’s forces press into Yugoslavia and Soviet Yugoslav pact cited from Moscow.
A New York market report shows butter prices firm at 49 534 with various scores and grades for cheese 66 245, eggs 21 634 steady, and mixed colors of butter advanced storage and grading terms. Live poultry and dressed poultry prices are irregular while Chicago futures list butter storage, standards, and refrigerator figures with April and October data.
Boston traders faced a subdued Wool Market with scattered sales and minimal demand causing prices to drift. Early trading showed limited activity as speculators and mills adjusted expectations in a cautious market tone.
Markets at a glance show irregular stock trading after a recent slump while bonds improve and currencies stay quiet. Sugar and wool rise, metals steady, tin prices stiffen, and cotton futures firm. In Chicago grain and meat markets wheat rises with flour activity, corn steady, hogs up about 1.25, cattle steady. French wool trade seen in eastern fleets with prime fleeces at about 1 to 1.02 dollars per bag and grease price around 45 cents per pound.
Trading lingered in a subdued mood as stocks showed limited strength while a broader attempt to stabilize losses faded. Rail and steel shares eked out fractional gains, and overall volume remained light with several issues trading irregularly while investors waited for clearer signs of direction.
In Rockingham North Carolina a man charged with alarming a woman at the bus station tells the recorder s court he mistook her for a friend s sister he had never met the witness criticizes prosecution while noting the handsome blonde described to the court.
The document lists percentages next to a wide range of companies including Caterpillar style manufacturers and utilities such as Boeing Air, BorgWarner, Celanese, Chrysler, DuPont, Deere, and Ussteel. Several entries appear compressed or truncated, but reflect ownership or stake levels in diverse firms across multiple sectors.
City officials in New York announce new curb rules to regulate traffic and reduce congestion. The move follows a period of planning with urban departments and public input to improve street safety and mobility downtown.
The Huron College department of speech and drama presented Cowen’s Family Portrait for Easter week. The play portrays Jesus’s family with a reverent, human perspective through Mary and Jesus’s brothers, delivered by adept student actors. Audience reaction was profoundly favorable, noting the novel, universal portrayal and effective staging despite minor flaws.
Gwendolyn Nickols an 18 year old Watertown girl was held in Beadle County Jail awaiting arraignment on a grand larceny charge to be heard in Woonsocket Friday. Sheriff Munro of Sanborn County brought her from St Paul and turned her over to Huron officers due to Woonsocket jail facilities being inadequate. Previously a Plankinton reformatory inmate she was at a Huron home for a period.
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The Rev. E. W. Hale will deliver the sermon at the Good Friday union service at the Huron Theatre tomorrow noon between 12 30 and 1 10 pm. The Rev. George Thomas of Dakota Wesleyan Church handles scripture and prayer with the Baptist church in charge of music.
The State Game and Fish Department well at the State Fair Grounds faced delays as crews tests rock at the 1 175 foot level. S H Osberg reports the formation may be hard sandstone rather than granite. Two prior attempts failed. crews advanced 170 feet of two inch casing. If the core shows sandstone, drilling will continue due to potential water bearing sands or oil shales.
Work crews from the Gus Jacobson Cutting Company tore out the old front of Dad’s Market in Huron to install a modern steel brick-faced facade. Owner Jack Arend says the job is the first step in a modernization plan and the store will operate with front and side doors during the three week construction.
Mrs Knupp suffered a shoulder injury in a fall reported with details of a Baptist service mood. The piece notes a First Baptist Church service titled Slightly Soiled But Greatly and a sermon by Rev Earl Longfellow. A large young peoples choir will provide special music for Young People Night.
German and Italian units drive in Yugoslavia and Albania, seizing Maribor and Derna while Greece clings to open ports. British and American aid debates rise as Berlin blames US for backing a doomed Yugoslav resistance. Axis progress includes Libyan fronts and a push toward Skoplje amid strategic hold lines.
Report from Berlin notes Denmark would neither sell nor lease ships now in protective custody as Axis vessels are seized. About 90 Axis ships could be taken over, with estimates that at least 25 would need extensive repairs for sabotage or other damage.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention planes joining an assault on a date in April with references to aerial engagements and military actions. Specifics such as location and units are unclear due to damaged text.
Washington quotes Mr. Roosevelt on safeguarding Greenland as a Danish possession after Denmark’s invasion. The president pledges relief and a continued supply flow, and vows Greenland remain Danish once the German occupation ends, while hoping for Denmark’s quick liberation.
Berlin reports the worst Luftwaffe night raid on northeast England since the war began with 34 killed and 90 injured. German planes bomb west Midland towns including Coventry or Birmingham and the coastal area as incendiaries trigger major fires. Casualty figures unsettled, London untouched, hospitals record admissions and dismissals amid continued bombing waves.
A jumble of short ads seeks a couple to operate a Miller watch business, magnetism for watch repairs and diamonds, a tractor man near Huron, and magazine sales reps in South Dakota with commissions and car allowance. Includes contact hints and box numbers for responses.
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