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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1929
Page
8
Receipts and prices from Sioux City and Sioux Falls describe cattle calves beef stockers and hogs with steady to strong offerings. Chicago and Mitchell report butter eggs poultry cheese and produce prices. Minneapolis notes flour prices and shipments.
Chicago hogs run of 18 060 with direct sales about steady to uneven top at 12 25 and 160 to 210 lb notes. cattle yard trade uneven but mostly steady with graded ranges. Sioux Falls and St Paul listings follow with hogs steady to higher on some lighter classes and cattle around steady. totals shown for each market week.
Market notes list Huron poultry butter and eggs and Switt and Co as suppliers. Items shown reflect dairy byproducts and staple produce. Read as a brief market update with names of firms and commodities and no dramatic changes noted.
Wheat futures closed sharply lower after mixed trading due to reports of good rains in Argentina and Australia and a rise in visible supply. September fell 3% cent, with weak demand for barley and flax, oats and rye also soft. Cash receipts were heavy and the market unsettled with lower protein quality.
Tom Mix and horse Tony join the Sells Floto circus in Boston for a season debut after years away. The act features cowboy stars, elephants, clowns, and a new program with afternoon and night shows plus an earlier menagerie opening.
The Duluth report lists durum and wheat futures with highs lows and closes for Sept and Dec contracts. It notes No 1 dark amber durum No 2 amber durum and No 1 red durum prices, along with cash close data for multiple grades and months.
Speculative confidence in the slack market fully restored as bullish trading surged with many leaders advancing 2 to 15 points. U.S. Steel and other major issues set new highs amid renewed activity. total volume around 700,000 shares as investors awaited the Federal Reserve report on purchases of bills and government securities.
Venezuelan federal troops defeated a large force attempting to seize Cumana, the frost trading port 250 miles east of Caracas. The government named General Mailio Pernandez, head of Sucre state, in the earlier report.
Government says a five day mourning is decreed after a rebel attack failed in Cu Mann. Two rebel leaders were killed and most attackers captured except exiled Francisco Linhares Alcantara. The Falke vessel, armed and unlicensed, is deemed a pirate. Delgado Chaband, once commander under Gastro, faces arrest for plotting Gomez’s assassination years ago.
Three Pullman cars overturned and three derailed when baggage car trucks failed on Santa Fe train number 6 bound for Chicago. Passengers were bruised and shaken but no serious injuries reported, per the conductor’s report.
Harold Harthill of Cedar Rapids Iowa changed his plea to guilty for taking a pheasant out of season in Kinhead court. He paid a $19 fine plus costs after arrest with Eugene Kass and deputy game warden Harry Cotman locating pheasant in their possession. State prosecutor W W Howes led the case.
A 15 horsepower motor in the Haley-Neeley Wholesale house basement caught fire causing heavy smoke. The motor and wiring were destroyed. manager Harry Otto said a replacement motor was installed and the refrigerating plant operated again by 5 p.m.
Cornelius A. Craven known as Gus Craven, 79, long time Pine Ridge resident since 1874 and one of western South Dakota’s oldest settlers, died recently in a local hospital. Funeral services are set for Wednesday. He fought in early Indian wars and spent much of his life ranching.
A plane fell from 175 feet near the Grover family farm at Rockerville ten miles south of Rapid City. Grover suffered a badly wrench ed back and his brother Harry had minor bruises. William Groeger to be treated in Rochester Minnesota.
After days of distributing life in the army literature and enlisting information, Sgt. Chester G. Wise and Sgt. Herman F. Hoffman were to depart late this afternoon in an army truck for Miller on the tour they are completing through the region.
Three young girls drowned in a county gravel pit near Flys Corners ten miles from Duluth on Sunday night. The victims are William Walhole age 12 Bane Sanstrom age 16 and Mildred Anderson age 17 all residents of Five Corners.
Washington reports the Farm Board will host wool associations in Chicago this October to discuss creating a national wool marketing cooperation or an advisory council. Officials want coordinated sales efforts and plan to include all wool cooperatives in the new agency.
A pamphlet from the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment presents charts showing rising alcoholism and rising alcoholic insanity during the prohibition era. It argues illicit liquor production increases and cites Metropolitan Life Insurance data on industrial workers, noting higher death rates in the United States compared with Canada and a peak in 1926 with slight declines in 1927 and 1928.
Thirteen people from two Mesquite families perished when their truck stalled at a grade crossing and was struck by the Sunshine Special train near the Fordney-Verrell highway. Most bodies were mangled along the tracks. two survivors, including Sherwood Badgett and Mary Lee McHenry, were taken to area hospitals. An inquest was planned in Mesquite.
C I Vernon Chevrolet Motors district representative leaves to attend the third international sales convention of field representatives and company officials in Detroit Michigan from August 14 to 16. About 3500 delegates expected making it the largest convention in the company's history. Various informal entertainments will open the three day meeting ending with an all day Lake Michigan outing.
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