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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1938
Page
2
ARMOUR STOCKYARDS Aug 18 hog market tops with 10 to 25 cents lower prices reaching 4.25 and receipts around 230. veal down 50 cents, lambs up 24 to 40 cents, feeders and sheep mixed with several price shifts. cattle sales at Sioux City show mixed bids with cows and yearlings, and several price points noted.
Chicago market notes show butterfat prices mixed as wheat futures rose on strong export demand and mill buying. Winnipeg market weakness weighed on sentiment while Chicago futures closed higher with Sept and Dec positions up, oats steady.
Minneapolis carlot range for Aug 18 shows wheat prices varying across grades with No 1 dark northern around 75 to 77 cents, No 4 hard winter about 63 cents, and dark hard winter near 72 cents. Oats and rye figures appear in limited ranges, reflecting a partial gain retention.
Closing cash prices from Duluth listing wheat and flour futures across several classes. No. 1 heavy dark northern spring 74% aS% and No. 1 dark hard winter Montana 674% 7534 led mixed results. durum and flax also shown with varying values and months.
Snap of regional livestock and dairy quotes with August dates from Sioux Falls Sioux City Watertown Mitchell Minneapolis and Chicago. Poultry weights hens leghorns springs cocks ducks and geese with price ranges in cents per pound while eggs butterfat and flour futures appear among price listings.
New York August markets report slicks and early rally fading with mixed bonds and uneven curb demand. Foreign exchange steady with sterling and francs marginally lower. cotton and coffee softer, sugar quiet, wheat and corn higher in Chicago with farmer selling. cattle and hogs show varied moves and cash grain quotes listed for grading and protein premiums.
Cattle and calves showed strength with medium to heavy gains on finishes and fats. Hogs were weaker with price drops up to 15 cents though demand remained steady for belled hogs. sheep and lambs closed steady to higher with several loads selling above 8.00 and top lambs around 10.
Livestock market notes from St Paul and Sioux Falls show steady to lower bids across steers cows sows and hogs with top hog prices around 8.50 and beef cattle mostly stable to slightly down. Vealers and springers remain strong with dairy cows unchanged and high values for select shipper stock.
Sioux City on August 18 reports cattle sales with 1800 cattle and 30 calves. Beef steers and yearlings steady to firm, fat cattle steady, stockers and feeders scarce, good stockers 7.25 to 8.00, preferred weights above 11.50 per hundred for medium weights, hog activity very slow with bids around 4.00 to 4.80 for light weights.
New York and Chicago market notes show butter prices steady with slight gains and creamery and egg movements noted. Futures for butter and wheat and corn futures are listed with mixed changes and storage standards referenced.
Trading in New York sees limited gains and losses as investors weigh bond and auto shares. Ford Motor Company and others show modest activity amid shifting market sentiment. bonds and services sectors drift with few decisive moves.
Ronald Rensch, now 21, underwent an appendicitis operation in Madison. Doctors found his heart and all abdominal viscera reversed, with the appendix gall bladder and liver on his right side while spleen was on the left, a rare condition. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Rensch of Ramona.
Judge Samuel K. Dennis sentenced Charles Bird to 45 years in state prison after the 26-year-old gunman pleaded guilty to seven robberies. Barbara Bird, 24, wife of the gunman, was convicted as an accessory and faces sentencing tomorrow.
stocks eased into a lower close after an early rally faded. trading was light with about 450000 shares changing hands as investors paused amid a slow market day in New York and Minneapolis bank stocks.
Carl S. Hambro president of the Norwegian parliament told a Sioux Falls audience that cooperation among Scandinavian nations supports high living standards, vast car ownership, and advanced industry. He cited mutual relief in social security and shared banking, with harmonized laws and a strong League of Nations role despite criticisms.
Allen Bertrand 20 of Gettysburg died in a Faulkton hospital after a four car wreck south of Telstoi early Tuesday. Bernard Towsley and Carl Schiefelbein also injured, with Towsley suffering a broken collar bone and head gashes. Bertrand, born in Clark, moved to Gettysburg in 1921 and is survived by his parents a sister and two brothers.
Cleveland police swept 59 vagrants from three shanty towns near downtown while pursuing the torso slayer who has killed a dozen people. The detainees were jailed for questioning and ten had police records. Investigators targeted two hovels after evidence linked cardboard cartons containing body parts to nearby scrap heaps.
George Newell a about 60 year old Hitchcock area farmer sustained internal abdominal injuries when he fell from a hayrack onto a pitchfork handle in a harvest field accident Wednesday afternoon. He is confined to a Huron hospital in satisfactory condition. Ho Ho dance at Cavour postponed due to William Maag’s death. Wisconsin plans 7000 more seats at Camp Randall Stadium.
Committees pressing plans for the Kiwanis Club benefit production Movie Queen at Huron College auditorium on August 23 and 24. A large parade will greet the movie queen upon arrival Saturday afternoon at Inland Airlines airport, with Miss Anne Lambert guiding and filming the crowd for the two night event.
Funeral services for William Maag of Cavour will be held Saturday at 9 a.m. at St Patrick's Church in Cavour with the Rev in charge. Born 1884 he lived in Cavour his entire life and was married to Laura Cough in 1913. Surviving are two daughters Mary Corrigan and Lucile Maag both of Cavour one sister Hattie Newton of futon and one brother George Maag of Ladysmith Wisconsin. The body will be at the home from 2 p.m. Friday until the services. Maag was a member of the Hurcen Eiks Lodge.
The Huron Chamber of Commerce announced eight new members including W. E. Wagner Toby's Service Station Huron Grain & Coal Co Huron Coal Co Ace Motor Cargo Atlas Elevator West Hattery and Dr George Youel.
Clarke reports Windsor's romantic history remark after a visit to a soil conservation project near Huron. The journalist notes the king’s marriage to an American and questions whether reclaiming arid land is worth the cost, given broader crop needs in America. Clarke travels with his daughter, who lives in Minneapolis.
In Hollywood August 18 1947 Thomas E Dewey New Yorks active prosecutor is forbidden as a film subject by a studio spokesman for the Motion Picture Producers Association Dewey outlines how the Schultz gang manipulated pari mutuel machines at race tracks to fix big wins The testimony cites Magistrate Francis Erwin and the 1930s police raid with Camille Monsarta and Dixie Davis as attorney list of issues continues from page one
President Roosevelt, in Kingston two days after Hulls seven point program, condemns wanton brutality by undemocratic regimes while accepting an honorary degree from Queen’s University. He cites free thought, public opinion, and the need to prevent oppression as a national concern. He travels to Ivy Lea for a Canada U S bridge dedication with Premier KingRich targets include Canada trade talks.
Rep Noah Mason named eight so called acknowledged members of the American League for Peace and Democracy claiming ties to the Communist party. The officials cited include Harry Lamberton rural electrification administrator Dallas Smythe Central statistical board Fred Silcox forestry chief Robert Marshall public lands service Oscar Chapman interior for Rural electrification John Carmody and Mary Anderson Women’s Bureau head Alice Barrows Education Office.
Hospital admissions and dismissals listed including George Nowell and Arlene Chladek. Obituary notes Adolph Lewisohn, 83, noted New York financier and patron died of heart attack at his summer home. Classifieds include for sale Deering corn binder and farm equipment, auctions, rentals, and job requests with contact details.
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