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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1943
Page
2
Armour Stockyards reports hog prices steady to 10c higher with top lightweight butchers at 14.00. Cattle steady, sheep weaker. Chicago hogs up 10c, top paid 15.05 for 180–270 lb. bods. Receipts show 13,500 hogs, 4,000 cattle, 8,500 sheep. demand mixed, packers active.
Sioux City market reports strong cows and steady fat cattle with calves and stockers limited while hogs gain to 14.35 top and light weights hold around 13.75. St Paul shows slight undertone decline with cows, calves and hogs mixed and buyers cautious on early trading.
Sioux Falls livestock sales report shows cattle around 800 head steady quotations. Hogs bring top 418, bulk 13.60 to 14.15, butchers 13.25 to 14.15, sows 12.25. Market notes indicate overall firmness with limited change from prior session.
New York butter and egg markets show steady to firm tone as of August 26. Butter values range around 6.26 to 6.62 per pound late in trade. Eggs across U S specials list varied weights and prices with no major changes. Poultry prices remain firm with little shift in live and dressed categories.
Chicago market reports firm prices on poultry and eggs with receipts totaling 509 408. Leg horn chickens and butter prices noted unchanged. Sioux Falls prices list heavy hens various weights, leghorn offerings, heavy cocks and egg/cream butter quotes.
Mitchell produce report lists prices for poultry and eggs on Thursday. Values include hens at 18 to 40 pounds, cocks 13 to 24, springs 22 to 24, turkeys 21 to 24, ducks and geese 12, No 1 eggs 38 to 39, butterfat 4.
Watertown markets list No 1 grade poultry prices per 2 1/2 pounds and over colored springs 25 Leghorn springs 24 heavy hens 22 hens 4 to 5 pounds 20 hen under 4 pounds 18 Leghorn hens 18 heavy breed roosters 14 Leghorn roosters 12 ducks 10 geese 10 hennery eggs 41 cogs No 1 36 eggs No 2 30 butterfat No 1 50 No 2 48
Drought reports across the southwest hint at a future feed shortage, triggering a grain futures upturn. September contracts for rye and oats rose with strong cash demand for oats, while rye gains were aided by short covering. wheat and oats closed higher.
Chicago wheat futures rose modestly with Sep at 1.445 and Dec near 1.46 amid light trading. Oats and rye also posted small gains while Minneapolis cash wheat receipts totaled 328, with prices firmer by 14 cents on the day.
Markets at a glance show cotton firm with trade buying and tighter feed conditions in Chicago drifting into September. Hog prices gain 10 cents across weights and sows with a top around 15.05, while futures and grain notes indicate price strength in rye and other commodities amid steady bond market signals.
The Minneapolis Grain Market reports mixed futures with no change in trading basis. Prices for corn, oats, flax and feed barley show modest gains and losses across September to May contracts.
New York August 26 The stock market suffered from a fuel shortage with only moderate gains and trading slow. Industrials rails and mining shares did fairly well under pressure as many readers stayed on the sidelines. Volume stayed light with around 400000 shares traded, among the smallest for a full session in a year.
A dense list of percentage based closing quotations for numerous corporations and brands. Firms include BoeingAir Arcadia AB, General Electric, DuPont De N, Westinghouse related entries, and multiple others with varied percentage figures and odd spellings suggesting a stock market transcript from a historical paper.
Milbank August 26 Milwaukee Railroad police and Grant County Sheriff investigated the death of James A Gaunt a 22 year old Waterbury Conn defense worker whose body with a bullet wound was found beside the Milwaukee Road tracks west of Marvin An inquest is expected Friday Relatives were notified and the FBI was alerted as Gaunt’s missing draft registration card was found and a $40 cash belt remained on the body Authorities consider robbery a possible motive.
Berlin labeled in real panic as residents flee to forests to escape air raids. Die Nation report cited Goebbels warnings, mass evacuations, and crowded trains with a million children evacuated amid fears of intensified Allied bombing and nerve warfare.
The War Food Administration announces September civilian quotas with more mutton and lamb but less pork. Beef and veal quotas stay near August levels. Class 1 and 2A slaughterers gain 3 percent. pork deliveries drop. overall September deliveries approach 90 percent of 1941 levels for lamb and mutton.
In two early morning fires in Huron, a nine room house at 420 Beach Avenue Southeast owned by Charles Kouf burned extensively. A barn with a car and about 60 chickens, owned by Frank Broodgood at 1170 Simmer's Avenue Southeast, also burned after midnight. Mrs Kouf and her daughters escaped as the house interior ignited and a mysterious gas explosion blew out windows. Fire caused heavy losses with some insured claims.
Mrs. George E. Poe aged about 90 died today in a Huron hospital after an illness of several days. Born Nat tie Elizabeth Parrish in Fonda Iowa on October 12 1884 she moved with her parents to Missouri then to Hitchcock and Artesian before settling in Huron in 1917. Surviving are her husband two sons Leonard Poe and Wayne Poe a daughter Mrs Neil Irving a sister Mrs Cora Stewart and two brothers Harry Parrish Weeks Parrish Paul Parrish plus other relatives. Burial arrangements were not announced.
Nearly 200 exhibits including 54 garden entries 47 poultry 25 live stock and 73 home life entries were shown in Beadle County 4 H Club Achievement Day. Blue ribbons earned by listed winners qualify agriculture entries for state fair with champion home life entries advancing. Separate Victory Garden Show ribbons awarded. judges named and results to be published.
The coroner ordered an autopsy into the death of Arthur Farnsworth 36 husband of actress Bette Davis and aeronautical equipment executive. He died from a basal skull fracture likely from a fall after being found unconscious on a Hollywood Boulevard sidewalk. Police said a tobacconist reported Farnsworth cried out then fell, his head striking the pavement.
A Zurich Die Tat report claimed Count Dino Grandi led an Italian diplomatic mission arriving in Lisbon to seek armistice negotiations with the Allies. London authorities denied knowledge of such a mission and noted continued talks with Britain appear underway.
Fragmentary hospital admission notes mention patients such as Ma Dr Stout Es mond Otto Mettler and Mary Jane Crowilie with minor surgical procedures. The source also references Mrs Otto Werner Huron Joyce Mercer Miller Marilyn Raude and other names alongside terse medical terms and a Moscow death notice for the leading actress and widow of its founder.
Federal Judge Delbert Metzger upheld a writ request for two German‑American civilians held by the Army in Hawaii, while Gen. Robert Richardson Jr. refused to produce them. The Army banned habeas corpus pleas and warned of penalties up to five years and fines if the order is defied as martial law remains partially in force.
Lt Joseph Marcus George U S Naval Reserve son of Senator Walter F George of Georgia was officially listed as missing in action. His wife Mary Howes George daughter of W W Howes former assistant postmaster general of Huron Michigan and their child live in New York City. The overdue plane was last heard from two weeks ago with no disclosed zone of operations beyond being on this side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Temperature highs and lows for the year ago and record dates with precipitation totals. This month and year to date figures show normal values and current totals. Sunrise and sunset times, then a forecast for Huron and Vicinity with scattered showers and cooler conditions, and South Dakota with showers, thunderstorms, and mild temperature changes.
The WLB rejected portal to portal pay of 2.25 a day as non settled under the wage stabilization policy. Chairman Davis said 1.25 was a hidden raise not allowed, unless time exceeds 40 hours weekly under the Fair Labor Standards Act. He noted miners’ 35 hour basic week, raised to 42 hours in January.
The War Labor Board approved a 4.6 percent average increase in commissions for about 3,700 Standard Oil Company employees in midwestern cities. The raise applies to bulk station agents and drivers amid a new commission schedule sought by the company. Unions involved include Local 977 AFL and International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 877.
The article notes heavy bombing and strafing on strongholds with Fortresses and Liberators claiming several enemy planes. It states 16 destroyed by Fortresses and 26 by Liberators, while Allied day losses total 15. It mentions German air activity over Italian skies and a claimed 175 German planes lost since last Thursday.
Local notice lists a 160 acre farm for sale in the Huron area with contact details. Additionally a fragmented obituary or personal notice mentions Orla Jacobson and a phone reference 3202. The damaged text references dental notes and a Tremr a Raeeaing phrase.
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