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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1929
Page
8
The Sioux City market shows cattle, hogs, and sheep activity with fat cattle steady to higher in places, hogs slow with direct bids lower, and stockers and feeders generally steady. Chicago and St. Paul notices reflect mixed shifts in prices for cows, veal, and lambs amid light demand and regional differences.
Minneapolis reports on December 9 with wheat futures slipping in listless trading. May closes 3c lower while oats hold within narrow ranges. cash wheat demand slow, bids steady for good grain but lighter stock weak. Prices for rye and barley mixed, flax dull, with overall cautious cash and future activity.
Sioux Falls livestock and produce listings from December 10 show hogs at 9.00 to 9.90 bulk range with 3,500 head, cattle around 800 head steady to weak, and various hog quality grades. Mitchell and Sioux Falls markets list hens, leghorn, ducks, and geese with prices for eggs, butterfat, and dressed poultry quality grades.
Minneapolis reports carlot grain sales across wheat, corn, oats, rye and flax with prices for No. 1 dark northern, No. 4 northern, No. 1 mixed and other grades. Duluth futures quote high, low and close for wheat, flax and durum on Monday with various delivery months and prices.
Receipts of Armour and Company hogs reported to noon today at 2000 head. Market quotations unavailable here as Horon yard is not a public market. readers are advised that quotations from public markets are published elsewhere.
Readable portions list various poultry product sizes and weights including hens ducks geese and turkeys. The entries mix live weights dressed classifications and numbers for multiple categories without clear context or full phrases from the original sale or inventory.
Furnished by Buck Brothers and Hare, prices subject to change. Hens and leghorns by weight, springs, and dressed ducks and geese detailed. Large lists include live and dressed turkeys, jackrabbits, and poultry products. Chicago market updates note steady butter and eggs, easy poultry demand, and potato prices with regional shipper prices listed.
A dense OCR style catalog shows numerous stock quotes and percentages for companies and rail and commodity names. Entities include Amour, Arch, Anaconda, General Electric, Reading, Penn RR, US Steel, Woolworth, Texas Pac, etc. The fragment lists prices, percent changes, and ticker-like abbreviations across industries and regions, reflecting a busy market snapshot.
A steady stock rally continued with heavy volume as United States Steel led gains while profit-taking pulled back some leaders. Auburn Auto surged up to 31 percent, and a broad tape showed 2 a Neo-Briak bidding for United States Steel moving up to 39 points above recent lows amid late afternoon activity.
Pacific and Erie fell three points while Nash, Hudson, General Motors and several others posted gains. Anaconda led copper advances as Otis Elevator swung from loss to gain. J I Case and Westinghouse slipped, Allied Chemical dropped, and U S Steel retreated from early gains. New high sterling exchange above gold export level highlighted the session. Volume rose with total 4 700 000 shares changing hands.
In Rapid City on December 9, the local Walden Walton league exported eleven grouse from central Scandinavia to Hermosa and released them in the state park. Birds include three black grouse and two wood grouse, weighing five to fifteen pounds. the project follows a prior failed egg shipment and aims to establish a population in the Black Hills.
Dec 9 Shakopee Minnesota three bank robbers ambushed after robbery were mowed down by machine gun fire. One killed five shots in front of the bank. two others wounded, one severely. Physicians fear death for the first. Scott County officers and Minnesota Bankers Association team, led by Charles D. Brown, captured the bandits with a machine gun from 150 feet.
Mrs. G. E. Bandy of Lake Preston underwent an emergency operation for appendicitis at Sprague hospital Saturday night and was reported recovering today. Frank Worel of Hitchcock remains under care, with Pat Newcome of Yale Rudy Sikorra of Cavour Mrs. John Mortimer of Hitchcock and Audrey Rockafellow six year old daughter of Mrs. Stella Rockafellow of Carthage listed among today’s new patients.
Cyrus B Dixon, department manager at Shriver-Johnson's, died of likely heart disease Saturday morning at about 9. Mrs. Dixon, aiding in the ready to wear department, was present at his death. Funeral services were held that afternoon with burial in the local cemetery. Dixon was a charter member of the Sioux Falls Cosmopolitan Club and a member of Unity Lodge No. 190 A F and A M.
Russell Van Deraarde of Virgil pleaded guilty to possessing seven gallons of moonshine found in a shed behind Mrs. J. E. McCreery’s Virgil residence on November 26. He was sentenced by Judge Alva E. Taylor to 30 days in county jail and a 250 dollar fine. Mrs. McCreery’s charges were dropped once ownership was established. States Attorney W Willowes represented the state.
Watertown December 9. Fred H L Hildebrandt chairman of the state fish and game commission announces his Democratic candidacy for congressman from the second district. He cites carrying over 40 000 votes in the last general election against Royal C Johnson and says he was not consulted by Wollheter supporters.
Recount of a once gray haired salesman who used Lea's Tonic and saw his hair regain color, claiming it restored a youthful appearance. The ad-style piece urges readers to try the tonic, noting easy at home use, dandruff removal, and a money back guarantee within sixty days.
D. H. Herrold of Plankinton and George Corrin form a new De Soto automobile agency in the Motor Arcade building at Wisconsin avenue and Second street Huron. They lease most of the east side spaces and plan a large service department plus car storage for Whalen brothers. Corrin is permanent manager. Herrold splits time between Plankinton and Huron and may move headquarters to Huron soon.
J J Newberry company to open in Huron Tuesday at 9 am. The 293rd store in the chain will employ about 60 staff across 26 departments with articles priced from five cents to one dollar. Local manager H R Wagner, in charge since five years, will lead a staff largely local. E A Altrie and C R Hurley assist from New York. Third South Dakota store joining Sioux Falls and Vermillion, with Yankton Mitchell Aberdeen Lead planned soon. Wagner notes local hires align with Newberry policy and stock totals around 10 090 items focused on holiday merchandise and fall displays after the holidays.
A large department store complex on Third Street and Dakota Avenue will soon offer a lunch counter for customers to refresh while shopping. The 75 by 163 foot building has most spaces leased with only one store room remaining and the rest ready in two to three weeks.
The Farmers Elevator association of South Dakota, part of the Northwest Drain Cooperative, opens its three day annual convention in Sioux Falls tomorrow. W J Kubric of Washington presents the keynote on cooperative grain marketing with the Farm Board, and S. Cordington of Stanhope, Iowa, president of Farmers National Gealet Corporation, is slated to speak. Nearly a thousand delegates and visitors are expected.
City commission heard a $100,000 expenditure outline for Sioux Falls improvement work in 1930. CG N Harstad, GM of the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul railway, sent a letter detailing the plan.
Dee. y-[A")-Garl Haggar reports an unknown assailant used a baseball bat to club him over the head early this morning as he was adjusting his car. The attacker escaped and Haggar sought police assistance.
A daily bus timetable shows departures from Huron at 2 45 p m with connections to Wolsey at 2 58 p m and arrival in Pierre by 2 o clock A second outbound from Pierre leaves at 6 20 a m with connections to Wolsey at 10 40 a m and arrives back in Huron at 10 45 a m
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