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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1929
Page
11
Sioux City markets show cattle and calves steady to strong with weights varied. Hog and sheep quotes shift, with daytime bids tapering. Chicago reports hogs mostly steady, cattle and calves higher on better demand, and feeder offerings active. Top prices cited for choice weights and fat lambs amid mixed direct sales and futures mentions.
U S Dept of Agriculture reports Wednesday cattle and hog trade at St Paul yard. Total cattle about 2700 with very slow demand and prices down several points on fed steers and fat cows. Mixed yearlings held to 12.00, fat cows around 6.00, packing cows 4.50 to 5.50. Hogs and light stockers very slow with lower quotes. chickens and eggs show modest movements in nearby wholesale markets.
Wheat futures opened strong with early gains facing opposition yet closed higher for the day. May futures up about four percent while oats stayed dull yet firmer and barley began strong before selling. Cash wheat remained steady then eased, winter steady, demand uneven for grades.
Minneapolis and Duluth price report for December 10 shows cash grain and futures quotes for wheat, corn, rye and flax. Notable entries include No 1 northern and No 2 dark northern wheat bids, durum variations, and December to July contract ranges. Duluth and Chicago futures sectors provide corresponding high, low, and close figures for the same commodities.
Receipts show hog totals up to noon from Armaur and Co. Note explains the yard is not a public market and the Savorite cannot supply daily market quotations. Readers are advised quotations are published elsewhere.
Daily quotations from Switt & Co and Huron Poultry show hens at 4% under 434 lbs and under 424 for leghorns, with springs around a mid teens to mid teens per pound. Dressed poultry and eggs vary by weight, with live ducks, geese, and turkeys listed, while Chicago reports turkey and fowl prices firm and eggs unchanged amid liberal offerings.
The report lists duck and goose figures with numbers on receipts and prices for butter eggs and potatoes. Notes include creamery extras, standards and firsts, and varied egg firsts. Chicago market weekly potato data shows slow trading with round whites and sacked russets priced across states, Minneapolis flour and bran prices also noted.
Reader sees a fragmented stock ticker from the Menneapolis market with figures like Bank Corp 23 percent and Bancorporation 68 percent. The text includes partial company names and percentages, suggesting a late-afternoon quote sheet or financial column containing mixed stock prices and changes.
A dense list of commodity and company quotations including Am Card, Am Loco, Am Tob B, Bethlehem Steel, Can Pre, General Electric, Chrysler, Houston Oil, Pullman, Studebaker, Union Car, United Fruit, Woolworth, and numerous others with percentage or price figures, showing Market activity and end markers.
The New York stock market opened lower, then rallied led by United States Steel and others before fluctuating in the afternoon. Gains outnumbered losses with utilities and transport shares showing strength. Call money held at 4 percent as overall activity slowed, closing irregular after about 3.9 million shares traded.
The South Dakota supreme court upheld the board of railroad commissioners denial of Sioux Falls traction system’s certificate of public convenience and necessity to operate as a class A motor carrier for intra state passenger transport. The case covered routes within Sioux Falls, statues and towns including Bronx, Patt, Sioux City, Haygisburg, Hawarden, Chatsworth and Wentitel in South Dakota.
Mrs. Clare Allison suffered a broken right leg after slipping on an icy sidewalk while leaving her apartment stairs near Huron candy kitchen. She is recovering at Sprague hospital after the fall en route to her J. J. Newberry store work opening this morning.
Senator Norris of Nebraska demanded lobby committee question over a Minnesota rural newspaper advertisement urging swift tariff passage with a strong farm rate. He cited papers including Lake Mills Graphic, Fargo Foran, Minot News, Brookings Register, Huronite, Rapid City Journal, Yackton Press and Dakotan as listed sponsors.
The Lobby reports to the Senate that Joseph R. Grundy of Pennsylvania funded Republican campaigns and could sway party lawmakers in Congress. It notes his support for tariff protection, his wealth from a protected industry, and potential gains for Pennsylvania manufacturers if tariff rates rise, totaling about 1.186 billion dollars. Grundy heads the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association.
Joe Gross a farmer from Sivas north of Laks Byron sustained severe injuries when two parked cars were struck by a passing automobile. He stood beside a vehicle and his left leg was crushed. an emergency operation was performed at Sprague hospital and doctors warned the leg would likely be amputated.
At the annual ministerial dinner held at the Evergreens Rev Alfred Trenarry of First Baptist was named the new head of the ministerial group. About 20 ministers and wives attended the 6:30 PM event with Rev S D Disred of the American Lutheran presiding. Carol singing and a brief program followed the dinner.
A group of Heron residents and a Lions Club committee led by Br C Betts seeks city commission action to adopt ordinances curbing radio interference. The effort follows prior attempts by the Radio Listeners league, hampered by finances and weak ordinances, with final details for the Lions annual Christmas theater party for children at the Huron theater. Badger Clark, speaker, praised civic clubs while noting progress since his boyhood and touching on gender dynamics in social enjoyment.
Robert Fair will begin as full time park superintendent in Huron next spring. He met with the city park board Monday to discuss the year ahead and present plans. W. E. Webb, Mitchell park superintendent, accompanied Fair for his first meeting and outlined skating rink and other recreation projects for Mitchell.
Beadle county 4 H members begin feeding baby beef for State Fair entries. County Agent R A Care notes entries not yet received and urges names be sent quickly. New plan: only heifers to be fed, two in each breed, born between January 3 1929 and May 1 1929, with stock in the lot by January 1.
Denver, Oct 10. Former Denver juvenile court judge Ben Lindsey was disbarred by the Colorado Supreme Court on charges of professional misconduct. The court found he accepted fees while serving as judge, including 37,000 from Mrs Helen Elwood Stokes, and 20,000 from Samuel Untermyer of New York in a probate matter involving the W E D Stokes estate.
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