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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1930
Page
11
Sioux City reports cattle and calves trading mostly steady with some declines. hogs lower across markets in Chicago and Sioux Falls regions. Wisconsin and Minnesota produce prices edge up, while wool and potatoes show modest shifts in Boston and Chicago markets.
Daily poultry and egg price list from Swift & Co and Buck Brothers in Huron South Dakota. Entries show weights for hens, leghorns, ducks, and Bevo hens with notes on prices subject to change and units in pounds.
Armour Stockyards Huron Feb 27 medium weight butchers led demand with hay steady to 15 higher. Best heavies held steady with some discounts. Packing saws slow with discounts up to a team. Receipts reached 800. Thursday quotations list various weights with prices from 9.25 to 10.40 per cwt and assorted rep sales data.
Minneapolis market report shows May futures closing higher as Grain Stabilization purchases supported gains. Cash wheat unsettled with few winter or durum offers, while corn and oats demand improves. Barley and flax mixed. rye and oats steady to strong on mill demand.
Listings detail radio programming across networks and local stations for Friday February 28 with orchestras, dances, dramatic sketches, and hour-by-hour schedules. It lists stations such as WEAF WJZ WABC WGN WMAQ and many others, noting programs like The Goes Abroad and Noon concerts, plus weathered time markers and station call letters for a dense mosaic of 1930s radio fare.
A financial roundup lists diverse firms with percentage figures and stock-style codes. Entries include Freeport Tex 40 percent, Gen Flee 4 percent, Gen Mirs 43 percent, Gold Dust 42 percent, Kennecott 57 percent, Packard 19, Tex Pac Ld Tr 15 percent, US Steel 19214, US Rubber 26 percent, and United Fruit 92 percent, among others.
A terse financial note references Indy market movements with mentions of City Service Minneapolis and several banks including First Bank Corp and Bancorporation. The fragment notes deals or bids, signaling a trading day snapshot without fuller context.
In New York on February 27 stock prices rose as wheat recovered and call money fell from 4.45 to 4 percent. Over 20 stocks across amusement, dairy, machinery, utilities and other sectors hit new yearly highs. Major gains included U S Steel dividend, J I Case, Beatrice Creamery, and several big names reaching new highs, with about 2.95 million shares traded and a steady close.
County Superintendent Nellie M Brussa arranging a joint all day gathering of Beadle county district school officers and teachers at the county courthouse next Thursday. Several hundred pupils travel to the event to demonstrate progress with harmonica bands since the last institute. Mrs B B McClaskey will lead the harmonica demonstration and a morning song fest. D D Mills of Pierre, executive secretary of the South Dakota Young Citizens league will address the teachers while officers meet separately in the morning.
State officers will hear explanations of new laws affecting public schools, presented by either E. C. Giffen, state superintendent of public instruction, or Fred E. Smith, deputy state superintendent. The session outlines changes and implications for school administration.
Freddie Dunn, a Sioux City bank robbery suspect, and fellow prisoner Lester Silvey overpowered a guard at Woodbury county jail this morning and escaped. Dunn was nabbed minutes later near the courthouse.
Personal testimonials describe Kerr Chemical Lin-O-Nine Emulsion as a cure for bronchitis and winter illness. Arthur Lube of Kansas City credits it with stopping years of bronchitis after one bottle and praises taste and health benefits. The ad urges readers to order by mail or through local druggists, noting sizes and pricing.
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