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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1931
Page
9
Sioux City and Sioux Falls markets show cattle, hogs, and sheep trading with mixed to higher tone. Chicago quot ed hogs and cattle with widespread price ranges, noting active hog trade and steady to higher cattle demand across classes.
Aviation scene highlights a set of historic aircraft achieving new altitude and distance records in 1930. Graf Zeppelin Souther Cross Dornier War flying boat Columbia Question Mark Wright Apache and crews including Kingsford Smith Soucek Coste, von Gronau, Boyd Conn or Le Vine, and others set or challenged world aviation milestones.
Market notes list prices for several grains and commodities. No. 1 dark northern wheat, No. 1 durum, Ked duenat, Ked duenat appears with 42. Flax 118, Barley .23, Oats .18, Rye 3, Corn AP, Spelt 33.
Market notices show Huron poultry listings with live birds and dressed products, while a Turkish Adana editorial voices a revival of the fear of Allah. Abdul Kadir Kemil Bey attacks moral decay, urging personal reform as key to better governance and national revival.
Sir Isaac Isaacs, at 75, becomes Australia’s first native born governor general after a long public service career. A barrister famed for multilingualism, he rose from humble beginnings to top constitutional authority, noted for energy, nocturnal court work, and quoted Bible passages.
Minnesota Governor Theodore Christianson will leave politics to join a Minneapolis manufacturing firm as vice president after completing his third term. Floyd B. Olson, a farmer labor candidate, will succeed Christianson about a week from today as the new chief executive.
The infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Alton Spain of Iroquois died at 11 30 after several days of pneumonia. Funeral plans were not set as of today. The brief obituary notes the family's loss and lacks additional details.
The Midwest faced extreme weather in a year of drought and frost. Massive heat and cold battered states from Texas to Minnesota, with Lake Michigan disasters, 120 deaths from storms, and billions in losses. Snowstorms hit Chicago in spring, then record heat and drought returned, with widespread fires and windstorms.
Berlin youth Erwin Dressel, 22, debuts a parodic Gilbert and Sullivan style opera "Poor Columbus" with jazz and fox trot influences at a German court. Critics note light, melodic scores using unconventional instruments while Columbus is portrayed as a greedy boastful figure until a later apotheosis set against New York skyscrapers.
Elizabeth M. Cook of Belle Fourche dies when a taxi driven by B. B. Colligen strikes a curb, injuring Yevken and others. Cook, a public schools instructor, dies from a crushed chest in the January accident in Cedar Rapids.
Kay County Attorney Bruce Potter says ex convict Far Quinn is linked by circumstantial evidence to the slaying of sisters Miss Jenia Griffith and Miss Jennie Griffith near Tonkewa last Sunday. A blood stained vest button found in Quinn's room and his drunken patrol late Saturday night support the probe into a hijacking tied crime.
Hollywood California January first week reports Arthur Shires nicknamed Silent Art pleads guilty in night court and pays a ten dollar fine after arrest during a social visit to the Hollywood jail. He was offered ten dollars or ten days and chose the monetary penalty. Roy Fetherhoff, a roomer at the Dakota House, is held on a twenty five dollar bond after intoxication and fighting charges pending municipal court Friday.
Miss Roberts 21 visiting in Huron was driving Allan Walker's car when Lois Hanson 9 ran into the headlights and into the curb. The Artesian resident taught at a rural school last year and returns home with her father Henry Roberts and Robes after the shock.
Huron residents foresee slower price improvements but expect healthier creamery and produce business by year end. Geog. C. Fallinweider of the National Bank of Huron notes brighter 1991 prospects with rainfall, harvest gains, higher dairy herds, and beef and hog prices boosting prosperity amid scientific farming and marketing progress.
Bank president CHAS Barkl advocates thrift and prudent spending as drought and low prices test morale. Local business leaders including Armour and Company and Huron Construction foresee improvement in livestock and commodity markets as 1931 approaches, urging steady faith, reduced costs, and continued reliance on rail service.
The message from South Dakota leaders notes that November net revenue lagged 3 million dollars versus 1929, yet stock, packing, and oil sectors improved. Despite unemployment fears, chamber of commerce officials express faith in future growth, urging thrift and optimism. Investors say conditions here outpaced many regions, with a hopeful outlook for 1931.
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