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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1929
Page
11
Minneapolis and Chicago price reports show wheat advancing up to 13 percentage on June 14 with light cash demand for milling grades and firm to higher basis. Oats, rye and flax exhibit varied moves while futures in Minneapolis and Duluth reflect steady to firmer tones across multiple grain classes and times.
Armour & Co hog receipts to noon today show a deficit of 800 hogs. The Huronite notes Huron yard is not a public market so daily quotations cannot be supplied. Public market quotations are provided in other sources for readers.
Sioux City cattle market shows 1,000 head with calves 100 and slow beef cattle steady to weak. Hogs 9,000 capacity, prices down 10 to 15 cents. top hogs 10.76. lambs top at 15.26, yearlings 11.25. Slaughter classes mixed, stockers and feeders scarce. cows 9.00 to 10.50, select dealers 14.59, packing sows 15 to 25 lower.
Friday livestock report from St Paul lists cattle around steady with mixed weights near 165 for choice cattle and calves 14.00 to 14.50. Hogs ease 20 to 25 lower with 160 to 236 lb stock at 10.50 to 10.78, 230 to 300 lb at 10.00 to 10.50. Sheep and lambs show weakness with lambs 25 lower and yearlings around 10.00 to 11.00. direct billing note included.
Sioux Falls market report shows hogs at 31,800 head with prices easing. Top 10.60, bulk 10.15 to 10.50, heavy butchers 9.75 to 10.30, good packers 9.00, cattle around 200 head with steady bids.
Markets report from Huron and surrounding areas shows poultry and egg prices furnished by Swift and Baek Brothers. Included are hens, cocks, light hens, leghorns, and various egg and butterfat quotes, with price movements and regional dairy and produce data from Sioux Falls, Mitchell, Chicago, Wisconsin, Idaho, and Minneapolis markets.
Chicago wholesale market notes firmness in butter with no major price shifts. Poultry and fowls ease slightly with mixed quoters across live shipments. Butter and creamery products show a general decline, while cheese remains unchanged as grain shipping reports record 39,319 barrels.
The Commercial Bulletin will publish wool quotations tomorrow with Montana and similar grades listed. Fine staple choice 97 98, blood combing 96 96, 3% blood combing 88 90, % blood combing 78 80.
New York stocks edged higher as heavy profit taking limited gains but losses were outnumbered. Bank rates eased with call money at 7 percent and time money lower, signaling expectations of further upward movement next week. Utilities led activity with Commonwealth Power a new high, while General Electric faced profit taking. Total volume neared 3.2 million shares.
A scrambled OCR excerpt lists closing percentages for numerous firms across industries, including Allis Chalmer 206 Am Can 141 Am Loco 122 and Am Tf T 211 among others. The fragment mentions railroads steel and mining names and shows a wave of varied performance signals with several misread characters.
On the curb market, Standard Oil of Indiana stock stodgy closed at 55%. The list shows numerous securities with varied percent figures and company abbreviations reflecting a broad trading snapshot across industrials, transportation and consumer goods with no single dominant mover.
More than 140 telephones were out of service after a high wind damaged lines citywide in Huron. Local Manager J. J. Calendine announced repairs completed and normal service restored, with Troquois work progressing to return full service in two to three days.
Thirty leaders from Broadland and nearby towns attended a cooking school led by Charles F. Smith of Columbia University. Menus featured kahob and outdoor specialties cooked on sticks with no utensils, using tin cups and shingles as plates. Guests included Tom Terney, Rev George D Hener, and others from Cavour Redfield and nearby communities.
About 50 persons from Beadle County and surrounding districts gather this afternoon as D C Mills of the state department of education explains changes in South Dakota school laws during a county school boards session in Huron.
About 500 guardsmen from seven South Dakota cities began infantry drills at the State Fair grounds under Col. Earle L. Lewis. The drills run daily through Saturday with next week’s engineering tasks and sports events planned including boxing wrestling baseball and a track meet.
M John Boland returned from Washington predicting the Indian Department may change its stance at the next session to keep Rapid City’s school from being converted into a sanitarium for tubercular Indian children. South Dakota Senators Norbeck and McMaster and Rep Williamson oppose the plan. Boland noted George Schneider was named treasurer of the Mt Rushmore memorial project and praised sculptor Gutzon Borglum and Major J B Tucker for their persistence despite funding shortages.
Twenty seven girls registered for the Beadle County YWCA junior camp at Camp Wilson on Lake Byron for the first summer outing. The staff includes Mary Anspach as camp executive, Sallie Ainsworth and Belle Ainsworth as instructors, Vera Cotton as song leader, C F Stewart as cook and host Clarence Phillips returning for a second year. Activities feature swimming, pottery, crafts, hiking and a Gypsy Pattern day plus the annual treasure hunt at Camp Wilson.
Deputy State Game Warden Mary Colman identifies seepage from the west side of a circular bass pond at the State Fairgrounds. He Johnson notes artesian inflow and discusses the impact on the bass population. Authorities prepare reinforcements as authorities assess the situation.
London June 14 Prince of Wales will not attend the Swedish Legation Ball in honor of Princess Ingrid of Sweden. The guest list shows only Prince George invited and the prince regrets missing the event amid engagement rumors.
Thirty more brooders were placed in the hatchery pond west of Lake Byron according to deputy game warden Harry Colman. The replacement stock comes after winter deaths and will help boost total brooders to above one hundred, enabling over fifty thousand bass to be produced this season. Forty five thousand bass fry were moved from Lake Byron’s hatchery pond to various state lakes, produced by about seventy five brooders.
Senator W H McMaster arrived from Washington to discuss the Huron postmaster appointment amid unconfirmed reappointment of A B Blake. He planned to return to the capital soon and could not be reached at his hotel.
Judge Frank R. Fisher recessed court until June 24 after disposing Case No. 2 by jury. Virgil State Bank won $702.34 against D. Vs Barnes with Crawford & Crawford for the defendant. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis defeated J. P. Hines for $301 in a $225 suit plus $76 interest, with a 66 day stay pending possible appeal.
The first car of 1929 wheat reached the Wichita Board of Trade floor today. Shipped from Temple Oklahoma the grain graded No. 1 hard winter and weighed 62.2 pounds per bushel. The Sedgwick county first binder was active today cutting wheat on a farm 17 miles southwest of the city.
Tangier June 14 The siege of the French post at Ail Yakoul has been raised after rebel tribesmen attacked. The Trench arrived to save the post from falling into rebel hands. A fleet of French bombers took part in the engagement with considerable losses on both sides.
Paris June 14 The Hayas news agency said today the government would give parliament a free rein to choose ratification of the interallied debt agreements by decree or by voting In any event the government will not pose a question of confidence to the Chamber of Deputies.
Washington discussions consider freedom of the seas a key issue for Ramsay MacDonald and President Hoover if a U.S. visit occurs. Historians note a 1921 four power Pacific treaty and a possible hemispheric division as solutions, while many urge a universal agreement at the Hague conference in November.
Mrs. Coolidge has completed a series of articles for America magazine revealing intimate facts about the presidential household during the Coolidge administration. Merle Crowell, editor, announced the completion in New York.
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