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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1929
Page
11
Armour hog receipts noted at noon. Hurons yard not a public market. Daily quotations unavailable. Chicago eggs butter and poultry prices listed. Sioux Falls and St Paul livestock markets show mixed gains for hogs and cattle. Chicago potatoes and Minneapolis flour futures also recorded.
Markets in Huron show poultry butter and eggs with prices furnished by Swift & Co. and Huck Brothers. The report lists hens light meat cooking fittings and related fees with attention to local supply and demand factors.
The Minneapolis grain market reports a modest rally in wheat prices and firmer tones across commodities. Oats, rye, barley, and flax show varied gains and demand remains uneven as spring wheat offerings rise but high protein demand remains strong.
A fragmented clipping notes a famous young pair appearing together with hints of bridal plans. The readable text mentions a famed duo and a public pairing, suggesting a society moment or engagement rumor without detailed specifics.
Market notes list May and July flax prices and September futures, wheat grades with prices for durum and mixed varieties, and a Minneapolis flour report noting a 20 cent drop in carload lot prices for family patents and assorted shipments including bran and cotton sacks.
New York May 8 High money rates kept speculative operations tight as bulls and bears battled for control. Call money at 14 percent, radio liquidation largely completed and prices rebounded from a trough near 99% to around 10144. Murray Corporation Warren Brothers United Aircraft American and Foreign Power Borg-Warner led gains of 3 to 6% from yesterday’s close.
Trading ends with Columbia Graphophone slipping to 72 as Chrysler and General Motors see uneven demand. Overall volume reaches about 2.3 million shares while listed industrials show broad activity and mixed gains across names including GM, U S Steel, and Republics.
Divorces in England and Wales run about one in every hundred marriages while in the United States about one in ten end in divorce court.
Western trunk lines announced freight rate cuts from 6 to 14 percent per 100 pounds for wheat and flour exports to aid the president’s program to relieve an emergency. The reductions, subject to ICC approval, expire September 20 1929, and are not a precedent. Key routes include Missouri to Chicago and St Louis to New Orleans with varied cents per 100 pounds reductions.
Grosvenor of Huron was elected president of the South Dakota State Medical Association for the coming year at the opening session. Sioux Falls was chosen as the 1930 convention city. Officers include Dr. Percy D. Peabody of Webster as president elect and others. About 150 delegates registered by 10 am. The program featured clinics and an open session with Dr. Arthur J. Cramp of Chicago lecturing on Patent Medicines and Public Health. Dr. M. C. Howard of Creighton substituted for Dr. Sachs. President Hopkins praised Mitchell doctors and medical legislation for public benefit.
Huron city commission faced eleven applicants for the official motorcycle speed cop post with a $110 starting salary. Disappointment marked the names Guy A. Barkey George E. Berg J H Cotton Buell L Cotton H R Finn Dale D Gordon A B Hanson Edwin Hook Waller Island S L Mitchell and E. Tredway as they postponed action. The honor may go to a regular city patrolman.
City commissioners appoint three regular drivers Ernie Tovey Max Teuber and Fred Erlandson to staff daytime shifts at the city hall and six men including Tovey Bylandson Joe Ritter Ed Ashman Jerry Thompson and Glen Messing to handle night duty.
Fire station quarters house men on duty ready at a moment's notice to respond with ho trucks to night emergencies. Commissioners fear confusion with regular drivers and call for clear procedures in what they term the best fire department in the state.
William Treadway Huntington, a Harvard junior and son of Mrs. Clark Huntington, was found dead with a bullet wound after midnight on the Murphy farm near Windsor water works. The crime occurred near the boyhood home of Governor John H. Trumbull. a London dispatch from 1857 is noted in the record.
Hammond Indiana reports identify two victims as John Scalisi and Albert Anselmi, feared Capone henchmen, among three gangland bodies found on a rural roadside. Police review photos from a gangster gallery to confirm the identities.
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