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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1938
Page
2
ARMOUR STOCK YARDS reports hog prices down by a dime on Friday with top at 7.50. Receipts totaled about 500. Cattle, calves, and sheep held steady. Pigs about 7.23 to 7.50, sheep steady around 9.00 to 10.00 for heavy grades, ewes around 3.00.
Market notes from Huron South Dakota show daily prices in Switta Co listings with yields such as hens under 4% pounds and Leghorn and springs. Chicago prices for October 25 report firmer creamery items, eggs at 24 44 unsettled, and poultry prices steady to higher with hens at 4% pounds and Leghorn breeds noted.
U S D A reports hog receipts 13 000 with prices steady to 10 cents lower in parts. Top hogs 4.00 with 200 280 lb greens at 7 85 95, 170 190 lb at 7 75 90, 120 160 lb at 7 50 75. Cattle and calves in light supply with steady tone. steers buy to 9 25 per cwt with averages near 20 10 for 1 193 lb. Sheep and lambs 7 000 receipts. fat lambs slow but near steady. native lambs around 8 50, yearlings 6 50. ewes 3 25 50. Overall feeder trade active. hogs and cattle mixed, buyers cautious with light supplies.
HOGS show varied weights and prices with heavies averaging around 7.85 per hundredweight and mediums near 7.68 while numerous lots list counts, averages, and prices. The fragmented OCR notes mixed figures for Av. Price and No. with mixed totals and weights across hog classes.
St Paul and Sioux Falls livestock quotes show cattle and hogs mixture of steady to modestly lower prices. In St Paul, cattle mostly steady with best hogs at 7.65 per hundredweight and calves around 3.00 to 2.50, while sheep runs note buyers weaker on fat lambs but firm on Montana feeders. Sioux Falls reports hogs 1,500 head down 10 to 15 cents. top 7.60, bulk 7.00 to 7.60. cattle 600 head steady with quotes unchanged.
Sioux City Iowa Oct 2 cattle and calves steady fed yearlings up to 10.00 heifers to 10.00 cows 5.00 to 6.25 flankers 3.75 to 4.50 hogs 2,700 head down 10 cents top 7.75 selected weights 480 270 pounds at 7.59 85, light 160 180 pounds 7.25 50, sows 7.25 to 7.30 feed prices noted.
Minneapolis market brief lists flour and related commodities with prices and package sizes. Mentions Ort. 28 date and various grade names like Family Patents Standard Patents and commodities including cotton sacks and middlings. Shipments count 24 629 and prices around 4.05 to 5.25 per unit.
New York market notes dated October 28 show butter firmer with creamery gains and higher returns for extra and firsts. Cheese remains quiet, eggs steady to firm with varied color grades, and refrigerated items mixed. Live poultry by freight weaker with a range of prices for chicks, fowls, turkeys, and ducks. dressed poultry prices unchanged.
Sioux Falls and Watertown markets report Friday prices for heavy hens leghorn and heavy bred springs, ducks and geese, eggs and butterfat with No 1 and No 2 classifications and varying weights in the Oct 22 listings. Local markets show specific breed and weight categories and price points.
Sioux City market notes October 28 shows commodity quotes for poultry including hens and springs by weight and grade, Leghorn variants, old cocks, and No 2 poultry. Eggs reported with case loss, new cases, No 1 and No 2 prices, with loose and packed eggs. Butter prices listed for creamery fancy wholesale and lower grades No 1 and No 2.
Mitchells [sic] Friday market in Oregon lists varied livestock prices including hens of different weights and ages, leghorn and springs, young and old turkeys with weights and prices per unit, ducks and geese, and butterfat premiums. The shorthand column shows rates such as hens under 5 lbs at 12, 5 lbs and over at 13, turkeys under 14 lbs at 11 and hen turkeys at 13, with other items priced accordingly.
Chicago market notes show butter and wheat futures with fluctuating highs and lows. Prices listed include 2514 and 2534 for butter, and various wheat figures around 64 to 67 with mixed daily closes.
New York and Chicago market notes show varied shifts. Bonds rise modestly while foreign exchange holds steadier. Commodities like coffee rise, wheat edges lower with corn dragged by wheat. Cotton remains narrow with local trade subdued. Cattle stay steady as hogs range steady to weaker.
Chicago market reports moisture relief across the Kansas Nebraska border easing prices late. Frost in Argentina cited as a bearish factor with demand for North American grains negligible. Dec wheat futures down 2 cents, corn futures down around 0. your summary notes range and carlot prices in Minneapolis for No. 2 dark northern wheat and other grains.
New York traders focused on railroad stocks as buying drove utilities and electrical equipment higher briefly after Washington announced an expansion program by a major utility group with government backing. Most gains faded, with many shares ending under water as profit taking reasserted itself. about 1.6 million shares traded.
A dense list of closing quotations from various companies and brands with percentage figures and odd spellings, resembling a historical stock or commodity ticker end. Entities include AdamsExp Le&MyB AirReduce Loews MarsH ield AlliedCh-Dye McKess&Rob Allis-ChM[g AmCan MidmiCop AmLoco Nash-Kelv. Anaconda NorthAmer AtchT&SF Ohio Oil AviaCorp PackardMot and others with percentage deltas.
Washington reported that a dozen large utilities joining with the federal government will spend about 2.0 billion dollars over the next two years to boost electric power output for the national defense program. Lloyd L. Carlisle of Consolidated Edison said the plan includes factory orders to supply equipment for 1,000,000 kilowatts and involves substantial government financing though not grants.
A dense listing of company names and stock figures traces a broad market snapshot from New York on October 28 and curb market activity on October 22. It highlights bond quotes, treasury yields, mortgage securities, and assorted corporate names including Ford, General Electric, General Motors, Technological firms, consumer brands, and airlines, reflecting broad trading activity and varied valuations.
Arnold Johnson, charged with first degree murder in the fatal May shooting of labor leader William Brown, testified he did not kill Brown and did not recall events after about 1 p.m. on May 25. He denied carrying a gun that day and said the striped suit found bloodstained was not his.
The former Kaiser Wilhelm, now host and chairman, presided at a meeting of archaeologists from Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, and beyond. He presented a paper on the origin and use of the baldachin, an ecclesiastical canopy, while several attendees were unnamed to avoid international complications, with speculation that some may be non Aryan.
Chicago and New York butter prices edged higher today by 0.35 a pound, the first notable rebound since July as government buying wanes. Traders noted stronger supply and demand factors returning to prominence, with prevailing extras climbing to 26½ cents per pound in both cities.
Polish Jews faced crackdown rumors as Warsaw announced regulations to cancel passports of Poles living abroad more than five years while Germany aimed at Jews first in anti Semitic policy. In other news, children started a shed fire at 149 Fourth Street Southwest. firemen contained the blaze with slight damage. James Breidenstein, 18, died from a fractured neck sustained during football practice at West Seneca High School.
AY THE HOSPITALS lists admissions including Robert Ranst and Gladys Bertrand with medical conditions and Mrs. Otto Moench and Mrs. Mollie Perry as medical cases, plus Geraldine Mans and others for surgical cases. It notes Loren Smith and two Huron residents dismissed, and mentions an injured boy, Robert Ranst, age 10, hurt near Huron while riding to school, hospitalized and recovering. Doris Kenyon wed Lasker in New York at Waldorf Astoria.
George Moran famed prohibition era figure jailed in Chicago after failing to post 26000 bond on a counterfeiting conspiracy charge aiming to pass a million dollars in fake money orders and railroad bonds. Seven gang members held, six trials set for November 28. Three already jailed in Pennsylvania. Frank Parker, named to lead the group, absent with plan to return Tuesday.
New York story reports a federal court witness recounting a meeting in Germany between Dr Ignatz Griebl and Capt Lieut Erich Pfeiffer. Witness Mrs Kate Moor Busch testified that two German war ministry officials pressed for a Nazi propaganda salon in Washington. She described aliases and urged contact with Pfeiffer while naming other indicted officials and counter espionage aides.
Journal summaries claim Japan aims to persuade the United States to recognize a new Far Eastern order. Editorials urge modification of the nine power pact amid China upheaval. German officials denounce US meddling as Nazi press trims Roosevelt speech impacts.
A five conference statewide program for workers in distribution launched in Huron under H B Pata with Ray Aldrich stating courses cover retail sales window display and advertising. The first conference met, a six week series will continue with groups meeting regularly. A steering committee of local business leaders oversees the program expanding to other cities.
Yehudi Menuhin in Los Gatos declines membership in the American Guild of Musical Artists to avoid a $7 fee, risking missing two Los Angeles Philharmonic engagements on November 3 and 4. Mrs. Leyland Atherton voices firm support for AGMA policy, stating the orchestra would pay the artist if he refused.
Three year old Arlene Richine was awarded 2500 dollars by a superior court jury against tavern owners Paul Sakenas and Peter Waiunas after her mother Antoinette Richine made a five dollar bet that she could drink a pint of whiskey in an hour. Arlene had three quarts before collapsing and dying of acute alcoholism.
New York officials report a daring rescue as firefighter Charles Pessoni lowered into a fourth floor casement to lift Marie Clemens, 25, from the edge of a window at Recent Nursing Home. She had wedged herself and hung by a leg for 20 minutes while others pulled through the narrow opening.
Wessington Springs high band director KL F Lenn received an invitation from a state marching contest in Fans on November 3. The group would join other high bands in the parade, but attendance remains undecided.
Renters seek a modern five room house in Kansas with fireplace sun parlor and insulation available November fifteenth priced at forty dollars per month. Also offers include a Norge Washer promotion and Springer spaniel pups for sale. Nurse position requested for nursing home care with references, respond to 1924 Huronite.
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