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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1925
Page
5
What News Want Columns Will Do Rent rooms secure help find lost articles enable you to make advantageous trades sell chickens eggs corn farms tools wood produce The classified columns connect you with the party who wants what you have or has what you want The rate is a word for the first insertion and a word for following issues Tele phone your ad to 1402 or 1207.
Daily market listing shows prices for farm goods including butter eggs poultry and game. Items include fresh butter at market rates and various poultry prices such as chickens ducks geese and turkeys with per head or per pound figures and notes on breed and size.
Hogs receipts at 4,000 with prices 10 to 25 cents lower. Best heavies around 13.40, medium 13.25 to 13.30, common 13.25. Cattle receipts 900 with steady tone. veal and cows range 6.50 to 8.50. Sheep receipts 50 with nominal activity. top around 9.00.
Miss Mary Margaret Shelley entertained at six o clock dinner last evening at her East Washington Street home with guests Miss Mary Amanda Dobyns of Indianapolis Miss Helen Florine Hamilton and Miss Elizabeth McCoy. Virginia Caylor and Ted Cadoll of Indianapolis arrive tomorrow to spend the weekend with Miss Mildred Emmert on North Broadway. Royal Neighbors degree staff will meet in Woodmen's hall tonight for practice with refreshments served after the business session.
A reader denounces a planned western rodeo in Greensburg as cruel and educational for children. The letter cites mistreatment of animals in rodeos and bullfights, urges humane action, praises baseball, and questions observance of Humane Week from April 2 to 18.
International push for women's equality gathers pace with an upcoming International Parliament Women in Washington. Alice Paul leads the movement as suffrage and legal equality efforts expand with prominent supporters in France, England, and the United States including Mrs C H Belmont Gloria Swanson and Julia Marlowe.
The report lists corn and oats with weak bids and grade details. Hay market remains steady with no changes.
Receipts number 3,500 for cattle and 75 for lambs reported in Cincinnati. Shipping steers brought 9.15 to 10.15 per cwt while calves bulk ranged 12.50 to 14.00, and good to choice packers sold 13.50 to 13.75. Market steady for lambs with values 16.00 to 17.00.
The 1925 act creates a new parcel post option called Special Handling to speed rail en route by treating parcel post like first class mail. It requires both Special Handling and Special Delivery stamps for best service. the 25 cent Special Handling plus applicable Special Delivery postage accelerates delivery. Postmaster Hal T. Kitchin urges public familiarity with the new rates effective April 15, 1925.
A Monmouth College glee club concert at Springhill Community Church drew attendees from Greensburg. Edith and Amanda Hamilton Cyrus and Cora Donnell attended, with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bonner and Mrs. W. E. Thomas among others. Mrs. Mary Manley of Greensburg died yesterday in Shelbyville, visiting her daughter Mrs. William E. Green. Her funeral is set for 1:30 p.m. tomorrow in Shelbyville, with burial at South Park cemetery.
Decatur County Farm Bureau advertises high grade clover seed at close prices and provides phone contact 1371. Cosmos Candy Kitchen promotes French Vanilla ice cream as a step above plain ice cream.
Reports from Union City describe clashes tied to delinquent taxes and assessor actions in hunting down unpaid levies. Authorities sealed access as tensions rose amid local tax collection efforts.
Berne Indiana reports the local boys in the Dun bar band rehearsing on A flats and B sharps after an invitation from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to perform at the Decoration Day event for the 590 mile race program.
The traction company started freight and express connections with Batesville Osgood and Napoleon via motor trucks from this city. It will allow daily delivery of fresh goods from Indianapolis to Ripley county communities in an up to date way.
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