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Newspaper
Hamburg Reporter
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1920
Page
1
The piece notes subscription rates for Fremont and adjoining counties and opines on agitators. It laments prewar prices, discusses the promise and risks of air travel, mentions farmers facing price pressures, and ends with an ad for rendering dead stock services and a playerphone promotion.
Farmers argue for higher commodity prices to cover costs and keep farming viable. They contend corn must average about 1.00 per bushel and oats about 0.75 to ensure profitability after interest, maintenance, and labor. They blame speculative buyers and urge coordinated holding and cooperative delivery to secure better prices and avoid depressions in midwestern agriculture.
A contemporary article questions American patriotism as fifteen million Europeans seek entry. It warns social fabric is at risk from troublemakers targeting government and wealth, predicting foreigners will be persuaded to undermine the system for imagined gains.
Pinkey's Place offers flour sacks at one dollar per dozen. Cora Severn seeks wash help at North Washington Street, Ham burg Town. Lube Choate lists 150 bushels of onions for sale at Community store for Saturday, one fifty per bushel. Holt County Missouri river bottom farm for sale, 260 acres near Forest City with improvements, asking 250 per acre. Hart, owner, 1005 Commerce Bldg., Kansas City, Missouri.
Farm of 6 acres with a good three room house located three miles southeast of Hamburg. Must be taken by January 1 if sold. For information contact L. A. Reese at the Bank of Hamburg or Ed Denney.
Local lenders advocate reducing interest on first class farm loans in Atchison county with farm insurance highlighted as a specialty. A. E. Lane of the Lewis Building, Rock Port, emphasizes favorable terms to farmers and stability in credit.
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