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Hog Market Calls And Farm Family Banter In Shipping Tales
A lively sketch shows the farmers shipping hogs through a cooperative with a wife acting as manager. Call after call to Northwestern and other buyers reveals prices, loads, and a dozen jokes about brokers and market swings. The piece ends with a caricature of farm life and a brief note on Radcliffe girls starting a local paper in Crawfordsville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North - Western
Sam
Northwestern
Bill
Fine
Charlie
Miller, White
Wood
Quin-Cahill
Chicago
Association
Smith
Ilinois Central
Jim Jones
Farmere Lin
Mae Caighbor
Mans Ager
Tom Turner
Henry
John Smith
Haan
Shipping Association
George
Pat—Shure
Radcliffe
Crawfordsville
Pate Huber