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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1938
Page
4
New York June 15 wall street flirted with a bullish turn then hesitated as recent commodity weakness and a rush to buy gold in London created a fleeting inflation mood. Stocks posted only modest gains amid low volume as railroad bonds weakened and outlook for a dull summer persisted.
Chicago reports potato quotations and US shipment totals with muted demand and heavy supplies. California white rose and other stocks show limited movement. butter and eggs prices are listed with reflectively stable offerings. Local rental ads and real estate notes clutter the page along with small hospital news from Worland and a Helena ranch listing.
Poultry and pet stock offered by Piatt Heath Co with 24 re-er Stoke Baby chicks and popular breeds. Furniture discounted including a spine piano for about $100 and other items like gas range and dressing table with monthly payments. Orton Brothers of Butte Montana invite inquiries for full details. Also listed are rocking chairs, Cred Ice hoves, and automobiles with emphasis on sale pricing and bargains.
Chicago and Omaha reports show cattle and calf receipts around four to six thousand with steady to weak demand. Hogs and sheep mix with varied weights and prices, choicest fed steers steady to firm, bulls and cutters mixed, spring lambs and ewes trading at higher trims in spots, Kansas City and Spokane listings follow similar patterns with gains in lambs and steady hogs and cattle.
New York markets show little movement with raw sugar steady at 270 and refined at 4.50 for fine grade. A 28 100 bag Puerto Rico shipment for June second half to an aut refinery passes at the same price amid moderate withdrawals against old contracts. Miss Beth McKay, descendant of Brigham Young, and John L Tyner announce their June 26 marriage in Los Angeles.
Grain market notes show wheat prices rising then falling within a day amid black rust concerns and lower winter crop prospects. Analysts forecast a harvest around 780 to 750 million bushels, with Oklahoma and Kansas production trimmed, and corn and barley prices listed with varied bids.
Minneapolis June 15 Flour barrel prices for carload lots show unchanged Patents at 825 and 569 for various bagged sacks amid shipments totaling 17 587 barrels. Wheat receipts at Minneapolis June 18 mark lower money market with No 1 heavy dark northern at 0.81 to 1.10 per bushel and No 2 grades slightly higher. Liverpool market notes soft wheat and Australian futures closed firm July.
Plentywood June 18 AP Rodney Salisbury 30 died here of a brain hemorrhage after a business trip. He was Sheridan county sheriff 1922 to 1928 and later state president of the Farmers Holiday association. For four years he organized Farmers Holiday units in western Montana. He ran as a Communist candidate for governor in 1932. Surviving are his widow and eight children, residents of Mis- 801.
Boston reports shattered sales on finer western town wools with spot twelve month Texas wools at 58 to 60 cents a scoured basis. Some houses refused bids at the lower side while direct twelve month Texas wool deals ranged 55 to 67 cents delivered. New York notes quiet wool futures with a 10 centime drop in Roubaix. Antwerp steady to down 14d.
Margaret Kruts survived a 1938 assassination attempt that aimed at President Roosevelt when a shot fired by Joseph Zan gara in Miami struck her head. She later held a position with a Washington DC cremation commission as headaches continued. Mayor Anton Cermak, who was with the president, was killed in the incident.
Secretary Harold L. Ickes and his wife Jane Dahl, of Milwaukee, sailed from Le Havre to New York aboard the France after a 10 day honeymoon in Paris.
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