Lancaster County cattle show highlights and results
The report details top bids at a Lancaster area cattle show with 115 price per hundredweight and notable buyers such as Loui C Uhl of Meat Products Baltimore and Lloyd W Roberts Corkran & Co Baltimore. It lists exhibitor placements and weights from 935 to 980 pounds and notes young 4th grader John at Drumore Township Elementary as a noticeable spectator.
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Chicago
Loui C Uhl
Meat Products
Baltimore
Lloyd W Roberts
Corkran& Co
Lancaster Livestock Range
W S Bixler
James Dunlap
Art Heilbron
Robermy
John
Drumorewnship
Major Rosalie wins junior Ayrshire at SPARC Cattle Show
At Shippenburg Pennsylvania John B Ocker exhibits Major Rosalie daughter of Elmstone Major and Carolyn Nancy. The junior champion Ayrshire honors were awarded to the calf calved July 25 1954 with shre NA 19 Elmstone Major noted as her dam.
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Calved
Rosalie
Ayrshire
John B Ocker
Ship
Pensburg
Carolyn Nancy
Lancaster Broilers Auction Listings Summary
An auction item list shows multiple poultry lots with Arbor Acres White Rocks and other breeds. Entries include quantities like 4000 or 4500 birds, prices such as 9-6 or 10-2, buyers including H W Longacre Roy E Ream Tulley's Poultry and firms like Wenger's Mall Inc and Vernon Zimmerman. Withdrawals are noted for Wenger's Mall.
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Derfer
Arbor Acres
White Rocks
H W. Longacre
Elmer Diffenderfer
H. W Longacre
Allen E. Moyer
Roy E Ream
Wenger’s Mall, Inc
Vernon Zimmerman
Joseph Deitz
Tulley’s
Local Meat Trade Listings in Lancaster Area
A sequence of weighted meat shipments and brokers with names Magdalina Frey Emerson Knight Barry Lee Knight Ruth Hess Arlene Long Irena Bollinger. Goods include pork and beef blocks sent to Krall Meat Market Kunzler and Co Musser Lockers Armour for Diem Food Plant Greenawalt Koch Cross Bros with prices per hundredweight ranging from $32 to $35.
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Arlene Long
Manheim
Greenawalt & Koch
Lancaster
Irena Bollinger
Denver
Cross Bros
Philadelphia
Broiler Prices Dip Below 20 Cents at Lancaster Exchange
Lancaster Poultry Exchange Rohrs t own Pa reports average broiler prices at 19.20 cents for Tuesday sale 171. Seven lots 19,050 birds listed five lots 7,650 sold four lots 7,300 sold 19 to 19 1/2 cents. one lot 350 capons at 22 1/2 cents. About 100,000 birds listed for Thursday Aug 16. Listings for Aug 21 due by 4:30 p.m. Friday Aug 21. Big poultry barbecue planned at Hershey Park Saturday Aug 25.
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Lancaster Poultry Exchange
Rohrerstown
Hershey Park
Paul Shoemaker
Tilley
Allen L Kauffman
Indian Rivers
Martin M. Brendle
Aaron E. Beiler
White Mountain
Carl B. Rissel
Wenger’s Mill
Vernon Zimmerman
Walter B. Lehman
Lloyd G Kreider
Roy E Ream
Miller & Bushong
H. Glenn Kauffman
Indian River Poultry Farm
Harry F. Hess
Lancaster Puletts
Eggs Market Report from Philadelphia August 15
Unsettled demand remains good for light supplies of top quality large eggs. Supplies of extras and all medium eggs are in excess of current fair demand. Storage goods used liberally. Fresh arrivals show quality defects from heat. Wholesale prices: Large 45-48 lb white 49-51, brown 48-49. medium white 35-34, brown 33-34. Extras minimum 60 percent A quality. Large 45-50 lb white 41-42, mixed 40-41, medium white 33-34, mixed 33-34. Checks 29-30. Receipts Aug 14 4,100 cases by truck.
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Philadelphia
Claims Travel Record of Pastor Drives 30000 Miles for Degree
Bridgewater records show Rev Max William Fisher drove about 30 000 miles over four years to earn a college degree. He supported an eight member family by serving as pastor of two distant churches and traveled daily between home and college.
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Bridgewater
Var
Max William Fisher
If your wife wants to learn to drive Sunshine
A brief opinion piece urges support for wives learning to drive, framing autonomy and progress as essential, with a light humorous aside about not obstructing the effort. The tone is encouraging and practical.
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Sunshine
Live Poultry Market Mixed In Philadelphia Auction
Philadelphia market unsettled with fair demand varying by size and quality. Receipts Aug 14 included 4 000 lbs Delaware 15 000 Maryland 13 000 Virginia 13 000. No 1 broilers under 3 lbs 18 cents. heavy fryers 3-4 lbs 18-26. roosters 18. pullets 43-42 lbs 28-31. hens 17-22. light roosters 11-12. ducks Muscovy 27 Pekin 28-30.
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Philadelphia
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
Flying Squirrel Mistaken for Burglar In Texas
Miss Fon ta Brittenum called police about a burglar at her home in Marshall Texas. Officers arrived to find a flying squirrel clinging to a window screen and making a ruckus as it played.
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Marshall
Texas
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Darvin E Boyd
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Lest Bros
Dallastown
Ronald D Book
Lanier
Sechrist Bros
Bruce Boyd
Ri Ywata
Medford
Chaster
P Book
Stock Yards Inn
Edwin Miller
Idisville
Kral
Mt. Joy
Line Buch
Lititz
Diem
Easter
Joseph Alin
Joy
Loren
Eavy
Marietta Ph
Lancaster Broilers
WARD
S. Sta
Route 222
St., Ephrata
Wavac
New Castle
Salsbury
F. W. Fisher
Leacock Pa
Jose
USDA
Edward G. Wilson
Lancaster Production
Credit Assn
E. Chestnut St
Ph. Lane
Diggers
Bennus
L. H. Brubaker
Strasburg
Strasburg Pike
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