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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1917
Page
5
A fragmentary note indicates a sale action near Greeley Bond five miles southwest for Lawrence. Details are unreadable, but the entry records a sale event with location cues and unclear sponsor or item.
A detailed auction notice for February 7 1917 lists horses cattle hogs and assorted farm equipment to be sold near Baldwin Vinland and Karneak. It includes descriptions of individual animals such as brindle cows heifers and registered Short Horn cattle plus machines like binders hay rakes corn shellers and wagons. A. McPheeters owner and Rule Bros auctioneers with Clark as clerk set a lunch service by the Ladies Aid and note the sale starts at 10:30 AM with a long catalog of items and farm supplies.
A statewide sale listing at 912 Vermont street, Lawrence Kansas, features horses including gray, bay and stallion as well as ponies and cattle. Also offered are goats, harness, buggies, wreckers and an automobile described as a 30 horsepower passenger car in good condition. Woodwater, Wilson, Hetin & Stone act as auctioneers.
Markets stay steady with gains. Prime fed steers ranged near 11 to 11.75, dressed beef steers 8.50 to 10.90, cows and heifers 6 to 11, stockers 6.75 to 10, bulls 6.5 to 8.5, calves 7 to 12.75. Hogs receipts 9,000, gains 15 to 20, heavy hogs 12. Packers 11.80 to 12.05, tight 11.40 to 11.90. Butter and eggs unchanged. Cash wheat mixed with No 2 hard 1.65 to 1.70, No 2 red 1.62 to 1.72. Corn higher with May near 97 5-8. Oats up slightly, rye 1.40, hay steady with Timothy 14, prairie 11.40 to 12, alfalfa 21 to 21.50. Chicago market notes cattle receipts 5,000.
Hogs receipts 26,000 market strong light. Prices mixed and steady with hogs at 11.50 to 12.30 for various grades. Pigs 9.50 to 10.75. Wheat May 1.74, July 1.49, Sept 1.383. Corn May 1.00, oats May 0.54 to 0.58, July 0.55. Pork May 29.60, 29.10. lard May 16.45, 16.00.
Real estate transfers and quit claim deeds listed for Lawrence and surrounding Kansas towns. Filings show transfers involving Mary Stella Collins Garnett Maggie Jordan Lay and others, with prices and parcel descriptions, including lots on Elliott Street and Parker's Addition. Also noted are U S patents and claims to various quarter sections and the northeast quarter in multiple townships.
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