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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1940
Page
9
An enthusiastic ad promotes a new Carrier air conditioning system that cools and filters air. It claims to maintain sea shore comfort indoors while removing impurities and distributing cool air evenly.
Market notes from Kansas City and Idaho include potato prices by grade for Idaho long whites No 1 2.50 and Nebr Cobblers fair to good quality 1.00 1.46, Virginia Cobblers 1.15, Missouri Cobblers 1.00 1.05, with Idaho buds and later hay receipts totals and grain notes.
AP bulletin lists livestock and poultry prices in Kansas City and New York bonds, with figures for flourish, butterfat, hens, roosters, springs, broilers, and hogs. Grain prices show wheat and yellow corn, while poultry values include hens under four pounds and over four pounds.
The market shows wheat futures mixed with slight gains while corn advances modestly. Livestock in Kansas City remains steady to mixed with hogs and cattle trading unevenly and receipts forecasted for tomorrow.
Fragmentary notes describe gas drilling activity at MecLOUTH where a drilng bit reportedly reached 1 891 feet at 12 20 Wednesday. Wallace Lee of the United States is mentioned in relation to the daily output around 000 000 cubic feet and visits to the University during tests.
German residents in Lima Peru gathered July 19 as the German minister urged listening to Adolf Hitler's Reichstag address broadcast. The event underscored foreign nationals following European developments via radio during the wartime period.
Sidney A. Henman a Lindsborg merchant aged 64 died in a Wichita hospital. The obituary notes his business role and death in the city.
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