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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1941
Page
6
Living room suite and 1 sectional bookcase offered for sale. Also listed a ladies balloon tire bicycle two mattresses and porch curtains. Contact number 1721R for details. Location is 308 West 16th.
A farm auction listing cows of various breeds and ages with milk yields, hogs, and miscellaneous equipment led by Fred Torneden and Myers and Son auctioneers. Money from sale to be directed to the Estate of John A. Zimmermann with probate actions in Douglas County Kansas.
Notice in Douglas County Kansas courts lists foreclosure sale of real estate in Lawrence. The sheriff will expose the NW NE of section 17 township 15 south range 20 east forty acres, at the court house west front, August 12 1941 at 10 00 am for cash to the highest bidder. Also includes barber shop minimum price schedule approved July 5 1941 by the Kansas State Board of Barber Examiners detailing standard service rates.
In Chicago on July 8 the wheat market posted overnight losses up to a cent a bushel as investors hedged amid cooler weather and forecasts of showers. Uncertainty over price control legislation and cotton’s fall unsettled the pit, with September wheat down to 1.061%4 and December to 1.084%4. Continuous futures activity showed substantial purchases and open interest in wheat and corn.
Kansas City reports July 30 AP USDA livestock totals with hogs unchanged and cattle trends mixed. Feeder steers and yearlings show steady to weak demand while grass cattle hold at steady to easier, with calves and bulls weak. Sheep market slow with little sales and quotes in the native lambs range. Grain prices and futures extend across wheat corn oats and rye with varied bids and regional hay values listed.
July 30 market notes show irregular stock demand for rubbers and rails, mixed bond activity with Japanese issues, and quiet foreign exchange. Cotton weak, sugar liquidating, metals steady with tin prices easing, wool sold lower, wheat and corn down on cooler weather and profit taking. Cattle and hogs steady to lower on generally soft livestock tone, and Chicago potato market reports arrivals, shipments, and prices across multiple varieties and regions.
Grain prices show wheat 89, yellow corn 68, white and mixed 66. Butterfat catalog lists No 133 and No 230. Poultry prices include hens 4 pounds 12 to over 4 pounds 16, roosters 68, springs 14 16. Eggs 21 and hogs 10 90.
AP reports U.S. government bonds closed in New York with Treasury 1s at 54 44 and Treasury 3s at 55 41, reflecting trading conditions of the day.
New York stocks respond to July market activity while Brazil imposes a rule requiring one in ten trucks and buses to have gas mechanisms. Camp Robinson reports 97,850 feet of sewer pipe laid with disposal plants capable of 3,000,000 gallons daily.
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