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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1941
Page
7
Auctioneers and bidders handle pillows, dishes and lamb lots with cash terms and bank clerks listed. Farther markets report Kansas City grain prices and futures for wheat corn oats millet soybeans, with Chicago closes and national market activity including hay, cotton and meat prices in a compact summary.
Due to quitting business a sale at 1200 Tennessee Street Lawrence Kansas will open Thursday June 19 1941 at 1 oclock. Readily available items include a solid walnut bedroom suite multiple walnut pieces chairs rockers desks mirrors piano Norge ironer and dining furnishings plus rugs and bedding.
A compact clue grid reveals a themed word puzzle about aquatic and terrestrial creatures. Across cover a beaver like industrious rodent while vertical clues connect terms from roof edge to tissue and across streams. The puzzle blends animals trades and natural items in a single grid.
Market notes from Chicago and Kansas City report soybeans advancing to new seasonal highs amid strength in cotton and a rebound in cottonseed oil. Wheat and corn finished near previous levels while lard deliveries matched or exceeded seasonal records. Livestock quotes show hogs, cattle, and sheep with varied but generally steady to firmer tendencies.
Official estimates list tomorrow's receipts at Cattle 3500 Calves 600 hogs 3000 and sheep 6000. Grain and produce prices across Kansas City mark ets include wheat 3 yellow corn 64 and eggs 23 for local market products. Wall Street notes a tentative stock rally amid rising cotton and oil futures with varied daily gains and a 400000 share daily volume.
The piece notes locals visiting sites and relatives from Reno Kenneth MacCourtney staying in Kansas City Albert Barker working in southern harvest Miss Ruth Phenide and teachers in Chattanooga Tennessee en route to Asheville North Carolina The Busy Bee plans a July 2 afternoon meeting at the church hosted by Mrs Bernhart Mrs Hess and Mrs Caviness Pvt Robert Graham attended Sunday events.
Mr and Mrs F C Bernhardt hosted guests including George F Bernhardt Willis Burton from Leavenworth Clarence Stewart and children Leslie Scott and Rose from Lawrence. Miss Mary Katherine Bernhardt plans a Topeka trip after Louisiana. Mrs McCourtney returns from Kansas City. A stork shower for Mrs James F Dwyer featured pink and white decor and gifts. Donald Powell and Lewis Hildebrand toured Kansas City. A tall evergreen in the O Dea yard blew down during Monday’s storm.
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