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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1931
Page
9
A jumble of rental sale and lost item notices mixed with an ordinance vacating alleys in a city block. Reads like classifieds for a four room house rent, coats for sale, a radios ad, a lost rat, and a vacating ordinance detailing boundaries and street names. The style resembles a late 1920s local page with mixed items and municipal legal text.
An advertisement touts a new 8-tube Majectic radio set priced at 69 50 with Multi Ma and super heterodyne circuits promising local tuning while also promoting a St Patrick themed boast and a 4-Square Mark ed-Off framing unit at CONSTANT SERVICE and South Lawrence Lumber Co listings in Lawrence.
Hogs at Kansas City sold around 5,000 head with strong to higher tone. top prices around 1.75 for 170-220 lb hogs. Cattle and calves 5,000 head offered with steady to slow demand, steers 600-1100 lbs at 7.75 to 10.25, heifers 530-850 lbs near 9.00, cows 4.15 to 6.25, vealers 5.00 to 8.00. Lambs around 9.00 top, various weights and ewes priced. Chicago markets show grain, butter, poultry quotes. Wall Street ends mixed as profits and dividends influence holdings.
The city of Lawrence Kansas passes an ordinance vacating Illinois Street north of Sixth Street and south of the north line of Lot 132 on Illinois Street projected west. Lands in the vacated area revert to adjacent property owners as provided by statute. Takes effect ten days after publication in the official city paper. Signed March 16 1931 by Mayor W C Ellis and City Clerk O H Stockwell.
Market news from Chicago outlines late selling in Wheat on price bulges tempered by favorable winter wheat reports. Corn and oats follow wheat with mixed moves and a higher visible supply. Livestock futures show slow but firm to higher hogs and cattle, with cattle and sheep varied across weights and grades.
A garbled crossword page fragment lists numerous clues and stray characters across many entries. Entries include references to Bible words, bird names, races, and various partial phrases, all jumbled with OCR errors and nonsensical spacing.
A scattered stock market rundown notes cautious improvement in some sectors while investors debate the pace of the business cycle. Traders foresee modest gains ahead with analysts split on near term optimism, credit remains tight and loan volumes edge lower as banks report softer commercial lending.
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