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Newspaper
Manitowoc Times
Location
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1929
Page
4
Market report lists fresh eggs butter cheese and pork poultry prices in Manitowoc and Milwaukee on February 7. Beans vegetables and potatoes show varying per bushel and per cwt prices. Spring wheat and winter wheat futures appear with fair leads noted.
A fragmented page lists stock names and prices including American Radiator Fisk Rubber Electric Boat Fairbanks Morse and Tidewater, with various bids and values shown. It references Otis Steel Stromberg Carb submarine boat and associated tools, indicating a wartime or industrial market snapshot.
The Chicago market reports mixed activity with cattle and hogs trading unevenly while fat lambs gain on fattened weights. Fresh quotes show diverse shifts across beef, pork, and veal categories with several major firms and commodity names cited in the rapid-pace summary.
County officials and a representative of Governor Robder will speak at Otto Oas Post No 659 get-together at Veteran's Hall on York Street opposite the Times office tonight. Open to the general public. Football scores and grain market updates are also listed in the page clutter.
Milwaukee market report shows cattle and calves receipts around 2 200 to 2 800 with varied prices for heavy steers and heifers. Calves brisk with good to choice 15.75 to 19.50, lambs and sheep steady, and buyer activity noted at Veteran's Hall in the Frazier building Bethlehem Steel complex. Numerous listed companies appear in the surrounding ad section.
John Spinker aged 57 died at 7 a m after a stroke following many years in Manitowoc county. At a joint meeting of the Manitowoc County Dish and Game Protective Association and local Izaak Walton chapter resolutions urged legislature for resident fishing licenses and deer season alignment across Minnesota Michigan Wisconsin.
Officials including District Attorney Lyman Fischer Sheriff Hermen Cartens County Clerk Viola Kasten and Municipal Judge Albert Lehmidt will speak. Also on the program are Atty Harry F Kelley State Commander Gordon Kempf of Sheboygan and Milwaukee Patriotic Instructor Nusbaum. Delegations from Iwo Rivers and Sheboygan attend with music by the Royal Wisconsin Orchestra. Topics cover civic and veterans issues of public interest.
A bill calls for creating a state workmen's compensation fund to cover liabilities of state counties cities towns villages and school districts for indirect employees. Contributing would be one percent of total service or payroll expenses with districts paying ten percent of that share. In other items Mrs. Joseph Zahorik traveled to Oshkosh for her sister Miss Millie Malone's funeral. Foreign exchange and cheese market notices follow with brief quotes and figures.
A bill proposed by Sen Geo Blanchard Edgerton and backed by the Wisconsin league of women voters asks moving the state primary from after Labor Day to the third Tuesday in September to boost turnout. The measure cites families on vacation and schools not yet open as reasons for the delay. Also offered were highway proposals including a 4 cent gas tax and a plan to create an 85000 mile hard road system.
A poetry contest for undergraduate students at Catholic colleges in the United States and Canada is organized by the University of Marquette Milwaukee. Submissions may be single poems or groups themed to Rev. John F. McCormick. First prize is 75 dollars, second 25 dollars. The contest closes May 2.
Mrs A J Adler entertained a five hundred club at 1329 Twelfth Street with prizes awarded to Mrs Meyer Mrs Peter Weber of Two Rivers and Mrs Rohan. A lunch was served and a nice time reported. Albert Zych county supervisor Seventh ward will run to succeed himself having filed papers at city hall with no opposition expected. Airport committee withheld a meeting at city hall and only routine matters will be taken up.
News items report John Wavak injured at the Reiss Chal plant with an arm loss and improving recovery prospects after a conveyor accident. Mrs. Joseph Zahorik learns of sister Miss Millie Malone’s Milwaukee death, a longtime Milwauke e instructor. Two divorces granted by Judge Voigt include Augustine and Augustine and Mary Wittgen and Jake Wittgen. An infant Dorothy Ann Sheehan dies at Holy Family hospital. funeral Friday at St Boniface and Calvary cemetery. A steamer Missouri arrives for repairs and plans to resume Milwaukee to Muskegon service.
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