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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1915
Page
6
Hog prices rise with nickels noted while cattle and sheep show mixed moves. Receipts reach around 16 000 hogs and 21 000 cattle with prices varying by grade and weight across hogs cattle and lambs. Market prospects point lower following yesterday's close.
In Ouax City Iowa cattle receipts near 900 and hogs around 7000 head, prices firmer with top hogs at 7.25 and bids around 6.40 for select lots. Sheep about 500 head, steady to firm, with buyers active for killing and feeding stock and a country demand holding strong. Cattle steady with beves quoted 6.75 to 9.75, cows 4.50 to 6.50, calves around 6.00, and stockers firm on good stock.
Minneapolis cash wheat prices by grade with values for No 1 northern No 2 northern No 1 hard No 2 hard No 3 and durum futures and shipment terms. Prices shown include 1 day and several day delivery options with September and May terms noted.
New barley recorded at 68 to 72 cents with old stock 70 to 78. Rye priced at 1.04 to 1.05 dollars with 96 arriving. Flax listed 1.68 to 1.70 dollars for 3 to 4 arriving, same price.
Milwaukee Wisconsin market notes show wheat at Dakota No 1 northern 1.50 to 1.52 with No 2 at 1.47 to 1.50 and velvet chaff around 1.49 to 1.51. September and December wheat at 1.09 5-8. corn mixed at 0.79 1 2 to 0.81 and 0.81 3 4 with September 0.75 3 4 and December 0.64 2 0. oats No 3 white 0.58 and standard 0.58 1 2. September 0.41. barley 0.79 to 0.82. fluctuating prices for malting barley. flax No 1 new 1.68 3 4 to 1.70 3 4.
Washington reports the United States accepts payment for the Frye under German note terms, avoiding The Hague arbitration. Germany seeks no treaty-violation admission, two commissioners fix the amount, and Article 13 is cited in dispute over contraband protections. A separate report notes the Norwegian Geiranger sunk near Copenhagen with crew rescued.
A sheriff led posse hunts for the assailant of Mrs. Mary Callis 23 found bound and unconscious on the Lincoln highway five miles from Grand Island Nebraska. She rode a motorcycle ran out of gas tourists saw her distressed Barton and family aided her later she regained consciousness at a hospital.
A British report describes a Turkish aircraft sinking a vessel near Bulair on Tuesday afternoon, with all crew lost as bombs were dropped from several thousand feet. The dispatch also quotes a Times correspondent from Petrograd praising German achievement in Warsaw while noting Russia evacuated calmly and methodically, salvaging valuables and withdrawing before German arrival.
A Budapest newspaper publishes General von Buelow interview on the Russian campaign versus Napoleon 1812. He argues modern logistics render Napoleonic strategy useless, noting rapid transport, motor lorries, and asphalt roads enable faster supply lines beyond past tactics.
Berlin reports describe massive German and Austrian movement through former Russian Polish districts. Armies between the Vistula and the Bug receive three meals daily as cattle herds and mineral water are supplied. Railways are quickly restored to forward troops despite scorched villages. A Russian General Staff officer warned Brest Litowsk could not resist, while Ivangorod prisoners say Russian daily cartridge allotments were only eight.
Governor Byrne designated a delegation from South Dakota to the December tuberculosis prevention congress in Indianapolis Indiana. The list includes Mrs Julia McDaniels Madison Doctors Sherman Lull Sum mit Felix Ashcroft Hermanegile Klima Shirley P Miller Charles P McCauley John Sutherland Frak H Stewart Leslie G Hill E W Swafford J G Parsons E M Morehouse R D Jennings A H Youngs H T Kenney P B Jenkins J J Mertens J L Foxton Alfred G Allen John W Freeman R E Woodroth among others from Deadwood Spearfish Brookings Yank ton Sioux Falls Pierre Custer and Gettysburg.
A partial sports snippet references baseball, mentioning teams or players in unclear terms and lacking full names or context.
Brooklyn defeated Chicago 3 to 1 while New York beat Pittsburg 2 to 8 in a rain postponed schedule. Lincoln and Des Moines games listed with incomplete lineups and innings, noting batteries Hoffman Narveson Schreiber McAllister Vance Bliss Cantwell Spahr and Breen in various frames.
In a tight showdown the Des Moines Batteries defeated Harrington and Spahr with Gilligan and Breen delivering key plays as the defense clamped down in the final minutes.
A short article extols the brisk pine forest aroma as a refreshing tonic for throat and head, describing its invigorating scent and potential restorative effects on cough and congestion.
Mrs T A Spencer of Santa Fe will accompany her father, William C McDonald, Governor of New Mexico, to the Governors Conference in Boston.
Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey advertised as antiseptic and healing from Finney Forests. The mercury of Newness and vigor is claimed to be brought back by the product. Sold at All Drugsts. Buy a bottle today.
Rev. William Schroeder a German American pastor from Hartford returned to the United States after being detained in Edinburgh by British authorities who mistook him for a German reserve officer. He was held in a hotel during an identity probe and released after U S officials intervened. Schroeder avoided continuing to Germany and sailed for the United States aboard a Danish ship.
Report describes heightened excitement among watchers along the British Isles as a vessel sails through a war zone and fears of German U boat attacks loom.
Mrs. Lewis Wagner visits Corsica at J H Peden home. Walter Way returns from Janesville after visiting Guy Morse who graduated from Dakota Wesleyan. W S Hill family leaves Hill ranch for Cambria for two weeks. Mrs Herman Timm of Oakland arrives for visit with sister A Jay Anderson in Omaha. Logan A Mizener, Omaha road agent, returns to Sioux City after Mitchell business. W E Irwin plans to build a barn east of Mitchell after lightning destroyed the previous one. Birth announced in Mitchell: daughter to Mr. and Mrs. W H Johnson. S H Scallin attends South Dakota Pharmaceutical association session at Lake Madison. Betts elevator company buys A H Betts elevator for 3700.
An 19th century advertisement extols Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. It claims to heal catarrh by acting on blood and mucous surfaces and offers a hundred dollar reward for failure to cure. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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