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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1914
Page
5
Chicago Union Stock Yards reports a quiet day with hogs sharply lower by 15 to 20 cents from yesterday. Estimated hog receipts reach 60,000 with 42,000 expected tomorrow, while cattle and sheep also show weakness and lower quotes.
Sioux City Iowa cattle receipts 1,000. market steady to weak. Hog receipts 4,500. prices 15 to 20 cents lower with top $6.80 and most buyers $6.65 to $6.75. Sheep receipts 4,000. market 15 to 25 cents lower. Hog price range by day shows declines from 6.60 to 7.25 across the week vs prior.
Mitchell South Dakota market prices list wheat No 1 97 No 2 94 No 5 89 corn New 48 oats No 3 white 39 light 37 reflecting a daily quotation for grain commodities in Mitchell SD.
Minneapolis cash markets show No. 1 hard wheat at 1.19 to 1.18 as futures and delivery options, No. 1 northern 1.16 to 1.18, No. 2 northern 1.12 to 1.16, No. 3 wheat 1.08 to 1.15, durum prices around 1.26 to 1.24, and December May and July wheat quoted. Corn, barley, oats, rye, flax prices listed with various grades and arrival notes.
Washington reports a new shore based control for ships using radio waves. John Hays Hammond Jr directed a 64 foot gasolene launch named Natalie from the shore as Gloucester observers watched the vessel follow commanded positions two to three miles out. The experiment showed absolute control with only distance estimation posing collision risk when far offshore.
In Rapid City South Carolina the second murder trial in a week begins with Charles Robbins accused of killing Joe Pattaloni on October 21. Central to the case is Mrs Florence Halley a divorcee who describes Robbins showing a gun and declares she tried to wrench it from his hand.
London correspondence reports Sir James Crichton Browne warning that alcohol could shape the war outcome both positively and negatively. He favors regulation but supports tea and coffee as social safeguards. The piece notes calls from Lord Kitchener for sobriety and a social worker driven drive to curb drinking among soldiers and civilians alike.
German Americans across the Dakotas contribute generously to relief funds for Belgium and Russia. In Shelby township pupils at Po dell school raised flour for Belgian sufferers, while towns like Java Herreid Eureka Bowdle and Hosmer sent hundreds. Funds for German Austrian relief topped 1000 with further payments, though a German Russian push drew a smaller response.
Meyer Singer, 73, of 320 Monroe Street, slashed his abdomen with a potato knife in a bid to end his life. Doctors at Pennsylvania Hospital deem his recovery unlikely. He told he distrusted doctors who found him healthy and predicted he would live to 100. He was found unconscious in a synagogue room at 427 South Fourth Street by janitor Theodore Wessler.
Aberdeen South Dakota hosts the annual Farmers Cooperative Association meeting December 15 16 17. Governors lawmakers editors and industry leaders will speak on cooperative progress state book-keeping systems and safeguards for elevators with discussions by delegates and brief officer addresses. Many topics and opinions are expected to appear.
In Rapid City South Dakota a scramble for U S land office and postmaster posts grows as two men challenge incumbent Harry L Gandy who plans to resign by March The land office race includes W W Soule and Tom Johnson while three candidates compete for postmaster with possible primary to settle the contest The Gate City Guide editor Werner Webb Hill and W H Tompkins vie for the postmaster post and tension rises in local politics
The article notes a candidate, Congressman elect Gandy, being used in the state section. He is said to favor this method as the best way out of the difficulty.
Sanitary Engineer George H. Shaw of the U S Department of Agriculture reports at a local association meeting that over 40 000 000 000 pounds of meat inspected in eight years shows more than 279 000 000 pounds condemned. He cites 1 000 000 whole carcasses and 5 500 000 carcass parts condemned as unfit. He calls for stronger state and municipal inspection and municipal abattoirs to curb unsanitary slaughter and improve by products use with new regulations allowing certain slightly diseased meats after proper sterilization and labeling.
A Yankton County man filed for a homestead this week claiming a forty seven acre tract that has grown to about 150 acres since the original survey. The land adjoins pre 1870 claims and lay open to filing. Wen. Van Osdell records the filing with a fourteen dollar fee for a tract worth around one hundred dollars per acre.
Kiel Germany via London reports a surge of submarine construction near Kiel with gray subs docked beside the Imperial Yacht Club. Defense measures include blackout skylights, shuttered rooms, machine guns on high rooftops, and barbed-wire fortifications as Kiel Canal guards tighten during wartime. The correspondent notes abundant work on large cruising subs and claims Germany surpasses Britain in this category.
A wartime tour notes Germany has boosted its torpedo-boat destroyers to 36 knots and expanded capital ships. Two submarines are inspected, one Lt. Weddigen’s U9 and a newer type able to patrol long durations. Rescue by buoy nets, life-light compartments, and a sea buoy telephone system are described. Torpedo works have nearly doubled in capacity, increasing the war reserve.
Aberdeen S C residents donate 602 sacks of flour with hope to reach 800 for a carload by Wednesday. Groton Ipswich and nearby towns in this state also raise funds and donate flour for Belgians.
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