Chicago hog market slumps amid light demand at Union Stock Yards
Chicago markets report hog receipts 33,000 with 2,207 carryover and tomorrow’s expected 27,000. Prices show 10 to 60 cents lower. cattle receipts 18,000 with weak demand and 10 to 15 cents lower. sheep steady. Sioux City market follows, hogs 5 cents lower, cattle steady near midweek, prices widely varied across classes.
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Union Stock Yards
Chicago
Reeves
Texas
Sioux City
Sioux Cuy, In
Milwaukee Grain Market Report
Milwaukee market notes show wheat prices for Dakota No 1 and No 2 northern spots with bids around 1.45 to 1.47 dollars and 1.42 to 1.44 for No 2. Velvet clint prices hover near 1.44 to 1.46. July and September wheat futures around 1.14. Corn grades list No 3 mixed around 75 and No 8 yellow about 75 1/2, July corn 44 1/4, September corn 74 1/2. Oats bids include No 3 white 50 6 1/2 and standard 61 1/2, July corn 47 1/2. Barley No 3 around 75 to 77, medium 77 78, rejected 71 74. Rye No 1 near 1.19 1/2 with No 1 1/18 1/2 and No 3 at 1.15 to 1.17. Feax No 1 Northwestern priced at 1.76 with nearby around 1.15.
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Milwaukee
Dakota
Northwestern
Minneapolis cash close wheat prices report
Minneapolis cash close records Wheat No 1 hard at 1.41 3 4 No 1 northern 1.34 8 4 to 1.41 1 4. No 2 northern 1.38 1 4 to 1.81 Hefty notes for Montana durum 1.40 1 2 No 2 durum 1.36 1 2 4.88 1 2 July 1.34 1 4 September 1.13 1 4 December 1.13 1 4 Corn No 3 yellow 69 1 4 to 69 1 4 No 4 yellow 68 1 4 Oats No 3 white 47 1 4 to 47 3 4 No 3 44 1 2 46 Bayley 65 70 Rye 1.11 1 2 1.12 1 2 ar Tive 2.10
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Minneapolis
Minn
Northern
Montana
Trive
Bayley
Two Killed by Gas in Well Near Leola South Dakota
On a farm near Leola South Dakota two men were killed while digging a well. Jacob Colum, 22, and Jacob Glasier, 23, were overcome by gas at about eighty feet depth. They left their house at noon to work, and the accident was found at four o'clock. It is believed one man was overcome and the other descended to aid him and perished. The body was drawn to the surface.
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Leola
Jacob Colum
Colum
Jacob’ Glasier
Ini
R F . Oo
German and French actions shift in western front lines
An official German statement notes gains in the west and says French efforts to break German lines failed with heavy losses. Russians reportedly evacuated Radom in Russian Poland south of Warsaw. The war office confirms French attack near Souchez resulted in hand to hand conflict only at that locality.
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Radom
Berlin
Germany
Piotrkow
Russian Poland
Poland
Warsaw
War Office
Souchez
Rumanians Demand Larger Role in War Spars with Entente
Rome papers show Italy's entry into the war against Austria has not pushed Romania to join. Romania continues delicate negotiations with England France and Russia for recognition of its claims. Russia resists what it calls exaggerated demands as Italy aids the Eastern Front in Galicia.
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Rome
Ialy
Bulgaria
Italy
Austria
Rumania
England
France
Russia
Galicia
Britain’s Merchantmen Losses Rise to 130 in War
An admiralty statement here today lists 56 merchant ships sunk by enemy cruisers, 12 by mines, and 62 by submarines since the war began, totaling 130. Eighty three fishing craft are lost, including 24 sunk by mines.
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London
England
German Ambassador Confers With Wilson On Note
Count von Bernstorff will call on President Wilson for an informal discussion ahead of the American note on German submarine practices. Officials expect the exchange to influence Berlin as Washington restates its demand for strict accountability for the Lusitania sinking and confirms the right to exercise visit and search.
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Quiry
United States
Germany
Lusitania
Cabinet Council
Bernstorff
Count von Bernstorff
Wilson
Berlin
German embassy talks on submarine warfare and neutrality
The ambassador was to seek Wilson's views on how Germany could pursue submarine warfare without harming neutrals. Proposals included separating passenger and cargo traffic or assurances that Britain would not arm passenger-carrying merchant ships. None would be considered without Germany’s explicit acceptance of international law. The cabinet affirmed not yielding neutral rights and would stick to earlier notes.
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Wilson
Germany
Baseball scores and lineups from Boston and New York
Fragmented score notes list players like Mathewson McLean Grogan Whaling Woods Cady Keating Sweeney and others tied to New York and Boston games. Mentions Des Moines at Denver postponed train late. Names lineups and batteries include Lakoff White Nar veson Yantz.
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Boston
Ingwaa
Mathewson
McLean
Grogan
Whaling
New York
Bieloee Woods
Cady
Keating
Sweeney
Linecoln
Mt. Joseph
Lakoff and White
Narveson and Yantz
Des Moines
Denver
Kimball Items: Weather, Wedding, and Decoration Day
The past week brought 1.41 inches of precipitation and near impassable roads hindering spring farm work. John Verschoor and Ethel Ryan wed at the Catholic church with a Kimball house reception, then departed for a Black Hills honeymoon. Dec oration Day services at Opera Hall featured Rev. Hassold and band music, followed by cemetery ceremonies and flags on soldiers’ graves.
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Kimball
S. D
John Verschoor
Ethel Ryan
Bart Ryan
Kimball House
Black Hills
Opera Hall
F. A. Hassold
Mysterious Auto Abandoned. Iowa Plate Shown in Mystery
Gas tank found empty and then later refilled by local men from Wessington restored the car to running order. The automobile bears an Iowa number and has a yellow hood marked with large figures 4s on each side, leaving the exact reason for abandonment unclear.
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Wessington
Iowa
Forty-Five Set to Graduate From Mitchell High School
Forty five students will receive diplomas from Superintendent J W McClinton in Mitchell High School commencement at City Hall Auditorium 8 15 p m Thursday. Dr C S Medbury of Des Moines will deliver the address. The ceremony follows an all day senior picnic and features performances by the girls glee club and mixed chorus before diploma presentations.
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J. W. McClinton
Mitchell High School
McClinton
C. S. Medbury
Des Moines
City Hall
Florence Trene Aronson
Hubert Brown
Myrtlhe
Alice Bonham
Ernest BE. Bryant
Hierbert St. Barnard
William Tarvey
Jeanette Owen - Rathbun
Minnie Caroline Riedel
Marion Kenyon Walrath
Inez A. Wells
Dorothy W A. Findlay
Waneeta S. Howe
Claude S. Knight
Helen Louise McManajmen
Rheta-Suette Nourse
Vermilyea Store Sells to Baron Bros at Mitchell
C E Vermilyea sells his Mitchell dry goods store to Baron Bros a Chicago based firm expanding to Mitchell with Abraham Baron and J Baron directing operations. Nine year lease secure. Vermilyea plans no immediate relocation while continuing city interests.
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Maron Bros
Wessington Springs
Lane
C. E. Vermilyea
Abraham Baron
Three Brothers
J. Baron
Mitchell
A. Baron
Chicago
Woman dives into cistern to save girl in Viborg
In Viborg South Dakota Mrs Olivia Johnson heroically plunged into a cistern at her home to rescue her child who had fallen in. She grasped the girl and held her above water until help arrived, preventing a tragedy.
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Viborg
Viborg, S. D
Olivia Johnson
Johnson
Fractured Passage Ends With Fall Into Water
A fragmented report describes someone believed to be some distance away running to an opening and then plunging into water many feet below, prompting rescue efforts and an investigation into how the incident occurred.
$2000 Damages For Killing An Infant
Attorneys for the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway company settled a fatal accident case in Marion South Dakota. The parents Nels P Anderson and his wife received $2000 in full settlement after their 18 month old son wandered onto the tracks and was struck by an approaching train. The engineer testified he did not see the child.
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Marion, S. D
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
Nels P.anderson
Marion
Railway Company
School Boys Help Census in Aberdeen South Dakota
Aberdeen uses school boys to help ensure full city census by counting residents block by block. Two to three boys per block report names from newborns to seniors, with contests offering prizes for blocks where counts exceed enumerators.
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Aberdeen
S. D
Aberdeen Commercial Club
Commercial Club
Babes
Dakota Central Telephone stockholders authorize large mortgage and bond issue
At a stockholders meeting of the Dakota Central Telephone Company the directors were authorized to mortgage the company’s property for 2,500,000 and to float a new bond issue of 400,000. The new bonds replace maturing bonds, and the mortgage will be drawn as needed to support the plan.
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Aberdeen, S. 1
Dakota Central Telephone Company
German memorial record alleges Russian atrocities in occupied Prussia
Washington reports the German ambassador released a White Book with eighty affidavits detailing Russian crimes against German civilians and POWs in East Prussia. It cites mass killings, looting, torture, and a Russian order to drive able men to battle, with horrific acts against children and women.
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Washington
D. C
Count von Dernstorff
Prussia
Eest Prussia
Memel
Rennenkampf
Srihari Eanulieenit
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